A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus 😳 #BrianCoxTalks #STEM #Universe #AmazonAffiliate #ad #paidlink

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I published “Being the Change⁠🌍 (featuring my abandoned and ongoing changes)” at https://www.ii.com/be-the-change/ #BeTheChange #BeingTheChange #BeKind #CarFree #Boycott #Shopping #FLOSS #Standards #Activism #Hacktivism #AsciiDoc #Markdown #Privacy #Security #Tech #InfiniteInk #Byℵ #bynm

PSA: If you share a YouTube video using the native share feature it now attaches your user ID (?si=xxxxxx) to the URL automatically. YT likely does this to growth-hack DMs. When someone clicks on the link, YT starts a DM thread between you two automatically. If you […] [Original post on mas.to]

RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@WataruTenkawa_1/116340598599443436 Wow, 70 boosts for this little poll! And 546 people voted, while there were 53 comments, all of them thoughtful. If I had voted, I too would have chosen "Falling deeply in love." That experience can be painful as well as […]

Train ride from Briançon to Veynes-Dévoluy, France: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpYPvQ4jMlY&t=4929 #trains #webcam #france

Stairs of Knowledge at the University of Balamand, Lebanon. Walking up these stairs is literally a step toward higher education. A Tribute To Modern Day Thinkers (10 Photos): https://streetartutopia.com/2026/01/09/a-tribute-to-modern-day-thinkers/

Wow — data shows voucher kids perform WORSE… so republicans are scrapping the testing requirements to “stifle accountability” 🤔 www.tennessean.com/story/news/p...

I did the `human.json` thing! If you're a blogger who I've met in person, and you're not using AI or LLMs for your content, let me know and I'll add you to my list. https://codeberg.org/robida/human.json

Thoughts on OpenAI acquiring Astral and uv/ruff/ty https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/19/openai-acquiring-astral/

Talking with a Latino colleague about something affecting something, he said “the affectation was…” So I explained that the verb of “affect” is “effect” and “affectation” means something else. I was merciful and didn’t explain that “affect” is also a noun meaning something completely different […]

Oglądam materiał o "serwisowalności" nowego #MacBook #Neo - ten tani makbuk na procesorze z #iPhone (#A18Pro) i 8GB RAM. Jest rewelacja. Wszystko na śrubkach, bateria i inne elementy bez kleju, rozbieranie i wymiana komponentów wręcz wzorowo. To świetnie, bo […] [Original post on mastodon.com.pl]

I'm so frustrated by #Windows that I'm thinking of getting a #MacBook #Neo. I've written a lot about Windows and some about Linux, which you can see at https://www.ii.com/portal/windows/ and https://www.ii.com/portal/nix-nux/. I'm losing my mind learning about all the ways to #debloat#neo#macbook#windowsndows […]

#xkcd2501 #math

Oh I like this! #xckd #xkcd2501 #meme #cryptography #nerd #zkp #zeroknowledge

LOL: Schiff notes that Kristi Noem's propaganda was more expensive than a lot of movies. www.propublica.org/article/kris...

RE: https://mastodon.social/@AnnaAnthro/116165450134645099 That includes me.

Wrote about how the incredibly thin-skinned leadership of Palantir sued a small Swiss publication for publishing a deeply researched article that was only mildly embarrassing for the company (about why the Swiss gov't keeps ghosting them).

You no longer need JavaScript! https://lyra.horse/blog/2025/08/you-dont-need-js/ #css

RE: https://mastodon.social/@kottke/116138807255867676 "the audacious task of computing literally every single combination of mutually visible points on Earth"

Gonna repeat my theory that one reason Trump is so insistent on masks is bc if his MAGAts learned the heavily armed men invading their neighborhoods and kidnapping their hourly workers were themselves Latino they would lose their shit. www.opb.org/article/2026...

