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Sometimes I wonder how people can be fooled by AI videos, and then I'll send a comedy sketch video to someone I know and they'll ask if it's a real interview.

Beginning to wonder about moving to a new instance in the indefinite vaguely near future, since IOCX admins seem to be a bit behind the curve (we're still on mastodon 4.3.7).
I poked them but havent heard back or even seen any posts from them in a while, which makes me wonder if I'm living on a ghost ship.
Anyone have suggestions on one that's generally friendly to cool EE research, OSS/OSH, infosec, etc stuff?

Me: I wonder what this thing is, please don't reply with how to use Google.
Multiple replies: I've used Google to find this thing! [Spoiler: it's not the thing]

Addiction (Speculatve)
Kind of a fucked-up metaphor, but I was thinking yesterday that parenting is a lot like addiction. If you separate me from my child, I'll take completely irrational and desperate actions to get them back, driven by a deep instinct that goes well beyond "love." I'll also make self-disadvantageous long-term decisions like forgoing sleep, working an extra job, or quitting a job to do some combination of providing for and/or being present with my child.
Even in parenting situations where love is absent, and beyond, I think, the possessiveness that sometimes festers in those situations, there's often (although not always) a craving for simple presence of the child.
In a healthy relationship, there's a whole lot more than this, but it's interesting to me that the same obsessive craving and absolute priority that we think of as diseased and/or monstrous in someone addicted to a hard drug can be healthy in the right context (that is, when it doesn't contribute to abusive or twisted parental relationships but instead exists alongside a healthy amount of love and respect).
Makes me wonder if there are ways to have a truly healthy drug addiction, although I recognize the answer might well be "no" and that even if it's "technically/theoretically yes" it might still be harmful to hype up or even merely discuss that possibility since it might help addicted people in harmful addictions more easily justify inaction. At minimum I think any "yes" answer here involves assuming utopian-level differences from our current society.
#Parenting #Addiction

Off to see Japanese Breakfast. I wonder what proportion of the audience, like me, are here due to having read “Crying In H Mart” which led them to the music.

Just heard some sirens, checked local FD/EMS dispatch, and...
A motor vehicle accident not far from me was paged out as *three* battallion chiefs, *two* engines, and *one* medic unit.
I can't imagine that's a standard response for a MVA, I wonder what kind of crash would dictate such a top-heavy response.

Just finished folding and hanging some laundry. It occured to me to wonder when was the button-buttonhole combo invented, and by whom? Based on the archeological finding of bone needles dated to many 10s of 1000s of years ago, fitted clothing in one form or another has been a thing for a very long time. Maybe even Neanderthals did it. So fasteners of some sort would exist, but what about the button-buttonhole combo as we know it today?

Me: "I wonder if there's a Python function to figure out the day of the week."
Me after 5 seconds of searching: There is!
Me after opening code I wrote last week: Oh yeah, now I remember.

I wonder if the code in Atlas Browser is better than the writing in Atlas Shrugged…
Coin flip.
/cc @… (I don't know if new quote posts notify yet or not…) https://me.dm/@anildash/11541990932657…

This is the end-point of extractive AI. First get people to upload everything, then suck everything out of it, then get AI to generate all the answers. I wonder how this cycle continues. (If it means Chegg can't continue the cycle…paint me so sad.)

When I try to change my password, if you block paste I don't feel more secure, I wonder what other incompetence is hiding in your site's software stack.
And if you aren't letting me paste, _and_ you want annoying bullshit in my password, at least let give me a button to let me see what the fuck I am typing.
Having a password length limit, especially one as low as 15 characters, just makes me think you're doing something fundamentally wrong like storing passwords in clear text and confirms my opinion that there's a ton of other incompetence in your software stack.
This all came up when I was trying to add the mysubaru app on my wife's phone.
And a HUGE fuck you for claiming I had the wrong password when I tried to log in with the one in my password manager, but when I did a password reset, not letting me use the one from my password manager because "You can't change it to your current password."

