Tootfinder

... I replaced one tire after I bought it but I'm pretty sure that the others are original. I'm a little irritated that I need to spend anything on it but spending $800 in ten years is probably fine.
#EV #CarRepair #VW

dbtropes_feature: Artistic works and their tropes
A bipartite network of artistic works (movies, novels, etc.) and their tropes (stylistic conventions or devices), as extracted from tvtropes.org. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 152093 nodes and 3232134 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted
https…

Louvre Museum says hundreds of works were damaged by a water leak
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2025/12/08/louvre-museum-says-hundreds-of-works-were-damaged-by-a-water-leak_6748271_7.html

So, Gableman's argument is that if he isn't allowed to pick which judges hear his case, it is a violation of due process? I don't think that is the way the law is meant to work.
"Former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman says his due process rights have been denied during the ongoing fallout of his investigation of the 2020 presidential election."
#Politics #USPolitics #USPol

Who remembers this gem?
#FamilyGuy #BurgerKing

Well it's pretty unpolished, but it works. Made good progress on my web manager / installer for games.
Currently supports Debian and Ubuntu, (though technically works on any Linux distro in theory), and supports:
https://github.c…

"Not all marine parks protect sharks. Here’s what works (and what doesn’t)"
#Oceans #Environment #Animals

Not all marine parks protect sharks. Here’s what works (and what doesn’t) | The Optimist Daily
Why more protection doesn’t always mean better protection: a sweeping study reveals why some marine parks safeguard shark populations while others fail.

I got an email this morning saying that the City of #Glendale will not be having a Primary #Election in February, so April 7, 2026 will be our first Election of the year.

#GitPages now has a _redirects file linter that warns you if your redirect accidentally ends up "dead" (never triggered because you have a file with the same name)

"In 2025 I have spend some time to untangle my digital life from billionaire/fascist run platforms. So at the beginning of 2026 maybe it makes sense to talk a bit about what I did, why I went certain ways and what works and what doesn’t."
(Original title: Exiting the Billionaire Castle)
https://

Exiting the Billionaire Castle
In 2025 I have spend some time to untangle my digital life from billionaire/fascist (that Venn diagram is becoming more of a circle each and every day) run platforms. So at the beginning of 2026 maybe it makes sense to talk a bit about what I did, why I went certain ways and what works […]

Async Rust for Dummies
Let me show you how async Rust works under the hood
— by @…
🦀 https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/async-rust-for-dummies/

Async Rust for Dummies
Introduction Hello, Rustaceans! I'm quite sure many of you use async Rust every day in your projects, but do you actually know how it works under the hood? In…

My father works at a government research facility, and some years ago,
when I was a little boy I asked him how many people worked out there.
He replied (of course): ``Oh, about half.''

Everything here is built for one type of weather.
And most of the time it works.
But when it doesn’t, it really doesn’t work.
L.A. has spent over a century advertising its perfect Mediterranean climate.
Now increasingly frequent severe weather events are triggering citywide soul-searching about who deserves protection,
what neighborhoods get resources,
which elected officials are to blame,
and whether the promise of this place still holds.
So…

Climate Change Is Killing the Myth of Los Angeles
For over a century, the city has drawn people with the promise of perfect weather. Now floods and fires threaten its very survival.

A better (multiband) OTT plugin? Free forever, no iLok, no telemetry? With a GUI built with HTML and #CSS?
“Sounds a bit weird – but it’s also pretty dope, because it works on all systems out of the box.”
—@…
Call me ottrigued! 😁👏

Grad applicants, what's preventing your Brown PhD application prose looking like this?
This is from NotebookLM. We're experimenting with it because a handful of apps statements…
Also: I can't think of a worse description for how the Brown formal methods group works.

It's kinda a wild fact that there are these Internet Protocols that are used extremely widely, but knowledge how they work is scarce.
For reasons, I just wondered a few things about OCSP. That's part of TLS, and, idk, most people would probably attribute "knowledge of TLS" to me.
Yet... I kinda know what OCSP does, but... I don't really know how the protocol works.
And if I google for something like "easy explanation of OCSP", I don't find a…

Much lower energy fast chips:
"Scientists from the University of Warwick and the National Research Council of Canada have reported the highest "hole mobility" ever measured in a material that works within today's silicon-based semiconductor manufacturing...
This achievement also represents a significant accomplishment for Warwick's Semiconductors Research Group and highlights the UK's growing influence in advanced semiconductor materials research."…

A 1950s material just set a modern record for lightning-fast chips
Researchers engineered a strained germanium layer on silicon that allows charge to move faster than in any silicon-compatible material to date. This record mobility could lead to chips that run cooler, faster, and with dramatically lower energy consumption. The discovery also enhances the prospects for silicon-based quantum devices.

