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Gloria Estefan's video is leaking back in time. Either that or I'm just gonna see people i cat costumes everywhere I go from now on. #TOPT

Back home from a bike and hike with a friend. I'm absolutely devastated.
Every muscle from my hips downward hurts. But I made it!
#nature #landscape #hiking

So there's this new "#eDoręczenia" (~ "eDelivery") system that's supposed to replace the previous "ePUAP" system for exchanging signed messages between citizens and offices. I've finally had the opportunity of testing it today, and I have to say, it's magic.
So I wrote the message, attached the ~300 KiB attachment and clicked "Send". Now a status bar appeared on top, saying (in translation):
> Sending message, it can take up to 20 minutes!
Roughly two minutes later the status bar disappeared and I got a blank new message form. So I go into "sent", nothing there. I go into "drafts", there's my message, apparently listed with "delivery data". I click it, click "send" again — the same bar appears, but after a few seconds I'm back to the list. I click "sent", it's finally sent. Magic!
#Poland

"I'm nimble like a cat."
Yeah, but like which cat?

I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir on the Fediverse, but Audiobookshelf is just so good. I have a ton of audiobooks I purchased on various platforms over the years that are now in one place, and when I have the ePub version as well, I can upload it and reference back to passages when I want.
https://www.audiobookshelf.org/

Series A, Episode 03 - Cygnus Alpha
BLAKE: [Whispers] Vila. [Pause, then louder] Vila. [Pause] Gan. [Pause] Gan.
GAN: [Moves to bars] Blake.
BLAKE: What is it? What's the matter with everybody?
GAN: How did you get here?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/103/377 …

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Back in January, I signed up for a CSA. I got an email yesterday that the first delivery is going to consist of:
- Green Garlic
- Bok Choy
- Lettuce
- Radishes
- Herb, Dill
- Spinach
- Tokyo Bekana
- Maple Syrup (Drewry Farms)
I'm supposed to go pick up the food but leave the box. I'm not sure how big of a bag to bring, though.
#CSA

Get Well Soon
- my friend is back in the hospital with pneumonia so I'm sending this as a get-well card -
#OrchestralMusic #NowPlaying

Get Well Soon #OrchestralMusic #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

So, the encode finished. Seems I'm saving about 10 to 15 minutes per encode using "Performance Mode" on the MS-A2. It doesn't quite get me back to 5950X encoding times, but close enough that it doesn't matter.
```
info: {
start_time: '2025-06-20 00:01:34.253422 00:00',
worker: 'encoder02',
worker_id: '3eb1c3d7-2809-4a28-88fd-27e529624d36',
version: '1.5.9',
comp…

“zpool import -FX” is not my favorite command. But when the hosting system panics and leaves the virtual devices backing a FreeBSD VM’s zfs filesystem in an inconsistent state, I'm sure glad it exists.
(I do have hourly zfs snapshots mirrored to a different system that I could restore from if necessary, which comforts me in situations like this. But it's nice not to have to roll back by even a few minutes, other than for the few affected files identified by “zpool scrub” checks…

Just made a typo typing an email and called FB Faecebook
I'm never going back

Got Ori and the will of the wisps as part of a humble bundle a couple of weeks back. Such a good game. Runs great on the steamdeck as well. Apparently I'm 31% through it. Should be done with it by the time silksong is out. Just hope this rumor is right. 😇 https://fandomwire.com/did-we-just-get-a-hollow-knight-silksong-release-window-major-leak-says-yes/

This brings me back to the mid/late 1980s... I remember doing an interview (by mail) with Eric from Life Sentence for my first zine. (He had a tragic ending in 2016, glad we still have the music.)
https://lifesentence.bandcamp.com/album/life-sentence-remastered …

A good friend of mine has the Muppet character "Beaker" as his avatar. For reasons.
He offers me advice. I offer him advice. We chat. These are #ChatsWithBeaker

Lions RB Jahmyr Gibbs: I'm being split out wide 'way more' than the past two years https://www.nfl.com/news/lions-rb-jahmyr-gibbs-i-m-being-split-out-wide-way-more-than-the-past-two-years

Series B, Episode 11 - Gambit
JENNA: Did you find him?
BLAKE: I missed him by a couple of minutes. There's a back entrance. Something must have scared him.
CALLY: Cevedic, presumably.
JENNA: Well he could be anywhere by now.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/211/330 B7B6

The libxml2 maintainer is basically shrugging his shoulders and saying "deal with your own fucking security issues; libxml was never meant to be used in your projects" to google and the rest of the giant corporations that are using his labor without contributing back. I'm totally on board with that.
https://

Triaging security issues reported by third parties (#913) · Issues · GNOME / libxml2 · GitLab
I have to spend several hours each week dealing with security issues reported by third parties. Most of these issues aren't critical but it's still a lot of...

For a few days, I drove a 2024 #Toyota. I'm afraid that all those #DriverAssist systems are a terrible cocktail.
Several times a day, the car would suddenly break for no reason. Dangerous! I turned that off, but after every restart, it was back on.
Changing lanes or overtaking w…

Duplicati is in the process of saving my ass again, but their backup restores are extremely slow.
Their web interface is neat and the handling is more or less intuitive, but I think I'm going back to the rsync & cron script formula.
