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I've been getting and ignoring loads of this spam - always mentioning a family office, always a dodgy .help domain name, always loads of follow ups - but it occurs to me to wonder - what is the payoff for them here? Are they just trying a 419?

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Stevie Wonder:
🎵 Knocks Me Off My Feet
#StevieWonder
https://thedjboutique.bandcamp.com/track/stevie-wonder-knocks-me-off-my-feet-the-dj-boutique-extended-intro-re-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/4C5GsegFD0j5ujSr1y93Oj

Now that the FCC has banned foreign made routers...
I wonder if they realize that pretty much every mobile phone that can support tethering has routing capability?
And many cars similarly provide routing access/NAT/firewall function to support passengers inside the vehicle.
Pretty much any laptop - running Windoz or MacOS or Linux or Freebsd - can be quickly turned into a "router".
This FCC panic reminds me of the days when the Feds were induced to try to bl…

Hush-A-Phone Corp. v. United States - Wikipedia

I wonder if I currently have the *longest* #11ty build out there? 25 minutes and 19 seconds!
To be fair, 24 minutes and 50 seconds of that is retrieving remote data, which unfortunately can't be sped up. From cache, though, it's a nifty 39 seconds to write 3600 files, before any significant effort to optimize.

Wonder who that is

One pattern you can always count on: if you ever explain a technology by describing how the human and social aspects matter more than the obscure technical details, a certain cohort of dudes who are inept at socialization will lash out about their insecurities by trying to condescend. Who here thinks I wrote ~5000 words on Markdown but I don’t know what plain text files are?

Why Senior Engineers Let Bad Projects Fail
https://lalitm.com/post/why-senior-engineers-let-bad-projects-fail/

We have learnt to look at the world through ratings, reviews, and whether a place is “Instagrammable.”
Nuance is pressed flat into a system of stars.
Even mountains and valleys are scored on Google Maps,
while countless unassuming places slip silently through the net.
I often wonder, ruefully, how much we are missing when only the ranked and the rated rise to the surface.
It begins to feel as though such systems are not merely cataloguing the world,
bu…

About Me - Learning To See Again
For over twenty years I've been seeking out alternative stories in our surviving material culture and sharing them with my photographs and words.

Just read there are three types of #ADHD found and I wonder which I ha….oh look new Starfleet Academy is out!

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 …

One of my favourite poems. I'm not much of a poetry fan, but #PamAyers really hits the nail.
I often wonder what it must be like to be so strong,
Infallible, articulate, self-confident and wrong.
They Should Have Asked My Husband

@… Cool, makes me wonder if this is why Rector is throwing up right now

Many years ago I was working with a friend to find a bug in a Makefile generator. We had a megabyte or so of Makefile we needed to examine. He was an emacs user. It took him minutes just to open the file. I was using sam. It took about a second for sam to load, and I found the problem before he'd even finished loading the file.
The speed of tools matters, and big files are common nowadays. Things should stay fast as their workload grows. That goes double for interactive tools.
By the way, it still takes me 30 seconds to log in to my bank. I wonder how long it will take when it's an LLM-generated landing page.
https://phanpy.social/#/hachyderm.io/s/115891592999188880

PS. With all the Discord stuff, in case you wonder why you never see me promoting Matrix, it’s not because it’s a usability nightmare (which it is) but because it’s made by the kind of people who’d be happy to call ICE a customer.
The “F” in FOSS doesn’t stand for fascism.
@…

I really wonder how long it takes a beginner like me to go from beer belly to get ripped again with Tai Chi. I bet that by the end of November, my family won’t even recognize me.

For now, I don't mean to be offensive.
In one way or the other, all my interests are being impacted by "Hi, I'm interested in (the thing) so I have vibecoded this app, can you please pay me a monthly subscription".
So I'm forced to wonder: dear vibe coder, why exactly should I pay to use your app, rather than just vibecode one myself (beside the fact that I don't want to participate in destroying the planet)?

As I eat an onion ring, I wonder if anyone has ever used one to propose.

Oh this really was fun, Scalar's interactive API docs on a FastAPI deployment is making me wonder if we should just use this for the workshop rather than trying to switch people over to use the Postman collection I made (also it's an Enterprise audience, and I already know that some of my attendees are not allowed to use Postman).

"I can't help but wonder if the US economy backs itself so hard into a corner funding these research labs, and if these research labs receive a bailout, what does that mean for China? Why is China releasing these models for free?" https://ghuntley.com/warfare/

AI as economic warfare
People often ask me how I feel about open-source models, and to be clear, I'm very supportive of them. But I can't help pondering about the following... Open source always was and always will be a financial weapon by design. You see, one of the primary goals of open source

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 12 - Warlord
ZUKAN: You make me wonder if I didn't choose badly. You fear him. He and I, together we could have been invincible.
SERVALAN: Really?
CAPTAIN: [V.O., from comm] Commissioner.
SERVALAN: Yes, Captain?

It's funny how, once in a while you wonder: why would this person follow me?
And then you read some of their posts and you find yourself boosting a couple of them. I like that.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #SteveLamacq
The Wonder Stuff:
🎵 Don't Let Me Down Gently
#TheWonderStuff
https://prfmonthlytributeseries.bandcamp.com/track/dont-let-me-down-gently
https://open.spotify.com/track/2IlbPI6TOiG9uj437JY82U

wonder how many people who repeatedly interact with me actually get that im the same person as before with how much i change my pfp lol

I will add that, while I’m aware public block lists (like how BlueSky does them) have their issues, I REALLY prefer to be able to go “oh, this person I followed is blocking me. I wonder why” and move on, rather than trying to figure out whether it’s a fediblock, technical issue or what.
And yes, I am aware that “that’s a bummer oh well and move on” is an anomalous reaction on social media 😂

Octalion, aka Xeex. Xeex, a net I've not seen mentioned in a long time. Wonder how many netop/netsec old timers like me remember that one.
https://social.bgp.tools/@transfers/statuses/01KDZ18PY9E3A7JY14ZA7NDW7Y

Post by IP/ASN Transfers, @transfers@bgp.tools
"OCTALION INC." transferred 162.213.131.0/24 to "Like Whoa, Inc." (Estimated Market Value: $6.91 K)

Mailbag: Is there a second-round curse? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-is-there-a-second-round-curse

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@NMBA/116001829202708206
And people wonder what all these federal bureaucrats do.
It really rankles me when small-goverment cons and supporters go "why do we need all these people inspecting gas pumps or testing cosmetics or inspecti…

Changing your home #router is a mess when you have a non-trivial amount of #smart devices.
It makes me wonder if having a permanent internal router is the way to go.
#decoupling

RE: https://mas.to/@zzt/115988197945001424
I am not a "Use MY preferred software to fix your problem" kind of guy, but these sorts of stories (which I’ve heard for a decade) make me wonder if people just live with de facto spyware on their computers & whether it …

I wonder if it is just an effect of old hardware, but boy, the new @… OS release is a crashfest on my 2011 Mac Mini. The App Center crashed on me at least 7 times before I had enough and downloaded Zorin (because I’ve also wanted to give that a spin). It looked very nice, though, and it’s nice that Flatpaks show up now by default.
BTW: Elementary is …

Here’s an odd thought. How many babies in the U.S. this year will be named Shane, Connor*, or Hudson? (or even Ilya/Elijah?)
The idea makes me wonder how many babies were named Christian in the year after “50 Shades of Grey” came out.
1/2

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 …

Mailbag: Is there a second-round curse? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-is-there-a-second-round-curse

Sonnet 098 - XCVIII
From you have I been absent in the spring,
When proud-pied April, dress'd in all his trim,
Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing,
That heavy Saturn laughed and leapt with him.
Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell
Of different flowers in odour and in hue,
Could make me any summer's story tell,
Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew:
Nor did I wonder at the lily's white,
Nor pr…

One of my VR Lighthouses died last month. These things are gyroscopically spinning 24 hours a day for, what, a decade now? Nearly.
No wonder. Mostly the industry seems to be settling on using head-mounted cameras rather than sweeping infra-red beams and receptors on the head anyway.
It is true that lighthouses give accurate positioning, but means I can't easily take the headset next door, say. Or to a party.
So inside-out, as they call it, is fine for the headset now and mostly okay for the hand-controllers.
But it offers no solution at all for the foot-trackers and hip-tracker that I need for puppetting the characters in the #vr #slimeVR #trackers

"Nicki Minaj says she's Trump's number one fan"
Seems like an odd time [waves hands around] to say that out loud. Makes me wonder what she's angling for. A pardon? For whom? An ambassadorship?
#NickiMinaj #artists #fandom #timing

It's all just a little bit sexist in a fairly expected 1960s way and then all of a sudden the line "And sexy little schoolgirls" was uttered by Macnee with such lustful glee that it made me wonder if I really heard that correctly.

Since it looks like it might be a while until the Steam Machines are released, due to market bullshit around AI malinvestment and the subsequent price of RAM, I gave up waiting and Installed Jellyfin on a temporary machine.
Jellyfin is pretty nice. I like the sync-play feature so the machines in the kitchen and bedroom and studio can all be playing the same thing. Walking between rooms and detecting which is slightly ahead, makes me smile. Watching a TV show as I cook and being able to wonder around the flat viewing uninterupted.
A bit flakey with video though. Sync failure means they all pause sometimes. Might just be the wifi signal strength I guess.
Ripped all the old archive folders of DVDs and CDs. DVDs have a quite high failure rate after fifteen years in a cupboard eh? CDs faired better.
Expect I'll buy charity shop DVDs more now. Though also expecting half of 'em won't work.
I'm listening to music a bit more now I have a one button shuffle that triggers everywhere in the flat.
I set up a ytdl-sub to copy a few youtube playlists into the TV shows folders. Keeping like the last month's worth. Some shows, like the Dust sci-fi channel say, work really well as being part of the synced TV system instead.
Also made it slurp up all my old youtube videos into a folder too, so yet another local copy of everything I made, in there with all the other ripped shows.
I have spent far too long this month fussing with directory structures and tweeking icon images and things to make it look all pretty. Enjoy that sort of thing though.
#jellyfin #music #dvd