My afternoon plans for a trip to Cheyenne got derailed when I entered my PIN incorrectly at a gas station three times, and the card was locked. This card already had a non-working chip; in stores, the terminals always made me insert the card three times, then finally allowed me to swipe it. I […]

🎶 Internet killed the video star

According to Matthew 24:36 (KJV), "But of that day and hour knoweth no man", so why do Christians keep trying, and failing, to predict it? Could it be that... Maybe Christians don't believe and follow ALL of the Bible?

I was a bit slow to get around to it, but I just cancelled my Disney and Hulu subscription, and left the comment that I did it because they caved in and are supporting censorship.

I very seldom let on that I have a law degree. Still remember one case where the lawyer for a big publishing house decided to go all arrogant on me over a dispute. Then I mentioned something like, ‘As a fellow legal expert specializing in IP I’m sure you can appreciate …’ in passing in an email […]

Can anyone recommend a license agreement for shareware/demoware that is not open-source? I want to publish a demo version that can be freely redistributed, of a program that I will later offer for sale. #softwarelicencing

I just got back from John @scal's book tour appearance at the Tattered Cover bookstore in Denver. It was great! He is always extremely entertaining. He read us a chapter of the book he's currently writing, so if you don't go to see him, well, sucks to be you! I finally had a […]

Spent a few hours today fixing up the cp/m utilities I had written for the machine, half of them I had taken shortcuts that do bad things on MP/M. I kinda figured this was how it would go, more or less. Turns out my three windows, edit, compile, test, the performance problems are almost all […]

Sure sex is great, but have you ever made a label that says “label maker” and put it on a label maker?

Any San Francisco kid under the age of 5 can get a free book mailed to them every month under a new partnership announced Friday by city officials and Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. The first book that all children will receive in the mail, addressed to them, is The Little Engine That […]

Indiana Jones is a 1981 American film about a woke college professor who supports Antifa #antifa #indianajones

@brouhaha It’s color. I’m not sure if does 11x17 ADF, but I think it does. I haven’t looked at whether this model has been updated since we bought it. I might have to check on that on Monday.

@brouhaha I don't like any soda not-cold, but it's also an exposure thing for me. I grew up in a household with a diabetic, so

@brouhaha We have a Brother inkjet at work that does 11x17 and it’s been pretty bulletproof for almost 8 years. We have probably 6 people that use it consistently, and I think I’ve run a cleaning cycle maybe twice in that time. The second time was this past week. It’s also a scanner that can do […]

A friend who has wanted a B-size (tabloid, 11*17") color laser printer for quite a while has been stymied by the high price, typically at least $2400 for a new one. He doesn't like inkjets because of the cost of ink cartridges, and the clogs. Based on my experiences with an Epson EcoTank ET-3850 […]

I want to propose .dot, .slash, and .colon as new gTLDs just to watch the world burn

My Hero of the Day is @[email protected], who came out of nowhere and, just like that, deleted 11K lines of FontForge legacy code. After the initial shock and dismay, the rather conservative board eventually agreed, and today the PR was merged 🚀 […]

I'm officially writing a book! "Rewild the Internet: How to Resist Big Tech" will be published by Simon & Schuster in NY and Bloomsbury in London. It's uses ecology to show why we've got such a toxic technology monoculture through almost the whole tech […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

So the bug I had introduced is that I had simplified this dcraw code wrong: s = 3; for (c=0; c < 256; c++) { uint16 tmp = (8-s) << 8 | c >> s << s | 1 << (s-1); huff[18][c] = tmp & 0xFF; } I originally replaced it with tmp = 1284 | c but it should have been tmp = (c << 3) + 4 I have no excuse […]

Holy hell it does not do that, I was mistaken by a bug I introduced a LONG time ago. Well that's gonna simplify things !

Home... home is where you wear your hat... I feel so breakup, I wanna go home. – Lord John Whorfin

I've been listening to a wonderful singer, Alexa Kilgore, live at Danny Ray's in Lakewood CO. I hadn't heard her before, but now I really look forward to her future appearances here. https://alexakilgore.com/

@brouhaha Thinking this will be around $395 each. Not the first DIY GHz high-Z probe, but first with built-in power source / battery. Interesting! Might be fun to research other designs and understand their approach.

