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  Apparently the libera.chat folks have banned omarchy chans from their network. Good on them.

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  Tonight while watering the garden w/ 6yo we made clarinets out of squash stalks. It was absurd fun.

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  I'm in a weird situation at home where we currently have *three* internet connections (which is between 2 and 3 too many), each of which sucks, and one sucks in very different ways than the other two. Are there any home options (e.g. OpenWRT?) that can do anything clever with multiple upstream connections, beyond just fallback/warm spare? Can you split traffic meaningfully without the upstream provider's help?

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@gvwilson/116997366488785600 I see arguments like this *all the time* and it’s so depressing. It’s just not true that most opponents to genAI don’t understand its utility… it’s that we think the ethics *actually matter*. I have a good understanding of the capabilities of these systems. I understand their utility. But if the ethics are crap (and they are), why should I care? This framing is just to make people who want to use them feel more comfortable setting ethic...

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  I just went to the store to buy a bunch of air filter refills, and learned that they now have Bluetooth enabled ones. Not, like, the whole machine, but the actual individual filters have little tags on them with some sort of Bluetooth ability. I considered buying one just to see what it does/shows up as, but didn’t want to encourage that BS.

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  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@atax1a/116836527918659501 Where’s the CompSci version of this?

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  6yo has been on-and-off afraid of spiders recently, but also watched Into the Spider-Verse last week. Me: “Want to check the mail?” 6yo: “If there’s no spiders or webs, yes.” Me: “But spiders are your friends now!” 6yo: Me: “Maybe if you get bit you’ll get special powers.” 6yo: “Not in this world.” Me: “Oh, that’s not where special powers come from in this world?” 6yo: “Nope.” Me: “Where do they come from in this world?” 6yo: “Your heart.” 😳😭

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  @tvaziri@mastodon.social “Hey, y’know the thing that makes Pixar movies interesting, emotionally resonant, and genuinely loved? We’re going to stop doing that because some shitty parents told us in a focus group they’re afraid of feelings.”

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  @dgar@aus.social @jminor@indieweb.social This remains a good idea every time I hear it. 😂

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  @darius@friend.camp Ooo, this looks super useful!

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  @rk@mastodon.well.com I initially thought this said “I’m sad about humans“, and that felt pretty relatable.

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  @yetiinabox @quixoticgeek @me_ Sigh, it remains on my “someday” list.

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  The blowtorch was a whole lot of fun, and the oiling process was very calming. The end results look really nice (sort of a shame they’re getting buried in the ground, mostly; if I had known, I might’ve budgeted more time and materials to do the whole thing); I want a lot more things to look this way now. I can feel the call of the programmer-to-woodworking pipeline.

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  I just read someone complaining that the Raspberry pi zero 2w was too slow again, and, like, okay, it’s not the fastest thing you could buy. But also: it’s got 4 1Ghz cores. I built a “jukebox” that played compressed audio it pulled off the network with a 90Mhz Pentium. Friggin’ web browsers…

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  I think if Cook had stepped down 18 months ago, he would have been almost uniformly viewed as an outstanding success, *especially* in terms of how to transition a company away from a founder they're strongly associated with. Now, at least outside of MBA school, it's going to be gold awards to fascists and Liquid Glass.

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  Oh no, this email says the secretly recorded me with my webcam! …and the didn’t say how they got the webcam on this FreeBSD laptop working.

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  I have a copy of Godzilla Minus Zero on DVD. I’d like to rip it to my file server. HandBreak reliably stops encoding at ~49 minutes in and acts like it’s succeeded. I’ve never seen that before. Any ideas? #HandBreak

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  I've been working part-time from a coworking space for a little while now. Overall, I think it's been a net win, but wow are there a lot more AI-friendly conversations here than in the coffee shop. I need my headphones more so I don't glare at everyone.

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  [Edit: answered; see thread.] Y’know those “Map of the ARPAnet” things from ~1977? I’ve seen a bunch at different specific dates (or at least months). Is there a consolidated archive of them somewhere?

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  My partner and I were having a mild disagreement about one of today’s tasks. Partner: “Okay we’re not doing it today. We can talk about it later. I can’t deal with your attitude today.” Me: “What? I don’t think I’m…” Partner: “You have an attitude. You have since this morning.” 6yo, who had not previously been involved in the conversation, unprompted: “Dad doesn’t have an attitude, you have an attitude.” 😳☠️

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  Y'know how we all hate it when a restaurant's only web presence is a Facebook or Instagram page? Like, yeah, setting up a web site isn't *trivial*, but it's also not that hard, and if you're doing something public facing, you should really put in the effort, right? This post is about software projects who's only web presence is a github README.md.

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  I can't believe this thing hasn't been filled up yet. I'm also pleasantly surprised by how little shitty behavior is exhibited. https://floppy.loop0.sh

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  I’m trying to decide what to do with the urge to create a new product just because I thought if an amusing bit for how to sell it.

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  I have an SVG file which refers to a font file with @font-face. It's working properly. But when including that svg file in html using an <img> tag, the font isn't loaded. I presume this is some security thing guarding against transitive loads. But what's the right practice here? What are the actual restrictions? How do I make the svg so that it renders properly in html?

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  > That board is ancient. It used DDR3. Jesus you and I have very different definitions of “ancient”.

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  This is the most lightning I have ever seen in a single storm in Oregon. #twtxt CN85nr

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  [Edit: I'm okay on this for now, thanks!] I have a handful of images in this style, but I only scans of physical media; the original files are lost or inaccessible. I’d like to have SVGs of these, but all the converters I’ve tried produce very poor results. Given the geometric style, it seems like it should be easy-ish to trace in Inkscape or whatnot. Are there people I can pay to do this conversion? How do I find them, and what should I expect it to cost? Better yet: are *you* this pe...

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  I want to get access to iMessage from outside Apple's platforms. I have a Mac I can leave running at home. I do not need all the features, just a way to send/receive text and be notified when there's something incoming. Is there something that will do this? In my mind, it's a module for an IRC server I can leave running on the Mac... 😂