Notices by Steven Sandoval (baltakatei@twit.social)

@verge Google Video couldn't compete so Google bought the competition: YouTube. That acquisition should never have been allowed to happen. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1288776/000119312506206884/dex991.htm

I updated my command-line cheat-sheet with include a table of my most frequently used commands. https://reboil.com/mediawiki/Baltakatei%27s_Useful_CLI_Commands#usage

Usage info from: `$ history | awk '{ print $3 }' | sort | uniq -c | sort -hk1`. Your `awk` expression may vary.

@atoponce Thanks for the km/s. As an #eveonline player familiar with m/s, it helps me visualize how fast things are going.

@atoponce @torg Not that I'm aware of. In Eve, it's generally a bad idea to warp in at 0 km. Better to warp in at +10 km from a random direction so you don't get immediately immobilized by a cloaked warp scrambler and ambushed. Gneiss is a source of valuable ore, so it can serve as bait for trapping miners.

Higher than the highways. #amtrak

I imagine people during World War 2 would have hesitated to call it that until the US got itself involved. Similarly, I think the current conflict may be known as World War 3 even though China has yet to get directly entangled. #israel #us #iran

If you arenʼt going to go full GPLv3 with your LLM, at least use your proprietary control over the technology to deny the military access, not facilitate it. #openai

@tk If you do visit, Quincy Market has some good clam chowder. And touristy stuff.

Yay! The check engine light on my vehicle finally went away on its own after almost a year. #yay

@infobeautiful Pareto, optimize for making me and my fellow oligarchs the most money. Strip mine the planet, capture the government, and eliminate all competition? Can do!

Reminds me of Kim Stanley Robinson in Ministry for the Future (2020) regarding how economics is just a calculator, both efficiencies and inefficiencies come in bad and good flavors, and how biosphere health, not profit should be our “objective function”.

“Do you ask your calculator what to do with your life? No.”

@draken @vkc Hopefully we don't use Mork this time around? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mork_%28file_format%29

Until China finds a way to openly prove to external critics that their leadership is mostly free of nepotistic corruption, as an outsider, I must err on the side of caution and assume that an informal dynasty persists around which political power is centralized.

@tk Is that a cross-bar switch? https://youtu.be/BEQ_bobMY9s&t=272

I need an anti-shouting audio filter for my podcasts. I don't want to drop #OpeningArguments, but the non-lawyer host keeps stressing me out.

Technically, yes?

@glitter I love the design. They kinda look like computer chips.

@tk Thought you might be interested in Katie Wilson, the new Seattle mayor's interview answers about making automobile ownership unnecessary. https://publicola.com/2025/11/20/seattle-nice-interviews-mayor-elect-katie-wilson/

@Fragglemuppet They always have. https://help.audible.com/s/article/learn-about-credits?language=en_US#Two

Try #librofm's expiration-free non-DRM'd audiobooks.

I buy ebooks and audiobooks like a gamer buys video games for their backlog: a bunch of titles when I can and then, years later, I'll work my way through my purchases.

That's why I despise #Audible and their expiring credits. No, I do not want to organize my media purchasing habits around a monthly subscription. #bookstodon

I know it'd be extremely niche, but I want a #Mario64 #AMV with #GurrenLagann's song showcasing how to “Do the impossible, see the invisible, …, touch the untouchable, break the unbreakable,”. Maybe add a bit of #DirkGently's “eff the ineffable” in there somewhere. https://youtube.com/shorts/-Ncj7B7WA4M #pannenkoek2012