One of my servers was making a weird noise so I performed a bit of “percussive maintenance” and now it’s making a louder weird noise.

wow. Looks like my MP has played a not small role in ensuring that the budget passed by abstaining with one of his colleagues.
That said two Conservative MPs also abstained and it sounds like both Sheer and another CPC MP were also prepared to abstain if needed using a weird procedural thing with online vs in person voting.
#canPoli #CdnPoli #ndp

ICE eats at restaurants I know and love, nice comfy meal before going back out there and destroying more lives.
It’s weird how much this enrages me. I hope the restaurant staff knows who they’re serving. I hope ICE knows they know. I hope ICE officers eat with nagging doubts about food safety.
I heard a rumor — this one not well-substantiated — that they ate at a restaurant and then come back and raided it the next day.

Not to go all One Weird Dieting Trick on you, but I was complaining to someone the other day about lack of low sugar dessert options and food cravings leading to bad choices. They said, "have you tried jelly?" (en_US: jello) … and I have not because I always associated it with sugar-loaded desserts.
But, 12g (en_US: about 2.5 ounce) gelatine makes 568ml (en_US: 20 fl.oz) and contains 41 calories, zero carbs.
It's also unflavoured and gross but some artificially swee…

I must be weird, am one of the apparently 0.02% for whom #Pluribus isn’t doing much, 6 episodes in (haven’t seen latest). I mean Rhea Seehorn is great but she’d be greater if they gave her a chance to be anything but angry-and-rude for even a minute here or there. Also, how about another character with a character? Will watch the last 3 shows despite massive suspension-of-disbelief failure, hopin…

I have WCAG shirts for sale.
One that moves the “Punch Nazis” to the same line (this one’s new), but available in white on whatever and black on whatever.
And two variations of the MASH logo (yellow or black text).
Get them as weird holiday gifts!
https://aardrian.threadless.com/collec

RE: https://phpc.social/@syntaxseed/115855415960085751
I have such conflicted thoughts on this.
What happened? Gross. It's very much a harm as a systemic effect of "AI"
But also _open source industry_ is in fact a thing I think has been deeply destructive and somewhat replaced the collectivist work done before. We could go back to that. That was good stuff.
But TailwindCSS is super popular.
I also think it's a bad technology, meant to undermine the foundations and design of CSS, leading us to technically worse places.
Also the business? It is selling themes and components.
That's a really hard business to be in. The time to buy a license comes in a project's lifecycle too early, so people avoid it. It's a weird business. Not one I think people should plan to have work.

*tinfoil hat* Isn't it a little weird that one of the biggest instances on Fedi is asking for funding to personal PayPal/Ko-Fi/Patreon accounts and not a community pot like OpenCollective? 🤔
#noxp

Watched a talk from #39c3 (the one about right wing dating sites). Was a good talk but it felt weird how casually 'and then I had an AI whip up some shit' was accepted there. I think that wouldn't have been the same a few years ago. Window has shifted.

So yeah maybe don’t try using SaveMii on Wii Fit U to migrate your nnid account save to your pnid one. It not only doesn’t work, but also (seems to) cause at least one weird bug that I only noticed after more than one (almost two by now I think?) year playing
#WiiU

Back in my Evidence classes it was once suggested (in jest) that one way to measure a person's age was to cut off an arm and count the rings. Yeah, sometimes law school got weird, like when I had to set up a international cacao bean exchange to get around some hard currency restrictions.

Health Stuff

Recovered somewhat from whatever that weird fit was at the end of last year.

NHS still has me on some sort of list I think, appointment might turn up next year. Last contact with them they were suggesting maybe November.
But the private treatment gave me the
MRI which
showed nothing weird and post-fit symptoms have been reducing.
Experimented with eating meat to see if that helped.
Tried eating meat for a month to see if it reduced the post-fit symptoms. Maybe it did? Tried vegetarian again and maybe it got worse?
Hard to tell with intermittent symptoms and a terrible memory.
Decided it's more likely to do good than harm (to me, entirely harm to the animals obviously), and eat meat till the end of the year.
While I'm better, I don't really feel fully recovered enough to want to change things so more meat next year I think.
One of those symptoms is that booze tolerance dropped to like zero. Very rarely had more than four pints in a day this year and very rarely more than one night a
week.
Much high number than the target there really.
Tripped over a guy-rope and fell onto the wrist.
Did two days of the festival and the drive home thinking it almost certainly wasn't broken and only confirmed it was when I got home and the hospital put it in a cast.

