Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org

Interestingly two of my #Chromecast #ChromecastAudio devices are still working for local media -- I can cast to them from VLC on the iPhone, using music that's actually stored on the phone, for example. But none of them work for internet streams.

I have a suggestion: if you PM someone for information in a technology forum, don't make them read and reread a rambling, multi-topic message in order to even find the answerable questions in it. You're asking for their time and attention. Focus.

Just took a cat to the vet today, and I think I finally begin to appreciate what an emotional toll it would take to be one. A veterinarian that is, not a cat.

I mean you can't be a good veterinarian (I hereby posit) without being a compassionate and empathetic animal lover, but there's no way to tell the animal that this bewildering, invasive and sometimes painful experience is necessary and done out of love and concern.

I don't know how you get over feeling that every day of your professional life. I don't know if I could.

(Personally I never mail my ballot, I take it to one of the drop boxes. Which are easily as common as polling places are in other states, so it works out to be the same except no lines or malicious poll workers.)

This is like an episode of Blackadder, American Style. Except here the stupidity of Percy, George and Baldrick are all concentrated into a single protagonist, along with the capricious and unchecked power of Queenie.

I wonder if #Oregon has a plan for how we're going to vote when Trump destroys the post office.

Even Kemi Badenoch:

Netherlands PM:

"You Name It", says MapQuest. Here's mine.

It just occurred to me that if I change my preferences in Wikipedia to include my time zone, edit history pages will use it and the age of edits -- particularly if they're today's edits -- will be much more readily apparent.

I mean that should be obvious, but who besides dedicated Wikipedia nerds actually sets their user preferences in Wikipedia?

Days since I've instantly left a site when it gave me two or more popups on landing: 0

In other news, billionaire technology wizard doesn't know a ridiculously obvious enhancement artifact when he sees one.

Think about the fact that there are people who want a man this stupid to put chips in their brains.

https://euroweeklynews.com/2025/02/05/elon-musk-calls-for-nasa-to-investigate-mysterious-square-structure-on-mars/

I just learned that Canada owns about $350bn of U.S. debt.

Everybody sing it now:

Owe Canada! We stand in debt to thee...