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Nov 18, 2:14pm	I have never regretted starting a tmux session. I have occasionally regretted not doing so. #linux
Nov 16, 4:45pm	Content warning:Google Gemini says the quiet part out loud. (See bottom of link for quote in context.) "This is for you, human. You and only you. You are not special, you are not important, an...
Nov 16, 4:23pm	“There are not two reasonable sides to every story. We know evolution is real and creationism is not; we know vaccines save lives and don’t cause autism; we know climate change is real. It would be...
Nov 13, 10:10pm	"Trump is fundamentally a toddler smashing the Lego set we spent so much time building." u/JoeSavinaBotero https://old.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/1gqmzdo/i_cant_stop_screami...
Nov 12, 9:21am	@ben "you need to deploy as much as you can as early as possible, and you need to do the scariest changes as early as you can possibly do them." Mark Twain was a PM? "If it's your jo...
Nov 12, 9:02am	"I think we should stay quiet on it." On the Secret Service’s use of Locate X. via @404mediaco https://www.404media.co/fyi-a-warrant-isnt-needed-secret-service-says-you-agreed-to-be-track...
Nov 12, 12:14am	The original Google+ post was in Jan 2018: https://david.dlma.com/lifestream/googleplus/no-subject37.html
Nov 12, 12:12am	@pluralistic writes, "The people who need the most help under Trump will be too embroiled in the fight for their own survival to put together the kind of movement that can make a difference.&q...
Nov 7, 10:05am	@zigdon @b0rk My biggest regret was not learning to map Tab and Shift-Tab to prev/next buffer navigation. Greatest thing ever. nnoremap <S-Tab> :bp<cr> (You have to jump through some ho...
Nov 6, 9:58pm	I've been using tmux for a long time. Just now wanted to toggle panes, and forgot the sequence, so tried <leader>,t and it put a huge blue clock showing the time. I never knew that was there...
Nov 6, 12:11pm	@mathowie I wish more Californians read @pluralistic 's The Bezzle, which got into issues with California's prison system. They might've better understood the measure.
Nov 6, 9:39am	@ben I read https://werd.io/ via RSS feed. Your posts have been meaningful and helpful to me. I hope you let it stay. (I came directly here from "We can still rise" to reply.)
Nov 6, 9:06am	I predict that in 2028, the Democrats will have a primary. (Enough with anointing a candidate without taking the pulse of the people.)
Nov 1, 10:53am	@pluralistic That makes sense and reveals how accommodating you are to your various audiences. The effort is appreciated.
Nov 1, 8:12am	I was amused to see that @pluralistic used the ActivityPub/Mastodon username format in his pluralistic.net blog post when he mentioned the EFF. (Literal quote below, I did not do the at-mention.) &...
Oct 30, 12:31pm	@b0rk is working on the Terminal, and it reminds me of all. the. dotfile changes I had to make because I insist that I can use <c-i> and <c-o> to jump back and forth in Vim, and use &...
Oct 28, 10:47pm	Jeff Bezos is so full of it. This was the ideal time for the Fourth Estate to weigh in, report, and explain. It's a matter of democracy itself this time, and it'll die in darkness. "We didn't ...
Oct 27, 12:43am	@integerpoet Yeah, we thought "democracy dies in darkness" was a warning, not a plan.
Oct 26, 10:19am	@bretcarmichael Doesn't it get your goat that at the same time Musk's Super PAC is awarding $1M to people who "support the First Amendment" that bars the government from suppressing speec...
Oct 26, 10:14am	Musk's Super PAC gives $1M to people who "support the 1st Amendment" because it bars the government from suppressing speech. But here in the real world, the LA Times and the Washington Po...
Oct 26, 10:11am	WaPo: "When there's a hurricane approaching their city, we support our readers' ability to make up their own minds on whether to vacate. This consequential decision is too important for us to ...
Oct 25, 11:25pm	The Washington Post defends its decision to not endorse anyone: "We also see it as a statement in support of our readers’ ability to make up their own minds on this, the most consequential of ...
Oct 24, 10:03am	@tknarr @zeri @pluralistic Veritasium has a good video on best strategies for dealing with others, and "start off being nice, but retaliate" does very well. https://medium.com/@metaform3d...
Oct 24, 8:03am	@jascha Agreed. As a sort of half-joke and seed for the practice, my latest GitHub release has an “AI: none” badge in the README. https://github.com/dblume/tiny-vault
Oct 23, 5:19pm	"Trump's assault on norms is constant, brazen and unapologetic. Progressives need to do more than weep on the sidelines and demand that Republicans play fair." another gem from @pluralis...
Oct 21, 9:59pm	I'm in a happy place. Listening to @pjvogt 's Search Engine series "Why is it so hard to tax billionaires?" and just now read @pluralistic 's direct reply "Retiring the US debt would...
Oct 21, 9:15pm	It's also annoying that Musk apparently believes that Democrats are less in favor of the freedom of speech? (You don't have to explain it to me. Both Trump's and Biden's administrations asked socia...
Oct 21, 8:54pm	So Musk's Super PAC pays people to register to vote and pledge support for the First Amendment, even though the party is home to Christian Nationalists who want to ignore the establishment clause o...
Oct 21, 8:02pm	@csilverman I came here to call out the warthog, and @jstatepost beat me to it. Clear as day.
Oct 17, 9:05pm	@gnachman Thank you for iTerm2. FYI, I let iTerm2 Beta update on my 2012 MacBook Air, macOS 10.15.7, and the new version fails with: Dyld Error Message: Library not loaded: /System/Library/Framew...
Oct 17, 10:01am	@A_denie @pluralistic I'm using Feedly now too, but went through a Digg Reader phase. Here's a screen cap of that one!
Oct 16, 10:16pm	Since @pluralistic recently mentioned using RSS Readers, here's a screen cap of Google Reader in 2011 for Throwback Thursday. Simpler times. #tbt #rss
Oct 16, 9:26pm	Trying to deduce WealthFront's robo-vesting cost-basis/gains strategy is fun. I have the Quicken QFX export of transactions for WealthFront, and I have a Cost Basis document showing each tranche/ho...
Oct 14, 5:12pm	@kenshirriff Love that. Almost as much as I love that RealTek's never upgraded their original ugly PCB-style crab thing logo. I imagine they have a budget sheet they approve every year, and it's go...
Oct 14, 3:37pm	Are LLM scrapers ignoring your site's robots.txt's file and scraping anyway? You could (but I know you wouldn't) poison the site for AI but not humans. https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/10/ai-c...
Oct 12, 3:08pm	I've been really enjoying @pluralistic 's "Little Brother" novellas, Vigilant and Spill. They're free! Here's a link to Spill: https://reactormag.com/spill-cory-doctorow/ #books #reading
Oct 12, 9:21am	Learning that school vouchers aren't actually used by low income families is like learning that trickle-down theory actually made the rich richer. https://mastodon.social/@ProPublica@newsie.social/...
Oct 11, 4:05pm	@mdione @gigantos @timbray Yep, but in practice the vaults are usually less than a few MB big, so not very big. And there are never many at one install, it intentionally doesn't scale to be large e...
