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Kelson
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Techie, software developer, hobbyist photographer, sci-fi/fantasy & comics fan in the Los Angeles area. He/him, pronounced KELL-son (rhymes with "Nelson").

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A quotation from Usula K. Le Guim

> As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of […]
Original post on friendica.world
friendica.world
September 25, 2026 at 11:06 PM
I think about this panel a lot, since the kid tends to prefer Rube Goldberg approaches to just about everything.

It's either that, or trying to remember the lyrics to that Avril Lavigne song.

(For context, and why Daisy is calling him McJean: this is an […]

[Original post on notes.kvibber.com]
September 25, 2026 at 7:17 PM
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the rich techbros warning about the potential catastrophic dangers of AI in terms of, "they might cause a billion deaths because superintelligent AGI!" rather than, "we've made the conscious decision to use this error-prone chatbot to review health insurance claims" sure is a psyop if I've ever […]
Original post on social.treehouse.systems
social.treehouse.systems
September 25, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Well, that's a relief, at least:

> KDE e.V. has taken money from Framework, but only after verifying that Framework had severed their (already very limited) ties with DHH and Omarchy. Also, all of this happened a year ago, before Omarchy received a ludicrous amount of money from a veritable […]
Original post on notes.kvibber.com
notes.kvibber.com
September 24, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Processing Romulan shaders (71%)
September 23, 2026 at 2:57 AM
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one of those days
September 21, 2026 at 11:12 AM
#westercon is shutting down after 2028. Next year's combined with Baycon, and the last one - Westercon 80 - will be combined with Loscon.
https://www.westercon.org/2026/07/westercon-bylaws-repealed-westercon-to-retire-at-end-of-2028/

I've only been to a handful of them myself, most recently in […]
Original post on notes.kvibber.com
notes.kvibber.com
September 21, 2026 at 4:24 AM
I was thinking about shared shopping list apps, and suddenly remembered when one of the local grocery stores opened back in 2012 or so, and the cell signal was only reliable at the front of the store, so I'd see something I wanted a second opinion on at the back of the store, send my wife a text […]
Original post on notes.kvibber.com
notes.kvibber.com
September 21, 2026 at 2:11 AM
On the subject of "just do it", yesterday I watched someone wearing that slogan on a T-shirt brazenly cross the street against a red light, ignoring the car horns from drivers who were trying to go through on their green.
September 20, 2026 at 4:22 PM
[Uspol, OpenStreetMap, naming things]

OpenStreetMap's consensus on renaming from the bully pulpit:

1. OSM always prioritizes what's actually on the ground.
2. Alternate names can be added for search matching.

So Lake Ontario, Denali, and the Gulf of Mexico all appear on the map with […]
Original post on notes.kvibber.com
notes.kvibber.com
September 20, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Oh hey, I'm halfway there.

https://kvibber.com/tag/100daystooffload

50 new pages since May, easily on track to hit 100 in less than a year.

#100daystooffload #indieweb
Always Coming Home
Not a novel, not quite a short story/poetry collection, but a fascinating, thorough exploration of an imagined post-apocalyptic rural utopia in a far-future Napa Valley.
kvibber.com
September 20, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Another #gopher history question: Does anyone know where the non-standard 'i' prefix for informational text in a gopher menu came from, or how it became common?

I tried asking at bbs.geminispace.org, and I got one response onsite containing several paragraphs explaining _what item types are_ in […]
Original post on notes.kvibber.com
notes.kvibber.com
September 18, 2026 at 11:53 PM
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Kākāpō numbers pass 300 for the first time in 75 years. New Zealand’s flightless, nocturnal parrot now totals 325 birds, after a record 90 chicks fledged this season, built on the Department of Conservation’s recovery programme, which started with just 51 birds in 1995. Three managed island […]
Original post on wandering.shop
wandering.shop
September 18, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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A couple updates:

I decided to become a supporter of Neocities, and so now the site is available at https://stopomarchy.org and has 3TB/mth of bandwidth.

