I really enjoyed the first two episodes of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy! I was a little worried that the “youthfulness” aspect of the show might not work for me (since I’m old and only getting older), but honestly there was a lot of heart there and that’s timeless. Plus I feel like I picked up […]

“That’s fine, dude. I’m not mad at you.”

Does this look like a “domestic terrorist”?

@KristiNoem needs to resign.
@JDVance owes her son an apology.

Shame on everyone.

I’m just so very tired of what gets passed as “news” on mass media. It’s all garbage. They don’t fact check anything anymore and I suspect half of their content is generated by machines.

The part that makes me so tired though, is, I think most people are swallowing it as vetted and true […]

I slept all kinds of wrong last night and have been paying for it all day. My shoulder feels like it’s about ready to the just out of the socket.

When I happen to read comments in GitHub issues and pull requests for any machine models I always think of this…

#retroencabulator

I don’t know who made this originally, but I just love it so much! Came across it on my desktop during a cleanup session and wanted to share.

#worf #slayerofgowron

Sometimes I think having #adhd just means I spend an inordinate amount of time and energy trying to get my brain to stop producing gibberish.

Today is the 100th anniversary of Edwin Hubble discovering that those fuzzy clouds were actually other galaxies! #lookup #Space #Astronomy

Finishing more drafts and publishing them. Latest: my review of Snac (★★★★☆), an _ultra_ -minimalist ActivityPub server that reminds me of an old Web 1.0 guestbook (minus the garish backgrounds and colors).

And yet it not only lets you post text and images and follow people on other […]

I just read a comment on a thread that said something to the effect of “I preferred the internet that wasn’t driven by profit focused influencers” and it made me realize that I loathe that profit-driven focus of social networks these days.

The new Vitals feature in the #ios18 #health app is pretty neat. No new data really, but a straightforward way to visual data. When I got #covid a couple weeks ago I felt awful and there was no doubt that I was sick, but interestingly the day before I […]

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I assume data centers are frequently decomissioning server hardware as new more efficient hardware comes out. who gets the old stuff?

anyone have any intel on this?