Tootfinder

Unusual GenAI application: Snarky answers to shitty emails.
#genAI

I Hope This Email Finds You Before I Do
I Hope This Email Finds You Before I Do

You've heard of James Joyce. You've heard of Samuel Beckett. You've heard of Carl Jung.
Have you heard of Lucia Joyce?
I had not, until this morning, when her life (and her FIFTY YEARS incarcerated in psychiatric institutions) was brought to my attention by an (of course) female friend.
If this story does not make you an all-men-are-bastards #feminist, you have no…

Lucia Joyce - Wikipedia

"These findings show that the use of stakeholder tends to performatively entrench the existing power of “industry stakeholders” or nameless but clearly already engaged and empowered “key stakeholders”"
(Original title: You have a stake in reading this – Hi, I'm Heather Burns)
https://

At least drugs make you feel good before they destroy you.
AI code just makes you think about how sand writes code faster than you.

I was watching a YouTube video this morning where somebody was talking about a coffee app where you (the user) search for roasters in your area that you like and it shows you nearby coffee shops that use that roaster. You can then get a list of coffee's that you can buy from that coffee shop. It also has a journaling aspect to help you figure out what your favorites are. I kind of liked that idea.

You know me. I love some #Steam games - especially when it's:
- cheap
- plays on macOS
- has 𝖆𝖊𝖘𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖙𝖎𝖈
Found a new one. Very few reviews but _man oh man_ is it an environmental -vibe- when you're playing
It's amusingly self-tagged "Relaxing" and I'm ... not sure about that? Like ... watch the trailer. You hear that background hum? That's the RAIN. The death from above. And it's in stereo and directional. The rain *hums*. It gets louder when you're in danger. And it kills. And it's coming down from above while you're trying to smash and accomplish goals. You get .... twitchy
For $5 tho? Totally great.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3570540/RAIN_KILLS/

#PeerReview question:
If you, as the author of a research paper that has been peer-reviewed, could know who were the peer-reviewers, would you want to know?
If yes: why would you want to know? Would the name change how you interpret the review or how you behave towards the reviewer in future?

Do I need to know anything about NZ SailGP? Really? https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/sport/586844/new-zealand-sailgp-what-you-need-to-know

Terrible: In China you only own your home while you're alive! In the west, you get the luxury of not owning a home

"In summary, #AGI, as commonly conceived, will not happen because it ignores the physical constraints of computation, the exponential costs of linear progress, and the fundamental limits we are already encountering. Superintelligence is a fantasy because it assumes that intelligence can recursively self-improve without bound, ignoring the physical and economic realities that constrain all systems. …

Which #Wikipedia of the future are you?
https://wikipedia25.org/en/which-wikipedia-of-the-future-are-you

A rogue AI enrolls in your online class, then publicly shames you when you remove it. This just happened in a dev forum. Are we ready if it happens to our courses?
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonippolito_a-rogue…

Long weekend coming and want to avoid it? I’ve got recent posts!
New this month:
• https://adrianroselli.com/2026/02/you-know-what-just-dont-split-words-into-letters.html
•

You Know What? Just Don’t Split Words into Letters
This is an unplanned part two for Barriers from Links with ARIA. The title reflects my exasperation because this isn’t new, ‘veI simply failed to be explicit about it over the last decade or so. In 2012 I vented about TypeButter using for each letter. In 2020…

Happy Valentines Day to all you good souls out there.
Feel hugged if you want to be hugged, or just greeted if you prefer to be greeted.
And for all other, I just wish you a nice weekend.
#valentinesday #valentinstag

No matter who you are, some scholar can show you the great idea you had
was had by someone before you.

