Let it crash, let it crash
Let it crash, let it crash
There will be a stacktrace
Let it crash
Spent something like 20 minutes trying to troubleshoot Minecraft Realms for the 9YO and determine …
Spent something like 20 minutes trying to troubleshoot Minecraft Realms for the 9YO and determine whether it was his account, our network, or a service outage. Seems to be the latter.
Now he’s making armor stands in a local world, naming them Minecraft Realms, and demonstrating how someone would knock one out or cover it in spider webs to slow it down.
Now he’s got a bunch of pistons pushing “Minecraft Realms” around
People who are riding out the pandemic in literal ghost towns. Park rangers and an …
People who are riding out the pandemic in literal ghost towns. Park rangers and an update on the guy who was going to stay for two weeks but got caught by a freak snowstorm and then the travel restrictions…and has decided to stay.
They Live Alone in Ghost Towns
There are thousands of abandoned hamlets in the U.S. Some people still live and vacation in them. Maybe you want to, too?
Surprising no one over the age of 9, the 9YO who spent the last month …
Surprising no one over the age of 9, the 9YO who spent the last month complaining about his video sessions for school (wrapped up on Friday) is now bored out of his mind and can’t think of anything to do.
Thanks, Asana, for saving that unfinished comment from two years ago
…thanks, Asana, for saving that unfinished comment from two years ago that might have helped prevent some of the things I had to fix last week.
‘Course it would’ve been nicer if you’d reminded me that I had an unfinished comment slightly less than two years ago…
Spiral holes in the deserts of Nazca identified as part of an ancient aqueduct system.
Spiral holes in the deserts of Nazca identified as part of an ancient aqueduct system.
Ivy Escape!
form class="needs-validation"
You’re doing a great job, form. Nicely legible, clear labels on everything, sensible defaults, easy click/tap areas, and when someone doesn’t fill things in right, you tell them what the problem is instead of throwing a stacktrace. Keep it up!
“root is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.”🤦♂️
Casting around for something to prop up a phone, stumbled on an audio cassette case. …
Casting around for something to prop up a phone, stumbled on an audio cassette case. Weird that it works so perfectly.
Setting it as the wallpaper on Android phones caused them to break
Story about a landscape photo that went viral not just because it’s incredible, but because setting it as the wallpaper on Android phones caused them to break due to a bug in how the system handles color spaces.
‘How my photo ended up breaking Android phones’
Gaurav Agrawal, a scientist and amateur photographer living in San Diego, couldn’t believe it when he suddenly started seeing a photograph he took last summer popping up on the news.
TV died
TV died. Any recommendations on brands that are at least *less* likely to abuse their smart features to spy on me?
Obviously nothing with a microphone or camera, but something I can trust to actually turn off data collection beyond what the streaming services already know.
(Consensus was get what I could find and just not hook it up to the network.)
9YO tried out sending me a file labeled “lol why did I do this”
9YO tried out sending me a file labeled “lol why did I do this”
Bees that buzz……
We have reached the time of year when someone in the neighborhood sets off *one* firework
We have reached the time of year when someone in the neighborhood sets off *one* firework late at night, then waits an hour or so to make sure that no one’s called the cops, then sets off another one, then repeats the process every night until a week or so after July 4.
At least here, it happens every June. Also about a week around New Year’s. I’m pretty sure that someone in one of the nearby blocks stocks up on fireworks every July and saves part of the stash for the following June.
Trying out Nextcloud
Finally set up a #nextcloud server for the household. Hoping to replace several big-company and ad-based services with it.
File sync/sharing: straight-forward, works well across desktop, web and mobile apps. May need to add storage.
Next step: to-do lists. Looks like Tasks will do what I want (both personal & shared lists), but I need a good mobile app to use with it.
Then I need to experiment with Carnet. Already moved from Google Keep to SimpleNote, might keep going.
Red-tailed Hawk (transmission tower, June Gloom)
Perched on top of a transmission tower where I’ve occasionally seen a hawk before. There are at least two in the area, as I’ve seen them flying together a couple of times.
This northern mockingbird flew across the street and landed on a lawn.
This northern mockingbird flew across the street and landed on a lawn. While I got the camera out, it flew up to a rooftop, then flew across the street again to land on a signpost, where it stretched its wings briefly (as seen here).
Fun fact: mockingbirds are able to recognize individual humans, and their ability to mimic sounds extends beyond birds to cats, dogs, and even car alarms.
50 years of research shows that police responding to protests with force causes *more* violence. But they keep doing it anyway. via @FiveThirtyEight
50 years of research shows that police responding to protests with force causes *more* violence. But they keep doing it anyway.
via @FiveThirtyEight
Was going to run to the store after work before curfew hit. Stores were already …
Was going to run to the store after work before curfew hit. Stores were already closed. Came back, got out of the car & saw, I kid you not, a mourning dove on a wire and a red-tailed hawk circling behind it.
Hard to tell on the phone resolution, but damn, you can’t make this shit up.
