Tootfinder

We Also Broke Into an Airbase to Stop War Crimes. Thankfully, We Were Two Nice White Boys
https://novaramedia.com/2025/06/27/we-also-broke-into-an-airbase-to-stop-war-crimes-thankfully-we-were-two-nice-white-boys/

We Also Broke Into an Airbase to Stop War Crimes. Thankfully, We Were Two Nice White Boys
In 2017, we broke into a BAE Systems airfield to stop jets from going to bomb Yemen, write Sam Walton and Daniel Woodhouse. Our lenient treatment exposes the Palestine Action ban for what it is: racist and politically motivated.

Trump Praises 'Very Nice' Loomer as Her Body Count Grows (Cameron Adams/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-praises-very-nice-laura-loomer-as-her-bodycount-grows/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250804/p18#a250804p18

When it was first released everyone in tech thought Google Chrome was made because Google is so nice and they care about the Web.
And then they thought Google Amp was made because Google is so nice and they care about the Web.
Now they’re thinking Google’s AI summaries are made because Google is so nice.

Had a really nice time today at Gay Day at the Yuba, an informal Northern California thing. Some 500-1000 guys come to swim at my favorite skinny dipping swimming hole. It was really nice, a fun and good vibes event.

Nice.
And also nice to see FCT there.
https://mastodon.social/@brembs/115140372879329481

Nice vertices in cubic graphs
Wuxian Chen, Fuliang Lu, Heping Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21471 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21471

Nice vertices in cubic graphs
A subgraph $G'$ of a graph $G$ is nice if $G-V(G')$ has a perfect matching. Nice subgraphs play a vital role in the theory of ear decomposition and matching minors of matching covered graphs. A vertex $u$ of a cubic graph is nice if $u$ and its neighbors induce a nice subgraph. D. Král et al. (2010) [9] showed that each vertex of a cubic brick is nice. It is natural to ask how many nice vertices a matching covered cubic graph has. In this paper, using some basic results of matching covered gra…

huh, TF2 is actually getting patched, nice

It’s nice to know that I can be disappeared by TSA in conjunction with ICE just because they need to hit a quota. Cool cool cool…

Nice! Osma Suominen @… from National Library of Finland (Annif & FintoAI)'s 5 points for AI in libraries:
- Use AI to make the world better
- Use the smallest AI that works
- Don't depend on corporate AI
- Evaluate & create data sets
- Be open and transparent

Nice results and talks at the E-bike City event at ETH: https://ebikecity.baug.ethz.ch/en/events/results-future.html
Summary report [pdf]:

New sign and revised handle... Larger back piece in case of wind.
(No stencil for this one... printed on a nice printer!)
Laser-cut banana for scale.

#protest #resist #fascism

AI can be useful but doesn't "understand" a thing..., this funny AI general picture illustrates that perfectly, it looks nice at first glance 😆
#AI

Nice! I already spoke at previous #LinuxFoundation events, but it's the first time I get a badge!
Tesekkür ederim #KCDIstanbul!

STM32H750 Trion bringup update: now have the MCU starting up, configuring LDO (no SMPS in this package) for VOS0 scaling level, initializing the PLLs for 450 MHz (nice convenient multiple of 25 MHz, I might consider 475 but that divides some stuff less well so we'll see... Fmax is 480), bringing up the UART, and logging some messages to stdout.
It's very similar to the H735 so most of the setup delay was just checking to see what was different (often nothing) as I went throug…

@… That’s very nice!
It will clearly work for the domain model, but can you use it effectively with e.g. a React application to test the UI components?

