Dan Lyke

He/Him. Software developer, bicyclist, woodworker, urbanism enthusiast, resident of Petaluma California, blogger since 1998. Started an ISP circa 1993, credits in IMDB, worked on products that have touched your life. he/him, on unceded coast Miwok territory.

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2024-10-27 00:30:02

I am here for the "Spangler Mortuary" traditional funeral home across the street from the "Direct Cremation $695.00" cut rate strip mall funeral services company https://www.flutterby.net/Image%3a2024-10-27DuelingFuneralHomes.jpg

2024-10-25 22:25:02

Feeling accomplished on the commute home... https://www.flutterby.net/Image%3a2024-10-26CableRoadwayStairs.jpg

2024-10-25 14:25:03

Good morning, San Francisco Bay! https://www.flutterby.net/Image%3a2024-10-25Sunrise.jpg

2024-10-25 02:40:02

Perplexity's answer to "Please make a table of the CEOs of Intel in order, INTC market cap when their CEO-ship began, and Intel revenue when their tenure began".
Note that Intel went public October 13, 1971, pre Gordon Moore, and a spot check of the Swan and Ottelini numbers reveal them to be bullshit. https://www.flutterby.net/Image%3a2024-10-25-04-37-34

2024-10-25 02:30:03

Google Gemini just told me that Intel's market cap on January 14, 2019 was $19,193,900. StatMuse says $184-190B. I'm not sure who to believe any more... https://www.flutterby.net/Image%3a2024-10-25IntelMarketCap2019Of19M.png

2024-10-23 17:59:25

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@npub1xqm…85zq a visit to Las Vegas shows that retiring isn't the answer...
I think the big thing is that we need to embrace new artists.

2024-10-19 22:45:02

Okay, it's plastic posts, on a stroad, but even Fresno is making separated bike lanes. Of course the dude is still riding on the sidewalk because holy crap, on this road who wouldn't... https://www.flutterby.net/Image%3a2024-10-20BikeLane.jpg

2024-10-10 03:45:02

If I wanted a USB camera with a narrower field of view and longer focus distance for Zooming our KBYG talks, anyone got a suggestion? This garage sale Logitech would be fine if it focused at 20' or so, but it's set up.for a person at a desk.

2024-10-04 21:25:02

Modern computing is just trying to keep up with all of the places where people have changed things for bullshit reasons, and fixing the resulting broken processes, until you die.

2024-10-03 21:35:02

Well, I suppose if I'm gonna discover that my backups went kablooie, having to install Postgres 12 to dump the old database and then restore to 16 isn't the worst thing that could have happened to me.
So I haven't broken my 26 year blogging streak, I guess, and I've got some new backups, and should probably make sure these backups get on an S3 store somewhere or something.

2024-10-03 21:20:02

Digital spelunking: Did I get my blog back? Maybe? Looking positive?

2024-10-02 17:24:35

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@npub1kdg…c5sf they also keep telling me that immigration is out of control, and... yeah, all of the numbers are available.

2024-09-28 18:00:02

Down with the sickness, so went for some mindless TV last night. Subscribed (8 day free trial) to Apple+ to watch Wolfs with a Google Chromecast.
So now I have 3 different Apple IDs (because I can't find the password for my other personal ID and didn't have time to deal with that shit), and the only explanation for the user experience of subscribing is that Apple wants to make the non-Apple device UX so crappy that you consider switching.

2024-09-27 23:06:42

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@npub18wu…pumy sounds like you're looking for paddling enthusiasts...

2024-09-27 06:11:02

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@npub1dt0…7205 I'm going with PG&E sucks. We've been having weird-ass brownouts, which don't seem to impact our LED lights, but do cause the UPS to kick in, and the car, if it's plugged in for charging, to complain loudly about the quality of power it's getting.
(Oddly, the recent events haven't been causing the charger to fault, though that happens sometimes too.)

