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these labels are incredibly useful btw
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夏の影、大宮、さいたま市
GoPro Hero 3 White Edition
They should rename .unwrap() to .foo().
Young coder: "Why TF is it called that?"
Old coder: "Wait, that's the actual name?"
Book author: "Finally!"
The erosion of privacy rights we are seeing worldwide is directly linked to the rise of authoritarianism we are seeing worldwide.
#Privacy #Democracy #HumanRights #ChatControl #AgeVerification
Had a couple of conversations with folk recently about the joys of time sheets — and why tracking an individuals work is often / usually a terrible idea, as well being a PITA.
But it reminded me of a practice I've found super useful in the past when I've been forced to do it myself.
TL;DR: Don't track time on task. Track interruptions.
Block out the time for the primary task - then log and subtract time spent on interrupting tasks. I found this useful coz: (1/3)
No more website boy!
Obsidian 1.10.5 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile.
https://obsidian.md/changelog/2025-11-19-desktop-v1.10.5
Helpful tip for web server operators¹: if you want to know all of the network address space associated with a particular organization in a nice text form, find out their ASN (perhaps from https://bgp.tools/ with an IP address) and then:
whois -h whois.radb.net -- ' -i origin AS150436'
Dump that in a file, get all of the 'route:' entries, and feed them to your favorite CIDR/netblock calculator to minimize them and give you a nice list for your web server ACLs/etc.
@cksChris Siebenmann I would recommend bgpq3 (or 4) as an alternative. Both faster and gives a more accurate result. Switched from whois and it works a lot better.
bgpq3 -F '%n/%l\n' AS150436
TLが動かんぞ
.............클라 뜯어서 나온 스크립트에 적힌 담당자 ID로 사찰을 했다고. 악의가.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:a6qvfkbrohedqy3dt6k5mdv6/post/3m5yvfjcfys2u
今日もきょうとて 
ea616ac4a4 (upstream/main) Improve media modal swipe animation (#36916)
01b11c328c chore(deps): update dependency i18n-tasks to v1.1.0 (#36907)
bc7c83ba76 Update `glob` dependency (#36940)
366856f3bc Fix theme-related Vite errors even when `theme_tokens` feature flag is disabled (#36936)
4d0aab4a31 Fix `g` + `h` keyboard shortcut not working when a post is focused (#36935)
c22b203bca Fix quoting overwriting current content warning (#36934)
52b92bdc9c chore(deps): update dependency bootsnap to '~> 1.19.0' (#36906)
4f6a7e44d1 Update rubocop-rspec to version 3.8.0 (#36853)
81ffd1d3c7 New Crowdin Translations (automated) (#36933)
9872197d1f Fix `Rails/RedirectBackOrTo` cop (#36930)
On the weekdays, they were one of those places that had chefs that would literally feed you for breakfast/lunch/dinner, and holy shit it was amazing food. But on the weekend, they left open a "sandwich bar", so I would buy a can of Amy's Vegetable Lentil Soup with generous amounts of hot sauce and make a cheese and vegetable sandwich.
And echoing around my desk, the sounds of distorted cheery consumerism from another era. It was odd and comforting
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber I love doing stuff like this! I used to put on https://otcs.minuspoint.com/ and some 80s vaporwave and vibe. But I think old department store muzak goes harder.
@gerrymcgovern I think this is part of the thing, people keep saying "oh well water use is not that bad"
We don't fully KNOW how bad the water usage of datacenters is. But we do know that communities living near them are being impacted hugely.
But we should know.
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber @gerrymcgovern
Yes. Here it is in case anyone missed it.
The Great AI Bubble
"What we’re seeing is a closed doom loop underpinned by…well, what exactly? The promise of a world-changing technology that, guess what, isn’t here yet and there’s no real sign that it ever will be. These companies are stealing every scrap of data they can find, throwing compute power at it, draining our aquifers of water and our national grids of electricity and all we have so far is some software that you can’t trust not to make things up."
Carole Cadwalladr
Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max
Link: https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-1-codex-max/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45982649
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber 
@mlemwebDr. Morgan Lemmer-Webber
Hell one time my street map was from before a whole neighbourhood was built and it just showed swamp land and a radioactive site keep-out zone which was now a fish and chips shop...
We affectionately call @cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber 's story her Odyssey.
The GPS in our older car considers my entire hometown an "unverified area" ... the town has been around longer than the GPS it's just a tiny farm town in the middle of nowhere Illinois so nobody had bothered to map it by 2010.
Coming to re:Invent? Hang with Tailscale, Suger, Deepgram & Vanta.
We’re hosting a happy hour Wed, Dec 3 at Vista Cocktail Lounge (10-min walk from the Venetian). Craft cocktails, good food, great people.
RSVP: https://luma.com/reinventhappyhour
Take a breather, and recharge with us.
