horrible. this is all so horrible. the person who literally released a judge's daughter's tax return over some minor conflict has access to some of the most VULNERABLE people in the united states. we're really in over our heads now
DOGE can now access a HUD system that includes addresses domestic violence survivors have relocated to for safety, medical records in disability cases and credit reports in lending discrimination cases.
While some agencies have resisted efforts by Elon Musk’s team to access confidential records, HUD has opened the door. The potential harm to privacy could be significant.
While some agencies have resisted efforts by Elon Musk’s team to access confidential records, HUD has opened the door. The potential harm to privacy could be significant.
DOGE can now access a HUD system that includes addresses domestic violence survivors have relocated to for safety, medical records in disability cases and credit reports in lending discrimination cases.
While some agencies have resisted efforts by Elon Musk’s team to access confidential records, HUD has opened the door. The potential harm to privacy could be significant.
Sorry to disappoint, this is is fully a joke and just because I got that stuck in my head again. I don't have blue hair, only used ties twice at most (for sure at some wedding I hated, and maybe for a school play), and I'm certainly not hiding in your Wi-Fi.
Orange King's madness across the ocean, unholy alliance's rise to power in Germany, and serious people talking about Europe needing a tactical nuclear deterrent?
Is there a way to skip the cutscene to the post-apocalyptic aftermath, or can we load a save and try for an alternative ending?
The Foundation is at a crossroads. We need to raise an additional $610K to break-even, and more immediately to raise $100K to keep our bridges running.
As a neutral custodian for the specification and much more, the Foundation is key to the success of Matrix. It is time to step up for it.
Please help me flee the US! I'm trying to leave asap and hit some turbulence!
I need to pay the car dealership money to pay off my car loan, which is higher than the value of my car. I also need to get emergency dentistry when I arrive and won't have any insurance to cover the costs. I'm looking for work and housing when I'm there so anything beyond that will help! I have multiple disabilities including eds, mcas, pots, me/cfs, fibro and it's very hard for me to do this. My only support comes from mutual aid, so anything you can do helps!
Thanks everyone for the boosts and mutual aid! I had to change my plans around to recover from fatigue but they are still in motion and planned for next week!
I totally forgot about it but I recently released a new album of noisy-ambient live synth stuff on bandcamp, it's $5/pay-what-you-want if you'd like another way to support me.
I've been living off of credit for a few months now but I can't pay it off and the bank is threatening me again with cutting it off. I'm just so tired trying to cut spending as much as I can, I sleep most of the day and try to eat as cheaply as I can but it's hard enough for me to eat in general and idk how to save more. I really need help, I'm in bed most of the day but I barely sleep, I don't know what to do. Please help me ko-fi.com/lillianviolet
Generalizing a bit, but rolling girl (vocaloid song) was the first instance of me experiencing this lol. A song i like a lot that also follows this is "Say it" by yorushika
If you don't mind, could you reply to this toot with something you have accomplished recently? Work, hobby, whatever, but especially if it's something fiddly and technical that required quiet contemplation or problem solving.
Right now my feed is flooded with the omni-catastrophe even more than it was in, like, March of 2020, and I just want (and suspect we could all use) some reminders that progress is still happening and being effective is still possible
I hasten to add that this is not to shame anyone _without_ any wins to put on the board at the moment, it is precisely because so many people are legitimately and understandably paralyzed by stress at the moment that I feel the reminder would be useful
(Not even, really, to shame anyone doing the doomposting. There's a lot of doom. A lot of it is even quite important to be aware of. But the volume and rate of it all is … oppressive)
I'm lucky to be insulated from a lot of the likely doom consequences, but still very concerned for others and my kids.
I find the work I do is both my thing, which I enjoy immensely, and a way of pushing back, by helping to empower individuals and reduce the power others have over them.
This motivates me a lot. It helps me feel less powerless, less subject, and more worthwhile.
I'm retired, and so have the time to get stuff done, which is great.
Nice idea for a thread. Remember too you can mute specific words in Mastodon settings, go filters, add words to filter and posts containing those words are removed from your feed.
convinced my company to let me build an internal tool with only django/htmx so we didn't have to have long meetings explaining stuff the hardware/backend folks get to the frontend folks.
I expect it will increase our velocity on this thing by like 3x or more.
i have been working on computer science research projects with collaborators, a combination of meetings and solitary notebook thinking through various formal developments, planning out and writing papers. proved a theorem or two.
Figured out why some MPI jobs were suddenly failing when using more than ~1000 processes after our update. Turned out to be a combination of two seemingly unrelated issues in two separate parts of the software stack.
But it's all working and the users are happy again!
I posted extensively about it during construction, but I built a coffee bar into an unnecessary doorway. It actually did require contemplation and problem solving because there’s not a square angle in our house, and I’m not a carpenter by trade.
I just finished putting together an interactive lecture on basic stats and experimental design for wireless researchers, and I'm pretty optimistic about how it'll go
I solved an apparently-intractable problem in a test suite suffering OOMs due to library conflict!
I wrote a little pytest hook to periodically sample RSS and CUDA usage, emitted some profiles to JSON, and got some nice plots drawing automagically whenever the suite is run¹.
No one test/fixture was doing it, but this ad-hoc tool made me confident of this after an iteration or two of testing less invasive fixes. So I solved the problem King Solomon style: I cut the suite in twain and never shall the two meet again.
Pretty satisfying problem to work through although it involved a few unwanted diversions.
¹ as I punch this out, I realize those plot outputs do tend to make a bit of a mess, so I should tidy them up a bit
Finally got around to fixing a bunch of things about my self-hosted setup - moved a bunch of services behind Tailscale, also switching auth over to Tailscale as well so that I don't need to keep re-authenticating through SSO. Also wrote up a small script to download my Kindle books now that Amazon's disabling that functionality.
@chrisamaphone just spent 3 days working on a material reference chart for our game, it is tough because we are a highly stylized game but still rely on PBR workflow to achieve some consistency.
I repaired a medium-pressure (about 5 atm) oil line on our motorhome with gaffer tape and cable ties. In the rain. On the side of a highway. Successfully. Does that count? 😁
Rigged up a motion-sensor light to help my visually impaired roommate find their way to the front door to our home, without waking me, when they need to go out for an appointment in the early hours.
Required break-light repair tape to get the color to something not sleep disrupting, a custom cradle built from lego pieces to hold the light and extension cord head stable, and some museum putty to secure said cradle place.
I have been hacking away at my (open source) programming language that I've been designing for a while now, and I recently used it in an actual production context at work, where it ended up being really useful (getting the results much faster than I could have hoped to achieve if I had to use something like Excel).
Recently I've been spending some time cleaning up the codebase and making sure there's a good test coverage. That's somewhat satisfying work, even though it's not something that is immediately visible to users.
I figured out how to make a way simpler, more DRY universal rainbow animation effect across elements all over (the next version of) my personal website using CSS variables.
Actually I’ve been learning way more about creative uses of CSS variables and calc() in general thanks to building the MIT Mystery Hunt website.
Did the opposite of what you're asking for. Did a product security presentation for a potential customer and got a surprising amount of praise from my own colleagues
I have recently become very good at sharpening and honing my kitchen knives, which has made cooking much more pleasant. It’s a task that requires care, patience, and mindful repetition, tasks I’m often very bad at. It’s nice to do something and have my hands be stable.
I have also been learning to play chords on the piano, both in terms of the hand motions required and the musical theory behind it. I don’t want to say that the experience of music is inherently non-Markovian (because is anything, truly, at the fundamental level?), but I am fascinated by how wildly different a particular chord can hit your brain depending on which chord or notes you played before. I used to have to think about Markovian processes a lot (and processes which were insufficiently parameterized to make their Markovian nature obvious)… but feeling it in the brain is so weird and cool.
I have allowed myself to feel my feelings and use them not to dwell (constantly, anyway) in anger and sadness but to drive myself to find things I can do and it is working an
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I have recently become very good at sharpening and honing my kitchen knives, which has made cooking much more pleasant. It’s a task that requires care, patience, and mindful repetition, tasks I’m often very bad at. It’s nice to do something and have my hands be stable.
I have also been learning to play chords on the piano, both in terms of the hand motions required and the musical theory behind it. I don’t want to say that the experience of music is inherently non-Markovian (because is anything, truly, at the fundamental level?), but I am fascinated by how wildly different a particular chord can hit your brain depending on which chord or notes you played before. I used to have to think about Markovian processes a lot (and processes which were insufficiently parameterized to make their Markovian nature obvious)… but feeling it in the brain is so weird and cool.
I have allowed myself to feel my feelings and use them not to dwell (constantly, anyway) in anger and sadness but to drive myself to find things I can do and it is working and it is giving me hope.
I've recently acquired a feel for fixing the parity of the orientable Twiddle puzzles in Simon Tatham's puzzle collection. I've also gotten quite proficient at the ones that don't care about orientation. Reminds me of the difference between Rubik's cubes and super cubes
Over the last two years or so I’ve been working on github.com/brendanzab/language…, a somewhat eclectic collection of free-standing programming language projects exploring type checking, evaluation, and compilation.
My main goal has been to hone my understanding of these techniques, and also to provide a resource I can point to for others to learn from, along with links to other resources. I’ve found it much easier to learn this way, as opposed to investing lots of time into large, half finished projects.