@… I put my updated SlackBuild for you here if you want to check it works on the exact package changes I sumbitted:
https://downloads.vivaldi.com/stable/s

As a general matter the US Federal government can not hold a copyright.
As such the "Coalie" character (see article below) may well be fair game for use by any and all in counter-messaging.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyrigh

Copyright status of works by the federal government of the United States - Wikipedia

Texas A&M valiantly protects innocent college students from the woke works of Plato.
https://pen.org/press-release/plato-has-been-censored-what-next/?brid=xE4WDJ8u_Tlotsza8OvzfQ

from my link log —
System time, clocks, and their syncing in macOS.
https://eclecticlight.co/2025/05/21/system-time-clocks-and-their-syncing-in-macos/
saved 2026-02-07

System time, clocks and their syncing in macOS
How to ensure your Mac’s clock and time is as accurate as possible, what can cause problems, and how it works using the timed daemon, as revealed in the log.

I have psoriatic spondylitis, which is pretty much psoriatic arthritis that attacks my SI joints, spine, lungs, & skin. It came w/ horrible eczema, mostly on my face (ARGH), elbows, & in my ears. I’d hate to add up how much $$$ I’ve spent on eczema creams over the yrs, but it’s a LOT. Not too long ago, a derm I know told me to try Desitin diaper cream. I did. It works better than anything I’ve ever tried, & it’s $6-7. 1/2

The only reason your website "works better in the app" is that it isn't crippled by popups telling me to use the app.

Wow. Ep 5 of Starfleet Academy is by far my favorite. Should I be shocked it was the first with Tawny Newsome on the written by?
The characters feel more grounded. Dialog is funny, revealing, and urgent. SAM is not my fav character but this is the first time a focus on a single character works for me.
This ep seems to have twice as much character development as other episodes.
More of this!

I took the dogs outside to pee and it is scarily warm outside in #Milwaukee.

Can two Amazons survive? Invisible e-waste is poisoning the world https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/can-two-amazons-survive-invisible-e-waste-is-poisoning-the-world/

Can two Amazons survive? Invisible e-waste is poisoning the world
“I live in Accra, Ghana,” says Isaac Dinwe, who works for Closing the Loop, a Dutch NGO that’s seeking to increase recycling in the electronics industry. “The e-waste problem in my country is so huge we are unable to manage it. Most of our e-waste ends up in city centres. Informal workers extract what they […]

My rpi openwrt router is set up. If all works as intended I'll be surfing from my home IP address when @ my girlfriends house as it tunnels all trafic over tailscale to an exit node in my livingroom. That means.... that we can use my streaming services at her place without the provider is bugging me about another household. Well it's proof of concept right now so I'll let you know how it goes when it's installed at her place.

With recent installations of FreeBSD-CURRENT, traditional use of git no
longer works for /usr/ports
<https://mail-archive.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?f3cdbfa2-1231-48f1-bf02-ae4f4dd96132> | <

Lets be honest, we spend too much time cleaning data. {janitor} can help with that: #rstats #datasciece

RE: https://aus.social/@dgar/115678975867889295
It actually works to perfection. I'm all for it.
"The nationalist cristians, natcees for short, are scum."
See? It's perfect.

Also, if you fucking hate Copilot Slop and you happen to be on a Mac, you can order the standalone version of Ofiice 20241️⃣ from the Apple Store2️⃣ for $250 instead of searching MS web site and giving their website a sale.
No subscription, yours to use until it no longer works.
https://www.apple.com/xc/product/HRWT2LL/A

I replaced the wireless thermostat on our heating system yesterday evening. Changed the relay box and all. Success! Heating works again. #diy

dbtropes_feature: Artistic works and their tropes
A bipartite network of artistic works (movies, novels, etc.) and their tropes (stylistic conventions or devices), as extracted from tvtropes.org. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 152093 nodes and 3232134 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted
https…

Who needs 32GB of system memory anyway? 🧐
I couldn't resist installing #CachyOS back on my main PC, on a separate SSD, alongside Windows. AMD is a first-class experience in Linux. I just downloaded The Alters, and FSR 4 simply works with my poor RX 7800 XT - without Optiscaler or any kind of manual DLL swaps.

