Jacob Farkas
@jacob.mastodon.farktronix.com.ap.brid.gy
I have discovered a truly marvelous proof, which 140 characters is too short to contain.
Currently full time dad. Previously built CloudKit and iPhone […]
🌉 bridged from https://mastodon.farktronix.com/@jacob on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/
Currently full time dad. Previously built CloudKit and iPhone […]
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I was able to bring back to life one of my favorite bots, @harvardsentences
It posts one phonetically balanced sentence a day.
It posts one phonetically balanced sentence a day.
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FFS. For the first time, non-citizens will be charged a hefty surcharge to enter US national parks (an extra $100/person, and annual passes for noncitizens will cost $250 instead of $80).
Our national parks are absolute jewels, and a significant contributor […]
[Original post on federate.social]
Our national parks are absolute jewels, and a significant contributor […]
[Original post on federate.social]
November 26, 2025 at 12:20 AM
FFS. For the first time, non-citizens will be charged a hefty surcharge to enter US national parks (an extra $100/person, and annual passes for noncitizens will cost $250 instead of $80).
Our national parks are absolute jewels, and a significant contributor […]
[Original post on federate.social]
Our national parks are absolute jewels, and a significant contributor […]
[Original post on federate.social]
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I saw that last week and it made me very sad that my favorite inexplicable crash urban legend turns out to be false https://infosec.exchange/@neilmadden/115567211427547874
Neil Madden (@neilmadden@infosec.exchange)
“Our error logs cover 2000 billion MB-hours for the MareNostrum 3 supercomputer and 135 million MB-hours for the Mont-Blanc prototype. Our analysis combines quantitative analysis, formal statistical methods and machine learning. We detect no indications that cosmic rays have any influence on the DRAM errors.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.16487v1
infosec.exchange
November 17, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I saw that last week and it made me very sad that my favorite inexplicable crash urban legend turns out to be false https://infosec.exchange/@neilmadden/115567211427547874
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I don't know how how it happened that this is how I found this out.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/us/politics/alaska-phone-voting-anchorage.html
No one who understands the problem space thinks this is a good idea.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/us/politics/alaska-phone-voting-anchorage.html
No one who understands the problem space thinks this is a good idea.
November 15, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I don't know how how it happened that this is how I found this out.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/us/politics/alaska-phone-voting-anchorage.html
No one who understands the problem space thinks this is a good idea.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/us/politics/alaska-phone-voting-anchorage.html
No one who understands the problem space thinks this is a good idea.
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So much this. This is my experience as well—I knew I wanted to be a girl when I was very young—and this is why it's so important to support trans kids. The science fully supports them, and we should too. Fight back against the propaganda; it's from the same people who claim climate change is a […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
So much this. This is my experience as well—I knew I wanted to be a girl when I was very young—and this is why it's so important to support trans kids. The science fully supports them, and we should too. Fight back against the propaganda; it's from the same people who claim climate change is a […]
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my husband made it so the home assistant voice assistant can use full-on ollama to interpret instructions. then he told it to turn the lights on. it's been explaining its thought process for over five minutes now and the lights are still off.
November 15, 2025 at 1:06 AM
my husband made it so the home assistant voice assistant can use full-on ollama to interpret instructions. then he told it to turn the lights on. it's been explaining its thought process for over five minutes now and the lights are still off.
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If you make or use software, read this. There will always be bugs.
https://chaos.social/@ez/115513437034818530
https://chaos.social/@ez/115513437034818530
Elizabeth Zagroba (@ez@chaos.social)
“You desire something that doesn’t exist.” @maaikees@sw-development-is.social https://www.maaikebrinkhof.nl/why-didnt-testing-find-this-issue-because-you-desire-something-that-doesnt-exist/
chaos.social
November 9, 2025 at 12:24 AM
If you make or use software, read this. There will always be bugs.
https://chaos.social/@ez/115513437034818530
https://chaos.social/@ez/115513437034818530
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Try my new file format, OCSV: Oxford Comma Separated Values
November 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Try my new file format, OCSV: Oxford Comma Separated Values
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@jacob Supposedly here: https://fidoalliance.org/9to5mac-apple-work-passkey-portability-is-finally-here-in-ios-26-and-macos-tahoe-26/
fidoalliance.org
October 16, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I love passkeys but 1Password's browser integration with Safari is so broken that I've stopped upgrading to passkeys on websites that offer them.
I guess it's time to migrate everything to the Apple Passwords app. Is passkey migration even possible, or do I need to just set up a new one for […]
I guess it's time to migrate everything to the Apple Passwords app. Is passkey migration even possible, or do I need to just set up a new one for […]
Original post on mastodon.farktronix.com
mastodon.farktronix.com
October 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I love passkeys but 1Password's browser integration with Safari is so broken that I've stopped upgrading to passkeys on websites that offer them.