I spent the last two years (re)learning to code by building a super personalized, way over complicated home server, as much from "scratch" as I could. Also automated all my postcard-posting stuff for the holiday seasons and started learning some real machine learning by using my massive postcard collection for fuel.
despite omni-catastrophe and my life being on fire to a pretty epic degree (like, being at the brink of losing housing), I have _nonetheless_ managed to line up enough leads and work to make it through the next 6mo alive! yay!
it’s a pretty damn good feeling to still get clients who want clue, despite seeing so much llm and related gunk all over freelance markets
set up a hanging two-stage compost bin on my balcony (the one in the backyard was overrun with mice last year). it hasn't been above freezing since i set it up so it's most of the way full with rock-hard rotten produce, but it's ready to go once spring comes! started some seedlings too, with more to plant in the coming weeks
@tortie don’t stress. Try to read the rest of the thread more like a bunch of other really overwhelmed people are also managing to get a lot done, and so it may also be possible for you. Not that it should be or that there’s a problem with you if it isn’t, but just that it is worth remaining open to the possibility.
I failed to find any vulnerabilities in the cryptography used by a messaging app. But I succeeded in documenting my experience to arrive at a negative result well enough to meet a few nice people.
Last year, I urged furries to stop using Telegram because it doesn’t actually provide them with any of the privacy guarantees they think it gives them. Instead of improving Telegram’s c…
It was a couple months ago, but I merged a long living branch of my MyCmd project that was a rewrite of the core of the project. It took a year and a half, but I did it.
I'm still working on getting to an initial release, but it was big progress.
I successfully installed a safety cover for our laser marker at work. Now people won't need to wear laser glasses around it, and fume extraction will be more effective (so no one has to breathe smoke).
The purchase (and expense of my time assembling the thing) was approved enthusiastically by our site manager, who cares about safety and his employees.
I'm working on building a gen.AI to teach myself the tech. Since the project is contrived, I've decided to build a Q&A AI for lore for the D&D game world Eberron.
I just got done with phase 2 of the data wrangling, i.e. I'm taking the text from 13 D&D pdfs and making them into AI-training-friendly text chunks. I got done with all the wrangling as of an hour ago, except I need to re-chunkify everything. (technical term)
Then I can stuff it into a vector db and get my MVP on 😀
I'm also coming up on six months of walking every day for exercise. I'm up to 12,500 steps a day for the last six weeks. I've walked over 600 miles since September.
I've lost 7 kg and improved things enough that my doctor had me stop taking the two blood pressure meds I was on because of my kidney failure.
I haven't finished it yet, but I'm learning rust and trying to contort it into letting me do a binary tree (for Huffman coding) that's as aesthetically pleasing as the one I did in Haskell long ago.
It's going terribly, but it's immensely satisfying, so I'm going to just call it Art and indulge myself.
I was able to rescue a Linux installation whose boot loader I had *thoroughly* hosed, with the help of UEFIshell - something I wasn't even aware existed - and a few educated guesses re kernel parameters and UUIDs.
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Presenting: the big red conversation optimizer button!
"hey did you read that thing on Twitter? ::::)))"
- (screams in German)
made using #rustlang (for the wireless DMX controller) and #circuitpython (for the button's guts)
I made a basic textbox with text selection in LuaJIT and SDL3. It's nothing special but when it's done it'll be useful in a lot of projects down the line.
i'm really really chuffed about how my convolution reverb thing is shaping up. i've been slowly getting to the "pulling out all the stops" phase of this project one little bit at a time mastodon.gamedev.place/@aeva/1…
last night i figured out that i can do something akin to subtractive synthesis by manipulating the signs in the impulse response sample, and i've got ideas for how to apply granular synthesis techniques to do weird cool stuff with this
I did another another convolution experiment tonight (just experimenting with different kinds of samples as the impulse response on the same song) and it turned out *amazing*
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Thanks to @progrium@mas.to I have now unlocked the ability to write a filesystem about as easily as I can write a web server. It took a lot of effort to get here but boy oh boy was it worth it.
at work I just finished converting a blog post from GooDoc into Markdown, linking everything up, adding some better styling for tables, and have it queued up to publish tomorrow.
At home, I’m almost done refactoring the common bits out of the 11ty configs for four different websites into a single shared config library/plugin.
Oh and this is super trivial but fun-to-me: I compiled the RC1 of Emacs 30.1
I figured how how to use a combination of ImageMagick, ffmpeg, and exiftool to upscale, pad, and convert Slack reacji GIFs to synthesized Live Photos that (mostly) meet suitability requirements to convert to transparent animated Messages Stickers, which now in iOS 18 I can use them as animated custom emoji reactions in Messages
most of my wins have been small and quiet, not particularly interesting on their own, but a lot of those, from hundreds of people, add up over the years to amazing things.
I've been setting up CI pipelines, managing our internal packing, keeping the CI servers healthy and monitored, building software update systems for our charge network, writing telemetry tools, and the like. Oh, and a lot of onboarding, teaching people how to do this kind of stuff, advocating for standards and best practices, etc.
And with a lot of this kind of quiet background supporting work that supports teams who can then focus on their subsystems that then get built into an aircraft, we have built amazing things.
In the past year, we've done a piloted eVTOL flight with transition from vertical takeoff to wing borne flight to vertical landing.
We've also built the first airplane (conventional airplane, not VTOL) off of our manufacturing line, did it's first flight in November, and now it's flown halfway across the country, charging mostly on a charge network that we've deployed
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most of my wins have been small and quiet, not particularly interesting on their own, but a lot of those, from hundreds of people, add up over the years to amazing things.
I've been setting up CI pipelines, managing our internal packing, keeping the CI servers healthy and monitored, building software update systems for our charge network, writing telemetry tools, and the like. Oh, and a lot of onboarding, teaching people how to do this kind of stuff, advocating for standards and best practices, etc.
And with a lot of this kind of quiet background supporting work that supports teams who can then focus on their subsystems that then get built into an aircraft, we have built amazing things.
In the past year, we've done a piloted eVTOL flight with transition from vertical takeoff to wing borne flight to vertical landing.
We've also built the first airplane (conventional airplane, not VTOL) off of our manufacturing line, did it's first flight in November, and now it's flown halfway across the country, charging mostly on a charge network that we've deployed flightaware.com/live/flight/N9…
We've deployed dozens of chargers across the country to support this. We've been working diligently with the FAA on certification, crossing several internal milestones.
It's a long road to building, certifying, and selling an entirely new type of aircraft, with an entirely new, never before certified, propulsion system, but breaking the problem down, working on one piece at a time, and iterating and solving problems year after year gets you closer and closer.
Making progress on a feature I've wanted in #Grafana for almost a decade by giving a lot of technical direction and taking care of a lot of politics so the people doing the actual work don't have to.
Made a wooden monitor+speaker shelf for my desk, un-broke my Pi-Hole after an update hosed it, made my Tailscale setup work much better, oh and survived three job interviews…
I made a cake shaped like a Gengar. I like baking, but decorating cakes is not exactly a hobby or a skill of mine. I can make a delicious cake but it will probably look like crap.
But I found a channel that shows tips on carving a cake, as well as a recipe for denser cake that can stand up to carving. I followed the recipe to the t (that part is no trouble): blending the butter, sugar, eggs, and baker's cocoa, alternating between adding dry ingredients and adding the milk, vanilla extract, and oil mixture. Mixing it by hand because my standing mixer burnt out years back and I just never replaced it, and I just don't have much storage in my kitchen.
The frosting I bought, which is good because I used up most of our butter making the cake. They actually sold purple frosting, and I got that and simple white buttercream for putting the cake together and doing the "crumb layer" which is usually where I stop with decor. (continued)
managed to get a refrigerator running for a small local art gallery so that they could host their exhibition opening yesterday. In the end it turned out to be a dead extension power cord, but we had to move that thing at it was pretty large!
A year ago I moved into an apartment that is quite tiny but has fairly high ceilings. All my stuff was everwhere and the space felt cramped and claustrophobic and the state of my mind came to reflect this. I got some lumber and plywood, borrowed some tools, built overhead shelving everwhere, and moved everything up onto it, so the whole floorspace is clear. It made the most amazing difference, and really the only obstacle to getting it done was mental. Btw this is a great thread to read! Great idea, thanks! Also thanks for Twisted! Used it a ton ages ago and it was super useful.
I built yet another error definition crate in Rust over the past few days. The existing crates for this didn't quite scratch the itch I was having, so I wanted to experiment and try something new. It's working so far and I think I like it! I'm thinking about calling the new crate err_slice.
i've been making geometric pastries, these are mango and passion fruit mousses with a mango jelly heart, on a coconut macaroon biscuit and a pistachio crumble, sprayed in a colored cocoa butter velvet texture.
[post scriptum: you can add many many keywords to filters on Mastodon to hide stuff that makes you depressed.]
OK, I thought of something. Over the last few months I kept seeing #jq mentioned in passing all over the place. I finally realised it was installed by default on all my machines and looked up the manual. I've now used it to poke around in unfamiliar datasets, extract data from huge JSON files into user-friendly CSVs, and alongside #jc I've been able to convert YAML files to JSON, and pull out just the interesting parts of my Apache log files. Sure I could do all this in Python but I'm old enough to have used sed, awk, and plain old grep, so I love a versatile tool that can manipulate standard input. I don't know why I overlooked jq for so long.
I leaned enough of how to use freecad to design a replacement for the lower catch of the baby gate we use as a dog barrier on the stairs. The old one had been slowly disintegrating.
