Does anyone else's goat sound like a maracas

Let's try PLC websockets right now! ⚡ wss://plcbundle.atscan.net/ws

I was an MoJ statistician from 2013-15. Guns are practically impossible to acquire for crime. Gangs "rent" guns (linking seemingly unrelated crimes). Bullets are almost impossible purchase. The most common firearm offences were owning an imitation gun, improper storage, or recommissioning antiques.

Talking of office chairs I'm looking for a chair with an unfeasibly tall raising capacity. I don't care about lumbar support or whatever. Goal is that I have a tiny regulatory limit on floor space but I can build as high as I like, so I want to be able to zoom upwards to reach stuff on high shelves

Gonna turn into a huge EV bore, I can feel the transformation in myself

Anti-prohibition but also anti-pretence this stuff is good

Do you have 40GB of free space on your server for an experiment? Help me with better resilience and monitoring of plcbundle forking by running your own mirror. If you use your own implementation, even better! 🙏

the way forum brain manifests itself the most clearly is how 'settling scores' is the highest value goal. In this framework, thing A is bad, but the most vocal person against it is/was annoying (often personal grudge), and them being inconvenienced is funny actually you see, if not outright good

truck indicator is flashing really fast. Is that bad or does it just mean the truck is very excited

thank you China for making didchain

Because I learn. Because connecting with people is always a good thing. Disagreeing or even being trolled online is not a problem if good comes out of it

The thing about this is the BYDs are so good and so cheap that you could put a 100% tariff on them and they would still be better value than any Japanese or American car. The 100% tariff is basically protectionism for Hyundais

Are there more bears in people's gardens than there used to be or is it just one of those information salience effects where everyone is talking about the bears so you notice when there's one in your garden and make a big song and dance about it

WTF they're closing basically the entire central Tokyo expressway system to accommodate the mad king

The Sleaze Theorem: Any technology that can reshape society will be applied to sleazy ends first. Examples: credit cards and porn, optical storage and porn, synthetic voice generation and scam calls, email and scams/porn, the internet and ... This has implications for likely AI x-risk scenarios 1/

just incredible content. all the fancy data centers to generate shitty video, and yet nothing beats the following

Now, I am not in the market for a fog machine, but this Craigslist ad certainly makes a compelling case newyork.craigslist.org/lgi/msg/d/ea...

Wife made scarves for the goats because the weather got suddenly cold and their winter coats haven't grown out yet but they didn't stay around their necks because they are goats

"DIDs are a dead end", not sure I agree with this but there are some important points in here: jthor.eth.link/blog/2025/10...

Anybody got a Suzuki Jimny they want to swap for a Daihatsu Copen

Constantly battling to keep the uspol down to reasonable levels my feed but I'm losing the battle right now and it's lovely

Trawling google maps for Japanese hotels in cool concrete buildings and I found this which looked incredible but it turned out they just got the picture sideways

I know they're only here to bait dumbasses into threatening them but I'll follow the American government accounts if and when they set up the proper DNS usernames. Fix your TXT records, nation-state troll actors

(he’s right) The only actual software engineers who think it’s bad are in 1 but use their role completely unrelated to AI to launder their opinion like it’s 2.

Chinese Teacher #3 introduced me to her dog which she has named PissPiss. Chinese Teacher #1 also has a little dog so now in addition to dealing with verbs suddenly getting split in half and spread around the sentence I have to remember not to say "how is little PissPiss" to the wrong teacher

today i learned that you can have multiple push urls for the same git origin, so it pushes to multiple hosts with one command

Driving a superior Chinese knock-off not a Tesla but I can see how Elon got himself such a devoted fanbase. You're in this smooth silent thing which accelerates as fast as you ever want it to and the roof is glass so it's like you're drifting through the world in a bowl, it's a very magical thing

Mother-in-law spent her retirement painting absolutely massive oil paintings and died leaving an entire room full of them but Japanese houses have basically no available wall display space (everything is a window, door or closet) so we had our builder turn one into a closet door

Come join me at @nerdnitetokyo.bsky.social (in Tokyo and online) on Friday at 8pm JST for nail biting, humorous, informative, slightly-stressed-because-I-made-all-these-promises account of the night that Japan landed on the Moon while I narrated the live stream 🛰️🔭! Tickets here 🧪: tokyo.nerdnite.com

Super cool data on what people saw on their phone during the 2024 US elections: "On an average day, the median individual saw the terms ‘Donald Trump’, ‘Joe Biden’, and ‘Kamala Harris’ on their phone for only 3 seconds." www.guyaridor.net/files/digita...

Love this thing the LLM does where if it's not sure what the API is supposed to be for a function it's trying to call it just writes a try/catch block for every possible version until one of the the bastards runs

@kagi.com URL rewriting rules are wildly undersold. This is perhaps the most useful feature from this search engine for privacy-conscious folks. I can cut out centralized social media simply by rewriting search result URLs.

I'm going to start writing my work communiques in Aviation English bsky.app/profile/chea...

Now Kōmeitō has left the government can we standardize the tax rate at 10% instead of having all their "look how much we are protecting regular hard-working food eaters" complexification

I was going to angrypost about this, but the underlying story seems to be "rando says something stupid"? Can Trump even appoint people to the TikTok board? I mean it still absolutely sucks, but this looks like "UK papers will say anything" www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

OK I'll bite what's baseball

everyone should be able to run one of these on their own. personal moderation really ran by you.

"plcdns" enables global DNS resolution of your DID PLC data _handle.[did-hash].plc.atscan.net _pds.[did-hash].plc.atscan.net _pubkey.[did-hash].plc.atscan.net example: _handle.oio4hkxaop4ao4wz2pp3f4cr.plc.atscan.net tangled.org/@tree.fail/p...

9) People are, all things considered, pretty good. I see twenty thousand people a day, and maybe two of them are assholes. Even on a stressful day, even in an unfamiliar environment, even hungry and tired and on a timer. That's a *much* better ratio than folks realize.

Friends we must purge the mastodonian heresy

I don't think we can pitch decentralization as a solution to people who want a bad account banned because they're not trying to fix what they see in their own feeds, they're trying to control what I see in mine. Fixing their own feeds is already accomplished by blocking and going on with your day

i just dont get it like do people really think that the people working on bluesky are like insanely uber rich, that they hand-pick accounts to cause drama or something. its like a plague of wildly conspiratorial thinking while every other platform is non-stop stripping users of their rights

gm

cool fact, my self-hosted PDS is ~500 microseconds away from my apartment over the internet and that PDS is ~500 microseconds away from its S3 endpoint where my blobs live this is compared to the ~67-75ms jump from my apartment to bsky's US-east PDSs the site is a LOT snappier for me now :)

Would you like to see a praying mantis skeleton in a test tube with a light underneath that changes colour

i’m completely serious when i say that much of the dismissive ai discourse on here fires the bigotry neuron

EV road trip

Friday, October 17, Nerd Nite Tokyo is looking at looking! First, Guillaume Pelat discusses how computer vision works. Then, @elizabethtasker.bsky.social is back to talk about her experience narrating a live Moon landing for JAXA! tokyo.nerdnite.com #space #ai #science #nerdnite #tokyo #events