Chuck Smith
@chucklessmith.bsky.social
Nerd. Wine adviser. Data slinger and database evangelist. Linguistics, by letters. Used to host radio shows. ADS-B reporter. Grape smusher on occasion. Weekend beer league hockey. Cars going round! Maniac driving a Saab! Transit dork. How you get ants.
“Earn Free Spirit points just for paying your rent!”
LOL cool story, bro.
LOL cool story, bro.
December 29, 2025 at 11:19 PM
“Earn Free Spirit points just for paying your rent!”
LOL cool story, bro.
LOL cool story, bro.
“I Am A Guac, I Am An (1,000) Island” is one of my favorite Bob’s Burgers specials.
That’s just operating on a certain level.
That’s just operating on a certain level.
December 29, 2025 at 7:52 AM
“I Am A Guac, I Am An (1,000) Island” is one of my favorite Bob’s Burgers specials.
That’s just operating on a certain level.
That’s just operating on a certain level.
Well the phrase “married […] adviser to Jean-Marie Le Pen” carries some water here for sure. Huh!
LeMonde said, not on our watch
December 28, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Well the phrase “married […] adviser to Jean-Marie Le Pen” carries some water here for sure. Huh!
Haha yes it’s a double-rebooking time of the year.
December 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Haha yes it’s a double-rebooking time of the year.
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Me logging into this website so that I can “get a sense of what’s going on in the world”
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Me logging into this website so that I can “get a sense of what’s going on in the world”
Fun follow-up, they delayed our departure enough to cause a misconnect in LAS so we will not be doing that. Got to add another family Christmas gathering to the agenda, so I guess we’ll take it.
December 26, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Fun follow-up, they delayed our departure enough to cause a misconnect in LAS so we will not be doing that. Got to add another family Christmas gathering to the agenda, so I guess we’ll take it.
I, well, I mean yes, Southwest.
December 26, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I, well, I mean yes, Southwest.
“If there’s a linchpin that will determine the success or failure of the event, it is the functionality of the Northeast Corridor and Amtrak’s willingness and preparation to handle challenges,”
Ah yes, in a country well-known for its recalcitrance to fund non-automobile transit, this will go well.
Ah yes, in a country well-known for its recalcitrance to fund non-automobile transit, this will go well.
December 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
“If there’s a linchpin that will determine the success or failure of the event, it is the functionality of the Northeast Corridor and Amtrak’s willingness and preparation to handle challenges,”
Ah yes, in a country well-known for its recalcitrance to fund non-automobile transit, this will go well.
Ah yes, in a country well-known for its recalcitrance to fund non-automobile transit, this will go well.
Don’t be…. what was that motto they had that one once?
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group.
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
December 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Don’t be…. what was that motto they had that one once?
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Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group.
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
December 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group.
“Alexa, cease mirth!”
December 23, 2025 at 6:52 PM
“Alexa, cease mirth!”
The days of the week and such have lined up unusually this year, and it’s quite nice. Chris and I have taken over my parents’ kitchen and cooking for the full week ahead is well underway.
December 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
The days of the week and such have lined up unusually this year, and it’s quite nice. Chris and I have taken over my parents’ kitchen and cooking for the full week ahead is well underway.
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Inside you, there are four complexions.
December 18, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Inside you, there are four complexions.
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The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
December 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
From the tusk-site:
December 17, 2025 at 5:07 PM
From the tusk-site:
December 17, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Changing the Raspberry Pi that I use for PiHole to use Docker (because it hosts a couple other exceptionally nerdy projects) and am considering renaming it to DockerHole, but my gosh I don’t think that’s going to pass any focus group branding tests.
December 16, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Changing the Raspberry Pi that I use for PiHole to use Docker (because it hosts a couple other exceptionally nerdy projects) and am considering renaming it to DockerHole, but my gosh I don’t think that’s going to pass any focus group branding tests.
The Bear S4E9. Shrugs, turns, walks out of the shot.
*slow clap*
*slow clap*
I think it's kind of beautiful that this was Rob Reiner's final line on television
December 16, 2025 at 12:35 AM
The Bear S4E9. Shrugs, turns, walks out of the shot.
