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So what's a good alternative to Firefox (I'm using it when I'm not on my Mac). I don't want their new "AI Window" stuff and I don't want to support it.
It has to work on Windows and an iOS version as well, and can sync passwords between those.
Please only suggest things you personally use and like.
I'm ruling out Chrome (spyware) and Brave (homophobic owner).
(Wish Apple would still make Safari for Windows.)

Why, how do you transport yours?
#caturday

I'm not sure what YouTube thinks is going on in my life but I'm now getting inundated with ads for baby diapers, real actual 100% not fake women on some rental/dating app, and baby sling carriers.
The babes are cute.
And too professional.
No chaotic screaming at the universe of horrors.
Don't trust their lies.
#pooptoot #idowanttoholdababythough

My brilliant (almost) 13-year-old is learning about verbal nouns and adjectives in his language studies class
This morning I discovered that he pronounces "gerund" with the stress pattern of "Gerard"* not "Jared"
And now I'm doubting *my own* pronunciation of that word
* His choice is almost certainly influenced by his current favorite rocker Gerard Way

⚡ Spied: This Is BMW’s First Electric M Car
#bmw

Spied: This Is BMW’s First Electric M Car
The Neue Klasse iX3 marks a much-needed fresh start for BMW, and this M variant signals what's to come from its high-performance division.

While I work, I've been listening to a few consumer videos on YouTube. The one I'm listening to right now is "The INSANELY Sweet Sugary Coffee Epidemic"
As someone who doesn't normally have any sugar in coffee, this blows my mind.
A lot of the time though, those are more like deserts than cofee.
#Coffee #Sugar #Food

Rust moves from experiment to a core Linux kernel language
Where does Rust in Linux go now? In a word, “Everywhere.”
🦀 https://www.spiceworks.com/software/rust-moves-from-experiment-to-a-core-linux-kernel-language/

Rust moves from experiment to a core Linux kernel language - Spiceworks
Rust is now a core, non-experimental language in the Linux kernel, elevating it as the second official language alongside C.

Welp. That was a long night.
Good news: my last box on Debian Bookworm has been updated, I'm now 100% Trixie, both bare metal and VMs.
And the prodigal scope is back from the LeCroy service center after what feels like several months of downtime between waiting for friends to help me rack/unrack the 70 pound boat anchor and shipping back and forth.
Turns out there were multiple failed internal power supplies, both on the acquisition board and the top level system PSU, p…

"I don't really look for specific types of projects any more. I'm not taking care of a career anymore. I'm just having fun acting."
—Kurt Russell
#acting #coaching #inspiration

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Caribou:
🎵 Got To Change
#NowPlaying #Caribou
https://m-key.bandcamp.com/track/caribou-got-to-change-m-keys-fake-extended-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/5oV0DfWqOf8hn40u37hepA

*UPDATE*
The Pattullo Bridge is permanently closed to vehicles; the sidewalk will remain open for cyclists and pedestrians until the morning of Feb. 17.
At 7 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 14, all four lanes will open on the stalΕəwΓasəm (Riverview) Bridge.
Visit:

Ich wurde gepodcastet! Mit Claudia Böschel vom „Didaktik Talk“ habe ich über KI, Schreiben und Denken gesprochen. Anhören auf Youtube (link unten) und spotify.
Danke für die Einladung!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gClCwup-hAc

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I'm an anarcho-syndicalist non-binary person who uses they/them pronouns, is bisexual, from Bergen, Norway, and whose posts automatically delete after seven days regardless of likes or boosts, because I have autism and say random shit sometimes.
I talk allot about free software, and I use Secureblue, GrapheneOS and Debian as part of my software setup. I also spend a lot of time experimenting with Linux, especially Debian Testing/Sid, GNOME, and KDE.
As an …

Over the years I have written a lot of code. Most of my stuff is deep down networking or kernel stuff - users rarely see it.
But sometimes I have to do a user interface. I'm not good at it. But it is amazing how much better I am than so many who produce commercial tools and websites.
I usually back my user input fields with a layer that puts input into a canonical form and then validates it.
That step to create a canonical form is important - it catches bad input err…

Resident Evil Showcase for Requiem set for January 15 #ResidentEvil

Resident Evil Showcase set for January 15
Capcom will host Resident Evil Showcase on January 15 at 2:00 p.m. PT / 5:00 p.m. ET / January 16 at 7:00 JST, the company announced.

