Tilton Raccoon

NetBSD has the right take with regard to copyright here.
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Working on the excavator! Boy, I suck at this, but I have so many projects lined up that I'm probably going to be passable at it by the end of summer. First up: We have an old carport way back behind the house that we kind of let the forest overtake. I'm taking it back so I can park the excavator under it. It's got 11 years of overgrowth, including a bunch of birch and Douglas fir saplings. Oops. Luckily the Kubota makes quick work of them.

https://makertube.net/w/ptzCL3bZzKEUfUW5yn49Tf

I need to figure out how to self-host streaming videos that I can embed in social media. Hrm.

There is so much air getting sucked into my Chinese mini skid steer fuel line, the fuel filter looks like a little bubbler. This seems less than ideal… I think I’ll have to just replace the fuel line entirely. Luckily it’s super accessible!

I didn’t mention it when I got it because I wanted some time to break it in and play with it, but a few weeks ago I bought this Kubota U17 mini excavator for many, many projects I want to do around our property over the next few years. I got it with 2000.1 hours on it, and I’ve added about 2 more hours just getting used to the controls and clearing a small part of an overgrown trail. I’m very happy with it!

Near 90°F / 32°C in New York, closer to freezing in Seattle. What a strange April!

We are at or very very near peak AI bubble. I am pretty confident that it will pop no later than Q2 2027, and probably sooner. But, as always, it’s completely impossible to predict these timings exactly, so I’m not gonna risk any money on it. “The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent”, as they say.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-DVTHH1ux8

I like playing with fire! This is flux core welding: the wire had a solid flux core, a lot like solder, and it generated a shielding gas to protect the weld puddle, but it also generates a LOT of spatter and smoke. I always wear a respirator.

Suckerpinch, a favorite channel of mine, is back with a new video that is near and dear to my heart: “No one can force me to have a secure website!!!” I yearn for a simpler Small Web.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1si1y5lvkk

I’m an American who likes Vegemite, AMA.

I've crossed the timeline streams. I'm listening to Angine de Poitrine on my 6th Generation iPod Classic. Hell yeah.

I like to DIY but I have zero desire to make my own hydraulic hoses. No thank you, too expensive and too dangerous. I will just buy them from a hydraulic shop, they have the crimper and fittings and they know what they’re doing.

For those of you who don’t “habla español”, El Niño is Spanish for… “the niño”

I’ve been trying for three weeks to get medical records from Doctor A transferred to Doctor B by “encrypted fax” and the records have never gone through. It’s been a very Terry Gilliam “Brazil” experience.

Chuck Tingle is doing a tour for his new book. If he’s coming near you, you HAVE GOT TO GO. Do it. Just go. I went to his last one here in Seattle and he’s an incredible showman.

https://www.chucktingle.com/tour.html

Am I wrong, or does Peter Magyar’s name literally translate into English as “Peter Hungarian”???

Estonia, you are wonderful and I agree.

“Europe should regulate Big Tech instead of banning kids from social media, Estonia says”

https://archive.is/2026.04.10-165315/https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-should-stand-up-to-big-tech-instead-of-imposing-social-media-bans-estonia-says/

This comment sums up why I’m so tired of programming in 2026 pretty well

I am probably the most cis guy who ever cis’ed, but I think people should be able to change their gender the way they change their clothes. Sell HRT over the counter, go ahead. Let people experiment, have fun with it! It boggles my mind that anybody cares what other people do with their gender. “But it permanently changes your body!” Yeah so does a tattoo or a piercing, two other things I’d never do, but since I’m not you, it doesn’t affect me, now does it?

Man, I thought US lumber sizes were fucking weird, literally EVERY TRADE is fucking weird here. I need NM wire clamps for our main electric service box. The punch-out hole measures 7/8" in diameter (22.5mm). The trade calls this a 1/2" punch-out, but you don't buy a 1/2" clamp, you buy a 3/8" clamp. So yes, you need a 3/8" clamp for a 1/2" hole that actually measures 7/8". Thanks, I hate it.

Software engineering in 2026 be like “we need you to be physically present in the office so we can replace you with AI”

It is not lost on me that the “think of the children!!” movement that’s ruining literally everything right now is spearheaded by people who either fuck 14 year olds or hang out with people who fuck 14 year olds. It‘s never about the kids. They just want to control you, that’s it.

I have a LinkedIn account because you kind of have to in my industry, but it’s impossible to look at it without going into a kind of fugue state of raw disgust. People who actually use LinkedIn on a regular basis terrify me to my core. Dead, soulless beings, walking husks devoid of self awareness.