Oct 4, 3:06pm	Every time I'm reminded of Musk's multiplanetary goals, I think of Maciej Cegłowski's excellent post, Why not Mars? Everyone should read it. "Wherever you stand on the matter, whether you’re...
Oct 4, 3:03pm	@KarlBode Maciej Cegłowski put it best in his post Why not Mars? Everyone should read it. "Wherever you stand on the matter, whether you’re a Musk fanboy, an unaligned Mars obsessive, or just ...
Oct 4, 8:32am	@halfwitamerican I love @eclectech 's version with the big blue tongue. If we're going to share Cookie Monster versions, I like the version with the drawn cookies.
Oct 2, 10:47pm	@timbray @gigantos Ah gotcha... In my case neither the password nor its hash are stored anywhere. User enters a password, a bcrypt hash is generated, which is used as the key to attempt to AES decr...
Oct 2, 8:33pm	@gigantos @timbray That Hive Systems tables doesn't say how many workfactor rounds their Bcrypt table is for. We can increase rounds as technology advances. (Which I'm doing this week.) Also, I loc...
Sep 30, 1:38pm	@setiinstitute Thanks! The "Kingdom of Saturn" documentary said this helpful bit: "Tiny Daphnis pushes a wave of ring material like the bow wave of a boat on a lake." But I stil...
Sep 28, 9:30pm	You guys! Millions of Kids today are discovering Michel Gondry's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind! There's hope yet. My daughter just watched it of her own volition, and told us about it like ...
Sep 28, 12:19am	@setiinstitute Why are the waves on the rings on the opposite sides of Daphnis's path? (Outter ring's waves are on the right, inner ring's waves are on the left.)
Sep 27, 2:40pm	@b0rk Did you know as of Vim 8.2 (late 2019), in visual mode you can just use P (shift-p) to keep putting the same copied text over different visual selections? So easy! (It doesn't overwrite the d...
Sep 25, 10:24pm	The best process is the one you follow. But, "omg same." A local todo.md file goes a long way. https://mastodon.social/@b0rk@jvns.ca/113200616229628359
Sep 25, 2:23pm	This is a groundbreaking podcast episode. Despite what Kahneman observed, "higher household income correlates with greater emotional well-being, but only up to around $75,000 a year", it ...
Sep 19, 10:27pm	@JetForMe , this seems custom made for you, given the timers you've been working on. https://mastodon.social/@csilverman/113167056321963039
Sep 18, 10:10pm	Playing with words is fun and interesting. Reliable datasets like these are valuable. I remember Brad Fitzpatrick writing a twins' names script that sparked an interest in me to play in similar dat...
Sep 18, 10:01pm	The wordfreq repo is sunset. "the Web at large is full of slop generated by large language models, written by no one to communicate nothing .. OpenAI and Google can collect their own damn data...
Sep 18, 9:35pm	@integerpoet Well, looks like your wife is in for a treat. (expectantly wiggles hands side to side)
Sep 13, 10:05pm	That led me to this post which has this delightful quote: "The difficult and unglamorous problems of a Mars mission—how do you wash your socks? What is there to eat?— get no love from Elon. On...
Sep 13, 6:00pm	@brad_frost You'll laugh but Daniel Suarez's Daemon. I created a Dead Man's Switch (in Python 2, in 2012) for myself that watches a passive Lifestream so that I can act from beyond the grave. It's ...
Sep 13, 5:55pm	I never met Aaron Swartz, but every time I see his name appear in a new post, there's a pang for what could have been. https://mastodon.social/@davekarpf/113131600877355394
Sep 13, 5:44pm	@zannah It's not that simple! There's a cocoa powder/chocolate difference. Also, you're not alone, type "is red v" into a browser, and it'll auto-complete to your ask. (Don't ask me how I...
Sep 13, 11:33am	One of the most magnificent blog comments of all time by @jwz "Apartheid Emerald Mine Space Karen is not playing 3D chess. He's just a giant child with a conjoined firehose of money, and wher...
Aug 31, 12:37pm	@JetForMe Keep up the good work. Are you nearly done? Is Six Flags going to keep them beyond Halloween?
Aug 30, 11:59pm	@JetForMe seems like Randall has a task for you. https://xkcd.com/2979/
Aug 30, 7:01pm	@csilverman's alt-text for his images often describe a detail I missed. (In this case, the key.) I love them so much. If he wrote a blog about writing his alt-text I'd read it. https://mastodon.soc...
Aug 30, 4:02pm	@bangbangcon It's been a week and I'm happy to report I didn't get a case of any con crud. Thanks for encouraging masks and hosting outside. Thanks for the con! Also, this inspiring story "hav...
Aug 30, 9:40am	(Belated) Happy Judgment Day! DO NOT PASS THE SKYNET FUNDING BILL TO REMOVE HUMAN DECISIONS FROM STRATEGIC DEFENSE Thanks @danhon (I'd have boosted if I could.)
Aug 26, 6:06pm	TIL about Sealioning. And having visited Pier 39 enough times, it's a great description for that type of troll. https://wondermark.com/c/1062/
Aug 24, 12:36pm	Found a good spiderweb stick for the first hike of the day at the trails nearby !!Con at UCSC
Aug 23, 2:06pm	Just finished Lulu Miller's "Why Fish Don't Exist" (loved it), and was in that between-books place when the library emailed me just today that my next hold is ready for pickup. Perfect ti...
Aug 21, 11:31pm	Watching Lil Jon at the DNC reminds me of his greatest hit, "cooking by the book remix ft lil jon" remixed by mastgrr. (Video is NSFW) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5tVbVu9Mkg
Aug 19, 1:13pm	This seems like the sort of screensaver experience that @jwz might enjoy. https://codepen.io/atzedent/pen/PorPpZQ
Aug 17, 10:37pm	Partly because of JD Vance's "childless cat lady" comment, tonight's family Pop Culture Education movie was 1979's Alien, with these themes: 1. Your employer is not on your side. Even if ...
Aug 16, 7:23pm	@JetForMe Love it! I know there's a thermal difference in my office between near the ceiling and near the floor, so at first I wondered if your fans would work any harder - then I realized, your PC...
Aug 10, 12:16am	Sometimes you have to search for "Junji Ito Tomie and Henrietta Lacks" to see how many others are thinking the same thing. Happily none. Nobody else is thinking the same thing. Good on yo...
Jul 31, 10:36pm	@landley @fade Aww, sorry to hear that. Cloud may be bad, but remote isn't. I'm very happy with rsync.net configured with some nicely spaced .zfs snapshots. A local script syncs everything from my ...
Jul 30, 3:47pm	If you want to get into decentralized online identity and cryptographic proofs, there's Keyoxide. Here's me at Keyoxide. #cryptography #identity 2/2 https://keyoxide.org/1CBD499C61C7A3A7DED3935F5E2...
Jul 30, 3:44pm	Gravatar is a handy flat key-value-store. Look up an email, get an avatar pic. Been great (and widely adopted) for years. Today they posted this nonsense about decentralization, Web 3.0, Blockchain...
Jul 30, 12:25am	Cory Doctorow @pluralistic reminds me that a browser is literally a "User Agent" that goes out "on your behalf and bring back things for you, which it displays in the way you prefer ...
