Dan Lyke 18:36:16+0000 (2025-06-30)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)

Trying to find tips to get crispier friend polenta, and find a recipe suggesting "3 minutes on each side", and... If you're publishing bullshit like that on the web, you're a psychopath and should be removed from society until you find a way to atone.

Dan Lyke 06:30:04+0000 (2025-06-30)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)

The utter fucking incompetence of modern web developers today, from Petco putting me into an infinite redirect loop, to Michael's making autofill of my address completely screwy, drives me insane. Developers who blindly adopt JavaScript frameworks should be thrashed.

Dan Lyke 05:56:19+0000 (2025-06-30)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)

And another shot by Hank Winkenwerder of square dancers last night at Foggy City

Dan Lyke 05:55:01+0000 (2025-06-30)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)

Hank Winkenwerder for this picture of me calling for the Foggy City square dance last night

Dan Lyke 03:38:36+0000 (2025-06-30)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)

It's been roughly Covid time since my Asus Zenbook stopped charging and they wanted more to repair it than it cost, and I've been getting along with the work MacBook Pros, but I just provisioned a hand-me-down Dell with Mint Linux, and being back on a real environment is a huge breath of fresh air. Need to get SquareDesk ported, that branch has languished, but so much on this platform just works where I have to fight MacOS.

Dan Lyke 01:19:15+0000 (2025-06-30)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)

Sigh. Looks like this year or so old Debian USB image isn't picking up the wifi on this new to me in Dell. Any one got opinions on a modern Linux? I mostly just wanna do SquareDesk dev and other random hacking on it. Maybe ClawsMail so I'm using an email client that doesn't suck again.

Dan Lyke 08:21:10+0000 (2025-06-29)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)

I think the last time my legs were this tired, is walked 36 miles. Danced checker at the Sunnyvale caller workshop all day, then called 3 hour square dance for Foggy City dancers in SF. Feels good, in a feels bad sort of way.

Dan Lyke 18:27:21+0000 (2025-06-27)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)

Karl Joost got a group picture with Helen at Circle 'n Squares last night, 98 years old, who came to square dance with us one last time.

Dan Lyke 07:21:38+0000 (2025-06-27)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)

Guest at Circle 'n Squares tonight, Helen, 98 years old, who wanted to square dance one last time. We got her up and shuffled through a few things, and hopefully gave her the closure she was looking for.

Dan Lyke 02:31:58+0000 (2025-06-26)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2326,-122.64)

Turns out I might be a bit of a hypocrite, because if we could take the thugs who are currently working for ICE and repurpose them to drag speeding motorists in my neighborhood from their cars and abduct them to secret prisons where they'd be subjected to indefinite detention in unspeakable living conditions...

Dan Lyke 21:47:10+0000 (2025-06-25)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/0) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)

Fixing image upload again

Dan Lyke 21:46:33+0000 (2025-06-25)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/0) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)

Fixing image upload

Dan Lyke 21:45:32+0000 (2025-06-25)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/0) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)

Fixing image uploaded

Dan Lyke 21:43:11+0000 (2025-06-25)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/0) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)

Fixing image uploaded

Dan Lyke 19:56:56+0000 (2025-06-25)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)

Hi, yes, I'm logged in to this platform that supports hardware that I've spent tens of thousands of dollars to acquire, do you think maybe we could dispense with the fucking "accept cookies" banner every time I load the page?

Dan Lyke 18:47:47+0000 (2025-06-25)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)

Really feel like people making Luddite parallels between the Jacquard loom and AI are massively over-promoting the capabilities of LLMs.

Dan Lyke 18:31:02+0000 (2025-06-25)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)

Figuring out provisioning profiles for profiling in XCode is my second favorite activity in MacOS, right behind library and tool management because this platform doesn't have a fucking package manager. #WhatMilleniumIsThis #MacOS #IWantToWorkInARealOS

Dan Lyke 23:05:26+0000 (2025-06-24)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)

I can't tell I should ironically laugh that the shysters who sold us all cryptocurrency and blockchain are now telling us they're judges of what "intelligence" is, or if it's an indication that, yeah, AI really is smarter than the rubes these people have taken in.

Dan Lyke 20:36:54+0000 (2025-06-24)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)

Oh dear. Since the NYT bought Wordle, and Queerdle started looping, I've fallen off the daily games wagon. https://www.timdle.com/daily might get me back on, order the historical events correctly...

Dan Lyke 20:15:08+0000 (2025-06-23)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)

Thinking about low poly count driving games that involved terrorizing a fictional San Francisco (the "Rush" franchise, Crazy Taxi, etc) and wondering if we can draw any lines to current the horrors that the automated speed ticketing traffic cameras are revealing.

Dan Lyke 18:15:04+0000 (2025-06-23)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)

Pretty sure that development software vendors are putting in tweaky little bullshit anti-patterns in order to make us think learning the quirks makes us experts in their particular widget sets and further lock-in. Looking at Qt's Maintenance Tool in particular... (This GUI app could have been a command-line).

Dan Lyke 15:58:27+0000 (2025-06-23)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)

I do the cat water right before bed, and in one room it's got lots of food bits. I've joked that one of them is part raccoon. Last night Charlene stayed up late to finish a project, about 1AM I hear a frantic "Honey?", and. Apparently the raccoon is smarter than our RFID cat door. Sigh.

Dan Lyke 04:38:12+0000 (2025-06-23)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)

The homemade tortilla press is getting some pretty good results.

Dan Lyke 23:14:52+0000 (2025-06-22)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)

The chaser is Meta's AI completely missing the guillotine part of the heart-hole guillotine stained glass pendant.

