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2026-09-01 01:01:13 CEST

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They are trying with some of these far Left candidates, but sentiment is so strongly anti-Trump now that they may fail to lose this time.

2026-08-31 18:24:02 CEST

Current polling suggests Democrats odds of taking the House are about 85%. Their odds of taking the Senate: 50%. The latter is a vast improvement over the odds as little as a year ago, when this was considered to be essentially impossible.

2026-08-30 23:22:04 CEST

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Users are going to be pretty pissed when some court in the future demands some significant chunk of code be removed due to being in violation. The real problem is that most techies don't really have a clue about the risks they're running with that stuff. They will learn, probably the hard way.

2026-08-30 22:33:34 CEST

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Easy for them to say, almost impossible to do. Because with AI generated code, unless the dev announces this explicitly, there's no way to know stolen code was used until (for example) the actual owner of purloined code that was used by the AI comes around in a very bad mood.

2026-08-29 01:07:29 CEST

Wow: Red state ranchers are LIVID at Trump for his deal to import 300K
tons of beef

2026-08-28 19:46:51 CEST

EU forces #Google to provide more spam results to EU users
https://stratnewsglobal.com/technology/google-spam-policy-europe/
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2026-08-27 21:17:08 CEST

#AI industry begging Trump for exemption from planned chip tariffs that
will devastate consumer devices

2026-08-27 20:49:49 CEST

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A bit more complicated in Commodus' case. The Guard was apparently involved, but the sources I've seen suggest his mistress poisoned him, but when he vomited it up they sent in his personal trainer/wrestling partner to finish the job. Of course, history is written by the victors.

2026-08-27 20:38:36 CEST

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Given how Sundar has a hobby of kissing Trump's ass (at least), one would assume so.

2026-08-27 17:37:58 CEST

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Not the common use case.

2026-08-27 17:11:05 CEST

Peter Cullen, longtime voice "Optimus Prime" and more, dies at 85. Peace.

2026-08-27 00:10:58 CEST

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Unfamiliar with it.

2026-08-26 22:31:33 CEST

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Dunno.

2026-08-26 21:55:11 CEST

In a divided America, the left and right unite to oppose artificial intelligence data centers
https://whyy.org/articles/data-centers-artificial-intelligence-unite-left-right-opposition/
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2026-08-26 21:42:43 CEST

Think of it this way, what if there was a law that required that whenever you wrote with AI, you had to list that AI as the primary author, with you as the secondary. That would be honest at least.

2026-08-26 20:50:06 CEST

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Creativity is an innate factor. It can be improved and shepherded but where it doesn't exist those people are living in ways where what we call creativity just doesn't exist. You think you could make Trump feel creative in some way that wasn't destructive?

2026-08-26 19:04:34 CEST

10 AM in my corner of L.A., and it's already 100F.

2026-08-26 04:09:41 CEST

BREAKING: After Trump says he wants to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America, Rep. Dingell jabs and suggests Trump should call it "Lake Natalie"

2026-08-25 20:17:42 CEST

Dolly Parton dies at 80. Peace.

2026-08-25 19:12:52 CEST

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https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/117156668389816960
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2026-08-25 18:42:32 CEST

Upset at Canada, senile madman Trump wants to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America

2026-08-25 18:29:20 CEST

Cops really don't like the public interfering with Flock cameras because this interferes with cops stalking their ex-girlfriends.

2026-08-25 16:56:17 CEST

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Common usage. In this case, I would assert that without the massive trust deficit that Big Tech has built over the years, this whole situation might have been considerably different. So, like being the "victim of his own success", they're the victim of their own behavior.

2026-08-25 00:53:46 CEST

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Only 9? What a piker! (LOL)

2026-08-25 00:45:38 CEST

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Billing events they care not about. That's so 20th century.

2026-08-21 02:49:04 CEST

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Wait until they have to pay for it.

2026-08-20 18:34:51 CEST

Again, I have never in my entire life seen an issue that has so rapidly and thoroughly brought together people of every age group and political beliefs in a common purpose as the deep hatred of data centers and #AI bei ng imposed on our lives. Politicians who haven't figured this out yet, irrespective of party, are standing on the beach while a gigantic tsunami is about to drown their political careers.

2026-08-10 16:57:21 CEST

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Actually no, much of MAGA is sour now on Trump and holds him responsible. The stats are interesting.

