O frabjous day!

Phone storage filled up while I was trying to record audio. I have it set to store as flac.

It apparently records to .wav in A Hidden, Undisclosed Location then converts after recording ends.

Only, this time it threw an error on account of insufficient free storage.

I rummaged around and found a few big things I could archive elsewhere & delete from the device.

But the recording app was sort of stuck. I was pretty bummed out by the idea I might lose the audio.

After dorking around this way and that, I managed to well and truly stop the app & restart it. At which point it recognized it had the intermediate file cluttering things up and commenced with the lossless compression.

Phew!

Remembering all the different sorts of Halloween candies I've made for Improbable Island over the years

When driving, teach your kids to count cyclists, so it becomes second nature to them to look for cyclists, once they start driving.

*happy bugles*

New box bike has arrived! Have I figured out how to get into it yet? Absolutely not. But that’s a tomorrow topic, which I’m going to try to rope my home PT guys into helping me figure out. Really impressed by the process of working with Bunch Bikes. More as we get used to this! #BikeTooter

So if men are just so endearingly dumb that they can't conceive of something like "our cool standing desk setup is hostile to women because women are on average shorter than men" how can we design systems so these poor guys don't have to worry about making that mistake?

well it's simple, if your cool office setup is OSHA complient and ADA complient, probably an average woman will be able to do work there 🤔

You don't even have to make a single man fix the SIN IN THEIR HEART to combat sexism!

On a more uplifting note, I happened across something beautiful from the thrift store…

https://jasongullickson.com/a-labor-of-love.html

The difference in funding is astonishing. I’m hoping there is a bigger donation stream on Patreon or dare I say Liberapay that is unaccounted for.
https://social.gabekangas.com/objects/37fc2ff4-a2cd-40db-9f87-a34a0cca23a6

RE: https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/113833761121678801

#Throwback

That's how @SafeguardingResearch started, on January 15th 2025

Feels like half-a-lifetime-ago already...

These sponsored CNN travel articles are what they are but also a view into a world where exactly nobody will be able to tell somebody that they'll be replaced by a computer.

https://www.cnn.com/travel/istanbul-grand-bazaar-turkey-behind-scenes

non-copyability is a property *you cannot have* in a computer system. this is also known as the delegation problem (http://www.erights.org/elib/capability/delegations.html); you can't prevent delegation. so the only way to have this property is to engage in wishful thinking about the security of hardware cryptography chips.

Very useful reading about civility.

https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/echoes-quad/2026/10/13/whats-wrong-civility

I do think if you have a conversation like this:

RHETORICAL YOU: "Nobody makes software that actually focuses on user needs and wellbeing, it's all for developers."

LITERAL ME: "Actually, I personally do and I have receipts and I'm literally doing more work on this today. Also here are several other projects that qualify. Also other people are pointing out projects too, like ElementaryOS."

RHETORICAL YOU: "Literally no projects care. It's over."

I do think you need to log off. For like, a long time. I don't know if it's more for your benefit or everybody else's, though it would clearly benefit all parties to some degree. But like, do actually stop wasting the time of the people fixing the problem by telling them to their faces that they don't exist. Stop it. Get some help.

Does anyone know what SeL4's policy is on genAI contributions?

Felt the need for a little catharsis, cast around for Max Richter's On the Nature of Daylight.

See the Official Video so, out of curiosity, I don't just listen, but watch.

Very affecting. Very relatable. I have done that walk.

I can't name the actor, so I repair to the comments. Hmm. I look the actor up with a vague recollection of what I'm soon to be reminded about: A Scientologist.

(exhales)

Rust is memory-safe.

https://github.com/Speykious/cve-rs/tree/main

I also appreciate the license.

being "up to date on technology" is a scam

It’s an arcade game, how long could it take to lose? 15 seconds?

Broadcom CEO Hock Tan discussing problems with the current crop of AI crap having no business model or ROI (via https://wolfstreet.com/2026/10/12/ceos-of-broadcom-intel-say-the-quiet-part-out-loud-about-ai-and-roi/)

I know this is a long post on a complicated issue, but I hope you give it the time it deserves.

Anyway, I'm happy to pay an infosec/privacy oriented Toyota sysadmin to minimally activate this car such that maps/GPS and local static audio files work and only those two functions work. #ParentalAutomotiveControls

Look, this is what transit excels at- moving masses of people away from an area. Go #Seattle for having transit people directing folks for the #lightrail.