This thread is really nice to look through, thank you for starting it!
I've spent the last six months developing a set of bike wheel lights that are an order of magnitude better than the current off the shelf offerings. I learned CAD modeling, soldering, and 3D printing to build a battery case that folds around the hub, and lights that will attach to any wheel, regardless of spoke lacing pattern.
for my semi automated user creation, I had to redo all the logic our company did some restructuring. So I had some nice time puzzling out how to link places, people and roles out of the API we have access to so new peeps get the correct access and licenses.
It also lead to more functions in Powershell as I quickly figured out where code was reused. So that was a week well spent.
It's a little all-over-the-place for me, and that's hard also for myself. So thank you for reminding me to make this list. I won't mention $work.
But with regards to *progress*, I'm close to finishing a simple ARK resolver/minter that I'll use for @interpeer to provide stable identifiers for its specs.
That relates to the realization that getting this stuff through a standards organization is going to take some time, so we might as well make our own standards and worry about...
And this also relates to the hidden-but-real accomplishment that a sufficient number of specialists agree with a sufficient number of those docs that there exists some kind of pre-consensus, even if it hasn't yet made its way into SDOs.
That's pretty cool, and something to build on.
(Unfortunately it means my TODO list is longer, because I have to revise a bunch of those docs, but that's fair.)
I recently got my Friendica instance working, and I've discovered I like it way more than I liked Mastodon. I then managed to configure the advanced content filter and liberal application of the ignore and block functionality to cleanse my timeline from un-CW-ed front-page news and I'm feeling quite at home in my new Fediverse presence!
When a strange structure appeared in the woods, Kaia's sister failed to investigate it. When Kaia takes it upon herself to delve into the mysterious complex, she finds something that could save her people from the encroaching Instability...
I recently thought of a new way of explaining a coding concept in #godot to my students that works 100x better than the way I explained it before. I was so excited when it occurred to me
I can't help you with technical things at the moment. But I am a blind radio presenter, and every Sunday when I do my evening radio show with gentle and quiet music, people tell me that I do it right to make them peacefull and relaxed. And that's wonderful.
I finally managed (with a lot of help) to migrate my only Python package with a Cython extension away from setuptools and to a modern build system (meson). It’s not much, but now I feel much more capable of doing it at scale.
I have been working hard on my text-parsing programs. I have learned a lot about implementing a 'greedy line-break algorithm'. I have also learned some of what's involved in building an EPUB file that will load into an e-reader application.
I have set myself an ongoing challenge to read the complete works of Harlan Ellison. I added three books in the past week.
I’ve finally managed to push through the hump of getting productive in Rust, understand how its async mechanism works, and apply that in my day to day work on device drivers. I’m about to ship my first driver update with a major component written in Rust, with a custom async executor. (there is still a lot of C++ and Obj-C, but baby steps) Better late than never, I suppose. I’ve tried Rust multiple times since 2014(!) but was always overwhelmed with the effort required.
I also recently got PV graphics support for macOS guests merged into QEMU, and the arm64 macOS guest support patch series is also ready to go and hopefully gets merged before the QEMU 10.0 window closes.
A disabled children's camp that I have been working with for three years is about to break ground with their rebuild after a devastating wildfire. It has been a long journey.
published a blog post on my company’s blog and have consistently published my weekly newsletter over at @everyopsguy three weeks in a row. About to close a month of publishing soon.
not really fiddly, but I managed to kick myself into gear and meditate for a good 10 minutes yesterday. I wanted to restore this to a daily routine for well over a year now and I finally got out of the procrastination rut yesterday.
I got my game page live on Steam and I am getting close to having a demo polished enough to release. This is not the most hardcore technical part of the project, but the Steam page is a big step and polishing is a very detail-oriented process that I haven't done to this extent before.
This is my hobby and creative outlet, and creating still matters, I think.
I changed my boot screen theme on Fedora Kinoite! Normally I'd just have to add some files to the right directory and call it a day, but plymouth themes being in a directory that Kinoite doesn't normally permit writes to, I had to learn how to make a .rpm package out of some themes I found and *install" them to my system before I could use them as startup eyecandy.
My daughter is a total genius. She's graduating hs soon and from age 10 has had the goal to find cures and treatments for hellish conditions like alzheimers and cancer. She's going to be a scientist and is the funniest, smartest, best human I know. She has over a 4.0 GPA in AP classes and is truly a sweetheart. I have no money or career, but I have raised one of the greatest people. 💖💗🩷🩷🩷🩷
I've been trying to get actual SSO off the ground at my org. Just got the first real connector correctly configured, with SCIM and everything, in spite of documentation being out of date and flat out wrong in places. And it's just such a nice proof of concept for how to centrally manage users, and a taste of what is to come.
One system sorted, about 30 to go, with lots of open questions and uncertainty. But today finally marked the first glimmer of the light at the end of the tunnel. It feels good!
I finally managed talking to my doctor and asking for help with my mental struggles. Then contacted the local office that offers a free six weeks group course on anxiety, depression and stress and started this last week.
I just finished recording an ecourse that will activate the voices of those that receive it. In a time when so many peoples voices are being squashed it felt very important for me to do.
Removed the freewheel from my old bicycle. Had the correct tool from AliExpress, the longest socket wrench I own, large lump hammer, penetrating sprays, band-aids ready, unscrewing rotation double-checked from YouTube, energising coffee half pre-consumed.
And it just … undid.
Thankfully due to the care and lubrication I used 2 years ago when I fought this thing apart over the course of 3 days. That first, learning endeavour only succeeded because of technical help here on Mastodon. 🚴
I just graduated college at 43, first time college experience! Never went to high school, single parent. My kid was doing thier FAFSA forms, so I did too (your kid will get more money if parents are poor). Got enough grant money to work part time and get a pair of AAS degrees. Still need a job in this new world, but it feels good. Hard, but good.
I wrote some generic code in #Rust to convert multi-GB XML files into Parquet without having to load the entire thing into RAM. Derive macros feel like magic once you get the hang of them.
The definitions of the (nearly 100) data object structures in the XML are now pleasingly boilerplate-free:
I’m working on a personal project that is creating an at-a-glance two week calendar out of eink shelf tags. I’ve finally gotten round to learning enough PIL (pillow) in order to generate the images for these tags to display, and now I need to work out how to update them…
got round to having dentist do a crown on a cracked tooth. And re-kindled a desire to tinker with technology at home. I almost, at last, have something I could actually call a "hobby".
I'm in the process of decommissioning some of the old servers in my basement #homelab and I've only brought down my entire network a few times. And nothing destroyed permanently yet!
Kidding aside I'm proud of my home network and the services I provide to my family and friends.
- Replaced front control arms on our family vehicle, saving about $2000. - Led City X 3D printing project at my son's school. - Tried Brazilian Jiu Jitsu for the first time. - Replaced Win on my daughter's old touch screen Asus laptop with Debian. - Joined the Fediverse (Mastodon, Pixelfed, Loops). - Joined Tutamail and Signal.
Edit: I forgot to add that I protested for the first time in my life at the 50501 protest earlier this month.
@quokka1 ran some packet captures over the air and discovered a bug in a newly released vendors enterprise AP radio where it would only wait 10 seconds for an association to complete before it disassociated. People weren't typing their passwords quick enough! Normally the timeout is 30 seconds.
its almost been a week, but I've started a new job! Met some nice folks. Haven't melted from the stress of that. Things are looking better for me, which is nice.
- I got a "major revisions" decision from a top journal - Wrote a first draft of a grant proposal. A bad draft but still *a* draft - Almost finished the yearly financial report of my kid's childcare coop - I'm on a 10 day streak of brushing up my high school maths - Despite all the work I managed to commit to a full week of silent retreat around Easter
Hope you're getting valuable/beautiful things done too .
Last week, a hobby project of mine launched to serve the small, but interesting, community of readers and watchers who nominate for the Hugo Awards. I'm pretty proud of it, even if it is basically Baby's First Django Project, and I probably could have done better in lots of ways.
I'm a professional game composer and have recently managed to switch my entire workflow to use open-source tools! You can see what I use here: johnoestmannmusic.com/tooling/
I believe that Open-Source is one of the strongest cultural movements towards diffusing power structures. I use Open-Source tooling throughout the production of my works to clearly show that it possible + effective.
I recently started familiarizing myself with a new game engine (Godot 🤖) – something I haven’t really done in more than ten years (the last "engine" I was able to use comfortably was Adobe Flash). It’s baby steps every day, but I enjoy the progress and am happy with my results. 😊
Thank you for starting this thread, so much good energy! Our tortoises are hibernating in a crate/plant bed outside, with a wireless thermometer to monitor the temperature. I am currently getting rid of Apple devices, so I didn't want to use Home any more to check on them. I installed OpenHAB on an old Raspberry Pi Zero, and since I also had an eInk display, I wrote a little Python script that pulls the status from localhost's OpenHAB REST API every 5 minutes and draws it on the screen.
Three things: I converted a mid-2011 iMac to run Ubuntu which has made me super stoked on Linux. I poked around in one of my kids’ busted sound-making books using my new multimeter to try and identify the problem—only to learn that it was the batteries that I didn’t bother checking before I started. BUT, this (with help from fine Mastodon people) helped me identify why my EV wasn’t starting the other day: the 12v battery was out of juice!
