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Gone to CROATOAN for pack of smokes and quart of milk. Back soon. Love, Dad

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Hey, Fedi. It's a shitty time in the world, innit? I'm angry about the fate of immigrants and migrants and gays and queers and bi and trans folk. So. Between now and the end of the week, up to $5000, I will match your donations to https://nwirp.org/donate/ or […]

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

I kinda hated writing this but I needed to do it. Maybe now, finally, I can stop writing it in little fragments here and there, and just let it go and do something else. https://blog.glyph.im/2025/06/i-think-im-done-thinking-about-genai-for-now.html

submitted 11 days ago • 9 comments

"Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about... your local park reopening." "My local park reopening??? Let me tell you about my local park reopening."🎉 🥳 https://lynnwoodtoday.com/its-a-golden-day-in-lynnwood-scriber-creek-boardwalk-trail-opens-to-public/ […]

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Today I know more about #Python #pyenv shim's fall through to the system default than I did yesterday. Stumbled upon a problem I didn't realize that I was having. Testing against an older version of an older version(3.11.2 vs 3.11.12) because it wasn't specified in the pyenv global. 🤦 Now I […]

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve been thinking of making some short form videos about historical #Unix versus current releases of #FreeBSD, #illumos, #Linux and macOS, occasionally 9front if I find way more time than I expect. I’m leaning toward preferring v6 due to its preceding BSD1 & PWB, the Lions book, MIT’s xv6 (and […]

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

[politics, USPol, US Politics, rant] Given the choice, I think I would've preferred Marc Fisher over Nick Land/Curtis Yarvin entering the mainstream as an "intellectual" esoteric oddball. Makes me almost pine for the days when cough Jordan Peterson cough was the cough "Intellectual Dark […]

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

#LazyWeb Daughter's coming back from Japan with 100s of photos & is looking for portable photo printer. I've been out of the printing biz for ~20+ years so I'm reaching out here for recs. From her: "I'm mainly looking for scrapbooking reasons, so small prints I can print multiple images onto […]

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

[politics, USPol, US Politics] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fema-staff-confused-after-head-said-he-was-unaware-us-hurricane-season-sources-2025-06-02/ #USPol #Weather #FEMA #News

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Doctor Who is simply batshit crazy. What the hell was that season finale?🤣

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

hehe. Yeah...From Campbell's soup to the Holocaust tonight. I guess what keeps my attention is just wildly divergent. 🤣 It makes sense to me, dammit!!

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Picked a really dark bit of reading this month. I've had a lifelong fascination with the Book of Job, various exegesis & have read a bit of ancillary material over the years. However, this book brings in a lot of personal accounts from #Holocaust survivors […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

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Went to pick up some cream of mushroom #soup for a beef stroganoff dish I planned to cook. I was ill prepared for the options available. I found: Cream of Chicken & Mushroom, Healthy Request Cream of Mushroom, Low Sodium Cream of Mushroom, 25 Percent Less […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

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Apparently the ravens in Japan(I guess they are more plentiful there than in WA state) managed to confuse my daughter. Initially, she just thought that they were crows with accents.🤣

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

The #wildfire #smoke was so thick at my dad's house in Warroad, Minnesota last night that he could see sunspots with the naked eye. He took this photo with an iPhone. #MNwx #MBfire #weather

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

I'd like to point out that this article is inaccurate as far as official #Xfce development goes. The merge mentioned in this article is for an unsupported fork of #xfwm4 At this point, there are no plans to take these commits and merge them into the xfwm4 repository at […]

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

I am observing #VolunteerResponsibilityAmnestyDay this Spring and published my list ahead of the date to give you a chance to reflect on your own responsibilities. https://sethmlarson.dev/observing-volunteer-amnesty-day Thanks to @brainwane for creating this time of intentional reflection […]

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Looks like "crashout" has reached critical mass in white, middle aged male vernacular this week. 😕 (By the time a "new" slang word reaches some of the threads I lurk in, I know that it's already passed its peak usage and it's now being used by out of touch old guys trying to appear cool. 🤣) […]

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Played for awhile in meatspace today. Spitting down rain leaving home. Rode the rail to Seattle. Read some of Vollmann's Rising Up and Rising Down on the train into town. Love reading on the train. Seattle was strangely desolate for a mid-week mid-afternoon. Watered plants at my daughter's […]

