Facebook lays off 4000 more human beings with lives and families, on the way to 10,000 to bring the total to 21,000 disrupted lives for the year.

The CEO says, "We will become an even greater magnet for the most talented people."

🤔

#CEOsMan #jobs

Ahhh crap. Making me learn stuff.
==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version.
What would you like to do about it ?
Configuration file '/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20apt-esm-hook.conf'

Elderly family member reports in covid-positive. Vaccinated. Unfun symptoms but hanging tough.

Take care and caution. Good ventilation and staying 6ft away from breathers still a solid plan.

#covid2023

Lucinda Williams stories and her ability to tell them are absolute treasures. And it didn't come easily.

Highly recommend catching a concert, online even, and her book.

"I was tired of tiptoeing around and walking on eggshells about mental health,” she said. “I wanted to talk about it more openly and not feel self-conscious talking about it.”

https://apnews.com/article/lucinda-williams-stroke-recovery-autobiography-08e2de7010f0f51bdaf68382f15a203f

Starship flight test prelim starts in about an hour.

https://www.youtube.com/live/L5QXreqOrTA

If you're a SimpliSafe customer, well...what's the backup plan?
It unfortunately can be easily jammed.
Not to pick on them, I'd guess many of these non-wired solutions are similarly vulnerable.

Shot: https://www.instructables.com/Improving-Range-for-SimpliSafe-Motion-Detectors/

Chaser:
https://hackaday.com/2019/08/23/alarm-system-defeated-by-2-wireless-dongle-nobody-surprised/

Quick easy and (somewhat) effective commandline tool that'll subtract and/or add a background into an image.
Certainly easy to use, can operate on a single file or entire directory, and it more or less handles multiple foreground subjects.

I'm seeing okay-not-great results when backgrounds are complicated, or subjects are wearing a color that's common in the background.

https://opensource.com/article/23/4/image-editing-linux-python

Teixera was ratted out by another user -- not difficult to put the squeeze on a teenager, I'd guess -- and Discord coughed him up after a subpoena.

These guys think they're anonymous online, need to think again. Especially if they're criming.

Guess it makes sense that ampersands don't belong in hashtags.

Why do I hear bagpipes

All Hail the Queen, and also the LoC's national recording registry picking up Latifah (yay!) and Mario (whatever that is. <jk/>):

"The annual list usually includes a mix of popular songs, radio broadcasts, significant speeches and more, all intended to define the sound of the country's history and culture. But, for the first time, it will include the music of a female rapper and the soundtrack of a video game."

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/12/1169227901/national-recording-registry

@Alfred please explain IRS document 26 CFR 1.199A-1: Trade or Business to me as if I know nothing about US tax law

Did ChatGPT ingest the IRS documentation? Could it provide a succinct explanation of 26 CFR 1.199A-1: Trade or Business ?

I'm not desperate or anything, just curious.

#desperate #confused

Instead of smelling things the dog is creating smells. I preferred it the other way.

2C outside this morning AND YET I am looking at a mosquito.

#swearWords

@Jerdie not putting tracks on Bandcamp?

Aha the oak leaf hydrangea lives! Thought I might have over-pruned them last year. I don't actually like hydrangea but these overgrown rangey monsters came with the house and the pollinators like 'em.
#gardening

Did the bunny see it's shadow? Do we get another 6 weeks of spring?

#amIDoingThisRight