2024-09-20 21:23:37

If someone would just make this in electric... Every time my truck needs work, I think about getting a 500e or a Leaf, cutting the back end off of it, and building a wooden bed for hauling mulch and stuff.
https://a2mi.social/@peterhoneyman/113171844677187960

2024-09-19 16:55:03

I think my favorite new "so close to getting it" story is the letter to the Petaluma mayor on the D Street rework complaining that they "...had to slow down to figure out what to do."

2024-09-19 14:36:30

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@npub1h0c…6mf7 well sure, but having the data to say "really, gas taxes should be $9.46 per gallon higher than they are for the CO2 alone" is a good starting place for discussions about mobility.

2024-09-19 00:55:03

The radios that exploded had been off the market for over a decade, so had to have been sitting in the warehouse of some surplus dealer for a while.
And I'm thinking about all of the haggle-expected cut-rate electronics and music gear vendors that ... have a stereotype..., and wondering how that inventory gets tracked.

2024-09-18 16:25:02

I have been in the "meh, smartphones are smartphones" camp, but my voice teacher and I have been playing around with video, and holy crap her iPhone of probably the same vintage as my Google Pixel 7 has a *remarkably* better camera. Jaw droppingly better dynamic range control.

2024-09-14 18:10:02

Holy shit, it's real! _LA Times: The summer COVID-19 surge may be dipping — just like life expectancy_ (https://www.latimes.com/california/newsletter/2024-09-10/the-summer-covid-surge-may-be-dipping-just-like-life-expectancy-essential-california)
Via https://bird.makeup/users/thevertlartnic/statuses/1834534386173157811 https://www.flutterby.net/Image%3a2024-09-14LATimesHeadline.png

2024-09-13 04:33:12

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@npub1n3z…0des Boys Don't Cry. Amazing experience. Glad I saw it. Never need to put myself through that again.

2024-09-12 18:00:05

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@npub1f9u…m3s0 channeling my inner Sidney Dekker: What are the systemic forces that are driving them to release breaking changes without enough testing to discover before release that they're breaking?

2024-09-12 13:45:24

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@npub19xy…77vd at this point I have most of my browsers appending "&udm=14" to my searches, and Google is so much better.
https://udm14.com/

2024-09-11 01:20:03

Thinking about how "is because" is code signaling.

2024-09-08 23:50:02

Without parking and cars, nobody will come here... https://www.flutterby.net/Image%3a2024-09-09MillStGrassValley.jpg

2024-09-05 22:14:35

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@npub1a3x…x4qp yeah, the ones I *really* have no respect for are the dupes who propagate(d) Moscow's propaganda and *aren't* getting paid to do so.

2024-09-05 20:15:02

Shout out to the F150 driver who chirped tires to pull through the intersection behind me once I'd walked past the centerline.
In a fair and just society that'd be brandishing a deadly weapon.

2024-09-05 00:42:40

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@npub150t…ravx USAnian familiar with it.

2024-08-30 17:50:02

As my personal philosophies evolved to see some of the harms in the "if you believe it strongly enough you can manifest it" in the Richard Back/James Redfield/etc "New Age" thinking, I confess that I never expected to see those magical thinking attitudes surface so strongly in Republican opinions about transportation policy.

2024-08-29 04:35:22

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@npub1dzv…5v2p oh hell yeah, let someone else do the administrative bullshit, I just wanna get in, disarm those alarms, and get out.

2024-08-26 18:30:02

When Pirate Bay does it, everyone is up in arms, but when Facebook shows me all of these pirated webcomics with the credits clipped off from scammy link farms with "source unknown" (when the source is immediately obvious to anyone who reads web comics or spends 30 seconds with Google) they're "generating engagement".

2024-08-25 15:14:38

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@npub1ej6…pvaa ooh, thank you, it'd do me good to take that...

2024-08-24 19:30:03

Argh. I have a Bostitch 1 3/16" 23 ga pin nailer. I have 1 1/4" pin nails. I have Senco 1" pin nails, but they don't feed reliably. I'd really like to drive something longer, but...
I don't wanna buy another nailer, or try to find nails that will fit this thing. Ugh.

