Dan Lyke 15:45:19+0000 (2025-10-21)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)
Foiled on today's https://www.timdle.com/daily by the Tour de France...
Dan Lyke 18:00:18+0000 (2025-10-20)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)
"But Linux is so ugly and hard to use".
Fucking MacOS and "liquid glass". I don't even know where to begin trying to debug this...Dan Lyke 17:28:57+0000 (2025-10-20)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)
Foiled in today's Timdle by both Roger Bannister's breaking of the 4 minute mile, and Montesquieu's "The Spirit of Law".
Dan Lyke 16:26:45+0000 (2025-10-19)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Picture of Charlene and me at yesterday's No Kings rally in Petaluma taken by Suzanne ClarkeDan Lyke 16:26:08+0000 (2025-10-19)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Picture of Charlene and me at yesterday's No Kings rally in Petaluma taken by @d0rid.bsky.socialDan Lyke 21:15:25+0000 (2025-10-18)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2325,-122.639)
My view of the No Kings rally in Petaluma.Dan Lyke 02:32:42+0000 (2025-10-18)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)
"But... The AI agrees with me!"
Dan Lyke 20:52:58+0000 (2025-10-17)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)
Going back through some old bookmarks folders to see if some of the web comics I used to read are still happening.
So many redirects to malicious sites. JavaScript was clearly a mistake.
Dan Lyke 00:57:06+0000 (2025-10-17)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)
The Late Show with Steven Colbert has posted a message from the frog resistance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw5zxdSObso
Dan Lyke 19:58:42+0000 (2025-10-16)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1)
Trying to solve a mystery. When I was growing up in New Lebanon, NY, there was a house on Hand Hollow Rd that had a bunch of mobile sculptures in the yard. It wasn't Anton Milkowski, they were at 3 Schoolhouse Road. Might have been Alexander Calder, but he died in 1976. Anyone got a clue?
Dan Lyke 19:41:35+0000 (2025-10-16)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1)
Here's the thing I don't get about FapGPT: If I wanted to sext with an LLM, I'd just answer some of those Facebook friend/LinkedIn connection requests...
Dan Lyke 16:53:30+0000 (2025-10-16)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2251,-122.628)
Foiled from today's https://www.timdle.com/daily by Kool Aid.
Dan Lyke 01:09:17+0000 (2025-10-16)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
Yay! My ballot has been received and counted!
Dan Lyke 01:00:46+0000 (2025-10-16)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
Going through some old assets and loaded Neeva(dot)com, and, wow, that company imploded so deeply that you randomly get a crypto page that wants to send notifications, a product page for "fulvic ionic minerals", a malware site, and... wonder if it just got abandoned, or if it was sold.
Dan Lyke 20:47:59+0000 (2025-10-15)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2364,-122.643)
This morning's https://www.timdle.com/daily thwarted by my ignorance of when Rhodesia became Zimbabwe.
Dan Lyke 20:07:09+0000 (2025-10-15)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
Oh, look at this Liquid Glass ugliness. For work I'm installing Perplexity's Comet browser. It pops up the keychain unlock to import Chrome credentials (yes, I know). I've included part of my system settings so that you can see that "Reduce Transparency" is on. Ugh.Dan Lyke 21:58:24+0000 (2025-10-14)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2329,-122.64)
Nothing like smacking a quarter panel of a former police cruiser in the crosswalk, and having the driver complain that I hit his car.
And then say "I didn't see you" like the high vis rain jacket wasn't sufficient.
Dan Lyke 19:42:27+0000 (2025-10-14)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Ever since he got popped by the npm Shai Halud worm, I confess that I get extremely nervous doing anything in the repo where he does all his JavaScript work. Like "what styling package is gonna cause me to have to rotate all of my keys and passwords?" with every pnpm command.
Dan Lyke 01:05:45+0000 (2025-10-14)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
We are deep into the "fuck it, I just want to see if this approach will work, '... as any;'" stage of TypeScript+Mithril development this afternoon.
