Sitting at a railway station with my folding e-bike, so I can go home for a bit while my car is in for a service. Glad the North Bay is just a bit more accessible these days! #sfba #BikeTooter #trains
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People say the reply guy effect on Mastodon is godawful but on bluesky I just got asked by a rando to fix someone else's website
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Ending the week by cancelling most of our Amazon subscriptions…
I was about to shift most of them to Target, but that's not happening either, it seems.
Nice to see the various megacorps showing where their priorities are so quickly.
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Thanks to regenerative braking, Caltrain's fuel bill post-electrification is projected to be less than their last year of Diesel trains, despite running even more trains at higher speeds.
https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/efficiency-of-caltrain-electric-equipment-leads-operator-to-lower-estimate-of-electric-costs/
[#]capol #trains #transit
The more you know!
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The one ad that manages to evade all of our ad filters at home is for Temu, and they seem to have mastered the art of extremely attention-grabbing dubious/marginally safe for work product photography
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8ish years of living in Sonoma County, 4 of them with @homeassistant set up at home, and I finally got around to adding a pollen tracker to my daily dashboard.
Yay?
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"Optical Department: Press 1
Hearing Aid Department: Press 2
Food Court Pizza: Press 3
Tires: Press 4"
(how is this a serious, let alone generally beloved megacorp?)
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oh no I think I'm turning into a security engineer
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Some random ISP in Arizona: WE HAVE DETECTED 8 UDP PACKETS SENT FROM YOUR IP ADDRESS TO THE SAME PORT AND IP ADDRESS OVER THE COURSE OF 30 MINUTES; PLEASE CEASE PORT SCANNING US
as if the internet were not a thing for occasionally sending packets between computers
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oh, it's back and working now.
discourse can return to normal now
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I am 31,000 feet in the sky connecting to the world on the surface by sending internet packets literal kilometres into the sky where they are reflected down to the ground and I am using that capability to complain that one specfic computer is not responding to me right now
the future is great
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INB4
I AM SO GLAD WE HAVE DISTRIBUTED VERSION CONTROL SO WE DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT SINGLE POINTS OF FAILURE
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I see GitHub actions is having difficulty reaching… GitHub?
Seems normal.
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Seattle Airport. There is an insipid guitar duo playing Daydream Believer in the food court. It is grey outside. The usual.
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NEW STATION NEW STATION #SFBA #SonomaCounty #petaluma
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In which the Linux Foundation announces a new subfoundation, supported by Google and Microsoft and Opera, for "Chomium Based Browsers", without naming any proejcts that will fall under the governance of that new subfoundation: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-announces-the-launch-of-supporters-of-chromium-based-browsers
I WONDER WHY THEY MIGHT HAVE DONE THAT?
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On the subject of the EFF, I have a half-formed rant that uses distributed systems theory to show how free speech absolutism (of the rights but not responsibilities variety) is fundamentally inextricable from centralised control of the networks people use to communicate, and therefore depends on entirely on good faith behaviour of the operators of those networks.
where should I shop that talk to?
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There's a beauty in using a service I already pay into, instead of buying a replacement appliance and filling up landfill, or buying a 3D printer that I really don't need and wasting valuable shelf space at home. A++.
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crappy plastic injection-moulded attachment for our hand blender broke
Today, I am very pleased that our local County Library system offers free 3D printing, because someone has already made a replacement neck and put it on thingiverse.
This is a better use of my membership than reading 200 pages of drivel to ensure a talk was properly cited.
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Why I, an immigrant, sufficiently satisfied with my life abroad that I have chosen* to naturalise often say "never emigrate":
I don't mean that living in another country is not a worthwhile goal. I mean that the system and side-effects of immigration – no matter where you choose to go – is complicated and scary and dehumanising in ways that you can't explain to someone who hasn't been through the process.
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