Tootfinder

from my link log —
The CRISPR baby scandal gets worse by the day.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/12/15-worrying-things-about-crispr-babies-scandal/577234/
saved 2018-12-09

15 Worrying Things About the CRISPR Babies Scandal
The alleged creation of the world's first gene-edited infants was full of technical errors and ethical blunders. Here are the 15 most damning details.

# Quantum physics reveals there is no such thing as things
There is no such thing as individuality in the quantum realm
Olimpia Lombardi
https://iai.tv/articles/quantum-physics-reveals-there-is-no-such-thing-as-things-auid-3267

Netflix plans to release the Stranger Things S5 finale in 350 movie theaters in the US and Canada from December 31 to January 1, despite previous statements (James Hibberd/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-ne

Netflix’s ‘Stranger Things’ Series Finale Officially Coming to Theaters, Despite Previous Statements
The streamer has confirmed that the hit show's finale will be in theaters after previously seeming to shoot down the idea amid the show's creators, The Duffers Brothers, defecting to Paramount: "They would have been nuts not to do it."

Behind the Blog: Making Things for Humans https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-making-things-for-humans/

11 things GROK says Musk is better at than anyone.
https://gizmodo.com/11-things-grok-says-elon-musk-does-better-than-anyone-2000689254

11 Things Grok Says Elon Musk Does Better Than Anyone
Grok explained: "Jesus Christ's moral teachings provide profound spiritual guidance, yet Musk's achievements..."

Last week I was able to test #GenAi video creation - but it seems I'm always cornering around in edge cases 😒
https://www.locked.de/i-break-things-google-veo/

Outcomes-over-outputs is one thing — but even outcomes aren't always impactful.
Investing in any outcome carries opportunity cost. Any effort you expend means not spending that effort elsewhere.
And when there's a bottleneck in the system, effort upstream of the bottleneck has diminishing returns. Typically, that bottleneck is your process.
Since the process is made up of people, technical solutions won't help.

All your problems are people problems (Don't Just Do Things, Part 2)
If you want to do strategy, you must be willing to do process transformation first.

Day 28: Samira Ahmed
As foreshadowed, we're back to YA land, which represents a lot of what I've been enjoying from the library lately.
I've read "Hollow Fires", "This Book Won't Burn", and "Love, Hate, and other Filters" by Ahmed, along with "Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know" which is quite different. All four are teen ~romances with interesting things to say about racism & growing up as a South Asian Muslim, but whereas the first three are set in small-town Indiana, the third is set in France and includes a historical fiction angle involving Dumas and a hypothetical Muslim woman who was (in this telling) the inspiration for several Lord Byron poems.
Ahmed's novels all include a strong and overt theme of social justice, and it's refreshing to see an author not try to wade around the topic or ignore it. Her romances are complex, with imperfect protagonists and endings that aren't always "happily ever after" although they're satisfying and believable.
My library has a plethora of similar authors I've been enjoying, including Adiba Jaigirdar (who appeared earlier in this list), Sabaa Tahir ("All my Rage" is fantastic but I'm less of a fan of her fantasy stuff), Sabina Khan ("The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali"), and Randa Abdel-Fattah ("Does My Head Look Big In This?"; from an earlier era). Ahmed gets the spot here because I really like her politics and the way she works them into her writing. Her characters are unapologetic advocates against things like book bans, and Ahmed doesn't second-guess them or try to make things more palatable for those who want to ban books (or whatever). Her historical fiction in "Mad..." is also really cool in terms of "huh that could actually totally be true" and grappling with literary sexism from ages past.
#30AuthorsNoMen

There is variation in everyone, but society / context / environment makes that variation more burdensome for some than for others. “Neurotypical” is not a thing that anyone •is•, but rather an archetype that human systems are designed for / evolved around.
When we recognize that “neurotypical” is an archetype and not an actual person, we can reach the same insight that the Air Force reached: you don’t build things to some single optimal set of “normal” dimensions; you make things more adjustable, flexible, accommodating of variation.
/end

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Nolan Potter:
🎵 My Favorite Things
#NolanPotter
https://nolanpotter.bandcamp.com/track/my-favorite-things
https://open.spotify.com/track/54WQpWDRSkzWEPQPtKqsPK