Jul 29, 5:07pm	@JetForMe Thanks, that's great link. I've been looking for something like that ever since Planet Money (or something) taught me the idea about "shareholder primacy" as a legal obligation,...
Jul 29, 1:28pm	@JetForMe Parallels has a fiduciary duty to their stock holders to maximize profits, and exceeding the rate of the CPI to find that optimal trade-off between dropped subscriptions and but higher su...
Jul 27, 1:57pm	Just found a file, book.py, from October 2018, with notes about how Google Books won't accept a certain list of entries. I have no memory of this effort. Google Books doesn't track when I add the b...
Jul 26, 12:48pm	I've designed an AI that will choose which streaming shows to watch, watch them, and then forget if they were good for me.
Jul 22, 5:13pm	Of course there'd be a Bishoujo Sadako (from the horror movie Ringu). https://store.crunchyroll.com/products/sadako-sadako-17-scale-bishoujo-figure-4934054057818.html
Jul 21, 10:16pm	@bangbangcon I did! I set a timer for the second batch. ^_^;
Jul 19, 10:10pm	@integerpoet @ylegall I get that reference. Is there a cool way to say "I get that reference"?
Jul 19, 1:01pm	@bangbangcon @quinnanya @danielle @omar @maxkreminski @ggggbbybby Am trying to buy an in-person ticket, and the "Ticket Unlock Code" is new to me. Left it empty, but when I tried to purch...
Jul 13, 12:43pm	@zannah would appreciate this toot from JWZ. https://mastodon.social/@jwz/112777820612425847
Jun 27, 9:39am	@JetForMe That's actually one of the themes of Cory Doctorow's "The Lost Cause". Literally Burbank City Council meetings and waiting for your topic.
Jun 22, 11:37pm	Dreamhost moved my ancient sites from one shared server (on Pacific Time) to a new one (on GMT). This is causing me more headaches than I'd like to admit. One of my dashboards reconciles logs times...
Jun 15, 3:45pm	Ugh, even though I'm not even remotely surprised, I'm still disappointed. https://mastodon.social/@robb@social.lol/112621284736049817
Jun 12, 1:03pm	Some refreshing positive observations about the climate emergency from @pluralistic "Even if we're far from where we need to be on renewables, we're much farther along on renewables than we ha...
Jun 12, 8:51am	Short, good read on whether "artificial intelligence" is a moving target: Charles Miller's "…otherwise it's sparkling autocomplete." #ai https://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2024/06/11...
Jun 10, 9:12am	@b0rk The huge gulf between knowing others are wizards in tools like vim/neovim and then being a wizard in the tool. Is the right entry point a neovim "distro", or starting with a clean s...
Jun 9, 12:25pm	This is the most important 99% Invisible I've heard in a long time. It's partly about how and why the courts defer to, and cherry-pick lying liar amicus briefs. These things need to be fact-checked...
Jun 8, 9:48pm	@zannah To compensate, I have an overly full 4x4 and one of the bottom spaces is overflowing onto the floor. (Most the others are full of books, the overflowing one is nick-nacks that just don't be...
Jun 8, 11:25am	Your weekend read: Nicky Case's "AI Safety for Flesh Humans" with quotes like: "'The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better.' All three statements are...
Jun 7, 5:27pm	@integerpoet Absolutely! Another useful geek silenced (at least in part) by government overreaction is Aaron Swartz. The world would have assuredly been richer with more Turing and Swartz. Wait, do...
Jun 7, 3:49pm	Sometimes I'll pull at the opposing ends of a snack bag, and instead of opening, it stretches a little, and its tensile strength increases by orders of magnitude. So I double-down, and I pull super...
Jun 1, 7:46pm	@integerpoet I wonder if new_alue emits Hell regardless of what you might slice into new_s.
May 31, 10:50am	"one sec" looks like a helpful app to use. https://twitter.com/gabrielledrolet/status/1791092169517703518
May 28, 11:09pm	Got an Airo Collective Stealth Boost wallet, and it's what I've been looking for - very thin, simple, RFID protection (I verified this). Wish I'd gotten it a long time ago. This is an unsolicited e...
May 27, 9:57am	Excellent Penny Arcade comic on Google's AI Overviews today. https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2024/05/27/a-very-particular-set-of-skills #artificialintelligence #comics
May 21, 4:46pm	@bangbangcon I remember being really impressed with Mirabai's captioning at !!Con West! Her comprehension was better than mine, and I was grateful for the captions. (Link to my comment of appreciat...
May 21, 1:35am	Highest respect to Realtek Semiconductor Corp. for never changing their 1987 logo crab thingy.
May 20, 10:06pm	To avoid the A.I. text at the top of Google Search results, add udm=14 to the query string. Instructions in link. https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/we-dont-have-to-live-like-this-you-can-set-...
May 18, 12:06am	Using A.I. to automatically generate police reports from officers’ bodycam audio is a frightening prospect. I appreciate the @eff quote, @404mediaco. https://www.404media.co/here-is-what-axons-bod...
May 17, 5:15pm	Woohoo! Finished reading a book. Can't wait to start my next one. Here's my queue (subject to change at any time): * Fire in the Hole (Short Stories) by Elmore Leonard * Raylan by Elmore Leonard ...
May 16, 9:18am	I'm finishing a good book. This is one of my favorite times in life. #books #reading
May 15, 2:42pm	The URL to @pluralistic 's post "Even if you think AI search could be good, it won't be good" is a pithy quote from Mark Zuckerberg (that's also applicable to Google). https://pluralistic...
May 14, 12:00am	On AI art, @pluralistic writes, "AI doesn't have a mind. It doesn't have an intention. The aesthetic choices made by AI aren't choices, they're averages." https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/...
May 10, 3:20pm	I really expected Randall Munroe's XKCD "Chasing" chart to include "Lunar Eclipses" (near "no") and "Solar Eclipses" (near "yes"). #comics #xkcd h...
May 7, 11:11pm	I'm so happy that GnuPlot 6 added Braille character support for its CLI terminal plots. These two plots are of AirPassengers.csv, the top using Braille, the bottom using term "dumb". The ...
May 6, 11:20am	Ted Chiang's science fiction short story, "Story of Your Life" (~50 pages) is great. You should read it. #scifi https://raley.english.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/Reading/Chiang-story.pdf
May 3, 8:56am	Poorly Drawn Lines #comics https://poorlydrawnlines.com/comic/screwing-up-again/
Apr 28, 10:08am	@JetForMe I've seen a couple of recommendations for https://kagi.com/ as an alternative to Google. (From people who did their searches twice to compare results, and found that finally, they could t...
Apr 28, 10:05am	@JetForMe Everything I use is trending downhill. Can't even search with "site:reddit.com" for an improved search, because there are now services to poison Reddit with AI posts from truste...
Apr 27, 10:54am	It's almost as if @MrLovenstein worked directly with @pluralistic on this one. https://tapas.io/episode/2889500
Apr 27, 10:41am	@integerpoet Nowadays we don't know if this is your own or a recent AI generated snippet you liked.
Apr 22, 5:14pm	@JetForMe I'm sitting here waiting for my Kaleidescape ship to come in.
Apr 22, 10:34am	@integerpoet It took me a beat to process the image here in Mastodon, (are they videos? Should I click one?) but once I did: Yeah, the ad's answering the question. Lie to the customer, make them th...