It's what I've done on my server all my life until I installed Docker, but in this case I'm going back to my simple origins.
#docker

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 13 - Star One
SERVALAN: Both. Now get back to your work. I am still waiting for your theories about where Star One may be located.
DURKIM: That summons is a Presidential Order in Council. I have to go.
https://

Tyler Booker grateful for guidance, all set for Cowboys' training camp: 'I'm not gonna hold the offense back' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/tyler-booker-grateful-for-guidance…

#PondLife #PoolPond #Backyard #DIY #PortAlberni #Home
$CAD1100 is a lot to spend on just a couple items, but I guess in the grand scheme of making a pond/pool that will completely transform our backyard, it's not crazy. This about equals the amount spent ($1200 iirc) to rent the digger last Labour Day weekend. The liner and underlay fabric was another $3000. So we're looking at about $5500 so far for the project as a whole. Still better (including for the ecosystem!) than your average $50,000 in-ground pool install. ;=D
I realized last night that I bought the wrong pumps (DCT vs DCP argh). One of those “oh that's cheaper than I thought it would be” moments... followed by... “oh crap.”
I'll send the previous pumps back immediately upon arrival.
It's ok though, these will be two 20,000L/h variable pumps. The entire pond/pool system should be no more than 23,000L. My biggest rookie mistake with the #pandemicpond in the front yard was too small a pump. I rectified that when I added the bog filters there.
So I'm overbuilding this time. I should be able to run them at low-speed/power for the same amount of flow. Which will be better for pump longevity and power over time.
Also got main piping for the system: 50ft of 2" flexible PVC (Schedule 40). This will move water from the intake bay (behind the tree) to the bog filter (in front of the tree) and connect to smaller diameter piping/valves/fittings for sprayers in the pool.
This should be the end of the big-ticket items. The rest will be a LOT of little stuff: electrical, piping, and a lot of rock. Probably another $1000-$1500 to go, all should be local, and some of it can be put off until next year if needed.
It took a few tries on the Bezos Site, but I managed to find a supplier within Canada to avoid tariffs on any of it because Tariff-flation is definitely a thing! (American .com store essentially doubled the cost!)
So ya, you can hashtag this #tariffs #TariffLife #TheAmericanFascist and #TrumpTariffs

I noticed that OpenStreetMaps somehow lost Lake Michigan, so I went investigating. Apparently back in April somebody accidentally changed it from a "lake" to a "school" and it's taking months to be fixed across all regions/renderers.
https:/…

I really know nothing about babies. I'm not like, a fan or anything. A friend just had a baby and I thought "I'll sew a bib, babies drool a lot!". I printed a pattern, cut it, and sewed it. It came out pretty good! Until I looked a little more closely and saw that I had somehow printed the pattern at 1/2 scale. Unless this baby has a 2" neck, this thing isn't going to fit. Ooops. Back to the cutting board.

I'm back from the supermarket... every salad item was in a plastic bag or wrap... forget about straws, those were just a minor part of a much bigger problem.
#Plastics #Sustainability

I'm off to look for Ozymandias's torso. I'll be back in a year or two.

Holy cow, only 24 hrs after putting it out in the yard, the silvereyes ('tauhou' in te reo Māori, which means 'new arrivals' as they've migrated here to Aotearoa without human assistance) have already found the new sugar water feeder! I'm delighted 🤩🤗 Will try to get some better pictures.

I Replaced #SpringBoot with #Quarkus — Here’s What Happened (And Why I’m Never Going Back)

I'm back from taking a break on Mastodon after wiping my phone because it was out of space. Space was occupied by memes and dashcam videos, if you're curious. I usually wipe my phone every year.

Remarkable healing on that ear too.
#USpol #assassination #Columbo #meme

I'm pretty sure all the white folks (and anyone else who didn't learn the underlying lessons first hand) were assigned to learn about Red Summer, the Chinese Exclusion Acts, Wilmington 1898, and more than a few other things that came up in cultural conversation during the last Trump presidency. This is all on the test, and you're taking it now.
But in case anyone missed the assignment, I'll give you the TL;DR: ethnic cleansing has been central to American politics basically forever, which shouldn't be surprising given it's a nation founded on genocide and the belief in the right to commit it without constraint.
If you haven't done the math yet, I'll help you out. The "Haitian Immigrants" lets them grab black folks, they've been grabbing folks from Mexico south and lumping in indigenous Americans (just so they don't skip out on the oldest American genocide), and the Muslim ban/Hamas rhetoric lets them grab anyone who else they see fit.
The lack of due process lets them grab anyone and they don't have to prove anything. They're talking about deporting "one million" and possibly"millions" of people. So how do they get those numbers?
There are already reports that they're just grabbing random brown folks, trying to take 3k people per day. They fly to blue cities and grab as many black and brown people as they can, then send them to death camps in foreign countries and pretend they have no way to get them back. That's it. That's the game.
This isn't new. The big difference now is that the cops aren't hiding their uniforms under white hoods this time. Do you get it yet?

Somehow I woke up to find myself back to the 80s? Nuclear agression, militarism in too-old-men-detached-from-reality-reigned countries, the world only one (accidental) push-this-button away from total blow-up?