*slow clap*
*slow clap*
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If DOD claims its aircraft was in dangerous airspace and thus did not want to give away its position, then DOD needs to explain why JetBlue was unaware of the airspace danger.
And again, the military waiver from ADS-B req in DCA was for national security.
It can be a convenient DOD designation.
And again, the military waiver from ADS-B req in DCA was for national security.
It can be a convenient DOD designation.
A JetBlue pilot changed elevation to avoid colliding with a U.S. Air Force plane in the southern Caribbean on Friday, he told air traffic controllers.
The New York-bound flight was leaving the island of Curaçao, just north of the Venezuelan coast.
The New York-bound flight was leaving the island of Curaçao, just north of the Venezuelan coast.
‘Outrageous’: JetBlue pilot describes near-collision with Air Force plane off Venezuela
The airline pilot told Curaçao air traffic control that “we almost had a mid-air collision” with an unidentified military aircraft.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:07 AM
If DOD claims its aircraft was in dangerous airspace and thus did not want to give away its position, then DOD needs to explain why JetBlue was unaware of the airspace danger.
And again, the military waiver from ADS-B req in DCA was for national security.
It can be a convenient DOD designation.
And again, the military waiver from ADS-B req in DCA was for national security.
It can be a convenient DOD designation.
PSA: Trader Joe’s has these great potato chips from Ireland. There are two kinds. One is garlic butter, and the other is bleu cheese. One is so delicious, and the other tastes like shit — especially because when the packaging is *so similar* you can inadvertently buy the bleu cheese and take a bite.
December 15, 2025 at 9:22 PM
PSA: Trader Joe’s has these great potato chips from Ireland. There are two kinds. One is garlic butter, and the other is bleu cheese. One is so delicious, and the other tastes like shit — especially because when the packaging is *so similar* you can inadvertently buy the bleu cheese and take a bite.
Just hung up a call and noticed the readout of the duration.
Remember when we’d say “bye!”, and then look at the readout of the duration because *that mattered*?
I mean, that’s not nearly how old I am, but it hadn’t struck me how that’s as vestigial as rotary phones with cords four miles long.
Remember when we’d say “bye!”, and then look at the readout of the duration because *that mattered*?
I mean, that’s not nearly how old I am, but it hadn’t struck me how that’s as vestigial as rotary phones with cords four miles long.
December 15, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Just hung up a call and noticed the readout of the duration.
Remember when we’d say “bye!”, and then look at the readout of the duration because *that mattered*?
I mean, that’s not nearly how old I am, but it hadn’t struck me how that’s as vestigial as rotary phones with cords four miles long.
Remember when we’d say “bye!”, and then look at the readout of the duration because *that mattered*?
I mean, that’s not nearly how old I am, but it hadn’t struck me how that’s as vestigial as rotary phones with cords four miles long.
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Still looks like it's from the future.
December 15, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Still looks like it's from the future.
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Weird to go to bed reading about the Brown shooting. Waking up to news about the Bondi Beach shooting and to be heading to bed reading that Rob Reiner and his wife were apparently stabbed to death.
I hope everyone affected finds some kind of peace.
JFC
I hope everyone affected finds some kind of peace.
JFC
December 15, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Weird to go to bed reading about the Brown shooting. Waking up to news about the Bondi Beach shooting and to be heading to bed reading that Rob Reiner and his wife were apparently stabbed to death.
I hope everyone affected finds some kind of peace.
JFC
I hope everyone affected finds some kind of peace.
JFC
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Mel Brooks having to bury Rob Reiner is against all laws of nature and I’m not ok about it
December 15, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Mel Brooks having to bury Rob Reiner is against all laws of nature and I’m not ok about it
The only coin-toss kinda thing I guess wrong on as consistently as “which way does this USB-A connector go into that port?” is “you reckon this function is 0- or 1-indexed?”
Wrong and no!
Wrong and no!
December 14, 2025 at 11:44 PM
The only coin-toss kinda thing I guess wrong on as consistently as “which way does this USB-A connector go into that port?” is “you reckon this function is 0- or 1-indexed?”
Wrong and no!
Wrong and no!