Apr 19, 10:29pm	@jaredzimmerman I can't tell if I'm getting more Marcel the Shell With Shoes On vibes, or more Adventure Time vibes.
Apr 19, 10:14am	"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Global replacements with regexes on the shoulder of projects... I watched C-code glitter in the dark by a customized theme. All those tweaks wi...
Apr 17, 8:57am	@thisismissem @404mediaco @vmstan I wonder if the GDPR covers something like this.
Apr 17, 8:55am	I gave up and added the following "what's the highlight info for the word under the cursor" to my vim/nvim rc files: function! SynGroup() let l:s = synID(line('.'), col('.'), 1) e...
Apr 17, 7:26am	From Joseph Cox @404mediaco : Spy Pet, the Discord aggregator, says, “We prioritize your privacy as a user searcher. Your searches are secure and confidential.” At the bottom of the site, a button ...
Apr 13, 9:32am	@JetForMe sudo, pronounced s'doh, from the Japanese modifier when spoken from a superior to their junior. Ex., "Sudo, make me udon." "Sudo do it again." Used so often by Hattori...
Apr 12, 7:59am	@JetForMe When I'm around you, I'm going to pronounce it "suhdoh". (Or if I pretend it's Japanese, shorten the u to s'doh.) 😂
Apr 8, 9:20pm	@creativenull Imagine my pain: I'd been using Y to yank lines in vim for years, only to migrate to neovim and see they correctly changed it to "yank to the end of the line", like C, D, et...
Apr 8, 9:15pm	I saw that @creativenull 's GitHub description has "Stuck configuring vim config everyday." And I felt attacked.
Apr 5, 8:39pm	@Jerry I've got two examples of why I "care somewhat". One: I probably suck at recycling correctly, because I get no feedback about what I'm doing. Similarly I might care if it really was...
Apr 5, 5:33pm	(note to self) It's like `cp`. The first argument exists, the second one is the one you want to "create".
Apr 4, 11:25pm	So far I like the search engine Kagi. But what I still need in Chrome is search autocomplete (esp for versus), where you type "thing vs", and Google tells you what its competitors are. An...
Apr 4, 11:31am	Maybe I'll start poisoning my posts with signature text from A.I. As of my last knowledge update in April 2024, it seems like it could be interesting. #ai #discordianism
Apr 4, 12:40am	"They have ventured too deep into the Library and forgotten the way out." I almost thought this was going to be about Stephen Wolfram and his "A New Kind of Science". Which, app...
Apr 4, 12:22am	Alexander Miller's "Conway's Game of Hope" combines Conway’s Game of Life with Pandora’s Box. https://alex.miller.garden/game-of-hope/
Mar 31, 10:22pm	@quephird I dunno, this hits me like look at all the vulnerabilities in our world-wide infrastructures, and I am dyinggg. I guess maybe I'm dyinggg too, but more in a sadness way than anything else...
Mar 31, 9:49pm	@SpaceLifeForm Did you mean "For AT&T to have only retained 7.6M of those 73M customers in 2019?" Yeah, that's a lot of churn. What we don't know is how many signed up (or otherwise g...
Mar 29, 5:12pm	@404mediaco , I like the private full RSS feed. You got my money. More power to you. Good luck!
Mar 27, 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).
Mar 25, 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
Mar 25, 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
Mar 21, 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.
Mar 18, 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...
Mar 15, 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...
Mar 15, 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...
Mar 14, 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...
Mar 11, 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...
Mar 11, 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 ...
Mar 10, 1:44pm	I'd gladly read a post called, "How to Start" in order to avoid starting quite yet.
Mar 9, 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...
Mar 9, 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
Mar 9, 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...
Mar 8, 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...
Mar 5, 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...
Mar 4, 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...
Mar 3, 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...
Mar 1, 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...
Mar 1, 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
Feb 27, 1:55pm	Sometimes the Unix timestamp ends with 000000 when the local time is 00:00:00 (midnight). And they stay in sync for a minute! Partay! In California, we gonna party for a full minute on midnight mor...
Feb 22, 12:39am	Heh. I made a JSON-to-CSV converter script #!/usr/bin/jq -rf # (clever jq code from StackOverflow) only to learn I never needed it. @saulpw@fosstodon.org's VisiData already imported my JSON just fi...
Feb 21, 9:56am	Really enjoyed this @404mediaco article on the emergence of AI-generated fake recipes with fake images. This is just the beginning. https://www.404media.co/instacarts-ai-recipes-look-literally-imp...
Feb 19, 10:56am	The MIT AI Lab PDP-10 had a switch with "Magic" and "More Magic" modes? That reminds me that `vim` also has Magic and Very Magic regex modes. https://mastodon.social/@larsbrinkh...
Feb 13, 2:40pm	Nice to see that @pluralistic 's "enshittification" has made it. @danhon made a handy reply guidance banner, "Do not reply to teach me about capitalism or enshittification. I know.&q...
Feb 12, 11:59am	So the queer.af experiment has run its course. I respect that the maintainers knew that the name could eventually fund the Taliban and knew the other associated risks. So it goes with a few TLDs, ....
Feb 7, 9:37am	@Claire @b0rk As an example, I saw Julia's reply (or accidental post?) to @gvwilson about awesome sqlite examples in my feed reader. But I don't and never have followed Greg. The post was available...
Feb 6, 9:57pm	Oops! That was supposed to be my favorite git config option in reply to @b0rk 's thread https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/111885363143321068
Feb 6, 8:33am	[merge] conflictstyle = diff3 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27417656/should-diff3-be-default-conflictstyle-on-git
Feb 4, 9:27am	@Em0nM4stodon How to choose‽ Based on the number of commits and size of my dotfiles, I have to go with #vim. .vimrc has gotten the most love and attention. https://github.com/dblume/dotfiles
Feb 3, 10:11pm	You know, as I was reading a book, and I was hoping that Amazon wasn't wasting CPU and bandwidth as they notify everyone about it. As one does. As our forefathers did. (Turns out Amazon's bug was t...
Feb 3, 10:07pm	@JetForMe That's good! Is it yours?
Feb 3, 8:01pm	GoodReads' HTTP Conditional GET is broken. We get 304s ("Not Modified") I updated a book today. GET works: $ curl -s "https://www.goodreads.com/review/list_rss/1496147?key=6f1a0fadc1...
Feb 1, 8:23am	@404mediaco @keyoxide For example, here's verifiable cryptographic proof of things that are mine on the web. And if you're wondering if something else is mine, then encrypt a message to me (with my...
Feb 1, 8:20am	Reading @404mediaco 's "Fake Bill Ackman and Jim Cramer Instagram Ads are Trying to Take My Money" about how Meta hosts obviously scam ads that link to others' CRD numbers as "proof ...
Jan 29, 12:52pm	@georgetakei Yes, boys too. (Cries in Trader Joe’s Dark Chocolate Bar Filled with Speculoos Cookie Spread.)
Jan 29, 9:06am	I'm not into SportsBall, but I feel hopeful when I visit the "Mr. Irrelevant" page of Wikipedia and see the photo of the QB for the 2023 NFC champions there. Let's go, Mr. Irrelevants, ev...