How the NFL head coach interview process works: Timeline and the Rooney Rule https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6946139/2026/01/06/nfl-coach-hiring-process-timeline-rules/

... why?
"State file encryption and hardware attestation keys are no longer enabled by default."
#TailScale

Paraphrase of my #IOT hardware rant on slack (unsurprising, since I maintain https://github.com/unixorn/internet-of-trash/)
In a perfect world IOT hardware companies should:
- Have to escrow the firmware. And escrow the source code, not just the binary blob
- The firmware isn't allowed to use binary blobs as device drivers. Chip manufacturers will have to suck it up and document their chips or hardware companies won't be able to use them
- Have to escrow any keys required to update the firmware
- To be sold, have to have a local API, with at a minimum, functionality to update the firmware once the hardware company stops support. No "You have to use our crapware that only works on a phone/computer OS two major versions old, and it has to download firmware from our servers that got turned off when we went out of business / dropped the product's support
- Eighteen months with no updates causes release of the escrowed firmware and update keys. There are bound to be at least some security updates required in that time
- Have to have clearly labeled pads on the board for updating firmware and running diagnostics.
- Not be allowed to lock consumers out of reflashing the firmware. If someone flashes custom firmware before the escrowed firmware is released, and the custom firmware bricks the device, that's on the person who reflashed it, not the company.
@…

I literally sometimes still RIP CDs with iTunes on Mac OS 9 on my iMac G4. Still works fine—yes, including getting titles from the Internet.
As easy as ever. 🤷

Mike Johnson works in secret to strip IVF health coverage from defense bill (Julianne McShane/MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/news/mike-johnson-works-in-secret-to-strip-ivf-health-coverage-from-defense-bill
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p2#a251204p2

Okay, for those who want to switch Email providers and think about Fastmail (as I described in my article https://tante.cc/2026/01/05/exiting-the-billionaire-castle/ ):
This link gives you 10% off your first year. (It will give me 10 USD, too, so you can consider this a…

Exiting the Billionaire Castle
In 2025 I have spend some time to untangle my digital life from billionaire/fascist (that Venn diagram is becoming more of a circle each and every day) run platforms. So at the beginning of 2026 maybe it makes sense to talk a bit about what I did, why I went certain ways and what works […]

A just-released compromise version of the National Defense Authorization Act
— which puts Congress’ stamp on Pentagon programs and policy each year
— has been in the works for months.
The sprawling legislation,
set for a vote as soon as this week,
would place new restrictions on reducing troop levels in Europe
-- a bipartisan rebuke of Trump administration moves that lawmakers fear would limit U.S. commitments on the continent.
The measure stands in s…

I just wrote something over on LinkedIn pleading for folks to financially support FOSS projects that they depend upon. I don't know who that message was really meant for.

2025 definitely felt like the year the movie industry decided "People don't like what we are putting out there. Let's try making fewer movies."

dbpedia_producer: DBpedia producer network (2014)
A bipartite network of producers and the works they created, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 187677 nodes and 207268 edges.
Tags: Economic, Production, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dbpedia

I really like this folding phone but it is definitely not one handable. I also miss having an underscreen fingerprint sensor.

I only watched this movie during the month of December but I watch it a lot in December.

The painter Henri Rousseau
(1844–1910)
famously never left France;
He concocted his fantastical jungles from visits to the botanical gardens in Paris,
images in books and taxidermized specimens in natural history museums,
and a teeming visual imagination.
The results are on view in a mesmerizing exhibition,
“Henri Rousseau: A Painter’s Secrets,”
at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia until Feb. 22.
These works haven’t been assembled …

The Barnes Foundation
A landmark exhibition of paintings by the self-taught artist Henri Rousseau debuts at the Barnes Foundation in fall 2025.

is about to see Fackham Hall.

dbpedia_producer: DBpedia producer network (2014)
A bipartite network of producers and the works they created, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 187677 nodes and 207268 edges.
Tags: Economic, Production, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dbpedia

I'm debating if it's too cold to get the car washed

I have owned my 2016 EV since 2020. (I like buying my cars four and a half years old because four years is the length of a typical lease and when supply goes up, price goes down). I like the fact that (because it's an EV), beyond tire rotations, it's only been in the shop once. That one time, was due to the fact that the start button got stuck in and wouldn't come out again. The car is nearing ten years old, and I think that I might need to take it to the shop for new tires. ...

This weekend, I drove out to Mayfair to watch Fackham Hall because it wasn't showing anywhere closer. Meanwhile, Marcus is playing a bunch of "Retro" movies out of desperation.

dbpedia_genre: DBpedia work-genre network
A bipartite network of the affiliations between artists and their works on one side and genre classifications on the other, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 266717 nodes and 463497 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted

Good morning! It might be cold outside, but at least there isn't any new snow this morning.

... I've been waiting on the line for 1 hour and 10 minutes.

"Your estimated wait time is 1 hour and 5 minutes."

I made these as an afternoon snack, but they might need to wait until after my 2:00 zoom call.

The dog really seems to hate the dishwasher.

I iterate the date, click the search button, wait for it to find the cheapest flight, and then try the next date. There has to be a way to automate that.

I just got this from #WUWM in #Milwaukee. I'm not sure that I would be willing to say that their signal is able to reach that far in the best of times but for the past decade, I've also only streamed their content on the internet.

