Tootfinder

"Personal Knowledge Management is for Life, Not Just for Work"
#PKM

'Not enough' work being done in Kyiv as city faces heating emergency, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/01/not-enough-work-being-done.html

There are only 19 work days this month and I need to drive on 9 of them due to other appointments during work hours (PT, dentist, haircut, etc) so even if I could bike to work right now it would be fewer than 10 days but also with the snow and the piriformis pain it's just not happening this month.
I do need to get the trainer set up in the basement with one of the good acoustic bikes to see how pedaling feels right now.
Basically December sucks due to *waves hands* everythin…

Acquired a new phone for work.
Just need to get a new SIM card for it and tell my employer to update phone numbers in their system.
This way, I can have a better separation between work and private (Phone off -> I'm completely unavailable no real work-related apps on my private phone).
Sadly, "right to be unavailable" it's not (yet) in law in The Netherlands.
Luckily, my employment terms does have other clauses that effectively allow me to do this…

After Missouri residents voted to repeal their state’s near-total abortion ban
and enshrine abortion rights into their state constitution,
Conservative advocates quickly got to work.
In a lawsuit filed the day after the 2024 election,
abortion providers challenged not only the constitutionality of the state’s ban,
⚠️but also a slew of other restrictions that, they said,
made their jobs so arduous as to be impossible.
More than a year later, they are…

#Sky's scaremongering is not going to work.
They simply need to drop the pricing (€52 a month on their 'Sky Signature' aka. Entertainment package €40 a month on Sky Sports)
And abolish the Saturday 3PM bollocks (in Ireland anyway) for Premier League games, and maybe people will pay for it then.
The wording on this is just laughable.
'Dodgy boxes' are not i…

"The hardest part of acting is not being guaranteed work. Every job could be your last."
—Henry Cavill
#acting #coaching #inspiration

This is particularly annoying because after converting my kid's laptop to Linux with #EndOfTen, school WiFi certificates would not allow connection so we had to switch back to Microsoft to allow school work submissions 🤬
#MicrosoftTax.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DUNFbR2AbG9/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

VT on Instagram: "In Japan, a new kind of bar is drawing attention for flipping workplace culture on its head. The bar is designed specifically for people who are considering leaving their jobs. Drinks are free, and the focus is not on alcohol sales but conversation. Patrons are invited to talk openly about burnout, frustration, and career doubts, while staff are trained to listen without judgement or pressure. The idea taps into a growing reckoning in Japan around long working hours, rigid hierarchies, and the mental health toll of intense job expectations. Conversations about quitting or dissatisfaction have traditionally been stigmatised, making this kind of space unusual. By removing the cost barrier and offering a supportive environment, the bar aims to normalise discussions about career dissatisfaction and help people reflect on what they actually want from work, even if that means starting over."
34K likes, 169 comments - vt on January 31, 2026: "In Japan, a new kind of bar is drawing attention for flipping workplace culture on its head. The bar is designed specifically for people who are considering leaving their jobs. Drinks are free, and the focus is not on alcohol sales but conversation. Patrons are invited to talk openly about burnout, frustration, and career doubts, while staff are trained to listen without judgement or pressure. The idea taps into a growing reckoning in Japan a…

Trump regime renames National Renewable Energy Laboratory to National Laboratory of the Rockies...
https://www.gravityisgone.com/a-collective-wtf-national-renewable-energy-laboratory-gets-a-trumpian-name-change/

'A Collective WTF': National Renewable Energy Laboratory Gets a Trumpian Name Change
NREL employees, many of whom joined the lab specifically to work toward its clean energy mission, are not happy about the oil-soaked leadership's moves.

I've recently stumbled upon an RCE "exploit" for the Serendipity blog software, which I happen to use and have contributed to in the past. From what I can tell, it does nothing interesting (it does not even work due to broken indents, if one fixes that it uploads a PHP shell given existing credentials, but that won't be executed unless you have a server config that executes .inc files). I'm 95% certain this is bogus. Yet... in case anyone wants to have a look:

Exploit (probably bogus) on exploit-db · Issue #940 · s9y/Serendipity
I stumbled upon this: https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/52036 This claims to be a remote code execution exploit for serendipity. I believe it is bogus. I'm sharing what I figured out here, mostly...

Spent too long trying to work out if links to “c[.]gle” are phishing or not. (I think this is the well paid geniuses at Google not considering how people assess domains as legitimate.)

