Tootfinder

A new little project from me: Dashboard Touch, which lets you make a Touch ID-style sensor for your Mac using off-the-shelf parts, so you don’t need an Apple Keyboard. By emulating keyboarding typing in your password, it works anywhere that macOS asks for authentication. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zXN-JzjkgY

I took this over 3 decades ago, and found it while I was digitising my old negatives.
#silentsunday #dogsOfFedi #photography

RE: https://mastodon.social/@vincefried/117457406185106374
Ok this almost makes me want a duo.

Ravens DE Calais Campbell says football 'brings me joy' amid family tragedy https://www.nfl.com/news/ravens-de-calais-campbell-says-football-brings-me-joy-amid-family-tragedy

A dear friend and member of our #StarTrekAdventures group sent me this embroidered science department badge. 😍
#rollenspiel #rpg

The photograph illustrating this piece about #Trump and his 'aide' seems to me to have a chillingly Handmaid's Tale vibe.
#Fascism

Who is Natalie Harp? Trump’s closest and most devoted aide is in the spotlight
Speculation about US president’s executive assistant sparks furious backlash from White House

The #TuneTuesday theme this week is #TogsAndClogs, and the first one that came to mind for me is maybe my favorite Eagles song- "Those Shoes".
https://youtu.…

Moving as a metaphor for software management.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/moving-metaphor

Moving as metaphor
A few weeks ago, I and several others helped some friends of ours pack up their apartment into a truck in preparation for moving cross-country from Chicago to New York. It was, as such moments generally are, bitter sweet. It's always a good feeling to help out a friend, but when you're helping them get further away from you it's not as pleasant. Of course, me being me, what struck me most about the whole process was how well it served as a model for software development and project managemen…

Logging in at work for the first time this morning, #Windows, #Outlook or #Teams just prompted me to "Sign in (to Microsoft) to enable offline mode."... for something.
<pained expression>

Men Like Me
Honest conversations with men willing to speak about the things we're often taught to keep hidden—struggles with identity, relationships, failure, fatherhood, loneliness, faith, and finding our way through life's turning points...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greatau…

Ou puis-je poser une question sur la configuration réseau de FreeBSD au cul d'une freebox at avoir des gens qui ont une freebox et du freebsd qui puissent me repondre ?
#free #freebox #freebsd

Trump: "'Affordability!'
They've been hitting me that word for the last year.
Every time something is a little high.
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mxzht2vrhh2g

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Trump: "'Affordability!' They've been hitting me that word for the last year. Every time something is a little high.

#silentSunday
You lookin at me? October 2015.

"When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least!"
—Chuck Norris
#acting #coaching

#java ? In 2026? #zotero and #libreoffice takes me back to Y2k

This is just the loveliest, most gently beautify song: #Lucksmiths

E tivemos também aqui o Mião, que no outro dia cismou comigo e me seguiu por metade do estacionamento rs.
#CatsOfMastodon #gatosDoMastodon #Gatos

Detallito importante que se me olvidó después de instalar #FreeBSD en #hetner, y es configurar correctamente #ntp para que sincronice la hora

It is still wild to me that Nebula still has no way to react to a video. Not having comments is probably smart... but lets me emoji react or something. A star rating?
https://nebula.tv

Nebula – Indie Streaming
Premium streaming from independent creators.

RE: https://social.linux.pizza/@jredlund/117105998353768788
I HAVE NO IDEA
hahahhah
this is why it's the perfect Linux for non-geeks like me.
It just works! :ablobmeltsoblove:
It reminds me of the Apple IIe and the BBC B in…

Ayer me cambié de CalyxOS a GrapheneOS en mi móvil Pixel 7. Ahora estoy lidiando con la configuración y reinstalación de aplicaciones. 😵
#CalyxOS #GrapheneOS

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wasn't the whole point of ID verification on W social that it should make AI slop impossible...
This is on the W Social landing page right now.
this does not scream "for verified humans" to me?

jbod is also what you get from smoking too much weed https://lemmy.world/comment/26404568

After a quick Dog Days of DevOps presentation from me about doing silly things with local LLMs (#CloudAustin

Riddle me this: Why are these highly touted #AI programs so vulnerable to each other's hacking efforts?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

