Alameda unified schools are awful at communication. I just received an email from their abysmal Aeries system that is just a table of 68 rows of scores. No explanation of what they are. Not even a single line to tell me why I suddenly needed to receive this in email. Nothing marked as missing.

I assumed this was something rare, but I've been seeing it a lot recently. #linkedin sends me an email with new job listings that it thinks might be interesting to me. I click one to see what it is, and the top of it says "no longer accepting applications." The email landed 9 minutes ago. What […]

The #Borowitzreport does it again! --8<-- "Lindsey Halligan Reveals Her Dream is to Someday Go to Law School Imagining what life would be like if she went to law school, Halligan said, “I wouldn’t make so many mistakes in court and judges wouldn’t always be yelling at me.” Halligan indicated […]

Lots of interesting stuff in here this month: https://us10.campaign-archive.com/?e=9883c3c5d1&u=86903b65c84293425f40fa9a5&id=3988216358

Reminding me via robocall, text message and, no doubt, email that it is early dismissal from school today... 90 minutes after the dismissal time is peak school organization.

Honestly, I don't know why schools waste money on Aeries. It is the worst web app I have ever been forced to use. For example, he attached panel is near the top of the "dashboard" screen. I get a message that an assignment is missing (probably teacher error […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

What am I meant to do with the error: "server misbehaving" - how is that helpful in any way?

This is very cool, and since these are all #matter devices they will be able to work nicely with @homeassistant https://www.ikea.com/global/en/newsroom/retail/the-new-smart-home-from-ikea-matter-compatible-251106/

There needs to be serious consequences for media companies that use FUD to convince people that the poor, or asylum seekers or immigrants are the cause of all the problems. Like an automatic high percentage of revenue fine for every instance where they push lies, or misrepresent facts. (I just […]

I would so love to get an R5 Mk II, but I really cannot justify the price they're asking for them right now... Maybe that'll be my Christmas gift to myself ;)

From Substack: ‘BREAKING: Jeffrey Epstein survivors just released this incredibly touching Public Service Announcement. Make it go viral! Trump is so disgusting for covering us up.’ https://substack.com/@krassenstein/note/c-178016235

This, so much this... 5 Photography myths that need to die https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0JgPPDDSNs

They only found three in over a decade. I don't know if people stay on the list for multiple years, but even if they do, 3 is not a lot. https://www.morningbrew.com/stories/2025/11/16/hall-of-shame-the-forbes-30-under-30-criminals

"The types.NetworkCreate struct is still valid and used in the official Docker Go SDK. The error "undefined: types.NetworkCreate" typically occurs due to one of the following: ..." "The types.NetworkCreate struct does exist in github.com/docker/docker v28.5.2+incompatible. The error you're […]

A few people have asked me now about how to buy my photography, so I have set up my storefront at Saal Digital. https://photo-portal.shop/profiles/ourlivez_photography

Have a couple more tea light decorations up in my Etsy store. https://www.etsy.com/listing/4403826496/holiday-season-tea-light-colored-bulb

"Client version 1.51 is too new. Maximum supported API version is 1.49" Argh!

This iOS 26 phone app's way of sorting calls is really annoying. Showing a badge but then when I open the app I can't see where the "missed" call is (usually in a spam call section, but not marked) is very poor UX. I've tried all the different "modes" from the menu too. "Classic" is close, but […]

I'm sorry, but if anybody out there thinks that ChatGPT is helpful when it comes to solving code errors (in this case resulting from API changes between versions), they're mistaken. I kept feeding it errors, and it ended up telling me to replace the new code […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Argh, trying to upgrade to the latest Docker GoLang API and discovering all the changes that have been made that are seemingly not improving anything - just rearranging things.

Um, I’m not sure that live stream has paused. Seems to still be playing just fine behind that overlay message. #gamechanger

Seriously #alameda? Parks are closed for 3 months? A quarter of the year! Maybe it’s time to make the ARPD budget depend on number of days the parks are open. No other cities in the area are closing their parks for 3 months. cc @alamedapost

Took a few attempts, but I finally got a version of this image that I am happy with from OpenArt (using the nano banana model for both initial creation and some minor edits). #ai #genai #nanobanana

This took somebody some time to generate. Love to know how many attempts each clip in this sequence took to get them the way they wanted. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy6fByUmPuE #ai #genai #aivideo

Another great #satire piece by the #Borowitzreport ... https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/trump-flees-to-argentina

Optimizing prints to print on angles like this always amazes me. Not without its challenges though - getting that section under the lower edge to stay stuck to the plate has been frustrating (although, I don't know why it has been so bad since I've printed […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

New avatar day...