Nice “interaction” video / “why protected bike lanes”
I managed to collect a video recently that might help explain "why protected bike lanes?" TLDR: a thing that bike lanes help with, is simplifying safety even when they cannot completely eliminate risk. This is one of the reasons they're less stressful. One problem with a lot of bicycle safety discussions is that people tend to focus on Just One Cause for each crash, when I am pretty sure (from observing, thinking,…

Nice “interaction” video / “why protected bike lanes”
I managed to collect a video recently that might help explain “why protected bike lanes?” TLDR: a thing that bike lanes help with, is simplifying safety even when they cannot completely…

"I got rid of – just one I got rid of the other night, you buy a house, they have a faucet in the house, Joe, and the faucet the water doesn’t come out. They have a restrictor. You can’t – in areas where you have so much water they don’t know what to do with it. Uh, you have a shower head the shower doesn’t uh, the shower doesn’t, you think it’s not working. It is working. The water’s dripping out and that’s no good for me. I like this hair lace and [sic] – I like that hair nice and wet…

Happy birthday America. I hope you have a good party.
But listen. You're going to be 250 years old next year. It's probably time to settle down a bit, stop being quite so obnoxious and start playing nice with others. Don't you think?
#July4th

It's amazing to me that people continue to look back at 2024 and angrily blame muslims,non-voters, & leftists for the overwhelming win by Trump. It must be nice to be able to completely ignore reality and learn nothing.
https://www.

Behind Trump’s 2024 Victory, a More Racially and Ethnically Diverse Voter Coalition
Pew Research Center’s in-depth study of its survey respondents who voted in the 2024 election examines turnout, voting patterns and demographics.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Madison McFerrin:
🎵 Ain't It Nice
#NowPlaying #MadisonMcFerrin
https://madisonmcferrin.bandcamp.com/track/aint-it-nice
https://open.spotify.com/track/16cf5KXlcTvSpO1TisvQWI

Israeli customer service automation company Nice acquires Cognigy, which develops a conversational and agentic AI platform, for $955M, set to close in Q4 2025 (Shiri Habib-Valdhorn/Globes)
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-nice-acquires-ai-co-cognigy-…

Nice acquires AI co Cognigy for $955m
The acquisition combines Nice's purpose built customer service AI platform with Cognigy's conversational and agentic platform, which will enable organizations to accelerate AI adoption in customer experience.

Me, finding some music to help focus today: “Oh, nice. There’s a 10th anniversary remaster of this album I used to listen to a lot.”
Also me: “This remaster came out… 9 years ago?!”
👴

The Acorn, our local newspaper, had a nice article on CVARC's Field Day...in the first photo, those are phone stations on the right, digital on the left, and CW operators in the next tent in the distance. I try to keep the digital and CW operators separated, because...well, if you know, you know. :wink:
https://www.

I'd be nice if "The Maple" and Unrigged.ca had their own Mastodon bot
@… existed before but seems to have stopped (it was an unofficial bot)

Why does all #software insist on being your buddy these days?
Can we go back to the old days where instead of trying to slide into your DMs, and be your best frend, software was a recalcitrant old hag in a back alley who spat out an obscure error code that at least when you looked it up in a knowledge base told you exactly what you had done wrong and what, if anything, you could do about it? This…

It's so nice when companies only make small changes to their code of conduct. Google dropped the word "Don't" from their foundational guiding principle.
I guess that makes it easier to make money.
https://www.theguardian.com/t…

It's so nice when companies only make small changes to their code of conduct. Google dropped the word "Don't" from their foundational guiding principle.
I guess that makes it easier to make money.
https://www.theguardian.com/t…

Had a great time at Good Vibrations Society this weekend.
First act I saw was the most entrancing. Rozsa stroking a harp and singing angelically with a backing track. She was great.
The North London Gospel Choir doing Graceland was pretty cool. They got some mad energy, all those gospel synced dance moves. Lovely to hear that album in a new way.
Enjoyed the Gentlemen Dub Club and Riot Jazz and So Solid Crew. Watched a nice sunset at camp.
Lovely small site, great crowd. Hung with some friends and met old ones I hadn't seen for years.
Also tripped over a guy rope in the dark on the first night and hurt my wrist pretty bad.
Walked away after a moment on the floor assessing damage but visited the medical tent. My wrist swelled up so much the next day I had to have my wristband replaced. Drive home somewhat more perilous as a result. Thank goodness for automatic gear boxes.
#goodVibrationsSociety #festival #uk

Today I learned a nice #PostgreSQL snippet to generate a random timestamp: `select now()::date (random() * interval '1 day');`

