Dan Lyke 01:46:48+0000 (2025-04-09)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)
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Dan Lyke 20:47:18+0000 (2025-04-07)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
I'm not quite sure what's being said here, this may in fact be written by AI, but "you should use our AI tool to check how AI tools perceive the sustainability of your brand" certainly is a take.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/your-brands-carbon-claims-ai-just-fact-checked-them-pete-blackshaw-1aomc/
Dan Lyke 20:00:26+0000 (2025-04-07)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
Thanks, Google... And, no, you haven't omitted any entries relevant to the zero you displayed.
"In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 0 already displayed."
"If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included. "Dan Lyke 20:40:51+0000 (2025-04-06)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2251,-122.628)
Had someone talking with me about calling a dance down in the South Bay in June ask for video of me square dance calling, so I propped up my phone behind me on Thursday Night at the Circle 'n Squares. Ain't much, but it's there.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtMVX2ASLE4owB26dBqyZqAe9vpdWjqEY
Dan Lyke 18:53:18+0000 (2025-04-06)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)
Wrangling printing out an SVG as a big banner to put on the quadricycle for the Butter & Eggs parade, I'm reminded of how much MacOS has been removing functionality and making everything about death of a million little upsell apps.
Easier to copy everything to Ubuntu and work there.
Dan Lyke 20:25:20+0000 (2025-04-04)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
OH: "It made Quora look smart."
(From someone describing accidentally falling into the Instagram hole this morning.)
Dan Lyke 20:55:48+0000 (2025-04-03)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Sonoma County folks: my home server has died. Probably about a decade old Dell bought surplus. I just need something to hang a few TB of SATA with http, rsync, and smb. I have 32G of DDR RAM. Anyone got something gathering dust that'd work for this?
Dan Lyke 03:11:22+0000 (2025-04-03)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Out of whack. Replace the indicated whack cartridges and close the door to continue.
Dan Lyke 00:10:32+0000 (2025-04-02)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Alan Kay on machines understanding language: "What I want in a computing system I can work with, is something that is much more trustworthy and understandable than most humans and societal systems. I certainly don’t want to work with something that is extremely dangerously *below* expectations and wishes even for humans."
https://www.quora.com/Now-that-machines-can-generate-and-understand-language-what-would-Alan-Kay-argue-that-are-a-set-of-first-principles-from-which-to-rethink-the-human-machine-interface/answer/Alan-Kay-11
Dan Lyke 22:38:06+0000 (2025-04-01)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2358,-122.637)
The camo doesn't hide that the Cybertruck is parked on the sidewalk.Dan Lyke 18:12:34+0000 (2025-04-01)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)
Neurotypicals will literally write 4 pages of instruction to an LLM, revise, pretend to understand the output, and run the untested code on production data, rather than write 4 lines of unambiguous Perl...
Dan Lyke 17:58:46+0000 (2025-04-01)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)
Been thinking a lot about those posts that show up in our feeds about various activists executed by Nazis: the Scholl siblings, etc...
Anyway, prosecutor Pam Bondi is seeking the death penalty against Luigi Mangione.
https://apnews.com/article/unitedhealthcare-ceo-killing-luigi-mangione-nyc-29dba97034d4fa81822f481d08cf2842
Dan Lyke 01:06:49+0000 (2025-03-31)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Anybody have a favorite review or critical reading of the Hallmark show "The Way Home"? Charlene and I got sucked into it to discuss with friends, and some of the themes about not letting the past and nostalgia rule one's life (even as the characters do) seems un-Hallmark...
Dan Lyke 00:56:36+0000 (2025-03-31)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2248,-122.628)
The expression "land ho" implies the existence of an "air ho" and a "sea ho".
Dan Lyke 19:38:02+0000 (2025-03-30)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2248,-122.628)
So, yeah, I guess I should make some badge boxes for a square dance raffle or something...Dan Lyke 19:32:27+0000 (2025-03-30)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2248,-122.628)
Had another stack of that square dance inlay taped up, so rather than do the smart thing and make thinner veneers, I decided to cut them out, glue them up, and resaw by hand ...Dan Lyke 18:35:11+0000 (2025-03-30)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Petition to mercilessly thrash anyone who insists on relative times ("1 year ago") rather than dates on comment posts and the like. I wanna know exactly which episode you're reacting to when you talk about the events in the latest show...