I'm a student in cyber security and I had fun implementing a cryptography protocol! I had troubles with all the math and programming, but debugging what wasn't working made me understand most of what I was doing so I'm glad I took the time to make it work 😀
I finally sat down and wrote the first draft of a command-line tool to help reduce entropy in my life. I've been thinking about doing it for close to five years, and had two other attempts. What I have now is already making my life easier and I'm so happy that my idea from back then appears to be working out.
I have a long-standing hobby game dev project which I decided to set aside so I can focus on non-programming things with my time (for the first time in my life?)
I started working out. I have purchased a ukulele and am slowly learning how to play it. Not programming after a day of programming suddenly seems like the best move of all time to me.
I've been trying to wrap my head around some foundational Daoist classics (Zhuangzi and Laozi) and have made a little discovery that has a lot of pieces snapping into place.
@f4grx NGL, first glance at the screenshot and I was like WTF is all that?!
But opening the photo to full-size, and that's really quite a nice & clean install! 🤩
I especially like the arrows drawn on the pipes - it's so easy to assume one won't forget which is which, but without markings like that it's almost a guarantee you will (or maybe it's just me lol)
thanks! The pipes are clean because I brushed them with steel wool after soldering. It cleaned up very well. Yeah I made sure not to invert the feed and return lines otherwise the central heating would have behaved a little weird lol
The most complex part was fitting the old 20mm pipes to the new 22mm ones. All the other fittings were prepared in advance.
thanks! It requires a bit of practice but it's surprisingly easy when you also do electronics. You use the same stuff, solder wire, flux, heat. The rest is cutting the tubes at the right length and finding the rights fittings in the store. Quite similar to PCB routing in fact 😀
edit: I improved the alt texts. Tell me if something is missing, I'll add it.
born from the need for distraction and processing of what's currently happening, I wrote an 80-page novella over the course of one month. Still feels weird that I managed to pull it through. chaos.social/@Kiki/11403497647…
I always wanted to have a successful open source project, and now an open source plugin I wrote for Obsidian.md has just been downloaded over a thousand times.
I'm middle-aged, but several months ago decided to try to learn some coding. I started with HTML and CSS and can now create pretty nice-looking web pages, including with some basic animations.
Recently I've moved on to JavaScript, which I have so far found much more challenging - mainly, I think, because the lessons aren't describing things very well. But I take it one step at a time and make copious notes, so expect to make progress just like with the HTML and CSS.
Thanks for saying so. I think things will make more sense when the lessons start to get into examples. Right now they're introducing us to the syntax without even telling us what we would use JS for. Seems kinda backwards.
I wrote a fully modular I/O system for my user interface library to replace the previous one. Took about three months to figure out all the new interfaces to replace the previous ones, in a way that wouldn't break the modularity.
There's still more left to improve, but wow, I've done it and it makes toying with the "lower levels" like hardware abstractions so much better!
@samerion I'm curious, what platform(s) is your user interface library targeting? Or if it's bare-metal, what kind of hardware and what intended applications?
@matt The I/O systems allow the library ("Fluid") to run on any platform that there exists a system for. Right now, this means Linux, macOS and Windows, but it should be feasible to expand support to Android and bare-metal.
It's for general purpose, suitable for both regular apps and video games.
@matt Yes, but Fluid is in too early of development, so it's currently of low priority. Accessibility features are highly system dependent, so I first intend to make sure other I/O systems are stable enough.
I started writing some Swift code in a playground to make procedurally generated voxel art. The code is highly generic, and is happy as long as what the renderer gets is a cube of RGB values. Along the way, I decided, for the sake of elegance, to separate cellular spaces (i.e. [Address]→Element?) from bounded volumes, which turned it from a walk in the park into a stress test of Swift’s type system. I have just recently managed to contain the damage, and am making progress again.
I recently booked my Easter vacation. Time was running out as train tickets run out pretty quickly. And planning my trips take a lot of coordination. So happy I have it all done now.
after effectively decades of unknowingly working around all kinds of flaws in work processes, i more and more realize these flaws and start tackling them.
at work, i often use a website where there‘s a really long page. a fixed position menu would be helpful. three months ago i wrote my first bookmarklet.
or a document conversion process is pretty manual and screams for automation. i‘ve taken over the task and wrote my first shell script.
I finally managed to appreciate the versatility of the turtle module for teaching purposes. Draw a grid, change the turtle shape, add handlers for dragging and dropping, and you (almost) have a Blockdoku clone.
I managed to reach the capacity limits of what I can take on right now, realise that as it was happening, and start saying no to further commitments, until I can clear a bit of headroom. (I think that fits the description 🥳)
I'm trying out coookie recipes found online, and have to convert odd measurings like cups to decilitres and figuring out why baking at such high temperature is a thing in many of them. The endresult is having to try lots of cookies, which even when not perfect is quite nice.
I also am hacking code to write my own image viewer and manipulator, and even if rust has a reputation for being tough, I see steady progress. I felt even felt smugly satisfied when I resolved a git merge issue.
I've been working on our open source #decentralized #search engine @pears . Currently trying to figure out how to best route local queries to other nodes.
The goal: when you search on your private machine at home, you should get results back from the best instances, as fast as possible.
This is tricky because we have to compute similarities over high-dimensional sparse vectors in a decentralized fashion, while also catering for multilinguality. But we now have a first draft for this.
I have just finished a tool-assisted speedrun of a Game Boy Color game from my childhood, and I'm about to submit it to tasvideos.org. It took me about six months of planning, reverse engineering the game and reading some assembly code to understand some of its mechanics, and running scripts to try to find inputs that manipulate the game's RNG to give me the outcome I want.
Having fun exploring the limits of what can currently be expressed via Python's type hints, so there are certain categories of unit tests I don't need to write, and so users of the SDK I'm designing get as much help from their IDEs as I can offer them.
@freddy fixed a friends broken speakers with a custom-built usb-c pd power supply, managed to keep space in my schedule for lunch with friends once a week for 4W in a row now, picked up a sport schedule that I mostly^Woften adhere to, and I so far read about 15 books this year, as it’s the most enjoyable way to prevent me from doomscrolling
I make laser cut acrylic cake toppers for fun. Some of the inlay pieces I cut are insanely small. Think tip of a fingernail size! I share them under the hashtag #NDBProjectLaser my latest was a Taylor swift topper for a 13 year old.
last week I hung my first bifold door. It fit first time into a frame that I built many months ago. I can now close off my living room and admire the reality of something that was only in my imagination when I started this project, years ago.
Had to rope in assistance from neighbour but replaced faulty captive USB cable on Thrustmaster T300 force feedback wheel with a USB-B port permitting standard USB cables to be used. Neighbour 3D printed the fitting I found on the internet and due to very short wires it was fiddly to solder the connections. Now works perfectly and all cables are detachable which I like. No stain and if something goes wrong can be replaced.
I used a binomial probability distribution effectively! While helping my teenager study for exams. ("Helping" here being a loose term for basically sitting next to them as emotional support and making encouraging noises and hot chocolate as necessary).
I changed a bash script I created for logging stats from my solar panel setup into a database. Now, the next time I add new charge controller, I just need to add a few details to an array, instead of creating a separate bash script for the new device.
A small win, but something I had been meaning to do for a while. It is a lot more efficient now, and less likely to lock up the sqlite3 database 🥳
I recently completed a big chunk of work to support web pub and viewing on a decentralised storage network.
It's a really neat solution and needed lots of thought, problem solving etc, works really well, good UX but even so I wasn't happy because it requires some extra setup (local DNS) that will reduce access for many.
two months ago we finally released a game. It's not big or anything but we're pretty happy to have it off our hands and in the wild store.steampowered.com/app/285…
Cave Hikers is a relaxing and humorous 2D interactive cartoon mockumentary that follows three characters through a cavernous world, on a quest to find the mystical “cave with an infinite ceiling”.
I lead-authored a paper on the scientific history of the Carnegie Diplodocus, whose casts are on display in museums around the world. It took a couple of years, and involved wrangling a team five authors from three countries, but it's finally in the proofing stage. It should be the exhaustive, definitive reference for this keystone specimen. (I do this in my spare time; in real life I'm a computer programmer.)
I built a temperature controller for my Bearded Dragon's enclosure. One of the more technically complex builds I've done, including software and hardware skills. Happy lizard.
Finally managed to get to the "have receipt for SSDI application" stage of the retirement disability benefits application process.
This feels both too big (a huge emotional milestone) and too small (it seems to be the precursor to an even larger paperwork burden), as well as being not at all fiddly or technical. But it did require quite a bit of quiet contemplation ("have I managed to put down *all* the relevant doctors?") and problem solving ("where is that info?").
I moved a light switch in an outbuilding from the middle of the room to the doorway so we don't have to muddle around in the dark with our bins. Relatively small amount of work for an objective life improvement!
Yesterday I got an update installed on a system for cataloguing manuscripts that simplifies & halves the time it takes to connect a manuscript to the various works within it, which are stored in a separate table of the database, and tweaked the current testing data to match.
