µblog - archive for 2025-11 🏳️‍🌈

🔗 Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.

It amazes me that educated people lack the common sense to see that this is the case.

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vague premonition that the Audi/VAG servers have sh*t the bed this morning - can’t contact the car to get it to warm up #firstworldproblems

Update 2025-11-30 I figured it was a “privacy protection” issue, which I have had problems with before, and was resigned to “deep reset” the car when it randomly started working again. Never change, Audi.

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Repo created, AoC++ purchased. I am ready for #AdventOfCode2025 !

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🔗 RuBee

Wireless location technology with some unusual requirements, suitable for military applications.

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🔗 Anne Helen Petersen: How Nashville Became One Big Bachelorette Party (2018)

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🔗 Paul Campos - The medium is the mob

[…] perhaps we can move toward a Hegelian or even Zizekian synthesis, in which stupid people create epistemological bubbles, and epistemological bubbles create stupid people, in a sort of grand enstupidization of the circle of life.

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🔗📺🇸🇪 Parterapi i Gagnef

OK romantisk komedi. Lite för mycket stockholmsdialekt för att utspelas i Dalarna.

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The Wikipedia page for Pride and Prejudice is almost as long as the novel itself.

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🔗 Elisabeth Sandifer: On Incomputable Language: An Essay on AI

Sandifer believes, like I do, that there’s something ineffable about consciousness . I fully believe that simulating this stuff is fundamentally impossible. Sometimes it feels like everyone forgot that chaos theory was a thing.

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Might as well rename it to Microsoft Chats because no-one actually uses the teams in Teams

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Timely reminder (see what I did there?) that around 20% of the world’s population live in timezones that are not a multiple of whole hour offsets from UTC: https://gerikson.com/blog/comp/30-minute-offset.html

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🔗🐪 John Bokma: ISO week and year in Perl

Shorter: %G is the strftime code for the ISO week year.

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Yesterday I asked the following of the Fediverse:

App recommendation requested.

Basically, I want to be able to track, for each working day, 2 bits of info: whether I travelled by car or public transport. (this is for tax reporting purposes)

Ideally I’d have a week view and checkboxes for each day, but freeform text works too.

Must be able to export data.

iOS preferred, web service works too.

The search space for this is incredibly polluted.

I got a few reccos, but ultimately I settled for a variation of the basic idea outlined here, which is a plain-text file with one day per row. I modified the output to only include working days and added a header with the week number.

Code is here

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Yank websites be like “All addresses all over the world have state/province, right? Might as well make that field mandatory. What can go wrong??”

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my pronouns are cthulhu/fhtagn

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A very telling detail in all this, as some comic has been pointing out, is that Trump, who mispronounces words in general and peoples’ names in particular constantly, always pronounces “Ghislaine” correctly, even though he doesn’t know her at all.

– Paul Campos

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A war widow is technically single so the rebranding of Armistice Day to Singles Day is not totally off base… also happy Independence Day to Poland! 🇵🇱

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My newly issued Dell work lappy is the same size as my Macbook Air M1 but somehow manages to feel both chunkier and more cramped. Also Win11 sux

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🔗🇦🇺 ABC News: Australia’s democratic system is unlike any other on Earth

A history of why Australia has compulsory voting.

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🔗 On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences (speech by Nikita Khrushchev)

This is the speech denouncing Stalin.

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🇸🇪 hej Fejjan! Nu har jag postat där för första gången på mycket länge. Ledsen att jag inte lajkade alla födelsedagsgratulationer när det begav sig - om jag nu fick några, jag har inte kollat.

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🔗 Carriers—and battleships—from space (part 3): The Mighty O and the Mighty Mo

Satellite images of US naval assets.

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☭ Нью-Йоркская Советская Социалистическая Республика

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Per WaPo, current POTUS is threatening Nigeria with military strikes b/c he feels the country’s leadership hasn’t done enough to stop Boko Haram. Everything about this is too exhausting.

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