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I want to throw away all my computers, maybe even my ThinkPad. But who really holds the right to judge how I live? Authority itself is a chain meant to be shattered.
#Anarchism #Syndicalism

I'm a VS Code newbie. And I'm struggling with the editor randomly selecting text while I type particularly when typing symbols. As a result the final code is invalid.
Is there some flag that I have to uncheck to make it stop?

Here I start typing typo sgain

Christmas is a good day for typing practice on my new keyboard layout :)

Typing "Is X legal in the UK?" into an LLM, where "X" was made illegal under ten years ago. Oh dear.

Got the latest ollama running with image generation models now.
Used models are x/flux2-klein:latest and x/z-image-turbo
took about 1min 20s to generate these images on a M2 Max CPU with 64GB RAM
#ollama #GenAI

Every operation on a computer require multiple actions from the user. A series of clicks at specific places, typing specific characters and so on.
Except it it's by mistake.
If it's by mistake it's the reverse: a single action will trigger several operation on the computer...

The "l", ";" and down arrow keys on my work _aptop are broken (though the _ast two work if I mash them enough), so I have to copy paste "l" from Character Map _ike a boomer typing with two fingers.
I keep forgetting this at home where I use an externa mechanica keyboard. Quicky reminded sitting in this Tire Shop getting winter shoes on.

Google launches free SAT practice exams in the Gemini app, providing students with performance analysis and detailed explanations for incorrect answers (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/google-now-offers-free-sat-pr…

Google now offers free SAT practice exams, powered by Gemini | TechCrunch
Students can prompt Gemini by typing "I want to take a practice SAT test,” and the AI will provide them with a free practice exam. Gemini then analyzes the results, highlighting strengths and identifying areas that need further review. It also offers detailed explanations for any incorrect answers. 

🎯 Schema-based input validation via Protobuf strict typing mitigates injection attacks & rejects malformed inputs at serialization layer
📋 Google Cloud contributing gRPC transport package to MCP SDKs - community-backed consistent interoperable deployment for gRPC practitioners
🏢 Spotify already using experimental MCP over gRPC internally - benefits include ease of use, developer familiarity & reduced work building MCP servers

Saying a quiet prayer after typing apt dist-upgrade. (Updating Proxmox 8.4 to 9.1)

Do you like repeatedly measuring things and typing values? OpenSCAD might be for you!

The American Threat: Three Words I Never Imagined Typing (Nicholas Kristof/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/opinion/trump-europe-greenland.html?unlocked_article_code=1.GFA.5Jmf.umG13_IpXM0M&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260121/p157#a260121p157

The last two months I have been typing a relatively short introduction to XBRL from a technical point of view. The need to knows of the XML underneath, how a taxonomy is built and how to create an instance.
Intended audience: developers that have to deal with XBRL.
You can grab a copy here: #xbrl #xml #developers

I’m somewhat surprised there isn’t a vibrant subculture of hex grid computer keyboards. (The ones I’ve heard of are musical keyboards, not for typing.)
Re this from @…:
https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/115584712092872585

I blogged about my cute little open source computer, the #mntpocketreform, and how it is connected to the idea of #permacomputing.
https://

@… mis-typing your own username is OK.
The real fun begins when you lock yourself out, during installation, with a correctly typed password.
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla…

Me logging a 2.1.1 failure because I’m typing on the wrong keyboard (for the other machine).
I need a nap.

In a dream last night I was trying to write a post. I kept being interrupted and when I returned I'd find what I wrote had changed. The keyboard kept changing as I was typing to be "helpful." I put down my phone and picked it up again to find the app had "helpfully" filled my screen with Nazi shit. Then I realized the app was an AI post assistant, so I uninstalled it and used the website.
The post I was trying to write was, "I want to be able to have the confidentiality of cheap hot dog meat in the 90's: no one should know who or what I actually am."
It feels like a relevant manifestation of the anxiety of existing on the internet today.

17 New(ish) Vanilla JavaScript Features You Might Have Missed
JavaScript: the language many love to hate. Yeah, we've all seen the memes about its quirks and limitations. Maybe that's why we slap a whole typing system on top of it. And add one, two, or... ten thousand npm packages into our apps.
🧑‍💻

17 New(ish) Vanilla JavaScript Features You Might Have Missed
JavaScript: the language many love to hate. Yeah, we've all seen the memes about its quirks and limitations. Maybe that's why we slap a whole typing system on top of it. And add one, two, or... ten thousand npm...

my confidence on GitHub is so high that I was typing "github o' clock" in the browser, instead of the URL of their status page

It's fun to watch your web server's access log after posting a link to your website on Mastodon. While typing in whatsapp and adding a link to my site I noticed that Whatsapp is of course a very rude client.
#whatsapp #webserver #rudeBot

Every post you write is first read by a machine. Should the nature of writing change to accommodate that? I look at the pros and cons of adopting an AI-friendly grammar https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonippolito_writing-journali…

The better #Midjourney gets in correctly generating multiple words in a row the more we lose an ancient skill: pasting an image into Word, typing text on top and saving a screenshot of the result to send as a Christmas card.
I liked the old ways better, mum!

