SSDs are pretty reliable in a technical sense.
 That is, unless you make a really, really bad mistake in firmware. 
 HP had a line of ~20 different Enterprise SSD models for datacenter use.
 In exactly 3 years, 270 days and 8 hours, every one is irrecoverably bricked.

So, why is this measured in ml instead of GB? (Sited in Los Angeles)

happy 3²/4²/5² to ask those who celebrate

State of New Mexico Dept. of Health issues order maximizing availability of the COVID vaccine, in defiance of the the idiot running the HHS. Folks in other states: Scream at your state's Dept. of Health and state legislator reps to do the same! www.kob.com/new-mexico/n...

There aren't many stories that prompt gasps at our editors' daily budget meeting. But this was one.

@tyrantinatophat.bsky.social I read with interest your post "It's Time for Americans to Start Talking about 'Soft Secession'". However, I'm disappointed there are few sources cited.

Here @strangeparts.com does a brilliant job of explaining why you can't replicate a manufacturing ecosystem build over three decades in China in the US by just enacting tariffs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_Xf...

"the.. the president just, lied??" "wait hold on a second, the president just, made that up entirely" "that thing the president said, wow, that means he legitimately knows nothing about this" (things people don't say anymore because the bar is in hell/the frog is charred to the pot)

Can't I'm busy this weekend

The effect of school summer vacation on ChatGPT traffic.

aw that's nice, my library got some books for when the AI founders drop by

It even has a dedicated Wikipedia page: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27No_W...

are you tired of being brainwashed by the mainstream media?

The Tesla diner is unfortunately in my neighborhood so I took a little peek to see boxes of milk and frozen foods out in the heat. Good luck to everyone’s stomachs.

. @danielle.bsky.social

Video by UC Berkeley Prof. Hany Farid on tools to detect if an image is made by AI, and why that's important. Well worth the 12 minutes to watch - he's a fantastic lecturer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5_P...

I posted a thread on The Other Microblogging Platform about stuff I saw at OpenSauce 2025. (Thread got broken at one point, so click the link after the first batch). mastodon.social/@isonno/1148...

Looks like the screens and the workout equipment are pretty shy when they're at the dance together.

Noticed floor796.com has added an "Original" link when you click on a character, showing the artwork inspiring it. This is the pop-culture Sistine Chapel of the Internet.

Marcin Wichary, one of my favorite authors, wrote a "history of the control panel" - really, a history of UI evolution. It's well illustrated with photos of the- WAIT, those aren't photos, those are *live emulations* running the software he's referring to! aresluna.org/frame-of-pre...

This will be Exhibit A in the Robot Uprising.

I owned a Chumby right off the desk of it's original designer, @bunniestudios.com.web.brid.gy. I won it as part of his regular "Name That Ware" contest. It even started showing his vacation photos when I first plugged it in. Alas, it was lost in a fire, but kept it going for years.

The guy running the smog test shop was REALLY into Hot Wheels.

So my Netgear ORBI router died after seven years. It always amazes me when a simple "board in a box" appliance with no moving parts suddenly fails. It's bricked, and the "corrupted firmware" LED blinks if you try and factory reset it. Why?

Truth-tellers, not rioters. Protect these two men at all costs. “You feel tough with your assault rifles and your sticks. You should be standing here with us. You’re on the wrong side of history.” “John Lewis said make good trouble… that means make trouble on behalf of democracy.”

This is such a magical photo. There's the challenge of capturing a black cat in the dark. The composition, the light, just amazing. @prolost.com

At the SIGGRAPH conference in 1984, Bill Atkinson and designer Susan Kare did a live demo of MacPaint. People were blown away - the design, the ease of use, the responsiveness. Hoping a video of the presentation survives, but it's not likely. dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

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@ramsesthepigeon.bsky.social So, is the plural "Dollar Generals", or "Dollars General"?

Just discovered there are techs who repair failed bond wires in chips. By hand. ("basic skills" is a serious understatement) www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y7x...

Academic friends, if your NSF grants have been terminated by the administration, FABBS is hosting a webinar Friday about appealing the decisions. It's important that as many people appeal as possible to show we're not accepting this targeting of science. Link to the webinar registration is below.

The original 1977 Star Wars was filmed primarily in England and Tunisia. So - we have to start paying tariffs now to watch it? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Potential art-book/project thread! Please read below!! 👇👇 Can i first ask that you please retweet and comment your thoughts on this? I need as many eyes on this as possible to gauge if its a viable side project worth pursuing! RETROGRADE - A catalogue from from a future that never was!

Watched the movie Flow last night. Our cat was really into it!

I'd like to bring this video to your attention. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyco... It's doing pretty significant numbers for what it is, so while I understand sharing it won't make a difference for those knee-deep in the cult of personality, I'd say it has a better-than-average chance of resonating.

In recent years I've also mostly stopped using my cell phone(battery is dead most of the time) and moved to asynchronous communication only. I'm much happier. It's difficult to pull off, but highly recommend!

Bonus panel here: smbc-comics.com/comic/biz

I've been happily using Online IDEs for a particular project for over a decade. I recently discovered how to use Docker to make a server environment portable. Blog post: saccade.com/blog/2025/02...

I think every designer should write a love letter to a font at least once in their lifetime. This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today. aresluna.org/the-hardest-...

The Treasury Department right now. People are turning out against Musk and DOGE staging a takeover of the Treasury’s payment system. This crowd is big. The whole block is packed. “Lock him up,” everyone yells.

The CEO of the Lesser Evil popcorn brand is the father of one of Elon’s little rats. Demand your grocery store stop carrying rat popcorn. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LesserE...

On New Year's Eve, the House Judiciary Dems led by Rep. Jerry Nadler released a pretty damning report highlighting something I'd been yelling about for two years now: how Jim Jordan was weaponizing the House Judiciary to silence speech: www.techdirt.com/2025/01/10/c...

Today's discovery on another social network: >>> import math >>> sum([math.pow(i, 3) for i in range(1, 10)]) 2025.0 >>> math.pow(sum(range(1, 10)), 2) 2025.0

We tried using the Air Pods Pro 2 hearing aid feature for my mother this Christmas. It did not go well. medium.com/@isonno/appl...

So many crummy photos I can go back and fix with this! blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2...

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