John Timaeus

@mariyadelano

You should never own a smart speaker and a loaded revolver. Go ahead an unload the revolver into the smart speaker.

No Amazon, I do not want to save by buying "used". It's a toilet seat!

Nice Trading Co.

Be a shame if something happened to it

@venya

Cool. DM/tag me beforehand. Always good to hear new music.

@venya

If I were closer than Arkansas, and wasn't dealing with 4 new kittens, I'd stop by.
Any chance of a stream? I can watch it and shitpost while not being there.

@camless @ai6yr

The only problem with PAA is getting retail quantities. One of my winter projects is hitting up local breweries and seeing if we can buy single digit liter amounts to wash herbs and produce before it goes to restaurants and farmers markets.

@camless @ai6yr

Peter Pan had a nut infection?

Seriously, 180ppm of PAA dip for 10 minutes and things are clean. A $1500 drum will make about 2000 tons of sanitizing solution.
UV and heat both kill salmonella as well.

@ai6yr

How do nuts get salmonella?

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" And today, you learned a lesson about kittens. "

I will not be taking questions.

@ai6yr

And double checked with the wife, who knows the dark secrets involving fiber and cloth. She says "no worries".

@ai6yr

Should work just as well. All it's really doing is taking up space.

@ifixcoinops

I spent most of a day recently trying to get a group of windows servers to actually update.

The full error message: Something went wrong, try again later. 0x00000001

I'm just gonna have to nuke & rebuild. I couldn't even figure out what the problem was, did half a dozen monkey […]

@TeenVogue

So no more good reporting from y'all?

@ai6yr @Viss

Bad ram says: more sauce. Maybe some chimichurri.
Flatbread or tortillas. More rice!

Bad ram does not need root vegetables or spring greens as a side.

@ai6yr @Viss

If the ram is still bad after all that, castrate it, feed it corn for two months, and make tacos and rogan josh.

If it's a computer problem, the above advice still applies. Particularly if the vendor doesn't honor the warranty.

@ai6yr

And don't assume there's a full degree of separation between you and Mr Bacon.

#hivemind I just spent a frustrating day trying to find a decent, open tool for automated STIG application on windows.

oscap for windows seems very beta. There's the PowerStig PS module, but that's really for scripting against, not a finished solution.

Any ideas?

#infosec #cybersecurity

Watching Shrek 3. Was Mr Merlin based on Jon Postel, or is it just me?

@ben

Quite well, thank you.

@dlakelan

If we could get providers to support mBone...

It IS the way, but getting some corpo to actually do it didn't work in the 90s. Their goals haven't changed in three decades.

