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4.6.0-nightly.2026-03-23
I play with words, cameras & computers
TSA in airports: Security Theater
ICE in airports: Security Theater of Cruelty
Maybe, if I'm very good in this life, I'll come back as a bookstore cat, like this fine specimen from the Book Barn in Niantic, CT.
I wasn't really a fan of Chuck Norris, but at least he gave us Chuck Norris jokes, and I'm not really a fan of Chuck Norris jokes, but at least they gave us Bruce Schneier jokes, which I do enjoy.
Square Law Of Software Dependencies: the number of bugs introduced by an upgrade is proportional to the square of the number of supporting modules upgraded.
If you upgrade 1 module, you will have to resolve 1 new bug.
If you upgrade 3 modules, 9 new bugs.
If you upgrade more than 10 modules, you should consider trashing the entire project and rewriting everything from scratch.
I know why they say it, but I still find the term "one-way attack drone” mildly amusing. No one talks about "one-way bombs" or “one-way missiles”.
That’s probably for the best, actually. It would be upsetting to live in a world where a ballistic missile sauntered casually home after blowing stuff up and showed you photos of all the places it visited on vacation.
We got two kinds of mushrooms with our CSA share today and now I want to write the adventures of the hard-hitting crime-fighting duo, King Trumpet and Shiitake.
Kudos to the guy running the #NYC half-marathon in a unicorn onesie. And making pretty good time too.
It's #caturday. This very pristine little feline lives in Algeria's M’Zab Valley, on the outskirts of a place called Beni Isguen.
New HTTP status code just dropped.
**506 - Service Unavailable Due To Hostilities**
The web server responds with this code when it is unable to handle the request due to equipment or infrastructure damage caused by hostile action, or for political reasons such as a state of war existing between the server's home nation and that of the agent. The agent should delay resubmitting the request until a peace treaty has been signed.
The fact that the British defense attaché to the United Arab Emirates is called Group Captain Sandy Sandilands is proof that this season's writers are just getting lazier and lazier.
Humanity is fast closing in on our "Game of Thrones, Season 8” moment, and the chaotic season finale of “A Planet Called Earth” is just going to leave our audience in the rest of the galaxy furious and disappointed.
If you're skeptical about vibe-coding, consider that the US military is reportedly using Claude for mission-planning and target selection, so they are literally vibe-warring.
Can't imagine how that could go wrong in any way that matters.
Here’s a scenario to consider:
Now that an Australian biotech company has successfully demonstrated "Doom" running on human braincells, I think we have to acknowledge the possibility that human beings might one day be capable of thought.
I did wonder vaguely why feathers kept floating up past my window.
Eventually I looked out and found this individual enjoying a pigeon lunch on my neighbor's air conditioner.
For #caturday, two more black-and-white cats from the cat colony by the Ponte del Risorgimento in Rome. Smol kitten is apprehensive about the camera-toting stranger, big cat is unimpressed.
Roses are red
Violets are blue
The dungeon’s pitch black
You've been eaten by a grue.
The commits were coming from INSIDE THE HOUSE!
It's negative-something degrees out, so going outside requires layering up in your warmest clothes.
The orange cat, who is not the sharpest knife in the feline drawer, thinks that snowpants and winter jackets are terrifying monsters that swallow human beings (and probably cats).
The worst part is that he can hear my partner's voice, muffled by her scarf, coming from INSIDE THE MONSTER, and she's obviously been swallowed whole & is crying out for help, and he DOESN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO.
Starting in March, I guess I won’t be using Discord.
"Donate your Sky Miles so that people unlawfully abducted by the mad dictator’s heartless goon squad can get home to their families” is a dystopian flourish so absurdly over-the-top that even I would have rejected it as a plot element in my fiction.
And yet here we are.
So the OS upgrade went well but it removed a Python version that one of the APIs depended on and redeploying for the new version required me to rewrite an old ansible playbook because ansible's moved on too and that revealed that GitHub's server fingerprint has changed and part of the API turns out to depend on a feature of flask that has been deprecated, but it's in scaffolded code so I have no idea what it does or how and if you want me I’ll be over here slowly walking into the sea.
For #caturday, this cat is from the same Roman cat colony as the cat I posted last week. I'm pretty sure that they're related.
How to make AI profitable.
Optionally: