the hex is silent professional source code complainer, Pwnie Awards 2014 Best Song, will decipher ancient writing systems for free Access to Odin photos is a privilege contingent on not being the reason I’m regretting the internet today. English: native; Nederlands: nog niet helemaal vloeiend; 中文:走马观花 Amsterdam pronouns: she/her
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Last Notes npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea after reading That rust PR, I can see what they were *trying* to say, but if you lead your big controversial post with “comments raising ethical or legal concerns will be moderated, technical concerns only” then absolutely the only thing anyone is going to talk about is the alarming ethical and legal concern they now have npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea The ISP says if they can't get access to every hookup in the building then nobody is getting fiber. npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea okay enjoy your block for being a creep npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea so it turns out that when VS Code asks you “do you trust the authors of this folder?” what they mean is that it’ll auto-execute .vscode/tasks.json if it exists, which can include shell commands. maybe that’s too many features. you can’t hold all these features. put a few features back npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea my husband tried to look up how much his consumer video card weighs and Google's AI confidently informed him it contains eleven pounds of gold. well, I can believe that its own video card contains eleven pounds of something... npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea Usually, I give Odin a shower once a week, and the shower stall becomes a square meter of Amsterdam soil. We missed last week's shower, but there's been so many new fresh layers of snow this last week that Odin has repeatedly gotten a mini-bath and also made basically no contact with the actual ground. There was no mud in the shower at all a very shleepy boy attached #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/871/997/246/635/508/original/16706b994e076fae.jpeg npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea Internet Ethics Corner with Abadidea: There is an important difference between lists of things you think are good and lists of things you think are bad. There is a PROFOUND difference when the list is of people or groups of people by name. Putting specific real people on ideological sinner lists gets them and their families unemployed, homeless, assaulted and killed. This is not a joke. This is not an exaggeration. That is the function and purpose of a list of people you have decided are Bad. You think you’re doing the right thing. But the right thing is to uplift what you think is good and admirable, not to paint a target on the backs of every random stranger who falls even an inch short of your personal definition of perfection. Those people aren’t you, they did not sign up for your ideological newsletter, and you are not their judge, jury and executioner. The Nuremberg Trials are an appropriate use case for a list of bad people. Your ongoing social media argument is not. npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea mother, why are these uncozy objects upon your bed? … yesh … that’s better … perfect #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/870/465/648/662/441/original/6da3b8e6572c50fb.jpeg https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/870/465/900/942/533/original/b5d48ac76bd7ce7a.jpeg https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/870/466/173/995/163/original/5397ba8d98615f85.jpeg https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/870/466/427/531/041/original/d6a123af60f5ab99.jpeg npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea today's unsolicited business opportunity: "we're blending real-life interactions with Web3 by minting NFTs from real meetings." You have innovated an entirely new way to make meetings miserable, may the gods have no mercy on your soul npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea busy two-year-old baby boy #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/866/098/406/907/691/original/8269299c133f6dc5.jpeg https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/866/099/567/996/792/original/89c31fdcff690a93.jpeg https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/866/099/832/571/834/original/fa1d48dd3586bf52.jpeg npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea okay, you can see what I have so far of the Analects translation here. https://xn--hmr.net/classicalchinese/analects/ I am aware that the site theme is currently rather jank on mobile. #classicalchinese #translation #localization #philosophy https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/860/997/542/693/112/original/acc46c3d581fcbf8.png npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea I have my baby back and IT’S HIS BIRTHDAY ODIN IS TWO YEARS OLD !!!! #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #birthday #birthdayboy https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/859/746/706/442/261/original/e0dfb085e62ffeac.jpeg https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/859/747/064/301/531/original/5514515438cf9acc.jpeg npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea finished translating the second chapter of the Analects. I should probably go ahead and get the website up soon and not insist that it's completely finished first. #classicalchinese #translation #localization #philosophy https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/859/030/496/714/346/original/f4e21630c64254ab.png