RE: https://glammr.us/@jessamyn/116064378371973762
I think a lot of anarchists miss the utilitarian paths because we are blinded by ideology. Like, yeah, you can't really reform the government into being good. Government is bad as a thing.
But you absolutely can infiltrate and subvert the system in ways that produce positive outcomes. It's easy to miss the subtle difference.
There are also other strategies that become available when you don't just flat-out refuse to interact with the state. Like, you can use pincer strategies where you organize in the community and subvert in the government.
We can do more and be more creative.

Series C, Episode 02 - Powerplay
RECEPTIONIST: We have to move on to health reception. You can go together if you wish.
VILA: Oh, thank you.
CALLY: We'd like that, thank you.
RECEPTIONIST: This way.
VILA: Thank you.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/302/416 B7B5

you don't have to be healed to begin — https://www.brichapman.com/p/you-dont-have-to-be-healed-to-begin?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social

Healing Through, Not Before: You Don’t Have to Be Whole to Begin
You don’t have to be healed to be worthy. Healing isn’t a finish line — it’s something you do through love, work, and living in the world as it is.

to be clear: I don't want this
but the killer app for AR glasses is not facial recognition but a dating app that only works if you have the glasses, or works the best, which show you who in the room wants to date you or some relationship status.
people will pay $1,000 for an app that shows you who in the room is horny.

Apple unveils Apple Creator Studio, a "groundbreaking collection" of creative apps like Final Cut, Logic Pro, and Pixelmator Pro for $12.99/month or $129/year (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/01/13/apple-debuts-apple…

Apple debuts 'Apple Creator Studio' subscription, here's what you get - 9to5Mac
Apple has announced Apple Creator Studio, which it describes as a “groundbreaking collection of powerful creative apps designed to put...

"When you work on anything, you want to find the range of impulses. which ones get portrayed is another question, but you want to have that complexity and that fullness, even if you’re playing a cartoon character."
—Willem Dafoe
#acting #coaching

2026 Senior Bowl roster reveal: Three things you need to know https://www.nfl.com/news/2026-senior-bowl-roster-reveal-things-you-need-to-know

You know you're having a fun time when you're using an oscilloscope to probe another oscilloscope.
This is far from the first time I've done this.

Boy. You think you know someone. I just discovered that my wife did not know about the little icon next to the dashboard fuel gauge that tells you which side of the car the fuel filler port is on. 🤯

Adelaide Festival board resigns and Adelaide Writers’ Week cancelled after 180 authors pull out in protest of Zionist board decision to disinvite Palestinian author.
Remember this, if you’re a Zionist: like the Nazis before you, you are committing genocide, you are on the wrong side of history, and – as long as there are people of good moral character and conscience to oppose you – you will not succeed. Your only allies are the MAGAs of the world and those too spineless to stand up to …

Adelaide Writers' Week cancelled after week of escalating controversy around author Randa Abdel-Fattah
The remaining members of the Adelaide Festival board will step down and this year's Writers' Week event has been cancelled, after days of furore regarding the decision to cancel a scheduled appearance by Palestinian Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah.

What does it tell us that AI scrapers are ignoring the more intelligent way of scraping data despite all the indications towards it?
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/stop-crawling-my-html-you-dickheads-use-the-api/
I don't think the answer is …

„How do you lovingly care for an aging parent who treated you like shit?
[…]
You lovingly care for an aging parent by making sure that the way they treated you stops with you. You lovingly care for an aging parent by learning how to love others, and by letting them love you.”
This is a cathartic piece that resonated with me. My parents do not treated me like shit but I resonate with the
somewhat disconnectedness.

How to bury your father
This week’s question comes to us anonymously: How do you lovingly care for an aging parent who treated you like shit? This question has been sitting in my...