2026-08-10 06:51:40 CEST

Netanyahu is telling Trump to stuff his Hamas peace plan. Iran is making demands for reparations and control of the Strait from the U.S. Trump spends his time demanding the Olympian be re-charged in Trump's pool fiasco. The economy is collapsing.
SO MUCH WINNING!

2026-08-08 22:02:54 CEST

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Probably not the most practical approach.

2026-08-08 21:32:08 CEST

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Short answer is that their power demands far outstrip the practical capability of solar arrays.

2026-08-08 18:12:25 CEST

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When I took a touch-typing course in Junior High, I figured it could be useful for writing term papers and such on the manual typewriter we had. I never dreamed I'd spend my entire life at a keyboard typing untold millions or billions of characters and wearing out my hands little by little. I still feel that was the single most important class I took at any time during my formal education.

2026-08-07 17:08:26 CEST

Here's my favorite RS-232 story. Back in the early days of the ARPANET/Internet, at UCLA ARPANET site #1, the cubicle farm where staff and grad students had their "offices" was a considerable distance away in the same building from the ARPA machine room (later such rooms were called "computer rooms", today would be called "server rooms") with the two PDP-11/45s. I wanted to bump the serial speed to the terminals in there up to 19200, but couldn't on the existing cables. So I asked the physical plant guys to pull through better quality cables. The initial response I got back was a query as to why I could possibly need that, since practically nobody could read faster than 1200 anyway. I ultimately got my new cables.

2026-08-02 21:34:48 CEST

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"THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!"

2026-08-01 20:19:17 CEST

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/117021537419128012
Remember Silly Putty? It's like picking up comic strip images with Silly Putty. Little by little the entire blob is contaminated with ink until it's a filthy ball of crap. Sidenote: Silly Putty is definitely still around!
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2026-07-31 21:26:37 CEST

Data Centers have become a new "third rail" of politics, for both parties.

2026-07-30 18:46:58 CEST

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Their demo video is not reassuring: https://youtu.be/xt_Kn4DggPg?t=122
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2026-07-22 23:38:14 CEST

Technology journalist and more John C. Dvorak dies at 80. Peace.