Initial experiments on a GPU-accelerated parallel CDR PLL filter.
Fundamentally, the problem is that a PLL is stateful so you can't process any given iteration of it without knowing the previous state. I'm trying to work around that by recognizing that the impulse response of the PLL loop filter tails off to effectively zero after a while, so we can truncate and samples older than that point will not materially affect the output.
What you see here is the first pass of wha…

@… I’m conflicted.
Today my wife took our son out skiing, they’ll be away overnight. Since I’m alone at home, I took a day off work to have my first real “me day” in years.
At first glance, not a bad day to relive! Low stress, no outwards commitments, awesome!
After a few cycles though, I think I would be sad that my family leaves me every morning at 6 AM…

I think being an egocentric asshole as a service is finally falling flat
and people want to hear more about what real living is about.
https://hachyderm.io/@suzannealdrich/115830103893974091

Now the whole goal is to get them to match a fully discovered in-game map so that the location data I get from this can be used on the site to search and highlight locations later in the process. They have to be correct first, and some work out almost fine, while others do not. Going through https://wago.tools/db2/ h…

These proposals were common knowledge in Bulgaria. I remember the oldtimers being disgusted how desperately in love was the regime with the Soviets, while the Bulgarian economy had been crashing constantly way into the 1980s (which was a not that common knowledge because it was kept in secret from the population that didn't perish in prisons and work camps). Fully incompetent, servile scum in full power for 45 years straight.
Why did the USSR Refuse to Annex Bulgaria?

Not In Print: Playwrights Off Script - On Inspiration, Process And Theatre Itself
We're talking to Australian playwrights about their work, getting insights straight from the source...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/not-in-print/

Ha vuelto a salir la noticia de poner en órbita centros de datos porque (inserte aquí motivaciones en forma de humo muy denso con el único fin de obtener pasta de inversores y atención medištica de gente que no tiene ni puñetera idea de las implicaciones técnica y ambientales que tendría) y no he podido mšs que acordarme de este artículo que explica muy bien, por qué es una nefasta idea

Somebody with an old Samsung Tab 2 (gt-5110)? What to do with it in 2026?
I've tried to install #customRom but it didn't work...
https://xdaforums.com/t/gt-5110-which-odi…

you don't have to be healed to begin — https://www.brichapman.com/p/you-dont-have-to-be-healed-to-begin?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social

Healing Through, Not Before: You Don’t Have to Be Whole to Begin
You don’t have to be healed to be worthy. Healing isn’t a finish line — it’s something you do through love, work, and living in the world as it is.

RE: https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/115830729201336922
I ended up using kdenlive on my laptop. But it was pretty easy anyway.
https://tilvids.com/w/8m4QJwER66JmaFAEVaEuCt
Excuse the rather rough work, not much time as preparing for a weather window hopefully tomorrow now..

What a paragraph. From
https://restofworld.org/2026/india-tech-workers-crisis-suicide/

Very good talk at #fosdem by @…
We (open-source developers) are now in a position to decide. If you work in an organization that decides to change direction, this matters to you and your open source project.
This is why …

One Huge Reason Why Chip Kelly's Offense Did Not Work with Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-one-huge-reason-why-chip-kelly-offense-did-not-work-with

I am mixed on this one...
On one hand I can see the risk of having Chinese people in China work on (which means "have access to", and often "have privileged access to") US DoD systems.
However, I don't see the other half of the issue - What do do about people who are not in China (perhaps in the US, even US citizens) who are, or have been induced, to use their access to promote the interests of a foreign power?
Given that under Cheato the US is dumbi…

Trump Signs Defense Bill Prohibiting China-Based Engineers in Pentagon IT Work
The measure, which emerged in response to a ProPublica investigation, bars Microsoft engineers in China and other adversarial countries from servicing sensitive Pentagon cloud computing systems.

Back in September in Anaheim at the House of Blues. Surreal to get to play those songs—I bought the album back in the day!
Let me know if the quote post works... I discovered that for the band's posts to share to fedi, you have to post directly in the Threads app, not share from a different Meta platform. Hopefully now I can share a bit more and Zuck can host heh heh
Yours truly on guitar (R), audio mix and video edit 😁 @…

Maggie Speaks (@maggiespeaksband) on Threads
Hi all! Today for #CelebritySitIn Sunday we're sharing some highlights from a show we did with the Gin Blossoms! In September we had the pleasure of playing the House of Blues in Anaheim with them. Such a pleasure to work with them! #90s #throwback #HeyJealousy #GinBlossoms

#WritersCoffeeClub Nov 28: In what ways do you see yourself reflected in your own work?
In one novel I've written, I based my main character on what I imagine I would have been like if not for the trauma of my childhood. He came out as very successful, but also extremely arrogant and entitled — not a likeable person.