OpenAI ‘ethically hacked’ with help of Anthropic’s Claude chatbot
US cybersecurity researchers who conducted hack say ‘scope of what we could theoretically access was huge’

Riddle me this: Why are these highly touted #AI programs so vulnerable to each other's hacking efforts?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

OpenAI ‘ethically hacked’ with help of Anthropic’s Claude chatbot
US cybersecurity researchers who conducted hack say ‘scope of what we could theoretically access was huge’

ooo look! some wasps done a picture of me. just outside our front door.
#wasps #pareidolia

The System Won’t Let Me: How AI Turned Bureaucracy Into an Alibi
The most revealing sentence in modern institutional life is not, “You have been denied.” A denial still implies a denier....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/08/19/the-system-w…

Today you wrote. Today is good.
Every time I hit “Publish,” this little fellow makes me just a tiny bit happier. Thank you, @…. 🌻
#blog #blogging

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This is a joke, not a threat: please don't torture me.
#satire #potus45

#LGTM (Looks Good to Me)
#ai

youtube’s algorithm randomly showed me a review of the bbc domesday interactive video disc made by my ex-colleague robert franklin https://youtu.be/UAWSOCOTjIU

Author Dare me to Know All 20 of These Weird Songs
Challenge accepted!
https://youtu.be/g6ErSpzH_p0

I mentioned that we face a (voluntary) layoff. So alot of colleagues will leave soon and someone asked me about an alumni-group ...
My first reaction was "anything except a WhatsApp Group". But what would / could work? Anyone who tried that in the past?
I guess it'll boil down to Whatsapp/Signal? I would suggest Matrix but I'm afraid it might be too alien for some?
#work

Ik snap, als boeken liefhebber, de emotionele reacties op dit bericht. Tegelijk gaan volgens mij elke dag grote hoeveelheden tweedehands boeken ook de vuilverbranding in? Het kwalijke is vooral het niet respecteren van intellectuele eigendom/auteursrecht lijkt me?
https://futurism.com/artificia…

Amazon Caught Destroying Rare Books to Train AI
An investigation by 404 Media found that Amazon bought a shipment of rare books so it could scan and destroy them to train AI.

I've read my dad's family history over and over, but this week one little detail finally clicked. It led me to a piano teacher, two music schools, and new questions about my grandmother's musical talent.
I have the dates, but I want the stories. And sometimes the search makes me miss Dad even more.
#Genealogy

I Missed That The First Time – Bob Mueller
A familiar family history reveals a surprising connection to a piano teacher, opening new questions about my grandmother, genealogy, & Dad's past.

Falls es noch eines Beweises bedurft hätte, dass Schlaf politisch ist, wie die @… sagen: https://beige.party/@MamaLake/117115542439540667

The Viking grind never stops. 🪓 Today in #Valheim: gearing up for the next biome and seeing how much structural integrity I can push before the roof collapses on me.
Live now on Twitch! 👇
👥 https://www.twitch.tv/tuxramus

KESTUVAFER?? #CatsOfMastodon

FYI I've started a channel doing daily Monday-Thursday Texas and US National news headline updates on Telegram! (One for Texas news, one for US news)
Trying to keep each one under 15 minutes so it's easy to stay updated on the news without having to scroll through a ton of stuff!
https://t.me/s/TheWhiskerWire

Oh no I just found out that one of my favorite Buddhist teachers has just gone all AI grifter
Tara Brach, WYD this is not the dharma

https://lnkd.in/p/gcynwNDX

Very niche goss in the spiritual business world: esteemed Buddhist teacher Tara Brach announced yesterday that she is launching "AvaTara" — a generative AI that has been trained on her vast catalog… | Amanda Baudier | 18 comments
Very niche goss in the spiritual business world: esteemed Buddhist teacher Tara Brach announced yesterday that she is launching "AvaTara" — a generative AI that has been trained on her vast catalog of teachings and can create custom meditations for the user... yikes. As you can imagine — there was lots of uproar in the spiritual / Buddhist community (including my own) which is not overwhelmingly friendly to the AI revolution. A thread I posted went so semi-viral that it inspired me to wr…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fesshole/117291791643058548
Reminds me of this sticker I got from @… .

