@agitated_trash from my wife's 44th birthday earlier this year. This was before I learned about the cake flour trick though, so it's a little dense. I also like to use cornstarch for the lemon "curd" instead of eggs; it keeps longer.

@agitated_trash I actually learned to bake birthday cake from scratch for this very reason. I do lemon buttercream for my wife, devil's chocolate for myself.

Among the tricks I have learned are to use about 12% cornstarch with AP flour to make cake flour, and to always sift.

And always do the sugar to taste in the buttercream frosting - recipes are a guideline when it comes to sweetness, and you can use milk powder for body instead of more sugar.

@Thumprhare the way they used the siding as though they were the lines on a page, though. It's like they were doing their second grade cursive homework

Why are American religious extremists so profoundly bad at false flag incidents?

I mean, look at this. It's like they can't even plug "what does graffiti look like" into Google. The little curlycues on the ones and the tidy, even script doesn't look like "antifa", it looks like someone with "Live, Laugh, Love" in their bathroom.

And then the "molotov cocktail that failed to ignite" totally doesn't scream "we didn't want to burn our own building down". Nope. Not at all.

https://www.nbc15.com/2022/05/08/fire-madisons-north-side-is-under-investigation/

Spent the weekend in the Black Rock Desert, getting ready for Burning Man. Our camp stores the vast majority of our equipment in shipping containers out there on a private plot, so that we're not burning tons (literally) of carbon every year to haul it back and forth. We've been doing it this way since 2007. This picture is from Sunday morning; the wife and I went out to enjoy the desolation before coming home. #brc

@WeThePeople wild speculation: forward positioning of American equipment for US troops. That looks like current-generation hardware that even other NATO countries don't have (I think). Plus the UA armed forces would need training on how to use it.

Could be a sign of increased US presence to come in the NATO eastern theater though.

Good afternoon #cosomusic . Streaming until I head out to the city for Purple Disco Machine tonight. Mostly 80s, mostly vinyl. Intro song before I get going.

https://twitch.tv/DJFormica

HQ Opus audio stream at https://terranova.dance/audio

Iran? Russia? Joint op? Far too pro to be MAGAs, obvs. I don't know how the beast is received around here; the source is the feds themselves.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/feds-unravel-wild-scheme-by-fake-agents-to-dupe-secret-service-agents-including-flotus-detail

@sjvn heh. Comcast loves to talk about their "gigabit" speeds, but they always neglect to mention that their upstreams are crippled by the nature of cable modems. Even DOCSIS 3.1 can't push much more than fifty megabits per customer upstream on a regular basis. It's just the nature of the beast.

I'm no fan of AT&T, but I'll be damned if this fiber to the household isn't the best internet service I've ever had. 1Gbps up and down for $120 a month, no contract. And that's the business product!

@joem2go looks like a lot of obsolete T-62s and BMPs or BTRs at first glance. Relics of the Warsaw Pact quantity over quality mentality, assuming they could just swamp NATO in the opening rounds of WWIII in Central Europe with weight of metal and grind them down through attrition.

Compare and contrast with the Sierra Army Depot, located in the rain shadow of the Sierra Nevada. A perfect desert environment to store military hardware.

https://goo.gl/maps/oBAGaJUDGgah5mhf6

I haven't seen any of this talked about in the brouhaha over last night's "moment". But it was the first thing that came to mind when it crossed my various screens.

Perhaps he'd have more awareness and sensitivity to Jada's alopecia as a result. Then again, Chris Rock has been known much of his life for not being able to discern sarcasm from seriousness, and it's defined him as a person, to the point he was told a few years ago he might be autistic. Despite the stigma of mental health, he sought diagnosis, and discovered that while he isn't autistic, he has NVLD:

https://www.stepupformentalhealth.org/chris-rock-is-diagnosed-with-nonverbal-learning-disorder-nvld/

Chris Rock did a fantastic documentary over a decade ago called "Good Hair" about the chemical and mechanical damage that Black women do to their hair to make it "more white", among other things. He was inspired to make it after his daughter asked why she didn't have "good hair". It is almost universally praised, and won a special award at Sundance in 2009.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Hair

I did a mostly-90s industrial set for some friends of mine on Friday that turned out really well. There's some 21st century stuff in here too. Nine inch Nails, Front Line Assembly, Apoptygma Berzerk, Front 242, Ministry, Consolidated, etc. Includes the first edit I consider complicated enough to call my own remix. #cosomusic

https://www.mixcloud.com/Formica/jesus-had-days-like-this/

@webshaun thank you for sharing that tidbit, that's very good information. That's the kind of thing that'll drive a person mad - as it clearly did with you. I hope I wasn't patronizing!

The next step was to try and figure out if there was a way to get into a TFTP firmware flash, or failing that, serial-level terminal access. What a pain in the ass. Like it wasn't bad enough they put DRM on their ink.

@webshaun one more, also from the HP support forums. Similar situation to yours, locked out of the admin password. Similar mechanism, special/partial data reset. This shortened link was created by me and goes to hp.com:
t.ly/MK2T

@webshaun if that doesn't work, try this. It's for a different HP printer, but they often have similar firmware, and this was flagged as working for an 8210:

The trick seemed to be not to press the go back during or immediately after reboot. I also think the usb cable was unplugged.

Press the "Go Back" (looks like an arrow) button 5 times in a row

Press Support Menu

Hit the > button to "Reset" Menu

Hit the > button to Partial Reset

@webshaun Try this. Make sure it's not connected by ethernet.

https://support.hp.com/th-en/document/c05225613

From the home screen on the printer control panel, swipe down to open the Dashboard, and then touch the Setup icon.

Swipe up on the display, and then touch Printer Maintenance.

Touch Restore, and then touch Restore Factory Default.

Touch Continue on the confirmation message.

@jcscher got it, thanks. I found it: https://t.ly/qo0g (this link was created by me)

@jcscher was this on television?