Daniel Lakeland
@dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy
Applied Mathematician, Julia programmer, father of two amazing boys, official coonhound mix mutt-walker.
PhD in Civil Engineering. Debian Linux user since […]
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PhD in Civil Engineering. Debian Linux user since […]
[bridged from https://mastodon.sdf.org/@dlakelan on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Apparently an entity can only be in one map zone at a time in #homeassistant ? I have a big zone for all of the socal area, and another for the region within 5-10 miles of my home, and of course the default home zone. They're all nested in each other... If I'm at home, I'm not in socal. That […]
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December 4, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Apparently an entity can only be in one map zone at a time in #homeassistant ? I have a big zone for all of the socal area, and another for the region within 5-10 miles of my home, and of course the default home zone. They're all nested in each other... If I'm at home, I'm not in socal. That […]
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If you think that DOGE was anything other that an international data theft ring, I dunno what to say.
December 3, 2025 at 10:54 PM
If you think that DOGE was anything other that an international data theft ring, I dunno what to say.
The most important personal security advice from last nights talk.
December 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The most important personal security advice from last nights talk.
A useful DNS idea.
Create a dynamic dns daemon to serve entries for:
<yourpublickey>.ed25519.yourdomain.tld
Basically you sign a message saying "set AAAA to 2001:db8::123" and send it to the server. The server changes the AAAA record for your entry, and stores a txt message with your signed […]
Create a dynamic dns daemon to serve entries for:
<yourpublickey>.ed25519.yourdomain.tld
Basically you sign a message saying "set AAAA to 2001:db8::123" and send it to the server. The server changes the AAAA record for your entry, and stores a txt message with your signed […]
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December 2, 2025 at 10:37 PM
A useful DNS idea.
Create a dynamic dns daemon to serve entries for:
<yourpublickey>.ed25519.yourdomain.tld
Basically you sign a message saying "set AAAA to 2001:db8::123" and send it to the server. The server changes the AAAA record for your entry, and stores a txt message with your signed […]
Create a dynamic dns daemon to serve entries for:
<yourpublickey>.ed25519.yourdomain.tld
Basically you sign a message saying "set AAAA to 2001:db8::123" and send it to the server. The server changes the AAAA record for your entry, and stores a txt message with your signed […]
If there are two companies, and one of them figures out a way to make the product cheaper, and starts selling at a lower price, why do we call that "competition" and not "the company cooperating with its customers"?
December 2, 2025 at 7:54 PM
If there are two companies, and one of them figures out a way to make the product cheaper, and starts selling at a lower price, why do we call that "competition" and not "the company cooperating with its customers"?
My first job out of college was at a company in SF called MondexUSA. It was a licensee of some tech from the UK I think, anyway the product was a stored value card that used cryptography to prevent fraud. No central processor of transactions was needed... It was digital "cash". The company was […]
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December 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM
My first job out of college was at a company in SF called MondexUSA. It was a licensee of some tech from the UK I think, anyway the product was a stored value card that used cryptography to prevent fraud. No central processor of transactions was needed... It was digital "cash". The company was […]
Are you in the #altadena or #pasadena area and want to know more about online safety from scammers, surveillance, and soforth? Or know someone who does?
Tomorrow I'm giving a talk at the main Altadena library 6-7pm on related topics. You'll learn about real world dangers online and some […]
Tomorrow I'm giving a talk at the main Altadena library 6-7pm on related topics. You'll learn about real world dangers online and some […]
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December 2, 2025 at 5:43 AM
since some of you may be following the follies of my remote tech problems... cousins went to the house, walked through some diagnostics.. comcast had stopped giving IP addresses to my router VM. power cycling comcast's device didn't work. Reset to factory by holding the button for 45 seconds did […]
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December 2, 2025 at 12:47 AM
since some of you may be following the follies of my remote tech problems... cousins went to the house, walked through some diagnostics.. comcast had stopped giving IP addresses to my router VM. power cycling comcast's device didn't work. Reset to factory by holding the button for 45 seconds did […]
Reminder that entering this season of #christmas music, there is really only one acceptable solution... The Charlie Brown Christmas album.
(Bonus points if you do the dance this Orange shirted kid is doing whenever you hear Linus and Lucy)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1LUXQWzCno
#jazz
(Bonus points if you do the dance this Orange shirted kid is doing whenever you hear Linus and Lucy)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1LUXQWzCno
#jazz
December 1, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Reminder that entering this season of #christmas music, there is really only one acceptable solution... The Charlie Brown Christmas album.
