OK, tried a new Sichuan restaurant tonight ("BOS Sichuan Taste"), and you know it's good because some of the things on the menu didn't have any English translation. Found one called "🌶️🌶️🌶️成都绝味米豆腐" that looked interesting, and with the help of Google Translate found out that's "Chengdu-style […]

@dragonminded might be interested in this video of a mouse cleaning up someone's workbench: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jLDPzQ42kws

My friend offers her son some chocolate. He shakes his head, and reaches for the kale chips.

@FediTree I would like a tree, please!

The bunnies visiting grandma's for giftmas #bunny #rabbit #bunniesofmastodon #rabbitsofmastodon

@kirakira meets the bunnies.

Willow learned how to climb the stairs today. Like our other bunnies, down is far more daunting than up, so she's only learned up so far. So today, when she learned that she could go up, we had to carry her back down in her litter box, then she'd immediately […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Children of the magenta line "We're Captains & pilots, not automation managers." Somehow feels relevant even to a non aviation audience these days. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ESJH1NLMLs

Are my posts actually getting bridged to Bluesky via the bridge? I tried to reply to a thread that had been bridged over here, but I'm not seeing my replies over on the Bluesky side. Testing a top level post to see if that gets bridged over.

I was curious about the parameter space for the bitwise fractal function, so I bashed out a quick animation script. I'm varying the x offset parameter, which was -350 in the original, but I've found thing stay more interesting in this 400x400 window if I keep […] [Original post on clacks.link]

D'oh. The Wayback Machine (Internet Archive web archive) is down today; was hoping to use that to look up a NIST link that also seems to be down, and isn't archived by archive.today either. http://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-13223 And the Internet Archive Mastodon account doesn't allow […]

Constantly thinking about the fact that we haven't yet hit the enshittification era of Gen AI.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@unlambda/115438212789418750 Testing quote boosts. Let's increase the cute quotient.

Good news! #chatcontrol has been withdrawn by the Danish EU Presidency after failing to gather support. For those who spent countless hours campaigning for #stopchatcontrol, thank you for fighting with us every step of the way […]

Vaxxmaxxed!

Oh, no, is Tailscale falling to the AI slop? They bricked a bunch of our systems with an automatic update today. OK, fine, they've generally been good, an occasional issue comes through, I'm willing to file a ticket and deal with it. So I try to submit a ticket. It doesn't let you submit the […]

Cookie monster

One of those little thorns in your side that just keeps digging in. My company's VPN SSO login page always asks me, after I've completed two factor auth, if I want to stay signed in. I need to answer this before it will log me into the VPN; so if I complete two factor auth and go do something […]

Face!

Whee. Don't you love when you're trying to make a screen recording of one issue to report it. You reproduce the issue, great! Then you go back and watch the screen recording, and the recording just starts completely glitching out and you can't see the issue because the screen recording got […]

@ai6yr The CNN article mentions a connection to swatting attacks against officials, which seems like it's how the Secret Service got involved, and these black market phone networks are exactly what swatters will pay for for making their calls […]

@ai6yr My bet? Not a foreign espionage operation at all. Just a black-market US cell number service, reselling the ability to send texts, make calls, and surf the internet from US cell networks. Possibly some usage of the black market network by adversarial foreign governments, but just as […]

Hmm, interesting, wonder who funded this absolutely massive cache of cell phone devices and SIMs? (links to .gov) https://www.secretservice.gov/newsroom/releases/2025/09/us-secret-service-dismantles-imminent-telecommunications-threat-new-york #cybersecurity #communications #telecom

The lolsob emoji on Slack is getting a lot of use this week.

It always feels cozy when you find a live stream that has fewer than 10 people viewing.

The fanciest cock I saw today.

Took a walk to clear my head, and had a chance to see Reginald Q Tortoise.

[Pet loss] My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today. #rabbit #bunny

[gun violence] Uh, wow, so there was a school shooting today too? I've been heads down all day, checked and see that Charlie Kirk was shot, and then in a thread on that I read there was a school shooting in Colorado today, which has been pushed out of the headlines by the Charlie Kirk shooting […]

Edwin Starr - War https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZJRJpbGkG4

@hachyderm Since yesterday's infrastructure changes, I've been seeing the "Rate limited Please retry after 9:35:00 AM." messages more often. I used to see these message a lot early on in Hachyderm's life, they went away after a while, and now I'm seeing them more often. In fact, just got one […]

On hobbies, I go back and forth between "hey, I'm just spending a few bucks for something to entertain me for a bit" and "the idea of hobbies was conceived to get people to spend money on useless crap that they don't actually need."

Between the current administration, and explosion of LLM use, I think we'll need to call this the "sycophancy era." I hope we can survive it.

Always fun to watch the ADS-B and listen to the ATC of what is temporarily the busiest airport in the world.

What is your favorite meme template, and why is it "STOP DOING X"?

I think it's funny that cryptographers spend their time worrying about whether probabilities of 1 in 2^128 are sufficient margin to prevent attacks, while we're in the middle of handing over our entire IT infrastructure to LLM agents where scoring 95% on a multiple choice test is considered […]

[Politics, Climate] #climateemergency #noaa #weather #politics

One of these years we're going to have the spoons to have more people over for a Solstice feast, but this time just did a very simple one with the two of us. Bruschetta (or is it crostini? or am I being too fancy and should just call it toast?) with a fresh cow […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

One of the things I love about the butterfly is that if you Spoonerize the name, you call them a flutterby, which is just as apt a description as their actual name #butterfly #tigerswallowtail #flutterby

Free Nacho! Free Heidi! Pretty decent protest for such short notice. https://migrantjustice.net/ #montpelier #vermont #abolishice #migrantjustice

Feels weird to be heading to a memorial for my college roommate, @tetron (for any Dartmouth folks, he was my roommate at UMass). Much too soon. https://obits.concordfuneral.com/peter-amstutz

A nice look into flight test at my job. We invited an aviation YouTuber to follow along for flight test of the first plane off our production assembly line, and then to learn to fly it himself. This is the first video about the flight test. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBQlajmPlSk #aviation […]

"We're all going to be out of jobs in a few years due to AI!"

Maybe it's best to avoid EWR for the forseeable future. https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/air-traffic-controller-newark-airport-nj-9zpp3z9ww

So, let me get this straight... the IVF clinic suicide bomber was in an online murderous anarchist vegan cult, but it's a different online murderous anarchist vegan cult than the Zizians?

I know that some people have some complex pronoun preferences, but a 100 page essay on the subject seems a bit much.

Wikipedia moves fast, his page has already been renamed to Pope Leo XIV: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Leo_XIV

Do we need a new acronym, instead of IANAL something like "I am not a lawyer but I have done the bare minimum to at least look up the law in the state we're talking about" IANALBIHDTBMTALLUTLITSWTA Rolls right off the tongue

Proprietary software is just weird. They go through all kinds of hoops to make sure you have to use a GUI installer to install it, just so you can click through the EULA, ensuring that it's as difficult as possible to set up this software to run in your CI environment. So then the vendors go […]