Haha f**k you evernote, you enshittifying SOBs
You think I'll just happily ride along with $250/year. I *used* to pay $40/year, just cause inertia
No, I don't want your "starter" plan at $9/month either.
Cancel the entire thing.
Oh, *now* I can get 40% off?
No. I already did the work (including reinstalling windows temporarily) to get 15 years' notes exported, I'm done.
Tell ya finbro execs that I don't want AI in my notes a…

That e-bike you bought your teen might be an illegal electric motorbike – and the risks are real
https://theconversation.com/that-e-bike-you…

That e-bike you bought your teen might be an illegal electric motorbike – and the risks are real
From serious injuries to thrill-seeking rideouts, teens on overpowered e-bikes have provoked a media frenzy. But the risks of these vehicles is very real.

Reading many posts about "oh, how awful is GenAI , it was wrong and hallucinated", that is the nature of this technology folks... You have to think about the context where you are using it and implement it in a way so you can mitigate this risk, accept it, or choose NOT to use it.
#ai #hallucinations

from my link log —
Do you really need Redis? PostgreSQL does queuing, locking, and pub/sub.
https://spin.atomicobject.com/2021/02/04/redis-postgresql/
saved 2021-06-12

Do You Need Redis? PostgreSQL Does Queuing, Locking, & Pub/Sub
It's a common architecture to have PostgreSQL and Redis serve as the backbone of your app, but PostgreSQL may be capable of everything you use Redis for.

EDITORIAL CARTOON from Mike Stanfill, #humor #politics

If you're going to enforce the law, you have to begin by following the law. Otherwise you're just pointing guns, threatening people, and making noise.

You'll never guess who the House speaker blames for our bad economy
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/1/14/2363383/-You-ll-never-guess-who-the-House-speaker-blames-for-our-bad-economy

Cowboys Legend Pens Thank You Note to Trump After Receiving Pardon https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-legend-pens-thank-you-note-donald-trump-after-receiving-pardon

"Surprising number of foods contain microplastics. Here’s how to reduce the amount you consume"
#Plastic #Plastics #Microplastics

Surprising number of foods contain microplastics. Here’s how to reduce the amount you consume
Microwaving food in glass containers is a good idea to prevent microplastics leaching into your food.

One amazing thing about 2025 is that, if you start up an Apple product, it forces you to choose between _three different_ window mangers, but if you start up a clean install of a current version of Linux, it just chooses good defaults for you.

You're on your own, you're dodgy and you have money to burn

#NowPlaying a banging new single, "Watching You Go" by Indianapolis' always excellent Radar Gold
https://radargold.bandcamp.com/track/watching-you-go

More on why trusting AI to decide literally anything is a horrible idea.
https://www.randalolson.com/2026/02/07/the-are-you-sure-problem-why-your-ai-keeps-changing-its-mind/

BTW - If you are displaying the Canadian flag, make sure you follow the rules. You don't want the flag police knocking on your door.
https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/flag-canada-etiquette/flying-rules.html

Sie meinen?
"Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang…would really appreciate it if you would stop talking about the potential harms of the technology that’s supercharged his fortune."
https://gizmodo.com/jensen-huang-is-begging-you-to-stop-being-…

In case you ever wondered what it costs to sell an item on Ebay Australia but with a German Ebay account. Yes, that's entirely possible and the system handles it all beautifully. Kudos to the programmers who had to work this out.
As you can probably see, I'm not doing this for profit, but for fun and to prevent waste.
Are you into old Pokémon stuff? Everything is $5 now: …

Several of you have asked for something you can do to help Minneapolis. I have something concrete:
Here is a fundraiser for families at Seward Montessori, a Minneapolis public elementary school. Many families in the neighborhood are sheltering at home, and unable to work and/or get groceries. Parents at the school have organized this fundraiser to help out.
I know the graphic is a bit generic and doesn’t say much, but don’t worry: I can vouch for this fundraiser. It’s vetted, and it’s needed.
https://givebutter.com/famshelpingfams

If you're using a Mac, check out #macos #zsh

New Gist: What you can do about the Abuse Factory
As a follow-up to yesterday’s Gist, I’ve done a list of four things you can do about X without even having to put down your phone.
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-what-you-can-do-about-the-abuse-factory/<…

The Gist: What you can do about the Abuse Factory
Four quick and powerful things you can do about X without even putting your phone down.

