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Screenwriters and showrunners who vilify journalists need to stop portraying them as caricatures, and instead show them with all their virtues and vices (Roy Peter Clark/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2025/all-her-fault-journalists…

Why I’m begging TV showrunners to stop writing journalists as villains - Poynter
I will stop shouting at the TV screen when journalists are portrayed with all their virtues and vices — not as caricatures

»Race-Condition-Tests in HTTP/3 — QuicDraw vorgestellt: Sicherheitsforscher schließen Lücke bei HTTP/3-Penetrationstests«
Zugegeben ich weiss nun nicht wie ich diesen Artikel nun einschätzen soll, ist dies Unsicherheitsmarketing oder was Ernstes? Ja Sicherheitslücken müssen behoben werden aber es wird auch öfters vieles als "Die Katastrophe" der IT-Sicherheit vermarktet was es nur bedingt ist
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Race-Condition-Tests in HTTP/3: Open-Source-Tool QuicDraw
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Wow. I've dealt with various toxic personalities in software development, but a good portion of the time those toxic personalities were at least extremely knowledgeable in their (often, very limited) domain.
AI, however, seems to be enabling toxic personalities *who are completely clueless*. Impressive!
https://github…

If you’ve written a Windows application that can read the Serial Number/Unique ID, or even the Vendor ID or Product ID of a microcontroller board (Pi Pico in my case) I’d appreciate any pointers.
#arduino #RaspberryPiPico

I’ve worked over the past year to reduce the amount of noise in my consciousness on a daily basis.
By that I mean - information noise, not literal sounds “noise”. (That problem was solved long ago by some good earplugs and noise canceling earphones.)
I’ve gotten used to spending less time on social media, regularly blocking most apps on my devices (anything with a feed news, most work communication apps, etc.), putting my phone and other devices aside for extended periods of time. Often go to work places with my iPad explicitly having its WiFi turned off and selecting cafes that don’t offer WiFi at all.
Negotiated better boundaries at work and in personal life where I exchange messages with people less often but try to make those interactions more meaningful, and people rarely expect me to respond to requests in less than 24 hours. Spent a lot of time setting up custom notification settings on all apps that would allow it, so I get fewer pings. With software, choosing fewer cloud-based options and using tools that are simple and require as few interruptions as possible.
Accustomed myself to lower-tech versions of doing things I like to do: reading on paper, writing by hand, drawing in physical sketchbooks, got a typewriter for typing without a screen. Choosing to call people on audio more, trying to make more of an effort to see people in person. Going to museums to look at art instead of browsing Pinterest. Defaulting to the library when looking for information.
I’m commenting on this now for two reasons:
1. I am pretty proud of myself for how much I’ve actually managed to reduce the constant stream of modern life esp. as a remote worker in tech!
2. Now that I’ve reached a breaking point of reducing enough noise that it’s NOTICEABLE - I am struck by the silence. I don’t know what to do with it. I don’t know how to navigate it and fill it. I made this space to be able to read and write and think more deeply - for now I feel stuck in limbo where I’m just reacquainting myself with the concept of having any space in my mind at all.

Been starting a habit of writing down story/game ideas as I have them even though most of them will never seriously get started, let alone finished. It's been fun since writing things down gives me a chance to think them through a bit more than just pondering them in my head. Anyways, here's a #GameDesign idea:
"Grand" - is a "reverse metroidvania" in which as a grandparent, you slowly lose movement options as the story progresses, requiring more and more convoluted routes through the map to reach the same areas. You do still explore "new" areas in memory mode (and unlock movement options like a bike in your memories) before traversing the areas again in the diegetic present. The story follows your quest to protect a grandchild from the machinations of a Kafkaesque state, first trying to track them down within the system and then trying to get them released. Each "boss" is "fought" through an abstracted conversation system where memories, keepsakes, and various kinds of emotional/logical appeals wear down your opponent's nihilism and/or fear until they're willing to help you. Normal "enemies" are just people on the street who might bump into you and drain some of your stamina as you pass by if you don't issue a properly-timed "excuse me" or the like.

Started the Go rewrite/translation for the `sisyphus-ffmpeg` module. I'd forgotten the joy of unmarshalling JSON in Go, but after going with structs full of pointers everything worked out pretty well. Still need to add a few more features like grabbing the number of frames for a video source, but it's working great at this point.
#ffmpeg