I miss the old days when you could just email people. #plex changed their repositories and require people to make changes to their linux boxes. However, their instructions included the "sudo echo ... > file" construction, which doesn't write the file as root […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I spent MAR10-day celebrating with the @mediaarchaeologylab I can't get the words together to say how amazing the experience was. Their collection is broad, deep, and varied. Yes, I got my obligatory game of Super Mario Brothers, but I also played with a […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Hey, today is MAR10... You know, like the Italian plumber of Nintendo fame? I just happen to be in the shadows of the Flatirons without a set plan for the day. Seems like the perfect day to try dropping in on Boulder's Media Archaeology Lab! I feel confident betting they've got an NES there […]

"Why don't you use our map app?" Well, this experience sums it up neatly.

@icefoxx Cookie has been freed! https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/116167206737582894

how it started / how it's going https://arcade.pirillo.com/space-needle.html

Ugh... a found a restaurant that is cheap and tasty and convenient, but I can't stand going there. Their building is strangely impervious to wireless network signals If I can't read fedi while feeding my face, then I'm gonna be sad.

When half the sign burned out, a local Popeyes restaurant appeared as [POPE yes]. I wonder if that was intentional? It pleases me a bit more than breaking at the obvious syllable break [POP eyes] would have.

and we both know which one is more trustworthy here

oh, you asked an LLM? well we posted an offhand question on mastodon and an autistic cat-type entity infodumped to us about it

I've been reminded of how important the photo tagging we do here in the Fedi is. I've reached the end of a cross-country move and I've discovered that the movers packed all my framed are in nondescript brown boxes, all helpfully labeled "Picture".

Few things enrage me more than doing the whole lockup-dance to buy a $5 can of shave cream.

I can't wait until ICE agents hit the "find out" phase and start appearing in the ER, where they hit yet another level of "find out".

I'm moved back to #denver and am looking forward to getting hooked back into the hacker scenes here. In the meantime, I've already received my home's first ValPak coupons and already been approached by the Mormons. So, yeah, I guess we're off to a good start.

Cool. I bought (and loved!) the last cell phone that LG released. Now, it appears I've also bought the last cell phone that Asus is releasing. There are just not a lot of choices out there if you want things in your phone like... a headphone jack. Or removable sims. Google already successfully […]

So, seriously: is there really no way to scan a QR code from a saved image on an android phone? I have a picture of a business card with a vcard encoded on it. Google tools just feed it to their AI which says "this looks like a QR code! Here's a thousand pictures of other QR codes!" The old […]

It's like watching your parents fighting, if your parents were terrible people. It is true that both Sparkfun and Adafruit are pioneers in my space and the world is a better place because of them. It is also true that I've been nursing a grudge against SF for decades. And it is also true that […]

How old am I? I'm young enough to not really know who Mae West was, but old enough that I remember when all the internet still went through MAE-West.

Back in 2021, Bo Burnham released _Inside_ which was emotionally wrenching. I've rarely felt so concerned for another human in my life. He and I don't run in the same circles, so it isn't as if I was going to be running into him at the bowling alley or the laundromat. It's no big thing that I […]

Free at last, thank dog almighty, free at last. Now maybe we could send someone down to Texas this time to tell all their trees.

Moving houses is proving to be a gigantic pain in the ass. But I'm quite looking forward to the opportunity to redesign my Home Assistant layout better. Maybe I'll even have an IoT VLAN configured, too!

At my restaurant, I'm going to have those huge 4K monitors displaying the menus. But I'm going to have a dial behind the counter that allows the employees to adjust the amount of blur filter to apply.

More than a few years ago, I was pulled out of a crowd seated on bales of straw to star as Friar John in a RenFest production of Romeo and Juliet. I was given ONE job: Deliver a letter to Juliet. But some hose-wearing pervert, playing the role of "rock," grabbed me and stole the letter. Oh […]

Decades ago, we had a regular meetup at the local pub, where our regular waitress took good care of us. One particularly bad day, when it was time to order I just groused, "I just want a bowl of ranch dressing and a shitload of rolls..." Dear reader, she /delivered/.

My Thanksgiving duty is making rolls from a recipe at least three generations old. Things have change a bit, though: Grandma didn't have a KitchenAid. The best was when I had DirecTV. Their satellite receiver used a ton of energy even when idle, and the prodigious waste heat turned the shelf […]

You know the old Dr. Demento classic "They're Coming To Take Me Away"? Ha ha hee hee hoo hoo to the funny farm etc... I only now actually listened to the lyrics and realized that it's a LOVE SONG. The reason he's gone mad is because she left him!! Girl, you made the right decision. 😬

I'm no flat-earther, but huge numbers trouble me, too. Something that helped was doing the math for how much a Super Walmart curves. The one near me is about 162m wide. You have two options for building a flat floor like this on a curved surface: 1) build a flat floor and balance a solitary […]

I just can't kick this feeling that there was something I was supposed to remember remember last week.