And in sillier outputs, last weekend I wrote a JavaScript script that produces really bad imagined romance-fantasy book blurbs: exilian.co.uk/forum/index.php?…
This is objectively funny because I'm in that state where I'm ridiculously proud of being able to output a simple test curve, while also being aware that by itself, this doesn't look like anything
Adding a new module, with support for loading (and potentially outputting) SVG files into Path2D
Uses SVG Tree
ToDo:
SVG Loading
With API documentation
Fix Monoid Instance on Path/Path2D
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The booger, dried to the back wall of my nasal passage, right up in the corner, where stubby ends of fingers are shunned I persisted I insisted I pushed and probed and prodded and poked It resisted It slip shifted It hung and stuck and welded, it clung We fought long Battled hard Were times I felt, the grip did slip Others, like my nose, raw, would split But I gave and gave, till two knuckles deep and the blood vessels within, did start to weep And there, it let go And tasted so sweet
Been "projecting" this one boulder problem at my local climbing gym. It's a tough, very overhung route that I knew I was strong enough to do, but I just couldn't get some of the moves. Usually that means there's a problem with technique. So tonight I broke it down into sections, and practised them in isolation, feeling for what was going wrong, and how to position my body so that the moves felt easier. After doing this, and half a dozen or so tries I finally topped it, and it actually felt, not easy, but completely doable, where before it had felt impossible.
have been building these light boxes for charlie and the chocolate factory, kind of fidly to deal with all the details, and repeat 6x, but they are going to be cool.
I've been reading "Conflict is not Abuse" by Schulman, probably the most feminist book ive ever read, and did a lot of emotional work around processing that.
Proud of myself for sticking to it, even when it was hard.
I finished a photo book from a trip we took to Spain and Portugal last April. Now working on the one for my Mom's 90th birthday party as a gift for her 91st. Keeps my mind busy and looking hard at photos lets me remember good things.
I am hosting a weekly jazz show on my local FM radio station. It's been great to get so immersed in music again and learn new skills unrelated to software. It's been great to be reminded that art is still being created and people are reacting to this moment in all kinds of ways.
@mdboom That's so cool. There's a guy who's been doing a jazz show on my alma mater's radio station pretty much every week since 1980. It's become a local institution. These things can really pull people together.
The station publishes an email address for the host, Rob Bamberger. You might want to drop him a line! I bet you'd have a lot to talk about 😀
Swing into the weekend with Hot Jazz Saturday Night on WAMU! Each week, host Rob Bamberger celebrates the great American music of the early twentieth century, playing vintage jazz, swing and big band recordings from the '20s, '30s, and '40s.
@jalefkowit Yeah, I'm definitely inspired by that show, and listened to it for many years before I moved across the Bay. Part of my "thesis" is in response to that show -- that there has been plenty of growth in big band since 1959 worth celebrating, and plenty of activity even today. I'm trying to connect the "classic" stuff to newer things people may also enjoy.
Yesterday I managed to steer the conversation of an implementation we need to do at work towards progressing. We have one colleague who is exceptionally good at programming, but has severe tunnel vision and will sometimes reply in such a way that I wonder if they think everyone else is dumb 😛
Getting this done required carefully bumping this colleague in the right direction and breathing deeply while reading some of their remarks 😅
I'm helping my neighbourhood get a functional web presence so it's easy to disseminate info, and (fingers crossed) more people will play their dues so we can have more fun/useful activities 😃
@darkuncle this took a lot of thought and serious contemplation, I’m not sure how many times I refactored and reimagined the algorithm until I was happy with it. github.com/lcisec/lckbx
I made a Time and Space #quilt last weekend. It's pretty basic, but it held together through it's first laundering, and it's keeping me warm as I type this.
Last week at Glass Time (the multi-week open projects flameworking class I am in the semester), I made a higher-genus hollow form than I’ve made before. (A small vase/bottle with a “doughnut” hole connecting from front to back.)
Oh and a Work Success: yesterday one of my students emailed me something she saw after class that reminded her of our lecture topic.
I dyed my first thing ever! I dyed my white Miyoo Mini Plus handheld retro console a dark, DARK purple. I had intended it be navy blue but I still love the results and I'm going to do a few more for family!
I fixed a bug in Vim. Not a major thing but a recent patchlevel broke a feature I use often and none of the usual contributors noticed the breakage, so I felt I had to be the one to research it and write the pull request.
I had a hobby I wanted to start in on, but in my initial attempt, I had organized it to be very dependent on being at my desktop computer. But then I didn't touch it for months. In the last couple of weeks, I had a good think about why it was that a thing I wanted to do for fun wasn't drawing my attention like I expected. Turns out, spending more time at my desk was a big blocker, so I spent some time figuring out how to make the process all analog so I could do it at the kitchen table or wherever and buying a few supplies like a binder and dividers to make analog notes and keep them organized. Now I've done it 3-4 times since reorganizing it and I'm having a great time with it.
Dunno if that's technical or fiddly enough, but it did require quiet contemplation and assessment of myself and my habits.
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Sometimes SwiftUI just works so nicely. A little bit of work with the barcode scanner and I have a view modifier that performs an action whenever a barcode is scanned or can update the value of a binding.
I wrote a recreational topology book, which you can pre-order at Bandcamp: b--k.bandcamp.com/album/topolo… . Should be done this weekend.
Reading all the math underlying the book has been such a great respite. Good math is a narrative about building interesting things and solving hard problems, but is completely devoid of the usual interpersonal drama that comes with most narratives.
This is almost a month ago now, but I completed a major update to my company's product for making documents (especially PDFs) more accessible to blind people. We rely on third-party services to do the heavy lifting (OCR, document structure analysis, AI image descriptions), but there were still some tricky bits I had to do myself. One of the last ones I had to do for this update was finding links in the original PDF and adding matching links to the HTML version.
This one's less technical, but last week I spoke to a small group of blind students at a local high school. I showed them a few fun things one can do online with a web browser and a screen reader, including accessing the fediverse. They were taking notes. I think I helped their teacher motivate them to master important screen reader commands.
By "small group", I mean only three students. So some may say it wasn't a good use of my time; after all, we technologists are supposed to do things that scale. But it felt good and worthwhile.
Today I wrote a basic version of strace in Rust, and it only took me a couple hours!
I'd been really busy with school for a long while, and I had done nothing but homework that I was bad at interspersed by YouTube for far too long. Sitting down and spending a few hours bashing out a library was the most fun I've had in months, and a great reminder that I'm not a useless human being since art appreciation is hard for me.
"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid." --Not Albert Einsten, as it turns out, but worth remembering nonetheless
yesterday I shot a personal best #archery round beating my rival by 70 points. (The archery round was a 'Western', 4 dozen at 60 yards and 4 dozen at 50 yards). This was using my favourite English #longbow
@hiway I had dinner with my daughter tonight. She’s a junior in college and a chemical engineering major. She told me about her accomplishments and it made me happy that she’s adulting well.
Did some sewing. New hats and some very soft fleece haltertops for under everything. I am very cozy. Also teaching young women in my neighborhood how to make clothing and bread. Old women, too. And men. Whoever is curious.
I knuckled down and got CSS flow layout to work on my phone browser for PixieReport's "weather stations nearby this one" view, making the 4x3 image view about the right width for smartphones.
Now I have to go back and fix it for landscape mode browsers so it doesn't explode down the scroll direction by scaling to the viewport width, oops. But it fixed the "too small for the phone" problem.
Mozilla Developers Network, the gift that keeps on giving for novice developers.
@SnoopJ My friend, who I’ve known since high school, has his 50th birthday the 1st. I’m going to be traveling and can’t make it; he was really disappointed.
A week ago, my partner and I drove 800 miles to surprise him with an early birthday party. 😄
His partner helped arrange so we’d be at a whiskey bar when they walked in. We were facing with our backs to the door, and as he walked by I asked if he wanted to sit with us. He just froze up, and then started laughing.
At work, we need wsl-vpnkit or similar to get WSL 2 working while on the VPN. It includes some binaries though, so it's blocked. After fighting and failing to get it approved, I figured out how to compile the relevant binaries from gvisor-tap-vsock in WSL 1 and use the wsl-vpnkit shell script to put them together in a systemd service in WSL 2. Wrote up some instructions and a coworker was able to repeat it, so it's not just a "works on my machine" thing!
I made a good start on a totally commercially useless but (fun to me!) side project involving the re-creation of the old school MUD idea but using REST and FastAPI/SqlModel.
I also with great effort finished the first shambling revision of my new from scratch @neovim configuration:
But I'm not happy with a trade off I made to get it going and want to retool it to be much cleaner 😀
I myself have been feeling overwhelmed by current events and the tsunami they create in my social media, and focusing on side projects, my charity work, and spending time with my lovely wife and cuddly lovable dog 😀
@lydiaschoch I used to use a tool called dnote to keep track of thoughts and todos from a command line. Since corporate policy is to not install unauthorized third party apps, I reimplemented dnote in bash this week. I call it bnote
i found & joined a local makerspace! i've gotten slightly better at soldering (completed some little kits) and started learning python! i got a job (extremely part-time and not one i want to do forever but still!!!)
Ive got MOST of the seed bank organized and on the order form to ship out to folks for free. I still need to finish packing up the blanket flower, hollyhock, and coneflower into envelopes. But stamps to actually send stuff out haven't arrived yet, so still have a bit of time.
but soon, soon, I get to start mailing flower seeds to folks
i've been learning tinkercad and modeling stuff for the 3d printer i finally bought after years of toying with the idea, currently progressing on making a phone support for my bike, because my phone is big and heavy and not that common, so it needs something custom. still needs work but happy with my progress.
I’ve just finished making my first crochet blanket, and it’s my first time using something trickier than treble crochets. I’ve been footering at it off and on since September, unravelling the bits I messed up, until I got into my rhythm with the stitch.