#WTF #GenX

Why AI can't possibly make you more productive; long
#AI and "productivity", some thoughts:
Edit: fixed some typos.
Productivity is a concept that isn't entirely meaningless outside the context of capitalism, but it's a concept that is heavily inflected in a capitalist context. In many uses today it effectively means "how much you can satisfy and/or exceed your boss' expectations." This is not really what it should mean: even in an anarchist utopia, people would care about things like how many shirts they can produce in a week, although in an "I'd like to voluntarily help more people" way rather than an "I need to meet this quota to earn my survival" way. But let's roll with this definition for a second, because it's almost certainly what your boss means when they say "productivity", and understanding that word in a different (even if truer) sense is therefore inherently dangerous.
Accepting "productivity" to mean "satisfying your boss' expectations," I will now claim: the use of generative AI cannot increase your productivity.
Before I dive in, it's imperative to note that the big generative models which most people think of as constituting "AI" today are evil. They are 1: pouring fuel on our burning planet, 2: psychologically strip-mining a class of data laborers who are exploited for their precarity, 3: enclosing, exploiting, and polluting the digital commons, and 4: stealing labor from broad classes of people many of whom are otherwise glad to give that labor away for free provided they get a simple acknowledgement in return. Any of these four "ethical issues" should be enough *alone* to cause everyone to simply not use the technology. These ethical issues are the reason that I do not use generative AI right now, except for in extremely extenuating circumstances. These issues are also convincing for a wide range of people I talk to, from experts to those with no computer science background. So before I launch into a critique of the effectiveness of generative AI, I want to emphasize that such a critique should be entirely unnecessary.
But back to my thesis: generative AI cannot increase your productivity, where "productivity" has been defined as "how much you can satisfy and/or exceed your boss' expectations."
Why? In fact, what the fuck? Every AI booster I've met has claimed the opposite. They've given me personal examples of time saved by using generative AI. Some of them even truly believe this. Sometimes I even believe they saved time without horribly compromising on quality (and often, your boss doesn't care about quality anyways if the lack of quality is hard to measure of doesn't seem likely to impact short-term sales/feedback/revenue). So if generative AI genuinely lets you write more emails in a shorter period of time, or close more tickets, or something else along these lines, how can I say it isn't increasing your ability to meet your boss' expectations?
The problem is simple: your boss' expectations are not a fixed target. Never have been. In virtue of being someone who oversees and pays wages to others under capitalism, your boss' game has always been: pay you less than the worth of your labor, so that they can accumulate profit and thus more capital to remain in charge instead of being forced into working for a wage themselves. Sure, there are layers of management caught in between who aren't fully in this mode, but they are irrelevant to this analysis. It matters not how much you please your manager if your CEO thinks your work is not worth the wages you are being paid. And using AI actively lowers the value of your work relative to your wages.
Why do I say that? It's actually true in several ways. The most obvious: using generative AI lowers the quality of your work, because the work it produces is shot through with errors, and when your job is reduced to proofreading slop, you are bound to tire a bit, relax your diligence, and let some mistakes through. More than you would have if you are actually doing and taking pride in the work. Examples are innumerable and frequent, from journalists to lawyers to programmers, and we laugh at them "haha how stupid to not check whether the books the AI reviewed for you actually existed!" but on a deeper level if we're honest we know we'd eventually make the same mistake ourselves (bonus game: spot the swipe-typing typos I missed in this post; I'm sure there will be some).
But using generative AI also lowers the value of your work in another much more frightening way: in this era of hype, it demonstrates to your boss that you could be replaced by AI. The more you use it, and no matter how much you can see that your human skills are really necessary to correct its mistakes, the more it appears to your boss that they should hire the AI instead of you. Or perhaps retain 10% of the people in roles like yours to manage the AI doing the other 90% of the work. Paradoxically, the *more* you get done in terms of raw output using generative AI, the more it looks to your boss as if there's an opportunity to get enough work done with even fewer expensive humans. Of course, the decision to fire you and lean more heavily into AI isn't really a good one for long-term profits and success, but the modern boss did not get where they are by considering long-term profits. By using AI, you are merely demonstrating your redundancy, and the more you get done with it, the more redundant you seem.
In fact, there's even a third dimension to this: by using generative AI, you're also providing its purveyors with invaluable training data that allows them to make it better at replacing you. It's generally quite shitty right now, but the more use it gets by competent & clever people, the better it can become at the tasks those specific people use it for. Using the currently-popular algorithm family, there are limits to this; I'm not saying it will eventually transcend the mediocrity it's entwined with. But it can absolutely go from underwhelmingly mediocre to almost-reasonably mediocre with the right training data, and data from prompting sessions is both rarer and more useful than the base datasets it's built on.
For all of these reasons, using generative AI in your job is a mistake that will likely lead to your future unemployment. To reiterate, you should already not be using it because it is evil and causes specific and inexcusable harms, but in case like so many you just don't care about those harms, I've just explained to you why for entirely selfish reasons you should not use it.
If you're in a position where your boss is forcing you to use it, my condolences. I suggest leaning into its failures instead of trying to get the most out of it, and as much as possible, showing your boss very clearly how it wastes your time and makes things slower. Also, point out the dangers of legal liability for its mistakes, and make sure your boss is aware of the degree to which any of your AI-eager coworkers are producing low-quality work that harms organizational goals.
