The reports are true: FireWire’s run on the Mac has ended after 26 years. RIP, my once-fast friend.
However, you do *need* rules. Driving on the left (or the right or, in parts of Europe, on the left and the right as the mood takes you) is a rule which works, since following it means you're more likely to reach your intended rather than your final destination.
Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett
How can I use machine learning to *quickly* determine if an image is NSFW¹?
I've been playing with https://huggingface.co/Marqo/nsfw-image-detection-384
That takes about 60 seconds per image.
To scan all the images on OpenBenches would take about 2 months!
I don't want to send images to a remote service; I need to run this locally.
Any suggestions?
¹ (I know that "NSFW" is vague. But, for my purposes, nudity and anything sexual.)
today’s fun weekend experiment was recovering data from a 256mb ibm hard drive i had in my childhood IBM PS/1 486 SX-33, from 1994 to 2000. in 2000 the power supply died, taking out the motherboard and hard drive with it.
i hung on to the drive in case i might some day have the knowhow to recover the data. 25 years later, today is that day.
what disturbing insights into my teenage life does it contain
Went to my cousins baby shower today. Her dad is an amazing artist, craftsman, woodworker. Just wanted to share his beautiful barn that seems to be a never ending artists vision. All the wood you see, he cut, carved, formed and made into visuals. Where he found many of the eccentric items I don’t know. Like, where on earth did he find a bar stool with pedals? He might have made that, I don’t know. The floor. With the drilled holes fascinated me.
Found in Naomi Klein's Doppelganger. The one lesson I wish the modern left would internalize more than anything.
Use shared language.
Don't use lefty jargon when the person you're talking to doesn't subscribe to these ideas. No white privilege, no colonial oppression, no intersectionality. Translate to a shared language, built on reasonable, common assumptions and do the work required to bring people on board.
Because you can be damned sure the MAGA crowd are doing the work.
TIL you can configure ssh to only allow a client to run 1 specific command https://dan.langille.org/2025/04/17/using-ssh-authorized-keys-to-decide-what-the-incoming-connection-can-do/
Introducing the Tinker WriterDeck OS!
Convert any laptop and most chromebooks into a writer deck: A device designed solely for writing.
No distractions.
No internet.
No apps. No games. No social media.
Just writing.
The Tinker WriterDeck is very light weight and specifically seeks to lower the barrier of entry to creating writer decks. It converts older, reused, refurbished, or inexpensive laptops into a dedicated writing machine.
A digital typewriter.
The Tinker WriterDeck sits on top of a "headless" Debian Linux image and boots directly into a console based text editor.
We're using the Tilde Text Editor because it is a simple text editor, has an intuitive User Interface, and allows for customized color schemes for light and dark modes.
Operating System download and instructions on how to convert your laptop into a dedicated writer deck for free are found here: https://tinker.sh
See below for an example of the writer deck in light mode and dark mode.
If anyone has any questions or needs any help setting your laptop up, let me know here!
#solarPunk #linux #writerDeck #bookstodon #writing #writingCommunity #author #libraries
We've put .CA domains on sale for the next little while to give Canadians the opportunity to add a digital Canadian flag to their online presence at a much lower price. Trade up to the .CA version of your existing domain, or register a new .CA for your next big idea.
OMG. Based on Wozniak's comments, I would hate driving a #Tesla too. I'd be cursing out #Musk and Tesla constantly. It sounds just horrible. Is it really this horrible?
https://fortune.com/2025/03/07/steve-wozniak-says-tesla-is-worst-at-improving-driver-tech/
This is a pretty good approach to communication by the Canadian Liberal party, regarding Pierre Poilievre's refusal to get security clearance. Describes the issue, describes why it is important, stays on target, isn't ridiculously dramatic or extreme about the subject, 4 minutes, nice and direct.
Good example for future election communication.
As always, I implore you to read everything Melissa Martin writes. And today is no exception, although I will add that today I think her essay is even more important, to Canadians and our partners in the world.
Read this. Every word.
I finally wrote the blogpost I planned to write for so many months. My thoughts on the future of Java on non-cloud systems. It has 2 parts:
1) the imho better system
2) the pragmatic approach
Facts, not wishful thinking.