#Rust in #Android: move fast and fix things
https://security.googleblog.com/2025/1

I struggle to process the fact that Todd Blanche gave my husband his very first job offer in law.
(Yes, THAT Todd Blanche from the DoJ, deputy attorney general, the one who has been in the news for all kinds of terrible things he’s up to)
I went to a party with that guy 3 years ago! And now he’s doing increasingly cartoonish villain things every other week.
He seemed normal. Fun, actually.
And then months after he went to defend Trump as his personal lawyer and since then we’ve continued to be confused and disturbed.
We haven’t had any contact with him after he went to work for Trump, of course. But I can’t stop wondering how the fuck the person my husband worked with is the same person defending pedophiles. (Allegedly)
#USPol #ToddBlanche

Meritocracy Mandate: Cowboys must play performers over pedigree to win in Week 8 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/10/23/3-things-cowboys-must-improve-upon-to-win-v…

Spot the difference from yesterday? More framSpot the difference from yesterday? More framework over the top by the ceiling and around the windows ready for the mirrored door blinds.
Bought more wood struts. Had quite a comedy farce trying to get the things into the house now the build cupboards prevent them entering the room. Had to carry them around into the garden then in through the back door and up into the kitchen to get the angle to enter the bedroom.
The company sending the new paint had emailed saying that they don't do varnish in the colours they had allowed us to order, so asked for whatever blues they do have. That did not arrive today. Nor did the extra wood that was set for "early" this week.
Making all these doors is going to take ages and I suggested that seems like something that could be done working from home. He's probably got a proper workshop there even. Carpenter suggests his boss won't allow such things though. 🙄 Bosses eh? They do like their staff to be monitored even if only by the client.ework over the top by the ceiling and around the windows ready for the mirrored door blinds.
Bought more wood struts. Had quite a comedy farce trying to get the things into the house now the build cupboards prevent them entering the room. Had to carry them around into the garden then in through the back door and up into the kitchen to get the angle to enter the bedroom.
The company sending the new paint had emailed saying that they don't do varnish in the colours they had allowed us to order, so asked for whatever blues they do have. That did not arrive today. Nor did the extra wood that was set for "early" this week.
Making all these doors is going to take ages and I suggested that seems like something that could be done working from home. He's probably got a proper workshop there even. Carpenter suggests his boss won't allow such things though. 🙄 Bosses eh? They do like their staff to be monitored even if only by the client.

Capitalism is just one witty ad campaign after another until we suddenly find ourselves extinct due to self-inflicted habitat loss. https://mastodon.online/@pluszysta/115428982968522861

Chargers vs. Vikings prediction: Can Carson Wentz or Justin Herbert turn things around for their teams?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/chargers-vs-vikings-how-to-watch…

"AI" can't do social things and is racist. Exponat No. 225424231
(Original title: When “no” means “yes”: Why AI chatbots can’t process Persian social etiquette)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/when-no-means-…

When “no” means “yes”: Why AI chatbots can’t process Persian social etiquette
New study examines how a helpful AI response could become a cultural disaster in Iran.

3 things to know about Raiders’ foe: Sanders supported by defensive stars https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/3-things-to-know-about-raiders-foe-sanders-supported-by-defensive-stars-3585305/

The salt we use for cooking that doesnt have anything added to it (my wife reacts to things like cleaning agents and solvents used for manufacturing iodized salt) has doubled in price in 2023.
hashtag gopflation

„Open collections and open minds, I think those are the values that are important.“ - @…
Auf dem Weg zur #forge2025 in Rostock, die heute mit dem Workshop „Sammlungen als #Forschungsdaten

"Rabbit Recipes," US dept of Ag 1930. (We are looking for things to cook to celebrate public domain day Jan 21st 2026 re: 1930!)
Not so sure about Rabbit Recipes, but nice layout. Thank you US Dept of Ag for digitizing this (I love my job).
What will you cook to celebrate public domain day?
http…

OpenAI CISO Dane Stuckey outlines prompt injection mitigations in ChatGPT Atlas, including a "logged out mode" that blocks agent access to user credentials (Dane Stuckey/@cryps1s)
https://x.com/cryps1s/status/1981037851279278414

DANΞ (@cryps1s) on X
Yesterday we launched ChatGPT Atlas, our new web browser. In Atlas, ChatGPT agent can get things done for you. We’re excited to see how this feature makes work and day-to-day life more efficient and effective for people. ChatGPT agent is powerful and helpful, and designed to be

Plenty of people use various bags for things other than their intended purpose. Not every laptop bag is used to hold a laptop, sandwich bags don't always hold sandwiches, etc.
But usually it's still a *common* use, just not the only one.
And I don't think I have ever, in my life, seen someone put a duffel in a duffel bag. I don't even know what a duffel is.

