AntiComposite
@anticomposite.net
New Englander, Wikimedia volunteer steward, occasional writer of code.
[bridged from https://wikis.world/@anticomposite on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
[bridged from https://wikis.world/@anticomposite on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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TMW the wind destroyed time https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/nanog@lists.nanog.org/message/ACADD3NKOG2QRWZ56OSNNG7UIEKKTZXL/
December 20, 2025 at 10:37 AM
TMW the wind destroyed time https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/nanog@lists.nanog.org/message/ACADD3NKOG2QRWZ56OSNNG7UIEKKTZXL/
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To all the other "computer people" going to see family during the holidays:
When they complain about their iPhone being messed up, the option you're looking for this year is "reduce transparency" under accessibility settings.
You're welcome in advance.
When they complain about their iPhone being messed up, the option you're looking for this year is "reduce transparency" under accessibility settings.
You're welcome in advance.
December 19, 2025 at 2:57 AM
To all the other "computer people" going to see family during the holidays:
When they complain about their iPhone being messed up, the option you're looking for this year is "reduce transparency" under accessibility settings.
You're welcome in advance.
When they complain about their iPhone being messed up, the option you're looking for this year is "reduce transparency" under accessibility settings.
You're welcome in advance.
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Milton Keynes radio station cleared over swearing played on loop - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g402jy23ro
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g402jy23ro
Milton Keynes radio station cleared over swearing played on loop
The swear word was played for at least 26 minutes, an Ofcom report says.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 16, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Milton Keynes radio station cleared over swearing played on loop - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g402jy23ro
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g402jy23ro
Just finished setting up Immich and importing my Google Photos library. Pretty good so far, but the default geocoder (based on GeoNames) is really quite bad. And apparently the devs have refused to implement anything better or allow external geocoders because people will just use Nominatim and […]
Original post on wikis.world
wikis.world
December 16, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Just finished setting up Immich and importing my Google Photos library. Pretty good so far, but the default geocoder (based on GeoNames) is really quite bad. And apparently the devs have refused to implement anything better or allow external geocoders because people will just use Nominatim and […]
I need to remember to use tmux more often when running long-running tasks over ssh.
Especially if those tasks include `apt update && apt upgrade`.
Especially if those tasks include `apt update && apt upgrade`.
December 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I need to remember to use tmux more often when running long-running tasks over ssh.
Especially if those tasks include `apt update && apt upgrade`.
Especially if those tasks include `apt update && apt upgrade`.
finally tackling ripping the DVD-Rs my parents have from like 2008
one disk has been read with 0 errors. one disk has been read with 1 error.
the rest have thousands, and visible damage
i think they backed these up to VHS tapes at the time, and i haven't gotten anything that's completely […]
one disk has been read with 0 errors. one disk has been read with 1 error.
the rest have thousands, and visible damage
i think they backed these up to VHS tapes at the time, and i haven't gotten anything that's completely […]
Original post on wikis.world
wikis.world
December 14, 2025 at 10:35 PM
finally tackling ripping the DVD-Rs my parents have from like 2008
one disk has been read with 0 errors. one disk has been read with 1 error.
the rest have thousands, and visible damage
i think they backed these up to VHS tapes at the time, and i haven't gotten anything that's completely […]
one disk has been read with 0 errors. one disk has been read with 1 error.
the rest have thousands, and visible damage
i think they backed these up to VHS tapes at the time, and i haven't gotten anything that's completely […]
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Just show the prompt and save us all time and resources.
https://distantprovince.by/posts/its-rude-to-show-ai-output-to-people/
https://distantprovince.by/posts/its-rude-to-show-ai-output-to-people/
It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich
Feeding slop is an act of war
distantprovince.by
December 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Just show the prompt and save us all time and resources.
https://distantprovince.by/posts/its-rude-to-show-ai-output-to-people/
https://distantprovince.by/posts/its-rude-to-show-ai-output-to-people/
RE: https://mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev/115485838167097096
I've been forgetting to write here about the things I've been working on, so a short thread.
First up, I saw a post about the Up-to-date Sandwich Book: 300 Ways to Make a Sandwich (1909), and saw that there's actually a 1927 […]
I've been forgetting to write here about the things I've been working on, so a short thread.
First up, I saw a post about the Up-to-date Sandwich Book: 300 Ways to Make a Sandwich (1909), and saw that there's actually a 1927 […]
Original post on wikis.world
wikis.world
December 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
RE: https://mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev/115485838167097096
I've been forgetting to write here about the things I've been working on, so a short thread.
First up, I saw a post about the Up-to-date Sandwich Book: 300 Ways to Make a Sandwich (1909), and saw that there's actually a 1927 […]
I've been forgetting to write here about the things I've been working on, so a short thread.
First up, I saw a post about the Up-to-date Sandwich Book: 300 Ways to Make a Sandwich (1909), and saw that there's actually a 1927 […]
Apparently it's winter or something now.
November 28, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Apparently it's winter or something now.
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📝 Wikimedia blog: Unifying our mobile and desktop domains
Reduced mobile response times by 20% worldwide and un-broke Google indexing.
https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2025/11/21/unifying-mobile-and-desktop-domains/
#wikimedia #mediawiki #wikipedia
Reduced mobile response times by 20% worldwide and un-broke Google indexing.
https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2025/11/21/unifying-mobile-and-desktop-domains/
#wikimedia #mediawiki #wikipedia
Unifying our mobile and desktop domains
How we achieved 20% faster mobile response times, improved SEO, and reduced infrastructure load.
techblog.wikimedia.org
November 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
📝 Wikimedia blog: Unifying our mobile and desktop domains
Reduced mobile response times by 20% worldwide and un-broke Google indexing.
https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2025/11/21/unifying-mobile-and-desktop-domains/
#wikimedia #mediawiki #wikipedia
Reduced mobile response times by 20% worldwide and un-broke Google indexing.
https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2025/11/21/unifying-mobile-and-desktop-domains/
#wikimedia #mediawiki #wikipedia
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Update:
November 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Update:
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Due to circumstances well within our control (me being ridiculous), things have escalated from there. (Rainbow approves, though, which is what really matters.)