Just finished "The Raven Boys," a graphic novel adaptation of a novel by Maggie Stiefvater (adaptation written by Stephanie Williams and illustrated by Sas Milledge).
I haven't read the original novel, and because of that, this version felt way too dense, having to fit huge amounts of important details into not enough pages. The illustrations are gorgeous and the writing is fine; the setting and plot have some pretty interesting aspects... It's just too hard to follow a lot of the threads, or things we're supposed to care about aren't given the time/space to feel important.
The other thing that I didn't like: one of the central characters is rich, and we see this reflected in several ways, but we're clearly expected to ignore/excuse the class differences within the cast because he's a good guy. At this point in my life, I'm simply no longer interested in stories about good rich guys very much. It's become clear to me how in real life, we constantly get the perspectives of the rich, and rarely if ever hear the perspectives of the poor (same applies across racial and gender gradients, among others). Why then in fiction should I get more of the same, spending my mental bandwidth building empathy for yet another dilettante who somehow has a heart of gold? I'm tired of that.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

The Economist: Geothermal energy’s massive leap forward
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JeTAeF3Ft6E
From video's description: "Could geothermal soon overtake nuclear power? Vijay Vaitheeswaran, our Global energy & climate innovation editor and winner of the Energy Write…

Entwicklung des Rotordurchmessers von #Windkraftanlagen an Land in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 12.01.2026.
Der kleinste registrierte #Rotordurchmesser misst 0.2 m.
Der gr…

Series C, Episode 13 - Terminal
SERVALAN: I'm going to the flight deck. Get rid of him.
VILA: Eh?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/313/418 B7B2

“So I guess what I’m trying to say is, the new workday should be three to four hours.“
Yup! That's what every worker knows and should have been fighting for with solidarity for decades. Every neurodivergent person knows that we can't do concentrated work for more than 3 hours, and that extended hyperfocus blocks drain our energy for the next day. It's not sustainable.
Steve Yegge writes about how AI Capitalism creates an energy vampire

The AI Vampire
This was an unusually hard post to write, because it flies in the face of everything else going on.

I'm a pessimist and think it was set by our feds.
Fire at Havana oil refinery as Cuba’s fuel crisis deepens | Humanitarian Crises News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/14/fire-at-havana-oil-refinery-as-cubas-fuel-crisis-deepens?traffic_source=rss

I didn't go to the mountains today but went for a little bike ride. In the shade it was a bit icy. This way, even boring forest roads are a bit technical. 😊
Liked it! I'm just wondering if I should try broader tires for these conditions 🤔. On the other hand, I didn't have any issues.
#cycling #mtb

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Rose Room:
🎵 I've Got A Feelin' I'm Fallin'
#RoseRoom
https://open.spotify.com/track/40pxX7IuFUTKlPyrokLbDT

OMG vegans, you kept this one quiet didn't you.
Bought a tub of this in the supermarket today because Mrs LT is lactose intolerant and wow, this is amazing. It's the same luxurious texture as double cream but sweeter and doesn't have that slightly cloying aftertaste that normal cream does.
I'm a convert!

One thing I like to do is to compare the articles in different Wikipedia language editions about the same topic (I know, I'm a nerd). My daughter was watching me, and then she suggested a topic and that we should ask an AI to help.
She suggested YouTuber Technoblade, whose article is available in 35 language editions of Wikipedia, and I chose Gemini since I got a free subscription for its paid-tier service.
Since all are tired of AI dialogs, it is radically edited. Full dialo…

moviegalaxies: Moviegalaxies, movies 410-466 (2018)
Social graphs for over 700 movies from the moviegalaxies.com website. Each node represents a character in a movie and each edge is a same-scene appearance between two characters in that movie. The weight gives the number of same-scene appearances. Networks are extracted from movie scripts automatically.
This network has 35 nodes and 75 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

CEO of Palantir UK: "What shirt should I wear for the BBC interview? I'm thinking the black one?"
Palantir PR: "Redolent, I love it!"
https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/peter-thiels-new-model-army

Peter Thiel's New Model Army
The Palantirisation of the UK military is a national security disaster

Describing modem dial-up noises to the 13yo as "two computers screaming at each other"...
"See, nowadays everything is over the internet. You make a phone call, it's routed over the internet. Back then [we wore an onion in our belt as was the style at the time] everything was over voice networks, so when you were on the internet it was translating bits and data into sound.."
I'm not sure at which point he tuned out.

Will purchase: #music

130 Tracks of Guitar Per Song? Sunn O))) Is Back, and Going Big.
The hard-to-categorize duo recorded its new, self-titled album surrounded by nature. It’ll be the band’s first on the storied Seattle label Sub Pop.