https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/859/034/563/142/493/original/e338ebd00f27a16e.png npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea it has been 0️⃣ days since the definitionally 100% foreseeable event of a certificate expiration caused a minor disaster if your logitech mouse stopped working today on macintosh, you need to manually download and install a fix for the dead certificate. https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/07/logitech-certificate-breaks-macos-apps/ npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea the shaming of the James Legge translation of the Analects will continue until morale improves (good translations my own 😌 ) #classicalchinese #translation #localization #philosophy https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/853/650/434/813/768/original/05a5c8b313c8c8e8.png https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/853/650/822/664/069/original/a4b485d48e3a8ee8.png https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/853/661/991/313/871/original/45b6b1583d933930.png https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/853/670/031/251/441/original/e3e9df2e3fe47092.png npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea got sent an unsolicited message like "hey do you know how to reverse engineer on macos?" yes I do and the fact that you clearly work at an AI spamming (sorry, "messaging") startup with a 20yo ceo leads me to reverse engineer that this is a suspicious situation npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea Amsterdam is now on day three of societal meltdown due to upwards of two inches of snow I knew they’d be less prepared than Boston but this is worse than I anticipated. #amsterdam #netherlands npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea Odin on a winter adventure in Amstelveen #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #amstelveen https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/849/324/176/393/088/original/bca38957486b004c.jpeg https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/849/324/780/826/400/original/a134dbc03c7ff80f.jpeg npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea We went to check on Odin while the mold exterminators work. He is so incredibly relieved we still exist after not seeing us for almost 24 hours. He’ll spend another night with my in-laws before he’s cleared to come back after the cleaning. #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/848/415/978/140/252/original/23e503ff2e7920f3.jpeg npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea Now that's style. https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/05/hacktivist-deletes-white-supremacist-websites-live-on-stage-during-hacker-conference/ npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea Hardly an hour ago, the sky was clear and the snow was melting; I thought it was over. But it’s snowing like CRAZY right now. #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #snow #amsterdam https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/843/503/728/341/013/original/f44235c2d6c9f54d.jpeg https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/843/504/141/557/800/original/6e37bc131036efec.jpeg npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea SNOWDIN 2: SNOW HARDER this is the perfect snow; crisp and fluffy, deep enough to play in but not deep enough to be a huge problem. Odin found it a lot more fun than a light dusting. it also stuck to the back of his legs by the metric ton. #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #snow #amsterdam #netherlands https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/842/060/013/060/428/original/8e3def76ceec1a4d.jpeg https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/842/060/736/769/019/original/68e96e24bde5e39d.jpeg npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea *sigh* several weeks ago, I tried to view something on Harvard University's rare manuscript site ("Curiosity Collections"), but the images were all broken. Digging into the javascript console, I found that the images are not missing from the server if you extract their URLs, but the json is being put together wrong and the viewer can't parse it. I sent an email to the site's contact person with all the info I had. They were apologetic and said their maintainers were "aware" of the issue, but the vague reason they gave me (a VPN issue) doesn't make a lot of sense in the context that the images are all loadable if you know their URL and the viewer is crashing in a json parsing function. So I suspect someone told the contact person a plausible-sounding reason without investigating. At the very least, they don't seem to be trying at all to fix it. So the rare manuscripts website of a world-major university has been languishing broken for several weeks at minimum, but who knows how long it'd been like that before I, personally, noticed. I guess this is a "state of American education" post. npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea a small puppy the size of a very large puppy #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/836/270/655/465/026/original/de0a16f08872c72f.jpeg https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/836/270/924/772/105/original/baad711d0770e7fb.jpeg npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea new weather unlocked: it’s snowing hard but I can also clearly see the full moon in the blue sky. npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea This is the most snow I’ve seen since moving to the Netherlands four years ago. Odin barely seems aware of the difference #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #snow #amsterdam