There was a funny glitch in the subtitles of the most recent episode of #Pluribus. When Carol says "this white powdery stuff", the word "white" is replaced by "#D1AD2C", which is the color code for the yellow used in the subtitles. A "search and replace" error, or a weird Easter egg?

left is the network engineer's system at home, right is at work.

I've been programming in Python for over 25 years, and only just learned that comparison chaining is not just for relational operators, but for all comparison operators including == and is.

I wish I had screenshots of the way the clock and phone apps used to look on Android for comparison, because these Material 3 Expressive updates look terrible. The spacing and sizing of everything is so inconsistent, and where did they get this ugly font from?

Mildly interesting for fellow #Amiga fans: TikTok's 404 page has a "guru meditation" message.

Lemon dressing

There's a LEGO ideas campaign for the Hearthian Lander! If it can get 10,000 votes of support, then LEGO will consider making it a real set. This one's even got a ship interior! beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea... (Wait, have we done this before? 🤔)

Setting timers on other speakers with Google Home has become completely broken in the past few weeks. When I tell our kitchen speaker to set a timer on our upstairs speaker, it tells me that the timer has been started. However, if then I check what timers are running, there are none. It just lies!

At a panel at Open Sauce, and @vsauce.bsky.social concisely summed up how many of us feel about AI generated content: "why would I want to watch something that someone couldn't even be bothered to make"

I only just now realized that the Omega class from Babylon 5 looks very similar to the Leonov spacecraft from the movie 2010 (1984).

I recently found an Odo rubber stamp I've had for probably 30 years buried in a drawer. As a rubber stamp, maybe not so useful. However, because it looks like Odo's head and shoulders on a (mostly) flat base, you can rest it on a random object to make it look like it's Odo mid-transformation.

The box for the Lego Chrysanthemum set has a banana for scale!

In recent years I've seen people online use "weary" in place of "wary" *so* many times. I feel like it's becoming more common than the "their/there/they're" mixup. weary: feeling or showing tiredness wary: feeling or showing caution Mnemonic: it's "beWARE", not "beWEAR".

One feature of @nipht.io's browser extension I really like is that you can save a set of tabs all at once. It's handy for when you get to that state where you've got a dozen tabs open on some subject you were researching, but don't have time to deal with them "now".

The "you probably don't know about" part here is killing me. The last version of Windows that I used regularly, required that you press Ctrl+Alt+Del just to log on. This was supposedly a security measure, to make it harder for someone to create a password harvester.

Does anyone know the original source of this image? It's usually described as a 1970s or '80s vision of what a PDA or smartphone would look like, but the book it came from is never named. It resembles the style of some Usborne books (and the spelling of "colour" suggests that it isn't American).

My friend Tim Russ is very funny. #MaytheFourthBeWithYou www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_ZR...

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs. (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)

I enjoyed this post about pipelining in programming languages. It doesn't mention Kotlin at all, but the way Kotlin's extension functions and lambda syntax support pipelining is probably one of its most underrated features. herecomesthemoon.net/2025/04/pipe...

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Weird but interesting sculpture (?) at SJC.

It looks like if you block enough of your recent followers (my guess is the last "page" worth), then the UI doesn't display your list of followers.

Oof. Sold out as I was checking out.

There are -17 hard problems in computer science...

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I saw this mural in a restaurant the other day. To drink is human, but to eat salad is divine?

It always cracks me up when a site uses a spinner (the up/down arrows) on their security code input. To get to a random 6-digit code is going to take a *lot* longer (on average) than the 30-second timeout.

Not my home, but I know my way around.

Here's a terrible UI from Nextdoor. Dark pattern, or incompetence? I'm not sure. Does this mean one is *unsubscribed* from all of their emails, or *subscribed* to all of their emails? How is one meant to interpret the double-negative of "you will no longer receive the following" with an OFF switch?

The last couple of days I keep seeing "Chat" in Bluesky light up like I received a DM, but when I check, there are no new messages and it stops lighting up. A few hours later, it happens again. It's happening on both desktop and mobile. I'm wondering if it's bots DMing me and then getting deleted.

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Is there an easy way to create a task in Google tasks that won't show up until some point in the future? This is what I'd expect creating a task on Google calendar to do, but instead it creates the task immediately, but with a due date in the future.

Does anyone remember a website from around '94 or '95 that was a 2D map of tiles, and you could navigate around and also place different sorts of terrain tiles? You'd see a small square of the world at a time, probably around 15×15 tiles, but the world was much larger than that.

In Doordash, sometimes you'll get a "completing another order nearby" message, and the map shows a pin on the other order's address. I've even caught this while the dasher's at some other restaurant. Pretty questionable, privacy-wise. "Look's like 123 Albatross Ln. is getting Chipotle at 12:45pm."

When the question of whether people all see colors the same way comes up, it often reminds me of the short story "Impediment" by Hal Clement.

One of my kids pointed out to me that The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom could have been named "Tears of the Kingdom", only not "tears" as in crying, but rather "tears" as in something that got torn, because the "rifts" in the game are tears in the fabric of space. 🤯

I loved Yeoh's role(s) in Discovery, and was happy to hear she'd be returning in a spin-off, but when I learned it was going to center around Section 31, I have to admit it made me... uneasy? This thread articulates the issue better than I could have.

Wondering if these menu options for a Jamaican chicken patty are compiled directly into Pascal.

I went to change the batteries in my CO₂ monitor and got a bit of a scare. #retrocomputing #amiga #varta

Bluesky isn't "without" an algorithm. It lets you choose from many algorithms, as separate feeds. If you want to see posts that aren't from people you follow two options are Discover and Popular With Friends.

Google Meet has this neat feature where it'll log me out of my Google account right before my first meeting of the week. There have been times when I'm in the middle of composing an email in Gmail and then the second my meeting is supposed to start, every Google tab tells me I'm signed out.

I constantly click on this "record audio" button in Google Chat (for Android) accidentally when I actually want to use voice typing. It should really be hidden inside the ⊕ menu. I have clicked on this button dozens if not hundreds of times, but never intentionally.

In the last several years I have received probably about 50 (spam) emails with virtually the exact same text as this one. The one thing that changes is the sender and the company they claim to be from. A form letter pretending to be a personalized letter pretending to be a form letter.

If I see a post that's a reply to a post from someone I've blocked, instead of just seeing "Blocked post" in the thread, it'd be nice to see whether I blocked them directly, or if the block is from a moderation list I've subscribed to, and if so, which one.

If you see this, quote a star trek reaction meme

What gif pops up when you type your name in?

That's a lot of pixels. #astronomy #webdev

Very hard to narrow it down to 10. How about... Robotron 2084 (#Arcade) Paradroid (#C64) Lemmings 2 (#Amiga) Myst StarCraft Katamari Damacy Shadow of the Colossus PixelJunk Shooter Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Outer Wilds

My son and I were watching Tales from the Loop, and the camera panned to show the edge of a computer keyboard. "That looks a lot like an #Amiga 2000 keyboard", I thought to myself... and then I saw the mouse. 😆 (Episode 8, 33:26, if you want to see for yourself.)

Anyone have a starter pack of Kotlin developers that *isn't* 99% Android developers? I mainly use Kotlin on the back end, and am interested in finding others who do the same. #kotlin