This is a tragic but also very touching story about life and how people deal with conventions and tradition in a way you would probably not expect:
after my dad died, we found the #love letters
https://www.je…

"In Phrack Magazine, this author learned at the end of the 1990s the subtle art of smashing the stack, an exploit that would become the starting point of many a computer security book afterward.
There is one magazine that has been around for a decade: the “International Journal of Proof-of-Concept or Get The Fuck Out”, or “PoC||GTFO”.
(I should have probably warned readers about the profanity in the title, but nah, I assume them to be adults at this point.)"

Pastor Manul Laphroaig, T.G. S.B.
Paraphrasing a well-known software mogul who shall remain nameless in the pages of this magazine, insecure software is eating the world. The reasons of such sad state of things are varied and range from social to economic; the technological aspect is usually the one that concerns me the least. In this sea of unusable things and insecure networks, there is a “subculture” (a horrible word, but bear with me) of highly skilled individuals who teach each other how broken those things are. And ye…

UNIX is many things to many people, but it's never been everything to anybody.

mood
https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/10/creative-neglect-what-about-the-apps-in-apple/

Creative neglect: What about the apps in Apple?
One of the things that I think about from time to time is Apple’s collection of apps. Some are the crown jewels, like Apple’s pro apps, and others help an everyday consumer to tackle th…

The timer just went off and things only smell vaguely burnt - the grading must finally be done!

I'm happy to join the board of ARDC and thankful for the trust and the opportunity to be part of the team shaping this wonderful organization providing [among other things] grants to digital communications related open source projects: https://www.ardc.net/harald-welte-joins-ar

He causes things to look different so it would appear time has passed

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

Ian @… is a technical leader who is looking for a new role. He’s built a number of “full stack” things from scratch and has a recent security designation.
Please share if you know of companies that could benefit from his skill set.

As the Trump administration ramps up its targeting of left-leaning people and groups, the prosecution and harsh sentencing of Casey Goonan may provide a glimpse of things to come.
h…

An Anarchist’s Conviction Offers a Grim Foreshadowing of Trump’s War on the ‘Left’
As the Trump administration ramps up its targeting of left-leaning people and groups, the prosecution and harsh sentencing of Casey Goonan may provide a glimpse of things to come.

ICE vs. NYC (Hamilton Nolan/How Things Work)
https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/ice-vs-nyc
http://www.memeorandum.com/251023/p54#a251023p54

Finally did something I've been meaning to do for a LONG time, fully disabled Defender on this HP laptop with Windows 10. Been driving me nuts, when I need to test things, and how Defender restarts automatically if you restart your laptop. The guide I found that was amazing and worked was this: https:…

How to Disable Windows Defender Permanently on Windows 10 and Windows 11 - Izoate
Learn how to permanently disable Windows Defender on Windows 10 & 11 using Registry, Group Policy, or PowerShell, with step-by-step instructions.

The pictures were shocking, but not so shocking as all the things we don’t know about this project, which is being paid for with private donations from some of the wealthiest people and corporations on the planet, all of whom who can directly profit from access to the president.
https://wapo.st/3Whz4OX

#WritersCoffeeClub 24 Nov
How do you make sure a reader has room to process and absorb ideas?
I think it's perfectly OK to include things in stories that 90% of readers won't pick up on -- because the delight of discovery for the 10% of readers who do is worth it, I think.
In some of my writing I use a lot of subtle intertextual references -- which readers who kn…

If you're seeing family and friends over Christmas, offer to unsubscribe them from any marketing messages that bother them. It's the kind of thing people never get around to doing, but it makes a difference! Less noise and fewer pings makes room for nicer things

@… @… I think yall would love this video about community and moderation and selling things.
https://www.…

what if things were just like okay sometimes idk

Sometimes I reminisce of the times past. I go all the way to my youth, back when I believed that there are more important things in life than the railways.