@… Of course, that doesn't imply you owe it to me to do the research on my behalf, I wouldn't ask that.
Was just wondering if you had any particular thoughts since it's clearly something you're passionate about. I'll go do some digging :)

netpbm tools are a suite of tools to convert and fiddle with the ppm/pbm/pgm (collectively pnm) file formats, which are pretty much the simplest image formats on the planet, which even have an ASCII version; so if you have a simple script you want to generate simple images with they're a good choice of format, and if you have them, the pbm tools can convert to/from pretty much anything else or do simple scale/etc - lighter than ImageMagick say.

Wow. #ORF Radio Salzburg hat gerade ein #Inzest Lied gespielt.
"My little tomboy
Now wears satin and lace
I can't believe my eyes
You're just a teenage dream
Happy birthday sweet sixteen
When you were only six
I was your big brother
Then when you wer…

Turns out, that if you want to do a database migration - it is much faster to do it when the database is physically close to you, and not 3000km away
/s

Things I have learned over the last two days consolidating all the VMs in the homelab to the same OS:
- Plex is absolutely horrible and hates NFS. It also hates you.
- Docker volumes are annoying as hell, but easy to deal with if you know how to get the data out of the volumes. If you're rocking a lot of them it will be a pain to move them to another server.
- Forgejo actions are also a pain in the ass.
- Moving my `step-ca` information from one server to another wa…

One thing that bothers me about Stoat: If you click on a link you get a dialog that says "External links can be dangerous!" which is so goddamn silly to someone who has been using the web for three decades.
Etsy did this years ago as well, and I'm sure other platforms do it too for lock-in purposes, though they'll say it's for safety.

Few viruses are as widespread
– and misunderstood
– as the human papillomavirus,
or #HPV.
It's so common that most of us
– up to 80%
– will encounter it at some point in our lives, often without even realising it.
Understanding HPV matters, given that it is linked to several types of #cancer

The Virus Almost Everyone Gets: What You Need to Know About HPV
Few viruses are as widespread – and sometimes misunderstood – as the human papillomavirus, or HPV.

AI / LLM sycophancy as a liability:
'A 2025 study by Fanous et al. tested GPT-4o, Claude Sonnet, and Gemini 1.5 Pro across math and medical domains. The results: these systems changed their answers nearly 60% of the time when challenged by users'
https://

Advice if you build websites: Use the W3C HTML *and* CSS validator. Not because I want to tell you that "you're bad if your HTML isn't valid", but because it'll help you find trivial bugs that can make your life hard.
Especially also use the CSS validator. I found 3 issues that made things not work as they should in recent days. I had a bug where it took me a while to figure out why it didn't work til I found some stackoverflow post, and the css validator would…

farewell to my one true book format. #books

Biased review now I've returned the library book: you don't learn much about Putin or his mentality; you do learn about defence ministers vs. generals & who has power; there's many lists with numbers of troops in various brigades & divisions; brief summaries of various wars which are helpful only in combination with Wikipedia; you don't learn much about the Russian or Ukrainian peoples' reaction to wars, aside from the occasional anecdote which rather centres the author

Had to expand C:\ on a VM and I'm irritated that Windows, after decades, STILL doesn't have the built-in tooling in disk management to work around their recovery partition. You can't extend a partition if the space isn't contiguous, so you have to move the recovery partition.
Why it exists at the end instead of the beginning also doesn't make sense to me. I'm sure there is a reason. 🤷
It can be easily done IF you know how to do it. This guide was perfect.…

Move Windows Recovery Partition Correctly: A Comprehensive Guide - Unite Innovations
Move Windows Recovery Partition safely and efficiently. Follow our step-by-step guide to avoid common issues.