2026-07-14 16:26:27 CEST

This is the text of my national network radio report yesterday discussing the misbehaving teens turned over to police by Waymo, and the broader implications of surveillance and actions by robotic vehicles. As always there may have been minor wording variations from this script as I presented this report live on air.
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So in 1951 the great science-fiction author Ray Bradbury published a short story called "The Pedestrian". It told of a robotic police car roaming a future city looking for so-called "unusual" behaviors -- in this case walking alone at night. And a pedestrian in the story was arrested by the car and driven off to be incarcerated.
There are many real world questions about robotic vehicles -- like Waymo robotaxis -- and how they'll interact with our laws and privacy rights and other aspects of society. There were new Waymo problems again in San Francisco a week or so ago on July 4th, with their apparently being unable to deal with the celebrations causing another case there of Waymo triggered traffic gridlocks reportedly involving at least dozens of the vehicles, Waymos reportedly running out of power, reports of people being terrified when they saw a Waymo driving right over fireworks that had just been lit -- yeah, kinda scary stuff.
Most human drivers would know how to handle these situations but robotaxis don't have common sense -- in fact Waymos were just recalled due to an unfortunate tendency to drive into flooded areas, and first responders continue to be angry about robotaxis interfering with emergency operations.
Now we have an event in San Mateo in the San Francisco Bay Area that invokes Bradbury's story and other predicted robocar scenarios. In this case we have a couple of teenagers who were indeed misbehaving in a Waymo. Reports are that they were drinking, but obviously they weren't driving since they were in a Waymo -- and were shooting Orbeez -- squishy soft gel water beads -- from a toy gun out a window. Some of the details of this are still vague. But the bottom line is that the Waymo diverted from the teens' ordered trip, took the teens to a parking lot, stopped there, and called the police.
Apparently the police showed up in force, perhaps because Waymo didn't understand it was a toy gun involved, so it's lucky nobody was injured in that kind of police response situation. Early reports were that Waymo locked the teens in the vehicle, which of course would have all sorts of safety implications among other issues, but later reports suggest that the doors were unlocked but Waymo lied to the teens and falsely told them that there were maintenance issues to get them to stay with the vehicle -- meanwhile Waymo was actually getting the police involved.
Many of the stories about this seem to be taking a kind of chuckling tone and saying gee wasn't this cool? And in this particular case nothing obviously serious ultimately seems to have happened, at the time of the last report I saw the teens hadn't even been actually arrested or charged with any crimes. But a broader look at this sequence of events and the situation in general seems much less clear. One way to look at it is asking how a human taxi driver might have reacted to the same set of circumstances. Probably they would have told the teens to "knock it off" and if they continued to misbehave kick them out of the cab. And probably they wouldn't have lied to kids about a false taxi breakdown, secretly call the police, and sit in a parking lot with them for the police to arrive.
But obviously robot vehicles, even when under remote control from humans at a central facility, have a limited set of options since there's no human driver physically present. Some observers of this event have suggested that what Waymo did -- given that they're not an agent of the government -- could be technically categorized as kidnapping, even if it's viewed as a safety-positive action in this case. And in fact the formal definition of kidnapping includes taking someone where they didn't ask to be, by use of deception. Whether that word is used isn't very important for now. And really we can put aside for today the details of the teens' Waymo adventure.
But there's a whole long list of questions that have been percolating in the background about robotaxis that are now pushed to the front of the stage. These vehicles have cameras and microphones everywhere. What kind of passenger activities inside would trigger the firms diverting passengers to other locations against their will or surveillance reports being filed? Could this capability be abused by future authorities, or by hackers, perhaps on a mass scale by technologically sophisticated terrorists? And that's just to start. These may sound like sci-fi concepts but the reality of robotaxis is already here and as a society we seem to be virtually unprepared for its implications.
In Bradbury's story, there was only one police robocar for an entire city. But Waymo reportedly has something close to a 1000 robotaxis in San Francisco alone, and many more in other cities in their rapidly growing robotaxi fleets. Other firms are building their own robotaxi fleets as well. How these vehicles are going to interact with government authorities, and society more broadly, is far too important to be left to the tender mercies of the Big Tech Billionaires in their never ending search to maximize their profits.
So it's up to us to make sure that these firms act appropriately in society's best interests and don't drive society, and all of us, right off a technological cliff.
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2026-07-01 18:15:14 CEST

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By and large, all that matters at the federal level is the swing states. It doesn't matter how enthusiastic the Left is on Blue states. The electoral college assures that. However, at the congressional level, you can get people who clog up the works (on the Left and the Right) demanding stuff they're never going to get. And I'll add, there's a tinge of antisemitism in all this that is impossible to ignore.

2026-06-27 16:33:38 CEST

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Ah yes, the PERVERT spams. Especially amusing to people who don't routinely have active cameras (or uncovered cameras) on their computers. Are there that many people who jerk off in front of their computer that this scam can have any significant payoff? I mean, if you don't do it, you know there's no video. Of course these all operate on tiny percentages of uptake across enormous distributions of the emails.

2026-06-26 20:37:04 CEST

Saw one of the usual "secret to lengthen <body part>" spams this morning. What was amusing was that it promised: "3.8 inches". Are they channeling Spock or what?

2026-06-23 18:12:29 CEST

Thought Experiment: What if all the data centers in the world went hard down right at this very momen

2026-06-16 18:09:16 CEST

I don't care about basketball.
I don't care about soccer.
I don't care about sports at all.
Does this make me a bad person?

2026-06-08 19:21:18 CEST

The bizarre part is that some of the most evil fictional AI systems from science fiction seem less
delusional than the real world Big Tech AI Billionaire CEOs.

2026-05-29 04:36:34 CEST

Blue Origin rocket explodes on pad during engines test firing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZiykQT4kK0
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2026-05-23 20:55:01 CEST

In 1983, this was my email address shown in my email signature block:
ARPA: vortex!lauren@LBL-CSAM
UUCP: {decvax, ihnp4, harpo, ucbvax!lbl-csam, randvax}!vortex!lauren

2026-05-04 00:13:52 CEST

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Yes, it is mine. It is (as far as I can tell from serial numbers, etc.) pretty much exactly 100 years old. It was in very rough shape when I got it but I brought it back to life. Probably the most difficult overall tech work I ever did, given I knew nothing about pianos (player or conventional) when I started, and you don't find many of these around these days that weren't gutted many decades ago with their player mechanisms removed. I also tuned it myself, which is why it's not tuned well. It was foot pump only, but I added a vacuum inlet so it could be powered by a shop vac on low power. The research was fascinating, I had to depend on a variety of very old books from the era to get it all working. Turns out there was one guy who was like THE guru on player pianos who wrote extensive (we'd say wordy today) detailed treatises on the tech back in the 19-teens and 20s. I was able to read them in their entirety on Google Books.