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Decoding TCP SYN for Stronger Network Security https://www.netscout.com/blog/asert/decoding-tcp-syn-stronger-network-security A brief look at TCP SYNs observed by low impact honeypots. I mainly sought evidence for source address spoofing and anomalous patterns with TCP header lengths and the […]

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

giving a shit: underrated https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-05-23-who-cares/

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Get to live vicariously on Japan Standard Time for a week as my daughter boards her plane now. Time zones? It's not even funny. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDmWYVdN8ug

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Using "in:library" is a really neat option to #search my own post history. However, it's pretty depressing to see just how quickly some links can die. Mea culpa for linking to unexpected ephemeral content I guess.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

I've got a really basic question re: the #Posting #API TUI client: How do I get a query with multiple results to show up in my response window? For example: https://api.thecatapi.com/v1/images/search?limit=10 Out of the box, it seems to only return/show one result. Postman & curl & web return […]

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

I'm busy just sitting still. Daughter is taking off with her husband to Japan in two days. I'll be light railing it over to West Seattle & baby-sitting some reptiles & plants for a week. Then my Uncle, Aunt, & cousin who I haven't seen in ten years are landing in town for a week & I get to be […]

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

The miracles. Of modern. Technology! 1. Register for API key using email address. 2. Leave box unchecked for receiving future updates, news, promotions. 3. Registration hangs with spinny wheel never timing out. 4. Refresh page 4 times. 5. Get 4 working API Keys 20 minutes later. ...12 hours […]

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[politics, USPol, US Politics, Police] "Protesters had also reportedly popped a balloon at the church group’s rally in the moments before the melee." 🎈 🤣 Stay safe out there, folks […]

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Gave the cat some catnip an hour ago and she's staring me down has decided that I am now a perpetual treat dispenser. Normally, she'll just run laps, writhe on the carpet, and avoid eye contact. Good to see new twists in the stoner kitty lifestyle.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Negative, Cloudflare. I am a meat popsicle.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

was a nice evening

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

[capol, some mildly nsfw images] Cory Doctorow's keynote from PyCon 2025 is now up! (44 minutes) It's a great rant that discusses the business forces that lead to enshittification and suggests a way for Canada to respond to US tariffs. https://youtu.be/ydVmzg_SJLw #CoryDoctorow #keynote […]

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Got a hold of the new Stereolab AND Marc Ribot albums today. The afternoon just got tremendously better. https://www.mojo4music.com/articles/new-music/stereolab-instant-holograms-on-metal-film-reviewed/ #music

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Today is the fediverse's 17th birthday! The first post was made May 18th, 2008 by @evan on a website called Identi.ca, which was the first node in the network we now call the fediverse! Thanks to @titi and @hodeiaezdaexistitzen for pointing this out! […] [Original post on social.wake.st]

submitted 28 days ago • 4 comments

Is anyone actually making progress on mastodon<->bluesky integration these days? Most of the people I actually care about are on mastodon, but bsky is slowly collecting most of the institutions I'd like to follow.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Thorough analysis of satellite reentries over the last 5 years, and how they were affected by the May 2024 solar storm: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.13752 Personally, I think the paper has way too much of a tone of "wow look at all this great reentry data! We […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

submitted 26 days ago • 8 comments

Jan Mankes was a great and underappreciated Dutch painter. He was a pacifist working in the early 20th century and his paintings have a warm serenity to them. Masterful but also quick, they radiate light and a soft beauty. Combined show right now at the […] [Original post on mastodon.coffee]

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Fresh #Debian 12.11.0 torrents available for seeding https://fosstorrents.com/distributions/debian/#downloads #Linux #Torrent

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Pleasantly surprise to discover last night that Poker Face has, finally, started it's second season. I don't really watch current episodic shows; but, I've managed to hold an interest in hoping this one returned. Kind of a fun, quirky homage to Columbo & other 70's detective shows and a goofy […]

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

I’m not sure it’s entirely sane to be revitalizing a rubygem I haven’t maintained in a decade just so my resume doesn’t have dead links. But it /feels/ productive.

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

I critique what I consider are bad #GitHub choices and decisions. At the same time, GitHub is a top sponsor of the #curl project. They are among the few companies that make #curl keep going. We cannot easily afford to switch to something else without someone with a think wallet helping us do it.

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