OMG vegans, you kept this one quiet didn't you.
Bought a tub of this in the supermarket today because Mrs LT is lactose intolerant and wow, this is amazing. It's the same luxurious texture as double cream but sweeter and doesn't have that slightly cloying aftertaste that normal cream does.
I'm a convert!

Just paid for a personal annual account with Photopea, the web based image editor. It's free to use and you don't need to login, but 50EU/year takes off the very large amount of ads.
It's got that Photoshop 3.0 design vibes that means I can still sort of use it. https://bsky.app/profile/bmann.ca/post

Interesting fact:
Why do "vibe coders" put such a premium on stating how they don't even check the code or how it's all from the LLM? Like, if "AI" was just a tool, you'd be building all kinds of stuff but would you need to mostly talk about how you "built it just with AI"? It does at least hint at something weird going on here.

Just wrote this:
"Real American citizens would never encounter such an un-American experience, and rest assured if you do get taken, maimed or killed by ICE, or ICE-like forces, you weren't really an American to start with, were you?"
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/ice-didn

Ice Didn’t Do What They Did and Do
A statement from the US Department of Homeland Security: "Guys, guys, except for all the times we have targeted, arrested, unlawfully detained, been violent with, and hurt American Citizens, ICE doesn't do those things to American citizens. We should be grateful that ICE is doing the vital work of culling

British education is probably the best in the world, if you can survive
it. If you can't there is nothing left for you but the diplomatic corps.
-- Peter Ustinov

Can someone tell my why, by default, when you share a document on #Teams on a private channel it shares it with your entire university??
(You can set it back to sharing with only people in the chat but you have to click to do that for each document.. 🤦)
#TeamsSucks

Did you know you can put your entire music collection into your pocket?!
ikr

But...don't, ok?
Hey, If You Want To 'Treat' Your #Autistic Kid With Dangerous Snake Oil Cures, That Is Fine By The FDA
https://www.wonkette.com/p/hey-if-you-want-to-treat-your-autistic

You may see other fundraising requests coming from Minneapolis. Supporting this one should not stop you from supporting others too. Because these fundraisers are by and large community- and neighborhood-based, they’ll all be reaching different people.

'systemd-analyze' is a useful if random tool that's part of systemd; it's actually got a whole bunch of different useful bits thrown in. The 'blame' , 'plot' and 'critical-chain' subcommands let you debug start up time. 'calendar' and 'timestamp' let you test if your format for a time/date is OK to use in a systemd file; 'verify' lets you check your systemd unit file for errors. There's loads more random bits.

Series B, Episode 12 - The Keeper
FOOL: [Singing] I sing you of the Tents, my Master, Charl of the Goths, I sing you of the golden tents, Where your fathers wait to greet you...
BLAKE: [Examining the talisman] It's gone, the brain print's gone!
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/212/515…

Airbnb says its custom-built AI agent now handles ~33% of its customer support issues in North America, and it is preparing to roll out the feature globally (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/13/airb

Airbnb says a third of its customer support is now handled by AI in the US and Canada | TechCrunch
Airbnb was poised to introduce an app that doesn't just search for you, but one that "knows you." CEO Brian Chesky said, "It will help guests plan their entire trip, help hosts better run their businesses, and help the company operate more efficiently at scale."

Imagine if the restaurant you go to started serving shit sandwiches. Some people seem to like the shit sandwiches but you're like "Dude, these are literally shit sandwiches! I do not want these!" but the restaurant owner starts forcing every customer take a shit sandwich even if they don't want one.
This post is about AI.