This is so weird. I mean, I do think Times New Roman is one of a handful of correct choices for professional communication, and I do just _hate_ Calibri, but I don't understand what either font has to do with DEI.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rubio-font-

Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.

'writing is more than just the process by which you obtain a piece of text, right? it's also about finding out what you wanted to say in the first place, and how you wanted to say it. this post existed in my head first as a thought, then it started to gel into words, and then i tried pulling those words out to arrange them in a way that (hopefully) gets my point across. ... i alone can get the thought out and writing is how i do that.'

WE ARE NOT DOING THIS AGAIN :omega_laugh:

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
“Weird Al” Yankovic:
🎵 Another One Rides the Bus
#“WeirdAl”Yankovic
https://littleblue0.bandcamp.com/track/weird-al-yankovic-another-one-rides-the-bus-littleblue-rmx
https://open.spotify.com/track/23tktWr4FmFoJ6xEGqj3u2

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.

This was a weird one for me. Not hard, just took a strange path to it. #Wordle
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This article by @… describes me this weekend, hacking away with Copilot on two Hugo websites (one new, one 10 years old) and being incredibly productive while at it (and I suck at golang templates)
https://

I had some weird ass Jellyfin issues so I tried to log into my NAS with the web interface to check on it and could not... so I SSH'd into it to do a reboot and somehow instead rebooted the computer I was sitting at. Went to a different computer to try and that one was powered off. Went back to the one I rebooted on accident and it didn't reboot so I started it up. Went back to the other one and it was up so I used that one.
Self hosting puts you in control.

Any sufficiently advanced disaster preparedness is indistinguishable from revolutionary dual power. This essay is a bit of a transition between the theory I've written earlier, and more concrete plans.
Even though I only touched on my life on the commune, it was hard not to write more. These are such weird spaces, with so much invisible opportunity. But they're also just so unique and special. For all the stress and uncertainty of making sure you stayed on Lorean's (the head priestess), there were also those long summer nights with the whole community (except the old lady) gathered around a fire, talking and drinking. There was almost a child-like play to the whole time.
There were so Fridays I'd come home with a couple of gallons of beer from the real world, folks would bring things from the garden, someone would grill a steak, everyone who didn't cook would clean up, and we'd just hang out and have fun. So many evenings I'd go over to Miles place with a guitar, or with his guitar, and we'd pass it around over a few beers, talking about philosophy, Star Wars, or some book or other. It's hard not to write about the strange magic of that space.
My partner and I bonded over similar experiences, mine on a weird little religious commune in California and theirs as a temporary worker at Omega Institute. Both had exploitation, people on weird power trips, frustrating dynamics, but also a strange magic and freedom. Both were sort of fantasy worlds, but places that let us see through this one, let us imagine something that something else is possible behind the veil.
There are many such veils.
Perhaps it's fitting that this is more meandering, as a good wander can help the transition between lots of hard thinking and lots of hard working.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/evaluating-options
Editing feedback (especially typos, spelling, grammar) is always welcome, as are questions and even wider structural advice. I've been adding the handles of folks who provide feedback to the intro in a "thank you" section. If you do help and wouldn't like to be added, please let me know.

We had a surprise opportunity to go to the beach this weekend, near Southport NC. I have the weird preference to sling my hammock under the house, between the clotheslines, instead of sleeping indoors. Half camping? I use a big rubbermaid box as my "suitcase" and put my shoes on it overnight... It was cold at night, but an underquilt and reflecting bubble insulation in the hammock, with an inflatable mattress on top of my down sleeping bag, kept me cozy.
My wife and I went to …

Here's one for the people who really enjoy getting angry about AI: when you write an answer on Quora, they've started using an LLM to read the answer and then ask you personally weird nonsensical follow-up questions based on snippets of your answer without understanding or context.

spent some time looking at rust html5ever and the vibe-translated python justhtml and its vibe-translated js, ocaml, swift descendants.
there are some weird things going on.
tokenization in the html spec is a well-defined state machine. one state is Data, which is normal chars between tags. it's a small, simple state.
the vibe-translated Data states are all different, unrelated implementations, clearly not derived from their example code. they're hallucinated from a…

This week's #TuneTuesday is #SteppingStoneSongs.
I've talked about this one here before, maybe a year ago, but it's always a good time for a re-up. 'Baby Food' is a 12 minute long song by Coil that *really* got me deep into the rabbithole that is weird electronic music.