https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/830/540/789/313/788/original/9b276f5a9ad1a50f.jpeg https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/830/541/587/574/616/original/711ad8f7ec9b0750.jpeg npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea every day, innocent dogs like Odin are deprived of the chance to eat mommy’s pizza. Open your heart, heal the world, give Odin an entire pizza #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/826/355/152/746/375/original/b31b740ebeb866f8.jpeg npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea critically important update: SNOWDIN #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #snow #amsterdam https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/825/017/832/262/427/original/7de7121e82aae2fe.jpeg npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea ugh. I, personally, survived Amsterdam’s last war on itself. But the Vondelkerk, one of our historical churches, did not. I’m really upset about this. npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea psychology literature on autism is all so cringe. "90% of autistic people are men" 100% of us can't believe you've fallen for this self-fulfilling diagnostic issue. ... and 90% of us wear striped knee socks. "a few autistic people are so high-functioning that they even manage to hold down a job" we are holding down the entire science and tech economy, Clarence. "a defining characteristic of autism is a lack of desire to share interests with others and a deficiency in theory of mind" I think the issue might be that you have never once spoken to a single autistic person as if YOU possess theory of mind, Karen. Now, the doors have been locked for your convenience, and my six hour presentation on obscure writing systems may commence. npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea Odin definitely wired and screwed this arcade fight stick together all by himself, it didn’t take mommy and daddy six hours at all #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/815/550/359/826/133/original/7d1224e6108f854d.jpeg npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea There’s a looooot of posts going around about stuff going missing at the Congress this year. So I think you should assume from now on that it’s big and well-known enough to attract professional thieves, alas. #39c3 npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea no-one's quite sure what this Western Zhou art piece *is,* but so many people said "are you sure it's not a wifi router?" that the Anhui Museum installed a working wifi access point named "Western Zhou Router" in its display case. source https://www.chinanews.com.cn/cul/2025/12-01/10524970.shtml h/t @npub1g2v…fuxh https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/808/709/115/903/546/original/be27efb5c8a70208.png npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea “secret” and “secrete”are both derived from a word meaning “to separate, set apart.” A common Mandarin word for “secret” is 密 mì, and there is also a word for “secrete” 泌 mì (note the shared 必 phonetic component in the characters, indicating they were also pronounced very similarly thousands of years ago; the dots on the left side of 泌 mean water whereas in 密, the phonetic component is enclosed between a roof and a mountain). I find it fascinating when completely unrelated languages converge on the same subtly interwoven concepts. #linguistics #chinese npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea An old gentleman on the street told me he’d get Odin a treat and proceeded to open a random mailbox (maybe his? maybe not!) stuffed full with a bucket of dog treats npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea TIL that the ancient Chinese invented the French name "Antoine" centuries before French even existed as a distinct concept https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/802/441/941/634/844/original/c671db83e1f4e22d.png npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea while we were out walking, my husband accepted a radiant quest to help a family get a potted tree into their trailer. Odin sat and patiently waited until the exact moment the task was accomplished, and then jumped on everyone. npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea no ham detected / ham detected #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/798/680/103/758/930/original/c75f169b0bbe7647.jpeg https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/798/680/472/423/407/original/5f8994f70af1e112.jpeg npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea I'm just making a note of this because I'm old enough to remember and a lot of people aren't – I saw someone claim that Google stole the name Chrome "from Firefox's internals", which makes no sense. Back in the early 2000s, "chrome" was common programmer slang for "user interface". Like in general. Any user interface at all was "the chrome." I have no doubt Firefox's older source code refers to it as chrome, because I'm pretty sure I was referring to UI as "chrome" in my own university homework assignments at the time. The term became much less common after Google Chrome launched because it became too confusing. Google's own claim is that the name was inspired by sports cars, and the programmers found it funny because having less "chrome" in the UI sense was an explicit goal. Whether that's true or not: they definitely didn't spitefully steal some secret Firefox codeword??? The above post is not to be construed under any circumstances as general approval of Google and everything they have ever done ever, and anyone yelling at me about how I'm a bad member of their religion because I said this SPECIFIC accusation is ahistorical will be blocked