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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 […]

HAPPENING NOW: Rümeysa Öztürk (repped by ACLU) has a hearing before Vermont federal judge William K. Sessions III. Öztürk is the Tufts PhD student snatched off the street by ICE and now facing deportation for cowriting a pro-Palestine op-ed in the student newspaper. 🧵

Every time someone at work mentions the Regatron power supply I hear a dembow beat playing in my head.

#vermont showing up for the #handsoff protest.

Today I learned that "fiddlesticks" isn't just a silly nonsense word, but actually refers to one person using a fiddle as a percussion instrument while someone else is playing it. Wild. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x569MCaJA3Y

I was searching for yagi antennas to show someone what they are and I found this absolutely cursed human moth

[uspol] No, the white house didn't confuse transgenic for transgender. The study they cited that included a transgenic mouse model was for studying the effect of hormones on the reproductive systems of trans men. Don't get caught in the trap of mistaking hate for stupidity. Call them out for […]

It's funny, during the #slack outage today, one thing that still works it my GitLab notifications using the deprecated Web Hook interface for posting to Slack; nothing else is able to post, but our GitLab notifications are coming through. #slackdown #hugops

hilarious: for binaryen's wasm-opt, optimizations are cumulative; -O3 -O3 runs the -O3 optimizations twice. for the wasm in google sheets, they use -O3 -O3 -O3 -O3 -O3 -O3 😂 https://github.com/WebAssembly/binaryen/wiki/GC-Optimization-Guidebook

I keep trying to tell him that flat fuck Friday was yesterday, and he can clearly hear me but is choosing to ignore me. #bunny #rabbit #bunniesofmastodon #bnuuy

So apparently if you go to the official TortoiseSVN download site without an ad blocker, you get an ad with a big "Download" button that shows up above the real download button, and downloads malware.

#bunny #rabbit #bunniesofmastodon

Pet peve: video players which start playing as soon as you move the seek control. I might play it, then want to scrub back to the beginning so I can show someone else, and it keeps on playing a fraction of a second before I'm able to pause it, so there's no way to actually start it right at the […]

Ooh, new Datalog just dropped. https://hci.social/@chrisamaphone/113720388706140729

[reproductive rights, horrifying] Jesus christ, Vermont DCF, what the fuck? I'm not sure I can express how horrified I am at their actions here. They surveilled a woman through her pregnancy, used information she provided to counselors to determine before her child had been born that she […]

Spent a while trying to debug why I could run a DHCP server one ethernet port on a NUC, but not the other one. After banging our heads and finding that everything else worked other than running a DHCP server on that port, finally figure it out: vPro/AMT/whatever it's called intercepts […]

Hey folks on Bluesky! This account is bridged from an ActivityPub (Mastodon) server. I see that some people have replied to my bridged account, but I can't see those replies unless you also opt-in to bridging your posts to ActivityPub. For your replies to come back to me, you have to follow […]