(Bonus points if you do the dance this Orange shirted kid is doing whenever you hear Linus and Lucy)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1LUXQWzCno
#jazz
(Bonus points if you do the dance this Orange shirted kid is doing whenever you hear Linus and Lucy)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1LUXQWzCno
#jazz
Get this bullshit... my vpn connection to the remote site went down 9.5 hours ago, and we have no external capacity to connect either via vpn or yggdrasil or ssh to the last known public ipv4. But this morning about an hour ago my wife got notification from the backup generator that it did its […]
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December 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Get this bullshit... my vpn connection to the remote site went down 9.5 hours ago, and we have no external capacity to connect either via vpn or yggdrasil or ssh to the last known public ipv4. But this morning about an hour ago my wife got notification from the backup generator that it did its […]
A techbro can never be held accountable, therefore a techbro must never make a management decision.
December 1, 2025 at 3:24 PM
A techbro can never be held accountable, therefore a techbro must never make a management decision.
Remote Computer stuff went totally offline overnight. I have no visibility into why. Hoping that its Comcast's fault and will magically come back in a few hours but I dont really think so... 😑
Hope it isn't a total hardware failure.
Hope it isn't a total hardware failure.
December 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Remote Computer stuff went totally offline overnight. I have no visibility into why. Hoping that its Comcast's fault and will magically come back in a few hours but I dont really think so... 😑
Hope it isn't a total hardware failure.
Hope it isn't a total hardware failure.
Read something about the ban on under 16yo in Australia using social media apps. Fuck all the way off with that shit. What's next? People under 12 can't speak outside their home? People under 14 must remain covered from head to toe in a burqa? People under 9 can't enter the library? No text […]
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December 1, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Read something about the ban on under 16yo in Australia using social media apps. Fuck all the way off with that shit. What's next? People under 12 can't speak outside their home? People under 14 must remain covered from head to toe in a burqa? People under 9 can't enter the library? No text […]
Still not feeling super great but I did take the dog for a walk today, so I'm upward bound at least.
Watching some episodes of The Rockford Files. Found out that the silly perky young woman in Tall Woman in Red Wagon (season 1 episode 7) died this year at age 80. Makes me a little sad.
Watching some episodes of The Rockford Files. Found out that the silly perky young woman in Tall Woman in Red Wagon (season 1 episode 7) died this year at age 80. Makes me a little sad.
December 1, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Still not feeling super great but I did take the dog for a walk today, so I'm upward bound at least.
Watching some episodes of The Rockford Files. Found out that the silly perky young woman in Tall Woman in Red Wagon (season 1 episode 7) died this year at age 80. Makes me a little sad.
Watching some episodes of The Rockford Files. Found out that the silly perky young woman in Tall Woman in Red Wagon (season 1 episode 7) died this year at age 80. Makes me a little sad.
Who knows who needs to hear this. Chronic #sinusitis is pretty common, and was made much worse by putting sudafed behind the counter in the US. But, a major cause of chronic sinusitis is taking antibiotics for a few non-chronic sinusitis bouts (or for other infections like prostatitis or […]
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November 30, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Who knows who needs to hear this. Chronic #sinusitis is pretty common, and was made much worse by putting sudafed behind the counter in the US. But, a major cause of chronic sinusitis is taking antibiotics for a few non-chronic sinusitis bouts (or for other infections like prostatitis or […]
Next up on "Acronym" can WITSEC OPSEC be improved by IPSEC for ITSEC?
November 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Next up on "Acronym" can WITSEC OPSEC be improved by IPSEC for ITSEC?
Is GOT the HBO TV GOAT? Find out tonight at 11 on "Acronym"
November 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Is GOT the HBO TV GOAT? Find out tonight at 11 on "Acronym"
Can LLMs be used to produce meaningful scientific papers? Yes BUT...
Look, an LLM is kind of a random number generator... Its tuned to create sequences of text that have kind of plausible syntactic structure and use words that COULD have meaning. But it doesn't have a model of the world really […]
Look, an LLM is kind of a random number generator... Its tuned to create sequences of text that have kind of plausible syntactic structure and use words that COULD have meaning. But it doesn't have a model of the world really […]
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November 30, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Can LLMs be used to produce meaningful scientific papers? Yes BUT...
