Notices by rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually (rk@mastodon.well.com)

@FlashMobOfOne

I’ve never read Gibson’s “The Peripheral” though I love Neuromancer and his short stories. I have a paperback copy due to be delivered Monday and I will report back.

(Other than that, my younger kid and I are reading the Percy Jackson series together, having just started on the second pentalogy and it’s still pretty good for what it is.)

@jpm

Any router is a firewall if you configure it badly enough.

#networking

We got my father’s car sold! It was an ordeal, lots of mechanics and trying to find the best offer.

Plus my sister and I found a MUCH better facility for my father. It’s more expensive, and the price can go up arbitrarily as his care needs change, but it’s so much nicer than where he’s at now. They’re going to waive the first level of care costs though, so that brings it in line with what we’re paying now

The new place is so much nicer I feel incredibly guilty for where he’s been the past year

Hear me out.

At the end of Good Will Hunting, Will vanishes. We are led to believe it’s to follow Minnie Driver, but he really did take up the NSA’s offer. Moving up through the intelligence community, he becomes an international agent operating under the alias Jason Bourne.

#film

@whitequark

Kleene’s original paper describing regular languages as a formalism, that is, regular expressions…was using them to describe neuronal.

@sj

…what’d I miss?

@inthehands @beyondmachines1 @adamshostack

There was a Lobste.rs thread a while back that linked to a vibe coded MFA thing where the MFA just…didn’t work. Basically it would bypass the actual auth checks in some common situation, and even had test cases generated that confirmed this to be the case.

I’ll see if I can find it.

@inthehands @shriramk

My super intelligence has no nose.

“How does it smell?”

Terrible!

My nephew (20 years old) just texted to let me know he’s completed his self-imposed challenge of reading a biography of each American President.

He’s a good kid. He wants to get a PhD in history. He’s gonna do just fine.

#history

Me: *laying in bed, dying*

10yo: Hey Dad, why are all satellite dishes shaped that way? What’s that thing in the middle on the pylon things?

Me: Okay so this is worth sitting up for. Let’s draw it out. Get me my good pen.

#science

@kaia

These are high on my list of things I’d like to try. Last time I had the opportunity I was a vegetarian.

OH NO CARMEN SANDIEGO HAS STOLEN the least significant bit of every sixth and twelfth frame for signaling

#telecoms #deepCut

My nephew (who is 19) really likes to investigate and dig into various topics. He’ll regularly text me things like “how much do you know about the Ebionites in early Christianity?” or “have you heard of a book called Slaughterhouse Five?”

Anyway he just texted me this (well, last night, but I just saw it):

#BeOS #haiku

10yo: Do you think technology will ever get so good we could 3D print humans?

Wife: We already can, I’ve done it twice.

10yo: Mom, gross!

@GottaLaff

Remember, all you NRA types, this could be the tyranny you’ve been waiting for.

The word “liturgy” derives from the Ancient Greek “leitourgia” meaning “public service.” In Athens and the areas under its control, liturgy was the duty of the richest citizens to fully fund the state at their own expense.

The logic was that the wealthy enjoyed their wealth due to the protection of the state and the stability it provided.

#Japanese

A friend of mine knows the owners of this chocolate shop in Iowa and orders cookies from them once or twice a month and brings them to game night and they’re dogdamn incredible.

https://themarionchocolateshop.com/

#cookies #food #gameNight

The documentation for this device keeps specifying things in “Hertz per second” and it’s making my brain itch.

@jjdavis @Daojoan

“Do you want the people who run the DMV running your healthcare?!?”

I mean, last time I went to the DMV, I filled out a form, sat for a minute, got my picture taken, and left. Problem solved. I didn’t have people arbitrarily decide I didn’t really need a driver’s license because I had acne as a teenager and then get three bills from two different departments six months later, one of which was “out of network” so…yeah.