to the moon and back. npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea Mario Kart: what? “tutorial”? do you… do you not know how to play Mario Kart? does no-one in your family love you? Kirby Air Rider: we have prepared a series of 31 videos to explain the basic mechanics, and strongly recommend you peruse them in their entirety before you go off pressing any buttons like a fool. There WILL be a test. npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea Now that we’re home, we were able to dig up a provisional leash that surely will last a few days until we can get a heavy-duty one. And I think I’ll institute a policy of replacing it every year for Christmas, because “it’ll last your dog’s whole life” wasn’t measured against Odins The two days of not being able to use his halter were difficult because he wasn’t getting his usual sensory feedback and wasn’t aware of how much harder he was pulling me around. #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/790/892/759/972/210/original/04db5ff170f258a2.jpeg npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea Odin and his attendant humans have survived another rugged journey from one corner of the nation to the other and back. If you are impressed, please don’t ask which nation npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea Public Transport Odin: very crowded Dutch train filled with foreign children on winter vacation edition He’s snoozing in the aisle between people’s legs, there’s no room anywhere else. There’s another dog in this cabin shoved under a seat. #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #trains #publictransport https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/787/318/937/210/122/original/792026f8fd4e1028.jpeg npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea hard mode: getting texts in Dutch very hard mode: getting texts not in textbook Dutch but Limburgs iron man 1HP hard mode: as typed by a great grampa who never quite got the hang of these new phone thingies npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea I think today is the first time Odin has ever experienced meaningfully below-freezing weather. He is, of course, lying on the grass with no inclination to come inside npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea There is a (human) baby at this gathering and I have now learned that “baby shark” is not merely a song but an extended cinematic universe of dozens of minor variations of the same song of such profound extent as to constitute a religion npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea A Dutch TV station is running a show where they sent their legal team to bat to get visas for people from Iran, Tanzania, Bolivia etc so they could be reunited with friends and family in NL for Christmas. An utter condemnation of the cruelty of the immigration system, but “oh yeah we need an entertainment visa for them, we’re gonna put them on TV!” is a good hack if you have the power to do that npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea Well, an auspicious start to the day took a turn when Odin’s leash snapped, in the middle of a city near train tracks, while we were traveling away from home, on the one day of the year every shop in the country is closed. However, we were able to convince him that he had to sit down immediately and it wasn’t playtime on the train tracks. This double-knot on his collar (not his halter) will have to do for a few days. #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/779/058/618/406/390/original/3e19b3f9a96c4e04.jpeg npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea I have finished the HSK4 vocabulary list (the minimum proficiency level to be allowed to apply as a foreigner to a Chinese university in a non-literary subject such as computer science or math) on Christmas morning 🎄🎄🎄 when I started learning Chinese, I thought I’d be satisfied with HSK3 level. But now I won’t be satisfied until I qualify as an eminent scholar of Classical Chinese npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea I accidentally had a Vampire Survivor run so good that I stopped playing at 14 minutes to let the timer run out and the game started dramatically stuttering at 28 minutes. Apparently my best weapon did 1.6 *squint* gillion damage #vampiresurvivors https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/775/889/728/969/285/original/d3a5f16b6b48c227.png https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/775/889/724/435/629/original/fa38a1ddc827f9b3.png npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea a sound-on Odin holiday special #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/770/881/167/946/109/original/223aafb8c55e8340.mp4 npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea Odin has determined the exact boundary at which he is not interfering with a chore and laid his nose upon it #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/769/548/880/669/299/original/53c1cf421df14df2.jpeg npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea I've heard anecdotal reports of computer repair places "accidentally" breaking the ram and refunding the customer the catalogue price from six months ago, presumably to feed it into machines of more important corporate customers... so we're already at the scavenging-to-survive stage of AI economic collapse :lolsob: npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea it might be a sign I'm too patient with weird randos in my mentions when they get nuked by the admins based on others' reports while I'm still in the middle of composing a reply 😂 npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea just as a little pro-tip for being a considerate help recipient, I’ve found