If you have to call your roving band of marauders "legitimate law enforcement" in a news conference, they're not.
You've lost.
https://bsky.app/profile/chrisgeidner.bsky.social/post/3meofu2ifyc2m

Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social)
If you have to call your roving band of marauders "legitimate law enforcement" in a news conference, they're not. You've lost. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Is there a name for a number representation system where you store an exponent for an entire dataset, then a mantissa for each value?
So you might have e.g. units=Hz, scale factor=1e6, values=A....Z (measured in MHz)

If you're using #lazyblorg as your static website generator: I've updated the project today.
It now used "uv" for dependency management, script invocation and unit test execution. Furthermore, I adapted the code to match the #pandoc version of Debian 13 Trixie.
Although you ne…

If you have a nicer model old Sony Walkman lying around in a drawer you might want to check prices for your model

Thank you brain. 23:32 and now you start chewing on a thought that I'll need to write down to get it out of my head. Awesome. Perfect.

AOC says rising healthcare costs are funding ICE: "You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs" - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/quick-hit-aoc-says-rising-healthcare-costs-are-funding-ice-you-get-screwed-over-to-pay-a-bunch-of-thugs/

"You put your nightmares up there, you put your dreams up there and people can see them better because they can stand outside of it and recognise themselves inside it."
—Holly Hunter
#acting #coaching

You might be thinking that this is some unusual incident, that the press is cherry-picking and dramatizing the most sensational events.
I live in Minneapolis. The location in this article is pretty close to me. And I am telling you:
The press is •under•-covering what’s happening here. ICE is doing absolutely batshit stuff all the time, every single day, all over the city.
It is exhausting. 🧵
https://mastodon.social/@AnnaAnthro/115719761333110884

Maybe some art you made or something interesting you read about or just a dad joke.

A federal judge has issued an order forbidding immigration officials from re-detaining Kilmar Abrego Garcia,
a Maryland father who was illegally deported to a super-prison in El Salvador earlier this year.
Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran immigrant and U.S. legal resident, was deported in March, when the Trump administration wrongly alleged, without evidence, that he was associated with the MS-13 gang. When it became clear that Abrego Garcia’s deportation was improper, the administrati…

Judge Bars Trump Admin From Re-Detaining Abrego Garcia After Release
“I stand before you as a free man, and I want you to remember me this way,” Abrego Garcia said.

"Lots and lots of things scare me but you just get on with it. Fright can transform into petrol, you just have to use it to your advantage."
—Judi Dench
#acting #coaching #inspiration

RE: https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi/115719147481715249
Good decision by the GNOME project
Edit: It's not fully true. You can use AI but you will get your extension rejected if it does the usual AI generated code shenanigans.

Maybe you can’t change that awful things happen in the world, but you can post things that bring other people joy—and by extension yourself. Try it!

The kids who are sheltering at home right now and not coming in to school…my heart is with them and their families. If you’re out there reading this post: you are not forgotten. Your neighbors are with you.

"Lots and lots of things scare me but you just get on with it. Fright can transform into petrol, you just have to use it to your advantage."
—Judi Dench
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Social opprobrium, heck yeah
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikestunson/2026/01/13/ceo-who-told-anti-ice-protesters-we-executed-one-of-you-resigns/

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116064770547880143
today, 25 years later, you can put a thing in your pocket that needs Wi-Fi or 5G to access your entire music collection that's stored in a datacenter the size of several city blocks and you must pay rent to your cell phone provider and to your music datacenter landlord to access it!
now that's called progress!

"Lots and lots of things scare me but you just get on with it. Fright can transform into petrol, you just have to use it to your advantage."
—Judi Dench
#acting #coaching #inspiration

“It’s an agentic AI!” You mean it is an AI let off its leash that is unilaterally doing things without any human being aware and like a puppy left alone is about to ruin everything you were working on?
“You’re being old fashioned,” no machine is yet able to reliably exceed human judgement.
#AI

I’m pretty sure that if someone is rude enough to wrap their body around ice bullets, they deserve to die.
I mean, can you imagine, you’re a bullet and suddenly this activist scum stops you from flying through the air without a care in the world, and you’re suddenly wrapped up in their tissue and bouncing off their skeleton trying to find your way back to the outside?
Where do these activists get off having bullet absorbing bodies in the first place, what do they expect?