for several years now there’s an MTA employee at the E 86th St Q stop who will occasionally stand at the turnstiles and greet everyone going through - makes my day every time. #nyc #subway #manhattan

Plug for my favorite Duluth MN based jam band who just released an awesome new album: Saltydog's Runnin Again https://www.iheart.com/artist/saltydog-42238212/albums/runnin-again-369229873

at last, an ethical chatbot https://www.maiasa.ai/

@Crell “O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.”

@liaizon @cabbage all a headfake by John Mastodon to boost his dating profile hit rate

The problem with deciding whether or not to build or buy software is that it's easy to trump up reasons that some off-the-shelf thing is different than your needs, and it always seems like "build" is cheaper than it is...

I'm a relatively young deadhead but I am genuinely sad that I won't be able to see Bob Weir play again...

https://archive.org/details/deadco2023-06-10/21+Brokedown+Palace.flac

#gratefuldead #deadandcompany #jamband

https://youtu.be/KOiDWGs4JE4?si=YWwYImMAiVBjHffO

CEOs don't understand truth or falsity, facts are not a data type in CEOs. They just generate the most likely next token.

My hobby: creating PRs to open source projects with ‘printf(“here! Line: xyz”);’ after every line.

Because those messages are so helpful. #programming

Unintentional dark pattern (grey pattern?)

1. Use Firefox+adblocker, website broken
2. Sigh in disgust, disable adblocker
3. Website still broken, turns out incompetence was problem, not malice
4. Somehow get things to work
5. Never turn ad blocker back on for site
6. Profit (for site's ad revenue)

#technology #adblock #firefox

they called it trickle-down economics because 'financial waterboarding' didn't poll well with focus groups

What the fuck is with web sites/ browsers asking for local network device access lately

should vim and emacs users be allowed to marry

@grumpygamer guess it's time to implement support for high density floppies!

Happy Everything Breaks Day! The day when all the major tech companies lift their change freezes and deploy to production for the first time in weeks.

#tech #software #programming

@febuiles thank you Federico! Hope things are going well with you and your cow necklaces too!

Year-end music retrospective, for the 12th? 13th? year in a row:

https://www.mitchellrysavy.com/blog/2026/01/04/twenty-five.html

@bagder I used to be on the team that wrote/maintains that feature and as you can see, the logic can be fuzzy at best. In this case looks like someone specifically crafted a (I assume fake?) go dependency on curl

Simple principle for digital life that anyone can follow: try not to put your data into someplace you can't get it back out again.

Interestingly this doesn't exclude a lot of proprietary software/websites, but I think making it more restrictive is impractical for most people.