Last but not least: I've got an NESRGB on the way to the US from Australia. This is the final bit that I always wanted to install, and figured this Frankenstein's monster of a frontloader NES would be perfect with some nice RGB outputs instead of the standard composite outputs.
#retrogaming #nes

nix-unit looks like a nice way to test your #nix libraries https://clan.lol/blog/nix-unit/

The real question is why is a fucking sociopath allowed to teach a class at a university? Oh, it’s Stanford. As you were. https://mastodon.social/@RuthMalan/113022749498944409

Stephen Jones now playing nice with Micah Parsons amid public spat https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-stephen-jones-playing-nice-micah-parsons-public-contract-spat

5. Another very minor thing: there's no way of rebuilding your existing Spoti-Tidal-Apple playlists to Navidrome (using your library's existing files) or transferring your iTunes listen counts out of the box. I *was* able to find a nice Python script thing for the playlists, but I had to transfer my Tidal playlists to Spotify first:

Procrastinated by tidying up my small (but nice) rack

I couldn't find a nice way to detect AprilTags on my phone. So I built (well, mostly vibecoded) a little app.
https://www.rossng.eu/posts/2025-08-03-apriltag-detector/

After 2.5 months owning a #Framework 13, I can add one more review to the pile:
https://www-gem.codeberg.page/sys_Framework13-2/
Curious to hear about your own experien…

just discovered https://masto-fe.superseriousbusiness.org/ which you can hook up to a GTS instance but also a mastodon instance, which serves as a nice way to see what mastodon used to look like way back in the day. loving the columns!

👋 Hello! I’m Łukasz. Thirty-something, living in Warsaw, Poland. On fedi since 2021 or so. Right now, I'm merging my two accounts into one and giving this profile a fresh new start.
I live a few parallel lives.
Most of the time I’m a web developer. I work with TypeScript, React and all that jazz. But I still enjoy static site generators and good ol’ HTML/CSS.
In another life, I’m a documentary photographer and photojournalist. I’m interested in activism, art and culture, politics, and pretty much anything interesting happening on city streets. A big part of my photography journey involves documenting protests and demonstrations in Poland, especially those related to human rights and social issues. I’m also drawn to street art, particularly when it carries strong messages.
I occasionally blog and translate. Many years ago I wrote two books about WordPress. However, these days I’m more likely to go outside and touch grass than spend even more time in front of a screen.
Outside of that, expect me to post about mental health and politics. I promise to use CWs when appropriate.
I post in both English and Polish, depending on the topic.
Aaaand that’s it. Nice to meet you! ☺️
#introduction

@… The proper way to start the Monday and week ahead. Greetings from Saigon!

I just misread a heading as 'Tranquility in the Era of AI' - wouldn't that be nice?

according to this ai purity test i am 69/75 pure
nice
https://its-sentient.lol/

That was a nice little ride.

Nice, finally
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/312002/the-rose-field-the-book-of-dust-volume-three-by-pullman-philip/9780241458693

The Rose Field: The Book of Dust Volume Three
‘Lyra: what will you do when you find this place in the desert, the opening to the world of the roses?’ ‘Defend it,’ Lyra said. ‘Die defending it.’ When readers left Lyra in The Secret Commonwealth she was alone, in the ruins of a deserted city. Pantalaimon had run from her – part of himself – in search of her imagination, which he believed she had lost. Lyra travelled across the world from her Oxford home in search of her dæmon. And Malcolm, loyal Malcolm, too journeyed far …

NASA’s NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer), an X-ray telescope on the International Space Station, has paused observations due to a problem with one of the motors that drives its ability to track cosmic objects: #NICER team paused operations June 17 when performance degradation in the motor began affecting science observations. Engineers are investigating the cause and potential solutions.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Lemon Jelly:
🎵 Nice Weather For Ducks
#LemonJelly
https://gattuso.bandcamp.com/track/happy-note-lemon-jelly-nice-weather-for-ducks-mashup-mix

$\text{NS}_{\omega_1}$ saturated, $\Delta_1 ( \{ \omega_1 \} )$-definable and a $\Delta^1_4$-definable well-order of the reals
Stefan Hoffelner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01183

