Today's macos discovery: I use Skim to read PDFs. If you togggle the Highlight Tool, any text you select gets highlighted!

This makes balancing my credit card statement so much easier...

"but is it art Eddie?"

To hell with AI, more innovation like this please.
#solarpunk

School drop-off and pick-up at the catholic school across the street from me is complete and utter chaos. I just popped out to pull my car around the block for a closer street parking spot and it felt like I was playing chicken with a mindless mob—ignoring stop signs and right of way, pushing through a one-lane neighborhood street, flasher-parking where there are no parking signs, doors flinging open, cutting the wrong way around mini traffic circles, and generally not paying attention.

Trying to put out feelers in my circle of friends for a particular sort of playmate and running into 50 different "why DON'T we have a space for gays in this? And I don't mean *that* harness and pose event that pops up. Nor the 'nudists' that get freaked out by a caged cock."

Fuck.

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I am not the first person to point out that a “Luddite” isn’t someone who hates tech — they hated the EXPLOITATION OF PEOPLE by capital through the use of tech. Too many of my peers are on the wrong side of that and a lot of us are watching and making notes and will remember.

Skiers who look like musical notes...

A photo by Haukur Sigurdsson.

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An aerial view of cross-country skiers traversing white snow. The skiers are small in the frame but cast long, distinct shadows across the snow.

Gonna catfish a few of you. As a bit.

Friday nights I make myself a little meal, watch some anime, and know that I’ll put out hard.

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A meal with a large bowl of stirfry vegetables and udon noodles with teriyaki mock flank steak. On the side is a bowl of cucumber salad, spring rolls and a hard plastic red cup of iced tea that I stole because it reminds me of home . In the background are candles and the opening credits of Golden Kamuy on ny iPad.

Can someone recommend a good self-hosted solution for easy file sharing, like DropBox? Here are my requirements:
* Unique randomized URL per file.
* Secured with password (auth not required).
* Burn after reading (file and URL are destroyed after download)
TIA (thanks in advance)
#HomeLab #SelfHosting @homelab

Nextdoor keeps randomly subscribing me to e-mails, so I just deleted my account. It's such a toxic place anyway

Adding a hard drive makes Linux change network interface numbers?

brb, static-configuring enp06 through enp15 in /etc/network/interfaces #sysadmin

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Young me: "These Girl with the Dragon Tattoo books are fun reads, but this 'all the wealthy and politicians are into human trafficking' plot is a little over the top."

Older me: "I should probably re-read those Larsson books to see what else he was right about."

what's a TV show you watched as a kid that you're pretty sure you hallucinated

Nothing prepared me for fries with ketchup. This world is rife with sin.

A M4.1 earthquake rattled Toronto last night. Many residents of the city, who just experienced record snowfall, thought (hopefully?) that the shaking might be the rumbling of a snow plow. No such luck. This was the largest earthquake to hit the region in 20 years. Why do earthquakes occur here, so far from a tectonic plate boundary?

https://earthquakeinsights.substack.com/p/m41-earthquake-shakes-toronto

@Hunko I feel sorry for the straights sometimes. They're stuck in a world defined by the shoulds and expectations of a toxic and myopic heteronormative system. They benefit from its pervasiveness but don't realize how restricted and neutered they are by it. Being gay is a blessing because you are (at least traditionally) forcefully excised from this system, and get to define your own path.

US cyber defense chief accidentally uploaded secret government info to ChatGPT
Congress recently grilled the acting chief on mass layoffs and a failed polygraph.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/us-cyber-defense-chief-accidentally-uploaded-secret-government-info-to-chatgpt/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Your man is one damned lucky individual to have landed you!

@joel Metal is just noise to those without listening skills. Same argument goes for any other music genre that people claim is noise. Gaining said listening skills, you may think it's bad, and that's OK, but calling it noise is just ... lazy.

People are debating the masonry layout, and I'm creating strange layouts.

A Pyramidal Grid of Hexagon Shapes! 👀

https://css-tip.com/pyramidal-grid/

A fully responsive implementation powered by modern CSS (corner-shape, sibling-index(), math functions, etc.) and no media queries.

#CSS #HTML

Gruber was commenting on a post about how great Apple's TextExit was because of its support for the "stable" RTF format. But he fails to acknowledge that RTF is constantly updated to mirror Word by Microsoft.

The awesomeness of BeOS's StyledEdit was that its files were actual plain text files, and readable by every other system. The "styles" were all saved as extended attributes in the filesystem.

This is my tiny delight for #today,
maybe yours too?

#haiku

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by video-vendetta Error 404: Your haiku could not be found. Try again later.

RE: https://federate.social/@mattblaze/115968930128799721

Killer shot and getting total Men in Black vibes here

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Lincoln Tunnel Ventilation Tower, 491 11th Avenue, NYC, 2025.

All the pixels, with no toll charged to look from this angle, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54365775629

#photography

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A simple industrial art deco-style building, lacking windows, but with a narrow louvered vent at center running vertically along its length, on a city street.

Celine Dion has come out in support of farmers by removing all the consonants from her name.

Unusual, coyotes are usually smarter than that, and don't generally show themselves in daytime, nor cross the freeway at rush hours (early morning, maybe). 🤔

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Coyote struck and killed on freeway 101 and Wendy

Starting this & Hers for the plot. His name is John Bernthal

I've got my hands on one of these passively cooled N100 machines with 4 ethernet ports and want to use it as a (completely overpowered) router.

I'm contemplating setting it up with #NixOS instead of #pfSense or #OPNsense. Good idea or complete and utter overkill? 😅

#HomeRouter #homelab @homelab @homelab_de

sour cream and onion chips/crisps are a suitable breakfast, right?

it's potatos, dairy, and a vegetable...

have just seen my favorite meme of the year so far, hands down.

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The meme is a matrix of 4 frames with Jurassic Park characters and the options "Doesn't use AI", "Uses AI" on the vertical axis, and "Doesn't know how AI works" and "Knows how AI works" on the horizontal access. Thusly: Alan grant doesn't know how AI works and doesn't use it. The scummy lawyer doesn't know how AI works but DOES use it. Ian Malcolm knows how AI works and does not use it. Dennis Nedry knows how AI works and DOES use it.

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

Friendly reminder that Signal—while maybe not perfect—is a much better choice for communication than RCS, especially if you are communicating anything sensitive. Doubly true if you are on iOS or communicating with anyone who is, as Apple still does not even use end-to-end encryption like Google does on Android.

https://signal.org/download/

I have guns. I have a concealed weapons permit. It is absolutely entirely legal for me to be filming ICE with a firearm on my person. It is not a reason to shoot me. If ICE is tackling me and my firearm becomes visible, that is also not a reason to shoot me. If it were, we’d be shooting all these unmarked goons running around with openly displayed sidearms.