Paul Rixon

Confession: I'm the one who played Goldfinger's "The City With Two Faces" on the bar's jukebox as soon as the World Series game ended.

INSTANT FOLLOW.

Got invited to speak at the conference of one of the richest companies on earth. I asked their budget, and they said it's zero. Their excuse was it's a free conference and they wanted to "give back to the community". Nothing really says giving back to the community like donating other people's time.

Black and white.

Has anybody measured the RCS of the Cyber truck yet?

@seckc.org Post something, will ya?

😭😭😭

Queue the Lykke Li

Couldn't find any Internet images, but the X-Files episode The Rain King had a weather radar image that looked a lot like this.

Does anybody know the purpose of this extra rail on CTAs transit lines?

Missouri voters approve ban on ranked choice voting • Missouri Independent Missourians have approved a constitutional amendment that prohibits ranked-choice or approval voting — becoming the 11th state to do so. The amendment was approved by roughly a 2-to-1 margin. Ranked-c...

missouriindependent.com/2024/11/05/m...

We have *a lot* of depressing election results, but this one takes the cake!

Can you believe they actually banned rank choice voting in Missouri? We’re so hosed here…

EFF, ACLU to SFPD: Stop Illegally Sharing Data With ICE and The San Francisco Police Department is the latest California law enforcement agency to get caught sharing automated license plate reader (ALPR) data with out-of-state and federal agencies. EFF and

EFF and the ACLU of Northern California are calling out the San Francisco Police Department for breaking the law and sharing automated license plate reader (ALPR) data with out-of-state and federal agencies. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Thanks for the tip! Are there forecast maps yet of where it might be visible?

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

@cillic.bsky.social Good to meet you! I'll ping you about riot fest.

Way to go!

Interesting indeed, then... Will be interesting to see what's in it, when it's found!

Does the online system have reports that go back that far? Or could it be partial?

Generally speaking if a company is unwilling to negotiate their contractual agreement with me I take that as a HUGE red flag.

If an employer isn't a huge megacorporation and they're unwilling to work on a contract that suits both parties: walk away.

Tried to report a spammer, but the app just sounds instead of accepting the report. 🤷

Anybody try to use ConnectX-7/NDR InfiniBand with all inbox drivers? IPoIB doesn't work. I tracked it down to a problem with opensm - you don't actually have to use MLNX-OFED... But I don't know why. 🤔
#hpc

Honestly, if people are willing to wake up that early and do activism, everybody should just bow down to their cause.

Are those towers there for lightning protection?

Low key want to get a line laser, then set up in a tree across a park where drone watchers are gathered. When someone points a laser at their bogey, scan them from head to toe and watch mayhem ensue.

I've heard that if you go to lobbycon, you have a near 100% chance of getting access. YOLO!

AKA Gee Watt (GWOT) 😜

💻 Remember, if you're on a Mac, you can clean up your desktop by having screenshots sent to another folder:

defaults write com.apple.screencapture location whatever-the-pwd-of-folder-is

(then do killall SystemUIServer)