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So, I was typing in #LibreOffice Writer and wanted to use the French phrase tête-Š-tête. I don't have a French keyboard, so I typed "tete-a-tete" and thought I'd let spell check add the diacritics.
Instead I got the image shown. Maybe it's just me, but if the phrase "tech-a-tete" is in the default spell checker (and I promise I did not add it) surely the far…

Nice blog in the discussion about AI & coding,
"AI can replace most of programming, but programming isn’t the job.
Programming is a task. It’s one of many things you do as part of your work. But if you’re a software engineer, your actual job is more than typing code into an editor."
https://<…

AI Can Write Your Code. It Can’t Do Your Job.
The companies building AI are spending billions to acquire engineers, not replace them. Here’s why your job is safer than you think.

"sudo-rs: Partial password reveal when password timeout occurs"
It also prints it if you kill the sudo process (not just wait for timeout to occur).
https://github.com/trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs/security/advisories/GHSA-c978-wq47-pvvw…

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Suchst Du nach einer funktionierenden local-only kostenlosen #Diktier-Lösung auf dem #Mac?
#diktat

xkcd discusses how much energy you can generate by typing
but fails to consider that someone in charge of a powerstation can type in a command that generates a gigawatt
https://youtu.be/0L44GEJ5pLE

#infosec annoyance of the day - I use a tool for work that requires me to put in a rolling one-time code for 2fa, and doesn't show the code as I'm typing it.
That would be ok, except if I switch apps to copy the code so I can paste it in, it usually forces me to re-enter my username and password, then even though I'm in the 30 second validity window, it refuses the code.
So I have to wait till the 30 seconds roll over, copy the code, switch to the tool, re-enter my username/password, hope it doesn't take so long to negotiate with the back end that the code in my clipboard expires, then finally paste the code.
Conveniently I only have to do it multiple times a day, every work day.

Once upon a time there was a DOS user who saw Unix, and saw that it was
good. After typing cp on his DOS machine at home, he downloaded GNU's
unix tools ported to DOS and installed them. He rm'd, cp'd, and mv'd
happily for many days, and upon finding elvis, he vi'd and was happy. After
a long day at work (on a Unix box) he came home, started editing a file,
and couldn't figure out why he couldn't suspend vi (w/ ctrl-z) to do
a comp…

Over Thanksgiving I’ve been using TypeScript more, after previous experience with Python typing. Some things are way better. Some are worse.
In Python, you can declare and initialize a field together:
self.foo: int = 5
In TS, you can do this in two ways. You can write in the class declaration
foo: number = 5;
but the expression is evaluated before the constructor(!). Or you can write
constructor(public foo: number)
but this only works if i…

typing #randomCrap into the search bar again. it is a good hobby.
i found a poster on Redbubble.
https://www.redbubble.com/i/poster/Trump-H

#Wordle 1,633 4/6*
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ <1% of 231,589 (314)
🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 0 of 9 (4)
🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 0 of 0 (2)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 95/99
Luck 56/99
Well this is just a crazy wordle day. I start off with just typing the 1st 5 letter word that pops into my head, which when I looked at I had to wonder what I was thinking (obviously not). Then I get into 2 letter hell, but my 4th guess is the answer.
I'm just taking the win 🙂
Bot also wondered what I was thinking. It said: "Bold choice! Not what I would have picked, but I admire your creativity."

#iOS users: If you started to make a bunch of spelling/typing mistakes, like I did recently…
Turns out, it‘s not you, it‘s your OS:
https://youtu.be/hksVvXONrIo
Apple broke the keyboard implementation in …

I just discovered that the "prefix group name" option for #FreeCAD VarSet properties was removed a couple months ago. That feature was such a wonderful affordance for reducing typing and now it's gone. I missed the discussion when it was being axed and it makes me very sad. It looks like "I don't like the aesthetics so you shouldn't have it" won the day. ☹

@… feature refinement request: when replying to a toot that has another account @ mentioned, my compose window pens with all @ mentioned accounts listed and all but the author of the toot highlighted for easy deletion. I love this❤️. If I choose to delete the space following the author’s @ mention is deleted as well and if I just start typing it’s appended to the @ me…

What's up with #Remmina on #Ubuntu? I have weird typing issues (duplicate characters, etc.). Switched to plain #FreeRDP and then all is well.
It did take me a while to find out what the command line is…

I wrote up how I set up #ty with #helix, with a focus on finding third-party packages (a.k.a. virtualenvs, which I keep on a central location!)
https:/…

Using ty with the helix editor · Technical inconsistencies blog
The folks at Astral have released ty, which they define as: An extremely fast Python type checker and language server, written in Rust. You can read more in the blog post announcing it. Today, I set it up with helix. To make it work, we first have to install it. Using uv, it’s as easy as typing: uv tool install ty@latest Then, edit your ~/.config/helix/languages.toml and add the following: [language-server.ty] command = "ty" args = ["server"] [[language]] name = "python" scope = "source.p…

I'm so glad Copilot-generated commit messages are an opt-out feature on GitHub. I've always wanted to start typing and then have my stuff completely obliterated by sluggish LLM slop I didn't ask for.

Cold & Dark Again: https://eyebeemania.net/2025/12/27/cold-dark-again.html

Cold & Dark Again
I”m sitting in a local coffee shop typing this. My wife and …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheMorningAfterMix
Broadcast:
🎵 Tears In The Typing Pool
#Broadcast
https://bluemena.bandcamp.com/track/tears-in-the-typing-pool-broadcast-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/2ckhAiLT5eV5blWvyDs8Lh