$\text{NS}_{ω_1}$ saturated, $Δ_1 ( \{ ω_1 \} )$-definable and a $Δ^1_4$-definable well-order of the reals
Assuming $M_1$, the canonical inner model with one Woodin cardinal exists, we construct a model in which the nonstationary ideal on $ω_1$ is $\aleph_2$-saturated, $Δ_1$-definable with $ω_1$ as the only parameter and there is a $Σ^1_{4}$-definable well-order of the reals. This implies that contrary to the assumption that $NS_{ω_1}$ is $\aleph_1$-dense, the assumption of $NS_{ω_1}$ being saturated and $Δ_1$-definable does not imply any nice structural properties for the projective subsets …

I was just out with my wife on a good 2.5h walk in a nearby valley to scout some possible photo locations.
We were quite well prepared for rain but luckily didn't need a lot. 🍀 Well, photo result: I might walk further some time when it hadn't rained so much. Ground was very wet and a stream I need to cross was filled pretty well.
Also it might look pretty nice there in autumn.

@… That works great for viewing the feed in a browser (I remember doing that in… I wanna say 2006), but not in a feed reader AFAIK. I don’t think any of them support it, mostly because they don’t support arbitrary HTML.
I think just supporting CSS would be a nice middle ground.
Now you’ve got me wanting to do this again though…

And another developer who just missed out on a purchase because they want to sell a subscription instead of a one time fee. Too bad, looked like a nice tool but at least I saved some money I guess... 🤷‍♂️

@… Eilen Jewell played here in DC at the Kennedy Center recently and covered Deportee. She said it was the first time she had played it. I thought it was a nice touch.

A robust Likelihood Ratio Test for high-dimensional MANOVA -- with excellent performance
Carlos A. Coelho
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01261 https://

A robust Likelihood Ratio Test for high-dimensional MANOVA -- with excellent performance
The present paper answers the following questions related with high-dimensional manova: (i) is it possible to develop a likelihood ratio test for high-dimensional manova? (ii) would such test perform well? (iii) would it be able to outperform existing tests? (iv) would it be applicable to extremely small samples? (v) would it be applicable to non-normal random variables, as uniform, extremely skewed distributions, or even heavy tailed distributions with success? (vi) would it have a nice, rathe…

Synergy between Roman and PRIMA imaging capabilities for large extragalactic surveys
M\'ed\'eric Boquien (Universit\'e C\^ote d'Azur, Observatoire de la C\^ote d'Azur, CNRS, Laboratoire Lagrange, Nice, France), Laure Ciesla (Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, CNES, LAM, Marseille, France), Roman Amestoy (Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, CNES, LAM, Marseille, France), Jason Glenn (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, United States), Carlotta Gruppioni (Istituto Naz…

Synergy between Roman and PRIMA imaging capabilities for large extragalactic surveys
The Roman Space Telescope will be instrumental for characterizing the physical properties of galaxies and understanding their evolution across time. However, a complete view of galaxy star formation activity will only be possible with the addition of far-infrared observations that a telescope such as PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics (PRIMA) will be able to provide. Indeed, PRIMA's far-infrared camera will be highly sensitive to dust emission, whereas Roman will probe the stellar emis…

coming to grips (or not) with the end of the long weekend with a nice soundboard of peter rowan, tony rice, & vassar clements at a house party in 1998. https://gdarchive.net/Bluegrass/Artists…

Since St George was born in Turkey, died in Palestine and never set foot on Britain I find all of his flags going up around the UK a bit strange but am fine with it really. A nice international symbol of unity with all the other countries with him as their patron saint (Aragon, Catalonia, Georgia, Lithuania, Palestine, Portugal, Germany, Greece, Moscow, Istanbul, Genoa and Venice).
My worry is that in a year there will be really tatty flags everywhere, filling the air with microplastic…

For all the nice people in #denmark tell me what i should put on my "Must eat" list!
#trip
#travel

"Nice fireworks"
#resist #tyranny #fireworks #July4th

I would say that's about it so far. I'm pretty happy with it overall, have supported the development, and use it every day with no issue. The initial setup took me some time as a newbie, but the PiMyLife blog really helped.
I love how many different apps I can connect my server to, how configurable it is, and I'm looking forward to seeing what the future holds for Navidrome. The dev also seems pretty nice and responsive.