Using devices as long as they work is literally the exact opposite of “hoarding”, which would be buying a new phone every year and ending up with a hoard of them.
Let’s not use words that were deliberately used in bad faith to blame consumers for problems producers have.

New reporting by
"The Information" has revealed some recent topics of conversation between #OpenAI employees as they work to supply #advertisers with a teeming new audience to manipulate.
The plans are not final, though they give us a look at what soon may become the norm for

OpenAI’s Ads Push Starts Taking Shape
OpenAI executives have kept a tight lid on how the company could show advertisements to users of its popular ChatGPT chatbot, leaving the broader digital ad industry eager for clues. Behind the scenes, staff are working through key details. Employees have discussed ways to tweak AI models to ...

I’m currently not able to really work on Youtube, but I think I’ll try and post more art and poetry both here and on Patreon. It would be really helpful if you support me right here: #patreon

Blocking the work of MSF is absolutely depraved. Israel continues to fumble its way out of the community of civilized nations.
https://apnews.com/article/gaza-israel-hamas-palestinians-ceasefire-war-news-286106d7a5a911704cdcf1c93…

Israel to halt operations of several humanitarian groups in Gaza starting in 2026
Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian organizations for failing to meet its new rules to vet international organizations working in Gaza. The Ministry of Diaspora Affairs said on Tuesday that the organizations that will be banned on Jan. 1 did not meet its new requirements for sharing staff, funding and operations information. It accused Doctors Without Borders, known as MSF by its French acronym, of failing to clarify the roles of some staff that Israel accused of cooperation with H…

Better Rideshare: Airport Ubers lined up, and you can get into ANY car, driver scans your QR code, and go. Immediately.
No 10-20 minute delay. No clog to match riders to cars.
This is how Taxi's work, but they are more expensive and no universal app. This is how Waymo could work, but they are not at most airports yet. A new competitor might do well with this trick: "AirRide"?
Many people have opted for rideshare-- lets have it work better. Other ideas?

Hummm.
So I was thinking about how with a couple of caster-boards and straps, the bed could be upturned and stowed in the studio. Probably? I should have figured for a fold-away really.
Still. Could work...
Then, without a bed in there, the place could turn into a dining room.
I was thinking about a shape of a table for a dinner party in there.
Oh my god.
This semi-circle table curve of wood and attachable table-legs and fold-able stools might just fit, like, under the bed normally?
Looks perfect for a card-game or a Dungeon Master setup.
Could that table and it's legs and it's chairs all fit under the bed? Probably not at it's current height. But I want to raise it a bit anyway.
🤔
Oh my god, look at this though. The projector is pointed at the wall behind the throne surrounded by the seats for the council of seven.
This could be built.
Not right away, but eventually?

X exposing political accounts' location shows why trust and safety teams mattered: to combat coordinated inauthentic behavior, not "censorship" of viewpoints (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/24/xs-new<…

X’s New Feature Reveals Why Trust & Safety Work Was Never About The ‘Censorship Industrial Complex’
For the last few years, Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, and their allies have spent considerable energy attacking both academic researchers studying disinformation and the trust & safety te…

from my link log —
Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.
https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea/
saved 2025-11-30

Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.
There is a rush for AI companies to team up with space launch/satellite companies to build datacenters in space. TL;DR: It's not going to work.

@… @… Work smarter, not harder!

@… @… Work smarter, not harder!

I don’t just mean this as a flippant remark. I’m deadly serious. If whipping up a fake war keeps Epstein off the front page, they’re going to keep doing it. Our best hope for preventing a war is to make it not work as political cover for them.

I have an idea. If we used people to do work, rather than paying for AI agents, then we wouldn’t need to pay for them to not work. Also, we wouldn’t have goodness knows how much electricity used on it.
#ai #ukpolitics

• 60 out of 100 times it’ll “sync” and freeze with all 4 LEDs on. The Wii U does a little beep but doesn’t show the controller and no inputs work.
• 38 out of 100 times the same thing will happen but with all LEDs off
  • You need to remove the batteries in order to take the wiimotes out of these states
• 2 out of 100 times the wiimotes actually connect, but show with 1 battery bar and almost no inputs go through (and the ones that do are extremely laggy, except for the power button)
  • The manual states that if this happens you can remove the batteries, wait 3 minutes and connect (without syncing) again. That does fixes it sometimes, but it really only worked once for each wiimote.
  • A truly successful connection only happens after the “low battery one”, and even then it seems to be hard to achieve for the first time.
    • Afterwards you’re supposed to be able to reconnect without syncing and then not encounter the issues anymore. That was true for the pink wiimote, but the blue wiimote had to be synced again. I spent quite a few hours trying and wasn’t able to get a successful connection.
    • If you connect the pink wiimote that was working when the other wiimote is in the 4 LEDs freeze state it’ll break the connection of the other one and make you need to sync it again
      • Now none of my aliexpress wiimotes are synced and idk when I’ll be able to sync them again

"Writing your idea down is not starting the damn game. Writing a design document is not starting the damn game. Assembling a team is not starting the damn game. Even doing graphics or music is not starting the damn game. It’s easy to confuse “preparing to start the damn game” with “starting the damn game”. Just remember: a damn game can be played, and if you have not created something that can be played, it’s not a damn game!"

Wake up all you citizens, hear your country's call,
Not to arms and violence, But peace for one and all.
Crush out hate and prejudice, fear and greed and sin,
Help bring back her dignity, restore her faith again.
Work hard for a common cause, don't let our country fall.
Make her proud and strong again, democracy for all.
Yes, make our country strong again, keep our flag unfurled.
Make our country well again, respected by the world.
Make her w…

So... stupid question, but given these days it's almost impossible to buy a smartphone with a headphone jack, it seems everyone's expected to use bluetooth headphones. Yet... all bluetooth headphones I've ever tried have a very noticeable delay. This obviously doesn't matter for audio only content, but... pretty much means watching video with headphones when you expect audio video to be in sync does not work. Is that... to be expected?...

X exposing political accounts' location shows why trust and safety teams mattered: to combat coordinated inauthentic behavior, not "censorship" of viewpoints (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/24/xs-new<…

X’s New Feature Reveals Why Trust & Safety Work Was Never About The ‘Censorship Industrial Complex’
For the last few years, Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, and their allies have spent considerable energy attacking both academic researchers studying disinformation and the trust & safety te…

#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 04 - Dawn of the Gods
TARRANT: Thanks to Orac it sounds as if the Liberator is still intact. A trip to Xaranar wouldn't take too long.
GROFF: Escape is impossible. While the energy isolators are on, your handguns won't work and it is not possible to put the gravity generator into the negative field mode.

The implications are interesting enough when we apply this to systems like capitalism or national governments, but there are other very interesting implications when applied to systems like race or gender.
Like, as a cis man the only way I can be free to express and explore my own masculinity is if the masculinity I participate in is one which allows anyone the freedom to leave. Then I have an obligation to recognize the validity of nom-masculine trans identity as a necessary component of my own. If I fail to do this, then I trap myself in masculinity and allow the system to control me rather than me to be a free participant in the system.
But if it's OK to escape but not enter, that's it's own restriction that constrains the freedom to leave. It creates a barrier that keeps people in by the fear that they cannot return. So in order for me to be free in my cis masculine identity, I must accept non-masculine trans identities as they are and accept detransitioning as also valid.
But I also need to accept trans-masc identities because restricting entry to my masculinity means non-consensually constraining other identities. If every group imposes an exclusion against others coming in, that, by default, makes it impossible to leave every other group. This is just a description of how national borders work to trap people within systems, even if a nation itself allows people to "freely" leave.
So then, a free masculinity is one which recognizes all configurations of trans identities as valid and welcomes, if not celebrates, people who transition as affirmations of the freedom of their own identity (even for those who never feel a reason to exercise that same freedom).
The most irritating type of white person may look at this and say, "oh, so then why can't I be <not white>?" Except that the critique of transratial identities has never been "that's not allowed" and has always been "this person didn't do the work." If that person did the work, they would understand that the question doesn't make sense based on how race is constructed. That person might understand that race, especially whiteness, is more fluid than they at first understood. They might realize that whiteness is often chosen at the exclusion of other racialized identities. They would, perhaps, realize that to actually align with any racialized identity, they would first have to understand the boot of whiteness on their neck, have to recognize the need to destroy this oppressive identity for their own future liberation. The best, perhaps only, way to do this would be to use the privilege afforded by that identity to destroy it, and in doing so would either destroy their own privilege or destroy the system of privilege. The must either become themselves completely ratialized or destroy the system of race itself such being "transracial" wouldn't really make sense anymore.
But that most annoying of white person would, of course, not do any such work. Nevertheless, one hopes that they may recognize the paradox that they are trapped by their white identity, forced forever by it to do the work of maintaining it. And such is true for all privileged identities, where privilege is only maintained through restrictions where these restrictions ultimately become walls that imprison both the privileged and the marginalized in a mutually reinforcing hell that can only be escaped by destroying the system of privilege itself.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Brian Jackson & Masters At Work feat. Black Thought:
🎵 The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
#BrianJackson #MastersAtWork #BlackThought
https://thebrianjackson.bandcamp.com/album/the-revolution-will-not-be-televised-feat-black-thought
https://open.spotify.com/track/6Va9lgzBLlMG6UcwuY91A9

“But when I look at the Port of Prince Rupert, a lot of those issues don’t exist there because it is right on the ocean.”
Flatlanders...
Dear Premier Smith. Consult a map.
Prince Rupert is not “on the Ocean” any more than Calgary is “in the Rocky Mountains”.
It is around the same distance from Calgary to Banff as it is from Prince Rupert to the northwest tip of Haida Gwaii and you don’t want to do either in a storm.
#geography #haidagwaii #bc #alberta #oil #climateEmergency #oilspill
“Smith wants to work with B.C., still hopes for buy-in on lifting tanker ban”
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/smith-wants-to-work-with-bc-still-hopes-for-buy-in-on-lifting-tanker-ban/
P.S. and if you want to get technical, consult an official chart. No “pacific oceans” noted on that chart.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@agitprop_n_absurdity/115985494719535700
lol this dumbass is like, "look now i'm off your property". Doesn't understand how parking lots work. That's not public right-of-way.
Guaranteed h…

How does Pro Football Hall of Fame voting work? One of our voters explains https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7005102/2026/01/29/pro-football-hall-of-fame-voting-process-explainer/

2025 has only intensified the struggles of past years. The challenge for us is not "how do we pull through?" but "how do we make a 'new normal' work for us?"
The answer, of course, is not to simply try harder. To prevent 2026 from going like 2025, we need to deliberately re-evaluate our own goals, and our relationships with our jobs.
Learn more in the final issue of the Product Picnic for the year — and if you like it, please subscribe!

Bouncing back from burnout
The causes of burnout are systemic. You can't get out of it just by trying harder.

Super Mario World: lost in chocolate
I have got further than ever before, but that's not saying much. I own Super Mario World on multiple systems - SNES, GBA, Wii, Wii U, 3DS - as well as having emulated it on the Raspberry Pi, the iMac, and (shh) my work laptop. I have played the start of it many times over, knowing to go left at the first map screen and turn on the yellow switch, then progressing right up the map to Donut Plains.

My Talk About Back-Ups for creators, game-designers, writers, creatives was — again — not a crowd magnet. 😆
2 die-hard listeners stayed for the full 2 hours (plus the moderator).
Anyway. For those not at #ConZero @ConventionZero, here are the slides: https://

It's not unusual to run into people who live in Berlin but speak no German. Even when they work in bars, restaurants, at reception desks.
Just came across a person running an event including welcoming participants who replied "Not my preferred language though" when asked whether she speaks German.
Maybe not the best place to be then?

I recorded a gpx track with #OpenTracks. Not sure if I'm missing something but I'm not seeing a way to use that track in #Vespucci. Any idea how that could work?
#OpenStreetMap

I really do struggle with motivation for putting things on my site. I've done SO MUCH work recently that's not on there, but I have some kind of block that stops me.
I'm unsure how to break through that block.
#Wellbeing #Work

RE: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/115980226052408296
Hopefully, some apps that did not work when "secure app spawning" was active.
Ftom the changelog:
"avoid compatibility issues with apps doing misguided anti-tamper…

How does your work space look?
This is mine, before I have had time to make a mess. I like order and seem to be unable to uphold it for long. It just happens to be one of those things I never seem to be able to master.
I'm the chaos collector! And every now and then I have to throw out my collection and begin a new one. That's my excuse, and I am sticking with it!
What is yours? #writer

Transit system isn't reliable. Work space is limited and not enough parking...
Home office is better equipped.
https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/public-servants-offices-opinion

#Mattermost drama... Self-hosted users discover a built-in message limit added to v11. There are work-arounds, but many are... annoyed and wondering about the future.
https://github.com/mattermost/mattermo

Message limit 10000 team edition · Issue #34271 · mattermost/mattermost
We have a problem since the new upgrade. "10.000-message limit reached. Messages sent before 26. September 2025 are hidden -Restore Access" appeared. so the messages before that date can not be acc...

This morning things are mostly back to normal here. Potato pancakes from leftover home fries, egg and bacon, tea and coffee. Seeing a jeweler later about a piece I want, not much else but work today. #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/ENfgiJc8YoACKdGD9

This can’t possibly be a unique observation, but generative AI boosters, if they’re not pedophiles, seem to be primarily engaging in productivity aesthetic, which is to say, lifestyle blogging their way through pointless busy work

#eroticMusings Week 31 (December 28-January 3) Studio: Are you making any New Year's Resolutions that relate to, or will affect, your erotic work?
I'm not doing resolutions. But I'm about to write my 2026 plan and it will involve some erotic writing and publishing.
I've spend lots of this year being overwhelmed. Overwhelmed by the further enshittification of ama…

I don't think I'm ever going to enjoy gifts.
I can get why people would give them to children. After all, children don't have their own budget. However, I'm talking about occasional gifts, not a new toy every second week, because "we must outcompete the other grandparents". But to adults?
Once I've heard that you should gift people with what they won't buy themselves. Well, that's won't work for me. I'm a minimalist. If I don't need something, I don't want to have it. Unnecessary junk is only emotional burden to me.
I can get why you'd enjoy something handmade. But something people bought? If I need something, I can buy it myself, when I need it. And I definitely don't need people to prove to me that they never cared to learn who I am, and just buy whatever they like or whatever is "fashionable"; which usually means exactly the opposite of what I'd prefer (i.e. something minimalistic). Or even worse, I don't need people manipulating me through gifts.
Sweets? Besides my diabetes, I don't really enjoy expensive shit that people generally buy because it's what's advertised. For the money they waste on it, I'd buy three times as much sweets I'd actually enjoy.
Gift cards? Oh yes, "you aren't supposed to give money, so let's just give the equivalent of money that's actually worth less than money". Actual money? And here we reach the true nonsense; we exchange the same amount of money, so it's just pointless gesture. Unless one of us gives less money…
What I'd really like, as a gift? Maybe that people would finally bother accepting me as who I am. The absolute minimum of caring that I hate consumerism, and not fueling it "for me".
#AntiCapitalism #minimalism #ActuallyAutistic

Somehow I've got that problem that just reading a book feels like I'm neglecting "important" work. My task list is long and there is always some "productive" stuff I could do. I intellectually understand that reading is important and not just a recreational activity. Also I understand recreation is important. Still there is this nagging feeling when I pick up a book and read.
Do you have the same issue? How did or would you address it?

Fuck, no, Apple. I was forced to update to iOS 26 due to lack of security updates for 18 on devices that can run 26 (i.e., due to extortion) but you’re not infecting my Mac with Liquid Ass.
Notice the dark pattern of pestering you in hopes you will accidentally hit the “Restart” button even though you’ve specifically turned off auto updates. Microsoft-level disrespect for consent here.
(Not surprising from a company that gives golden awards to fascists.)

You can say what you will, but the current system does not work for me, and I actively stand with working class solidarity and workplaces run by the people who do the work.

#linux #openwrt
Q: I am starting with open wrt. My problem is that I want to reach it over my LAN. The default ip is 192.168.1 but I have 192.168.0 as a default and I can not change it (ISP restriction). I have googled and youtubed it but I still can't get it to work. I can log in to t…

It feels strange to not be able to participate in all these technology switching activities. But I/we (we = family) never used WhatsApp, never had any streaming service (not for film, not for music), no Chrome or Edge, no password manager, etc
I must use MS things at work, but am one of the very few employees who not use the web applications, have autosave turned off, and insist on using the legacy version of software as long as possible
Is this a

𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝗺𝗲 𝗯𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗡𝗮𝘃𝘆 𝗦𝗘𝗔𝗟 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲?
My name is Matt Maasdam
and I’m running for Congress
to flip Michigan’s 7th congressional district.
I’m not a politician.
I’m a father, a husband, and a Navy SEAL.
I carried the nuclear football for President Obama
– now I’m running for Congress to continue serving my country. 
But this race won’t be easy. Experts are already calling MI-07 one of the most competitiv…

Matt Maasdam for Congress
Matt Maasdam is running for Congress to bring a different kind of leadership– one rooted in hard work, courage, and integrity. I believe in the Michigan Dream– where if you work hard, you can build a good life and get ahead.

The great majority of people have to work in order to earn a livelihood, and a sizable proportion of them are productive workers. A huge number of workers are unproductive as well. They operate entirely with the circumstances and framework created by the capitalist system, such as shuffling invoices, contracts, credit slips, insurance policies, and so forth. Probably nine out of ten "workers" wouldn't have any work to do in a rational society -- one that would not require insur…

Every now and then I find something that does not work in LibreWolf so I need to use Firefox... this time it's this gamepad tester.
There's probably some permission I need to set in LibreWolf but I haven't found it yet.
https://hardwaretester.com/gamepad

PCIe / FPGA folks: the ThunderScope people are chasing a strange issue where the TS PCIe card appears to work properly on AMD hosts (even with fairly long lossy channels like OCuLink cables or >1 foot riser ribbons) but is failing to train the link at all (i.e. not even coming up as gen1 x1) on Intel hosts.
Ideas on root cause / fixes? I haven't scoped the training yet, as soon as I get an updated unit in my lab I will.

@… hey just wanted to say thanks for your threads covering protest stuff and for all the alt text you're writing! I'm one of those people who won't boost stuff that's not accessible but I also like to boost awareness of protests & resistance and I appreciate the work you're putting in to collect info and make it accessible!

-- Jared Sullivan:
I scoop ice cream to pay my bills while running for the United States Senate.
That should not be rare.
In a country divided on almost everything, one view cuts across party lines:
working-class Americans are fed up with a political system that does not understand their lives.
They are right. Today, fewer than three percent of members of Congress come from the manual labor and service jobs that most Americans work,
a disparity documente…

Would you stop work? Just tell them you’re not coming in until this is over? What would that look like? Would you get fired? Would you still get fired if your whole team or half your division refused to work? If your union was ready to strike over it?
Maybe you can’t stop work. Maybe you’re unemployed. Maybe you’re retired. Maybe you still have people to take care of — from your income, or as part of the job you do. •Think• about it. What •could• you stop, work or otherwise? How could you prepare for that, save now, be ready?
8/

My big gripe with "AI" is that a big reason why it's sold as the second coming of Jesus is that most tech people fundamentally do not understand how it actually works.
Their reasoning goes something like, "It works sort of ok for code generation, and programming is the hardest possible thing in the world to do, every other human endeavor is trivial compared to writing code, therefore it must excel at anything else!".
So it ends up being pushed due to a mixture of ignorance and hubris; and especially being stuffed into things it should never be used for (usually when users don't have a say which software they need to use for work).
The finbros are happily along for the ride because they just need something that can be hyped to pump and dump.

Yo creo que es imposible tener un mínimo conocimiento de lo que supone la investigación y exploración espacial y posicionarse a favor de la mamarrachada de los centros de datos en el espacio. https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea<…

I explained something for a friend in a simple way, and I think it's worth paraphrasing again here.
You cannot create a system that constrains itself. Any constraint on a system must be external to the system, or that constraint can be ignored or removed. That's just how systems work. Every constitution for every country claims to do this impossible thing, a thing proven is impossible almost 100 years ago now. Gödel's loophole has been known to exist since 1947.
Every constitution in the world, every "separation of powers" and set of "checks and balances," attempts to do something which is categorically impossible. Every government is always, at best, a few steps away from authoritarianism. From this, we would then expect that governments trand towards authoritarianism. Which, of course, is what we see historically.
Constraints on power are a formality, because no real controls can possibly exist. So then democratic processes become sort of collective classifiers that try to select only people who won't plunge the country into a dictatorship. Again, because this claim of restrictions on powers is a lie (willful or ignorant, a lie reguardless) that classifier has to be correct 100% of the time (even assuming a best case scenario). That's statistically unlikely.
So as long as you have a system of concentrated power, you will have the worst people attracted to it, and you will inevitably have that power fall into the hands of one of the worst possible person.
Fortunately, there is an alternative. The alternative is to not centralize power. In the security world we try to design systems that assume compromise and minimize impact, rather than just assuming that we will be right 100% of the time. If you build systems that maximially distribute power, then you minimize the impact of one horrible person.
Now, I didn't mention this because we're both already under enough stress, but...
Almost 90% of the nuclear weapons deployed around the world are in the hands of ghoulish dictators. Only two of the countries with nuclear weapons not straight up authoritarian, but they're not far off. We're one crashout away from steralizing the surface of the Earth with nuclear hellfire. Maybe countries shouldn't exist, and *definitely* multiple thousands of nuclear weapons shouldn't exist and shouldn't all be wired together to launch as soon as one of these assholes goes a bit too far sideways.

Meta will discontinue Workrooms, its VR space for workers, on February 16; Quest headsets and Horizon services will not be sold to businesses as of February 20 (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/863209/meta-has-discontinued-its-meta…

Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too
Meta is discontinuing Horizon Workrooms and Meta Horizon managed services, amidst its many VR layoffs.

"The hardest part of acting is not being guaranteed work. Every job could be your last."
—Henry Cavill
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Here’s my 35th “Long Links” outing, curation of long-form offerings, which assume that nobody has time to read all this stuff but one or two of the pieces might brighten your day. This one is mostly political but some of the politics are from France and China. Plus a way-cool analytical history of blogging and a section labeled “wonderful things”.

Just to reiterate:
Trump admin are trying to give Senators an excuse, any excuse, not to block funding to DHS.
We need to make sure that doesn’t work. Don’t let up. Keep them all afraid.

Pretty good analysis from @… but subtleties make it difficult to translate Danish model elsewhere. It's a PR system, so always coalitions many different flavours to vote for; Danish Peoples Party are left on welfare but not on immigration

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/22/danish-model-centre-left-parties-labour-doesnt-work

Current summary of all of the GPU acceleration work I've been doing in ngscopeclient since v0.1.1.
Other than the CDR PLL and eye pattern which were high-priority targets that were worth the effort, and the Ethernet which I got nerdsniped on, these are all trivial inner loops of just a few lines that I threw at the GPU without any significant tuning, so there's probably more performance upside.
But I'm not complaining with what I've pulled off so far. (As you ca…

An excellent summary here via @… about how the structures of our civil society have failed to stop ICE from becoming Trump’s Brownshirts.
The one thing the piece omits: someone •is• stopping ICE. It’s the citizens filling the streets, honking and shouting and filming and generally harassing ICE, doing the work our government has failed to do. If it were not for that response being so widespread, sustained, and forceful, we’d be in far worse place right now. https://mastodon.social/@AnnaAnthro/115616389777857234

It’s Ilhan. Last night, I was attacked at a town hall meeting.
A man rushed up to me and sprayed me with an unknown substance from a syringe. Thankfully, my security team acted quickly to take him down.
I’m okay. I’m not going to be intimidated from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win.
But this shows something important. Just a few days ago, I texted you to explain that Trump’s constant racist, hateful attacks and the far-right threats that they bring require me to hire …

Ilhan Omar for Congress
Send her back

Billionaires with $1 salaries
– and other legal tax dodges the ultrawealthy use to keep their riches
Billionaires can enjoy growing wealth entirely free of income tax and reporting
Mark Zuckerberg was the lowest-paid employee at Meta in 2024,
and he made US$1.
But he is not the only very rich person who has collected $1 for a year’s work.
Why would incredibly rich CEOs make only $1 a year when they could pay themselves millions?
The reason is taxes…

Billionaires with $1 salaries – and other legal tax dodges the ultrawealthy use to keep their riches
Billionaires can enjoy growing wealth entirely free of income tax and reporting.

On his 84th birthday this past Saturday,
#Bob #Dylan played a show in keeping with his still-serious touring schedule,
but also his apparently irrepressible instinct to work:
on music,
on writing,
on painting,
on sculpture

How Bob Dylan Kept Reinventing His Songwriting Process, Breathing New Life Into His Music
On his 84th birthday this past Saturday, Bob Dylan played a show. That was in keeping with not only his still-serious touring schedule, but also his apparently irrepressible instinct to work: on music, on writing, on painting, on sculpture.

Labor unions, community leaders and faith groups are calling for an #economic #blackout in Minnesota-on Friday
to protest the surge of federal immigration agents in the state
and mourn Renee Good.
Organizers are urging Minnesotans not to work, shop or go to school.
The Trump administration has d…

On Monday, Nov. 24,
after more than 1,100 days on strike,
Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh members were cheered on by supporters
at a rally in downtown Pittsburgh
before returning to work at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Even though strikers have returned to work, however,
many issues at the center of the strike are still in legal limbo
—and their fight for a fair contract is not over.
In this episode of Working People, we speak with three Newspap…

The longest-running strike in the US is over—and the workers won
After over 3 years on strike, members of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh have returned to work at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. While the legal battle is still unresolved, this is a major victory for the labor movement.