I also put the (simple) code into a public repository on Codeberg for people that want to help contribute […]
Original post on social.lol
social.lol
September 17, 2026 at 5:10 PM
It's funny how the last couple of days have felt _so much cooler_...but the temperature hasn't actually dropped, just the humidity.
September 16, 2026 at 9:28 PM
The Smithsonian: Showing you the real history that the government doesn't want you to know!

https://newrepublic.com/post/215482/donald-trump-signs-accusing-smithsonian
Trump to Drop Thousands on Public Signs Name-Calling the Smithsonian
The Trump administration has a lot of things “visitors should know” before entering the National Museum of American History. According to reporting by _The Atlantic,_ Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is mobilizing the National Park Service to display at least a dozen signs around the National Museum of American History warning visitors of “ideologies that distract from a coherent and accurate presentation of America’s story” before they step foot on the premises. The signs are projected to cost at least $84,000. This is the Trump administration’s latest attack on the Smithsonian, a cultural institution that has stood witness to the American story for 180 years. It comes after the September 8 announcement that Lonnie G. Bunch III, the Smithsonian’s chief official and founder of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, will retire at the end of this year. Bunch has said that the repeated attacks from the Trump administration and pressure to eliminate exhibits representing “improper ideology,” such as anything to do with race, gender, or oppression, did not influence his decision. In June, Donald Trump signed an executive order giving his administration unprecedented control over the institution, which he claimed “views American history as a ‘prime tool’ to advance ideas of social justice and the radical transformation of our society.” The White House Domestic Policy Council elaborated on Trump’s claims in an Independence Day report on the status of the institution. “The Smithsonian Institution, and the National Museum of American History in particular, under its current leadership and current interpretive ideology, cannot be trusted to tell America’s story honestly and in a way that is inspiring, unifying, and worthy of our great republic,” the report said. When he announced the signs to Senators Jeff Merkley and Lisa Murkowski, Burgum said that the “informational signage therefore will provide visitors with important context about the exhibits they are about to encounter and the personal viewpoints that the curators of the exhibits are seeking to advance.” “We believe the public should enter the museum fully equipped with the information needed to evaluate whether to invest their time in viewing these exhibits and programming,” he wrote in a letter to the senators. It is not yet clear what exactly the “information needed” will be. The text of the signs or the plans for their physical structure is still undetermined, but Burgam’s letter suggests direct attacks on Smithsonian leaders, including Bunch and museum director Anthea Hartig. Trump’s attacks on the Smithsonian are a textbook example of an administration using its power to manipulate how citizens encounter history and discredit institutions that challenge its preferred narrative—a stepping stone, of course, toward fascism.
newrepublic.com
September 16, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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So Internet Archive, Open Street Map, and Zenodo all currently getting hammered by fucking AI bots. Core pieces of research infrastructure under threat. And those of us trying to keep resources online for the public become the unpaid servants of the mega-rich AI shysters.
September 16, 2026 at 7:16 AM
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RE: https://dragonscave.space/@KaraLG84/117279308406121475

This is why you write text alternatives yourself. Saying “AI will do it” makes blind people reliant on gatekeepers. Imagine if in the US models would think of ICE Agents as “sensitive content”. This tech is not neutral even as it […]
Original post on yatil.social
yatil.social
September 16, 2026 at 8:26 AM
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**Turn off Apple Intelligence in macOS 27**
There's no longer a system-wide opt-in (or opt-out), but you can still turn off features one by one, and there's a usage report that can tell you what you missed.

#HowTo #Apple #AI #Siri #macOS #macOS27 #macOSGoldenGate
Turn off Apple Intelligence in macOS 27
discussions.apple.com
September 16, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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this was incredibly annoying but I've added 1Password SSH key import to ChiPass! this is our first significant feature work

https://codeberg.org/ChiPass/ChiPass/pulls/150
Import SSH keys from 1Password's 1PUX vault export files
Fixes #148. ## Testing strategy - Import a 1Password 1PUX file. - Check that all of the SSH private keys have been imported. - Add the keys to the agent and check that they can be used for authentication. ## Type of change - ✅ New feature (change that adds functionality)
codeberg.org
September 14, 2026 at 5:08 PM
I still love how this industrial-themed Minecraft mod measures stuff in "millibuckets"
September 12, 2026 at 1:12 AM
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Nearly two miles underground in South Africa, scientists have found oxygen that has never seen sunlight. In March 2026, researchers descended into the Moab Khotsong gold-and-uranium mine near Johannesburg, tapping brine that geochemical dating shows has been sealed off from the surface for at […]
Original post on wandering.shop
wandering.shop
September 10, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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BTW if you ever feel your feed is too negative you should check out #photography #fediart or #dogsofmastodon ... don't forget you can follow hash tags!
September 10, 2026 at 3:59 PM
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[Transphobia]

Spicy take: If trans rights was an actual negotiation, I MIGHT agree to make some concessions on trans sports and trans surgeries on minors for the other side accepting other aspects of trans rights like accepting social and hormone transition equality for all. But it's not give […]
Original post on infosec.exchange
infosec.exchange
September 10, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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The year is 2026. Nobody wants a gamified experience on a website. Don’t give me a badge. Don’t even perceive me
September 10, 2026 at 1:13 PM