Yeah! Good news. I got the vmware.vms plugin to work, and I can get an inventory! Nice. Not great part? The password is in my yaml inventory file in plaintext. I've tried using an ansible-vault/variable but I get "Failed to parse /home/ansible/inventory.vmware.vms.yml with auto plugin: 'vmware_password' is undefined. 'vmware_password' is undefined:" How do I get the inventory variable as either a vars_prompt or a vault variable? I'm assuming I'm just us…

A good read (thanks to @…)
Deport Republicans: A Practical Guide
https://cmarmitage.substack.com/p/deport-republicans-a-practical-guide…

Deport Republicans: A Practical Guide
Wouldn't it be nice not to share a country with Texas?

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Metronomy feat. Pan Amsterdam:
🎵 Nice Town (Original)
#NowPlaying #Metronomy #PanAmsterdam
https://metronomy.bandcamp.com/album/nice-town

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.16975 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Regular singular Mahler equations and Newton polygons
Though Mahler equations have been introduced nearly one century ago, the study of their solutions is still a fruitful topic for research. In particular, the Galois theory of Mahler equations has been the subject of many recent papers. Nevertheless, long is the way to a complete understanding of relations between solutions of Mahler equations. One step along this way is the study of singularities. Mahler equations with a regular singularity at 0 have rather "nice" solutions: they can be expresse…

Okay, I took up the challenge to myself and installed Lubuntu. And this is absolutely a lxqt that I could live in. Did a minimal install, added flatpak (yes, yes, one 'apt install flatpak' away) and off you go. Ootb actually no snapd installed. Nice styling (arc-darqueske), 6.14 kernel , good experience. This can breath a lot of life into those October 2025 machines. Nice one 👍🏻
#lubuntu

“Putin talks nice and then he BOMBS everyone”: the U.S. will send PATRIOT systems to Ukraine #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/14/putin-talks-nice-and-then.html

Nice breeze on this one. I haven't "run" errands before on a run, but it worked out. With so much construction around where I live, it is difficult to drive anywhere close without it being worthwhile. A younger woman at the store did a double take, she thought it was too hot to run in this weather. Lol. #running

TIL Enarx has a nice flags crate!
https://github.com/enarx/flagset
just used it already
https://

GitHub - enarx/flagset: Rust data types and a macro for generating enumeration-based bit flags
Rust data types and a macro for generating enumeration-based bit flags - enarx/flagset

Oh nice pairing
⭐️ #ListeningClub

Just relaying a story I told elsewhere.
When I was young, maybe around 5, there was a cat in our neighbourhood who regulary came into our garden. His name was Monty. He was a really nice cat and my brother, sister and I really liked him.
At some point our parents bought us a cat and we disgreed on what our cat should be called but in the end we agreed to just copy the other cat's name because we liked that one so much.

#EU age verification done by #Google or #Apply only?
Well, Michał has a better and cheaper proposal for implementing that process:

Toward higher-order infinite time Turing machines: simulational $\Gamma$-machines
Bournez Olivier, Finkel Olivier, Girardot Johan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00163 https://

Toward higher-order infinite time Turing machines: simulational $Γ$-machines
Infinite time Turing machines (ITTMs) have been introduced by Hamkins and Lewis in their seminal article arXiv:math/9808093. The strength of the model comes from a limit rule which allows the ITTM to compute through ordinal stages. This rule is simple to describe and another rule would lead to a different model of ordinal computation. The aim of this article is to define a collection of limit rules for which the models of infinite Turing machine they induce have nice properties, akin to that of…

We had a toddler free weekend - it was lovely. We didn't do anything exciting, it was just nice having the house to ourselves. We adore the wee one but grandparenting is exhausting.
👵👴
#Grandparents #Toddlers #QuietTime

I guess it's always nice when someone cites a paper. But too often, it's very clear that they haven't read it. If they had done, they would have realised that they were writing stuff that that I showed to be wrong in 1987. Sigh.
The extent of innumeracy in pharmacology is worrying.