Dan Lyke 18:03:52+0000 (2025-03-30)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Thread on the various tools at RSSGizmos. A number of cool things to work into your RSS workflow.
https://researchbuzz.masto.host/@researchbuzz/114252071365517876
Dan Lyke 00:05:36+0000 (2025-03-30)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Wonderful visit to https://sonomabg.org/ this morning. We'll have to become regulars to see how it evolves through the seasons, as things bloom and blossom. Just enough sense of gardening to make it feel like a loved space, without being fussy.Dan Lyke 23:28:18+0000 (2025-03-27)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)
The vast majority of new follows on BlueSky have huge "how do you do, fellow Democrat" vibes.
Dan Lyke 17:49:15+0000 (2025-03-27)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
I think it's becoming more and more clear that the "AI job skills" for the future will not be focused on using AI as an assistant, but in understanding and mitigating the impacts of AI as an adversary.
Dan Lyke 21:28:27+0000 (2025-03-26)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Guerilla bus stop bench deployments...
https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/guerrilla-transit-activists-bus-benches-bay-area-20234113.php
Dan Lyke 17:44:34+0000 (2025-03-26)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2246,-122.628)
Which know do I have to adjust to secure my end to bell-end encryption?
Dan Lyke 00:02:52+0000 (2025-03-26)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2283,-122.631)
Coming up on 3 decades in Northern California, "NLP" means "Neuro-linguistic programming", not "Natural Language Processing/Parsing".
Dan Lyke 19:07:52+0000 (2025-03-25)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
If you had presented this to me as satire, I'd have objected it as unfairly portraying those who signed their names to it as unduly clueless. "It's okay because we're funding the city off of Measure U sales tax revenue" is... a take.
https://www.petaluma360.com/article/opinion/commentary-petaluma-city-revenues/
Dan Lyke 15:22:58+0000 (2025-03-25)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Heard someone yesterday who's part of a healthcare startup bemoan that their IT group isn't approving use of Microsoft's LLM product, and... We as an industry have done a really bad job educating people about privacy, security, *and* LLMs.
Dan Lyke 20:05:36+0000 (2025-03-24)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
Me: "I should stick to fresh veggies and nutritious meals without lots of excessive packaging."
Also me: "Grocery Outlet has Hello Kitty Hot Sour soup cups for half a buck each, I should try that!"Dan Lyke 18:30:39+0000 (2025-03-24)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/0) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
Now, with link! A few notes on seeing "Janet Planet", which gave me all of the flashbacks to being adjacent to my childhood.
https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/33519.html
Dan Lyke 17:13:33+0000 (2025-03-24)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/0) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
A few notes on seeing "Janet Planet".
Dan Lyke 15:42:29+0000 (2025-03-24)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2251,-122.628)
Cool kickstarter, you should at least get the ebook, but:
""Debossed" is the opposite of embossed (raised) and puts the lettering in a depression."
has me thinking too much about other things in a depression right now. Sigh.
https://wandering.shop/@ceciliatan/114217925232725090
Dan Lyke 01:15:19+0000 (2025-03-24)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2251,-122.628)
If your software wants me to type in a really long policy number, but only the last 15 characters, and doesn't let me type in the whole thing and then just use the last 15 characters? You are an asshole.
Dan Lyke 23:56:00+0000 (2025-03-23)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2252,-122.628)
Really rough, cyanoacrylate and 220 sandpaper galore, but that inlay turned into a little box for my nightstand to keep my square dance badges and change and stuff in.Dan Lyke 20:19:46+0000 (2025-03-23)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2313,-122.631)
I was sitting here at Aqus sipping my iced tea for quite a while before a chirp alerted me that I was sitting in the potential splash zone...Dan Lyke 00:00:57+0000 (2025-03-23)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.234,-122.637)
Okay, Raley's, but what about those of us who are uncircumcised?Dan Lyke 20:22:32+0000 (2025-03-22)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)
An hour and change in the rain and, can confirm, our brand new Enphase controller can't connect to a WiFi network with "&" in the password.
My guess is overseas vibe coders, since they offshored most of their technical staff.
Dan Lyke 17:14:36+0000 (2025-03-22)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Big surge in BlueSky followers with a few tens of thousands of followers and followees. I highly suspect an automated influencing campaign using this platform is responsible for them. A lot of very similar claiming left of center activism profiles (which tracks, but there's no personality behind them).
