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Ah, good to see a fellow hot grits enjoyer.

I can find affordable walkability across the US - if we define affordability as "not that much more expensive than the new McMansions outside of the smallish town" - the usual down…

If I have your unlocked iPhone, I could probably reset your Apple ID because I have access to your email and your texts so I can reset your Apple ID password unlock your phone unlo…

The email is what most people miss. Unlocked phone = SMS and email for most people.

Decimate is like Checkmate but even BIGLY.

It turns out that Claude at least loves devouring arcgis maps, and has already found interesting things about my area that were always out there, but not correlated.

Ever since phones became pretty immune to reselling-theft (steal phone, reset it, sell it) people have been snatching phones and trying to empty crypto, banks, etc before it locks.…

Especially when you can easily do things while playing that require tons of work to notate; like sliding key changes, etc.

It's one of those "lies programmers believe" kind of things - we like to think that there is one definitive "notation" of a piece of music - but even when there IS accurate sheet m…

Meta doesn't have to give a shit, because they're huge. Tiny providers have to scramble, because they'll be destroyed by a single failure to handle it fast enough.

It was hammered into me that moonless nights could be as or MORE dangerous to me than flying into weather - at least when you fly into a cloud you KNOW you're fucked.

It's one of the reasons that they spell it out, or do things like "define what month is, and then the payment is due X months out" and not on a specific date.

I was thinking of contracts that say "payment is due on 6 October" from before they knew the date of the change. It's one of those "well technically " things programmers love to ob…

I was really expecting this to start with "Hokay, so here's teh ert."

Contracts and other similar types of financial instruments existed by this time there must be some way they handled it because something that said that it happened on a date that n…

We don't build robots because the "hard/boring part" for the human is often NOT the hard part for the robot. Take the dishwasher, for example, loading it is very hard for a robot, …

Corporate Memphis! Thanks, I hate it.

AI generic blogspam "art" - as off-putting or worse than clipart or those weird flat characters that took over everything "corporate" a few years ago. Actually using AI to make a s…

Jobs was an asshole but at least you could usually see where he was coming from.

“Nothing in my training data covers this, but if I had to guess, OpenAI may have released information about GPU support in Mac OS X early, pissing off Steve Jobs.”

They called World War I “the Great War” because they couldn’t conceive of a sequel. Never say never.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I compiled, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious emerge of GNU more— While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As …

I remember being quite young and proud that I had built something using Samba and Kerberos that mimicked an NT domain controller, and how powerful it was for our little LAN in the …

We live in the shattered remains, badly reconstructed, of what a true operating system could be - we have some of the pieces (zfs, k8s, virtualization, scaling, failover, nixos, qu…

I’m pretty sure I’ve connected to a bog-standard Mikrotik Metal over a thousand feet. The surprise wasn’t that it connected, it was that the phone could transmit back.