Look, an LLM is kind of a random number generator... Its tuned to create sequences of text that have kind of plausible syntactic structure and use words that COULD have meaning. But it doesn't have a model of the world really […]
Look, an LLM is kind of a random number generator... Its tuned to create sequences of text that have kind of plausible syntactic structure and use words that COULD have meaning. But it doesn't have a model of the world really […]
Generally getting better, so have to use the excuse to watch some more flicks.. I'm trying Holmes and Watson (2018) it appears to be an irreverent comedy. Good choice for a sick day.
November 30, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Generally getting better, so have to use the excuse to watch some more flicks.. I'm trying Holmes and Watson (2018) it appears to be an irreverent comedy. Good choice for a sick day.
Apparently autocorrect thinks his name is Edgar Allen PoE
Probably because of his famous story The telltale dashboard...
Probably because of his famous story The telltale dashboard...
November 30, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Apparently autocorrect thinks his name is Edgar Allen PoE
Probably because of his famous story The telltale dashboard...
Probably because of his famous story The telltale dashboard...
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A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
James Iry; Thursday, May 7, 2009
1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruct a loom to weave "hello, world" into a tapestry. Redditers of the time are not impressed due to the lack of tail call recursion […]
James Iry; Thursday, May 7, 2009
1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruct a loom to weave "hello, world" into a tapestry. Redditers of the time are not impressed due to the lack of tail call recursion […]
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November 23, 2025 at 2:43 AM
A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
James Iry; Thursday, May 7, 2009
1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruct a loom to weave "hello, world" into a tapestry. Redditers of the time are not impressed due to the lack of tail call recursion […]
James Iry; Thursday, May 7, 2009
1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruct a loom to weave "hello, world" into a tapestry. Redditers of the time are not impressed due to the lack of tail call recursion […]
Reposted by Daniel Lakeland
@dlakelan @raganwald @dtauvdiodr Is it this one? https://archive.org/details/myst_20210621
Other option (labeled "Cyan"), here: https://archive.org/details/mystmaccd
Other option (labeled "Cyan"), here: https://archive.org/details/mystmaccd
Myst (For Macintosh) : Cyan Inc., Broderbund Software Inc, : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This is Myst, a puzzle game for Mac OS. It will work under System 7.5, Mac OS 8, and Mac OS 9. On Mac OSX, it will only work on versions 10.1 to 10.4 when in...
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November 29, 2025 at 6:09 PM
@dlakelan @raganwald @dtauvdiodr Is it this one? https://archive.org/details/myst_20210621
Other option (labeled "Cyan"), here: https://archive.org/details/mystmaccd
Other option (labeled "Cyan"), here: https://archive.org/details/mystmaccd
A huge amount of my adult life has been spent finding widely believed "facts" and investigating them to see if they hold up to scrutiny. There are lots of examples where they do I'm sure, but I don't spend a ton of time on those. The interesting cases are the ones where it doesn't hold up, and […]
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November 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
A huge amount of my adult life has been spent finding widely believed "facts" and investigating them to see if they hold up to scrutiny. There are lots of examples where they do I'm sure, but I don't spend a ton of time on those. The interesting cases are the ones where it doesn't hold up, and […]
@raganwald @dtauvdiodr
Couldn't immediately find a copy of the original Myst on archive.org but their earlier Hypercard game CosmicOsmo is there...
https://archive.org/details/CosmicOsmoMacintosh
Couldn't immediately find a copy of the original Myst on archive.org but their earlier Hypercard game CosmicOsmo is there...
https://archive.org/details/CosmicOsmoMacintosh
Cosmic Osmo : Rand and Robyn Miller : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
***USAGE NOTE: System sound is set at zero on boot, so before launching the game, open the Sound Control Panel via the Apple Menu and turn volume up! This is...
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November 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
@raganwald @dtauvdiodr
Couldn't immediately find a copy of the original Myst on archive.org but their earlier Hypercard game CosmicOsmo is there...
https://archive.org/details/CosmicOsmoMacintosh
Couldn't immediately find a copy of the original Myst on archive.org but their earlier Hypercard game CosmicOsmo is there...
https://archive.org/details/CosmicOsmoMacintosh
This video podcast interview of Tom Murphy is pretty interesting. Its two parts and really they dont say much new to me in the first part. Its developing background and rapport etc... So I actually think its really important if you dont know who Tom Murphy is but if you know the Do The Math blog […]
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November 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
This video podcast interview of Tom Murphy is pretty interesting. Its two parts and really they dont say much new to me in the first part. Its developing background and rapport etc... So I actually think its really important if you dont know who Tom Murphy is but if you know the Do The Math blog […]