I guess it's time to migrate everything to the Apple Passwords app. Is passkey migration even possible, or do I need to just set up a new one for […]
I guess it's time to migrate everything to the Apple Passwords app. Is passkey migration even possible, or do I need to just set up a new one for […]
My kids were asking when they could have their own iPhones and I got to use “when I was younger and I wanted an iPhone I had to build one myself!”
October 9, 2025 at 2:53 PM
My kids were asking when they could have their own iPhones and I got to use “when I was younger and I wanted an iPhone I had to build one myself!”
We listened to a podcast where they mentioned cooking lasagna in the dishwasher and the kids HAD to try it, so now this is happening
October 7, 2025 at 11:04 PM
We listened to a podcast where they mentioned cooking lasagna in the dishwasher and the kids HAD to try it, so now this is happening
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Thanks to my hardware store. New insult unlocked.
October 7, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Thanks to my hardware store. New insult unlocked.
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hey wanna see something kinda interesting? this was the entire fix to the iPhone Antennagate in 2010. 20 bytes.
(this is going to be a very long thread 🧵)
(this is going to be a very long thread 🧵)
October 7, 2025 at 12:43 AM
hey wanna see something kinda interesting? this was the entire fix to the iPhone Antennagate in 2010. 20 bytes.
(this is going to be a very long thread 🧵)
(this is going to be a very long thread 🧵)
This is the one thing I’ve been waiting to do since I’ve gotten the receipt printer.
October 1, 2025 at 1:20 AM
This is the one thing I’ve been waiting to do since I’ve gotten the receipt printer.
I found a cheap receipt printer on Amazon so I upgraded the kid’s label printer to a mini newspaper.
September 30, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I found a cheap receipt printer on Amazon so I upgraded the kid’s label printer to a mini newspaper.
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Random childhood anecdote, posted as individual toot in order to not derail some random joke post about kids these days not being into non-Euclidean geometry:
I have three siblings, spaced two years apart each. All three of us went to the same high school. My youngest sister's math teacher […]
I have three siblings, spaced two years apart each. All three of us went to the same high school. My youngest sister's math teacher […]
Original post on infosec.exchange
infosec.exchange
September 28, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Random childhood anecdote, posted as individual toot in order to not derail some random joke post about kids these days not being into non-Euclidean geometry:
I have three siblings, spaced two years apart each. All three of us went to the same high school. My youngest sister's math teacher […]
I have three siblings, spaced two years apart each. All three of us went to the same high school. My youngest sister's math teacher […]
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It would be disturbing enough if Kimmel's show had been pulled (at the FCC's behest, no less) for speaking ill of Charlie Kirk. But the monologue wasn't even about Kirk. It was about the hypocrisy and opportunism of those using Kirk's murder to advance a right-wing narrative.
Comedy can be a […]
Comedy can be a […]
Original post on federate.social
federate.social
September 18, 2025 at 1:11 AM
It would be disturbing enough if Kimmel's show had been pulled (at the FCC's behest, no less) for speaking ill of Charlie Kirk. But the monologue wasn't even about Kirk. It was about the hypocrisy and opportunism of those using Kirk's murder to advance a right-wing narrative.
Comedy can be a […]
Comedy can be a […]
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Today's decision being heavily criticized by Past Brendan Carr
September 18, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Today's decision being heavily criticized by Past Brendan Carr
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The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?
September 15, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?
Did you know they’ll let you just print whatever you want on your checks?
September 16, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Did you know they’ll let you just print whatever you want on your checks?
My latest fun side project is a label maker that prints out the school lunch menu and today's weather for my kids.
September 13, 2025 at 7:03 AM
My latest fun side project is a label maker that prints out the school lunch menu and today's weather for my kids.
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my body is a machine that turns ten minutes early into five minutes late
September 12, 2025 at 3:25 PM
my body is a machine that turns ten minutes early into five minutes late
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September 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
If you pay for the most expensive tier of Quickbooks Online at $275 a month they'll finally let you batch import your transactions from a .csv file.
I entered a single simple transaction on one row just to test it out because I wanted to check if it would duplicate the customer or find a match […]
I entered a single simple transaction on one row just to test it out because I wanted to check if it would duplicate the customer or find a match […]
Original post on mastodon.farktronix.com
mastodon.farktronix.com
September 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
If you pay for the most expensive tier of Quickbooks Online at $275 a month they'll finally let you batch import your transactions from a .csv file.
I entered a single simple transaction on one row just to test it out because I wanted to check if it would duplicate the customer or find a match […]
I entered a single simple transaction on one row just to test it out because I wanted to check if it would duplicate the customer or find a match […]