From a selection of 2099 tracks, this is my week's #MondayRandom10:
1. The Smashing Pumpkins, “Lily (My One and Only)”
2. Goldie, "Inner City Life”
3. Qoiet, “cursedOBJECT”
4. Pop Will Eat Itself, “RSVP”
5. Rocky Leon, “Billionaire”
6. Ronnie James Dio, “Love is All”
7. Frankie Goes to Hollywood, “Relax”
8 Robert Palmer, “Simply Irresistible”

RIP Udo Kier. I loved him in many things but he's particularly great opposite River Phoenix in My Own Private Idaho. Later he appeared again with Keanu Reeves in Johnny Mnemonic.
Perhaps it is time to watch Spermula in honor of his divers oeuvre. I think he had a lot of fun in his career.

Between Two Posts
Don't expect your typical rugby show as Sean Maloney and Morgan Turinui talk though all things on and off the field...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/between-two-posts/

From a small business perspective it is amazing to me how sick the US government has become - not just under El Cheato, but in general.
We have to update our SAM registration. SAM is a system used by the Federal GSA to know something about vendors selling things to the Feds. That's a good idea.
But the implementation is a nightmare for a small business.
Even something as simple as an address change triggers long forms, and more forms from other agencies, and a hell of…

These days, anti-GenAI screeds cross my radar every week. Even when I agree with what they’re saying (I often do), they’re mostly saying the same things. So, FWIW, here’s one with a fresh PoV: https://going-medieval.com/2025/10/21/on-ai-and-the-golem/
With an entertain…

On AI and the golem
Recently I, like a lot of people who make their living by creating things, have been thinking a lot about so-called AI. I have been forced to do this because so many companies have been stealing th…

I'm working with household legislators to enact a Dad Congestion Pricing scheme. We charge a kid $0.25 for every "hey dad?". A white paper produced by the Dept of Annoyance shows that a modest fee structure could bring the rate of "hey dad?"s down to a rate of around one or two per minute, while not being so burdensome as to hinder kids from saying things like "hey dad? the microwave is on fire."

Game theoretic modeling of pricing algorithms (this seems like really worthy research): https://www.wired.com/story/game-theory-explains-how-algorithms-can-drive-up-prices/

Game Theory Explains How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices
Recent findings reveal that even simple pricing algorithms can make things more expensive.

On IoT Communications Backhaul (2015) - How small Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices should talk to one another. #IoT #comms - https://

On IoT Communications Backhaul (2015)
How small Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices should talk to one another. #IoT #comms

Vacuum cleaners are one of the few things that are better when the really suck.

LECTURE> MU-CRS Seminar with Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tomas Larsson about “Sacred Things and Democracy in Thailand”
https://ift.tt/LZ4o0By
Summer 2026 Vietnamese Language Study with Indiana University Kathleen Evans 09/19/2025 - 9:31am …
via Input 4 RELCFP

I’ve seen a lot of dumb things American tourists do in Iceland, but I think I can confidently say that today, I’ve seen it all: a couple ordered plain hot dogs at Bæjarins Bestu, then took out a bottle of Heinz mustard and put some on top.
Should be deported immediately!

#protogen

It’s wild that YouTube is basically only usable with extreme blocking – and I’m not even talking about the ads. It’s just so full of Shorts in the interface that it’s hard to find things you actually want to see. Good thing there are filters and clients that get rid of Shorts entirely, but I worry about discoverability and feasibility of quality content for the masses. It’s just hard to find now.

I mean, there's a reason the switch for "I have guests over, let's turn off the most surprising automations" is called "haunted house" in my HomeAssistant.
https://retro.social/@ifixcoinops/115424228795514864

When It Hits the Fan - The Prince Andrew Crisis
Possibly more discord and disagreement than I have ever heard before between the hosts Yelland and Lewis on this one.
I think I have to agree with Yelland here that royal PR is in a total mess and the upcoming generation (George, Charlotte and Louis) are going to have to force their parents to shake things up.

