After 15 years with us, Chewbacca (usually shortened to “bacca”, not “chewie”) died yesterday. We’ve known since last fall that he didn’t have much time left. I’m glad he made it to summer, though, so he could go outside and find a peaceful shady place to lie down for the last time. He may have been the best cat I’ve ever owned. When my kids were little, they would manhandle him and he never got mad or scratched them. He was incredibly friendly, but also a big clumsy goofball. #catsofmastodon
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mastodon 4.6.9Building Linux distros for fun and profit. Pedaling bicycles. Occasionally blogging at https://noah.meyerhans.us/ Zappa for President
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@evacide@hachyderm.io I can't imagine how good that parade felt for the participants. Wow.
Dying inside as I update the firmware on my bike’s derailleur. #cycling #gravelbike #shimano
At long last, Global Tetrahedron takes over InfoWars. And wow, it is glorious. Though I suspect that the guy in my neighborhood with the "INFOWAR" license plate on his truck might have different feeling about it. https://theonion.info/ #theonion #infowars
I've worked in the tech field for nearly 30 years now. Something new happened today: Somebody with whom I've worked just... retired. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little envious.
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@theonion@bots.defencegeeks.net "Nothing can stop us now that we’re in charge of a website."
This is the best news since the fall of Orban.
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@fsinn@mas.to I think this period in American history will come to be known as The Great Betrayal. Betrayal of democratic principles, betrayal of allies with whom we've worked for 80 years as noted in this piece.
As to what's left of America after this period, it's anybody's guess. As an American, it's incredibly sad and scary to watch all of this.
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@arstechnica@mastodon.social A lot of people aren't going to like this, but I think it's potentially interesting. One of the fundamental issues with today's "AI" rollout is how centralized it is with a few extremely large players, most of which have dubious records with regard to abuse of their positions.
The big questions here are how these models are trained. What data goes into the training and how was it obtained? Decentralized inference is not interesting if the training is still centralized and opaque.
@samlitzinger@journa.host I'm not really surprised. There are just as many Trump signs/flags/etc as ever. Yesterday in Maine there was a pro-ICE rally, though it was notably smaller than the anti-ICE rallies. And of course, read the comments on any mainstream news article and you'll see lots of Trump support. I think he's reached the floor of his support. Those still attached to his worldview are there for life.
The Inner Ring posted a good breakdown of the sponsors of all the teams racing in this year’s Tour de France. https://inrng.com/2026/07/pro-team-sponsors-2026/ #procycling #TDF2026 #cycling
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@Doomed_Daniel@mastodon.gamedev.place this captures my feelings exactly. I love Firefox, my problem is with Mozilla.
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@regendans@todon.eu this is why typing ‘soffice’ is still one way to invoke libreoffice.
Somewhere I may still have the Star Office docs in hardcopy. Maybe even the installation media.
The tastelessly decorated big american pickup truck in front of me at the light this morning reminded me that #qanon is still very much a thing, despite being somewhat less in the news lately. I wonder if there’s any hope for these people.
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@mattblaze@federate.social And yet nothing can be done without his party, which has clearly signaled that it supports him. "We" are left powerless.
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@mdione There’s a decent amount of programability in the electronic shifting. You can change the behavior of the various shifter buttons, can pair additional wireless shifters (e.g. to place shifter buttons in different positions on the handlebar, etc). So the functionality is all highly software defined. It works very well, and installation of a derailleur becomes trivial when there’s no cable to install. But it still makes me cry.
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@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social That’s so impractical looking that I’m surprised we don’t see crypto bros driving replicas of them just because they can.
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@corbet This concern was even called out during the ingestion process for the backdoored version. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1067708#27 The fact that the upload was being performed by one of the upstream contributors no doubt went a long way toward assuaging those concerns at the time.
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@AndresFreundTec@mastodon.social Indeed; I mis-read your oss-security post early on and thought that 5.6.1 was the one that introduced the actual backdoor, while only the framework for it had been introduced in earlier versions. It may have been the "Note that the files were not even used for any "tests" in 5.6.0." sentence that threw me off.
From the "Holy shit, bike racing has gotten fast" department, here's something from the latest Escape Collective newsletter: "Peter Sagan's finishing time in his 2018 Paris-Roubaix win would have been 12 minutes outside the time limit of this year's race."
A performance that won the race 8 years ago would today not even count as having completed it. That's crazy. #procycling #couchpeloton
Really sad to learn that Hampshire College will be shutting down. It was my first choice in colleges, way back in the 90’s, but I couldn’t make the finances work. I would have loved to go there. I know at least a couple alums, and the place really seems like it was pretty special. https://www.hampshire.edu/closure-information #hampshirecollege
Major changes apparently coming to Gasworks Park in #Seattle. https://www.myballard.com/2026/04/22/city-permits-partial-removal-of-gas-works-park-towers/
@samlitzinger@journa.host Golden is already gone, as he's not seeking reelection. Unfortunately, the frontrunner to replace him is Paul LePage, the Republican former governor who brags that he was "Trump before Trump."
Collins, we're working on. Maybe people are finally fed up with her, but it really remains to be seen.
There are ads for "TrumpAccounts.gov" on the Tour de France stream in the US. 🤡 🤦♂️
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@frederic@chaos.social only 32!? I remember installing it in the late 90's and having the impression that it was one of those tools that had been around forever!
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@agreenberg@infosec.exchange @lhn@mastodon.online Meanwhile I’ve had zero success convincing our local organizers to disable third-party click tracking in their email newsletters. _sigh_
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@codinghorror@infosec.exchange I used to be chaotic neutral, but I guess I’ve become more conservative in my old age. Lawful neutral it is. But I really kinda miss my chaotic neutral setup.
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@samlitzinger@journa.host I dunno, if the Republicans can elect a president with 34 sexual assault (and related) convictions on his record, I don't see why the Dems can't ignore Platner's allegations. (I'm only being partially facetious. This whole timeline we're on is insane.)