I decided to learn how to crochet during the first lockdown, and not only has it been great for my head, it’s kept the hand I broke a few years ago well exercised.
Sending sympathies for the current state of overwhelm.
@kimlockhartga What a lovely thing to say. Thank-you ❤️
The wool was what inspired me to make a blanket. The colour of one of the stripes is paua shell, and I have very happy memories of a holiday in New Zealand. The other colours just leapt out as good companions for it.
This is a great idea! Much appreciated.. thank you for asking.
I set up my household's new gravity-fed water filtration system, from unpacking to first use. This involved reading instructions, identifying parts, initial cleaning, priming, and testing the first run. It works great.
Recently designed and had my first real PCBs made for work with the help of my coworker! We got the boards and spent a few hours debugging why they weren't working basically at all... Are all the voltage regulators working? Can we see data on the USB port? Is there something wrong with the EEPROM setup? To cut a very long story short, it turned out the data + and - lines on the USB port were backwards in the schematic... Oops 🤦♀️ Luckily during that debugging we also happened to discover I used the wrong footprint for the crystal we put on the board, so we had to bodge that too... To fix the USB port being wired backwards, my coworker made a "USB Crossover cable" which does exactly what you'd expect (it wasn't worth modding the boards when we could instead mod the cable!)
Anyways other than those two things, rev 1 was pretty successful otherwise... The stuff I thought was going to cause issues (transistors and gates) actually worked totally fine first try.
I at last opened my very old air fix skeleton kit, that I’ve been meaning to start for years, ordered paint and filler and about to begin construction. The first step is always the biggest accomplishment. I built one in 1969, my finest build, but alas the glue failed with age and it’s in irreparable bits now. The skull is on display though.
I found an fixed a timing-dependent bug caused by uninitialized memory use in watchdogd, mostly by analyzing logs and staring at the code until I realized what didn't fit. github.com/troglobit/watchdogd…
Depending on the timing between the SIGCHLD callback run and the first generic_cb() timer callback run, script_exit_status() sometimes returned uninitialized memory as the exit status of a script. ...
I created a visualization of a knowledge graph for Calculus and its prerequisites, which is powering the product I’m currently working on.
I was doing this to prepare for a public talk, which unfortunately got rescheduled due to on-site water problems in New Jersey. Nevertheless, I’m still happy with the results! It's nice to have something to show to your F&Fs to explain "what is that I'm working on" 😀
I had two really good therapy sessions that I think unlocked me, I'm visiting my friends I haven't seen in years, I started cooking a bit… yeah there's some good stuff
Yesterday I've finally understood how to make a luks decryption on debian with a key stored into the tpm, but without dracut or clevis, with ony the initramfs-tools ! It's actually quite easy and weel described on the tpm2-initramfs-tool github (but they have forgotten to indicate the step where you add the key to the luks volume). And now I'm digging into the PCR explaination, in order to decide wth which PCR I would like to seal my luks key. I'll probably want to seal it with the ones about kernel/firmware binaries.
in the winter holidays I finally managed to fix a bug in this Haskell library I maintain. The main insight came to me from a random internet stranger and the whole thing made me learn a bunch of stuff about calling conventions on different CPU architectures.
This makes HasCacBDD work on aarch64 including ARM and Apple M1.
Big thanks to Melissa aka shadysciencefeline for help!
Previously we relied on calling conventions specific to amd64:
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I reverse engineered a bootloader and wrote an actual working piece of software so that firmware could be updated easily.
I also worked out a method for doing a four aces card routine I saw Juan Tamariz do from scratch, and not only did I work a method out, I practiced it, and then performed it completely fooling my partner. I think the method I arrived at might be Identical to Juans because it is not hard.
I also practiced and mastered a couple of tricky coin sleights. (I am an amature magician)
I left a job about 6 months ago that was draining my energy. To try to get my enthusiasm for my work back, I set myself a challenge - to figure out how small an encoder for a modern video compression standard can be.
And not only did I succeed at answering that question, it did bring my enthusiasm back, and now I'm partway through writing up what I did: rachelplusplus.me.uk/blog/2025…
recorded a giant checklist of groceries in my Obsidian vault (not just weekly, it includes a lot of the infrequent stuff too)
The whole thing is organised by the area of the house it's kept (specific cupboards, fridge, freezer, etc) so that I can quickly go through the house auditing what we need in the next shop.
Each item is also tagged with the area/aisle number where it's found in each of the three local grocers and each grocer has a separate page with a dynamic list of what's currently needed, this time organised by aisle. The aisles are sorted in the order I would progress through them so that I can rush through in hurry and know exactly what I'm looking for at each aisle without backtracking.
At the top of each grocer page is a link that immediately starts driving directions in Google maps and at bottom is a picture of the points card barcode so I'm all set for the checkout....
Oh! And also the bin code for times when I'm swapping a soda stream tank so that they don't need to look it up 😂
Circuit breaker powering a friend’s greenhouse located in their garage tripped — but a 5” thick ice glacier made it impossible to open! I brought tools of disassembly and what worked best was my 8 pound short-handle sledge hammer and my sharpest splitting wedge! Thick ice is fucking tough! Their greenhouse is getting power again!
Feels good to help make something a bit better in the current dystopia …
managed to get a single-board computer which had me defeated for 5 years to boot, and now it's running a desktop environment and serving a role I need (a non-laptop system near where I spend most of my time to display various information, youtube, etc)
@nazokiyoubinbou A few years ago I wanted to ease into really using Linux, so I dual-booted. I adapted surprisingly quickly. Now I log into the Windows side about every 6 months to run updates... then right back to Linux 🤣
I've been doing rules work for the new netrunner set. I wrote several reference cards to teach and clarify mechanics, and this weekend we'll be finalizing rules text for most of the game cards
restarted my home server after de cluttering my office table/room, and moved sync thing out of Freebsd jails to the main machine so that I can play with Linux containers with the handy guide written by @gyptazy
I updated all the dependencies I could at the moment for the odilia screenreader, also removed some accessibility event handlers which are cluttering the speech buffer with mostly useless information. I'm currently working on making caret browsing work as expected, also fixing the problem where it wouldn't read certain list and treeview items, because they don't have names and descriptions directly associated with them, but I suspect they're just a wrapper and I have to make heuristics for when odilia should look at the descendents of that item in case it's a container. This is the work of guesswork and heuristics, because the orca screenreader has a very weird and complicated codebase, plus it's python and I don't know python well enough to go fast over that codebase, so I'm choosing the way of pain instead
update on this one real quick: apparently no, those list and treeviews which aren't reading with odilia are, in fact, not at all containers for other items, at least not in most cases. In fact, doing it this way introduces more bugs, in the form of things being readable before just misteriously not reading and so on. So yeah, back to the drawing bord I go, will have to inspect orca and see if I can decipher anything useful from it, enough to solve my problems.
I set up a new GitHub organization and configured the project tracker with priorities that are actually actionable and directly meaningful. Very pleased with them so far.
I maintain a small Rust crate (crates.io/crates/constant_time…) which has to do some tricks to avoid being optimized to something not constant time, and I had been worrying that these tricks might not be enough. These last few months, I made a nearly full rewrite of it, making it safer against the optimizer while not losing too much speed (which required some amount of manual vectorization, since the optimizer can no longer autovectorize), and I plan to do a release with these changes tomorrow.
@feoh What have I done lately to solve a problem? I added filters to Mastodon so I don't have to read all the shit going on in the world. My visits here are no longer classifiable as doomscrolling.
I migrated a Python hobby project from pdm to setuptools. Small win but it took some figuring out, especially being as unfamiliar as I am with Python packaging. >.>
Don't know if this qualifies, but at work on Thursday I had a coding problem I just could not see. When to bed that night and dreamed about the code (my mind is weird like that). Woke up yesterday morning and my 'subconscious' had figured out where the error was and how to fix it. 🙂
I don't know if this counts, but I built a picnic table out of Legos for the first time ever in my life at the age of 32, 100% independently. I am totally blind and relied on accessible instructions AKA text-based instructions for the blind and visually impaired, as well as chat GPT to accomplish this task . I created a custom chat GPT specific for Lego builds, included specifications such as be descriptive in prompts, etc. this did take quiet contemplation as I fucked up a couple times, but in the end it was a success. I didn't know if I wanted to jump for Joy or burst into tears LOL I guess any goal achieved, no matter how small, is still an accomplishment right? 🙂
I've been helping out at work upgrading a project from python 2 to python 3. Last week we went from 200+ unit tests failing to 0. Mostly involving making decisions about where to use bytes and where string.
@adhdeanasl The gain structure on my #1 guitar amp is notoriously finicky, in part because the two channels feed each other, both are extremely sensitive to input variation, both respond to a “jazz/rock” master toggle, all three EQ knobs have extra toggle switches and THEY all interact with everything else in non-obvious ways, plus I have had it modded with a A/AB power switch and a 3 way toggle to pull negative feedback from different points in the internal signal chain.
ANYWAY I managed to get it set up sounding like absolute ass last summer, thin, raspy, no mojo whatsoever, went down the rabbit hole of tube swapping with little positive effect, and have been disappointed with the sound ever since.