This jerk swiped at my door mirror intentionally as he passed, then almost rear ends a car in the lane to his left (you can see that car swerve into the shoulder to try to get out of his path), then races off between the cars. Sadly, his rear lights are too […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

This is a fantastic story, well worth watching the video (or listening to it really since the visual component is just photos rotating in a slide show). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uh764E6mUI

Whoa, guess management had better watch out. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQjr-g2kuRk #ai

Tonight’s activity…

Got a call this morning from a neighbor about a duck on the lane behind our house that seemed lost/injured. Not a wild mallard that we see all the time, but this white duck. When I got back it was still there, so I called APD & they sent s nice lady from […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Lots of interruptions along the way, but I think I finally have something I can test a print of for an industrial lamp “shade”. Some of the interruptions were external (work, neighborhood events, kids’ activities etc); and some were “fights” with random […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

The iPhone 17 pro cameras maybe good at many things, but taking photos of the moon ain’t one of them. Exposure comp as low as it would go and zoomed in way too far to get anything more than a bright white, over exposed shape. This is the best, admittedly […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

"16:41:00 AdditiveHelix002: Error: Adding the helix failed" Thanks, that helps. NOT. @FreeCAD would be so much better if it didn't just fail in random and unpredictable ways (even more so when the exact same operation on an identical face worked fine just beforehand). #freecad

Neighbor needed a couple of signs for her young son’s birthday party. GenAI to the rescue for the images. Then a quick text overlay with Graphic (underrated app that seems to have been left to die by Picta). #ai #genai

Every now and again some of the trick or treaters walk right by me and just go into the house. There is an ever growing number of high schoolers in there. All friends of my son. I think. #halloween

Candy duty for me… finished the one thing I wanted to get done this week for work. Still have some 3D CAD work to get done, but for now I’m stuck at the door with the candy. #halloween

"TODO: Move to environment" Ah, yeah, I knew I'd need that one day, and I guess that day is today.

Happy Halloween! #halloween #ai #genai #genaivideo

The astrophotographer I worked with earlier this month, Jeanine Holowatiuk https://www.instagram.com/jeanine.holowatuik/ https://northernescapephotography.com/about/ sent me some horrifying (Halloween-levels of scary) time lapse movies she took of Comet Lemmon. Why horrifying? Starlink.

Next time there are sane people in charge, there needs to be some baseline rules for when congress cannot agree funding for the government: 1) White House staff are not required to work. 2) Secret service details for the president are restricted to the WH grounds. No travel. 3) AF1 is grounded […]

I have a new AI service for my son... ChatDAD - he sends me the questions he needs help with, and I ask ChatGPT for the answer and send it back to him. 100% compliant with his promise not to use AI - there was no restriction on asking parents (and I made no promise not to use technology to help […]

GOD BLESS "MERICA"... "I honestly can't even believe I have to make this plea".... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htNPVnjqp54

Nevada becomes the first state in the U.S. to allow home insurers to exclude wildfire coverage. They're running under the guise of market innovation but it appears clear that this is the state rubber stamping the wishes of the insurance industry. At the same time, it appears they're operating […]

This is a very strange result in my mind. Ignoring the first question, the second and third seem odd, but perhaps this is highlighting the difference between US & UK politics. Question 2, grouped by the party they support, universally says she doesn't appear […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Adapter acquired, just in case we need to do another trip to Arizona! #porsche #ev #electricvehicles #charging

Sitting here in a quarterly meeting, on camera, and all of a sudden a spider just floats down from the ceiling above me, right in front of my face.

I could improve American (youth) sports in one easy step: ban coaching during games. I don’t mean explaining how to learn from mistakes in the dugout or on the sideline after the inning/quarter/half. I mean stop coaches being involved in the actual plays. No calling plays, calling pitches etc […]