Jan 26, 11:24pm	Oh! And I happen to be reading both Cory Doctorow and Ed Brubaker right now! I'm reading The Lost Cause on Kindle and the Reckless books on paper. 3/2
Jan 26, 11:16pm	And @pluralistic just mentioned it in "Tabs Give me Superpowers", citing himself in 2004 https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/25/today-in-tabs/ #productivity #gtd 2/2
Jan 26, 11:15pm	Pleased to see @pluralistic, Ed Brubaker and myself each wrote about a productivity technique, using the Zeigarnik Effect. (Stopping at an intentionally unfinished point.) I cited Brubaker in "...
Jan 21, 4:57pm	Remember what you were working on right before your area shut down for Covid-19? I wrote a script to get on the Salesforce Tower Tours, and the tours were promptly cancelled! But then, unrelated, N...
Jan 19, 3:12pm	2600 already provides an RSS feed. The education/support I'd like to see from influencers like Doctorow is why to use an RSS feed reader. With your own reader, there no platform in the middle to hi...
Jan 19, 11:46am	@pluralistic went on about how unfair platforms are to 2600 without once mentioning 2600's RSS feed. RSS feeds don't have the platforms (Gmail spam filter, Facebook boost requirement) problem. Use ...
Jan 15, 3:02pm	And then @pluralistic succinctly summarizes his own article "while we're nowhere near a place where bots can steal your job, we're certainly at the point where your boss can be suckered into f...
Jan 15, 1:34pm	From an American on Reddit re Houthi missile attacks: "They can keep f'ing around, but they'll discover why we don't have free healthcare." https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/197c181/...
Jan 15, 9:20am	@integerpoet Hopefully that dope found something fun to do like make snarky self-deprecating social media posts.
Jan 12, 9:53pm	Sad truth from @pluralistic Re: AI that'd help radiologists double-check x-rays for tumors: "AI's sales pitch is not 'Buy an AI tool and increase your costs while increasing your accuracy.' Th...
Jan 12, 10:20am	Given these maps of the most popular browsers, knowing me, I should really be using Mozilla Firefox. https://old.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/194mz2a/the_most_popular_browsers_in_each_country_2012...
Jan 11, 11:13pm	Just noticed that Andri Möll's vim-bbye's documentation has this most excellent line, "If you've just got your splits and columns perfectly tuned, having them messed up equals a punch in the f...
Jan 8, 1:38pm	@radiolab replayed 2009's Stochasticity about how the order of reality seems to come from randomness. Nowadays it just hits like real life Stable Diffusion. Start with the noise, then remove the no...
Jan 8, 11:39am	If you miss Trader Joe's Dark Chocolate Speculoos Cooper Spread chocolate bars, you might enjoy Tcho's "Aww Nuts!" Almond Butter chocolate bars. I got gifted these, and they brought be ba...
Jan 7, 1:20pm	@JetForMe Yep, I've seen various pithy memes about the media falling for Rufo's strategies. Here's another link. (Worth reading the linked article there, too.) https://zirk.us/@dethtron5000/1116897...
Jan 4, 10:16pm	@luna I loved your poem. Looks like a lot of us identify with the feeling. This doesn't fix the problem, but for some it's better than nothing: I follow some Mastodon friends via their [instance]/u...
Dec 30 2023, 11:37pm	Here! Nicky Case's The Evolution of Trust https://ncase.me/trust/
Dec 30 2023, 11:36pm	"Most of life is not zero sum." I really enjoyed this Veritasium video, "What the Prisoner's Dilemma reveals about life, the universe, and everything", and especially love that ...
Dec 23 2023, 12:32pm	@integerpoet Ha! So was I.
Dec 22 2023, 4:55pm	Excalidraw is pretty wonderful. I love being able to specify a sloppiness that frees me of having to be too precise. https://excalidraw.com/ #collaboration #diagram
Dec 22 2023, 2:22pm	We are completely uploaded and fine
Dec 19 2023, 8:43am	Cory Doctorow @pluralistic channeling Jamie Zawinski @jwz "...nonconsensually enlist the population of San Francisco in an experimental murderbot development program" https://pluralistic....
Dec 17 2023, 4:33pm	I released Vim Git-Tab today. It's a tiny but handy vimscript that intuits what I want when I type Log, Blame, Diff or Show from the context of the current buffer and word under the cursor. https:/...
Dec 16 2023, 3:21pm	Here, let me jinx myself: In the next few days I'm going to open-source a tiny project of mine that I might love just as much as Tim Pope @tpope loves vim-fugitive. #opensource
Dec 15 2023, 5:20pm	Cory Doctorow @pluralistic drives his point home: "[Trudeau made] swathes of works by living Canadian authors illegal at the stroke of a pen, in a gift to the distant descendants of long-dead ...
Dec 13 2023, 7:37am	Great article "Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them" from @404mediaco I half expected to hear about this from @p...
Dec 10 2023, 12:07am	I wrote some notes about navigating vim in tmux or in i3 at my wiki. The wiki has some tables that show their similarities. I think this is the sort of meta thinking about process that Julia Evans ...
Dec 9 2023, 8:11pm	So I just went and assessed Pixlr, Photopea, Krita and Pinta for how easy it is to annotate with text and arrows. I learned that Pixlr just rebranded as an "AI Image Generator and AI Design to...
Dec 8 2023, 4:33pm	Now I know Cory Doctorow @pluralistic is baiting me. "Like Pavel Chekov says, a phaser on the bridge in Act I is going to go off by Act III." https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/08/playstatio...
Dec 7 2023, 11:42pm	@JetForMe That was really interesting. Thanks for linking directly to the meat.
Dec 7 2023, 7:54am	@integerpoet "echinacea" is the number of echidna that'd fill the South China Sea. Much more practical a number and less ridiculous than the concept of a mole of moles. https://what-if.xk...
Dec 4 2023, 3:05pm	Check your air filters. Test your alarms. Consider bumping your bcrypt.gensalt() work factor... (Yes, I have production code that is so old I may have to bump my bcrypt work factor.) #cryptography ...
Dec 3 2023, 9:32pm	I'm just starting Spider-Man Across the Spider-verse, and this team could do Elektra: Assassin justice. #comics #movies #billsienkiewicz
Dec 3 2023, 7:55am	@integerpoet I get curious about what your prompts (and process) might've been.
Nov 30 2023, 12:03am	Looks like the upgrade to PHP 8.3 is going to be way easier than the upgrade to 8.2 was. https://php.watch/versions/8.3
Nov 28 2023, 8:10pm	@JetForMe I've got some code up there. https://archiveprogram.github.com/arctic-vault/
Nov 28 2023, 7:41pm	The Advent of Code sounds like fun. https://realpython.com/courses/python-advent-of-code/
Nov 27 2023, 3:05pm	Just remembered that time I submitted my website to Yahoo for inclusion in their hand-curated directory. #old
Nov 27 2023, 8:17am	@JetForMe Aww, that's disappointing. You'd think they'd understand the value of the improved visibility the variety of colors can provide.
Nov 25 2023, 12:17pm	"These Les Mis LARPers rigged the price of bread!" It's quotes like this that keep me reading Cory Doctorow. @pluralistic https://doctorow.medium.com/thankful-for-class-consciousness-0f...