2024-08-19 21:45:13

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@npub1yzd…yl0x oh cool! I've been wondering about future-proofing and what happens when they drop app support.

2024-08-19 21:30:02

We are looking at robot vacuums. We have a number of recommendations. Right now one of the leading ones is the Roborock S7. It navigates with LIDAR and ultrasonics.
One of the factors we're favoring is technologies other than onboard cameras, and no onboard human frequency mics or speakers. This may seem paranoid, but...
https://digipres.club/@foone/112990496866634756

2024-08-19 18:20:02

ICYMI: Zoom just sent around a "even if you opted out previously we're gonna enable an AI Assistant unless you opt out again" message.
And, yes, I know, Zoom is way down the enshittification rathole, but it's what we still use for forum broadcasts. Sigh.

2024-08-19 16:44:14

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@npub1a3x…x4qp yep. Once the income thing stabilizes again I so want a personal Linux box again.
In fact... wonder if this Mac can do remote X and I can just run this via SSH on my home server...

2024-08-19 16:36:49

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@npub1a3x…x4qp haven't got it running, but I love the grabby hand UI at https://fosstodon.org/@KennedyRichard/112963623039789844

2024-08-19 16:20:02

The process of wiping off my old Intel MBP to give to my nephew is reminding me of all of the cruft that came across from the M series migration, and maybe I should wipe and reinstall my work machine.
This morning I thought it'd be cool to play with _Nodezator_ (https://nodezator.com/), and now I'm down a rabbit hole of homebrew and pip3 and...
Ugh. Mac.

2024-08-17 03:30:02

Random cat picture https://www.flutterby.net/Image%3a2024-08-17Greta.jpg

2024-08-16 19:12:18

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@npub1ej6…pvaa as someone currently paying $14/month to watch "We're Here" reruns, I knew exactly what they were talking about...

2024-08-16 16:37:33

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@npub1gr8…c639 given the rest of my feed, I had to read this several times to discern which noun meaning of "top" you meant...

2024-08-15 20:11:19

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@npub1q7h…79d4 ouch.

2024-08-15 20:05:02

"if you don't like the way I drive, get off the sidewalk" indeed. Not like there's a huge entirely empty parking lot there or anything. https://www.flutterby.net/Image%3a2024-08-15BadParking.jpg

2024-08-15 17:15:03

Current reading is Sidney Dekker's "The Field Guide to Understanding Human Error". It's really framing my read on someone raising concerns about culture and process based on a specific likely non-exploitable hypothetical security concern as a tell, and the response being about how that specific security concern isn't exploitable.
Very few pilots want to fly their airplanes into the ground. They thought they were making good decisions.

2024-08-15 01:15:02

So apparently I can buy a keyed switch that gets a one star review for $40, or another garage door opener for circa $20. I just want an easy way to open the garage when I'm on my bike, without going around the house...

2024-08-15 01:10:02

Someone wants melted cheese.... https://www.flutterby.net/Image%3a2024-08-15BagheeraOnMyShoulder.jpg

2024-08-14 18:28:05

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@npub1wyn…ekvf yeah, I think we need to permit new construction, too.

2024-08-14 02:18:50

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@npub14nh…50uw so a Sonic Drive-In, maybe crossed with Mel's? Does dude know anything about food service margins?

2024-08-12 22:20:02

Ugh. Chrome. Manually typing in a URL to inspect a Firebase object. Get the "~2f" as lower case. Firebase doesn't find the object. Attempt to correct, there appears to be no bloody way to get Chrome to try with the case corrected URL, it keeps going to the lowercase version. Eventually got there from the next level up with find, but... ugh.