I just blocked somebody on here who tried to tell me that I don't understand how blocking accounts works. 😆

King ISO opened for Tech N9ne tonight. I think that I know what I'm listening to tomorrow while I code.
#Milwaukee #Rave #KingISO

I'm glad that NPR is there to try to raise the alarm.
"This week marks the fifth anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol. An NPR investigation details how the Trump administration is trying to erase government information on the attack."
#Politics #USPolitics #USPol

I'm still a little afraid to eat the wrong thing for lunch after my issues over the past few days. I'm hoping that homemade pizza will be okay?
#food #pizza

This is a really weird advertising email to receive.

The dog checked on how I was doing and then asked if they can be locked in the crate.

Paramount plus has "channels" in their app and one of them just plays die hard on a loop. I watch it a little bit too much.

Recently, I got a phone with a much smaller battery than the one it replaced. As a result, my phone runs out of juice faster and fast charging is more important. I upgraded my charging dock to something that can fast charge and I noticed two things. The charger now has active cooling (there is fan noise) and the phone refuses to charge to 100% sometimes because it is trying to preserve the health of the battery.

It looks like it is snowing again. #Milwaukee

That's neat.
#CSS

Oh, cool! There is a preview for the new season of Rick and Morty!
#RickAndMorty

I didn't think that it was possible to wear out the gel wrist rest on a mouse pad, but my wrist seems to disagree.

I'm bookmarking this line for a future job application.
... Now I just need to find the right job application to add it to. 🤔
https://theonion.com/what-i-lack-in-physical-strength-i-make-up-for-in-pubic-hair/

I saw an article claiming that AI is killing "B2B SaaS," and my mind keeps going back to my former employer, which would always call itself B2B2C or B2B2B instead of B2B.

The dogs are going to end up giving me some sort of permanent hearing damage.

The local library is seeking applicants for the board of trustees, and I am tempted.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115843477255215320
Inside every technologist, there is one monkey arguing for a state of ultra-minimalism (an EDC backpack with everything you need in it) and one monkey that fights for you to rent a loft space to preserve one of every computer that has ever existed.
Which one wins?

Having Johnny Knoxville host a reboot of Fear Factor sounds about right.

We could add Cowboy Bebop to the list of shows that Osa won't let me watch.

I heard from my mom that my sister has to move because her landlord is ending her lease. She has said in the past that she is paying $1000 per month under market. That's gonna suck.

It's too damn cold out there today.

Good morning, Fediverse!
#Dog #DogsOfMastodon

I really don't understand how anybody can justify continuing to use twitter.
"The French offices of Elon Musk's X have been raided by the Paris prosecutor's cyber-crime unit, as part of an investigation into suspected offences including unlawful data extraction and complicity in the possession of child pornography."
#Twitter

Does anyone know how to get a Samsung phone to work with Google Fi's visual voicemail?
#Samsung #Android #Fi

Noooo! I just saw that Beans and Barley is closing. #milwaukee

Bezos did shit like https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/washington-post-will-no-longer-make-presidential-endorsements-rcna177319, got everyone to cancel their subscriptions, and then demanded deep cuts to the paper as a result. I think that everyone knew exactly how this was going to turn out.

I give monthly to PBS, NPR, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and Urban Milwaukee because I appreciate what they do, but there are soooo many others that put out the occasional article I want to read but can't justify paying a monthly or annual fee for. I wish there were an equivalent to the Libby magazine rack for stuff like the Wall Street Journal or The Verge.

I think that I'm finally back to baseline.

This is going to be good.
(I have a bad cold, and I'm hoping this would help with my sinuses.)

The cooking instructions are predominantly in Chinese.

I really hope this stuff helps me get over this virus

@… was so into the idea of "the metaverse" only four years ago that he renamed the damn company to "Meta" and now it isn't the next big thing anymore.
https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/115663179089382328

... I was hoping that they were closing it because I was getting my brand icon.

I just got an email from a GitHub issue saying ...
So... our backlog of brand requests has reached a point where even we can't pretend we're keeping up. Some of these issues were opened before I had gray hair. And I've had gray hair for a LONG time. On top of that, treating requests as issues has always made it way too hard to see the forest for the trees.
To fix this, we are now managing all brand requests in GitHub Discussions.
... Fair enough, I guess.

I could use another cup of tea.

I'm spending my lunch break watching the new Colin Furze video where he replaces the springs on his bicycle with magnets.

Taking the dog outside to use the bathroom, I found a pile of dog poop frozen to the concrete.

I wonder if you could pay for an international vacation by smuggling a ram into the united states. 🤔

I really liked the movie Edge of Tomorrow. I am pretty sure that the manga that this is based on is the basis of that movie.
#AllYouNeedIsKill #EdgeOfTomorrow #LiveDieRepeat

The health tracking app says that I'm not getting enough antioxidants, so I'm trying to rectify that.
#Food #HealthTracking