Dan Lyke 21:21:58+0000 (2025-10-13)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
Just read the phrase "bangpath old", and... I guess the analogue for those of us who came up in the BBS world is "one colon old"?
Dan Lyke 21:09:33+0000 (2025-10-13)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
It's mid October of 2025. If you're still expecting URLs that come out of "AI"/LLMs to be valid and useful, I... I... I don't know what to tell you.
Dan Lyke 03:10:11+0000 (2025-10-12)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Fun day repping Petaluma Urban Chat at the Petaluma Pride celebration, but I don't think I'm gonna get out to my various other things this evening.
Dan Lyke 17:51:03+0000 (2025-10-11)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Really wanna scare your neighbors this Halloween? Dress up as a walkable neighborhood or multi-family housing.
Dan Lyke 19:00:39+0000 (2025-10-10)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
For clarification purposes, because this is potential confusion in the square dancing scene: a "hoedown" is not what happens when I trip and fall.
Dan Lyke 00:07:39+0000 (2025-10-10)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Apropos of nothing at all, I'm reading things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Revolution_of_1956 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_Spring
Dan Lyke 20:26:51+0000 (2025-10-09)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)
Dear marketers everywhere (in this case YouTube Music): Yes, I have served on a jury through to verdict and it was an amazing experience that I value, but "Enjoy another trial" is not the pitch you think it is.
Dan Lyke 01:01:32+0000 (2025-10-08)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Eenteresting. Google Pixel 7 phone. CC app wants fingerprint enabled, so I flipped it upside down and used a non-standard finger, to force fallback to a code.
Latest Android update is doing more fingerprint recognition, I just flipped my thumb up the screen to start code entry, and it unlocked.
Dan Lyke 00:39:44+0000 (2025-10-08)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Hive mind: I have XLR line output. I need XLR mic input. How many dB do I need to attenuate?
Dan Lyke 22:20:28+0000 (2025-10-07)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Foiled by the release of the game Twister in today's Timdle...
Dan Lyke 20:01:31+0000 (2025-10-07)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
"It's language input, so we don't need to codify those things, we just need to give the LLM the tools to..."
Uhhhh... Huh.
Dan Lyke 19:25:20+0000 (2025-10-07)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
I have a couple of personal projects I'd like to hack together, but I'm kinda stuck because I want to move my own skills forward as I do it. Python is a fucking dependency and performance nightmare, ECMAScript involves package managers, Rust is "what if we made the code endlessly complex because you need to manually manage arenas", and I'm quickly back to choosing between C++ and Perl, and that's just solving my problem, not actually learning anything.
Dan Lyke 01:24:58+0000 (2025-10-07)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
Unintentionally appropriate typo of the moment "YouRube".
Referring to the sorts of video links that distance acquaintances on social media DM.
Dan Lyke 22:32:26+0000 (2025-10-06)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
A friend likened LLMs treating "any retrieved piece of information on a topic / triggered by a prompt as equally valuable and truthful, to the "normalize" feature of DAW software, wherein every sound in a track is adjusted to have equal amplitude, resulting in a bewildering, psychotic-seeming soundscape."
The language of the latter 2020s will be akin to drums of the 1980s, the equalizer kicked up high, every paragraph hitting with the intensity of the Phil Collins fill in "In The Air Tonight".
Dan Lyke 19:04:17+0000 (2025-10-06)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
Eeenteresting. Feels like this OpenAI/AMD deal could be the "AOL buys Time Warner" moment of the LLM bubble, maybe?
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/amd-signs-ai-chip-supply-deal-openai-rcna235860
Dan Lyke 16:27:25+0000 (2025-10-06)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)
Some "AI" generated video that shows "Sam Altman" shoplifting, interesting because it reiterates how chain of custody in evidence is gonna become much more important, but also because there's gotta be a bunch of Target surveillance footage in their training dataset. https://bsky.app/profile/abeba.bsky.social/post/3m2jmygnp4k2v
Dan Lyke 16:24:04+0000 (2025-10-06)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)
Thinking about how the tasks that people who praise AI as coding helpers are doing might be better served by more expressive (and indeed consistent) languages.
