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• Post #4472070

  "Never ever ever throw chips at a driver." #Monsterdon

• Post #4401726

  Feeling unwell, which makes it a great time to start a re-read of the inimitably psychadelic Ware Tetralogy Stuzzy, baby.

• Post #4368432

  gods help me, the stars have aligned and my brain is actually enticed by the prospect of farming "angels" points system that the local bikeshare system uses already done a bit this evening, came back to charge my phone a bit and grab my portable battery, and probably gonna go out and do another half dozen short rides, lots of pickup/dropoff combo opportunities in my area tonight. I know that it's doing cheap labor, but I was going to ride one of my bikes tonight anyway (and two o...

• Post #4303553

  Lesson N+1 in "don't do maintenance immediately before a ride" today Anyway, I lost my raleigh's axle nut and the bike is still rideable but permanently in its high gear (+25%) until I get a replacement. What a week it's been.

• Post #4290703

  RE: https://hachyderm.io/@SnoopJ/117005406167995646 #CriticalMass #Boston rides again TODAY Meet at Copley Square Plaza @ 6:30 PM, ride at 7 PM. Bring lights, bring a friend. #Cycling #BikeTooter

• Post #4246025

  Attn: #Boston #Cycling folks #CriticalMass Boston rides again THIS FRIDAY (31 July) Meet at Copley Square Plaza @ 6:30 PM, ride at 7 PM #BikeTooter

• Post #4229222

  disorganized attachment style? yea idk I usually just save them in ~/Downloads

• Post #4223199

  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/117006468555824284 Hi, I'm Nicole, but you can call me the Fediverse Chick :D

• Post #4171574

  I cannot really overstate the damage that back-to-back meetings do to my morale in case anybody needs to hear this: you need to schedule a gap. it doesn't have to be a long gap, but it should be at least 5 minutes. doubly important if your meetings regularly run over.

• Post #4102809

  [suppressing laughter] I'm sure it's going to be really faithful to the spirit of the book

• Post #4102162

  [looking at linter multiplying its default ruleset size by 4x in one release] I'm starting to see the appeal of 0ver

• Post #4099175

  I've gushed here before about the excellent retro-modern arcade game Utopia Must Fall which lights up the part of my brain that enjoys a game of Missile Command, and feels like the future of gaming someone was thinking of 50 years ago. Last month they released a big update to the game, and it makes a great game even greater. New enemies, progression, music. What was the end-game in the older version feels like the mid-game now, based on what's shown off in the trailer. https://store.st...

• Post #3968641

  today is the anniversary of Apollo 11's landing on the Moon happy 57th birthday to history's most infamous scheduling bug (so far) https://www.doneyles.com/LM/Tales.html

• Post #3927509

  «I asked why this was being repeated without opposition. Was it just sales fluff? The answer was a lot more interesting…Executives at their customers were saying absurd things about achieving 100x productivity, and this meant that if any executive at the vendor said that these gains were not plausible, it would undermine the credibility of the customer’s executive, be perceived as an attack (or heresy), and possibly result in an enterprise contract cancellation.» Very good read on "AI&quo...

• Post #3927351

  blegh, a newsletter I have been enjoying reading is starting to include "AI" artifacts. 'just' a "cute" image this time, but I have found that this is not a good omen

• Post #3926620

  I can't remember if I've talked about it here before, but there's this story idea rattling around in my head about the player/reader inhabiting a control system on-board a cargo hauler that becomes accidentally sapient but the corporation accepts this as an inevitable maintenance issue, and over the course of the story, other automated systems kick in to (gradually) kill the nascent intelligence I don't know if it can really be expressed as a game that is any fun, but if I squi...

• Post #3924062

  ALIEN: it's even better on a big screen!

• Post #3901246

  RE: https://mas.to/@Trenton_Hoshiko/116933172911104688 This is also a reason NOT to interact with bats if you can avoid doing so. If one is indoors or whatever in a space you need to be in immediately, you should get the assistance an animal professional. Don't roll those dice.

• Post #3896600

  Uhhhh my bank's bill pay program duplicated my rent payment to my landbastard this month...

• Post #3895832

  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@DavidJBianco/116937087812230964 in which basically every data loading pipeline is an attack surface (and in which infosec has a problem distinguishing real work from work roleplay)

• Post #3875056

  ATTN: #Boston #Cycling folks There is a vigil THIS EVENING (16 July) in memory of Louisa Gag, who was killed by a driver last week. Gather at Boston City Hall at 5:30 PM, remarks at 6 PM. There are convoys riding from multiple neighborhoods, most departing 5 PMish https://www.visionzerocoalition.org/louisa_gag #BikeTooter

• Post #3849028

  Just seen REPO MAN in a theatre, 35mm. It wasn't what I expected going in, but with the benefit of hindsight I see that it never could have been

• Post #3812994

  OTD in 1944, Sheldon Brown was born. I cannot really express how grateful I am that he shared his expertise with the whole #Cycling world. I only became a Bike Guy well after his death, but his website has been so very helpful to me. #BikeTooter

• Post #3804189

  things my preferred grocery store no longer gets my money for because they've put it inside a locked display case like dipshits, entry No. N+1: aloe

• Post #3797069

  It's going to take me a while to sort through all of my photos of the #SailBoston parade of ships, but for now, here's a shot of Pride of Baltimore that is more or less the sort of thing I was shooting for all day, as well as a shot I got of the Red Arrows flyover #Boston

• Post #3796552

  RE: https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/116914002682848059 RIP king. I hope they serve veggie sausages wherever you are now

• Post #3706416

  LB: I'm so tired of roads designed to kill people, and that there is so much resistance to even acknowledging that this is what they do, let alone doing anything about it. Many people in the Boston Cyclists Union knew Laura personally and are devastated by this loss.

• Post #3660109

  This bit of quoting AIRPLANE! at baked goods isn't even something I came up with with any real intent. It's just a line that comes to me when I stick some baked goods (and *only* baked goods) in the oven. I guess it might vary depending on how nerve-wracking it is, so it's a magick spell often invoked the first time I cook something. (I have never cooked kolaches or with boudin before, so this is kind of a two-fer)

• Post #3637427

  today's lunchtime quest is figuring out why two local theatres dropped off my movie calendar unsurprisingly, the answer is "because they switched vendors"

• Post #3544114

  these are my emotional support 680 tabs