November 21, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Due to circumstances well within our control (me being ridiculous), things have escalated from there. (Rainbow approves, though, which is what really matters.)
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My cat Rainbow likes to sit in this basket in my bathroom. My daughter painted a portrait of Rainbow in the basket. I hung it in the bathroom, naturally. Then I got a photo of Rainbow sitting in the basket underneath the painting.
November 21, 2025 at 10:04 PM
My cat Rainbow likes to sit in this basket in my bathroom. My daughter painted a portrait of Rainbow in the basket. I hung it in the bathroom, naturally. Then I got a photo of Rainbow sitting in the basket underneath the painting.
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Easy Delivery Co. is a fun little game so far. Had to turn the CRT effects off though, and I need to spend time tweaking the sensitivity on my Steam Controller.
November 17, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Easy Delivery Co. is a fun little game so far. Had to turn the CRT effects off though, and I need to spend time tweaking the sensitivity on my Steam Controller.
Do you want a 45 minute infodump about the modern US telephone network?
You're on fedi, of course you do
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA-ZQJ8EZSs
You're on fedi, of course you do
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA-ZQJ8EZSs
November 7, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Do you want a 45 minute infodump about the modern US telephone network?
You're on fedi, of course you do
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA-ZQJ8EZSs
You're on fedi, of course you do
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA-ZQJ8EZSs
iOS 26.1 seems to have fixed some things about Liquid Glass, but not enough to let me turn Reduce Transparency and Reduce Motion off. And now the animation when opening/closing home screen folders is worse.
November 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM
iOS 26.1 seems to have fixed some things about Liquid Glass, but not enough to let me turn Reduce Transparency and Reduce Motion off. And now the animation when opening/closing home screen folders is worse.
this banana bread has secret walnuts in it
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
this banana bread has secret walnuts in it
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Oh no! Carmen Sandiego stole a third of the Internet!
October 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Oh no! Carmen Sandiego stole a third of the Internet!
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DEGRADED CONTROL ROD DRIVE MECHANISM PENETRATION
Braidwood (IL), 10/10/2025
"At 0230 CDT, on October 10, 2025, it was determined that the control rod drive mechanism (CRDM) penetration '69' was degraded because liquid penetrant testing performed on the embedded flaw repair weld identified an […]
Braidwood (IL), 10/10/2025
"At 0230 CDT, on October 10, 2025, it was determined that the control rod drive mechanism (CRDM) penetration '69' was degraded because liquid penetrant testing performed on the embedded flaw repair weld identified an […]
Original post on mastodon.tds.xyz
mastodon.tds.xyz
October 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
DEGRADED CONTROL ROD DRIVE MECHANISM PENETRATION
Braidwood (IL), 10/10/2025
"At 0230 CDT, on October 10, 2025, it was determined that the control rod drive mechanism (CRDM) penetration '69' was degraded because liquid penetrant testing performed on the embedded flaw repair weld identified an […]
Braidwood (IL), 10/10/2025
"At 0230 CDT, on October 10, 2025, it was determined that the control rod drive mechanism (CRDM) penetration '69' was degraded because liquid penetrant testing performed on the embedded flaw repair weld identified an […]
where did i put my kapton tape
October 7, 2025 at 2:00 AM
where did i put my kapton tape
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@heigit did a great comparison of OSM land use data with an external dataset. But I have a gripe with how they present OSM as the inferior dataset. I blogged about it at https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/tordans/diary/407524
Authoritative Data is Not More Right Just Because It’s Authoritative
HeiGIT recently published an analysis together with the German Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG), comparing land cover data from OSM with the official CORINE Land Cover (CLC) dataset from BKG.
www.openstreetmap.org
October 1, 2025 at 8:17 AM
@heigit did a great comparison of OSM land use data with an external dataset. But I have a gripe with how they present OSM as the inferior dataset. I blogged about it at https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/tordans/diary/407524
iOS 26 is just as ugly and annoying as expected. Reduce transparency helps make it usable, but uglier.
September 27, 2025 at 9:40 PM
iOS 26 is just as ugly and annoying as expected. Reduce transparency helps make it usable, but uglier.
I am now 1 for 2 for working NH state payphones.
This one at a park-and-ride went clunk when I dialed the test number, but had no sound/dialtone and didn't show up in the log.
Y'think it's worth reporting to *checks notes* "Inmate Calling Solutions"?
This one at a park-and-ride went clunk when I dialed the test number, but had no sound/dialtone and didn't show up in the log.
Y'think it's worth reporting to *checks notes* "Inmate Calling Solutions"?
September 26, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I am now 1 for 2 for working NH state payphones.
This one at a park-and-ride went clunk when I dialed the test number, but had no sound/dialtone and didn't show up in the log.
Y'think it's worth reporting to *checks notes* "Inmate Calling Solutions"?
This one at a park-and-ride went clunk when I dialed the test number, but had no sound/dialtone and didn't show up in the log.
Y'think it's worth reporting to *checks notes* "Inmate Calling Solutions"?
Jammed my finger in a railing and dropped a frozen container on my foot all in the space of about 10 minutes.
Ow.
Ow.
September 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Jammed my finger in a railing and dropped a frozen container on my foot all in the space of about 10 minutes.
Ow.
Ow.