I finally sat down with it, left the tubes alone, and dialed everything up from scratch…I do this by turning up the final master volume to max, nothing plugged in, and moving every knob and toggle while l
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@adhdeanasl The gain structure on my #1 guitar amp is notoriously finicky, in part because the two channels feed each other, both are extremely sensitive to input variation, both respond to a “jazz/rock” master toggle, all three EQ knobs have extra toggle switches and THEY all interact with everything else in non-obvious ways, plus I have had it modded with a A/AB power switch and a 3 way toggle to pull negative feedback from different points in the internal signal chain.
ANYWAY I managed to get it set up sounding like absolute ass last summer, thin, raspy, no mojo whatsoever, went down the rabbit hole of tube swapping with little positive effect, and have been disappointed with the sound ever since.
I finally sat down with it, left the tubes alone, and dialed everything up from scratch…I do this by turning up the final master volume to max, nothing plugged in, and moving every knob and toggle while listening for variations in the low level hum/noise of the output (hat tip Steve Kimock who mentioned this trick on a message board decades ago). I listen for inflection points; spots on the potentiometer range where an audible change occurs. If you can hear that, you can trigger it with your picking hand, which is what I want from this amp. Maximum touch sensitivity.
It took about 90 minutes but I solved it using only my ears and more patience than I was able to muster over the last 6 months. It sings again. When the amp is dialed, I play more often, I play differently, and I enjoy it more. Winning!
I had no idea why strange numbers were appearing at the bottom of my WordPress blog, under the footer. I tried everything to make the vanish.
In an unrelated matter I decided I didn't need Google Analytics anymore since they were inaccurate anyway. When I deleted the code the strange numbers also vanished. Yay.
This might not count under "recently" but it's one of my favourites: I figured out an upper bound for where Busy Beaver overtakes Kruskal's TREE function. To my knowledge, we didn't have one before.
The way to do it involved writing a program in a language that can be compiled down to Turing machines, which was SUPER fiddly because the language is very restricted.
But I did manage in the end. Busy Beaver overtakes TREE no later (and probably a lot earlier) than at 8424! 🌳🦫💡
Replaced the hard drive on an old 5th gen iPod with a Sd card and also put in a new battery. The thing has always sounded better than anything else Apple has ever built. Now it’s gloriously light and filled with 512 GB of music.
this is really lovely as I feel your pain. I'm soaking up the joy of other creatives and writers on Substack at the moment. They've spurred me on to continue with my first draft for my book! Find beauty in the arts and nature. I think that sometimes helps.
I have been writing a bash script to call up to CCADB for a list of root certificate authorities and parse them out.
It's a multiline CSV and the typical Linux tools don't handle newlines in fields very well. Had to loop over the records and build the second field manually before processing a record.
I attended a "listening session" at my company about why people feel unheard. I spoke on a topic that possibly could have gotten me fired, and three other people on the call concurred.
I just 3D modeled and am printing out a flange to cover up the range vent hole in the cabinet above the microwave, to keep things in the cabinet from falling down into that hole and junk accumulating between the microwave and the cabinet.
I finally managed to write some tests which run a compiled go command that starts kubernetes jobs, and I don't completely hate the end result. Found at least one bug in the process, which was nice.
I've managed to write code that lets me easily reprovision my OpenWRT router from factory settings with Ansible but also to export settings from the router to my Ansible project. This makes it possible for me to safely experiment with network settings on my local network without having to worry about fallout when I inevitably break something. This was much more fiddly than I initially expected and OpenWRT seems to mostly be held together with gaffa tape, hope and shell scripts. 😀
I replaced a defective thermistor inside our Rheem hybrid electric water heater, which required standing on a small step stool and bending over (to avoid knocking my head into the ceiling) and reaching two hands down into the unit. A plumber would have charged at least US$300 for that.
last week I figured out how to precompile macros in the compiler for my programming language which sped up launch time by a factor of 5
I also launched a mediocre hyper-personalized search engine; only a couple thousand pages in the index but it's already helped me find a few things and has been a lot of fun to work on
finished editing four volumes of the second series of a speculative fiction universe about non-human aliens I've been writing, and have recently begun the third chapter of the third series.
The mac database hadn't been working for arp-scan since an upstream location change in late 2022. So I did a PR to fix that.
A LuCI page to enroll application specific encryption keys. I'd been bashing my brains out on JavaScript I didn't quite comprehend for a week or so, but finally got something that looks like what I wanted when embarking on this quest.
I've developed a nesting fixation due to all this *gestures broadly* but I emptied out about a half dozen bags of paper and trash from my office, dusted and cleaned shelves, emptied and organized the hall closet which was stuffed full of junk that hadnt been cleaned in 10+ years, so now we have more functional space and aren't climbing over junk, we can sit on the couch and watch videos or play games that had been too hardd to get to before.
It may not seem like a lot, but it's been years and years worth of clutter and anxiety finally getting the motivation to tackle it
I fixed the pocket door for the downstairs bathroom. The tricky bit was figuring out how to hold the little rolling slider in place while I lifted the door up to latch the pin.
I decided to take back a little control of my spot on the Internet and moved my blog off of GitHub pages to a VPS and moved to a single user GotoSocial instance.
for months I have had an ONT, WiFi node and switch lying on the floor behind my TV in a rat's nest of wires. Semi-inspired by this thread, I finally got around to fastening them all to the skirting board. It may not be beautiful but it's a lot better than before! (Nice 3D-printed bracket for the Eero courtesy of someone on the internet.)
@blaise Absolutely! The whole thing is going into a blog post soon (from my new ✨business blog ✨) but you can totally have a sneak preview of the information while the full post is effectively embargoed pending paperwork approval.
We put together a trampoline! We had made a start about 2 weeks ago but it got dark halfway through the build, and then it rained the next day, and then we had two busy work weeks. So the project had stalled. But it got done today! Much jumping by small people ensued.
over the last few weeks, I’ve learned to read hiragana, one of the Japanese syllabaries. I got very fired up after a trip to Japan and honestly part of what keeps me going is that every time I start to feel tired of reading doom, I open my flashcards app instead. I wrote a blog post about it, though I left off how the learning is an escape rinsemiddlebliss.com/posts/202…
I reorganized the tea and coffee storage in our kitchen, which allowed me to relocate the spices from the depths of the corner cabinet in which they had been interred. The project isn’t done yet — at the very least, the drawer needs internal dividers to help keep things in place — but it’s already 1000% more useable.
I recently kinda refurbished a coffee grinder to gift to a friend. I've never done anything lime it before so hi had to learn a lot of new things. I took it all apart, replaced the burrs, cleaned it, calibrated it, and repainted it a totally different color. I also ended up needing some custom low contact parts. I ended up learning CAD software to model and create the part myself. I then put the part online in the off chance it could be useful to someone else.
I've been struggling to do much of anything for some time, whether it was something I enjoy or not. So I was really proud of myself for actually finishing this project.
This is an algorithm I came up with, based on the Floyd's
Tortoise-Hare constant-memory linear-time linked-list cycle-detection
algorithm. It is linear-time and malloc-free. It *eventually* det...
I pieced together from various sources instructions for downloading and DRM-stripping all our Kindle books from Amazon, primarily a couple of Reddit posts with good info. Then I worked through importing nearly 1000 Kindle books for our household into Calibre with the DRM stripped.
It's another good step towards getting completely free of Amazon.
We still have at least 300-400 non-DRMed non-Kindle ebooks from other sources to import.
Ironically, I had been putting this off for years, and I probably wouldn't have gotten to this for several years more, if Amazon hadn't announced that starting 2/26 they would switch to a tougher DRM scheme and make it harder to download.
super foolish and fiddly but I wanted to be able to link to articles/components I load dynamically on a page, while also supporting responsive nav and styling all with native JavaScript.
It wasn’t anything super difficult, nor is the solution I came up with the way I would do it if building again. But it works well enough, and it’s something I hadn’t tried before.
I've been working on an HTML + JS thing for github.com/python-organizers/c… and it's been surprisingly rewarding even if it never ends up becoming a thing "for reals".
I just finished re-implementing my powerlevel10k config in Oh-my-posh (ohmyposh.dev) earlier today.
The benefits include actually being written by me (my p10k one was generated with p10k configure), more features if I ever want them, and not being written in shell with like 50 character envvars for settings.
it's been three years of full-scale Russian invasion, and I'm not dead yet!
And, I managed to fix and get merged one nasty bug in WebKitGTK font scaling, and maybe with the help of awesome folks from GNOME we'll fix a few bugs in Geary soon.
@partizan these accomplishments do not seem to be of the same scale, but I am glad of both of them.
Also as an American I feel obliged to apologize for my country. Those of us who do not want to see you dead really did our best and I am sorry it wasn’t enough; we are hoping Europe comes through for you when we inevitably falter.
I'm about |-| close from becoming a gentoo developer. Literally like two patches left in my "final exam" project. Not to mention last Summer I got to speak at CERN. Knocking off the bucket list in rapid fashion!
@glyph, as our world burns, I anxiously await a Phoenix to arise from its ashes (always hopeful), I escape the chaos for a few hours painting cards. I’m still learning to paint on You Tube videos, so they are not professional level, but they are full of love. I started making these cards during COVID, and found some joy. Painting them pulls my attention away from the negativity, and people like getting mail. They show that someone is thinking of them with love. 💕
the screen on my tablet fell off, and broke the ribbon cable. I checked online, not repairable. I called the local shop. Not repairable. I found the part on Amazon for $8. 20 screws, and some light prying, I got the end of the cable in view. With a 10X magnifier, I got the old one detached. New one in. Back in, and I have my tablet back. Still need to glue the screen in again...
