I've got a friend who has been pretty unhappy recently, dealing with a lot of anger and just disillusion due to all the bullshit fascists and genocide etc. I saw him when dropping my kids off at camp (his kids went with mine) anyway, he's been watching World Cup as a way to just focus on […]

Seriously, I wanna watch the queer world cup. With like a quota for trans people on every team. Truly fabulous uniforms. And kick ass soccer. Make it happen Fedi.

For my big server ive got two 8TB drives and two SSDs I want to use for cache. I was originally going to use btrfs on bcache on LUKS but I think now I'm going to configure the two drives as LVM on LUKS. This let's me create multiple drives for use with VMs or containers. For example I want the […]

Wife is off to teach people biology things, kids are at summer camp .. time to install those CPU coolers and hard drives and things in the server.

Trilobites saw the world through lenses made of actual rock - and solved an optical problem 400 million years before humans did. Their eyes were built from calcite, the same mineral in limestone and marble. Every other animal that ever lived uses soft protein lenses. Only trilobites evolved […]

Kids are off to a week of sleep away camp with multiple friends they've known since they were less than 1. My wife and I are at a neighbors house watching Dodgers vs Padres and ordering Thai Food, the neighbors are out of town on a trip. The dog is playing with their dog's toys and sleeping on […]

I managed an e-commerce server for about ten years. It grew from a small local shop into a major national business, even handling international orders. They expanded to the point where they reduced their local brick-and-mortar store hours because the bulk of their revenue was coming from online […]

Kids go to camp tomorrow, so I'm pretty much done with the quarantine where I'm the only person allowed in the kitchen. Amazingly younger son seems to have been protected from the gastroenteritis / norovirus. Science works y'all

Lil'Bo and Savage Dan, about to drop an album. #caturday #cat #cats #catsofmastodon #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #humor #humour

You can tell my wife has fully recovered symptom wise from her bout of gastroenteritis on monday because she has very specific opinions about what I'll be making for dinner tonight 🙂

https://www.reddit.com/r/washingtondc/s/aJEmnM7oEF From reddit, while some performers perform or rehearse on the Washington DC "state faire" stage, a massive piece of kit falls from above and crashes onto the stage. No obvious injuries as the performers are in front of it, but this absolutely […]

A Fedi version of Queer Eye: Five autistic queer Fedifolk (one in a fur suit) travel to help out a regular person each episode. By the end of the episode, the team have degoogled the recipient, installed a thoughtfully selected Linux distro on their formerly-windows machine, replaced much of […]

A few years back Morgan Stanley bought out ETrade. In the process they converted my mother's trust account into a personal account with no beneficiaries. If she had died at any time in between there would have been a giant legal shitshow. Its been temporarily mitigated, and we'll get it […]

Scientists built a cell from scratch for the first time. It feeds, grows, replicates its DNA, and divides. Called SpudCell. 36 genes, 90K base pairs, 150-200 molecules. Not alive (can't make ribosomes, can't evolve, needs constant feeding) but it's the first complete cell cycle from entirely […]

I'd rather be in the ER with a gushing wound than in a battlefield with all my limbs blown off... but I wouldn't actually choose either one. This post is about voting in the US.

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The other day I was reading about Johnny Carson, and found out that he inadvertently made Uri Geller the "spoon bender" telekenesis scammer into a hit. He had Geller on and put him on the spot to bend a spoon Carson supplied (Carson knew what was up and wanted to discredit Geller). Geller of […]

All this time... they hate it. They hated how creative it was, they hated the serendipity, the intense meritocracy of memes and social vitality. All of the magical chaos that had me so delighted and charmed ... I don't know why I didn't see this sooner.

"People sometimes end up on obscure sites run by just... anyone. A page made by a local club is as easy to find as a corporate site." I didn't realize that the guy I was talking with about the internet in 1999 thought of this as a *problem* to be solved... not what made the internet awesome […]

If Dems used every procedural tool at their disposal to obstruct and delay, at every opportunity, every vote, every day -- as they should have with Kavanaugh & Barrett -- it's by no means assured the GOP could get a nominee confirmed. Unanimous consent, quorum call, read the minutes -- on everything

the egg price thing under biden was all fake lol

It's important to revisit this classic animated satiric video of a biologist talking to a statistician every few years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz1fyhVOjr4

Guys, today was full of Norovirus and other really crappy stuff... Also I discovered there's a significant leak under my kitchen sink. I would like to have a vacation from all this stuff but last time we tried to do a vacation the AirBNB almost killed my whole family with Carbon Monoxide […]

SDF has been upgrading Mastodon, which was way behind. But I haven't seen any notifications for like 36 hrs. So I'm not sure if its broken or I just haven't said anything anyone responded to. liking this post would help me see if notifications are working.