me: I wonder if there's an open source alternative
internet: npm install -g open-source-alternative
me: *groan*

If you think the fact it's "digital" will stop me burning my ID card in protest then you can think again!
Phones burn up nicely if you get them right.
They recently decided that company directors have to prove their digital ID. My company turnover is like 500 quid but I'm still a director of it.
So I had to prove my digital ID.
To do this, I had to take my driving license to a post office.
Which means it's no more secure than the driving license I already had, surely?
Wonder if I can sell a digital ID on the black market and then keep getting a new one.
#digitalID #ukpol #creepingAuthoritarianism

Sonnet 059 - LIX
If there be nothing new, but that which is
Hath been before, how are our brains beguil'd,
Which labouring for invention bear amiss
The second burthen of a former child.
Oh that record could with a backward look,
Even of five hundred courses of the sun,
Show me your image in some antique book,
Since mind at first in character was done,
That I might see what the old world could say
To this composed wonder of your …

I'm getting about 3 emails a day right now from my university all "reminding" me to do the exact same thing. This is not uncommon. And they wonder why folks don't keep up with their email.

So El Cheato wants to pay the military during the government shutdown.
OK. (But I do wonder why the military rather than people who guard nuclear stockpiles or provide emergency health care.)
The personal costs for the DoD are about $0.5 BILLION per day. Yup, half a $billion per day.
That's taxpayer money - money from you and me.
And where is it coming from? Where is the mandatory appropriation by Congress?

This really saddens me. I absolutely adored the style of Shire Hall - an iconic view from the M4 and local roads. I still vividly remember my one week of Year 10 work experience there at Berkshire County Council at a time when they were preparing for their own demise as they were split into 6 unitary authorities. I wonder what happened to the time capsule that was in reception.
What's being planned to take its place? Surprise, surprise: big, bland industrial warehouse units. #RDGUK
Former council office complex in Reading half demolished | Reading Chronicle
https://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/25491410.former-council-office-complex-reading-half-demolished/

Rob Jetten over de vernielingen bij het D66 kantoor.
#D66 #politiek

Ik kom net terug van ons partijkantoor in Den Haag. Daar waar D66’ers zich normaal met hart en ziel inzetten voor onze democratie, werd vandaag een ravage aangericht. Relschoppers hebben grote… | Rob Jetten | 25 comments
Ik kom net terug van ons partijkantoor in Den Haag. Daar waar D66’ers zich normaal met hart en ziel inzetten voor onze democratie, werd vandaag een ravage aangericht. Relschoppers hebben grote bakstenen door de ramen gegooid. Ze probeerden een brandende container naar binnen te rijden. Pure vernieling. Gelukkig raakte niemand gewond. En dat is eigenlijk een wonder. De beelden maken me woedend. Woedend dat agenten vanavond thuiskomen bij hun gezin, en moeten uitleggen dat ze belaagd zijn. Dat…

Excitement filled his mind as his eyes traced the letters of the email subject:
We're updating our terms and policies
“I wonder what wonderful new privileges and benefits Ticketmaster has for me this season!” he thought, flagging the email for later, to savour its text tonight.

Seeing a Nissan Rogue makes me wonder, what model car do you drive if you want to say "I'm a healslut"?

Dad sad I could have his old camera gear if I wanted.
Found this nice 70-210mm f/4 lens among it and with an adapter, made it fit on my own camera.
Wonder if it'll allow me to see the Ring Nebula (M57) in Vega? :stallman_thaenkin:

Had forgotten to mute Teams Notifications on my phone and just got notifications that really make me wonder if I should return after the sabbatical. Holy shit.

