David Schuetz *Looking for work*

@ivory Is there any way (or are there plans) to display BlueSky quote posts in the timeline? I can see the quoter, through a bridge, but the quoted post is just a big url.

Or do I just need to follow them through a different bridge, and that’ll take care of it for me?

The sweet smell of a great sorrow lies over the land
Plumes of smoke rise and merge into the leaden sky
A man lies and dreams of green fields and rivers
But awakes to a morning with no reason for waking

#lotd

My first full day of paid work since being laid off a while back (it's a short-term contract). And so far I've managed to break my standing desk while rearranging cables for the new corporate laptop.

It's now at kneecap height, and I’ve got crippling vertigo from crawling underneath it and back […]

Neurotypicals: "Just break big tasks into smaller steps!"

ADHDer: breaks task into 108 micro-steps, gets overwhelmed by the long list, abandons task, start to research road building in the Roman Empire for 6 hours.

#adhd

I just realized something amusing. I’ve used a lot of programming languages over the years, but the ones I spent the most time in (for work and hobby) all start with P: Pascal, Perl, PHP, and Python.

Python is by far the most used, Pascal was
high school and college (a lot of it was a BBS I […]

A large plush stuffed toy based on the character Moopsy from Star Trek: Lower Decks.

This is the best gift…

It drives me crazy that people (and this article too) still call dirt-found diamonds “real,” implying that lab-grown are fake.

They’re 100% genuine diamonds.

And champagne is champagne, no matter where the fuck you bottle it. https://mstdn.ca/@dkmackinnon/114919262525558959

When an #ADHD person says „I forgot“ what we often mean is:

* I remembered 5 times but at the wrong time
* I fully planned to do it but I felt overwhelmed
* I shamed myself for not doing it that I did not do it

This looks really interesting - Expel did a survey of Fortune 1000 cybersecurity job postings (5000 of them!) and found that, basically, they all suck (my summary).

* 8% offered remote.
* 10% addressed mental health.
* Pay is lower than related / adjacent fields.

Huh. Maybe the problem isn’t […]

When users did not see an AI overview, the authors write, they clicked on links 15 percent of the time. When they did see one, that number fell nearly by half, to 8 percent. The study also found that people are likelier to stop browsing after encountering an AI overview, suggesting that the overview has satisfied their curiosity. Researchers saw that outcome 26 percent of the time when AI overviews were displayed, up from 16 percent when they were not.

A new Pew study offers data to back up what we have suspected for a while now: AI answers are draining all the traffic out of the web https://www.platformer.news/google-ai-overviews-pew-research/?ref=platformer-newsletter

Another fun interaction with the transphobic coworker …

HIM: (angrily) I’m listed as “Mrs.” in the company directory.
ME: What? That’s crazy. Must’ve been a typo. I’ll fix it.
HIM: Thank you.
ME: No problem. (waits until he’s walking away) It sucks to get misgendered, amirite?
HIM: Heh, yeah […]

Mongo need polysyllabic vocabulary.

My son (and his twin sister) just turned 18. So I spent some time yesterday helping him with "adulting” - selecting adult primary physician, registering to vote, etc.

And the Selective Service website registration is broken. It's broken again this morning. I've done some quick searches but […]

🚨 macOS Ollama[.app] folks: be SUPER CAREFUL with this app.

The Ollama folks have been ignoring an important vulnerability for over 6 months.

https://www.imperva.com/blog/hijacking-ollamas-signed-installer-for-code-execution/

☝🏽 Great work by Imperva researcher Ron Masas.

@darthnull @sarahtaber wrote on this subject. https://mastodon.online/@sarahtaber/114797148334315746

There was a good thread a couple days ago about the difference between historical systemic racist attacks in the US and today’s, with the main thesis being that this time the pushback is happening in real time, rather than months or years later.

Of course I didn’t save the thread. Did anyone […]

Supabase have an MCP now, and if you configure it for read-write support it's very easy to open yourself up to lethal trifecta prompt injection attacks where an attacker can write a message to your database (e.g. in a support ticket) with instructions that cause your MCP client to retrieve and […]

trmnl.stephenyeargin.dev

For the last month or so, I've been building a handful of plugins for my @trmnl and decided to give them a proper landing page.

🖼️ https://trmnl.stephenyeargin.dev/

Finally getting around to something I’ve always wanted to do. Fix the @ShmooCon videos for 2008, 2009, and 2010. Each talk is a series of many small video files.

Because I’m in the process of transcoding to AV1 and adding captions to #ShmooCon, I’m finally going to manually join all the […]

Marketing image of iPad menu bar in Pages

So many of the YouTuber reviews of iPadOS 26 are 'wow, I didn't know these iPad apps had all of these features' upon seeing the menu bar.

Just enforces the point: a menu bar is an educational tool with discoverability built in, just as much as anything else […]

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A fake advertisement by “hell” (imitating the “shell” logo, the oil company) saying “We're changing the oceans into rainbows for LGBT+ pride” (the background of the image looks like an oil spill, which always looks like a rainbow on the floor. In case you're blind and this is how you're finding out that oil spills look like rainbows, please let me know)

thank you, satan

> On November 28th, 2012, Randall Munroe published an xkcd comic that was a calendar in which the size of each date was proportional to how often each date is referenced by its ordinal name (…) "In months other than September, the 11th is mentioned substantially less often than any other date […]

1/3 of gen X is now older than the character Fish.

Shit.

I love the @CARROT severe thunderstorm alert siren.

@atpfm #askatp I’m an old-school programmer hobbyist who learned BASIC in the 80’s, got a Computer Science degree in the 90's, and mostly wrote lots of tools for administration, quick problem solving, and little personal / work apps. Though I can probably program in anything, I fear my mind […]

@xabean I’ve no idea. That does look like 8 bits per pixel, not 24. But I’m not steeped in the nomenclature so maybe I’m misinterpreting it.

Anything weird about the cable? USB-C but speed limited due to a defect or something, that’s reduced the bit depth to compensate?

@xabean Not 8 bits per color, but *per pixel*? Like 256 colors? Like…VGA? Wtf.

... and Atlassian are the latest company to be added to my collection of examples of the lethal trifecta in action: their newly released MCP server has been demonstrated to allow prompt injection attacks in public issues to steal private data […]

I had a friend pack an old CO2 cartridge (for an air rifle) with black powder and attached a 6’ long slow fuse. We lit it and retreated to a hill about a 100 yards away.

We heard the blast reflecting off houses in adjacent neighborhoods. It was so loud, my sister said it woke up the kid she was […]

@paulc Yes, I know that too. Just haven’t managed to change our habits.

Maybe this’ll be a catalyst. :)