2026-05-03 19:01:15 CEST

Podcast streaming test in progress. Please comment on stream quality. Thanks. - youtube.com/laurenweinstein/live

2026-03-24 18:21:24 CET

Delivery robot drives through bus stop shelter, shattering glass everywhere
https://www.404media.co/delivery-robot-drives-through-bus-stop-sh-shattering-glass-everywhere/
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2026-03-14 17:42:09 CET

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Probably about 16K fired if it's really 20%, I think (offhand).

2026-03-14 17:33:23 CET

Unconfirmed Rumors are flying today that Meta is about to fire 20% of
its employees

2026-03-08 22:40:02 CET

BREAKING: Son of killed Iran Supreme Leader (who may be even harder line than his father) named new Supreme Leader

2026-02-11 18:36:21 CET

T-Mobile announces beta test of real time language translation on calls, suggesting the ability to tap conversations -- Trump Gestapo will love this!
Since they say this will work even when only one side is a TM customer, it's clear they can tap conversations at will. This should surprise nobody since they are an ersatz "phone company", but keep in mind that under the Trump Gestapo regime, a simple friendly call to a billionaire is enough to get anything he wants from Big Tech.

2026-02-08 18:11:27 CET

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People are voting with their wallets. Try to force them into EVs, and they will vote for whomever takes the other side. The industry jumped the gun, and now they're paying for that mistake.

2026-02-05 02:28:38 CET

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I used to hang around MH1127 whenever I was in town. I've told the story of sitting there at a terminal connected back to UCLA and I ran into a tough C declaration problem. DMR was sitting right next to me. So I asked his advice. He gave me an elegant solution. The closest I ever got to getting advice from a god.

2026-02-02 02:52:05 CET

[CSAM] DOJ Epstein release includes nude photos with faces visible, including possible minors

2025-12-10 03:54:05 CET

The most likely result of social media bans for young children and teens will be to drive them towards the dark and impossible to regulate recesses of the Net, of whose existence and vast extent most adults are totally ignorant. This will not end well.

2025-12-08 21:09:44 CET

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Peertube in a nonstarter for the vast majority of Internet users.

2025-11-10 17:24:34 CET

Note that Trump's pardon of persons related to 2020 election is largely symbolic -- apparently all of the current charges are in STATE courts that Trump
can't touch.

2025-10-31 18:09:51 CET

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Yes, but until now private vehicles were immune from the sorts of authoritarian controls on actual ops that are associated with public transport (including trains, air traffic, etc.)

2025-10-13 18:18:56 CEST

I am increasingly migrating my chat contacts from Google Chat/Meet to Signal.

2025-10-13 17:43:53 CEST

BREAKING: Massive Vodafone wired and cellular outage in UK apparently continues, affecting Internet and voice calls

2025-10-13 05:06:27 CEST

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Found a solution and already have it going. Doesn't work with VLC but does work with any browser, which effectively works as well in this case by transcoding the rtsps to http! Thanks again! -L
https://github.com/AlexxIT/go2rtc
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2025-09-14 19:40:26 CEST

While "Alien" (1979) is widely considered to be among the most important sci-fi films of all time, it features an absolutely glaring, unforgivable error in its first scene.
The film opens as we slowly explore the dim bridge of the star freighter Nostromo, empty with its crew long in hibernation. We pan the creepy interior, which includes a classic bobbing duck toy busily bobbing into a small container of liquid. And ... wait a sec. Hold everything!
The crew is in hibernation. That appears to be an ordinary container of what is probably water, sitting alone, unconnected to any tubes, pipes, or other infrastructure. Any liquid in that container would evaporate completely in a matter of days. If the duck can't dip into liquid to moisten its beak, it will stop bobbing.
There's nobody around to refill that container, no sign of any mechanism to do so.
This shameful lack of realism could have ruined the entire film. Luckily, most people didn't notice this nightmarish error.