I was trying to package #FlexiBLAS for #Gentoo, and to be honest, it doesn't look that good.
The first red flag is lack of an open bug tracker. Apparently, there is the tracker on GitLab that's limited to "members of their group and selected external contributors", but it doesn't seem to be used much. So it's "send us an email", and wonder how many people sent us the same bug report before.
The git repository is currently at something tagged 3.4.80 that seems to be prerelease, and its build system is quite broken. Not exactly the best path to verify that the bugs you are hitting are still there.
Now, upstream seems to insist on either using vendored netlib #LAPACK, or statically linking to the system library (we don't install the static libraries). Apparently I can specify the shared libraries instead, but it doesn't work — and it's unclear to me whether it doesn't work because I'm using the shared libraries, or because it doesn't support my LAPACK version. If I build LAPACK without deprecated symbols, it refuses to load it at runtime because of missing symbols. And if I build it with deprecated symbols, it fails to find some symbols at CMake time.
Honestly, I feel like I've spent too much time on this project already, especially given that its future is entirely unclear to me — the current git is quite broken, I have no clue how many issues were reported already and whether my bug reports will receive any reply. It definitely doesn't fare well for a package that we might start to rely heavily on. We don't want a cathedral there.
https://www.mpi-magdeburg.mpg.de/projects/flexiblas
https://gitlab.mpi-magdeburg.mpg.de/software/flexiblas-release

«Your entry clearance as a Skilled Worker has been cancelled so that it now ends on 14 December 2025.»
Getting this email from the UK home office a year (nearly to the day) after having left the UK, makes me wonder if that's expected or some form of incompetence by my former employer or the UK government. 😂

this made me wonder why anyone would write a url parser for node.js in ada
https://mastodon.social/@bagder/115190240946299368

Indeed, Ed Davey, our democracy IS too precious to be a plaything for foreign tech barons. Which does rather make me wonder why you are supporting these tech barons through your choice of where you are posting your comments 🤦‍♀️

Me: OK, I sent the memo. I think I've mastered organization-speak. I used it liberally.
Colleague, reading memo: Holy shit! Jesus, man, you can't use that many buzzwords in one sentence! Did you have your common-sense removed?
Me: Nah, you learn to just suspend it, and let the looney flow; It's actually kinda fun! I wonder if that's why managers do it in the first place....

@… I wouldn't be surprised if there are in fact more total posts about OR than ME, but I do also wonder how much the results are skewed by the way federation works, and the fact that you are therefore much more likely to see PDX related posts.

Me: I wonder if anyone has written Arduino code using the tone command for a bunch of common songs...
Internet: #arduino

GitHub - robsoncouto/arduino-songs
Contribute to robsoncouto/arduino-songs development by creating an account on GitHub.

What a waste of money, not to mention the ugliness of paving over the white house rose garden.
But hey, I guess El Presidente Naranja (EPN) needs some place to bury bodies.
In the same vain vein is there any truth to the rumor that EPN, after he slaps his greasy name onto the Kennedy Center, plans to rename Washington DC?
Which makes me wonder - who controls the names of the various States and of the US of A as a whole?

Watching Ball x Pit and its auto selected stat upgrades makes me wonder is there a game where you pick up items that feed into the next chosen stat upgrade? Like you're picking up votes and if you want to lean into Agility you need to avoid Strength?
Maybe the number of total votes you pickup doesn't matter so there's no incentive to get them all and it becomes a bit bullet hell to avoid stats you're not maxing?

Ever wonder HOW an LLM can go so very wrong? Me neither, but really, when you look into it, it makes so much sense, it is inevitable.
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/796677506528919552/why-do-llms-freak-out-over-the-seahorse-emoji

This is bizarre - I made a typo and accidentally ran a #Google search for a comma. Not the word, the punctuation mark.
And yet, somehow, Google thinks that is:
1. A valid enough search to be showing a bazillion results
2. A search that needs short-form vertical videos at the top from a bunch of white women (who are they? Why them? What in the world is relevant to a singular punctuation mark that makes them pull up these videos?)
3. A search with enough inferred intent to show me a whole Q&A interface?
I know we complain about the state of #search online a lot these days and I've been part of the #SEO industry for years but something like this is so blatantly ridiculous it's hard not to stop and wonder.... what the actual fuck?