A lot of y'all will appreciate this great lecture by Donella Meadows on Systems Dynamics. My grad student sent me this and told me how great it was. I told him to remember that Donella was a genius. He asked if I had previously recommended him to find out about her... I said yes of course, she […]

When our neighbors moved out they left us some polyethylene storage boxes. Today I finally attacked about 4 cardboard boxes left over from when we packed up the office to do the flooring. Let's see that would have been about July 2024? then we discovered under the carpet was vinyl tile with […]

https://github.com/SIGNEXT/WASMICO Does the existence of this imply people could use Hoot to write microcontroller code in scheme? It seems like it does right? #hoot #scheme

Had the problem on my DN42 (a distributed overlay network, that is sperated from the internet), that my FreeBSD servers couldn't update without hacky firewall tricks (NAT etc.) Did now finally solve that cleanly with a single caching Nginx server that is […] [Original post on burningboard.net]

Joe Rinaudo who you probably know from his videos of playing the photo player shows movies in his home theater which is like a 20 person art deco theater reproduction which he is installing a full on pipe organ in. Tonight was Dead Men Dont Wear Plaid, which we all enjoyed immensely. Now I think […]

Does anyone have suggestions for existing maintained ublock origin filters to make YouTube less addictive? My kid is complaining that YouTube's methods to get you scrolling and rabbit-holing are too effective. I showed him how he can use the eyedropper tool to create his own blocks for elements […]

I'm sure this article has some interesting things to say, but I'd like to go a different direction. Copyright and patent laws exist because of a fundamental misunderstanding of money and markets. They are an ugly hack thats like writing into your car manual that you should pull over and stop […]

Holy crap SDF updated to the latest Mastodon! First update since I started using the site (2022?)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@eff/116811658436523675 Time to trot this cartoon out again.

In a previous job, the head of our department wanted to impress on the C-level executive he reported to that he was a fantastic manager. (My reporting line went CEO, the C-level executive, this department head, team manager, me.) He decided the best way to do this was to produce a monthly […]

I once read something astonishing about the Perstorp Ltd. chemical industries that has stayed with me. For many decades, this business didn't make any profit worth mentioning. It didn't lose money either. But it wasn't publicly traded, and the owners made no demands for better profitability […]

I upgraded the desktops in our house towards the end of 2020. My kids are playing mostly similar games to what they were playing then, and besides games there's little they need high performance for. They did get used laptops with Guix but mainly because of school / portability. I doubt we will […]

Had a meeting this morning about a forensic engineering consulting project. I'll be working to design a survey of windows for testing in a building where construction damages and leakage have been occurring in a central valley location. It's always enjoyable to have a meeting with people you […]

I programmed python for a living in the late 1990's, as I got into data analysis I switched to R in the very late 1990's and early 2000's, then in 2019 or so switched almost entirely to Julia. I also have experience in C, C++, Common Lisp and lots of other languages. I need to write *modern* […]

So i managed to load micropython on to one of my ESP32 devices. I am not clear how I load python code onto the board though. The docs weren't super clear on this. Any hints? #esp32 #micropython #python #microcontroller

Cory Doctorow nailing it again. "I collect definitions of “conservatism,” and one of my favorites comes from Corey Robin’s book, The Reactionary Mind. Robins asks how it is that we can call so many disparate, irreconcilable ideologies — various ethno-nationalisms, imperialism, financialism […]

Abraham Robinson wasn't just some crank logician who didn't use analysis at all and wanted to make analysts lives harder by making all their dogmas about infinitesimals wrong... He taught himself Aerodynamics and did applied math in WWII for fighter wings and turbulent flows. He wanted to […]

People make fun of us Fahrenheit users but I find that most people dont even know their SI temperature units so I like to offer this intuitive scale for people who need Kelvin references 0 - molecules literally dont move 77 - boiling point of nitrogen 195 - freezing point of CO2 273 - freezing […]

I have never seen a graph explain more clearly what's going and why it's completely unsustainable (and this is just cash-flow, it doesn't take into account the rapidly climbing debt!). https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/article/big-techs-27-trillion-ai-bill-comes-due-chart-of-the-day-100000100.html

My son got his grade for the AI heavy Linear Algebra class... a B. we are not going to fight that even though I think he probably understood the material at A or A- level. By the numbers, because of the incredibly over-assigning of work he should have a D- or F. I think he had maybe 60% of the […]

One of the parents of kids who came to movie night is a Pharmacy professor. He was saying that many of the PharmD students they get these days have basic level math deficiencies. Like they can't round off correctly, can't calculate a simple dilution, can't solve for X in a linear equation. He […]

Bladerunner the Final Cut is really gorgeous and makes more sense than the theatrical release. Watching it on high res stream with a projector out back in the summer is absolutely the way summer movie nights should be. My older son found it confusing but the younger one was totally into it. The […]

We're showing Blade Runner the final cut tonight with the kids. Hotdogs, fruit, corn, and movie in the backyard. Assuming I can avoid tech problems. I'm trying to get Librewolf working with amazon prime video on my little guix laptop, if that doesn't work I'll use my regular Debian machine […]

Well this is fun, dude sets up a smart bulb as a wifi server full of banned epubs, https://www.richardosgood.com/posts/banned-book-library/

This morning in reddit anarchy101 someone asks about who would do things like build roads or vaccinate people? A sub-conversation discusses how would the FDA function? My brother in christ, the FDA wouldn't function, and that'd be a giant benefit! Look, the FDA exists precisely because profit […]

We are gonna kick off movie nights tonight with Blade Runner the Final Cut. Its an R rated movie which makes it less good for attracting kids but more of the kids are 15 to 16 years old now anyway and its such a good film and historically important. Also I only saw the original and 1990s […]