The older I get, the more I understand why roosters just scream to start their day.

Numerologists take note: tomorrow, 27th September 2025, is a square date in both US and Everywhere Else notation. 5205² = 27092025 and 3045² = 9272025 This is the last time this will happen for a thousand years! (from @EdPeggJr on math-fun)

It is WILD that we now live in a time where my job as an astrophysics professor has gone from "learn cool things about space" to "try to get someone to hold billionaires accountable for dropping shit on us from orbit"

Forgive me for sounding like an extremist, but if the purpose of society isn't to house, feed, and care for its members, what the fuck is the purpose?

We all know that many news sites have paywalls. It is, after all, some or a big part of how they've chosen to fund their news gathering. There are lots of ways around paywalls or to access individual stories behind one: e.g., archive.is or archive.today lets you search a news article link to see […]

Customers of Adobe Analytics started reporting on Sept. 17 seeing data in their customer tracking portals that belonged to other organizations. A number of people on a Slack channel for Adobe Analytics users said their accounts were populated with data that […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Reposted with AltText #charliekirk #uspol #fascism #fascist

New show on Wfmu appeared when the new schedule dropped. It’s one hour of sound effects and field recordings. Here is this person’s first show. Airs live on RF and internet on mondays between 8 and 9 pm easternn. Right now I’m hearing audio pedestrian crossing signals that seem to be so close to […]

Normal people don't know who Charlie Kirk is. My mom, dad, husband, neighbor are very confused why it's such a big deal. Which is good to remember. He's did anything notable. Didn't run for office, didn't break a big story, didn't write an important book. So, for a lot of people this is all […]

#fediblock Here are 5 more Jimmy the Liar (who often goes by the name JimmyTruth), accounts opened in the past 24 hours now claiming to have been born in multiple cities at the same time. It seems he's taking a break from claiming to be God's personal servant. Unsure what he's up to this time […]

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door. Source code and a downloadable app to try it yourself […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

On this podcast, I explain the EU's #chatcontrol plan: mandatory scanning of ALL private messages. This is unprecedented in a democracy. The only other country with a similar system is China—and they use it for political control. #StopScanningMe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L933xDcSS3o

A concerning thing happened today while I was walking through my building. I have a #pixel 10 Pro XL phone, which may be the first phone to give warnings when the phone connects to a rogue cellphone tower or IMSI catcher. The OS cannot block it; it can only tell you that someone read information […]

Shockingly, I haven’t written an in-depth piece about Mac clones. Until now. https://tedium.co/2025/09/02/apple-macintosh-clones-history/ new @tedium

And just like that, the largest known DDoS has nearly doubled in size over the past couple of months. Cloudflare promises more details, and says the largest attack (11.5 terabits per second) came from Google Cloud.

One of my favorite programs for the Mac is from a company called Objective Development -- Little Snitch -- and it's a host-based firewall that alerts you anytime something on your computer tries to reach the Internet for the first time (or you can set to always ask all the time, which I wouldn't […]

Results from tracking 35,826 images across 1,554 instances from the mastodon.social federated timeline. Then filtering down to the top 1000 instances by active user from instances.social who had posted at least 46 images (2x the average).

BBC Breakfast this morning had a long segment about the 30th anniversary of Windows 95. So what vintage computer did they put in the studio as a handy prop? #windows95

U.S. immigration agents have arrested two Mexican contractors who were helping to tackle the Bear Gulch fire in Olympic National Forest, Washington. Crew boss David Diaz said they were among 20 Mexican contract workers, all of whom carried work visas and passports, but they were arrested on […]

Thanks to @pluralistic for a paragraph that I'd like to send to every Big Tech company I'm forced to deal with: "By reading these words, you agree, on behalf of your employer, to release me from all obligations and waivers arising from any and all NON-NEGOTIATED agreements, licenses […]

I don't know whether I'm the last person on the Internet to encounter this meme, but it made me laugh, and I haven't seen it before: #funny #meme #wordsofwisdom

How Google Broke Google https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvaOUFwXjf4&si=NKU6eXdCJ2JigId0