Also, if you've read this far and aren't yet of an anarchist mindset, I encourage you to think about the implications of firing 75% of (at least the white-collar) workforce in order to make more profit while fueling the climate crisis and in most cases also propping up dictatorial figureheads in government. When *either* the AI bubble bursts *or* if the techbros get to live out the beginnings of their worker-replacement fantasies, there are going to be an unimaginable number of economically desperate people living in increasingly expensive times. I'm the kind of optimist who thinks that the resulting social crucible, though perhaps through terrible violence, will lead to deep social changes that effectively unseat from power the ultra-rich that continue to drag us all down this destructive path, and I think its worth some thinking now about what you might want the succeeding stable social configuration to look like so you can advocate towards that during points of malleability.
As others have said more eloquently, generative AI *should* be a technology that makes human lives on average easier, and it would be were it developed & controlled by humanists. The only reason that it's not, is that it's developed and controlled by terrible greedy people who use their unfairly hoarded wealth to immiserate the rest of us in order to maintain their dominance. In the long run, for our very survival, we need to depose them, and I look forward to what the term "generative AI" will mean after that finally happens.

I'm live! Back to animation, I gotta lock in.
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Steelers RB Jaylen Warren has 'no doubt' he can shoulder larger workload: 'That's the way I'm training' https://www.nfl.com/news/steelers-rb-jaylen-warren-has-no-doubt-he-can-shoulder-lar…

Series A, Episode 12 - Deliverance
TRAVIS: I've told you, I want my command back. It's the only way I can catch -
SERVALAN: You really are obsessed with Blake, aren't you?
TRAVIS: It's my right.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/112/237 B7B4

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"LLMs are okay at coding, but at scale they build jumbled messes. I’ve scaled back my use of AI when coding and gone back to using my brain and pen and paper."
https://albertofortin.com/writing/coding-with-ai

Tyler Booker grateful for guidance, all set for Cowboys' training camp: 'I'm not gonna hold the offense back' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/tyler-booker-grateful-for-guidance…

I'm finally pleased with my 3D printed sign handle. It's two parts, bolts together with a cardboard sign between the pieces. I've made the back side larger so it can be glued to the sign to help stabilize it in wind. (Learned I needed that the hard way!)
#3Dprinting #protest

Replaced the garbage #disposal last night. It's one of those jobs like redoing the guts of a toilet; seemed intimidating but it was far easier than I expected. (Replacing with the same model helps.) #insinkerator #diy

@… I really like it! The model I have is 10 yrs old, but I'm still able to install all kinds of open source patches, firmware, plugins, add-ons, etc.
Back when I was in school, I wrote about one of those custom worksflows to manage my readings (I've since stopped using Koreader):

My fine "new" (2023) bike is in the shop, so I unmothballed my trusty classic steed for today's ride. After a go with the tire pump, I was off like the wind. There's something exquisite about a strong and simple piece of engineering. That old bike is 39 years old! I bought it new back in California in the day. It's still a sweet ride.
#roadbike

Does anyone know how to get a competent Comcast business support engineer to actually talk to you? I've called their support line three times, each time they tried rebooting the modem (saying they would only do this once, liars) and then disconnected me saying that I could call back if I was still having problems.
I have yet to reach even a level 1 support drone.
I'm trying to a) get my CPE password reset because the password in my password manager doesn't work anymor…

Every once in a while I'm reminded of this very fine example of clerical creativity I witnessed back in '22

I even fixed my Pixel 6a back in December. Unfortunately, I broke the new screen a few weeks ago.
I'm glad I upgraded to my Pixel 9a when I did. I love GrapheneOS and have been using it since early May 2023 with my 6a.
#GrapheneOS #Android

After the recent Giant Bomb news, Vinny, Brad, and Alex went into the ups and downs of the site and pulled back the curtain: they were shareholders and reluctant to sell to CBS, profitability, the motivation for Papa Vinny's Pizza Party, how Vinny found the money to hire Abby and Ben, shutting down GBeast, RV acquisition. For a longtime fan, it was an interesting trip.
On The Nextlander Podcast 198: I'm Worth It!

So farewell then Pinetime Watch 🪦.
It isn't showing any signs of charging. even after a completely-flat battery reset. Last hope gone.
Now nobody at all is running my custom software I think, and I have no way to fix the bugs.
Could replace it, but I'm not really paying any attention to the things it measures anyway. Heartrate is too unreliable to be useful and steps seems likely to be counting my leg-jiggles since I tend to hit 10,000 most days without trying or leaving the flat.
The software which tracks my time and mood is probably better running on the phone really. Easier to add notes and detail. Can't really input text from a watch. Location data can be added in ways the watch couldn't.
So back to not wearing a watch at all I think. Who needs it now we all carry pocket watches with internet and telephony.
#pineTime #smartWatch

Hi, it's Representative Jasmine Crockett.
I really hope you read this -- not for me, but for my friend.
People are scared, frustrated & downright mad about all that is being taken away from us.
Some people are just sitting around and letting it happen,
but not Esther.
Esther Kim Varet is running to take back one of the most competitive congressional seats in the country -- from a MAGA Republican.