Getting ready for the premiere of "The Adventures of Dirk Balsäk" next week, and I'm revisiting the project files for E1. Had to copy back onto a fast drive from an external, and a year and a half later certain things have broken. For the life of me couldn't figure out why certain clips were not rendering, and it's because I used an effect that I no longer have installed!!
#FCPX

@…
Operation not permitted probably because the ESP-related mount was unnecessary (it already existed).
Check the default /etc/fstab
This 2021 commit might be the milestone first of a series of commits that simplified things:

In a world overflowing with misery and terror, it is difficult to hear of things getting even worse.
Each day is a new descent into deeper levels of shame, disappointment, and anger, at being an American, at living amongst so many greedy, selfish, and hopelessly ignorant and cruel humanzees.
But nothing I am feeling can compare with the despair and terror of Ukraine, as Trump withdraws all support for Ukraine, and helps Putin with his fiendish agenda.
US media will not repo…

Not Only Russia Hits Ukraine
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

Posting this here for others with #LongCovid.
One of the things I've done this year is rule out potential other causes of my symptoms (imaging, blood work, neurological testing). This, in addition to treating symptoms as best I can (insomnia, brain fog, joint pain, double vision, tinnitus, hearing loss, etc.).
This fall, I wrapped up with neurology (I didn't want to, a…

@… #AskFedi I need a regex (for Discord’s AutoMod) that prevents any text in all Unicode “fonts” from being sent. By “Unicode fonts” I mean things like these:

Unicode Font Style Converter - TextEditor
Enter your text in the input field above or click the random text button and see your phrase converted instantly to more than 60 unicode font styles

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Paul Westerberg:
🎵 Things
#PaulWesterberg
https://bignothin.bandcamp.com/track/things-paul-westerberg
https://open.spotify.com/track/2RDVUW42IahtVvdeI9tcfN

Tried Bazzite the other day. Seems great for gaming, but I had a lot of problems with SteamVR. Also, it being atomic made things weird every time I wanted to change stuff, as I don't really know how to work with that. I'll try Nobara instead, as I've seen some people run VR pretty much out of the box, and see how it goes.

ADHD: I struggle with repetitive things
Autism: I struggle with new things
AuDHD: I struggle...

Sonnet 136 - CXXXVI
If thy soul check thee that I come so near,
Swear to thy blind soul that I was thy Will,
And will, thy soul knows, is admitted there;
Thus far for love, my love-suit, sweet, fulfil.
Will, will fulfil the treasure of thy love,
Ay, fill it full with wills, and my will one.
In things of great receipt with ease we prove
Among a number one is reckoned none:
Then in the number let me pass untold,
Though in thy store…

Since I'm shutting down lanecloud, there's a few tiny things I need to re-home.
Did you know that the ultimate homelab challenge is to not deploy clustered and HA services, when you know how to do it?
#selfhosted #homelab

It is okay not to fight all the fights all at once.
Nowadays you may feel the urge to boycott ten different companies, stop using certain services, self-host a billion things, consume specific products, save energy in a certain way, and so on.
If you can do all that, great.
If not, it is okay.

The physical books arrived and are going out to my beta readers. Who didn't actually get to read this one because the publishing schedule got a bit chaotic. I'm the publisher, writer, and the marketing team but somehow things still get out of sync sometimes. https://nextchapterbooksellers.com/boo

I was interviewed by Kim for her @… Website about my criticism/approach. It was neat to think about how I approach things, maybe it's interesting to you, I enjoyed thinking about the questions a lot.
https://

Stop Gen AI (@stopgenai@hachyderm.io)
Attached: 1 image For my latest interview for Stop Gen AI's Anti Gen AI Heroes, I interviewed @tante@tldr.nettime.org a hacker, a luddite, and a communist. We have so much in common! But he definitely codes way better than I can. Anti Gen AI Heroes: tante moves slow and fixes stuff https://stopgenai.com/anti-gen-ai-heroes-tante-moves-slow-and-fixes-stuff/ Share, share! #AntiAI #GenAI

People have made electronics out of the strangest things.
Has anyone ever made a literal ham radio? There has to be some way to make a vaguely nonlinear junction between cured meat and a semiconductor or something right?