A gold ceremony to remember There are those moments in life you know already from the start are going to be the rare once in a lifetime events. This evening was one of those times. On a dark and wet autumn Friday afternoon my entire family and me dressed up to the most fancy level you can expect and took at taxi to the Stockholm City Hall. Anja my wife and my kids Agnes and Rex. Rex, Agnes, Daniel, Anja. The Stenberg family. This was the Swedish Royal Academy of Engineering Science’s (IVA) 106th _Högtidssammankomst_ (“festive gathering”) since its founding in 1919. Being one the four gold medal recipients of the night our family got a special dedicated person assigned to us who would help us “maneuver” the venue and agenda. Thanks Linus! In the _golden hall_ me and Anja took a seat in our reserved seats in the front row as the almost 700 other guests slowly entered and filled up every last available chair. The other guests were members of the Academy or special invitees, ministers, the speaker of the parliament etc. All in tail coats, evening dresses and the likes to conform with the dress code of the night. The Golden Hall before people arrived The golden hall is named after its golden colored walls, all filled up with paintings of Swedish historic figures contributing to a pompous and important atmosphere and spirit. _This is the kind of room you want to get awards in._ Part of the program in this golden hall was the gold medal awards ceremony. After having showed short two-minute videos of each of the awardees and our respective deeds and accomplishments on the giant screen in the front of the room, us awardees were called to the stage. The video shown about me and curl. Swedish with subtitles Three gold medals and one large gold medal were handed out to my fellow awardees and myself this year. Carl-Henric Svanberg received the _large_ gold medal. Mats Danielsson and Helena Hedblom were awarded the gold medal. The same as I. The medals were handed to us one by one by Marcus Wallenberg. Photographer: Erik Cronberg. Marcus and me shaking hands. with Helena Hedblom on the right. Photographer: Erik Cronberg. Marcus on the left, me in the middle and Mats Danielsson behind me. In one of the agenda items in the golden hall,IVA’s CEO _Sylvia Schwaag Serger_ did a much inspiring talk about Swedish Engineering and mentioned an amazing list of feats and accomplishments done over the last year and with hope and anticipation for the future. I and curl were also mentioned in her speech. Even more humbled. The audience here were some of the top minds and Engineering brains in Sweden. Achievers and great minds. The kind of people you want appreciation from because they know a thing or two. ## Intermission A small break followed. We strolled down to the giant main hall for some drinks. The blue hall, which is somewhat famous to anyone who ever watched the Nobel Prize banquets. Several people told me the story that the original intent was for the walls to be blue, but… The blue hall that isn’t very blue Projecting patterns on the walls ## Banquet At about 19:00, me and Anja had to sneak up a floor again together with crowd of others who were seated on that main long table you can see on the photo above. Table 1. On the balcony someone mentioned I should wear the prize. So with some help I managed to get it around my neck. It’s not a bad feeling I can tell you. Daniel, wearing the IVA gold medal. As everyone else in the hall had found their ways to their seats, we got to do a slow procession walking down the big wide stairs down into the main hall and find our ways to our seats. Then followed a most wonderful three-course meal. I had excellent table neighbor company and we had a lively and interesting conversation all through the dinner. There were a few welcome short interruptions in the form of speeches and music performances. A most delightful dinner. After the final apple tart was finished, there was coffee and more drinks served upstairs again, as the golden hall had apparently managed to transition while we ate downstairs. Disco(?) in the golden hall When the clock eventually approached midnight the entire Stenberg family walked off into the night and went home. A completely magical night was over but it will live on in my mind and head for a long time. Thank you to every single one involved. ## The medal The medal has an image of Prometus on the front side, and _Daniel Stenberg 2025_ engraved on the back side. On the back it also says the name of the Academy and _för framstående gärning_ , for outstanding achievement. A medal to be proud of. In the box Front side Back side Of course I figured this moment in time also called for a graph. Gold medals for curl over time

A gold ceremony to remember

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/10/25/a-gold-ceremony-to-remember/

@ai6yr

[Edit - I broke math the first time]

15 Mega gallons per day? On 1 square mile(ish)?

That's about 2 inches (50 mm)of solids over the course of a month. Over a square mile (250 ha). If spread evenly. Which it wasn't.

Just the methane outgassing would be enough to make the brain go bad […]

@ai6yr

Por que no los tres?

So if you commit federal crimes, which are also a bunch of state crimes, and your sentence gets commuted at the federal level, can you still be charged at the state level?

@ai6yr

If you really want it to go wrong, you'll need an oxidizer. Potassium permanganate seems like a good place to start.

@michaelcoyote @arclight

A coworker said it could be a problem with the display's HDMI settings. I just haven't been bothered enough to spend an afternoon cycling through the possible permutations.

@michaelcoyote @arclight

In one install, I'm running a closed laptop next to a big display. Half the time I need to open the laptop to get it to recognize the big display. Most of the time after it recognizes the display, it forgets where it should be. And if I close the laptop, it does weird […]

@michaelcoyote @arclight

The only problem I've had with Mint is recognizing new displays (including "new" ones when coming back from sleep).

@missingthept.bsky.social

Is sarcasm? Can't tell.