We need more people like her to provide REAL repre…

I'm with Esther Kim Varet
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I've been using em dashes since I picked up the LaTeX manual in 1986 and I'm not going back just because some text extruding software uses them more than most humans.
Also, my grandfather was a printer and I knew from an early age that "em" and "en" were legit scrabble words.
#OldManYellsAtCloud

Positivity of GCD tensors
Projesh Nath Choudhury, Krushnachandra Panigrahy
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Positivity of GCD tensors
Let $S=\{s_{1},s_{2},\ldots,s_{n}\}$ be an ordered set of $n$ distinct positive integers. The $m$th-order $n$-dimensional tensor ${T}_{[S]}=(t_{i_{1}i_{2}\ldots i_{m}}),$ where $t_{i_{1}i_{2}\ldots i_{m}}=GCD(s_{i_{1}},s_{i_{2}},\ldots,s_{i_{m}}),$ the greatest common divisor (GCD) of $s_{i_{1}},s_{i_{2}},\ldots,$ and $s_{i_{m}}$ is called the GCD tensor on $S$. The earliest result on GCD tensors goes back to Smith [Proc. Lond. Math. Soc., 1976], who computed the determinant of GCD matrix on $S…

"My experiences of connection with God and others in the church have kept me coming back. I am hoping against hope that the 21st century church can be an experiential community for the future, a place that more and more people can turn to for a mysterious experience of eternal resonance."
—S. Slade Hogan ’22 S.T.M. writing in the new issue of Reflections, which asks whether Christianity is losing its religion.

The Klamath has long been my favorite river in California (and a bit of Oregon.)
A week ago I was at the mouth of the Klamath in Redwood National Park/Prairie Creek State park.
I'm glad the Coho salmon are returning to the Klamath so quickly (of all the varieties of salmon, Coho is my favorite. The creek behind my house once supported Coho, but they are essentially gone, although there are occasional reports.)

Daniel Carlson: 'I'm excited about where we're headed this year' https://www.raiders.com/video/daniel-carlson-special-teams-raiders-presser-minicamp-nfl-offseason-061025

#Toronto apparently has a Sake Crisis. LCBO tells me the nearest bottle is 50km away, the rest marked back order. We suspect the true bottler is US based 😔
That's Utility Sake; for cooking I'm not keen on paying premium for the nice stuff, though it may come to that. Time to research local brands.

I'm mad at websites that use code that make Firefox unusable. I'd prefer to use one browser, but at some sites I've found that links don't work as soon as one link have been clicked. All links are unclickable when I go back to an earlier side in the browser. Hi cromium, and thus, hi second set of plug-ins/extensions...

Patriots DT Christian Barmore out to 'prove I'm still me' after blood clots cut 2024 season short https://www.nfl.com/news/patriots-dt-christian-barmore-out-to-prove-i-m-still-me-after-blood-clots-cut-2…

Related to understanding firearms, "rifles" and hand guns tend to be rifled. Rifling is grooving that runs in a helical pattern down the barrel. When purchasing a firearm, it's important to check the rifling.
First check that the firearm is unloaded. Empty or remove the magazine, cycle the weapon. Next, check again that it's unloaded by looking both down the barrel and into the magazine. Now, shine a light down the barrel and look down it. In the absence of a light, you may be able to reflect light off your thumbnail.
Rifling should look as though it's drawn on with a sharp pencil, and the barrel should look otherwise completely smooth and clean. If the rifling looks like bumpy mountains, then the owner probably used corrosive ammo and didn't clean it enough. It will probably still shoot, but not at all accurately.
Both the rifling and the pin can be used in forensic analysis to match a bullet to a gun. I don't honestly know how accurate this is because a lot of forensic "science" is just made up stuff that relies on the CSI effect and doesn't actually work as advertised.
However, not all firearms are not all rifled. Shotguns are "smoothbore" firearms, meaning they lack rifling. It is not possible to perform forensic analysis of a smoothbore firearm. It *is* possible to check for powder on the hands of someone who has used a firearm within the last few days, but it's not possible to distinguish between firing inside and outside a range.
I've been gathering all kinds of tidbits like this, partially just out of curiosity and partially because I've been wanting to write a story about a revolutionary group fighting a modern authoritarian society. I'm always happy to learn other bits, if anyone has anything else I could throw in my narrative (whenever I finally get back to writing it).

no one is home so i'm cranking it up and ... uh oh ... that sounds BAD. do i need new speakers? sob! i've had these fishers since 1986. I don't think they were anything special back then, but they have grown on me. and oh no, new speakers are expensive. 😭
oh wait the balance settings all screwed up here ⚙️ just a sec 🛠️ and 🔊 ok everything is fine. phew.
my stereo is ok — just ok — but i don't care because all i do is play scratchy old LPs anyway.

I for one welcome back Frutiger Aero into modern technology. It has been sorely missed.