A screenshot of a computer screen displays a portion of text and a pop-up menu. The text on the screen includes phrases such as "use the midterm test in option (A) contrib," "Absence form" cannot be used as a valid," "grading on," "TE THAT," "% FINAL," "pics," "stems of L," "aussian Elin," and "atrices and Matriy Operations." A dark, rectangular menu is overlaid on the text, offering options such as "Summarize," "Explain this," "Quiz me," "Proofread," "Ask Le Chat Mistral..." and "Hide chatbot shortcut."
from what I can tell, there is no way to disable this, aside from about:config. (no, "Hide chatbot shortcut" does not count. I want it nuked from orbit.)
Hm. Saw that in some blog post at some point and just set the setting before I even updated to a version which had that setting or AI. I'm running LibreWolf and they seem to remove any AI outright.
@Jessica @LucyG idc, they should have left it disabled by default or at the very least given me a popup when I launched the browser saying "we're trying out a new AI thing, do you want to enable it?" yes, said popup would have annoyed me, but it wouldn't have completely pissed me off like this has
@Jessica @LucyG I'm using some random ass firefox profile I set up a long time ago that was probably roughly based off of betterfox, though I haven't updated it in quite some time lol
It is INFURIATING how Maga will act as though Trump's the smartest man in the world, but the moment he says something incredibly obviously stupid like 'Zelensky started the war in Ukraine' they're like 'oh he didn't mean it'.
sometimes i have the feeling as here on #mastodon it really matters at what time you post stuff, as i get very different feedback; p.ex. the same post is ignored at one time, while it has way more interaction on #reboost while others are death horses anyway, because they either suck, or do not resonate (the latter being okay with me)
another problem is of course the very incomplete profiles you get from other #instances
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Important information in the video starts at 5:38. Post that was mentioned in the video: Firefox’s employee’s recent comment on the post about PWAs david-rubino Employee 02-03-2025 11:59 PM Hello everyone… I spent some time just now read…
Days after a DRM driver developer orphaned his drivers due to health reasons in stepping down, the sole maintainer at large of the Linux wireless (WiFi) drivers is stepping down and without any immediate replacement.
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La imagen compara los sistemas operativos Linux, Windows y Mac usando analogías. Linux se representa con la cabina de un avión de combate, destacando su complejidad y funcionalidad avanzada. Windows se muestra con el interior de un Dodge Viper, simbolizando un sistema potente pero más accesible. Finalmente, Mac se ilustra con un niño pequeño jugando con un volante de juguete, representando su simplicidad y facilidad de uso, orientada a un público menos técnico.
Had a Bathroom similar to this on an open apartment viewing. It had a small sink in the middle, and stretching 4 meters away on the other end was a shower cabin. But the worst thing was a glass blocks window to the neighbouring buildings staircase. You know. For ventilation.
The player should immediately inflict Slow using either Spider's Silk or the Slow spell. Rosa should cast Berserk on Cecil, Kain, and possibly Edge if the player chooses not to use his Throw command. Rosa can then heal, or revive them with Raise if the Demon Wall uses its instant death attack.
One of the best ways of discovering interesting accounts and posts on here is to follow hashtags. It's really easy to do:
1. Search for a hashtag 2. Click the hashtag you want from the suggestions 3. On the results page for that hashtag, click "Follow" at the top of the page
Posts with followed tags will start showing up in your timeline.
There is lots more info about hashtag following (including how to manage and unfollow tags) in the guide at:
Notes for new users: this can be useful, providing you don't mind your timeline being so busy you struggle to find the posts of accounts you follow.
The reasons for this are:
- There is no way to move followed hashtags to a list to declutter your timeline. - It ignores your language settings, so you'll see matching posts in all languages.
Fine for niche topics. Nightmare for, say, your sportsball of choice. 😊
tl;dr: Following hashtags is useful, but it has its problems.
Once you see how many posts a tag brings in, you can try to be more specific, but the number of posts a tag draws in will vary a lot depending on which server you are on.
eheh I was wondering if there was an easy way to check this. For example a website that shows for each account the number of instances that are hosting that account’s content and the total MAU (monthly active users).
Some of the most fervent pushback to Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza is coming from the same people, institutions, and newsrooms that refused to challenge, and even supported, the mass slaughter of Palestinians during the Biden administration.
@Maxfieldripken Exactly, “right of return” in the normal usage is a smokescreen for right to wage war against Israel. Destroying Israel is never going to happen, so any right of return to Gaza can only be granted to those who renounce war as well as any claim to Israeli sovereign territory.
Your usage of the word "Voluntary" is incorrect and an orwellian redefining. Beiing offered the option of being slaughtered or leaving IS NOT a voluntary decision @jopy. Hoping YOU have that "Voluntary choice" someday, scumbag. @ViXY_DBC @mondoweiss @palestine @israel
My page would set the record straight on whether homosexuality is a sin. It’s not. In fact, ONLY LGBTQ+ people go to Heaven when they die. Cis straight allies work their way up from Purgatory. Everyone else goes right to Hell.
As the next step in my quest to make it easier to poison AI crawlers, I present you: OCIocaine: a project where #DockerCompose meets #Caddy and #Iocaine, to poison AI crawlers for all your sites, automatically.
The idea here is to provide a docker compose file that starts up Caddy and Iocaine, configured so that Caddy will reverse proxy for any and all services on the same docker network, as long as they have a few labels that tell it to do so. In addition, a Caddyfile snippet will be available for all of these, which takes care of routing bad visitors to Iocaine.
And if that's not enough, the whole thing comes preconfigured with a wordlist (a list of English words), and traning data (the complete works of Shakespeare), and a list of known AI crawlers (courtesy of ai.robots.txt).
All you have to do is copy the sample configuration, create a network, start it up, and deploy labeled containers into the same network, and OCIocaine takes care of the rest.
osted by Brian Handly Just received this from friend who is working overseas with USAID: I have worked at the agency for 16 years, and around 7pm last night, I lost access to the USAID network. I was not told if I am being fired, or am being put on “admin leave,” if that is indeed what is happening. Broad swaths of the USAID workforce (~600 American employees) have lost access in the past 18 hours and those that still have access were emailed at 12:43 am that headquarters is closed today by a non-government official working under the guise of DOGE. You should be terrified by what’s going on here. I certainly am - for myself and my career, my family, my colleagues, and for the people we serve around the world. Regardless of who you voted for, you didn't vote for this. 1. Stopping the work of USAID doesn’t put “America First,” it cedes the international space to China and Russia, who are more than happy to fill the gaps - we have seen this happening for years. The stronger the relationship between other countries and China/Russia, the les... show more
osted by Brian Handly Just received this from friend who is working overseas with USAID: I have worked at the agency for 16 years, and around 7pm last night, I lost access to the USAID network. I was not told if I am being fired, or am being put on “admin leave,” if that is indeed what is happening. Broad swaths of the USAID workforce (~600 American employees) have lost access in the past 18 hours and those that still have access were emailed at 12:43 am that headquarters is closed today by a non-government official working under the guise of DOGE. You should be terrified by what’s going on here. I certainly am - for myself and my career, my family, my colleagues, and for the people we serve around the world. Regardless of who you voted for, you didn't vote for this. 1. Stopping the work of USAID doesn’t put “America First,” it cedes the international space to China and Russia, who are more than happy to fill the gaps - we have seen this happening for years. The stronger the relationship between other countries and China/Russia, the less influence the US has. 2. Our work also directly mitigates the risk of international terrorism. In many parts of the world, young populations that don’t see a stable or hopeful future for themselves are highly susceptible to recruitment by terrorist groups that can promise a job, food, and a network of like-minded individuals. The same is true for international migration - we absolutely see more migrants when their home is unsafe or unstable. 3. There is an ebola outbreak in Uganda right now - USAID has a team working to contain the spread, and that team has been hamstrung by both the programmatic pause and personnel actions currently underway. Preventing the spread of the disease at its origin/outbreak prevents it from arriving in the United States. 4. USAID programs create stable markets for U.S. businesses and strengthen our supply chains. Additionally, the current course of action is leading to an estimated 50,000 American jobs lost domestically. 5. We have Americans currently working in places like Ukraine and Somalia who, without network access, have been arbitrarily cut out of the Embassy’s security infrastructure, placing these individuals at even greater personal physical risk, for purely political reasons. 6. The Executive Branch doesn’t have the authority to dismantle an entire agency, only Congress has the power to approve the modification/merger of USAID or its closure. This cannot legally be done by the Executive Branch. 7. The individuals carrying out these changes do not all have security clearances, are not on the government payroll, and are forcing themselves into spaces and systems that contain classified information and data on personnel and program recipients across agencies, putting all at greater risk of security breaches and theft of personal identifying information, breaking every state's privacy protection laws. 8. USAID is the canary in the coal mine for the rest of the executive branch - if they’re willing to come after USAID, and it is less than 1% of the federal budget, what are they going to do with the other agencies? 9. This is literally the richest man in the world trying to cut off aid to the poorest people in the world. I am specifically and directly asking you to pass this along to your families and networks, especially outside of DC.
The liberals want you to ride the train. They don't want you to cross the road, they don't want you to cross anything, it's true! But you can! You can cross the train tracks or the walkway! The liberals don't want you to be able to cross but you still can! The truth is out there, don't let them stop you from crossing! Many such cases!
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