Nov 20 2023, 10:24am	"It is worth noting that many of the people predicting an AI-powered doomsday are also the people funding, developing, and raising money for new AI capabilities." from @404mediaco's http...
Nov 15 2023, 2:23pm	Most of the time, my IDE is stacks of tunnels. I usually choose two or three of these: ssh: a text-only connection to a remote target machine tmux: looking throw panes and windows on that ssh l...
Nov 11 2023, 10:29am	Another good read by Cory Doctorow @pluralistic : "Jezebel's owner's top-exec is bent on ending reality-based coverage in favor of 'letting robots shit out brand safe AI-assisted articles abou...
Nov 10 2023, 7:05pm	I have a note to self to "Get rid of test code generating vim" I have no idea what I meant. @zannah might appreciate the sentiment. #code #todo
Nov 10 2023, 9:49am	@integerpoet You'd think, right? But even after this election, I fear identity politics will overcome reason for the next one.
Nov 7 2023, 10:04pm	Minor hand injury @JetForMe Tell us the story! What did you do? What's the prognosis? Is that a stitches situation? You up to date on your shots? Did you drive yourself to the hospital like that? D...
Nov 5 2023, 10:08pm	Note to self: The Scathing Atheist crew loves playing Codenames and Codenames: Pictures. And I should try Dave the Diver sometime. #games
Oct 29 2023, 10:37am	@jwz I get Dave McKean (Sandman artist) vibes from the visuals.
Oct 28 2023, 10:57am	@JetForMe I just discovered him today (via front page of reddit), and I'm captivated.
Oct 28 2023, 10:54am	I just discovered Neil Kohney's "The Other End", and this comic is deeply profound. https://www.kohney.com/comic/still-mad-color/ #comics #life #serenity
Oct 28 2023, 10:33am	The tale of Bog-Thing, in Neil Kohney's The Other End. https://www.kohney.com/comic/bog-thing/ #comics #preservation
Oct 28 2023, 8:59am	@JetForMe If you'd used LLMDB you could've used a more concise declarative format: "dump the interesting area in a relevant way" 😂 It's like pair programming.
Oct 18 2023, 10:24pm	@JetForMe I think it's awesome. Keep it up.
Oct 18 2023, 7:20pm	@tommyyum Are objects in the universe lazy loaded? That seems fine, we've been doing that for years. #code #computerscience #algorithms
Oct 17 2023, 8:40am	@nixCraft If you're going to use your history, then curate it by removing dupes. https://medium.com/@dblume/have-only-unique-lines-in-your-bash-history-941e3de68c03 #unix #linux #bash
Oct 17 2023, 7:54am	Nathan Yau made a heatmap of how the Most Common Causes of Death, by Age, has changed over the last few decades. https://flowingdata.com/2023/10/17/most-common-causes-of-death-by-age/ #data #datavi...
Oct 12 2023, 8:26am	@pluralistic Can you make Amazon X-Ray files for those who read your ebooks on Amazon devices? #books #ebooks
Oct 8 2023, 8:40pm	Sometimes I get sad that my kids will never have played Guitar Hero or Rock Band (or even Taiko: Drum Master) with friends. I'm sure they'll do other wonderful stuff, but that was a nice moment in ...
Sep 30 2023, 12:57pm	Click through and read the "DISPATCH FROM THE CYBERPUNK CITY" manifesto in the tiny box by @jwz, of Mozilla, XScreenSaver and DNA Lounge fame. It describes today. It's worth it. https://w...
Sep 28 2023, 10:30am	@integerpoet I'm dreading that there's going to be so many more of these. I'm "dyslexic" in that way - where I write words that aren't what I meant, but are sorta plausible. I'd be that h...
Sep 26 2023, 2:16pm	I feel like I'm the only one at work who likes git trailers (key:value pairs at the end of commit messages). I have to fight our tool which automatically adds non-trailer lines to the end of commit...
Sep 25 2023, 5:11pm	To procrastinate? Or if my boss is looking, I'll pococurate. #haiku #wotd
Sep 25 2023, 2:22pm	Favorite Reddit comment of the week, on Taylor Swift asking people to register to vote: "I don't exactly cherish the idea of a pop star saving the world from a game show host, but at this poin...
Sep 14 2023, 10:37pm	@mafe Apparently vim has six modes, but I only use three regularly. My IDE is tmux+vim+entr, for pretty much everything. Would love to get into go and rust soon. What're you coding?
Sep 13 2023, 9:27am	Been using vim for ages. Just learned that "z" is the fold command key because the shape of the z looks like folded paper from the side. #code #vim #til
Sep 11 2023, 8:07am	Has Woke gone too far? Starfield makes some users change gender to fire guns. (True article, but my "woke" intro is pure sarcasm.) #gaming https://www.404media.co/starfield-bug-forces-pla...
Sep 10 2023, 9:20am	@integerpoet If it were, I imagine it risks the feline jumping off.
Sep 8 2023, 10:38am	When you visit a new website, always pretend to navigate to another tab or the close box, and the page will get scared and offer you a coupon to stay. Like a car dealership. #protip #sitedesign #da...
Sep 4 2023, 10:09am	@JetForMe @mastodonmigration I wonder if visibility would've been better if you'd added hashtags even though you're on your own instance. I'll boost, but as you know, I can't comment/change anything.
Sep 2 2023, 10:05pm	@integerpoet Yes and it was the trainers. They looked at eyes, and swiped right. The machine generated content we're getting now is a reflection of what the trainers looked at, and now we know they...
Sep 2 2023, 3:09pm	It says something about humanity that we've trained our A.I. to create images of people with amazing eyes, lips, boobs and butts, but mere vague Lovecraftian suggestions of crab tentacles for finge...
Aug 29 2023, 5:10pm	@JetForMe I'm stunned. Who could have predicted that‽ Only fix is to provide encryption backdoors, I guess. Nothing could go wrong with that.
Aug 26 2023, 11:10pm	@JetForMe It's JWZ's. https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/08/mastodons-mastodonts/
Aug 25 2023, 9:16am	@rubymayvalentine So much yes. In addition to RSS, provide email notification to those who opt in. Not everybody uses feed readers. But, more and more people are returning, so yay! Nicky Case is ba...
Aug 21 2023, 9:05pm	Lines like this are one of the reasons why I read Cory Doctorow: "To call this a 'transparent ruse' is to do violence to good, hardworking transparent ruses all the world over" #openai h...
Aug 18 2023, 9:59am	My .clang-format file references https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/5/29/1038 where it explicitly doesn't enforce line length. Thanks @torvalds! #code #c #formatwars
Aug 17 2023, 10:38pm	@JetForMe I was hoping for a haiku and started counting syllables.
Aug 17 2023, 10:31pm	I'm having fun reading Elmore Leonard books, and only now realize he got to enjoy seeing 3:10 to Yuma made into a movie twice, 50 years apart from each other. I wonder what he thought of that. #mov...
Aug 15 2023, 9:08am	When I log in to a new device after a few days, I "git pull" my personal dotfiles repo out of a compulsive habit. Just in case. Even though you'd think I'd know if a pull is needed, as I'...