'Zahlen: Vier' #FotoVorschlag
I've talked about it before but Attention K-Mart Shoppers is such an incredible thing, a collection of overhead department store music from a forgotten era https://archive.org/details/attentionkmartshoppers
My favorite thing is still the opening track from the October 1989 tape. The synths! The distortion! The yearning calls of the instruments! The piano! https://archive.org/details/KmartOctober1989
There are so many good tapes though
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber if you're not already familiar with the rabbit hole, the history of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeburg_1000 is wild! mass-produced subscription service generic muzak vinyl albums for retail shopping chains in the 50s-60s, the sheer VOLUME of available kitsch is difficult to comprehend. There's plenty available from above-board and below-board sources, including the archive https://archive.org/details/Seeburg1000_2
I decided to make my aunt a CD out of one of their Christmas albums as a gift one year, just low-fi 50's instrumentals, it gave her SO much nostalgia for her childhood, I wasn't expecting it to be a hit but a nice surprise :)
Rückruf: Glasstücke in Asia Green Garden KIMCHI via Aldi-Nord möglich
YouTube tests bringing back direct messages, a ‘top feature request’ https://9to5google.com/2025/11/19/youtube-is-testing-a-revival-of-built-in-direct-messages-a-top-feature-request/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
fwiw we stopped paying attention to anil dash sometime between the revelation that he accidentally invented the NFT at a hackathon, and that time he posted something like "i don't think anyone ever makes a dns change that they're confident in, because i do not know how to do that thing"
we are going into winter season which means we are going into a very specific musical season.
https://the8bitbigband.bandcamp.com/track/wii-sports-theme-from-wii-sports
It’s the most wonderful jolly time where i try to fit as much video-game themed jazz into the otherwise swingy christmas lists :D
4%の酒を箱で常備するの、コンスタントに毎日飲酒が止まらないので良くない
I’m hoping by the way that my long blogging hiatus is properly over - it’s just been a hell of a busy year!
I've finished the initial Haskell implementation of my ilo vm for #konilo #forth
As with the nga implementation for #retroforth, it's not going to be good yet, but it's a start.
http://fossils.retroforth.org:8000/ilo/file?name=vm/Ilo.hs&ci=2b817e17ddcc281a
For those in London wondering about the massive laser, it's LIGHT25 at the Business Design Centre, and I suspect the laser is the 1.5kW Kvant Architect.
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@Mara/115575199307766755
I have seen so many production incidents at `$FAANG` triggered because of the liberal usage of `unwrap`, and it always comes down to the same thing
It's the _culture_ in these companies which is constantly pushing workers to do more with less, and deliberately failing to allocate enough time and resources for the deliverables being requested
Changing the name of `unwrap` isn't going to have any impact on this problem; everybody working on these codebases at companies of this magnitude knows that denying the use of `unwrap` or `expect` is a simple `deny` annotation away
Even if they had to write `or_panic` instead of unwrap, they would still do it, because the problem here is not a technical problem, it is a problem of working conditions
This is what we get with an economic model which is centered around making every worker "fungible", and no amount of safety guarantees in the Rust compiler or standard library naming decisions will ever be able to address this fundamental underlying issue
Installing #openbsd is easy, but what does it take to keep your system in trim?
Here is a piece I wrote, "You Have Installed OpenBSD. Now For The Daily Tasks." https://nxdomain.no/~peter/openbsd_installed_now_for_the_daily_tasks.html to provide some pointers (also at https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2024/09/you-have-installed-openbsd-now-for.html if tracking is not a thing you worry about) #maintenance #sysadmin #dailytasks #dailydriver
For those in London wondering about the massive laser, it's LIGHT25 at the Business Design Centre, and I suspect the laser is the 1.5kW Kvant Architect.
ウゥ〜大量のメール捌くの苦しイィ〜ンって思いながらインボックス開いたら一通しか来てなくて椅子から転げ落ちた
A (horrible) alternate reality, inspired by yesterday.
user with 537 tabs and documents open on three 4k monitors: why do computers these days use so much ram? this never happened when I had one single Internet Explorer window open on a 800x600 monitor
artist's rendition of conservative fears of nyc
(source: https://www.tumblr.com/cikero/799389463938777088?source=share)
Thoughtworks Radar, on a podcast with Gergely Orosz, another way at looking at feature/time curves, and the return of Heavy Cardboard
user with 537 tabs and documents open on three 4k monitors: why do computers these days use so much ram? this never happened when I had one single Internet Explorer window open on a 800x600 monitor
I also think that people forget just how much computers crashed before we started making them more "memory inefficient". It used to be completely normal that your personal computer would just explode two or three times a day and you'd lose all your work. I still have the "control-s every five seconds" reflex to this day.
user with 537 tabs and documents open on three 4k monitors: why do computers these days use so much ram? this never happened when I had one single Internet Explorer window open on a 800x600 monitor
Hello people interested in a decentralised Fediverse, would like some feedback on something 🙏
At the moment, Fedi.Garden only lists Fediverse servers with fewer than 50,000 registered members. I am wondering if this limit should be replaced by a limit based on active members rather than registered members?
If a server has had a lot of signups in the past but not many active now, it is perhaps unfairly shut out of Fedi.Garden even though it now needs help getting noticed?
Any thoughts?
Trauma freezes you in time
I admit that I find it kind of weird when people oppose a government digital ID while they happily accept the digital (shadow) IDs that ad/tracking networks, Facebook, Google, Twitter, Amazon etc already have with less to non-existent oversight and control. #UnpopularOpinion
This is quite neat: Second Reality C++ port made it possible to compile the demo to run in a web browser: https://www.jsr-productions.com/secondreality/index.html (click inside the view to start it)
- Main page: https://www.jsr-productions.com/secondreality.html
- Source code: https://github.com/XorJS/SecondRealityPlusPlus
- Original Second Reality (1993) demo at pouet: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=63
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