Here's a 20-minute tutorial In which I demonstrate how I use #suno AI to cover/remix my tracks in new ways. A few people have been asking me to show this because the website's a little incomprehensible, so I thought I would do a bit of an explainer. https://3.onj.me/media/How_I_Use_Suno.mp3

I've received an email from a small American company that I have purchased from in the past. The email says the company can no longer afford to eat the tariffs and their prices will be rising. I feel I'm going to be getting more of these emails in the future

The Evolution of Flash Memory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpxYrmV4OCk&si=tSdyi-XdpVIx6s2J

What, the hell is happening to society? Seriously ask yourself… "Skibidi", "delulu" and thousands of other new words to be added to Cambridge Dictionary. #bbcnews https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Bh1-PL6ZDo0?si=qkGK6dmRW2pmH7Qw

Wrote this little thing today. Just had a few ideas floating around and this happened. Made with Ableton Move hardware.

Steve Jobs' SCAM for $400M that Changed the World and Saved Apple https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffs4uZYNzuQ&si=q2T5vNalhsPs-dpY

Time for a bit of a rehearsal/jam/have fun session. #jamulus live. Listen in and participate here: http://1.onj.me:32123

A Message From the Inventor of PDF Files https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQlgLQgmtXc&si=DlPCtehVe5CIZkZT

I am still not over the situation when someone asked for my “gmail”, I gave them my email address and they were like “No, your gmail!” And tried to explain to me that they only could send messages to Gmail accounts and they do not have an email. We really need to teach more computer literacy […]

What can be done about London's overheating homes? Andre says he saves a lot on heating in the winter As a musician, Andre Louis works a lot at his home in Kilburn and in summer, despite having numerous fans placed around the rooms, he says it gets unbearably hot. "The way that these places are […]

Sony’s Final MiniDisc Marvel is a Retro Futuristic Dream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et756ELKK3M&si=W1y1JOkN5uDXtiwA

UD-4 was a lesser known quadraphonic LP format introduced by Nippon Columbia (Denon) in 1974. It contained both matrix and discrete quadraphonic systems, but didn't do well commercially with just 30 releases. This is a sampler album from 1974. More information […] [Original post on mastodon.world]

05:30 and my body says 'yep, you're up for the day. Don't even try to go back to sleep!' Why?

MSC Seaside Announcements - 09 Aug 2025 (English & Italian Audio Only) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOUCs87OG7M&feature=youtu.be

The Hidden Design of the Apple Airpod https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB_8dGKh9JI&si=aZ6I6REHq4fE43Qe

I felt bad when I accidentally stepped on someone's foot at the grocery store the other day. So I can't really fathom being 47 years old, going on #roblox and then giving a literal child premium game currency for explicit images. I would actually jump off a bridge if I even seriously THOUGHT […]

Here's a 20-minute tutorial In which I demonstrate how I use #suno AI to cover/remix my tracks in new ways. A few people have been asking me to show this because the website's a little incomprehensible, so I thought I would do a bit of an explainer. https://3.onj.me/media/How_I_Use_Suno.mp3

For as much as I can't be arsed with quote-posting, most of the time if people insist on using it, clients will display it. Not in the case of bsky shit though. Not clicking links to what's probably a 3-word post because of quote-posting. Be nice if I could find a way to filter out *all* bsky […]

Wat is going on? About 15 pictures from various accounts with no alt-text just this evening alone. It's getting worse.

You ever just hear a random thing in-passing that makes you do a double-take? Today's was some quiz on ITV that I'm certain said 'Fucky Mountain' which of course it didn't but I can't unthink it.

Scam Awareness - Fake Authentication and Miracle Cures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON1z1hUdEdU&si=h2ZEItxiMBHSJrc8

The end is beneath home. Come home, go to end.

6 music been playing some good old fashioned Garage of late, I appreciate this.

I just noticed that "Mastodon Tag Case Corrector" was updated last month, if you use it. If you are unaware of what that it, it's "a Python script for Mastodon instance admins to convert the display names of hashtags to #pascalcase, when possible. There are two possible strategies: Find […]

I felt a little bit 90’s with this one apparently. Just a strange thing i made with Ableton Move.