Stefan Lasiewski

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Marked-up image for my records:

Thanks Berkeley neighbor for adding back a safety barrier to this bike hazard on Virginia & McGee. I noticed last night someone removed my cone &I was going to replace it this week. City of Berkeley still hasn't put in a permanent fix.

I am curious how the repair rate on these will compare to hybrids. Hybrids are great for range, but they tend to have a higher repair rate than either ICE or EVs. Is the onboard gas generator a simpler and more reliable solution vs hybrid engines?

Our New Combo Washer/Heat Pump Dryer Uses Less Than 1 kWh of Electricity Per Load - CleanTechnica Last year we bought a combination washer and heat pump dryer and have been pretty impressed. Not only does the machine offer significant convenience where you put a load of clothes in and literally tw...

"New Combo Washer/Heat Pump Dryer Uses Less Than 1 kWh of Electricity Per Load" cleantechnica.com/2026/02/06/o...

Emergency alert from the City of Berkeley. City found some explosive photography chemicals in a residence near Colusa & Tacoma, right near Thousand Oaks school just a block from Solano Ave

"But photography was supposed to be a fun hobby" they said

www.berkeleyscanner.com/2026/01/26/c...

Berkeley hazmat: Shelter-in-place order on Colusa Avenue Residents with a block of Colusa and Tacoma avenues "should prepare to be out of the area or inside your home for at least the entire day."

BREAKING: Here's everything we know about the shelter-in-place advisory issued for North Berkeley on Monday morning. We'll continue to monitor the situation.

Brief power outage in Berkeley near the North Berkeley Bart station. Only lasted a few seconds. PGE.com/outage doesn't show anything so it must have been brief for everyone

Voting over and over until the other side becomes exhausted and gives up.

My other favorite Google Easter-egg is the title for the Google 404 error. It contains an humorous typo.

This Google definition for "Pedantic" doesn't explain what Pedantic means. This is irritating.

Today I realized is an Easter-egg-- It's written this way *because* it will irritate the pedants. Well played Google. Well played.

In the latest round of enshittification:
* Apps use Android notification screen for mandatory advertisements w/ no opt-out option (Except disable all)
* Atlassian inserts Formula 1 advertisement into their enterprise Confluence software. No way for admins to disable
infosec.exchange/@SecureOwl/1...

The inspiration for today's complaint:

Gemini vs a treasured quote from www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UMq...

Duty Calls

Just had a thought: Are we going to be dealing with AI gaslighting for the rest of our darned lives? Are we going to dealing with those 👍 & 👎 buttons forever?

I mean I've been correcting people on the Internet for half my life already...

xkcd.com/386/

My friends, some Gen-zers were listening to some classic 1980s punk and referred to it as "Screemo"

Google's Gemini 3 is apparently causing a fair amount of load on the Google infrastructure. Folks are complaining about errors like "We are at capacity, we'll be back soon" since at least yesterday.

For me just now, Gemini on Google Docs is very slow.

Melissa had to plug in every single cable to every single port. Kit comes with 50,000 pieces.

An acronym for scientific data storage:

WORN: Write One, Read Never.

This code is full of twisty little passages, all alike. A comment, probably the remains of a luckless developer, lies here.

Oh rats. Hope you feel better soon. I did Dockercon on Crutches in 2019. A coworker broke his foot at SC (2018) in Austin. It happens!

CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation] To provide educational and informative content on cloud native computing, which uses an open source software stack to deploy applications as microservices, packaging each part into its own container, ...

FYI: most of the #kubecon #cloudnativecon NA videos are up on youtube, should hopefully be all there by end of next week! www.youtube.com/@cncf/videos

Trains are not stopping at 12th St. Oakland City Center Station in the Antioch and Richmond directions due to a medical emergency. Trains are able to run through and continue on to 19th Street. Trains in the SF and Berryessa directions are still making stops at 12th Street.

I love Linux.

* Data storage: "flushing" typically means syncing in-memory data to permanent storage, like disk
* Data caching: "flushing" usually means clearing the cache
* Lunux Host Firewall (iptables, netfilter), "flushing" means deleting all the rules & exposing your host to the internet

A preview of some discussions during November conferences:

#KubeCon: I CAN’T BELIEVE PEOPLE STILL USE NFS!
#SC25 #Supercomputing: WOW! NFS is still AWESOME. Vast is THE BOMB! NFS Azure file shares works great!

Felt earthquake in Berkeley.

The sign is gone, but it's one of my historical favorites.

You'll be pleased to know that Tightwad Hill is just below Berkeley Lab & NERSC.

Thread from @gwensmith.com with photos

Thanks for confirming.

Note that fighter jets usually cannot be seen with Flightradar, but ADSB Exchange tends to show them. I'm not fluent enough in that world to know enough though.