that IT service people are quite happy when you use the exact words “resolved, you can close the ticket” npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea when Odin doesn’t want to get up and go outside, he’ll half heartedly brace his paws against me like “nooo”… we really had to harass him into getting up tonight, and then once the walk was over he didn’t want to come back inside. #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/759/826/671/855/991/original/25205b9e8089438d.jpeg https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/759/827/387/288/241/original/d846ca198966d462.jpeg https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/759/827/864/965/654/original/288503db8c325ad0.jpeg https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/759/828/099/531/031/original/43f9533d76d67f4d.jpeg npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea just as a general interest fyi, some of the NIST timeservers have failed due to an extended power outage in Boulder, Colorado. Someone here probably has an interesting enough job to suffer knock-on effects. https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/g/internet-time-service/c/o0dDDcr1a8I interestingly, the outages reported this year, or indeed the last two or three years, on that mailing list are heavily clustered in the last few weeks. npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea It is very foggy today and we are giving the few other park-goers the “leviathan emerging from the mists” experience (the leviathan wants cuddles) #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/751/578/146/238/222/original/57568989adb94fa3.jpeg https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/751/578/854/291/553/original/c3d573a69a29ad2d.jpeg https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/751/579/374/287/573/original/9e0d5aa40294732b.jpeg npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea I've noticed this is a common point of confusion, so for the record, the EU's USB-C charging law does not in any way prohibit other charging methods. It only mandates that if there are any ports on the thing at all, at least one of them better be friggin' USB-C npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea so, yesterday your local badidea had a "nervous system cut out for a moment there" incident and shattered her macbook pro. I was horrified and furious with myself beyond belief, but the good news is that a helpful young man at The Phone Lab in Gelderlandplein, Amsterdam resurrected it with OEM parts in just under 24 hours. A little ship of theseus'd, but the motherboard survived. (He kindly transplanted my lid stickers for me, though now they're upside-down...) I apparently dropped it so hard that it woke up thinking today was April Fool's Day in either 2021 or 2027. #amsterdam https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/747/304/695/022/640/original/4bef8194ee0929b4.jpeg npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea the entire field of linguistics is an elaborate prank #linguistics https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/745/894/450/428/329/original/6de3b1f8a1c13e44.png npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea A boy who has no idea what a good job he does deflecting creeps from mommy’s personal space, who is presently being paid in popcorn. #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/741/772/055/677/564/original/fbf80ea849406fcc.jpeg npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea In a twist that made me feel like the victim of a prank camera, the only man in Amsterdam who has ever harassed me showed up at the mall and sat at the next bench down from me. Odin was a puppy when that happened, but he clearly recognized him and wanted to play with him, as he doesn’t understand not everyone mommy talks to is a nice man. However, the man took studious note of the fact that Odin is no longer a puppy but the biggest, strongest dog in Amsterdam, and pretended not to perceive us. npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea I am having a very bad day for reasons implied by the Apple-certified laptop repair shop in the background of this photo. Odin is having a very good day at the dogs-allowed mall #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/741/417/221/931/930/original/269c9ca93eaa31b0.jpeg npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea I don't mind if your site is doing a stats recap thing, but... please don't announce it by pretending that I have two thousand and twenty-five unread messages. https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/740/370/199/364/439/original/6d61369a27fbf8a3.png npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea our neighborhood and park have been littered with hundreds of small, rugged orange boxes that say DO NOT TOUCH on them. It turns out they’re seismic microphones, and they’re going to be artificially inducing small earthquakes in the park to measure the local ground response. npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea the mighty sleeve-eater #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/736/753/685/626/598/original/76eae8c4ce0fe49b.jpeg https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/736/753/942/328/413/original/92edac09cabb7408.jpeg npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea in general, it’s because of something like “we have to pay the studio a small fee every year that it stays in the catalogue, and it’s no longer in the top 10 viewed shows in its genre” which means that the way streaming works fundamentally leads to memoryholing on a scale of a few years. npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea Me explaining my role