2024-08-12 02:05:02

We went up to Healdsburg to hang out with Dori and see if we could find what people were talking about in Petaluma when they say "we don't want to end up like Healdsburg". Didn't find it, but looked at the David Baker Architects designed buildings, walked around The Randall and the Mill District, didn't get to River House, but up at Enso saw these cool compact parking car carousels. https://www.flutterby.net/Image%3a2024-08-12CarCarouselEntrance.jpg

2024-08-12 01:55:02

Was wondering how long it would be before 50 Shades of Grey showed up in our little library... https://www.flutterby.net/Image%3a2024-08-12FiftyShadesOfGrey.jpg

2024-08-11 16:15:02

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@npub1xyc…a7zm it wouldn't be a camper van if cruise control was more sophisticated than a brick on the accelerator.

2024-08-10 21:10:08

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@npub1dt0…7205 if I, heaven forbid, end up back in Reno I'll try it. We were out at the Nugget, and I am going to try to avoid ever staying at a casino ever again.

2024-08-10 16:50:02

I'm response to some driver's whining about kids on ebikes, I went and looked at our Telraam data, which I've been ignoring. In the past 10 days, a full third of all drivers on our 25MPH residential neighborhood street are exceeding the speed limit within 150' of the stop sign.
I would be louder about this, but that risks the speed limit being raised under the 85th percentile rule.
Fuck these automobile wielding terrorists.

2024-08-09 02:26:19

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@npub14yg…lel5 "Someone in Berkeley is wrong" is kinda next level "someone on the Internet is wrong"...
(Good for you on the mask.)

2024-08-08 16:15:28

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@npub1tjl…jcnu I think that headline could be more correct by dropping "-priced".

2024-08-07 22:35:03

Dear Ohm Connect: first off, why does the default behavior for relay status keep getting switched off.
Second, why did you switch off my refrigerator this morning at 3:51, and not switch it back on?
https://www.flutterby.net/Image%3a2024-08-08OhmConnect.png

2024-08-06 23:09:31

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@npub1u8g…8jqx yeah. I don't know how their Phoenix plant is going, though I also don't know how long Phoenix is gonna be habitable...
I'm sure they planned for that.

2024-08-06 23:07:38

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@npub1y9n…yz8j surprisingly, the only reflective display wall clocks my Target had were mechanical, and I didn't wanna go there because the ticking drives me nuts.

2024-08-06 22:37:08

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@npub1y9n…yz8j thank you. I have talked myself out of it. Also helped by finding another wall clock that we didn't know we had lying around.

2024-08-06 21:06:40

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(or, you know, being an enabler and giving me a suggestion for a programmable eink+wifi device that I don't have to do a lot of mucking around with to make work...)

2024-08-06 21:05:02

Need a new wall clock for the bedroom. Somebody stop me from buying an eink display that I can hang off a Raspberry Pi or something and also hitting NOAA occasionally to put a weather forecast up there along with the time...

2024-08-06 19:45:02

People have told me that "the West" will maintain dominance because of ASML and TSMC, that China can't recreate the necessary supply chains independently, but I'm starting to wonder if blowing all of these resources on LLMs and "AI" is gonna make the differences moot.

2024-08-06 03:57:21

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@npub1lhz…0kl4 is this where I get to observe that functional programming is objects which only have one method?
(It's all bits in the end...)

2024-08-06 00:35:04

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@npub133q…k6l3 /me laughs in buttplug.io

2024-08-05 22:58:31

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@npub1ch0…yqeq there are a lot of circumstances where I wonder if optimizing for least bad outcomes from a list of culturally approved suckages can possibly be interpreted as "chooses".

2024-08-04 20:10:18

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@npub1q7h…79d4 it's Sonoma Brewing's world, we just live in it.

2024-08-04 17:05:02

I've been poking around Petaluma using onX Hunt, an app designed to tell you who owns what properties for hunting access, but it's also quite interesting for showing patterns of ownership of blighted lots. And it's quite a bit faster and cheaper to scroll around this vs paying a buck a whack for data from the county. There may be some data quality issues, with the Sonoma Brewing recreation area centered on Washington in front of the Golden Eagle shopping center. https://www.flutterby.net/Image%3a2024-08-04onX-screenshot.png

2024-08-03 02:50:03

Back when I worked in the city, occasionally on the way home I'd stop with a friend at the Ferry Building and we'd have a couple of oysters. Ya know, 3, maybe 6.
Anyway, a neighbor dropped by and asked if I liked oysters, and I said "yes", and they dropped a container on me and... I've eaten 6 so far, and this is tasty, but I think I'm gonna figure out if they last 'til tomorrow, 'cause I am *full*.