We've gotten so many of these pieces where a liberal engages in a good-faith effort to understand Trump voters. Every time, they discover that there's no deeper sympathetic reason they hold their views. They're just misinformed and hateful. My own efforts have found this too.

Another week, another stack of news about tech layoffs coupled with massive cloud outages and security disasters. Gee, I sure hope Pump Six keeps running... Ain't nobody left who knows what it's for or how it works, but that's okay: AI's gonna save us.

My doctor is concerned about the triglyceride levels in my blood. But on the other hand, I suspect that makes me attractive to any vampires that might be out there. My blood is well marbled. I have blood like a wagyu ribeye.

Yikes. If you ever happen to fall into a nuclear reactor, please remember to keep your mouth shut!! https://mastodon.tds.xyz/@whoopsie/115418337621820124

*laughing in ISO 8601*

[Spiders] @mdwyer No. https://27bslash6.com/overdue.html

[Spiders] Spiders are supposed to have eight legs, right? #seattle #spiders

The amount of microprocessor power available to small electronics is stunning. The little chip that might be running just your desktop keyboard is capable of emulating the capabilities of the 1984 Apple Macintosh. Designers are busy using that excess power to add cloud, smart, AI, etc features […]

A regular old cup of yogurt is about 80¢ here. You can pay almost double for that and get fancy Greek or Icelandic style. So is the cute little stoneware pot of froofy French yogurt, that is 20% smaller and costs almost 5x as much as the basic stuff, actually worth it?! Yes. 😑 Damnit, yes.

Me standing next to a supercomputer in 2077. Me standing next to a supercomputer on Thursday. The first picture is from CDPR's game "Cyberpunk: 2077". The second picture is from SDF.org's ICM https://icm.museum/blog/?p=15 #cyberpunk #cyberpunk2077 #cassettefuturism #sdf

If you're a retro-tech fan in the #seattle area, this is a GREAT weekend. First, stop by under the big 'R' this Saturday or Sunday to poke at some old tech. Similar to #vcf, the Interim Computer Festival is a neat little show of all kinds of vintage tech from my friends. Details at […]

Quick shout-out to Obsolescence Guaranteed who makes a series of working 1:3 scale mainframe computers from the 1960s. Last night I and another guest of SDF's ICM were sort of failing to appreciate the actual, real, full-sized models. The flippy switches on the real ones were mushy and simply […]

My doctor says I am "alert, well developed, well nourished, cooperative, and in no apparent distress". I don't have the heart to tell her that actually I am *losing my shit* keeping my distress hidden.

Old games suck. Sorry. They are fun to show kids, though. There's some joy in sharing the bad-old-days with kids. "When I was your age" stories don't have to be bitter. A few years back we played old 2600 games on a Dreamcast emulator with a friend's son. A lot of the experience was […]

My "Name That Ware" entry just went up at Bunnie Studios! If you are a fan of retro electronics and old computer stuff, go check out https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2025/name-that-ware-september-2025/ and post your guesses about that this big lump of chips might be.

I'm not allowed to whip out my phone while driving, so I hope this word-image will suffice: A crowd of *dozens* of #furries crowding the sidewalk of the #seattle waterfront, trying to get onto a lonely double-decker tour bus that is already packed with other big fluffy animals waving from the […]

Uh oh.

[us pol] Where's my horse in the H1B visa thing? My life has been enriched -- even saved -- by H1B visa holders. You know that H1B includes doctors, right? Also supermodels, for some reason, but I'm willing to say they've enriched my life a bit, too. I lost my job to foreign workers who don't […]

Weirdly threatening status message, FedEx.

Unlike most western homes, my laundry facilities are in my kitchen. Because of this, the top of the washer often gets used when preparing meals and when putting away groceries after a trip to the store. This is why there's a growing list of food items that I've accidentally laundered. I can now […]

I went to go change my Plex password after they followed up their last email of "hey you should pull updates on your server...for reasons" with a second email that said, "yeah, we lost your data." When I checked my notes, I saw the last time I spun a password was in 2022 for their LAST breach […]

Hahahaha. Asus is a laptop company that also makes phones. So when they go to ship a phone, this is how it is packaged. Banana for scale. That's 225g of phone and 781g of packaging. The phone is large, yes, but I think that's about 20 liters of box. I'm not […] [Original post on mastodon.social]