Every time that you use an Apple device with the new *OS 26, please some Frutiger Aero music in the background
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqpgTLH9UP0

Performance of the image persistence model for Euclid infrared detectors
B. Kubik, R. Barbier, G. Smadja, S. Ferriol, Y. Conseil, Y. Copin, W. Gillard, S. Dusini, K. Jahnke, E. Prieto, N. Auricchio, E. Balbi, A. Balestra, P. Battaglia, V. Capobianco, R. Chary, L. Corcione, F. Cogato, G. Delucchi, E. Franceschi, L. Gabarra, F. Gianotti, F. Grupp, E. Lentini, S. Ligori, E. Medinaceli, G. Morgante, K. Paterson, E. Romelli, L. Sauniere, M. Schirmer, C. Sirignano G. Testera, M. Trifoglio, A. Troja, L. Valenziano, M. Frailis, M. Scodeggio, J. -C. Barriere, M. Berthe, C. Bodendorf, A. Caillat, M. Carle, R. Casas, H. Cho, A. Costille, F. Ducret, B. Garilli, W. Holmes, F. Hormuth, A. Hornstrup, M. Jhabvala, R. Kohley, D. Le Mignant, P. B. Lilje, I. Lloro, C. Padilla, G. Polenta, J. -C. Salvignol, G. Seidel, B. Serra, A. Secroun, L. Stanco, R. Toledo-Moreo, S. Anselmi, E. Borsato, L. Caillat, C. Colodro-Conde, V. Conforti, J. E. Davies, A. Renzi, F. Dal Corso, S. Davini, A. Derosa, J. J. Diaz, S. Di Domizio, D. Di Ferdinando, R. Farinelli, A. G. Ferrari, F. Fornari, F. Giacomini, O. Krause, F. Laudisio, J. Macias-Perez, J. Marpaud, N. Mauri, R. da Silva, M. Niclas, F. Passalacqua, I. Risso, P. Lagier, A. N. Sorensen, P. Stassi, J. Steinwagner, M. Tenti, C. Thizy, S. Tosi, R. Travaglini, O. Tubio, C. Valieri, S. Ventura, C. Vescovi, J. Zoubian
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I'm going to give sudo-rs a go on all my personal Linux machines and every other one that is Debian 13 (trixie) onwards. I shall report back if this makes my life hard.
https://github.com/trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs

Series D, Episode 11 - Orbit
VILA: I'm not the type for this sort of thing, Avon.
AVON: Why not?
VILA: This Egrorian, you said he was some kind of genius.
AVON: They said he was supposed to be some time back.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/411/62 B7B5

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I've always written short blog posts but now I'm doing a whole lot of post updates (the many syntax highlight plugins over the years eventually caught up with me), it's even more striking that there's content in a format that you rarely see these days (although yes I do read Seth Godin). 208 words in this post, I should try to go back to writing like this even if "the algorithm" doesn't like it :)

Hey @… I'm talking to somebody about sponsoring work on https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/8609 so we can get full multi-viewport wo…

Support multi-viewport on Wayland via xdg-toplevel-drag · Issue #8609 · ocornut/imgui
Version/Branch of Dear ImGui: latest docking Back-ends: any Compiler, OS: Linux Full config/build information: No response Details: Multi-viewport is currently not supported on Wayland (#8587 and o...

I would say I'm sorry for flooding the timeline with cats (but that would be a lie) :ablobcatblink:

Raiders HC Pete Carroll on backfield approach with No. 6 pick Ashton Jeanty: 'I'm not relying on one guy' https://www.nfl.com/news/raiders-hc-pete-carroll-on-backfield-approach-with-no-6-pick-asht…

No Top of the Pops tonight and I'm far too uninterested to watch the Glastonbury stuff. So I'm sitting on iPlayer watching series 1 of Race Across the World.
I've already watched series 4 and 5 as they were being broadcast, so now I'm going back to the beginning to catch up on what I missed.
#TOTP #RaceAcrossTheWorld

How the Bochum dish lost the signal from #Resilience at 19:15:33 UTC which would be 1 to 2 minutes before the nominal landing time. It never came back - while on the webcast, which just aborted, they didn't say *anything* and refer to a news briefing in a few hours. Same crisis (non-)communication as two years ago, I'm afraid ...

I don't know why, but on #NixOS 25.05 I'm back again keeping my worktree nice and DIRTY so I can use :gitannex: #gitAnnex'ed files. 🙄

🧵 https://retro.social/@ajroach42/114811505328252889

Well I'm glad I got one NAS backing up to the other last week because I accidentally wiped my Jellyfin library last night.
A long running rsync command got everything back in place. Whew!

So, all decks red alert. It seems for my future job I can't use but need to use either Mac or Windows.
I can't be assed to use that go back to that pile of sh*t that windows it nowadays and I have no experience with Mac and honestly don't want any.
So I guess Mac would be the choice, right? At least its said to be stable and most stuff can be done with the same shell.
I'm just a bit horrified by the outlook and would appreciate any tips on how to approach …

A while ago the media reported that most of the long-distance "suburban" trains between #Wrocław and #Poznań will be discontinued, and instead one will have to change trains midway. Irrespective of whether it's actually going to happen, let's consider it.
As you can probably tell by now, I'm not a stranger to changing trains. In fact, there are some direct connections that I do criticize. For example:
• Poznań — Szczecin — Świnoujście, where arriving at Szczecin Główny and turning back to leave the city is a waste of time. It's better to change trains at Szczecin Dąbie.