2024-07-31 17:35:03

You know what I love most about Apple's using the bottom of the screen as Y 0? NSRectEdgeMinY being the top of the view, in fact, the max Y.

2024-07-31 00:00:13

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@npub1jr2…l8em "was that a capital-F, or lower case?"

2024-07-30 16:35:02

This observation about social media and "No one... goes to a bar with 20,000 people" works well when we consider that what so many people want isn't social media, but parasocial media, and they're seeking the stadium experience.
And some of us think that's what's wrong with culture.
https://mastodon.roundpond.net/@CartyBoston/112875286675783006

2024-07-28 20:40:02

Alcoholism. LOL.
(Thinking about this vs the "Day without weed is like... Just kidding I have no idea" T-shirts, and how we'd respond to that on a sandwich board on the sidewalk in a tourist town. And how when we finally get a dispensary in this town it's not gonna be walkable...) https://www.flutterby.net/Image%3a2024-07-28DayWithoutWineSign.jpg

2024-07-27 17:50:01

Seeing some conservative commenters complaining about the eroticism of the drag queen "Last Supper" Olympics thing, and oh, honey, I did not need to know that about your sexuality. TMI

2024-07-27 17:47:33

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@npub150t…ravx you who didn't grow up in the '70s may not remember that Kung Fu was definitely in the zeitgeist...

2024-07-27 00:06:21

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@npub1syx…d6lz yeah, whatever you do, cache the results locally... Which seems like it's gonna happen by default with alt-text.

2024-07-26 21:25:02

Oh Jira, showing the board as empty even when I navigate, but if I copy and paste the same URL.... there's my data!
I've been trying to stick with using it with Safari, but the "you glanced away, we've logged you out" coupled with 2FA is gonna run me to Chrome.
(Yes, I know, Firefox, but I try to keep that to my personal use.)

2024-07-26 20:35:02

Was thinking that maybe, despite all the reasons that Passkey sucks, I should implement Passkey for my blog engine.
So of course the official line is that Web Authentication is rapidly evolving and incredibly complex, you should use libraries instead (which... it shouldn't need to be) and... there are no libraries in Perl.
And if I believed that this was a good spec, rather than a bad one with lots of money behind it, I might dig deeper, but. Ugh.

2024-07-26 19:38:35

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@npub19s3…05h7 sigh. I'm torn between "I should own my WiFi infrastructure and manage it", and "renting these eero routers from my ISP is cheap and easy".

2024-07-26 18:00:02

I don't know who needs to hear this, but it's really past time to change that screen protector on your phone, because it's so much nicer to use a phone with an uncracked screen protector.
(It's me last week. I needed to hear this.)

2024-07-26 17:30:02

You could take Amazon's advice about how to avoid Prime scams, or... hear me out... you could just avoid buying from Amazon, and especially avoid Prime... https://www.flutterby.net/Image%3a2024-07-26AmazonEmailAboutPrimeScams.png

2024-07-26 15:41:11

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@npub1atk…63ww and "credibility for crypto" often means "aw hell no" for the rest of the world.

2024-07-26 15:10:02

So with the wave of unmanaged spam on the ipfs-users mailing list, I'm guessing that the whole crypto thing took all of the wind out of IPFS and it's essentially dead now?

2024-07-26 02:30:02

Some nights at the asylum, Dan thinks he's an illustrator, and the kindly attendants indulge him with drawing instruments... https://www.flutterby.net/Image%3a2024-07-26DrawnHand.png

2024-07-25 22:31:52

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@npub1fvv…yw2w that looks a lot like what happens on my gigabit fiber when I'm using old WiFi... (that slightly over 300Mbps number)

2024-07-25 20:45:02

My eero router this morning was giving me 3% of my expected throughput (given old WiFi transceivers, so I'd only expect around 300mbit). Going hard-wired gave me as close to gigabit as makes no never-mind.
WiFi Analyzer was whining about not running on this modern a version of Android, and gave me some issues. And looks like it doesn't really know about the 5GHz bands? What's y'all's favorite WiFi debugging tool?