2025-08-18 18:53:29 CEST

In idiot move, MSNBC rebrands as MS NOW, but web addresses and social media accounts are already used by others
https://gizmodo.com/msnbc-rebrands-as-ms-now-but-the-web-domain-is-for-korean-snowmobiles-2000644353
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2025-08-04 02:38:20 CEST

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Key differences between book Bond and movie Bonds.
1) Book Bonds had definite sadistic tendencies not present in film Bonds.
2) Book Bonds were internally terrified much of the time, but pushed on anyway. Movie Bonds are always 100% self-assured.

2025-07-18 17:22:42 CEST

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It's incredibly fast to setup for simple tasks. That's really the big plus.

2025-07-16 19:45:36 CEST

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It's not a matter of laziness. Man, I really don't like this "blame the users" kind of attitude. People have busy lives. Many have NO tech background. They use what works to get by, especially people who have been forced into using tech they really didn't want to use as other customer support channels have dried up. I have rarely been successful at getting people who use Windows apps to move and stay on Linux. Some have tried, but went back to Windows when Linux started doing its usual mess with shared library conflicts and incompatibilities. I have been moderately more successful at getting people to move from Windows to CrOS devices. My servers and desktops are all Linux, but even after having worked with UNIX since the 70s, I still have to fight Linux systems not infrequently.

2025-06-23 02:14:02 CEST

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Apparently IAEA is saying no unusual radiation is being detected so far.

2025-06-22 18:55:46 CEST

BREAKING: Iranian foreign minister flying to Moscow to meet with Putin, as other Russian official says Iran can be supplied with nuclear weapons from other countries

2025-06-20 16:29:44 CEST

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Without getting into details here, let's just say that I am at this time skeptical about the real world impact of this particular "breach".

2025-06-19 06:21:57 CEST

Reminder: The U.S. attack on Iraq, which sucked the U.S. into a conflict that lasted many years and cost many lives, was predicated on a continual drumbeat of propaganda from the White House that Iraq had "weapons of mass destruction". It turned out that they didn't. Flawed intelligence? Outright lying? It doesn't really matter.
Here we go again.

2025-06-12 19:08:13 CEST

It can be challenging just to get different HDMI video devices to work properly with each other, yet in the "Star Trek" universe almost all interstellar civilizations can establish immediate high definition audio and video communications in a few seconds even when meeting for the first time.

2025-06-11 20:36:44 CEST

#Google users already being screwed by Google's new QR code phone camera verification system
And what of someone who doesn't HAVE a camera on their phone, or even on another computer? These people exist in large numbers, but GOOGLE DOESN'T CARE. -L
https://functional.cafe/@loke/114666152165684469

2025-06-07 16:31:50 CEST

If you transported someone from, say, 1940 to today, what technological change would impressive them the most right away? Many people would answer smartphones, Internet, etc., but I don't think so. From 1940, they wouldn't have backgrounds to immediately appreciate those.
I think microwave ovens would absolutely amaze them. It would be like genuine magic.

2025-05-24 03:55:11 CEST

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Is your name Ralph? That's only the first question.

2025-05-19 19:26:49 CEST

Currently free (U.S.) on #YouTube Movies & TV -- Boris Karloff's 1932 classic "The Mummy" -- one of the all time great horror films and the genesis for all the mummy films to follow. A masterpiece.
Fun fact: If you watch the opening credits, you'll see a line for "Saxon Warrior". But there is no such role in the film, which takes place solely in the present (1932) and ancient Egypt. The reason for this oddity is that originally there were going to be multiple flashbacks to different time periods, not only to ancient Egypt. So our friend the Saxon Warrior was left on the cutting room floor.
ProTip: Never read ancient scrolls or books inked in blood out loud unless you really know what you're doing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9_0MIjISZA
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2025-05-15 01:02:26 CEST

Gabbard fires two senior intelligence officials focused on assessing threats to US
[One with 30 years experience]
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/14/politics/gabbard-fires-senior-intelligence-officials
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2025-05-12 17:33:57 CEST

After several consecutive record-breaking May days of temperatures around 99-103F in my corner of L.A., today's expected high is 70. Those temps were very unusual for this early in the season, but they are harbingers of what's to come very shortly as summer kicks in during June and the heat comes on full blast sometimes all the way to Halloween, getting worse every year.