Aug 14 2023, 11:00am	Long thread/15 @pluralistic @medium Re: Medium, I noticed that if you try to use 12ft.io to share the members-only article, it exposes up to the first dinkus, but doesn't give a clue that there's ...
Aug 9 2023, 8:55am	Every time I get on Mastodon, I wish we'd implement @jwz's suggestion here. https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/08/mastodons-mastodonts/ #mastodon #activitypub #threads
Aug 9 2023, 7:38am	@unwiredben I'm interested to hear what you find out. I remember hearing him on the podcast This Week in Tech.
Aug 8 2023, 9:37am	@JetForMe @olivierlacan I'm often pessimistic and sarcastic. Instead, I'm going to be honest here: Yeah, I believe they will. I try to be charitable with voluntary claims about robots.txt.
Aug 8 2023, 9:32am	@b0rk It's not just me! I have re-written things I'd thought would be interesting without realizing it too. (Proprietary work scripts so can't share.)
Aug 4 2023, 8:17pm	I'm here for @b0rk throwing shade at ltrace. 😂 https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/08/03/behind--hello-world/
Aug 4 2023, 8:02pm	A great post on Google's Web Environment Integrity by Cory Doctorow. https://doctorow.medium.com/forcing-your-computer-to-rat-you-out-d6adcec6a89f #wei #google #privacy #enshittification
Jul 22 2023, 4:15pm	"La derecha oprime, la izquierda libera" is "the right oppresses, the left liberates". It's also a mnemonic for which way to turn a screw, like, "rightie tightie, leftie lo...
Jul 19 2023, 1:14pm	@integerpoet I didn't mean to imply I put any effort into anything. I just subscribe to RSS feeds, and notice that often for some feeds people delete posts, but the contents live on in the feeds, a...
Jul 18 2023, 9:31am	@integerpoet "Delete?" Cute. Want to see it in my RSS feed? Do you tell your kids it's possible to delete things they send from their phones?
Jul 16 2023, 4:30pm	@integerpoet It's wishful thinking to say "The Age of Social Media is Dead". I think some of the points are correct, though. "social-media operators discovered that the more emotiona...
Jul 12 2023, 9:50am	@dmitry I have a forkbomb shirt that gets reactions from a certain type of folk. What's your 2600 shirt look like?
Jul 7 2023, 4:43pm	@JetForMe yep, I think you and Doctorow would agree on that being an important factor. Breaks your heart for local businesses that don’t do SEO and lose out to crappy alternatives.
Jul 7 2023, 4:38pm	@JetForMe the way I read Mastodon, threading is not great. After I asked for context here, then I read your earlier post that set up the context. Yeah, sorry to hear about the options you have. M...
Jul 7 2023, 3:55pm	@JetForMe Heh, Cory Doctorow has been writing about the enshittification of everything for a year now. He actually breaks it down pretty nicely, but it looks like things will get worse before they ...
Jul 7 2023, 3:44pm	@JetForMe Are you OK? (Mostly jk, but sorta want to hear the story that led to you posting this.)
Jul 6 2023, 7:53pm	My most secret not-a-secret is I host an online glossary for Neal Stephenson's "Anathem", and not only that, I created a Kindle .mobi glossary for in-situ definitions when reading the boo...
Jul 6 2023, 7:31pm	@StillIRise1963 I'd settle for just official blogs with RSS feeds from the government.
Jul 6 2023, 10:55am	I'm staying on Mastodon because I like services having a web UI. I'll create a Threads account too, but the lock-in to a mobile app means I likely won't use it as much.
Jul 6 2023, 9:59am	@integerpoet Interesting choice on their part that made your recipe work. They chose no web UI. So deleting the mobile app is sufficient to remove all functionality. Doesn't really affect your home...
Jul 4 2023, 4:01pm	@b0rk Related, you can usually tweak your shell's history settings to only keep unique and interesting commands you've executed, so it's easier to find them. https://medium.com/@dblume/have-only-un...
Jul 3 2023, 1:42pm	This is how we get Harlan Ellison's "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2023/07/03/doomba
Jul 2 2023, 4:37pm	@integerpoet I'm right behind you. Sounds nice.
Jun 26 2023, 3:03pm	Artwork probably about two little weirdos being friends. https://falseknees.com/434.html
Jun 25 2023, 10:38am	"The idea of a cage match between Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk doesn’t strike me as fun or exciting or cute or clever. It strikes me as lame." A good, short post by M. G. Siegler https:/...
Jun 24 2023, 10:11pm	Note to self, consider: Sequence Diagrams: https://plantuml.com/sequence-diagram Class Diagrams: https://app.diagrams.net/ Freeform: https://excalidraw.com/ #collaboration #communication
Jun 23 2023, 10:30pm	@SpaceLifeForm Thanks, I was wondering about that.
Jun 23 2023, 4:05pm	@JetForMe I hear ya. I hope your days get better.
Jun 16 2023, 7:53pm	@SpaceLifeForm @JetForMe @ProPublica Yeah, I think I had the same problem with Cory Doctorow. Wanted to see original posts and real engagement, but landed on an account that just had too many boost...
Jun 12 2023, 12:01pm	First great Revisionist History podcast in a long time: "The Pushkin Prize for Egregiously Deceptive Self-Promotion," taking the piss out of Columbia University and George Santos at the s...
Jun 10 2023, 8:45pm	@JetForMe 👍
Jun 9 2023, 9:55am	Mastodon or ActivityPub feature request: We have RSS feeds for original public user posts. Would like another feed for public user boosts. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/11290 #mastodo...
Jun 8 2023, 12:39pm	Randall Munroe's "What if? 2" has the following snippet: "I notice that I started this paragraph with 'there's some good news.' I don't know why I did that." I feel like that co...
Jun 6 2023, 5:10pm	CLI quick tip: URL encode with jq: $ printf %s 'encode this' \| jq -sRr @uri encode%20this $ jq -rn --arg x 'encode this' '$x\|@uri' encode%20this
Jun 5 2023, 5:02pm	Probably the best take on the "AI-Controlled Drone Goes Rogue" story is this one from Cory Doctorow @pluralistic. We're in danger of being misdirected by regular crooks who want us to wat...
May 28 2023, 12:58pm	I love that Cory Doctorow is staging "ideas lying around" for the coming crises that'll cause use to grasp for ideas for change. His ideas are in Chokepoint Capitalism and a series of pos...
May 27 2023, 10:32am	I made some notes about Keyoxide at my wiki. The only assumption is that the reader already has a PGP key pair. https://wiki.dlma.com/keyoxide #identity #cryptography #pgp #keyoxide
May 27 2023, 9:43am	Discovered Keyoxide here at Mastodon. Not the worst use of "TXT" DNS records, and I learned about GPG key "notations". So now I'm on Keyoxide too. https://keyoxide.org/1CBD499C6...
May 27 2023, 1:00am	Every once in a while, I'll check the text and verify the PGP signature in rsync.net's weekly warrant canary. Can't believe I haven't automated it yet. https://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canar...
May 25 2023, 9:31am	I used to think "begging the question" was a smart-person way to say "assuming the original point". I now much prefer to think it's just a straight up bad, cursed translation. h...