• Poznań — Krzyż — Kostrzyn, where instead of using a single railbus, you can use a larger EMU for the Poznań — Krzyż segment, and a smaller DMU for Krzyż — Kostrzyn (in fact, only recently the "direct" Poznań — Kostrzyn train involved just that, but it was supposed to be temporary).
However, good matches are the key. Say:
1. Max 10 minutes (when there are no delays) from one train to the other.
2. "Door-to-door" transfer — without having to carry all your luggage across platforms.
3. Reliable connection — if one train is delayed, the other train waits for it (or there are so many alternatives that it doesn't have to).
Can such a thing happen on Poznań — Wrocław route? I have my doubts.
I've been using these trains for years, and I can say this: there is no effort to match train from/to Poznań with other trains in Wrocław. Sometimes the trains depart 10 minutes before the first train from Poznań arrives, sometimes I need to transfer in 10 minutes, and sometimes I have to wait over an hour. And the same in the other direction.
Perhaps things would actually improve if the route is split. Perhaps people would actually care. Maybe even the trains would be fitted better to the timetable in Wrocław. But I find it hard to believe.
EDIT: One final thought — since there is no real reason to split these connections (except for profiteering), why make travellers' lives harder?
#rail

I'm on a boat, yeah yeah! 🎶

Getting packed for a week long motorcycle camping trip. I leave tomorrow. This is a much much needed break.
First night I'll be camping in Point Pleasant, WV and visiting the Mothman museum. After that, heading over to the Red River Gorge in Kentucky, then looping down through Tennessee, North Carolina and back into West Virginia where I'm planning to spend a couple of days exploring sites like Audra State Park and Blackwater Falls. I'll be posting photos from the trip here…

I've been using ClickUp for a few months now...and like every other productivity tool I've used over the last number of years it has its pros and cons.
It's got a lot of features but sometimes pretty basic features don't "just work" - and that makes me unhappy. 🙁
For example, right now I have some recurring tasks that will not allow an update to their due date manually. If I set a new date it resets back to the original date. Even more concerning is that this isn't clear from the UI.
The UI acts as if the change was successful but a page refresh reveals the change didn't save.
But the real reason I wanted to post wasn't about ClickUp particularly but about chatbots in general. They verified that my issue was an actual bug and created a ticket for it but the way I've been instructed to view the ticket status is by opening the chatbot, telling it I want information on my ticket (pasting in the ticket ID) and after doing all that I get this
5/6: Umm, no. I want to see an actual ticket please. I don't want to have to talk to a chatbot to see it. Chatbots really are great for a lot of things (during the free trial of ClickUp I found the chatbot quite helpful in learning how to do things without searching through docs) but this sort of "there is a direct record", please no. Or let me paste it in and do the lookup immediately - and provide a permalink so I don't need to chat every time!
I'm sticking with ClickUp at the moment, but one of these days when I magically get a large amount of free time, I'm going to write my own solution...I've only been saying that for a few years now. ;-)
#clickup #productivity #chatbots #projectmanagement #tasks

#PennedPossibilities 680 — MC POV: Tell us how you feel about death. Do you fear it?
MC: There was a time when death could only come as a liberator, but I survived and the medics pieced me back together somehow. I will meet her eventually, The Silent One. She's an old friend by now, and I'm not afraid of my friends.

Some thoughts:
- While the "mini" part of minirack might be debatable for this build, the footprint of my Proxmox cluster has become miniscule when compared to the size of three full-sized ATX builds.
- The Minisforum MS-A2s are very warm bois. Keeping the cables clear from behind the server nodes will pay off tons later as the hot air is unobstructed.
- Putting those massive power bricks into the bottom of the minirack is not going to work. I'm not sure exactl…

Ravens RB Keaton Mitchell: I feel like I'm better than before 2023 knee injury https://www.nfl.com/news/ravens-rb-keaton-mitchell-i-feel-like-i-m-better-than-before-2023-knee-injury

Now that I'm back, I'm gonna follow up with a few worthwhile things. Since I'm not from the Army, I checked in with my dad to make sure I wasn't reading too much into things. His response was..
"Yeah, this is one of the biggest protests i've ever seen by the military"
That seems pretty consistent with @KnittingCultLady's YouTube take:
https://youtu.be/UDJ0INvxLLI
There was a whole vets protest. Other mil folks have echoed similar things. Yeah, I'm pretty confident in my take.

Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
BLAKE: I wish to make a statement.
ARBITER: There can be no more said regarding this case. The matter has been assessed and judgment made.
BLAKE: But the evidence is false. These charges are lies.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/101/215 B7B4

I may need to get back to doing illustrations again since it's been about a year that I took a break...
Hand drawn stuff (even if digitally) might be the future of human art with all this AI bullshit going on.
➡️ https://rasterweb.net/raster/projects/illustrations/

Illustrations
In March 2024 I started doing sketches on an iPad using Procreate and an Apple Pencil. As of writing this it's May 2024 and I'm still doing it. I'll try to keep this page updated with new illustrations as they are completed. Each illustration links to a page with more info about it, and some [...]

I'm going back to bed. Boosts lots of cats while I'm gone :3

I'm using two routers at the time. One, provided by the ISP, is on a windowsill in the living room, where the fiber ends. The other is in the corridor, connecting all the devices.