2025-04-16 00:14:22 CEST

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In my case, a very large manual typewriter in a Junior High typing class. I still consider this the single most useful class I ever took in my entire educational career. At the time I wanted to learn touch typing for writing term papers and such. I never imagined I'd spend my entire career at a keyboard.

2025-04-06 05:36:17 CEST

The billionaire CEOs say they "must" engage with whoever is in power to protect their companies. Would they engage with Hitler's Third Reich the same way? Yes, I believe they would.

2025-04-06 05:19:43 CEST

Greedy Apple now apparently taking 30% fee from Patreon creators when subs come through iOS/Apple store, causing massive income drops to many.

2025-03-23 18:51:24 CET

Personally, I would recommend that nobody from other countries take the risk of entering the U.S. for the 2028 Olympics here in Los Angeles. You could end up shackled in a federal Trump dungeon, no matter how well you thought that your papers were in order.

2025-03-17 02:46:53 CET

When a #YouTube creator you've been watching for years but who never appeared on camera one day shows their face in a video and you say to yourself "Man I wish they hadn't done that."

2025-03-12 17:11:57 CET

Report: As they pour money into garbage AI, #Google laying off another 40K workers, including crucial areas like customer "support" and Trust & Safety.

2025-02-16 19:15:31 CET

As Trump's mass deportations stall out, border patrol will stop using body cameras due to claimed "bluetooth risk"
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5147728-border-patrol-to-stop-usage-of-body-cameras-in-the-field-report/
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2025-02-07 20:47:11 CET

My Signal account now appears to be up and running routinely. I am not publicly publishing the address, but I will consider requests on a need to know basis. Thanks. -L

2025-02-07 01:09:39 CET

Trump kills National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure program, orders states to stop installing chargers

2025-01-17 20:38:30 CET

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Of course that's their liability position. But their timing -- e.g., right after a drone took a firefighting plane out of service -- suggests total political tone deafness, at a level that could literally destroy the drone industry in this country. Maybe they're just writing off the U.S., but they did the same thing in the EU, and that will come back to bite them as well. Because the likely response from legislatures is going to be BAN THEM ALL or very close to that. C'mon, you know that.

2025-01-16 04:58:41 CET

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See the video I just posted about. The Drone Valley guy gets this right.

2025-01-16 03:13:51 CET

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Do you understand how DJI's geofencing system, in place since I believe 2013 has operated? I get the feeling you don't.

2024-12-30 00:50:10 CET

It appears that Trump is agreeing with Musk that Americans are "retarded" and incapable of fulfilling the necessary hi-tech engineering roles, thereby requiring immigrants who presumably aren't retarded. I don't like using that word, but it's the word in the post on X that Musk endorsed, and Trump appears to be endorsing the Musk/V position on this.

2024-12-23 16:50:59 CET

House Ethics Committee releases Gaetz Report - PDFs
https://ethics.house.gov/committee-reports/in-the-matter-of-allegations-relating-to-representative-matt-gaetz/

2024-11-26 22:58:24 CET

I'm not a fan of the film "Idiocracy", but it seems undeniable that the intelligence curve in the U.S., if not elsewhere around the world -- assuming it is still a "normal" distribution at all -- has shifted markedly toward the left side of the graph.

2024-11-21 02:25:39 CET

Despite my strong differences with many of the decisions made by #Google over recent years, I can't emphasize enough what an utter disaster for the privacy and security of ordinary users most of the DOJ "remedies" being suggested to the judge in the Google antitrust case would be. I can't figure out if DOJ just isn't considering these issues in their rush to create "competition" in a manner that wouldn't actually help ordinary consumers at all -- and more likely just cause them more tech-related problems and confusion -- or if the folks at DOJ working on this simply don't really understand the technical realities involved.

2024-11-18 04:31:04 CET

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It bounces, but not like the real thing. The model creator has a chart where they collect data on that.

2024-11-18 01:32:35 CET

The reason so many firms push so hard to get you to use their phone apps rather than their websites is that the depth of invasive personal data they can gather via the apps is usually enormous in comparison.

2024-11-10 20:18:32 CET

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Whatever Leela wants me to label first.
https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/system/media_attachments/files/113/460/268/239/425/497/original/4c952318f9e2bb40.jpg

2024-11-09 03:33:56 CET

Finally buying a new label maker. My first one since my old manual "turn the wheel and pull the trigger" DYMO that I lost decades ago.