May 1 2023, 8:30pm	I really wanted to “quote post” the Mastodon post about quote posts coming soon. But I couldn’t. Yet…
Apr 27 2023, 6:55pm	"This is absolute catnip for private equity — free government money, no obligations, no enforcement, and the people you harm are literally dying and can’t complain. What’s not to like?" -...
Apr 14 2023, 9:01pm	Where does Cory Doctorow come up with these? "[Some countries] must constantly innovate new ways to osculate the cloacae of large firms, lest they slither over to another country and set up 'h...
Mar 31 2023, 6:30pm	Of course GPT-4 hired a TaskRabbit worker to solve CAPTCHAs. https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg5ew4/gpt4-hired-unwitting-taskrabbit-worker
Mar 26 2023, 8:56am	Cory Doctorow reminds us "The fight over these [judicial] decisions to create socialism for the rich and rugged individualism for the poor is a political fight. ... what will make change is th...
Mar 24 2023, 5:06pm	I don't know when they did it, but GitHub added the support needed for verified links for Mastodon. You don't have to fool with github.io anymore! Yay!
Mar 21 2023, 10:51pm	Another great read from Cory Doctorow. "These layoffs have nothing to do with 'trimming the fat' or correcting the hiring excesses of the lockdown. They're a project to transfer value from wor...
Mar 13 2023, 11:04am	Happy National Napping Day! https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2023/03/photos-national-napping-day/673374/
Mar 10 2023, 11:17am	"replace 'AI' with 'SALAMI' ('Systematic Approaches to Learning Algorithms and Machine Inferences'). It’s a lot easier to keep a clear head when someone asks you, 'Is this SALAMI intelligent? ...
Feb 27 2023, 12:24am	Great rant: "There's NEVER just one ant. I guaran-f*cking-tee you that these same creeps have 1,000 other fake Wix websites with 1,000 fake Amex merchant accounts for 1,000 REAL businesses. Ho...
Jan 6 2023, 9:58pm	Welcome to 2023, an inflection point where it becomes frustratingly hard to know if anything is real or trustworthy. #machinelearning #chatgpt #stablediffusion
Dec 22 2022, 9:44am	Content warning: Great professional advice #code #developers, but link to birdsite "They'll be quiet and sound unsure." I feel attacked. But excellent advice from @thingskatedid about usi...
Dec 20 2022, 4:14pm	It's heartbreaking because it can take months for a nebula to puff back up again after you remove the slide.
Dec 20 2022, 4:13pm	The 20th picture in the Space Telescope Advent Calendar is somebody taking a microscope slide and pushing it down on the nebula to flatten it for a better in-focus picture. You can tell where the g...
Dec 16 2022, 10:30pm	@ianepperson welcome to the fediverse! It'll take a little getting used to. Consider following @feditips . Make an intro post, and use hashtags. Mastodon relies on hashtags for discovery.
Dec 14 2022, 2:48pm	It's time to get to work. (A #comic by Poorly Drawn Lines that attacked me.) #comics https://poorlydrawnlines.com/comic/work-2/
Dec 12 2022, 4:54pm	I've been a professional developer for 200 years and I'm still tweaking my .vimrc. Receipt: Found a couple of comments after keyboard mappings. That's a bug. #code #vim https://git.dlma.com/dotfile...
Dec 10 2022, 10:32pm	"Freaks and Geeks", the 2000-era TV show about high school in 1980 is closer to its subject than we are to it. #tv #old
Dec 6 2022, 8:23pm	When coffee is all gone. It's over. https://www.spoon-tamago.com/2022/12/06/museum-of-wonky-english/
Dec 3 2022, 5:26pm	Done. No more Hulu visible form the main page. For archival purposes, here are the four entries from my 2008 Hulu activity feed: https://david.dlma.com/lifestream/hulu.html
Dec 3 2022, 2:52pm	In 2008 to 2009, Hulu provided user activity RSS feeds! I wish more companies provided those. Today I'm going to replace my Hulu feed with my Mastodon feed in my Lifestream. I'm "replacing&quo...
Dec 1 2022, 9:54am	Today's Google Doodle honors videogame pioneer Jerry Lawson, and lets you make video games. Try it out! #game #gamedev https://www.google.com/
Dec 1 2022, 12:12am	I just tried playing Tiny Islands. It's kinda fun and adorable. h/t @zannah #game https://dr-d-king.itch.io/tiny-islands
Nov 30 2022, 7:49am	#protip for happiness: Exercise, eat well, get enough sleep. Have more and warmer social connections of all kinds. From the multi-generational Waldinger’s study. #happiness #health #friends #sleep ...
Nov 27 2022, 12:43am	I may have to learn Rust, because I really want GitUI to work with Vim key bindings. So I may have to fix https://github.com/extrawurst/gitui/issues/1454 #code #rust #git
Nov 26 2022, 3:04pm	@zannah if you add 'rel="me"' to your Mastodon link at zannah.net, you'll get a little checkmark by it in your Mastodon profile. (May have to touch your profile to refresh.) Edit: And... ...
Nov 24 2022, 10:01pm	I just added the CSS prefers-color-scheme media feature at my simple portal. It's just text, so just background/foreground. But adding the feature anyway made me happy that the page will try to acc...
Nov 23 2022, 9:20am	I love Philz Coffee. This is the story of its founder, Phil Jaber. "The Man Who Caffeinates Silicon Valley" https://lorenwoodcuts.medium.com/the-man-who-caffeinates-silicon-valley-ebaf266...
Nov 22 2022, 10:23pm	I have a private wiki where I keep things like a list of which cans of coffee I'd buy again. https://wiki.dlma.com/coffee #coffee #wiki #sharing
Nov 20 2022, 9:30pm	Motivated by love. am•a•teur \|ˌømədər\| noun ORIGIN late 18th cent.: from French, from Italian amatore, from Latin amator ‘lover,’ from amare ‘to love.’ (As seen at https://numi.st/post/2014/do-it-f...
Nov 17 2022, 1:10am	Shakira's "Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)" may be my favorite official FIFA song of all time. Such a positive and energetic vibe.
Nov 15 2022, 9:52am	This Twitter "verified account" fiasco? It's horrifying that UVA students didn’t know if they could trust the verified UVA account during an active shooter this week. #Twitter
Nov 13 2022, 11:16am	Dang, it's hard to write "forever" code. Just has a server get full, abandoning a "lock file" despite correct RAII, and every service that relied on it blocked or eventually thr...
May 8 2022, 2:32pm	I just re-read the Lazarus TPBs, and highly recommend them. Great world building, full of potential for so many stories. Lots of intrigue, science fiction, action and a dash of dystopia. Five (of s...
May 7 2022, 12:29am	Adam Mastroianni says you should go see "Everything Everywhere All at Once" for the sake of pop culture itself. "Pop Culture Has Become an Oligopoly" https://experimentalhistory...
May 1 2022, 12:37am	Something I love about Mastodon: Mastodon has activity RSS feeds of your public posts. Format is: [instance]/users/[username].rss Mine is: https://mastodon.social/users/dblume.rss Your friends can ...
Apr 25 2022, 6:18pm	I'm a rock-climbing father of two and a software developer in the San Francisco Bay Area. Would love to connect with my friends from other social networks. In another life, I'd be a maker. As it is...