Sometime around the house renovation, Lulu 🐱 started behaving hostile towards Ruh 🐱. So when we moved back in, they divided the house: Ruh would sit in my room, while Lulu would roam the rest of the house. And of course, the windowsill router was one of her favorite places.
Over time, Ruh got bolder and started visiting other rooms. Even though Lulu regularly chased her away, she wasn't successful in keeping her away. So eventually Ruh started visiting the windowsill as well. She apparently wasn't really interested in the router, but her presence sufficed to discouraged Lulu.
So Lulu eventually discovered the other router.
#cat

Trying to validate as many things as I can on kup-lulz before copying most of the schematic onto the switch engine board.
Something funky is happening with the QSPI boot flash and I'm not sure if hardware, software, or what.
I can connect to the flash and detect it ok, erase and blank check OK, and even read back.
But when I try to *program* it, Vivado hangs at 1%. Have not yet tried programming from my own gateware/software or booting from it.

Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
BLAKE: I have to think.
FOSTER: Of course. We'll talk after the meeting.
BLAKE: Hmm.
DEV TARRANT: What do you think?
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Hey! We just came back from a nice afterwork cycling.
Currently we do an hour of easy cycling every day.
Especially after work it really a blessing.
As I'm STILL behind with the recent trips I just browsed the archives for some beautiful memories of a hike last year.
This trail doesn't offer epic vistas but the trail itself is just a gem.
The blog:

#PennedPossibilities 680 — MC POV: Tell us how you feel about death. Do you fear it?
MC: There was a time when death could only come as a liberator, but I survived and the medics pieced me back together somehow. I will meet her eventually, The Silent One. She's an old friend by now, and I'm not afraid of my friends.

Interesting thing about tomorrow's tarot show, rendering now, is that I upgraded from Blender 4.0 to blender 4.4 and it's quite a bit nicer to look at the timeline editor.
Was sad to find that the render time was up though. From about 3 seconds per frame usually to more like 12!?
Trying it with an old version I see that the lights and textures look way better with 4.4 than 4.0 though. A substantial step up in the way the show looks without me even doing anything other than waiting four times longer per frame.
Seems to be heavily dependent upon lighting now. The slow frames are like 12 seconds but the fast frames with minimal lighting and close up on the video are more like 2.
Looks too beautiful now to go back though. Upgraded my cloud-remote render machines too. We will render on four machines tonight. FOUR! The power of it all.
g3.4xlarge is no faster than g3.large but g6.xlarge seems to be twice the speed.
But hard to be sure really coz of the massive variance in time depending on the lighting.
Anyway, great show coming tomorrow. Sometimes I wonder what the hell I'm trying to do with it but tomorrow's show is the answer. Hide the angry bitter political rant behind a strange CGI tarot show. When the rant comes together well I like it.
https://wordcloudtarot.com/@wordcloudtarot/statuses/01JYFF0GQV1680Z0VG0YTFZDTP

Series D, Episode 11 - Orbit
PINDER: Egrorian? Egrorian? They're here! Come and see. [Egrorian enters. He slaps Pinder away from the monitor. They look at the monitor and laugh hysterically.]
[Back on Scorpio]
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Back home from REcon and doing more SI tweaks on the LATENTRED switch engine board.
Found two diff pairs on the ARF6 connector bank that were missing ground plane cutouts. Easy fix and I'm glad I caught it.
Also, took the results of all my previous simulations, updated the KiCAD file, re-exported new gerbers, and running a hopefully final set of sims based on those.

Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
MORAG: What we need is something to discredit him. If he could be deported to Cygnus Alpha .... Doctor, am I right in thinking you can create experiences, implant them into a subject, who will then believe that they really happened?
HAVANT: Of course. In fact, creating an illusion of reality is quite simple.

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Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
ARBITER: Who speaks for the Federation?
MORAG: I do.
ARBITER: Who speaks for the accused?
VARON: I do.
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Series A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
AVON: [V.O.] I hear you.
BLAKE: Bring us back. [Pause. V.O.] Bring us back.
[Interior. Liberator teleport area. Avon is at the console. Gan is there]
AVON: I can't. The teleport control is burnt out.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/104/130…

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A12 - Deliverance
AVON: That's why we're going down. If we run into any kind of trouble we teleport back up immediately. All right, Cally?
GAN: Do you know exactly what we're looking for? Because I don't think I've ever seen an impact life capsule.
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Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
VILA: Because you can't like someone without them liking you back. And I like you, Kerril, more than anyone. Anyone I've ever known.
KERRIL: The difference is, I love you.
VILA: Kerril.
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Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
VILA: Because you can't like someone without them liking you back. And I like you, Kerril, more than anyone. Anyone I've ever known.
KERRIL: The difference is, I love you.
VILA: Kerril.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/306/592

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Series B, Episode 02 - Shadow
BLAKE: Well what exactly?
CALLY: A..a feeling I have.
BLAKE: Come back to the flight deck.
CALLY: [V.O.] I should keep on searching.
BLAKE: Leave it, Cally.
CALLY: Yes. [Breaks link] Orac? [Turns into another corridor]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/202/356…

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#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 13 - Star One
DURKIM: She can't be, it's unmanned. The systems are automatic.
SERVALAN: A group of scientists and technicians elected to spend the rest of their lives refining, checking and guarding the systems.

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