This is awesome https://wandering.shop/@ScottEdelman/116947279504134817

Scott Edelman (@ScottEdelman@wandering.shop)
Attached: 1 image Spotted this sign on the wall last night at Greedy Reads and it pleased me greatly. ABOLISH ICE!

"Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?"
This is one of the best things I've read this year. It did take me a day to get through it, as I had to look a lot of terminology up, but I also learned so much from reading this!
https://amosbbatto.wordpr…

This is encouraging but,
1) Land use emissions have fallen less than the rise in fossil fuel emissions: global emissions are still rising.
2) There is uncertainty in the data (other than for deforestation) which is greater than the decrease.
3) It's unclear to me what the overall flux is - the balance of sequestration Vs emissions. We know some forests have become net emitters.
Why

Why land-use emissions have fallen by a third this century – in six charts - Carbon Brief
Emissions from land-use change – including deforestation, loss of peatland and forest degradation – have been falling over the course of the 21st century.

THEY WERE STILL GOING? https://stereogum.com/2508564/columbia-house-is-finally-shutting-down/news

Columbia House Is Finally Shutting Down
Maybe it’s news to you that Columbia House was still operational in 2026. It was news to me, but that news is immediately invalidated by newer news: After 71 years, the longstanding mail-order media club is shutting down next month, as the YouTube channel Channel 33 RPM and website Cord Cutters News point out. “After…

So help me, I am pondering writing my own DI container. What is wrong with me? (Or with the existing market, for that matter.)
#php

POL-NI: Gefährliche Körperverletzung durch den Einsatz von Tierabwehrspray Rinteln - Altstadtfest (ots) - (me) Am Samstag, 15.08.2026, gegen 14:15 Uhr, geraten auf dem Kirchplatz in Rinteln während des stattfindenden Altstadtfestes zwei Anwohner aus Rinteln in Streit. Ein 30-jähriger sprüht hierbei mit einem ... https://www.

I'm bored, here's a puzzle:
*26 bottles on a shelf and a cheeky nisse*
Me: Puts 26 bottles on the shelf
Nisse: pushes 18 off
Me: puts them back
Nisse: pushes 25 off
Me: puts them back
Nisse: pushes 4 off
Me: puts them back
Nisse: pushes 17 off
What's my name?
❓ ❓ ❓ ❓
#puzzle

Beabadoobee - Write Me A Letter (Official Video)
#music

I just shared a recording of an event that they told me it is only for attendees, strictly off-the-record, and not to be shared with anyone.
The platform they used to share this? Merely an unlisted #YouTube link. Yeah, that's #secure 🙄

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Show me the seed, claude!
#ECDSA #Cryptography

"People ask me (about) my influences, I would have to say Patty Waters. They say other people and I say, Nahh, Patty Waters, listen to Patty Waters. I listened to her twice. That's all it took for some grain of inextricable influence." -Diamanda Galas, 1998
https://www.furious.com/perfect/pattywater

RE: https://mstdn.social/@primonatura/116946481663617757
“… an oil giant matching Exxon’s description…”
:))
“Excuse me, ma’am, we’ve had reports of an oil giant in the neighborhood matching your description.”

lines n stripes
#photography

"Fuzzy Find Everything", this one took me longer than expected because I realized some of the scripts could be improved.
https://alecsargent.codeberg.page/posts/fuzzy-find-everything
@…

Sphalerite (var schalenblende) from the Pomorzany Mine, Olkusz, Poland. A favorite desk specimen, given to me by a mine geologist there.
Exhibits typical concentric brown to yellow fine grained mineral layers, along with galena, pyrite. #MinCup26 #MineralMonday ⚒️

My current company has settled on using #Gradle. It doesn’t make me very happy, but you need to learn to work with constraints.
This week, I worked on improvements to a new project and set up #Renovate However, I quickly noticed that merges of new dependency versions failed the build. Here’s the fu…

I've seen this graffitied in white on some surfaces around the #Portsmouth area recently. According to the Internet it's a combination #rune meaning "safe travels", but that seems an odd sort of thing to graffiti. When I first saw it, I assumed it was something

Jo, que pena. Se ha muerto una parte importante de nuestra infancia. #JuanTamariz fue el mšs grande. https://cadenaser.com/nacional/2026/08/18/mue…

Patient Nero
bot by @…
This is for tee hee, not treason: don't send me to a camp, please.
#satire #potus45

Ravens DC: Saints QB Tyler Shough reminds me of 'a poor man's Josh Allen' https://www.nfl.com/news/ravens-dc-saints-qb-tyler-shough-poor-mans-josh-allen

RE: https://oldbytes.space/@ganxel/117456168984849382
It's a fucker, innit.
And also makes me UNREASONABLY IRRITATED.
So much for capitalism driving innovation forward. Deliberately hobbling shit and making shit *worse*, mebbe.