Frontiers | The flexibility of SABRE, a new quantitative receptor function model, when fitting challenging concentration-effect data
The Signal Amplification, Binding affinity, and Receptor-activation Efficacy (SABRE) model is the most recent general and quantitative model of receptor func...

So this just came to live here...in very nice running condition, belt is good, it's been kept clean and in use for four generations in one family. The fifth didn't want it, so it's starting over at our house.
Singer Model 66, probably the longest running machine in production ever, over 50 years. This one is from 1911. The furniture is in awesome shape, there really isn't anything to do before putting it to work.
Ten bucks.

Somebody built a searchable and browsable BYTE magazine archive with all single pages on one single web page. I think, this is a very nice way of visualising a magazine archive. Enjoy: #vintagecomputing

The houses are nice but those cars are crazy. https://youtu.be/7O3Unkchpuc?si=dzccFDaioyK8HKBM

#Jellyfin for #Roku 3.0.7 will be published on Monday, Aug 4, 2025 5:00 PM PT
This primarily a bug fix release, which may not be super exciting, but it is nice having a channel that crashes less 🥳
Release Notes:

Chef: „Warum wechseln? Unsere US-Cloud läuft doch!“ Caspar Clemens Mierau: „Tja, wenn morgen der digitale Türsteher kein Eintritt mehr gewährt, fliegt die Party.“ Digitale Souveränität ist kein nice-to-have, sondern Vermeidung von Daten-Weekend-Closings. Kleine Pilotprojekte rocken mehr als Safe-Choice-Schafe.
- Raus aus US-Diensten - aber warum? So erklärst du es Vorgesetzten #Golem

Digitale Souveränität: Argumentationshilfe für resiliente IT-Entscheidungen - Golem.de
Es gibt gute Gründe, aus US-Diensten auszusteigen, Vorgesetzte wollen das aber oft nicht hören. Wie ITler klug und ohne das Reizwort Datenschutz argumentieren.

"Chaos Walking" on #Netflix is a really weird film. I liked it!
The premise is that on an alien planet everybody's thoughts are visible and audible to others. Exactly the kind of thing an author can invent but how would you pull it off in a movie?
It worked well! Solid VFX and nice matte paintings by a bunch of well-known studios (Rodeo, Crafty Apes, Spin) even though the …

Oh, Hacker News…FFS. Something got lost in the sad game of Popular Press Telephone between the actual study and this snotty post.
The actual study is here:
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/ANNALS-25-00577
It notes that:
1. Most research on air cleaning devices used air samples, not human health outcomes. (It’s far more difficult to conduct a study on the latter.)
2. Not many people are studying whether e.g. UV air purifiers create toxic byproducts.
3. The available studies sure do measure a whole bunch of different things, and wouldn’t it be nice if they had more consistent standards.
Their main recommendation is basically “scientists should do more studies where they measure infection in humans, not just germs in the air.” And that’s fair: It’s reasonable to •guess• that fewer germs in the air means less sickness, but it’s nice to actually •test• that!
However, AFAICT, nothing in the study warrants the “tinfoil hats” remark. Unlike a tinfoil hats, we have plenty good reason to think at least some of these devices actually work; the paper just wants the research to go deeper. It’s one giant “further study needed.” https://mastodon.social/@ngate/115091700894746240

A friend from way back just got in touch. We used to work on comic books together back in the day. It was nice hearing from him. That's his blog. Great to hear he's still writing. "Hyperboreans is published by Beul Aithris and is about an astral pub crawl through Cork city in the 90s. " I had to buy this one. Pure Cork like 😁 #writingcommunity

Less than 10 days until I’ll speak at @… 😱&&🤩
I’m so much looking forward to this – and can’t wait to meet so many nice people in Freiburg! 💚🥳