Dan Lyke 23:13:47+0000 (2025-06-22)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)

The shot is Meta's "AI" offering to explain the heart-hole guillotine stained glass pendant.

Dan Lyke 18:42:28+0000 (2025-06-22)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)

Fixing Fair St at Douglas St #4

Dan Lyke 18:34:06+0000 (2025-06-22)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/0) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)

Ely Blvd S at Lakeville Apt has a bench.

Dan Lyke 18:32:23+0000 (2025-06-22)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/0) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)

Lakeville at Frates Rd. Pad is 11'2" deep, very long

Dan Lyke 18:30:36+0000 (2025-06-22)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/0) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)

South McDowell at Corporate Circle, wide spot (excluding the bulge where the storm drain is) is 66", elsewhere 59". Parking lot adjacent said the area is under video surveillance.

Dan Lyke 18:28:13+0000 (2025-06-22)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)

S McDowell at Cader Ln NB.Wide section 71.5" (grass overlaps concrete by a few inches) narrow is 3'9".

Dan Lyke 18:25:49+0000 (2025-06-22)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/0) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)

Eli Boulevard at Washington Creek. Sidewalk is 6', bridge another 44". 92" to ivy, 13'3" total.

Dan Lyke 18:23:47+0000 (2025-06-22)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/0) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)

Sonoma Mountain Parkway at Maria Drive. 5' sidewalk. Pad is 14'10" total, 92" on wide end, 80" on narrow end, storm drain clean out is 58x47.

Dan Lyke 18:20:49+0000 (2025-06-22)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/0) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)

Petaluma Blvd N at Cherry, in front of Mi Pueblo. Sidewalk is 78", have seen people riding bikes on the sidewalk because the road here is so high speed.

Dan Lyke 18:17:58+0000 (2025-06-22)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/0) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)

Western Ave at N Fair, sign post is 67" to water meter edge. House number is 750 Western Ave

Dan Lyke 18:15:56+0000 (2025-06-22)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/0) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)

Wide shot, 111" sidewalk width.

Dan Lyke 18:13:42+0000 (2025-06-22)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/0) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)

Fair St at Douglas St another wide shot by George's front yard.

Dan Lyke 18:13:00+0000 (2025-06-22)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/0) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)

Fair St at Douglas St benches on the high school side.

Dan Lyke 18:10:18+0000 (2025-06-22)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/0) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)

Picture of Fair St at Douglas St, 75.5" sidewalk, some of the furniture in the sidewalk, and bamboo in the flowerbeds, presumably to help keep high school students from standing in them.

Dan Lyke 18:08:02+0000 (2025-06-22)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/0) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)

Picture of Fair St at Douglas St, 75.5" sidewalk

Dan Lyke 17:24:48+0000 (2025-06-22)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2348,-122.594)

I'm out doing location scouting of bus stops for a little "good trouble", and I'm seeing parts of the city that I've only driven by in the past. I would love to know how many people actually visit this park. Walking half a mile along high speed roads to sit at this bench at a major intersection...

Dan Lyke 02:12:45+0000 (2025-06-22)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2251,-122.628)

More people should interact with developmentally disabled adults, it'd give perspective to that entirely committed to happily saying things that may or may not be completely false with charming earnestness thing that LLMs do.

Dan Lyke 00:43:24+0000 (2025-06-21)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)

Hang on a sec, lemme grab my random axe of kindness.

Dan Lyke 17:26:51+0000 (2025-06-20)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)

Thinking more about LLMs being compute analogous to calculators, except for arithmetic they're for language and thinking. And how we react to the yutes who can't make change without a cash register to calculate it for them, and how this trend is going to go.

Dan Lyke 05:54:10+0000 (2025-06-19)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)

How come there's June bugs, but not J to me bees? 'cause there's maybes...

Dan Lyke 22:55:39+0000 (2025-06-18)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2344,-122.641)

Petition to help the opposition proofread spelling....

Dan Lyke 21:06:34+0000 (2025-06-18)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)

I'm on the Grocery Outlet specials email list, and sometimes reading the item titles gives me giggles. This week's entrant: "Applaws Tuna Crab Wet Cat". I mean, I can figure out what it is, but...

Dan Lyke 06:08:50+0000 (2025-06-18)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2248,-122.628)

So if Petaluma PD can't find a way to prosecute this dude, does that mean we as pedestrians get to use deadly force against motorists who infringe on. Our spaces? I'm about ready to go *off* on red light runners at Kentucky and Washington...

Dan Lyke 05:40:11+0000 (2025-06-18)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)

Sitting here thinking about how, in order to fix my scanner, I tried several Ubuntu ftpd packages, and eventually ended up fixing the proftpd config so it didn't crash on attempted start. And how these things used to just work. And what we've given up for all of this "flexibility".

Dan Lyke 19:37:02+0000 (2025-06-17)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)

Trying to reconcile my feeling that computers are like calculators, and we should learn to use them as such, and LLMs are like automated religious experiences. Prompts are like prayers, bad output is "you're asking wrong" or "the Lord works in mysterious ways".

Dan Lyke 19:18:35+0000 (2025-06-17)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)

The hard part about working with AI believers is trying to come up with prompts that give outputs that don't look totally stupid so that I can say "yeah, here's the process you wanted me to AI-ify". I think this may be related to me reading fairly fast, that I've yet to have a "summary" or analysis of text come out of an LLM that was generated faster than I read, and in any way a meaningful representation of what I think the salient points of the document were.