I am utterly in love with this concept of mapping the Sun like a planet. Also a hand drawn looking thing in this age of digital data. (I am familiar with the overall nature of stars and how their outer/visible layers change over time, thank you, I just hadn’t seen this particular kind of […]

@ricci again and again and again I come back to "Your data isn't that big", which has aged marvelously in the 12 years since it was penned. https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/hadoop_hatred.html

Do restaurants still do dessert carts? I don’t believe I’ve ever seen one in my entire life.

Mac FunPack https://macintoshgarden.org/games/mac-funpack 5 hit titles. 36 games. Totally Mac. Totally fun. #macgarden #Arcade #CardCasino #GameCompilations #Sports #1999 #MacSoft #wizardworks

It's 22:22, make a wish.

Absolute debasement of academic standards *student submits opinion in psych class *gets bad grade *instructor says she can make whatever arguments she wants but must draw on empirical sources *student & Turning Point says her religious freedom & first amendment rights violated *professor suspended

Randomly discovered by looking into that two-bit-history site from previous toot: its creator also made `git-who` which is super nifty for digging into a #Git repo's authorship. Eg, I am excited to use it at dayjobs when identifying who 'owns' which parts of a […] [Original post on social.coop]

Gonna build a time machine so I can box my 20-year-old self around the ears and tell him "over the next ~decade, find a specific topic within computing to get well and truly expert in, so you're not finding out the hard way that people don't like hiring generalists when the chips are down […]

I've been a (curious, reasonably well-read, exposed to all sorts of non-mainstream topics) sysadmin for ~=25 years, but I was today years old when I learned why #dns resource records require you to say "IN" all the time. It's to specify the record is related to the INternet! Isn't that helpful? […]

WHY IS THE DOG LADY LABELED 'CAT'?! Maybe she's just being ironic? #myheroacademia #manga #demihumans

Sudden intrusive thought: "write your own tiny little hardcoded-records DNS server in Rust, great learning experience!" Why is my brain like this.

"naming things is one of the hardest problems in compsci" example 197,372: CoreDNS having both "file" and "auto" plugins, both of which read files, both of which can auto-reload. (The salient diff seems to be "auto" expects to read >1 file from a dir, one per domain/zone, & wraps the "file" […]

oh snap advent starts tomorrow!!! (I have both a whiskey and a tea calendar again this year…)

Why is it so dang hard to stop crossing one leg over the other when sitting in a chair? I don't mind sitting fully cross-legged (yoga style) when on a couch or w/e, but when I'm at a desk I ought to be watching my posture more. But I always find myself slouching + crossing a leg. Maybe a job […]

nearly all of my dumb browser brain games are absolutely fucking with me today, so much for relaxing!

contextual OCR trying so hard to be helpful. do you want to dial these chart columns of Warring States calligraphy samples on the phone?

Why the hell not, Alice?

Bad business & bad ethics demands boycott. No CEO in the world is worth that kind of salary. All companies rest on the shoulders of their employees - always. #starbucks #berniesanders

Being someone who cares is such a fucking liability these days. Turns out most people don’t give a shit and also think you’re weird for doing so.

I will ask chat GPT I will boil the last of our drinking water Salt the soil of the scrub-lands Tear the pages from books and feed them to my fire I will ask copilot I will scramble your library maim the faces of your favorite paintings I will bury you in poor copies of your dreams I will ask […]

Have started reading the novel Piranesi, which is very fanciful and fantastical so far, though it carries a stylistic conceit I find almost off-putting, as it reminds me of certain People who do not Know how to write English very well and inexplicably Capitalize words, seemingly at Random.

We just celebrated Black Friday in memory of Rebecca Black who invented Friday back in 2011.