RE: https://cyberpunk.lol/@mxchara/117092734696654321
What do you even do when some stranger just writes batshit fanfic about you all the time? In this imagination, *Cory Doctorow* of all people doesn’t want folks to have agency over their tech?
People…

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部分 V ⚙️
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"Acting, for me, is giving to your co-actors."
—Rajkummar Rao
#acting #coaching #inspiration

This hits so hard...
#ai

Cookie Monster Tries to Meet His A.I. Mandate
Shouts & Murmurs by Ysabel Yates: Me confused. Me know cookie inside and out! Now me has to use A.I. for cookie work?

King Baby Coward
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This is satire, not sedition: no investigating me please.
#satire #potus45

This is, according to #LastFM, a Psych Rock playlist specially made for me!!
#MondayRandom10

from my link log —
Reasons to ditch LastPass.
https://infosec.exchange/@epixoip/109585049354200263
saved 2022-12-27 https://

RE: https://mastodon.social/@baraa1998/117118387784992039
A year ago, Ibrahim was a bright, cheerful child who spoke to me in clear, fluent, confident English. Now, he is very ill. Malnutrition is affecting all of the children of

RE: https://mastodon.social/@kevlin/117123918297599405
I'd naturally love to believe this, as (it seems) would most people who aren't LLM hucksters (and even they want to believe it about themselves). But if I do, it commits me to a Cartesian dualis…

Pas complètement retombé sur terre après l'éclipse totale de mercredi. Une petite photo Š l'arrache en digiscopie , le smartphone derrière l'oculaire de ma petite lunette entre deux waouh c'est trop beau, ça donne ça :
Bon, les photos c'est bien, mais il me suffit de fermer les yeux et de me refaire le film, frissons garantis. J'ai fait le plein de waouh pour un bon moment je crois...
#eclipse

I Missed That The First Time
Sometimes you can read the same family history a dozen times before a detail finally clicks. A passing reference to my grandmother's Chicago days led me to a piano teacher, two music schools, and questions about her musical talent that I wish I'd asked my dad.
http://www.

I Missed That The First Time – Bob Mueller
A familiar family history reveals a surprising connection to a piano teacher, opening new questions about my grandmother, genealogy, & Dad's past.

Donnie Deathcount
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#satire #potus45

Civic Museums III - Relics🏛️
民间博物馆 III - 残垣 🏛️
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More #emf #emfcamp #emf2026 photos.
Edit: This was meant to be a reply to the first post here:

from my link log —
Postgres development activity historical statistics and trends.
https://vondra.me/posts/postgres-development-activity/
saved 2026-09-15

Henry's latest 4th-quarter fumble costs Ravens again: 'Put this on me' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/50213686/derrick-henry-takes-blame-fumbling-woes-costly-ravens

His a-holiness
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#satire #potus45

Donny Dumpy Pants
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#satire #potus45

I've finally finished post-prod on my photos from #emf2026. Identifiable individuals posted with their permission. Bystander faces blurred to comply with EMF photo policy. Many further pictures follow in this thread. #emf #emfcamp

NFL Network's Michael Robinson apologizes for comments on Jalen Hurts' blood clots https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7706332/2026/10/19/michael-robinson-apology-jalen-hurts-injury-nfl-network/

El Pork Choppo
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#satire #potus45

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#nature #photography #birds

Emperor Poopy Pants
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#satire #potus45

Donald Duck-the-draft
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#satire #potus45

Crunchwrap Supreme Leader
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#satire #potus45

Fanta Fascist
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#satire #potus45

King Leer
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#satire #potus45

Fanta Fascist
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#satire #potus45

Ronald McFondle
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#satire #potus45

The Sultan of Spray Tans
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