I just tried to set up a business checking account with Bluevine. Late in the process, I realized that I had entered the wrong address earlier. There was no back button available for me to correct the error, so I called their support. They can't fix it either. They can delete the application […]

I just added "Antifa" to my profile here. I should have done that years ago. I'm not a member of the "Antifa organization", because there isn't one.

Someone is crowdfunding an open-source 3 GHz scope probe: https://www.crowdsupply.com/euler-precision/esap-30 I don't know how credible it is. I've only ever seen multi-GHz probes that were low-impedance (50 ohm). The highest bandwidth scope I have is only 350 MHz, and the highest bandwidth […]

The road to fascism is lined with people telling you to stop overreacting. 🌹

🗣 LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!!! there are no liberal fascists. there are less than zero moderate fascists. fascist centrism is an oxymoron. when one end of the political spectrum chooses fascism, you are left with no choice but to oppose it. you are either against fascism ―aka, antifa― […]

In an article about the history of Ethernet, EE Times mistakenly refers to Gordon Bell as the inventor of the minicomputer. They don't bother to mention that Ethernet was invented by Bob Metcalfe, or that before Xerox partnered with DEC and Intel, Ethernet ran at 2.94 Mbps. Sigh […]

A friend and I were talking about great ideas. I had one great idea, once, in the early-mid 1990s. A $150 million idea, as it layer turned out. I gave it to my employer. I didn't get anything directly out of it, though I eventually made $15K (2 months of my gross salary then) selling my company […]

Apropos of nothing, I just started thinking a bit more about how most of us are willing to trust that hundreds of megabytes of software on our phones etc. don't contain any spyware (key loggers, etc.) or any back doors for installation of spyware, or vulnerabilities for the many gigabytes of […]

that way!

"The Free Software Foundation has been sliding into irrelevance more and more by entirely failing to address its big Creepy Uncle problem. Open-Source has turned into a form of unpaid internship to be hired to make shitty apps that bring more surveillance and ads to our world." […]

just realized it be talk like a pirate day... alas and woe, 'twas more fun twenny years ago. #talklikeapirateday

Earlier today I overheard a man (or at least a fairly masculine looking person) in a public place, singing softly to themself, "I wish that I was Jesse's girl." They were wearing earbuds, and maybe they were listening to Rick Springfield. Misheard/misremembered lyrics? Gender dysphoria? Trans? […]

@brouhaha needs to slingshot around the moon

@brouhaha Pfft. It's not a *good* song, but the worst? Hardly.

I just got the new COVID-19 2025-2026 vaccination. If you haven't had a COVID vaccination in the last six months, you should get this updated vaccination. Contrary to what that idiot RFK Brainworms Junior says, the vaccine is extremely safe and effective. In some US states there are health […]

TIL: Some critics think Starship's "We Built This City" is the worst rock song of the 1980s. Apparently their main issue is with the lyrics. Those critics must not have been listening to the same radio stations I did, as I heard a lot of far worse songs. I'm not claiming that the song lyrics […]

I asked Google how many Flash Bazbo episodes there were, and their stupid "AI" above the search results says none. The search results show that there are at least three.

A friend says he's taking a flight to Los Angeles for a week. I thought a flight from Eugene to LA should only take a couple of hours.

I have finally understood a key part of the encoding of #quicktake 150 images, and that gives me hope again to finally shrink this bit buffer to 8bits. I failed three times already and could only get it down from 32 to 16 bits. This thing is not just Huffman encoding. It reads bits without […]

I heard the Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show song "Sylvia's Mother" a few days ago, and thought at the time about not having heard it in a long time. What I didn't know until just now is that the lyrics were written by Shel Silverstein, and were autobiographical.

welp

Okay, I blame whoever let Biff have the keys to the DeLorean and a sports almanac. This is YOUR FAULT.

It would be disturbing enough if Kimmel's show had been pulled (at the FCC's behest, no less) for speaking ill of Charlie Kirk. But the monologue wasn't even about Kirk. It was about the hypocrisy and opportunism of those using Kirk's murder to advance a right-wing narrative. Comedy can be a […]

It is, of course, utterly fitting that the mascot of ABC's parent company is a mouse, the rodent that symbolizes cowardice and timidity.

The right to free speech, which is in the USA guaranteed to the people by the First Amendment, was not meant to be limited to speech that doesn't offend politicians and bureaucrats. There is no virtue in nor need to protect speech that offends few. The ONLY reason a right to free speech has to […]