En nu nog iets doen…
From: @…
https://masto.ai/@meduza_en/114931756048380445

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Madison McFerrin:
🎵 Ain't It Nice
#NowPlaying #MadisonMcFerrin
https://madisonmcferrin.bandcamp.com/track/aint-it-nice
https://open.spotify.com/track/16cf5KXlcTvSpO1TisvQWI

not very nice picking up the offspring from holiday club this pm
nasty weather
and wow the traffic going into cambridge on huntingdon road is terrible
lots of big lorries, some even going through girton village
looks like a fuckup near the a14 / m11 junction

1/2 Got some new reading material about digital sovereignty.
It's a really nice topic / hobby to spend time with: doing IT stuff for my own, playing around with RaspberryPIs and VPCs - and maybe(!) increasing some data protection.
Someone once told me that it's absurd as I'm posting online so much. But posting online is something I do explicitly. I control what I put online.
In case of services that I use form any company, I give away control (as I hardly ever rea…

Is Kissing Trump's Ass, Real Nice and Slow How He Likes It, a Good Strategy? (Hamilton Nolan/How Things Work)
https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/is-kissing-trumps-ass-real-nice-and
http://www.memeorandum.com/250726/p37#a250726p37

But nice lawns and golf courses and unblemished flower gardens are so important. We can't possibly give up routine use of #pesticides.
Yet it's clear that even "benign" pesticides, like #pyrethroids, have adverse impacts. Even if they are harmless to people and pets, they …

But nice lawns and golf courses and unblemished flower gardens are so important. We can't possibly give up routine use of #pesticides.
Yet it's clear that even "benign" pesticides, like #pyrethroids, have adverse impacts. Even if they are harmless to people and pets, they …

The colors on this 25-year old iBook screen are pretty great and rich. Also, nice file server icon.

2 Cowboys players who could make first career Pro Bowl in 2025 https://insidethestar.com/2-cowboys-players-who-could-make-first-career-pro-bowl-in-2025

Finally got the laptop where I wanted it. Proper "nightlight", touchpad gestures, notifications that look correct for the theme, proper `fish` theme...Sway is just so nice to use.
#linux #sway #cachyos

Our property tax bill arrives with a detailed list of each and every component of the total due.
Would it be nice if for our Federal taxes that we could get a detailed list that precisely shows how much each part goes, in reality, to each of the various appropriations made by Congress.
That would certainly show us how much of the FFOTUS spending consists of money stolen by FFOTUS and spent in defiance of Congressional appropriations.

Last night I had to grab code from an old script and I was reminded at how nice that code was. This is pretty rare for me. I almost never look at my code and go "Wow! Awesome!" but looking at what the code did I was quite pleased with it. Using just a single rotary encoder and 7 segment display I added a good amount of configurability to a device. I hope to have move of those moments in the future.

Nice set, I'm convinved!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psFjLY9JDVc

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Madison McFerrin:
🎵 Ain't It Nice
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https://madisonmcferrin.bandcamp.com/track/aint-it-nice
https://open.spotify.com/track/16cf5KXlcTvSpO1TisvQWI

The last @Tuxjam podcast is still very much worth listening to. This despite @… and yours truly being mentioned 😜
Btw, my nom de plume is related to me living and working in Saigon for the last 8 years.
Nice interview with @…

Amazing how many miserable fucks are on here (Mastodon) who just lurk and then shit into other people’s replies just to troll.
Would be nice to have some of the Bluesky features for shared blocking and muting, as well as labeling.

🇺🇦 Auf #radioeins läuft...
Madison McFerrin:
🎵 Ain't It Nice
#NowPlaying #MadisonMcFerrin
https://madisonmcferrin.bandcamp.com/track/aint-it-nice
https://open.spotify.com/track/16cf5KXlcTvSpO1TisvQWI

You know what's nice? Terminals like kitty or alacritty, that work on both x11 and wayland. Makes for a more streamlined setup if you're using both. So, kudos to @… and his slackeroni repo, alacritty is in there (bcs of niri) as a ready to use package and has now been deployed by me on both Mate and Hyprland. I can tell you compiling it yourself is a depende…