Notices by Don Whiteside (donw@mastodon.coffee)

@inthehands As a programmer in my fifties who has worked in a variety of languages but who is arguably a master of none at the moment, I’ve found the assistant tools to be useful in a lot of ways. But with the same drawback as finding SE code and without some of the associated guardrails.

I’ve done some cool things with them but I can’t imagine trying to use them safely without my CS education and work experience.

@skinnylatte Does she have a parenting book? I’d buy an autographed copy if she could tell me how to get my boys to stop flipping the f out when a bee is within 100 yards.

@inthehands Unfortunate -that's my allotment for the quarter. Won't blame anyone if they mute me till April.

@inthehands It feels pretty certain no single thing is gonna save us. So till someone identifies one I guess we gotta just keep doin em all.

@inthehands But they ended up with 62, not 60.

@kims @inthehands The willingness of those four to flat-out lie by omission in the dissent freaks me out a bit too.

"Does a single … judge … have the unchecked power to compel the Government of the United States to pay out … 2 billion taxpayer dollars? The answer to that
question should be an emphatic “No,” but a majority of this
Court apparently thinks otherwise.”

To ignore that this is money appropriated by Congress (in a law signed by a President!) to pay a contracted debt is abhorrent.

@inthehands The NTSB has one. You'll want to add a selector to Country to limit it to just the United States. https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/query-builder?month=1&year=2025

@inthehands “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
Napoleon Bonaparte

@adora @otte_homan @zacwest you’re looking for DeDRM.

The bigger challenge is downloading all the books if you have a lot. I had to find some script on GitHub and poke at it to get it to batch download all my kindle books.

@inthehands I am relieved that I live in Arlington county, where there's very little chance there will be any advance knuckling under to this and terrified that we're in a state where the executive branch is run by a republican governor, lt gov, and ag.

It seems to me the bet the Trump admin is making - to the extent they do any planning - is that enough folks will be willing to just toss our trans brethren under the bus if it becomes costly enough. I wish i was sure it was a bad bet.

@inthehands One of the pleasures of being a programmer in my 50s is that I no longer feel the need to pretend I hate things - say, implicit returns - for anything like any objective reason. I just don’t like it! Not only won’t I argue with you about it, I don’t care if you agree or not.

Imma start a new religion that revolves around the phrase “it’s not for me.”

@mekkaokereke @acdha Hitler liked dogs. Why would we need to validate Hitler to say nice things about dogs?

“If every kid fucker in Congress resigned there’d be way more democrats left than republicans” is a super weird take from a sitting Republican.

I’m more than willing to believe it’s true, but it’s a hell of a thing to admit about your own squad.
https://www.threads.net/@takebackflorida/post/DCpjl6GyWqd

@Lana @inthehands Or a plain and simple “ew.”

@jwz See number 15. It came up a lot back when a restaurant in central Virginia told that Huckabee Sanders woman to piss off.

https://ohr.dc.gov/protectedtraits

@jwz @emag Not in SF, anyway. Don’t open a club in DC - political orientation IS protected here.

@jasonkoebler @inthehands I’d believe what I read in tea leaves before something about technology that “cops theorize.” I’ve lost track of the number of false news reports I’ve seen about technology concerns from credulous police departments.

Seems far more likely that if they can’t get a cell signal that they’re burning a lot more battery trying to connect to a tower and then running out of juice/overheating and rebooting. But the update explanation conveniently makes it someone else’s fault.

@MisuseCase @futurebird @inthehands That’s my belief, and it jibes well with the growing picture that turnout was similar to 2020 except a lot of democrats simply didn’t vote this year. “I’m not gonna put a woman in charge” abstainers explains that difference pretty well.

@inthehands I can no longer count the things that were disqualifying and now are just Tuesday. It’s mind boggling to imagine we bounced cabinet members because they didn't pay taxes on a nanny. I’m not sure keeping a nanny as an involuntary unpaid prisoner would stay in the news 3 days anymore.

I just meant to point out that the attack vector here is a very foreseeable result of that 90s era action that continues to cause problems to this day. It's easier to hide something in a haystack.

@inthehands Bills drafted by lobbyists is a thing that happens across the board. It’s in large part a function of how Gingrich and his ilk cut huge quantities of the support staff in Congress as well as fucking up pay such that it’s hard to retain skilled staff. Where thirty years ago the offices would have people inside to turn to to write legislation, now they’re much more reliant on outside resources.