Well that took a bit longer than I hoped thanks to some derps on my part, but I'm parsing incoming PCIe DLLPs and validating their checksums.
Next step will be to figure out that a type 0x40 DLLP with payload 074040 is actually an InitFC1-P DLLP for virtual circuit 0 for 29 headers and 1024 data bytes.
And do something useful with that information.

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Peter Fox:
🎵 Schüttel deinen Speck
#NowPlaying #PeterFox
https://djmarvinkim.bandcamp.com/track/sch-ttel-deinen-speck-x-bounce-generation-marv-n-k-m-dreamteam-mashup
https://open.spotify.com/track/4zAV2pS81cE30xhBHwG9Pf

Entwicklung der #Nabenhöhen von #Windkraftanlagen an Land in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 12.01.2026.
Die kleinste registrierte

Just finished "I Shall Never Fall in Love" by Hari Conner. An excellent graphic novel about some queer friends (and more-than-friends) in Georgian England.
I'm not usually a fan of such settings as the imperial harms abroad on which those societies are predicated make it harder for me to sympathize with the characters, but this book actually addresses that (if imperfectly) and there's enough nuance for me not to hate it, so I really enjoyed the cute romance.
I just wish there were more historical narratives written from lower-class perspectives that didn't make their characters seem unintelligent.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

boxy friend
(I'm browsing eBay's vintage computing section)

Series A, Episode 08 - Duel
TRAVIS: This is hardly the time for that.
MUTOID: Normally I wouldn't do it in the presence of an unmodified.
TRAVIS: Forget your coyness, I'm aware of your need for blood serum.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/108/51 B7B5

Unusual GenAI application: Snarky answers to shitty emails.
#genAI

I Hope This Email Finds You Before I Do
I Hope This Email Finds You Before I Do

Now playing 'Pageantry' by Bat Leather and it's rough and raw and noisy and nasty and I love it. They say ffo Unsane but man, I like this better than Unsane 😂🔥🔥
https://sonicchurchrecords.bandcamp.com/album/pageantry

Experimenting with a stick on phone "finger ring" as a retention mechanism for my phone when I'm out on SAR missions.
Now that we're using phone apps for navigation/mapping, marking evidence, etc (replacing the old AA powered Garmin handhelds) I have it out and about all the time.
And it's the one piece of gear in my chest rig that I take out frequently and don't want to lose that isn't tied down (the compass and whistle already have retention lines,…

Entwicklung der #Nabenhöhen von #Windkraftanlagen an Land in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 13.11.2025.
Die kleinste registrierte

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The Cure:
🎵 Friday I'm In Love
#NowPlaying #TheCure
https://fororchestra.bandcamp.com/track/the-cure-friday-im-in-love
https://open.spotify.com/track/4QlzkaRHtU8gAdwqjWmO8n

I'm surprised Apple didn't announce an exclusive app for their subscription.
Stocks Pro is right there.

Series A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
VOICE: [V.O.]Right.
FARREN: Send the commander straight up. Make sure he's not armed.
VOICE: [V.O.] Understood. [Blake teleports in]
BLAKE: Don't worry, I'm not armed.
FARREN: How did you do that?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/110/363…

News flash: Billionaires are unpopular. But, the strength of the sentiment and how fast the needle has moved were both surprises to me. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/opinion/billionaires-politics-money.html

Opinion | The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV
The first rule of dark money is to quit blabbing about it. Did they think people would thank them for it?

PCIe update: I'm now able to parse incoming InitFC1-* DLLPs and store away the credit counts in a register (which I don't actually use for anything yet), and emit a singular InitFC1-P DLLP of my own
Next step will be writing the rest of the setup logic so I can actually fully bring up VC0, then start sending UpdateFC idle DLLPs at regular intervals to keep the link alive when I'm not sending traffic.

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Muse:
🎵 Uprising
#NowPlaying #Muse
https://wobblebot.bandcamp.com/track/muse-uprising-wobblebot-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/4VqPOruhp5EdPBeR92t6lQ

I'm pretty sure there's actual potatoes which can make higher-quality images
Kodak DC50 (0.4MP, 1996), edited in Photoshop
#ShittyCameraChallenge

Series A, Episode 13 - Orac
CALLY: We should keep on moving, they could be right behind us.
BLAKE: Yes, without weapons we don't stand a chance. Look, you keep going. I'm going to stay here and try and bring the roof down - block them off.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/113/347 …

Anzahl der #Windkraftanlagen je Hersteller in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 12.01.2026.
Ohne Berücksichtigung des Betriebsstatuses. Teilweise Berücksichtigung von M&A durch händische Recherche. Ansonsten keine Berücksichtigung im MaStR.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Wie läuft es eigen…

Geometry study (shadows are weird).
Back story: In some parts of Vancouver, if you’re putting up a new building (typically condo/retail) you can get tax breaks or more square feet or some such bonus if you preserve the original facade. This place was torn down quite a while ago but the facade, propped up by the metal framework, remains. A policy misfire in this case because it was a really crappy brick frontage and would not be missed.

