yeroc @yeroc@qoto.org

The reports are true: FireWire’s run on the Mac has ended after 26 years. RIP, my once-fast friend.

https://512pixels.net/2025/07/tahoe-no-firewire/

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

#GNUTerryPratchett, #SpeakHisName, #Discworld

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.)

#OnlineSafetyAct #AI #MachineLearning

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

Too many people aren’t happy unless they are mad.

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.

I think I have finally managed to articulate this very fundamental but slightly counterintuitive fact about how shell redirection works

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.

So much blood https://dynomight.net/blood

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/