Wouldn't in be super cool if there was a key on the keyboard you could use coding that advanced the cursor to the next tab position. F%^&ing #ai

Tis the season (to comment out the christmas tree cron tab entry) #christmas #homeautomation

wow! they found "found multiple refrigerators with vials of unknown liquids"... sounds like some biohacker wasn't labeling their test tubes responsibly.. https://www.msn.com/en-us/science/microbiology/1-000-samples-sent-for-testing-after-possible-biological-lab-found-inside-home-fbi/ar-AA1VsoeO

and yet somehow, we persist. #sunset #sfba

Sen. Chris Murphy: "Trump reversed decades of national security objections to selling advanced AI chips to UAE. National security experts were alarmed. But there was a secret. Before the deal, UAE had sent $187M to the Trumps and $31M to the Witkoffs in secret payments. Mind blowing corruption." […]

another rough start to the week here in #sanfrancisco. #sfba

my poor creality 3d printer got a nozzle change after 6 years of hard use and z homing was out of range for bed adjustment. an hour of trying various fancy methods for adjusting, and the winning solution was drumroll… Duct tape. #3dprinting #ducttape

In a world of disturbing climate news, every now and then something stands out. This is utterly terrifying, a feed forward loop involving microorganisms that seems pretty robust (in a bad way) and will accelerate the melting of Greenland's ice. I think we're already on track for 30cm of rise by […]

Hone automation:(n). A systematic process for turning a garden plumbing problem into a (file system recovery | network | software | hardware) one. #opensprinkler #raspberrypi.

cats are allegedly lactose intolerant. nobody told alex #caturday. #catsofmastodon.

@glyph @pluralistic Please tell this to my CPAP machine app.

Okay, the “wrapped” mania has officially gotten _completely_ out of control. I just received an official electronic mail from a medical equipment manufacturer, which read, in part: “Your 2025 [redacted] is a personalized year-end recap that turns your [HIPAA protected data] into an inspiring […]

Curious if anyone knows cases of #opensource projects that have licenses restricting unethical uses of software (eg a #NoPalantir clause, or no military, no law enforcement applications). Would be sympathetic to a project saying Apache license for everyone except untrustworthy arms of […]

Thinking the #python community needs a python package manager manager.. Some system that would streamline the installation and versioning the 5 different package managers needed for a typical code base...

god... which PM at #asana thought it would be a good idea to do an Asana wrap..

50% of #bioinformatics is just joins on poorly constructed primary keys.. select * from 'log_tpm.csv' exp join 'b_mapping.csv' bm on bm.b_number = exp.column000 join 'dh10b_2.csv' dh on dh.gene_name = bm.gene_name limit 1

up there with decoding the mysteries encoded in the DNA of living organisms, is decoding the system someone randomly came up with for naming genes in this particular organism. 80% of genomic analysis is mapping one random set of arbitrary keys onto another random set of arbitrary keys. #genomics […]

Surprised they didn't add - "consider calling a waymo".. #mountainlion #sfba

mountain lion loose in #sanfrancisco this morning apparently.

#sunset #disaster.

So what do I do on sunday, the traditional "day of rest"... a small firewall upgrade so I can get a f&U*ing doorbell to work. This brought tears to my eyes.. The doorbell has an IP address now. This is success right? (anything to avoid having to read the news right now).

A non-trivial minority of Americans believe that protest is always illegitimate, and that police use of force against protestors is inherently justified. This is a failure of civics education, but it's been clearly with us throughout at least my lifetime. No matter how "perfect" the victim may […]

Sorry, but f$%^k #oop. Probably people who enjoy triple wrapping xmas presents. "Pass me the ketchup", sorry "Pass me the Condiments.Ketchup". sorry "Pass me the CondimentFactory object, and instantiate it"... Sorry, my bad, let me create an object that implements the TomatoBasedProduct […]

The National Park Service removed signs referencing slavery at the President's House site in Philadelphia this week, in a shameful attempt to erase important national history. But the site from which the signs were removed is right on Market Street. It occurs to me that the Philadelphia city […]

Love #monkeyuser. Some of the drawings have so much detail that only years later I spot something rereading. This one one has „bugpunzel“ as the prize for the quest. https://www.monkeyuser.com/2021/task-story-epic-quest/

in other news, how the fuck do you write on an image after taking a screenshot in the new iOS? #liquidass. Have clicked on the poor pencil 12 different ways and no want to draw on image *pout*. Nice work apple breaking all the shit that used to just work.

ticket.assignee.name went above and beyond the call of duty to send me automated and well crafted but ultimately unless and self defeating responses I gave up. #crm

I've stooped to guilting chatbots to get results...

make up your mind software industry. Is the browser the best user experience or the app?? #ramp. asking for a friend

RE: https://scicomm.xyz/@HelenBranswell/115929786807742426 This reads like an Onion article. "'You know, the president, the [health] secretary, we talk all the time about religious freedom, health freedom, personal freedom, and I think we have to respect those communities that choose to go […]

Just spent an afternoon supporting the students of Pacifica high school in their walkout protest, so proud to see all these kids out there. Great energy, and tons of support from passing cars.

Fred Wellman: "Never, in the history of ever, have the masked men demanding to see your papers been the good guys. They aren’t now either." copy: @renewedresistance #politics #ice

struggling through #sunset here in San Francisco. #sfba

coming for you @SutroTower #caturday

My god, this is Getty #photojournalist John Abernathy. He wrote on instagram “I was tackled by #ICE agents & surrounded by about 50 #border #police. Just for taking photos. I tossed my camera to another Photographer to make sure it wouldn't be confiscated […] [Original post on masto.ai]

"Download the unifi protect app!" (our new doorbell greeting). In the throes of updating doorbell. I went with the #ubiquiti #unifi doorbell because it doesn't have cloud / subscription. Don't want #ring style snitching. I was naively hoping button would just […] [Original post on sfba.social]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@devdigest/115911506898704478 I think what’s interesting here is that in general more compact languages are easier for LLMs to handle (for humans generally too) and not having to explicitly annotate types is part of that compactness, but the dynamic languages are […]

you can get partial credit on #cat5 ?

I have to keep reminding myself that #slack was acquired for billions of dollars.

Coal just blinked. For the first time in decades, China and India both reduced coal generation while demand kept growing. Renewables filled the gap. This isn’t policy theater — it’s structural disruption. Power is being re-architected around solar, wind and batteries. ⚡🔋 #Bettrification #Renewables

"The founder of ICE List, a website which shares the first and last names of ICE and Border Patrol agents and Department of Homeland Security employees enforcing the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, said that a DHS whistleblower shared with him the personal information of close to 4 […]

exactly what you don’t want to see after turning computer on at 5 something AM minutes before a meeting as you prep@your coffee.

#slack is sliding down the next slope on the road to #enshittification and harassing their free tier customers.. I don't want AI in my messaging, so charging me for the worse experience isn't going to pan out..

must have been fun getting that crane into #mtsutro #sfba - part of #UCSF construction ?

are there any good arguments for connecting my refrigerator to the Internet? I’m aware of all of the bad things but heck there must be some argument in favor right? #lg #refridgerator #iot

#sunrise competitive with #sunset right now butnId give sunset an edge #sfba

not bad #sfba. #sunset.

Priceless, this is my reward for bothering to write #microsoft some feedback on how badly they degraded the usability of the #snippingtool. Needless to say I won’t be filing an appeal.

Look at this aging poodle humping the bigot‘s leg

And #nytimes headlines failing as always. "Details remain in dispute". Tell me something useful time... propaganists vs anyone who actually viewed the horrific footage.