four weeks of david's lifestream
David
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March 27th
5:38pm Fresh Air: A Veteran Filmmaker Shares Secrets From The Set overcast
12:42pm Revisionist History: I Am Superman with Patty Jenkins | Development Hell overcast
12:36pm 99% Invisible: 575- Autism Pleasantville overcast
8:32am The Daily: Democrats’ Plan to Save the Republican House Speaker overcast
7:57am If I'm going to work in a cafe, I have to visit neverssl (to get past a captive portal) before I code with openssl (for security). mastodon
March 26th
8:36am The Daily: The United States vs. the iPhone overcast
8:12am Revisionist History: Pushkin Hosts Celebrate World Happiness Day overcast
3:39am neovim dokuwiki
March 25th
3:21pm Thank you @pluralistic , for selling your ebooks DRM free. I'd never want to go through Rohit's ordeal. https://twitter.com/krishnanrohit/status/1772011384206672370 mastodon
12:30pm Devin can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever. #ai mastodon
9:21am The Daily: A Terrorist Attack in Russia overcast
8:19am Search Engine: A big announcement from Search Engine plus, “What’s in your cocaine?” overcast
5:08am neovim - created dokuwiki
March 24th
12:31pm Buena Vista Park Summit (a scenic lookout) in San Francisco foursquare
11:33am Amoeba San Francisco (a record store) in San Francisco foursquare
10:27am Ritual Coffee Roasters (a coffee shop) in San Francisco foursquare
March 23rd
6:40pm Planet Money: What is Temu? overcast
5:01pm The Scathing Atheist: 579: Cena Evil Hearna Evil Edition overcast
March 22nd
10:56pm Maybe my favorite kazoo song. And it comes with an intro story! facebook
3:05pm Serial: S04 - Trailer overcast
2:56pm The Daily: Chuck Schumer on His Campaign to Oust Israel’s Leader overcast
2:56pm Political Gabfest: When Is Government Speech Coercion? overcast
10:03am Coffee - Added Lee's Cà Phê Sua dokuwiki
10:00am coffee:lees_caphesua_cafe_latte.png - created dokuwiki
March 21st
8:38pm I looked up the locations for the amazing sets for Full Metal Jacket. The location for Da Nang was Isle of Dogs, London. Isle of Dogs isn't just a movie! It's a real place. TIL. mastodon
5:50pm The Daily: The Caitlin Clark Phenomenon overcast
8:20am Planet Money: The billion dollar war behind U.S. rum overcast
March 20th
5:24pm 99% Invisible: 574- The Monster Under the Sink overcast
12:25pm The Daily: The Bombshell Case That Will Transform the Housing Market overcast
8:15am Search Engine: How do we survive the media apocalypse? overcast
March 19th
1:05pm Radiolab: Throughline: Dare to Dissent overcast
9:28am The Daily: Trump’s Plan to Take Away Biden’s Biggest Advantage overcast
March 18th
7:21pm Love this GitHub badge, "No Maintenance Intended", and I don't even have to re-clone my repos to add it, I can edit the README right in GitHub. This'll be nearly the first time I actually... mastodon
12:33pm The Daily: Your Car May Be Spying on You overcast
12:15pm 99% Invisible: The Power Broker #03: David Sims overcast
March 17th
March 16th
5:45pm Revisionist History: The Birthday Party with Charles Randolph | Development Hell overcast
March 15th
8:32pm @stargirl That's so aesthetically pleasing! Stuff like that is inspiring. In very stark contrast, I added a screen cap of text to my own dotfiles repo today, because for some reason I wanted to sho... mastodon
3:48pm The Daily: A Journey Through Putin’s Russia overcast
3:22pm Political Gabfest: Did Hur Exonerate Biden? overcast
9:58am Amazon telling warehouse workers to close their eyes and think happy thoughts https://www.404media.co/amazon-amazen-workingwell-savoring/ mirrors Portal 2's ... facebook
9:54am Amazon telling warehouse workers to close their eyes and think happy thoughts https://www.404media.co/amazon-amazen-workingwell-savoring/ mirrors Portal 2's "stare at the art and feel mentally... mastodon
March 14th
3:20pm The Scathing Atheist: 578: Keeping it Rael Edition overcast
9:17am The Daily: It Sucks to Be 33 overcast
9:01am Important post by @pluralistic , "If we manage to snuff out the right to scrape and the right to analyze without permission – we won't stop media companies from selling creative workers' outpu... mastodon
March 13th
9:27pm Fresh Air: A Veteran Filmmaker Shares Secrets From The Set overcast
6:05pm Planet Money: Wind boom, wind bust (Two Windicators) overcast
5:50pm 99% Invisible: 573- Toyetic overcast
7:50am The Daily: The Alarming Findings Inside a Mass Shooter’s Brain overcast
March 12th
6:17pm Fresh Air: A Veteran Filmmaker Shares Secrets From The Set overcast
6:11pm Revisionist History: Bubbles with Isaac Adamson | Development Hell overcast
12:34pm Revisionist History: The Variable Man with Gary Goldman and Angus Fletcher | Development Hell overcast
8:42am The Daily: Oregon Decriminalized Drugs. Voters Now Regret It. overcast
March 11th