to a coworker: “I’m afraid I don’t touch real physical objects very often.” npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea I had a very Rowling-unapproved dream that Harry Potter broke a curse through technicality by changing pronouns from “he” to “they” npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea Annual New Year's Resolution advice from your local internet auntie who successfully turned around a lot of problems: That list of fourteen resolutions you have? To stop forgetting to brush your teeth, to lose weight, to stay atop your homework? Which ONE SINGLE CHANGE would have the most immediate, day-to-day effect on your mental well-being? What would give you more spoons to tackle the rest? ONE RESOLUTION AT A TIME. If you try to change fourteen things about your life at once, you'll get overwhelmed and give up within a matter of days and convince yourself you're not strong enough to change. But you are; the trick is to change ONE THING AT A TIME and focus on it until it's become easy. If you have something sleep-related on the list... you should probably start there. Sabotaging yourself by staying up late is an extremely common problem among the type of person likely to be reading this post. Learning to Stop Doing That will make sorting out the rest of your life magically so much easier. npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea We took Odin on the tram to the Christmas market. He doesn’t photograph well at night (this was the best photo), but rest assured he got so, so many cuddles from random tourists tipsy on glühwein #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #amsterdam https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/730/550/511/358/054/original/d1bfd1463aa18b00.jpeg npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea I went minorly viral on Bluesky, so just to lay out how this works: my posts are forwarded from mastodon to bluesky by Bridgy, and if you @ me, I can’t reply unless you opt into forwarding on your end by following your version of the Bridgy account. https://fed.brid.gy/docs#bluesky-get-started npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea I think the Dutch government committed a massive own-goal: the problem is that there's too many small, personal orders from China relative to Customs' processing capacity, so they're imposing a 2-euro-per-item processing fee. But: a) it's per item on the package label, not per package, which doesn't incentivize bundling multiple items into one package to reduce waste etc etc; b) it was originally meant to go into effect in 2028, but they suddenly decided to accelerate this. To January 2026. Announced in late November 2025. Meaning that anyone who had orders on the mind was incentivized to order them immediately, in December, the busiest time of the year for packages. npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea He Sleeps Like This. #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/723/775/880/228/688/original/758e2232d5c99bed.jpeg npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea Mommy! Surely those spicy chicken wings are for me? #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/718/808/112/998/461/original/bbb41231ce76c561.jpeg npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea some Dutch words really capture the spirit of the thing better than the English. Why say that Odin flattens me with joy when I come home, when I could say that I am VERPLETTERD npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea I've been working on some explainers about Classical Chinese... nothing ready for public consumption, but I am SUPER pleased with the CSS I whipped up for note callouts (these are using a stickynote clipart from irasutoya) CSS selectors can do a lot of stuff these days that they couldn't when I first learned 20 years ago... https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/713/909/350/693/926/original/b78553624da9b9b2.png npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea The weather machine must be broken — there was real, unfiltered sunlight in Amsterdam in December For a few hours anyway… it was rising in my eyes when we left at 10:30 and it was setting in my eyes when we returned at 12:30 #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #amsterdam https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/712/141/641/884/693/original/b2d3ca6fb3ef522d.jpeg https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/712/142/011/236/033/original/7049d7d658af54d2.jpeg npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea what I said in the US: no problemo 👍 what they say in the Netherlands: geen probleem 👍 what I say in the Netherlands: geeno probleemo 👍 npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea Mother, I’ve seen the photos you insist on posting… #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/705/890/439/342/554/original/a306d78da9f76bc0.jpeg npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea I ordered several books for about $5 each and one of them is being delivered separately from the others by "Oversized delivery services." Very concerned I have made a big mistake npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea good morning to dog #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/700/139/867/692/259/original/cbd5ee5ffa3f2172.jpeg npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea real tired about how The News keeps moving the year ranges that count as “millennial” to force the data to fit whatever narrative they’re currently telling about millennials. It was originally measured from 1981. I just saw a chart that measures from 1990. I was a millennial for 37 years until I saw this