There are some names in English that make me wonder. Like Dickinson.
I mean... aren't we all?

Wonder if I can get Mechahitler to mount these shelves for me

Schloss Johannisberg, Rheingau Musik Festival: Alexander Malofeev, Klavier
I'm left to wonder about his finale, Skrjabin's Fantasie h-Moll op. 28. The hall got warm by the end. I suspect it got to this otherwise superb young pianist (along with a cellphone ringing during Listz's Funérailles). He played the Fantasie for 3–4 minutes. It's described as lasting ca. 9 minutes and requiring the full, immense skill of the performer while stretching the limits of the instrument…

Is anyone else getting weird SPAM asking you to be on a podcast? I originally thought it was a young relative but now i honest have no idea who this person is, or why they would want me on their podcast. I didn't reply originally (got busy) and just got a follow up with zero new information just "Nick?" Umm.. now I am not inclined to reply at all. But its odd enough to make me wonder. It feels like that old scam where you get picked to be in the "Whose Who in IT" book…

Blimey. Today's the 30th anniversary of me going up to university as an undergraduate. I wonder how one celebrates that.

I’m going to admit that that “Chipocalypse” post freaked me out considerably. I wonder if history will see it as a turning point in America’s extended democratic crisis? Because to this Canadian looking across the border at the USA, it has that feeling.
#USpol

Day 16: Mayra Cuevas & Marie Marquardt
Okay so this is cheating, but they're co-authors of multiple books together, and there's no way for me to separate their contributions... I've already got too many authors I'd like to list, so why not?
I read their book "Does My Body Offend You?" and absolutely loved it; it's a celebration of teen activism while also being a deep exploration of feminist issues through practical situations that bring out the complicated side of things, which the authors refuse to reduce back to a simple formulaic answer. It has a supporting cast of appropriately-complex male characters that help in exploring the nuances of issues like the line between female empowerment & male gratification, and it brings race and macho culture into the conversion as well.
CW for sexual harassment & deep discussion of the resultant trauma.
I'll cheat again here to sneak in mention of two male authors whose work resonates with theirs: Mark Oshiro's "Anger is a Gift" has a more pessimistic/complex take on teen activism along with a gay romance (CW for racist cop murder), while Jeremy Whitley's graphic novel "Navigating With You" deals with queer romance & disability, while having a main character pairing that echoes those from "Does My Body Offend You?" in a lot of ways. Another connection (to non-men authors this time) is with "Go With the Flow" by Lily Williams and Karen Schneemann. Their graphic novel about teen activism and periods is a bit more didactic and has a much lighter tone, but it does necessarily have some overlapping themes.
To bring it back to Cuevas & Marquhardt, their writing is great and their ability to discuss such complex topics with such nuance, all wrapped up in a story that feels completely natural, is amazing to me, and makes their book feel like one of the most valuable to recommend to others.
In writing this I've realized a grave oversight in the list so far that I'll have to correct tomorrow, but I'm quickly running out of days. The didn't-quite-make-it list is going to be full of more excellent authors, and I'm honestly starting to wonder whether it might actually be harder to name 20 male authors I respect now that I've found the sense to be mostly somewhere between disgusted and disappointed with so many of the male authors I enjoyed as a teen.
#20AuthorsNoMen (cheating a bit)

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Stevie Wonder:
🎵 If You Really Love Me
#StevieWonder
https://motowngold.bandcamp.com/track/if-you-really-love-me
https://open.spotify.com/track/6Axz5VSkc4Bs8eXWQxnynE

looking at an old rfc i was reminded of how pointless “security considerations” sections used to be
which made me wonder what rule the authors were supposed to be obeying
the first security considerations section was in RFC 1060 which set a bad example that almost everyone followed
https://www.r…