10:20pm @JetForMe vaccines (My point is I've been reduced to the equivalent of asking, "just don't come to work and cough on me". Just the simplest of hygiene would be an improvement. I can't wai... mastodon
6:08pm If you use the same password at multiple sites: don't do that. Credential stuffing seems to be in the news a lot. Also, the WordPress plugin "Limit Login Attempts Reloaded" works! Had it ... mastodon
3:21pm The Daily: The Billionaires’ Secret Plan to Solve California’s Housing Crisis overcast
1:22pm Radiolab: Staph Retreat overcast
March 10th
3:01pm Search Engine: Who’s behind these scammy text messages we’ve all been getting? overcast
1:44pm I'd gladly read a post called, "How to Start" in order to avoid starting quite yet. mastodon
12:20pm Milpitas Library (a library) in Milpitas foursquare
March 9th
10:52pm Shell/vim tip: One can use process substitution to put search (ripgrep in this case) results in a quickfix window: vim +"copen" -q <(rg -n needle) Previously, I'd populated a scrat... mastodon
5:46pm @JetForMe It's still useful to try quotes, results are inconsistent nowadays though. https://lifehacker.com/tech/how-to-get-more-accurate-google-search-results mastodon
5:42pm Improve Google Search: Used to be you could use quotes to make Google search take a search term as a requirement. Now you can achieve similar results by clicking Tools at the right of the Search Re... mastodon
4:57pm The Scathing Atheist: 577: Damn Fine Fine Edition overcast
4:53pm Political Gabfest: The Dismal Biden Polls overcast
March 8th
3:20pm Planet Money: On the Oscars campaign trail overcast
3:02pm The Daily: The State of the Union overcast
2:04pm How does one create a Mastodon link converter from normal RSS feed links from other instances into links on their instance that they can interact with. Ex. social.jvns.ca to mastodon.social:, https... mastodon
March 7th
6:05pm The Scathing Atheist: 577: Damn Fine Fine Edition overcast
3:45pm Python Flask - created dokuwiki
12:54pm Planet Money: Is dynamic pricing coming to a supermarket near you? overcast
12:45pm The Daily: The Miseducation of Google’s A.I. overcast
8:13am Revisionist History: Blink with Stephen Gaghan | Development Hell overcast
March 6th
8:35am 99% Invisible: 572- WARNING: This Podcast Contains Chemicals Known to the State of California to Cause Cancer or Other Reproductive Harm overcast
8:21am The Daily: The Unhappy Voters Who Could Swing the Election overcast
March 5th
6:06pm Planet Money: Shopping for parental benefits around the world overcast
2:10pm Planet Money: The secret world behind school fundraisers overcast
10:57am Thanks, I hate it. It is worth reading @404media 's Inside the World of TikTok Spammers and the AI Tools That Enable Them. Even if you have to provide an email account. https://www.404media.co/insi... mastodon
8:27am The Daily: A Deadly Aid Delivery and Growing Threat of Famine in Gaza overcast
March 4th
1:31pm Planet Money: How the Navy came to protect cargo ships overcast
1:24pm The Daily: An F.B.I. Informant, a Bombshell Claim, and an Impeachment Built on a Lie overcast
8:20am Language from Intuit management During tax season, @pluralistic mentioned an "Intuit manager who woke up one day and said 'Fuck all those people. Just fuck them'", but it wasn't about our... mastodon
March 3rd
12:54pm Radiolab: Hold On overcast
12:54pm Revisionist History: Welcome to Development Hell overcast
12:32pm Serial: An Update From Sarah Koenig overcast
12:14pm Search Engine: How do you make an addictive video game? overcast
11:18am The Milpitas Library has the local system's first Library of Things. And it's working. facebook
10:17am A Humble Bundle where the charity is EFF, the reward is books, and the author is Cory Doctorow? (And of course one can (and should) adjust the sliders to det... facebook
10:05am If you do Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) 's book Humble Bundle, be sure to click on "Adjust Donation" and drag the sliders according to the distribution you intend before you click Checkout... mastodon
March 2nd
10:52pm If you're like me, you pause and appreciate the craftsmanship in the top picture for a bit, then scroll down to see there's another picture. Source: https://... facebook
4:45pm 99% Invisible: Roman Mars Describes Santa Fe As It Is overcast
March 1st
8:42pm Here's a cute Easter Egg by @pluralistic. The intra-page link to his PE Hospital article, (link name /5000-bats), is "#charnel-house". It's fun to watch Cory get riled up. The explanation... mastodon
4:20pm The Daily: Biden, Trump and a Split Screen at the Texas Border overcast
3:58pm Political Gabfest: Could They Actually Leap Over Biden And Dunk Him? overcast
10:43am @b0rk A custom bash function that tries for __git_ps1 first and falls back eventually to a local implementation. https://github.com/dblume/dotfiles/blob/main/.bashrc#L7 mastodon
February 29th
4:16pm The Daily: How Poisoned Applesauce Found Its Way to Kids overcast
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