chart, apparently. npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea I sought the serif https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/697/114/172/839/259/original/b75169a7a8927beb.png npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea I am very amused to have spotted a random app that consistently misspelled the "--quiet" option (as the opposite of verbose) as "--quite" in both the code and the documentation. quite, my lad! quite indeed! npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea no no I am in fact impressed 🥳 npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea I noticed this ownership seal said "university" so I was like "oh, I wonder which Chinese university this could be, let me look it up" ... Harvard. It says it's from the Harvard University Library. They have an official Chinese seal for stamping their Chinese manuscripts #chinese #classicalchinese https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/686/088/619/345/722/original/c3a24308268321b4.png npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea being subjected to a mandatory corporate training video that wants me to adopt the concept of "kaizen", which means "to change for the better" man, if only English had a word for that! it would really improve our lives. npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea I will not respond to every half-baked rando reply on my viral political post. I will not respond to every half-baked rando reply on my viral political post. I will not— npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea Zuckerberg has blown 77 billion – enough money to revitalize entire countries – on an idea so overwhelmingly, obviously stupid that I have never once heard anyone, from the Thanksgiving avuncular table to the most wretched depths of social media, say they liked it or even tried it. He was so sure that it would revolutionize the world that he renamed his extremely famous company after it. And now he's on to the next thing that he's so very, very sure about. The world needs direction from sober people who aim to improve the human condition, not the whims of a handful of billionaire princelings who absolutely, positively cannot be dissuaded from failing at unprecedented scale while chasing their own vainglory off the edge of a cliff. npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea Big boy plays rough in small room #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/678/592/678/549/108/original/84561531ffe95f60.mp4 npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea I saw this photo on a Dutch news article about the Hong Kong fire without any translation, so my assignment this morning was to understand what they have to say. “STAY ANGRY” “May the dead rest and the survivors heal — hang in there, everyone” “We will not forget; in the end, all will come to light” “The people of Hong Kong swear to expose this injustice against you” you ever look a word up in the dictionary and cry https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/677/226/956/002/563/original/fd827c6c698d1aa1.jpeg npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea I am bothered that I’m not able to spot AI tells in (lower resolution, more compressed, not holding perfectly still) videos as reliably as I can with still images. It’s never my intention to spread AI video without a warning that it’s AI. npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea Odin Gets An Apple #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/674/319/495/590/937/original/680164834802afe2.mp4 npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea my husband got the Silksong true ending with 100% completion. What a magnificent piece of art. This is what a few people can do with a vision and all the time and funding they need to do it right – no compromises. If you weren't really aware of Silksong during the Long Era of Waiting For Silksong but now you're curious: don't attempt it until you've played its predecessor, Hollow Knight (which is also one of the best games ever made). Silksong was originally meant to be an expansion for Hollow Knight and assumes you already have a good grasp of the general mechanics and genre conventions. They are hard games, hard enough that I have to settle for watching my husband because my reflexes aren't great. Also, Hornet is... probably the most culturally successful Female Video Game Protagonist ever, now? #silksong #hollowknight https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/673/682/140/321/361/original/82221690d52a4294.png npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea don’t worry everyone, we made it to the Big Park — and Odin got to see Ponyo the Husky. #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #amsterdam https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/672/349/512/768/412/original/29bdc514e16b2e49.jpeg https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/672/349/887/384/274/original/7781b65945d73fc6.jpeg npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea Odin made almost no sounds at all as a puppy and has slowly been getting more vocal as he gets older: this is his protest that he knows we’re getting ready to go to the Big Park but haven’t left yet #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/671/835/871/884/522/original/cb6ac60e2dc9536e.mp4 npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea well, that was a new one: just got to report an account (yes, on mastodon) for attempting to challenge me to an actual, physical, literal duel to the death (if I offended them, they did not specify this; I think they're just in it for the love of the game) npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f abadidea it is BANDCAMP FRIDAY.