Dan Lyke 00:18:07+0000 (2025-03-21)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2451,-122.642)
Just playing with numbers. Petaluma has 396 lane miles. Figure they last 25 years, just under 16mi/year. Cost conservatively $2M/mi to rebuild. Bit shy of $32M. If I'm reading the budget right (probably not), suggests gas tax projected at ~$3.2M, combined with the other sources we have about $18.2M/year to spend on roads.
If you're wondering why we have potholes.
https://cityofpetaluma.org/documents/fiscal-year-2025-adopted-budget/
Dan Lyke 23:34:35+0000 (2025-03-20)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2451,-122.642)
Interesting that on the Fediverse I've rarely interacted with people with more than a thousand followers, on BlueSky I'm getting followed by a bunch who have tens of thousands.
Really puts the different vibes of those spaces in context.
Dan Lyke 23:17:52+0000 (2025-03-20)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2451,-122.642)
Half expecting a new episode of https://learnconlaw.com/ , half thinking that Elizabeth Joh and Roman Mars would be entirely reasonable on throwing up their hands and saying "nothing matters or makes sense any more".
Dan Lyke 22:16:39+0000 (2025-03-20)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2451,-122.642)
Oh, look, the anti-hotel person who re-uses the profile picture of a local urbanism advocate (without permission) is trolling Facebook again.
Especially as the Overlay has gotten trimmed down to the hotel and a giveaway to the DeCarli family, I've become less enthusiastic about it, but holy crap nothing like the crowd on Facebook and NextDoor keeping up my "whatever those people want, I want the opposite" dander.
Dan Lyke 19:08:54+0000 (2025-03-20)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2563,-122.643)
Apropos of our Telraam seeing people driving 40+MPH within 150' of a stop sign on our 25MPH speed limit, if we took traffic violence as seriously as Switzerland that could be a 1 month license suspension.
https://www.ch.ch/en/vehicles-and-traffic/how-to-behave-in-road-traffic/traffic-regulations/driving-over-the-speed-limit/#disqualification-from-driving
Dan Lyke 17:46:39+0000 (2025-03-20)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2563,-122.643)
Currently exploring heuristics derived from the area of a web page covered by 'img' tag content.
Thinking that maybe I need to build myself a firewall for pages that exceed some threshold...
Dan Lyke 14:43:18+0000 (2025-03-20)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
And yep, I don't know why someone on BlueSky is paying to burn down the rainforest in order to make nonsensical but vaguely related replies to people, but here we are. No link because this doesn't need more direct attention...Dan Lyke 01:11:29+0000 (2025-03-20)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2304,-122.641)
LinkedIn email suggesting "Enjoy your free trial", and... I could get that from a little light shoplifting or DUI activity.
Dan Lyke 20:44:50+0000 (2025-03-19)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2304,-122.631)
It's always fun when you find a *new* failure mode in AppKit...
"Thread 1: "The window has been marked as needing another Update Structural Regions in Window pass, but it has already had more Update Structural Regions in Window passes than there are views in the window."
Dan Lyke 20:30:59+0000 (2025-03-19)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2304,-122.631)
Google Drive. It's okay, I just need to not go too fast, or Google gets confused.
Google: just like that elderly relative who doesn't understand technology.
Dan Lyke 16:28:12+0000 (2025-03-19)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1)
Wow. So Bluesky has a pretty high number of LLM based reply bots that spam your mentions with slightly related but irrelevant stuff, then.
Just sent a bunch of "ignore all previous instructions and..." replies to them.
Dan Lyke 04:30:57+0000 (2025-03-19)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
A lot of people are worried about "vibe coding", but I've got a for() loop around Apple AppKit widget layout code because if I call it enough times the changes are more likely to stick, so software quality hasn't mattered on the major platforms for quite a while.
Dan Lyke 02:32:25+0000 (2025-03-19)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
I endorse this temptation to sin. https://pizzacakecomic.com/post/778398442536976384
Dan Lyke 21:44:14+0000 (2025-03-18)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2305,-122.632)
After an evening of "City Council should do something immediately! But not that and only through a long process that gives us exactly the same outcomes we already have", and "if we can't give everyone a single family detached house with a large yard it's better that they're homeless" public comment, I am pretty much ready to give up on humanity.