PCIe update: I'm getting through the flow control initialization for VC0 (the only one my minimal PCIe endpoint will support) and the host is now sending me a TLP. This appears to be a "set slot power limit" message request which I'm going to ignore because I'm not in an actual slot.
But I still need to ACK it and send flow control DLLPs, so that's next on the list. Right now the host repeatedly sends the TLP (not getting an ACK) until it times out from lack o…

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The Allergies:
🎵 Felony
#NowPlaying #TheAllergies
https://theallergies.bandcamp.com/album/felony-rile-em-up
https://open.spotify.com/track/1o9mPAHKGHB2xYnEIE4jtb

Series D, Episode 01 - Rescue
VILA: He won't like it.
TARRANT: It's a pity about that. [they exit]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/401/362 B7B3

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Sophia Kennedy:
🎵 Being Special
#NowPlaying #SophiaKennedy
https://pamparecords.bandcamp.com/album/being-special-pampa029
https://open.spotify.com/track/5XAoSMs4PY590w0QOhKAnC

@… Feature request: When I'm looking at a profile page, a way to search within that profile - yeah, I could include the "from:" in my search but for your handle, for example, that's 29 keystrokes.

Now that I'm on a GPU acceleration kick in ngscopeclient again I'm spoiled. Every time I use a filter block even on a massive waveform I expect it to be instantaneous and get frustrated when it's not lol.
If this keeps up we'll have GPU i2c and spi decodes pretty soon.

Series B, Episode 06 - Trial
BLAKE: Servalan's headquarters.
[Hearing room]
SAMOR: You may begin.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/206/447 B7B4

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Maroon 5:
🎵 This love
#NowPlaying #Maroon5
https://funkastik.bandcamp.com/track/maroon5-this-love-funkastik-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/6ECp64rv50XVz93WvxXMGF

Series B, Episode 09 - Countdown
BLAKE: Why don't you do that again, maybe they didn't hear you. [Blake and Avon leave]
VILA: Wait for me!
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/209/144 B7B2

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Kitty Solaris:
🎵 James Bond (Edit)
#NowPlaying #KittySolaris
https://kittysolaris.bandcamp.com/album/james-bond
https://open.spotify.com/track/2qMldUCqW9CK5BccNPjUWp

Series C, Episode 02 - Powerplay
KLEGG: You were supposed to have searched the ship. These two should have been found. Where were you hiding?
DAYNA: We weren't hiding. We've...
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/302/5 B7B3

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The Last Poets:
🎵 Understand What Black Is
#NowPlaying #TheLastPoets
https://thelastpoets.bandcamp.com/album/understand-what-black-is
https://open.spotify.com/track/1GpQEeboj3NTZFX7U5vA8T

Series B, Episode 02 - Shadow
ENFORCER: Before or after he finds out that you are lying.
LARGO: Was I lying?
ENFORCER: It would make me very unhappy to think that you tried to use me, like some fool.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/202/373 B7B3

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Maribou State feat. Holly Walker:
🎵 Otherside (Radio Edit)
#NowPlaying #MaribouState #HollyWalker
https://mariboustate.bandcamp.com/album/otherside-jasper-tygner-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/2uTshZdUyppgBI2INJ3f15

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Maribou State feat. Khruangbin:
🎵 Feel Good
#NowPlaying #MaribouState #Khruangbin
https://mariboustate.bandcamp.com/album/feel-good-feat-khruangbin
https://open.spotify.com/track/3PURbsY67tLMyausOABtit

Series D, Episode 03 - Traitor
SOOLIN: Teleport operating. [Teleport sound. Dayna and Tarrant arrive]
VILA: What are you smirking about? Do you realize we've got half the Federation battle fleet looking for us?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/403/495 B7B3

🇺🇦 Auf #radioeins läuft...
Monkey Safari:
🎵 Shelter (Radio-Edit)
#NowPlaying #MonkeySafari
https://monkeysafari.bandcamp.com/album/shelter
https://open.spotify.com/track/02r8lxuLJUuJ5syYnWyFRI