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Keith Dawson
@kdawson@tldr.nettime.org
mastodon 4.6.8+glitchRecovering physicist, erstwhile bellwether.
Did some stuff at the dawn of blogging and before. Tech writer, software developer, tech marketer, unelected pundit, technology journalist, editor, web designer, developer, hosting provider. Interests in #physics, #cosmology to the #quantum scale; #virology, #epidemiology; #social #justice, #poetry, and #dadjokes. Living in Minnesota on Dakota and Ojibwe land ceded in return for unfulfilled promises.
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Joined November 30, 2022
I have been waiting 33 days for Microsoft to finish reviewing a browser add-on for Edge. The Maybe Later Renamer does one thing and does it adequately: when the browser encounters a button labeled "Maybe later," it instead renders it with the label "F*ck all the way off."
The add-on is available for Firefox and Chrome. Microsoft rejected it.
https://fatwo.lol
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@cR0w@infosec.exchange
I learned this trick in the early 1980s at DEC, from Ken Arnold, who was in my department. Except Ken used the comma character instead of carat, saving a few keystrokes. The magic in .login is:
set histchars=\!,
(cshrc / tchsrc syntax, not bash.) I have carried this incantation forward in all my Unix-like environments for 40+ years.
A very #Minneapolis day: bought beans at The #Roastery, a basement coffee roaster across the street from #Annunciation school, where fleeing children sheltered from a shooter; then up Chicago Avenue past George Floyd Square to have lunch at the Post Modern Times Cafe, which fed an entire community (except ICE!) during Metro Surge. The restaurant has gone entirely to a pay-what-you-want model.
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@avuko@infosec.exchange @cR0w@infosec.exchange
Yes, all the shell (that I know of) have that feature. ! and ^ are the default histchars.
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@avuko@infosec.exchange @cR0w@infosec.exchange
That is wild. In the MacOS / BSD environment it's at /bin/[ . I ran it just to see what it does.
% [local: Desktop] 9 > /bin/\[
[: missing ]
% [local: Desktop] 10 >
Wild story about how a small human error and a mid-sized AI error in LA compounded into a nationwide alert among police departments using Flock cameras. A car reviewer in Minnesota got caught up in it.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/how-flock-cameras-wrongly-tracked-me-for-days-over-stolen-plates-and-sent-police-after-me
#Flock
Interesting job opportunity for the right community builder: the Little Free Library organization is hiring a customer service specialist.
Jaguar XK-E — car of my dreams in adolescence — in the parking lot of the St. Paul Kowalski's. Guessing 1961? The paint job must have occurred in the intervening years; surely that color did not exist 65 years ago.
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Claimed possible direct evidence for dark matter in the form of WIMPs 500x the proton mass. Needs confirmation from other galaxies, which is presently lacking.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/nov/25/study-claims-to-provide-first-direct-evidence-of-dark-matter
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1475-7516/2025/11/080
#Physics #DarkMatter
TFW you have soft-close toilets at home and you're traveling and staying at a B&B and you use the toilet and fling down the seat / cover like you do at home and it's not soft-close and your ears still ring and you're lucky you didn't break the porcelain let alone the seat
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@bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot
Since I set them to expire I keep a chron text file of posts (the ones that seem significant enough that I can imagine looking for them later). The graphics I can usually find on the wider web.
Huh, I know people who hate to answer a phone call, but the reluctance to place one? Something new.
A single nasal spray vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds, and flus, as well as bacterial lung infections, and may even ease allergies, say US researchers.
“The principle by which this vaccine works is a radical departure from the principle by which all vaccines have worked so far.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2g8rz7yedo
Caveat: animal studies only so far.
Second day of spring [*]: 74ºF (23ºC) and the windows are wide open for the first time in months.
[*] Second Minnesota false spring
RE: https://cloudisland.nz/@rmi/116523935405127267
@ingrid@everything.happens.horse
We can just assume an initial cap and terminal punctuation and call it a sentence.
"Strokey-beard waffling," brilliant.
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working in technology right now is great, the most PT Barnum motherfuckers you ever saw are all like, we have invented a time machine, and now 78% of all discourse is required by law to include endless hours of strokey-beard waffling about the endless political and social and economic implications of time travel and the deep impacts on our whole society and how we all must take time travel very seriously and shovel all our money into the time machine furnaces or we will be stranded in some terribly unfashionable decade with no snacks or friends and we’re all so busy worrying about that we’ve somehow failed to realise that there is no fucking time machine
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@bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot
Doesn't happen so much if your posts expire (unless pinned). I'm unclear whether posts stay around if others favorite or boost or QP them.