Although the Web is technically limited in 1994, it is a fast-growing network and so curation quickly becomes a design problem. Enter Glenn Davis and his website, Cool Site of the Day. https://cybercultural.com/p/1994-cool-site-of-the-day/ #webdesignhistory

In Munich "I did not meet a single person of any nationality who thinks that the American-European relationship is returning to business as usual" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Happy Lunar New Year to those who celebrate! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_New_Year #lunarnewyear #yearofthehorse

One Billion Chinese Watched This on TV Last Night A year ago these robots could barely wave a handkerchief, now they can do backflips and kung fu with nunchucks. #aurefreepress #News #press #headline #China #AI

I think I just had THE fediverse moment: Scrolling through my timeline watching text posts, photos, a peertube video...A short video. "ah nice MTB video" , I thought. Until I saw the handle: someone@loops. Wait.. I see a loops here. This isn't just a video. This is a video on A DIFFERENT […]

Malicious #7zip site distributes installer laced with proxy tool https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malicious-7-zip-site-distributes-installer-laced-with-proxy-tool #cybersecurity

Just muted a cyber security company here for no other reason than the horrible AI generated images they attach to every post. #infosec

Marat (@marat1.bsky.social) https://bsky.app/profile/marat1.bsky.social/post/3mejlz7rvkk2j > Some cities have laws of traffic. Palermo has interpretations. Turn signals? Optional. Lanes? Conceptual. Somehow, everyone gets where they’re going. Maybe Sicily […] [Original post on sociale.network]

I published “6 Ways to Quit Using the Annoying Windows 11 Context Menu⁠🍔” https://www.ii.com/6plus-ways-to-use-win10-context-menu-in-win11/ #Productivity #Windows #Debloat #Tweak #Registry #SysAdmin #CLI #Annoyance #Annoyances #PowerShell #Windows11 #Win11 #Win11Sucks #InfiniteInk #Byℵ #bynm

From the WTF department, sorry, I mean from Microsoft: an RCE in Notepad of all things. (Well, the new app with AI and stuff; not the old one.) https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-20841

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/115809292219749938 I definitely agree. If you had a short-ish password and you were going to use 3 or 4 taps on your phone to make it better you have some choices. Fancy characters take so many taps that 3-4 taps might only add 1 or 2 characters. You’d be […]

Yesterday’s Alex Pretti memorial ride in Portland ended by passing the Portland ICE facility and of course ICE tear-gassed the crowd, including kids on bikes. Thursday in Salem, Oregon, feds tore a US citizen’s rotator cuff yanking her out of a car window. The Minneapolis surge really is […]

Don't worry, I've got you Rest in Peace, Alex. Beautiful street art tribute by Topsy (topsy_paints on Instagram) in Seattle, U.S.

Oh... I'm starting to see how we get out of this mess....🤞

New street art by Topsy in Seattle. #fuckice #reneegood #streetart #seattle

People generally don't realise that a #museum is a major storage and archive that offers to find and show the public and scholars any given object in its care, with provenance, century after century. 70 years ago, Evert Baudou looked at 90 stone axes in the […] [Original post on archaeo.social]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@FluentInFinance/115923086534762516 Because no one can afford a house anymore. Prices have risen to the point of being beyond most people’s incomes allow.

I made a meme for all my fellow urbanists, and everyone who loves human centered cities, quality of life and progress :) #toulouse #car #cars #park #parks #progress #puns #urbanism

In 1915, Mexicans and Mexican Americans developed a plan called The Plan of San Diego which attempted to instigate a large scale race war of minorities against Anglo Americans with the aim of creating an independent Republic in the US southwest. The movement was later manipulated by the Mexican […]

If you or someone you know can't afford an Internet connection, get in touch with the National Databank. They provide free SIMs for people who are eligible. https://www.goodthingsfoundation.org/our-services/national-databank

Sell Greenland? In Copenhagen, Denmark. 😆 Silly Signs (10 Photos): https://streetartutopia.com/2026/01/10/silly-signs-10-photos/

I had no idea #obsidian was not open-source

🆕 blog! “Where is Bitcoin?” Happy Birthday Bitcoin! At the risk of awakening long-dormant beasts, it looks like Bitcoin has failed for day-to-day transactions. So I've a simple question to ask - can you meaningfully spend any cryptocurrency in your city centre? A few months ago, my wife and I […]

New #HoPWaG for you today, on animals in the Daoist classic, the Zhuangzi! With discussion of one of my all time favorite passages, the "happy fish" story. www.historyofphilosophy.net/zhuangzi-ani... #philosophy #philsky #daoism #podcasts