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1. You have a Mac laptop with an outboard Bluetooth keyboard. It’s asleep.
2. You wake up the Mac by hitting the Touch ID on the laptop keyboard.
3. The Mac is annoyingly slow at starting to respond to keystrokes on the outboard. Several seconds, sometimes.
How to fix:
1. Hit any key on the BT […]
It’s like learning the right way to operate the controls of a large passenger airliner.
While it’s full of passengers.
https://archive.is/hLd8X
A large tree trunk fills the frame. The bark is rough and there is plenty of lichen and moss. Also, the shadow of another tree branch.
It’s a “White Ash”, Fraxinus americana.
#Photography #thicktrunktuesday
Seems painfully obvious that, whatever you think about #genai code, anyone using it is heading for a code-review logjam. Assuming that the org requires code review; if yours doesn’t, nothing I can say will help you. Anyhow, Rishi Baldawa writes smart stuff about the problem and possible ways […]
Trump DOJ trying to get Ticketmaster off the hook, grrrr: https://www.bigtechontrial.com/p/a-wild-day-as-trump-doj-settles-with?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1937859&post_id=190396027&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=wabr&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
@edwiebe Mostly. Also, on English. One of them (Algospeak I think) does talk about how social-media jargon first used in English has migrated to other languages. I wonder if the reverse has happened? There is some discussion of China, where "The Algorithm" has some different goals.
@timbray
I was introduced to language change many moons ago, when my cousin Elthea said of our adjutant "she speaks perfect white-boy".
I missed the "speaks", and replied "she's really white, with freckles and red hair, but I don't think you could ever call her a boy"
After being whacked over […]
The covers of "Because Internet" by Gretchen Mcculloch and "Algospeak" by Adam Aleksic.
“Recently I read Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch and Algospeak by Adam Aleksic. The language we speak (and text) to each other is at the core of who and what we are, and the Internet is the strongest among the forces that channel and fertilize its growth […]
[Original post on cosocial.ca]
Android has excellent notification management. Long-press and make others like this buzz or be silent or just be disallowed. Somehow Facebook has worked around this and now always buzzes. I keep FB around to keep in touch with less technical branches of the family but this is intolerable.
Shame on Inter Miami for sucking up to that guy in the White House. Especially given that most of them are brown-skinned foreigners, as in leading candidates for arrest, incarceration, and deportation by ICE if they weren't elite athletes. Feaugh.
The US Women’s national hockey team, on the […]
RE: https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/116177954803428148
Yes! Having said that, npm has terrified me for years.
People who love cameras & #photography tend to be even more obsessive about lenses. This is particularly true in the #fujifilm ecosystem where I live. If you are a bit lens-focused (😉) you will really enjoy this video, where a couple of Fuji lens insiders talk about lenses they might […]
Knuth on Claude:
https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/claude-cycles.pdf
Tl;dr: LLMs are shit at citations.
AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles
https://www.404media.co/ai-translations-are-adding-hallucinations-to-wikipedia-articles/
From @nelson
GitHub status
https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/
A more honest third party monitor of GitHub services. The vital service has under 92% of uptime for the last three months. Rumor is they are migrating everything to Azure and it is going very badly
The big Ticketmaster anti-monopoly trial is spinning up: https://www.bigtechontrial.com/p/the-ticketmaster-monopoly-trial-starts
RE: https://mastodon.social/@AnnaAnthro/116165450134645099
That includes me.
Intelligent Life of Earth - Existential Comics
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/644
@stonedonkey Thanks, nice client!
@stonedonkey Looks good. Is there a light mode? The dark-grey-on-black bits (e.g. post stats) are way too low-contrast for my old eyes.
In which I compare the AI bubble to the Kansas Experiment: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/02/27/Kansas-and-GenAI
(Tl;dr: In 1991, Kansas slashed taxes based on Tea-Party theories that this would stimulate growth and make everyone better off. It didn’t go well.)
#genAI
You know, if I believed that Trump & Bibi gave a single solitary feeble little fuck about the people of Iran, I might… well, why bother completing that sentence.
#USPol #war
Really good video from UK Greens leader. Stop running: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Q80HKccRoqY
[Disclosure: Member of BC Green Party.]
Much-needed action by the IETF: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9945.html
Tl;dr: Sand has historically been thrown in the gears by disruptive assholes and the remediation process was ultra-heavyweight and slow.
Axiom: Anything public-facing requires investment in moderation guardrails and […]
Good piece from Timothy Snyder argues that Trump is failing at fascism: https://substack.com/home/post/p-189132130
#USpol
In which I’m reminded that I had (note past tense) an Amazon Wish List with additions (books & music) from 2006-2010. Remembered almost none. Ordered one from the public library.
See https://www.404media.co/amazon-wishlist-address-private-third-party/
In The Information newsletter, on Block layoffs. Quote:
The best way to destroy public support for AI is for companies to use it primarily to slash jobs. Dorsey says that’s coming: “Within the next year, I believe the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion and make similar […]
RE: https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/116132712269085120
Update: They opened!
Slender not-fully-open crocus blossoms rising out of moss and leaf mould.
Got spring crocuses if you want ’em: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/02/24/Crocuses-of-2026
#Photography #bloomscrolling