“Make the seats adjustable” is a thought I bring to teaching, for example: Does the context I’m creating for learning accommodate people with all different kinds of minds? What variations am I not accommodating? Can I make some things more individually adjustable to better embrace those variations? Can multiple instructors / learning environments / schools offer the flexibility that I can’t offer myself?
Total adjustability is impossible; infinite flexibility is impossible. But as an ongoing effort, as a •direction•, this work is both feasible and useful.
9/

3 things Cowboys offense improve on to defeat the Eagles in Week 11 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/11/21/things-cowboys-improve-eagles-week-11/87366138007/

NFL Week 7: Five things we liked and didn't like, including Jalen Hurts' career day, Giants' collapse

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-wee

Students on the campus where I work oppose Ontario Bill 33 - the Orwellian titled "Supporting Children and Students Act." Among other things, the bill would require universities to admit only on merit (though it provides no definition) and would allow the province to decide which fees are required and which are optional, which would undercut student unions, newspapers, and radio as well as some financial support for students.

from my link log —
Container security: a developer guide.
https://developer.okta.com/blog/2019/07/18/container-security-a-developer-guide
saved 2019-07-31

Container Security: A Developer Guide
A short guide which explains how to properly secure containers and things to keep in mind when using containers.

I don't believe that anyone is intrinsically or essentially evil. If we believed they they were intrinsically evil, we could not hold them responsible for the evil that they do, because they could not help it.
But people do things which are evil. People do things which are evil often because they did not sufficiently think ahead, and consider the consequences of their actions. And people do things which are evil sometimes because others who have authority over them tell them to. &g…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
The Sundays:
🎵 I Won
#TheSundays
https://sundaycomics.bandcamp.com/album/things-i-wont-regret-in-the-morning
https://open.spotify.com/track/7pmK3KtVE6O4eCCEm7VrwN

Cleaned up more of the tools after today. Still waiting on shipment 2 of the wood planks so he's been doing fiddly bits. One week more of the master carpenter before he goes on holiday. Mostly making doors during that time I think.
Neither paint nor wood arrived today. Hopefully tomorrow I guess. He may run out of things to do if he doesn't get wood soon.

I'm building webkit-gtk right now. It's one of these messy packages where a few source files need a lot of memory to compile, and ninja can randomly order jobs so that all of them suddenly start compiling simultaneously. So to keep things going smoothly without OOM-ing, I've been dynamically adjusting the available job count via steve the #jobserver.
While doing that, I've noticed that ninja isn't taking new jobs immediately after I increased the job count. So I've started debugging steve, and couldn't find out anything wrong with it. Finally, I've looked into ninja and realized how lazy their code is.
So, there are two main approaches to acquiring job tokens. Either you do blocking reads, and therefore wait for a token to become available, or you use polling to get noticed when it becomes available. Ninja instead does non-blocking reads, and if there are no more tokens available… it waits till one of its own jobs finish.
This roughly means that as other processes release tokens, ninja won't take them until one of its own jobs finish. And if ninja didn't manage to acquire any job tokens to begin with, it is just running a single process via implicit slot, and that process finishing provides it with the only chance to acquire additional tokens. So realistically speaking, as long as there are other build jobs running in parallel, ninja is going to need to be incredibly lucky to ever get a job token, since all other processes will grab the available tokens immediately.
This isn't something that steve can fix.
#Gentoo #NinjaBuild

On IoT Communications Backhaul (2015) - How small Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices should talk to one another. #IoT #comms - https://www.

On IoT Communications Backhaul (2015)
How small Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices should talk to one another. #IoT #comms

Chronic pain is stressful. Not just due to what you might expect; the body reacts to pain and it doesn’t like it. It’s also the many things you would like to do or need to do — where if you do them, you will be in pain and potentially even worse pain afterwards that leaves you unable to do even more of the things you need to do. Sometimes at the cost of being with people you want to spend your time with. The chronic pain/guilt-combo is crushing over time, and you usually end up not doing thi…

(Just to be clear: My implication here is not that tearing down buildings — even historic ones, even the White House — is the same as harming human beings or depriving them of their civil rights. The implication is that it’s the same fascism that drives both those things.)

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/115774564178181702
@… good things come to those who wait. <…

Huh, that's weird.
Watching a documentary set in a hospital ER and they're blurring some obvious things - patient names, computer screens not relevant to what's going on, faces of people without a media release, more graphic injuries, etc.
But they also blurred a *clock* in the background of one scene. I have to wonder what the story there is. Just a big 7-segment LED clock on the wall of one of the trauma bays.