Dan Lyke 19:17:03+0000 (2025-10-05)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)
Yet another LinkedIn message for the Boardsi scam reminds me of how much we've lost with the destruction of email. We used to have strong filtering. On systems we controlled. With the ability to do automated send and receive.
Dan Lyke 18:06:32+0000 (2025-10-05)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2332,-122.643)
Yesterday I went to a Catholic funeral, my first time attending a service in that sect. This morning I walk by St Vincent de Paul and there are food vendors and the churros truck has "come to sin" painted in the side, and... I'm tempted.Dan Lyke 02:52:58+0000 (2025-10-05)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Saw a "Hoonigan" sticker on a Prius. Still trying to unpack that.
Dan Lyke 00:42:34+0000 (2025-10-05)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)
Over to Vallejo today for Steve Meyers' funeral, and ran across a number of Android update issues while setting in-car entertainment, and...
I will be glad when we get Personal Computing back. This "everything is in service of selling cloud services that dictate your media consumption" things sucks.
Dan Lyke 16:44:03+0000 (2025-10-04)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Seeing a number of posts claiming as fact details about the second autopsy of Trey Reed that have not actually been released.
Speculation and misinformation do not serve us.
/news/crime/second-autopsy-on-trey-reed-not-yet-released-new-cause-of-death-claims-spread-online/ar-AA1NOM3k
Dan Lyke 21:27:50+0000 (2025-10-03)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
I need to make a browser plug-in so that I can just type in the bill identifier (eg: SB 79, SB 59, SB 418, SB 497, AB 82, and AB 1084) and it sets me up for a "pro" comment with the appropriate pulldown selection and all from https://www.gov.ca.gov/contact/
Dan Lyke 20:11:11+0000 (2025-10-02)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)
Oh cool, looks like MacOS 26.0.1 fixed the 26.0.0 USB throughput issue that was hosing frame rate on my external webcam.
Dan Lyke 17:11:45+0000 (2025-10-02)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)
Yeah, I had no clue about the founding of the Gupta Empire in today's Wordle...
Dan Lyke 01:12:30+0000 (2025-10-02)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
I'm experimenting. AllemandeLeft.com is now hosted on Hetzner's Level 4 hosting, which I *thought* gave me additional domains, but is maybe just subdomains? Might drop back to Level 1
It's not on my Flutterby.com server.
This is mostly an experiment to see if I can have them do mail hosting.
Dan Lyke 00:22:45+0000 (2025-10-02)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
I have for years thought nothing of the Apple warning that pops up for browsers sometimes, allow Chrome (or whatever) to discover devices on local networks.
I'm developing an app that uses MacOS WKWebView. First time I saw that permissions request was when loading Facebook. What's it looking for?
Dan Lyke 20:11:16+0000 (2025-10-01)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
I'm looking at Hetzner's shared webhosting product (and would like to recommend it to a few other people), both for static web hosting and for email, but apparently it's not possible to host a .com or .net domain there, even if you have DNS with another provider?
Anyone figured this out?
Dan Lyke 18:13:50+0000 (2025-10-01)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)
Moment of hesitation while I tried to figure out if the Macarena craze happened before or after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, but 100% on today's Timdle!
Dan Lyke 05:21:37+0000 (2025-10-01)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2251,-122.627)
Wow. Saw that there were two hang gliding related fatalities at Lookout Mountain Flight Park, near Chattanooga, today. Went to look for news, not much out there, but Startpage's news tab has more info right now than Google's.
The tide of search may be shifting.
Dan Lyke 22:10:04+0000 (2025-09-30)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1)
Rather than the awful tree-layered GUI experience that is QT's MaintenanceTool.app, it sure would be nice if there were a command-line "install whatever your name for the module identified by 'webenginewidgets' is" tool.