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  1. Content warning: stupid politics

    It would be funny if electeds and then other federal workers and then eventually everyone just started wear neck gaiters pulled up over their noses and wrap-around sun glasess all the time like ICE does. Like, not haha funny but, you know.

    We’d have to invent new ways to politely eat and drink around each other. Everyone would be shouting all the time through the masks and talking with their hands on account of eye contact and other facial context being out the window.

    @heathborders truly

  2. One of the dumber things about the torment nexus is that a lot of it also gives tree falling in a forrest in the ways that it enables regressive, alienated attribution to things that previous we dealt with attribution free or better, that left no legacy in the material world.

    To use pithy examples, I would rather live in a world where graffiti emerges “from nowhere” and trash left after a party is an emergent property of parties and so on.

    If we are gonna universalize some idiot’s preference, it should be mine that we universalize and not some rich weirdo’s. But it’s always some rich weirdo’s.

  3. Casual city loop that accidentally almost became a Hawk Hill ride

    I wanted to get out this morning and enjoy the weather but not try too hard so i spun around to both of the spots we hiked last weekend: Strawberry Hill in the park and Battery Spencer across the bridge.

    I thought about tackling Hawk Hill for the first time but bailed at the circle before the last climb because I was not the mood for that nonsense.

    Figure 1. A map of San Francisco, California. The path of a 30 and a quarter mile (48 and a half kilometer) ride is indicated. About 1375 feet (419 meters) elevation over four and a quarter hours, (two and three quarters hours moving).
  4. After many stubborn attempts to pass and use various pyrex (hiss) and pyrex-imitator (hiss) measuring cups and various purpose built gravy boats (hiss) I’ve switched to the one thing in the house that can pour hot liquid correctly: my little blue (beep beep beep) hario v60 carafe (snaps).

    With it, I can serve gravies and curries at the dinner table quite neatly.

    https://www.hario-usa.com/products/v60-pour-over-coffee-starter-set-01

    V60 Pour Over Coffee Starter Set 01 - 20th Anniversary ColorsThis set has all the basic essentials now in 5 new color ways.  Includes the following items: V60 Plastic Coffee Dripper 01 V60 Coffee Server 01 V60 Paper White Filters (40ct) Product Number: VCSD-01-20CP-MB Color: Mint Breeze   Product Number: VCSD-01-20CP-KB Color: Kinari Beige   Product Number: VCSD-01-20CP-UG ColorHario USA (opens in a new tab)
  5. On the Calculation of Volume (Book IV)

    Solvej Balle

    Cover of On the Calculation of Volume (Book IV) by Solvej Balle, paperback
    Figure 1. Cover of On the Calculation of Volume (Book IV) by Solvej Balle, paperback.

    Ah heck, I typed a nice paragraph up about how this one is about community discourse, and naming things, and class and ecology, about how the climaxes of each book seem to be MacGuffins, and how the cracks in the repetition are continuing to be just magical and do not survive in-story scrutiny or reader scrutiny, they are just happening, but it got lost in posting? I’m bummed to be current now.

  6. Kirby Cove

    My sister was in town so we took junior and her older son out on a short sightseeing trip across the golden gate. We left by 9:00 so we got to the trailhead in time to waltz into a parking spot.

    The weather was lovely, but moreover we got to check out the camping spot down there which looked really nice and is now on our todo list.

    Figure 1. A map of California. The path of a three and three quarters mile (six kilometer) walk is indicated. About 7600 steps and 689 feet (210 meters) elevation over one and three quarters hours, (one and a half hours moving).
  7. I want to ride my bike to the park and hike a little but I assume my bike won’t be there, or it will be there without a seat when I return to it, if not this time, then next time. I don’t want to ride with a pannier, much less heavy ineffective locks.

    How do event operators fund and staff their bike valets and what would it take to build a network of fixed operators?

    I assume both the efficacy and land-use and even just the capitol expense of “better racks" is a lost cause.

    @ssoper they ride bikes now!?

  8. Blue Heron Lake and Strawberry Hill Loop

    This little loop has potential for a group hike with some coworkers who will be visiting the city in a few weeks. Huntington Falls were not running today, not sure why.

    Figure 1. A map of San Francisco, California. The path of a one and three quarters mile (two and three quarters kilometer) walk is indicated. About 3500 steps and 131 feet (40 meters) elevation over three quarters of an hour.
  9. Where I'm at right now on 1Password

    1Password isn’t the only company doing things I disagree with. Twitch, where I work, is owned by Amazon, which does stuff I disagree with as a matter of business all the time.

    I have friends who work at 1Password.

    Nevertheless. I sent this Wednesday morning.

    to: support@1password.com
    from: the-email-address-associated-with-my-account@example.com
    subject: DHH and Omarchy

    Hi,

    Please add me to the pile of customers who are disappointed that 1Password is using the money I have been paying for the past 15 years for a good product to enable and promote DHH. I’ve already seen the macro you are going to send me in response to this and if you are keeping track of sentiment there too, you can also add me to the pile of customers who are unimpressed by the hand waving in it.

    If a few rich people want to pass money back and forth to fund each other’s perversions they can do so with their own funds.

    I assume you are hoping this blows over and for many it probably will but you’ve lost my trust completely. That’s a big bummer because the entire premise of your service is based on trust.

    Drop the funding in years two and three and re-earn my now-cautious recommendation. Drop the Kolide weirdo, even better. As it stands, I’ve stopped recommending or defending your stuff entirely.

    Grant

    Big talk, but I haven’t canceled my account yet. We’re all-in on the 1Password family sharing and this is kind of a lot of toil.

    Instead, I’ve been using Apple Passwords all week and it does the job enough that I’ve switched from Firefox back to Safari. I used Safari for years and it feels great to be back. So far, Passwords is fine? Not great, but I can get used to it.

    If I don’t hit any blockers in the next week or two we’ll switch the entire family over to it and bail on 1Password. If I do, I’ll deploy vaultwarden and give bitwarden a try.

    After I sent this, one of their founders, who I hear is in not very active in day-to-day activities at the shop, gave a gnarly quote to media. I know founders do this kind of thing and I’m taking that in stride as not really informing my decision here. The Kolide guy is much more concerning to me, so we’ll see what happens now that this has broken through.

    https://furry.engineer/@soatok/117208728768694788

    Soatok Dreamseeker (@soatok@furry.engineer)You're on the air. What's your question. > Hi, are you woke? Well, success in cryptography is largely driven by **not being asleep at the wheel**. So, you'd better fucking hope I am.Furry.Engineer - Duct tape, hotfixes, and poor soldering! (opens in a new tab)