@revk 's waveshare 7.5" board is taunting me; I got it a year or so back when it was very cheap, and I've not got a panel for it, but thought I'd see if the ESP started up. I was getting nothing from the USB, so soldered up the serial connector, took it over to the scope, and plugged it in...and it's LEDs lit up and identified on USB. Hmm, in the end I think it's only coming up if I plug it in to one old netbook next to the scope; weird...hmm, might check if it gi…

I generally try not to boost AI slop, but that $20 bill one genuinely fooled me (because it had actual real text, not weird nonsense characters). Also, it was well done and actually funny, so I'm going to let it slide for now.

W.O.W. Last week was all about Hitler’s #micropenis and now I just saw where Epstein’s dick was some kind of malformed, like egg-shaped, according to one of his victims. I just find the conjunction weird.

Nights is a weird show
Baywatch Nights 2x13 - Nights to Dragon One
#RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx #BaywatchNights

“Would it be particularly helpful to have some text that would be •typical• in a given context, even if the text is possibly •incorrect•?”
∑ vet potential applications of LLMs with this one weird question!

Best wishes and sympathy to any former colleagues dealing with us-east-1 going pear-shaped. Looking at the signals, this outage is an extra-weird one, which is unsurprising because with decades of experience, all the non-extra-weird outage scenarios have been discovered and dealt with.
#aws

Needed to build something quite weird that involves NFC tags and mainly Notion DB as storage and UI
Didn’t feel like learning Notion cos I am not a fan.
Worked with ChatGPT to make a spec and prompt this was useful while doing that totally changed my mind to something better
Gave it to codex and it one-shot built it perfectly in 20 minutes without interaction, worked first time once I fixed a mistake I made in Notion.
Lots of issues with AI but it’s certainly moving…

Yea I can’t imagine why anyone thought this dipshit was defending rape…I mean aside from the over half a dozen posts where he defended rape as “not immoral”, literally said “No. In fact, the word "rape"…didn't even exist until the 1800s.” and arguing that being “owned”* wasn’t “horrific”
Complete mystery why people went after him, must be some weird BlueSky thing. 😂
JFC

Ah yeah! @…’s horror advent calendar has arrived 🙌
Here’s a little taste from last year..

Chasing some other interesting bugs in the STM32MP2 setup.
1) I don't know if the clock dividers were the problem or not, but I'm seeing weird behavior with the QSPI flash randomly not working properly sometimes.
2) Possibly related: power consumption of the board seems to vary /- 20% from one reset to another. This is an enormous variation, no I do not currently have an explanation.

The pedophiles came out for this one

Anyone here has any experience with a ToDo/Shopping list one can
- self host
- has an Android app
- allows sharing lists between users
?
(I have already googled, only interested in actual experience)
(EDIT: I am asking for an app because I want to be usable by another person who's not looking for an ideological project or an opportunity to learn markdown or how weird PWAs work. That's why a dedicated app would be a plus. )

The corruption was weird af tho
What the fuck?
I do have a journalctl log but I couldn’t really find the reason everything failed on it.

This week's #GrindayFriday is new 7" EP 'Flayed and Ready' by Boston, Massachusetts' ROTBUS. This is a really deathgrindy bunch of songs, with some great drums, actual riffs, and growly vocals. Oh, and brief, acceptable Spaceballs and Simpsons clips - one of each. This is a fun, weird, brutal, gross ride of an EP. No Time Records is really killing it lately.

got a notification that one of my good friends I haven't talked to in a while went live on twitch. i'm the only person in the stream so we're just hanging out and he's showing me random weird things he's acquired and it's just really nice

always real weird moment when one of you follows me on bsky and I realize you are a Big Account over there lmao
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