Laurence Gonsalves

Despite this, surprisingly you *can* delete app passwords while signed in with one — even the one you're currently signed in with is deletable!

Especially funny is that an app password that does *not* have chat privileges can be used to delete another app password that *does* have chat privileges.

Screenshot of the bsky.app "Add App Password" dialog. The unique name field is filled in with the name "CreatedFromAnAppPaswordSignIn", which is highlighted in red as if it was the source of a from validation error. The allow DMs checkbox is unchecked.

App passwords can be used to sign into bsky.app, not just third party apps.

You can't create an app password while signed in with one. The UI doesn't do a great job of explaining *why* you can't, though. It highlights the name field as if that's the problem, and doesn't show any error messages.

I'm not sure how I eventually found it, but if you go to bsky.social/account and sign in there, it'll let you revoke OAuth authorizations, as well as individual sessions for devices.

I'm guessing this only works if your account is on a Bluesky PDS.

Most apps that let you authorize other apps with OAuth also have a page somewhere in their UI to revoke these authorizations.

I would have expected something like this to be in Bluesky under Setting → Privacy and Security (which is where App Passwords are managed), but it isn't there.

n sleep, he sang to me
In dreams, he came
That voice which calls to me
And speaks my name
And do I dream again?
For now, I find
The Phantom of the Macintosh is there
Inside my mind

Screenshot of Google search for the query "when does daylight saving time start". The results show that it starts March 8th. Below that is a section called "people also ask", which lists a few questions including. "Do I lose an hour of sleep on Sunday?" (The screenshot has been annotated with a red circle around this question.)

Google's "people also ask" answering the important questions.

(Yes, those of us who observe daylight saving time *will* be losing an hour of sleep on Sunday. 😑)

A carpeted room with a coffee table to one side. A cat is in the foreground, meowing at the camera. Three burrito-shaped cat toys are evenly spaced on the ground, leading up to a closed door. They all have the same orientation: parallel to the door.

Caramel, one of my kids' cats, sometimes likes to leave a "gift" outside of people's doors: one of her cat toys.

Today she left not one, but *three* toys outside of my office door. (The precision placement is all hers.)

#cathursday

A bird's nest wedged between the top of a wreath and a door. Three tiny eggs are visible inside the nest.

The same nest, but one of the eggs has been replaced with a baby bird. It looks like a fuzzy dinosaur.

We forgot to take the wreath off of our front door, and last week we discovered that a bird had made a nest on it. We have since been avoiding the use of our front door so we don't risk scaring it off or damaging the nest.

Today we discovered that one of the eggs has hatched.

Close up of a Commodore 64 keyboard's cursor keys. There are two cursor keys, one for "up/down", and the other for "left/right".

Four whole keys just for moving the cursor? How extravagant!

A van with a a car-sized block of snow on the roof. The van is on a roadway (actually a hotel's drop-off loop) with cars in front of and behind it. The roadway is mostly clear, except some bits of snow around the van. The areas visible off the road are covered in snow, including several coniferous trees trees in the background.

PSA: remove snow from your car before driving, or it could blow off and temporarily blind the drivers behind you, or worse.

Every time I go to Tahoe in winter I see many Californians driving with snow still on their vehicles, but this is the craziest example I've ever seen.

Three separate mockups of a mobile app that shows: A video feed playing a random video; a settings screen where a user can toggle what kinds of content is included in their algorithm, such as trending content or activity from people you follow; a settings screen with sliders where the user can adjust how much content they want to see of each topic. The heading reads “How we designed our algorithm customizer”.

We're using #atproto to build a #decentralized social media app that lets you control your own algorithm. Here’s why...

A sign (underneath a much larger informational billboard) that says "No drones / Don't drones" and has a drawing of a drone with a "circle slash" over it.

I saw this sign (below the informational billboard) on a recent trip to Costa Rica, and thought it was interesting that the original Spanish ("no drones") is a better English translation than their posted "translation" ("don't drones").

Yeah, this is beets for me. A few other things on this list I don't particularly like, but can be ingredients in dishes I might enjoy. But to my tastebuds, beets taste exactly the way mold smells, and for whatever reason, if they are an ingredient, their flavor overshadows everything else.

tl;dr: if you can only get stereo sound when using a Roku, then make sure "Volume mode" in the options ("*") menu is set to "off".

One of these is "Volume mode", and if it is set to "Leveling" or "Night" it downgrades the audio to stereo. Settings in this overlay also seem to be global, despite not appearing in "Home ❯ Settings ❯ Audio", so if you set it while watching one show, it will be set everywhere.

I finally realized that the Roku effectively has some additional audio settings that don't appear in "Home ❯ Settings ❯ Audio": The "options" overlay that you get when you press "*" includes not only closed caption settings (which we often turn on) but also some audio settings.

While using the Roku, the "info" display on the AVR showed the full set of attached speakers (7.1) and also the channels it was receiving from the Roku. It was only receiving left and right from the Roku.

I was able to get surround sound while using the PS4 we also have in this system, so I believed the issue had something to do with the Roku. (All sources on this setup are connected directly to the AVR.)

I checked the audio settings on the Roku, the AVR, and even the TV and couldn't find anything that should be forcing a downgrade to stereo.

A week or so ago I noticed our family room AVR was always in "stereo" mode even when watching things on our Roku that should have surround sound. I even tried rewatching scenes that I knew had very noticeable surround (the plane crashing scene in Station Eleven is a good subwoofer test).

Posting this as a PSA for anyone else (or possibly my future self) who runs into this issue, as Googling was not helping me out...

"This is a Spoon."
I animated prose from voice talent @gideonemery.bsky.social that I found particularly helpful in our America.

Coincidentally, I keep all of those right next to my giant vat of molasses.

This belief is especially ironic given that, according to the Bible (for example in Acts), the earliest Christians (who were Jewish) debated whether Gentiles could follow Jesus without first adopting Jewish law. Early Christianity began as a Jewish movement, not one opposed to Judaism.

🎶Secret tunnel🎶...

Android's setRotateEulerM function (which is supposed to create a rotation matrix for 3D vectors) has a bug that makes it pretty useless. This bug was reported 15 years ago. A fix has even been provided in the comments, and yet the issue is still open to this day.

Launcher icon that looks like the Chrome logo with a mini Chrome logo in the lower right corner.

Launcher icon that looks like the Gmail logo with a mini Gmail logo in the lower right corner.

A recent Android update somehow broke all of my launcher shortcuts so they forgot what their main icon was supposed to look like, and they just started showing the app's icon twice like Dr. Evil and mini-me.

If you ran into this problem too, recreating the shortcuts seems to fix the problem.

"Are you two friends?" meme, a 2-part image: The top part shows a woman asking "Are you two friends?". The bottom one depicts two characters from Star Trek: Voyager, both in uniform: Ensign Kim, labeled "cryptocurrency", responds "yes". Tuvok, labeled "cryptography", responds "no".

You shouldn't trust them. Treat every answer they give as only possibly correct, and have some way to independently validate it.

This isn't to say they can't be helpful: the trick is to use them for problems where validation of a candidate solution is cheaper than producing a candidate solution.

A screenshot from Pluribus, with the yellow subtitle, "this #D1AD2C powdery stuff".

There was a funny glitch in the subtitles of the most recent episode of #Pluribus. When Carol says "this white powdery stuff", the word "white" is replaced by "#D1AD2C", which is the color code for the yellow used in the subtitles.

A "search and replace" error, or a weird Easter egg?