2024-07-25 18:20:02

I mean, the whole point of the "amateur" sport of the Olympics was to give an economic class the ability to say they were better at *something* physical than the laboring classes.
So, yeah, fuck the Olympics.
_LA Times: Chasing the Olympic dream isn’t cheap, and U.S. athletes often are stuck with the bill_ (https://www.latimes.com/sports/olympics/story/2024-07-25/team-usa-olympic-dreams-expensive-for-athletes)

2024-07-25 15:50:03

Cocoa/AppKit: Because the whole lvalue/rvalue thing is lost on us, and wouldn't you rather just have random crashes saying we couldn't converge on a layout rather than have a deterministic way to define how your UI works?

2024-07-25 04:45:03

Went to the neighbor's house to feed their cats, and this dude is hanging on the front walk completely unloaded by our attempts to leave. Pretty sure I could take him if he came at me, but it would hurt, so we're trapped here for a bit. https://www.flutterby.net/Image%3a2024-07-25Raccoon.jpg

2024-07-25 04:19:03

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@npub14zr…9fx0 recently watched an ancient NCIS with a friend, and holy shit the copaganda scifi was deep, and I understand why society is as fucked up as it is if people find this stuff remotely plausible.

2024-07-24 22:50:02

Showed up this morning to pick up a free "lathe" off of FB Marketplace, we were double-booked, and it turned out the "lathe" was a fluting machine, which was cool and gorgeous cast iron, but which I don't have room for in my shop.
So I helped the other guy load it into his truck, and... maybe it's just me, but I'd think that if *I* were going to pick up a piece of big ol' heavy cast iron machinery, I'd empty the truck bed of scrap rocks and bricks first.

2024-07-24 02:15:02

For various reasons, news of Wendy Carlos has been crossing my feed lately, which has brought up discussion of synthesizers, and the British musician's union trying to ban the use of synths and drum machines, and...
Just thinking about the parallels to modern machine learning generated music...

2024-07-22 22:50:52

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@npub1u8g…8jqx (whether that's gotten us better music or more compelling visual storytelling is an aesthetic judgment I leave to the reader.)

2024-07-22 22:02:10

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Looking at my current filtering on Mastodon, and thinking about what my old Usenet killfile used to look like, and realizing that so much of modern computing is about both enabling and then filtering advertising.
We've got glorious 4k 24 bit displays that we can update in real time, capabilities I would have *loved* in the early '90s, and we're using it to autoplay ads for shit I already bought.

2024-07-22 21:25:02

Conversation at lunch about progress in computing, and "Southwest runs Windows 3.1" came up, and I got to thinking: What have we really got since '94? Most new web browser capabilities and increased memory and graphics are used to deliver ads.
Word processing and spreadsheets are pretty similar (Emacs is still my editor of choice). We have nicer photo and video editing, and MP3s have replaced WAVs, but... it's amazing how much of modern computing doesn't feel like actual progress.

2024-07-22 20:55:02

I would like it if every web comics author would try to read their comic from the beginning on their web site, and try to come back and read the latest updates occasionally.
Holy crap some artists make it really difficult to get into their work.

2024-07-22 19:15:02

iTerm2, VLC, it's really kind of horrifying how Apple leaves essential system utilities to third parties.

2024-07-22 19:10:02

Woohoo! Third collision in 5 weeks at the Mountain View Ave intersection with Mission Drive. Regular reminder that residents along Mountain View have been asking for safety improvements for decades, but the car-brained municipal systems mean that not only have we not gotten those, guerilla attempts to install safety upgrades are ripped out within business-hours.
And the worst part is that we've kinda given up because there are other intersections in the city that definitely take priority.