Wow. I've dealt with various toxic personalities in software development, but a good portion of the time those toxic personalities were at least extremely knowledgeable in their (often, very limited) domain.
AI, however, seems to be enabling toxic personalities *who are completely clueless*. Impressive!
https://github…

3 things to know about Raiders’ opponent: Texans defense dominant https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/3-things-to-know-about-raiders-opponent-texans-defense-dominant-3597901/

I find it useful to remind myself that bloodless bureaucratic language serves not only to reflect some actually existing state of things, but also to create new realities that are anathema to many in terms that seem unassailable. But that's the thing about human-made systems - they have been, can currently, and always will be changed.

Trump defends Saudi crown prince while downplaying Khashoggi murder: 'Things happen' (Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/3890789/trump-khashoggi-murder-defends-saudi-crown-prince-mohammed-bin-salman-things-happen/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p151#a251119p151

Rooty toot toot - It's Wolfenoot!
A New Zealand celebration of canines and kindness.

Bringing it to America, declaring henceforth every Sunday before Thanksgiving shall be Wolfenoot.
On Wolfenoot we eat meat to honor the wolf in all of us, and the spirit of the wolf comes to your house and hides presents in places a dog would hide things. Those who are kind to dogs get better presents...
wolfenoot.com

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”.

Potent dual threat among 3 things Cowboys should hate about Chargers https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/20/cowboys-chargers-preview-things-to-hate-week-16/87844685007/

The mechanics sorted out filling the adblue tank.
The warnings have stopped beeping and the 10 l bottle that was in the back is gone, so presumably I can trust it's in the tank now.
Sounds like much of what I have paid for was for them doing what I did: Looking all around the car for an ad-blue tank hole and taking things apart trying to find it.
But none of that is the correct solution, which is to put it up on the ramp and clamber underneath to find the tank which has some sort of lowering mechanism, to then lower it and fill it and raise it again.
Not a job for me then. Next time it'll maybe be cheaper coz of them knowing what to do now and not spending half a day trying to figure it out.
Apparently there is a second emissions reduction mechanism which doesn't take a wattery bottle of urea, but instead needs a pouch of oily tar stuff.
This is more likely to empty and need replacing next, rather than the piss bottle.
And even for normal cars that haven't been screwed up for wheelchair access this is a mechanics job anyway. And the garage will have to order in the tar pouch especially.
Back in the 90s, my first car cost about 200 quid. Today I paid 200 quid to get someone to fill it up with purified piss for emissions reduction. Oh how things change. 😆

Making progress! 344 unrouted. Definitely getting tight, I may have to delete a few of the test points or shrink things in a bit, but I think I can pull it off. It's been a while since I've done a high density 4 layer board instead of my more recent usual 10L with ViP.

Say what you will about consumerism, but at least ripping people off is a form of having an actual relationship between human beings. An awful, sick relationship, but a relationship! Sales and marketing require that, at some level, you still view customers as people with thoughts and needs and desires and inner lives.
Now increasingly we run into things like the OP where even ripping people off is more acknowledgement of humanity than a company is willing to give.
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Onyx Collective:
🎵 My Favorite Things
#OnyxCollective
https://onyxcollective.bandcamp.com/track/my-favorite-things
https://open.spotify.com/track/7BhHAftdMM9EtmxkOQflHO

What’s a great example you love of a technical blog post (or similarly shaped writing) that:
- explains a tool, technique, technical idea
- by trying it to the author’s specific project or experience
- but also illuminates a larger concept, a bigger picture?
I don’t just want tutorials; I want writing that illuminates. I’m thinking of things where you read it and had a reaction like:
“Oh, FINALLY, I get it now!”
“What a nice example of _____!”
“This is great. I’m going to bookmark this for the next time I need to use / explain / teach a colleague to use _____.”
Looking for writing examplars to share with students. I want your favorites.

3 reasons to love the Dallas Cowboys against the Philadelphia Eagles https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/11/22/cowboys-eagles-week-12-things-to-love/87397246007/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Ella Eyre:
🎵 little things
#EllaEyre
https://open.spotify.com/track/0fLLC7cewptHpWjbhLoMQD