*cracks knuckles* I’ve overlooked a lot of her shenanigans, but this? This means war. https://mastodon.social/@carmensandiego/115631944008557511

"The worst part of getting #LongCovid was the cruelty of the disease, a punitive unraveling of my health and identity. The next-worst part, and just as heartbreaking, was discovering how few of my friends and loved ones could engage with my illness in ways that felt caring." […]

LLMs lower the immediate cost of "fucking around" and push "finding out" beyond management's forecasting horizon which is Yet Another reason that everyone with actual expertise should Avoid At All Costs #nedluddwasright

They did it again! NYC subway Thanksgiving 2025, via @scootercaster.com!

I know, rationally, that this is a long haul, and that to maintain my ability to function over time I have to measure my outrage and despair at news like this. But I'm having trouble doing that here.

Blankets. Blankets are good.

So back in 1944, a German U-Boat Commander named Heinz-Wilhelm Eck did exactly what US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth ordered US military forces to do - kill the survivors of a destroyed boat at sea. Now, as then, this is considered a War Crime. In 1945, Commander Eck was tried, found guilty […]

I’m amused that USians are so sensitive that there’s a whole-ass blocklist on Bluesky for those of us who use “USian”

renik #kamloops #train #Graffiti #Art #renik

Everyone is ignoring the best part of the proposal to introduce Rust into CPython. We'll be able to stick a big fat "Written in Rust" at the top of the readme.

RE: https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/115622299444846502 if you want to know a little more about all the zines that are on sale today at https://wizardzines.com, I made a Big Thread yesterday talking about all of them!

It’s time! Blackout Friday! Please join unions 💪 & organizers 🤝 worldwide and BUY NOTHING 💸🙅from big chain stores this weekend (especially Amazon, Whole Foods, Starbucks, Home Depot, Target, Apple, Walmart). Instead support small & local businesses 💵 🙌 while sending the message: the People […]

ZFS snapshot automounting on $volume/.zfs/snapshots/$names feels like what Time Machine wishes it was. Super low-friction method of accessing past versions of your data. Sorta thing that makes me occasionally update my "Linux on the Desktop" notes, just in case Apple ever releases my personal […]

The mid 2020s suck ass, /but/ at least now that kind of "likes to appear helpful but is not actually knowledgeable nor has any useful methodologies to share" person you bump into online, is self-labeling. Before: you just have to notice over time that so-n-so always replies w/ unhelpful pap […]

it's happening!!! from now until the end of the day on Friday, November 28th (if it’s Friday anywhere, the sale’s still on!), all my PDF zines are 50% off, and print zines are 30% off! https://wizardzines.com

May your naps be as good as this dude’s was #catsofmastodon #orangecat

"I made a model of the Himalayas." "To scale?" "No, just to look at."

These buildings are VERY similar to co-op city. I don't buy that "bamboo scaffolding" is the whole story. That so many buildings caught fire at once is horrible. How did it spread to so many floors? The elderly population would make evacuation harder, but still. This needs to be investigated […]

shots fired: > it’s abundantly clear that the talented folks who used to work on the product have moved on to bigger and better things, with the remaining rookies eager to inflict some kind of bloated, buggy JavaScript framework on us in the name of progress. Stuff that used to be snappy is now […]

Happy “unsubscribe from seller emails” season for those who celebrate.

Melville struggles with depression. https://mastodon.art/@mobydick/115618665895193445

Hey, here's a Black Friday sale I can really get behind! Gift someone a year's worth of laughter in these trying times 🧅

I have made something very stupid and I am unreasonably pleased with myself #esp32 #makestuff

Suddenly irrationally mad that IPv4 addresses cap out at 255 so I can't use "obvious" dummy/example IPs of, say, 100.100.69.420

A nice #fall day earlier today, tbh – nearly 60ºF, pleasantly damp but not actually raining. Good walking weather. #trees #foliage

Radio Shack’s food was /way/ less tasty tho https://wonkodon.com/@admin/115617121027473672

idk, why you're asking me

Melville recommends you do /not/ read the comments on that article. https://mastodon.art/@mobydick/115616778644508315