Chuck Baggett
@chuckbaggett.bsky.social
I like space exploration, AI, peace & freedom.
Second Life born year 2003.
Individual rights are human rights.
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Second Life born year 2003.
Individual rights are human rights.
twitter.com/ChuckBaggett chuckbaggett.space
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Anyone up for a campaign to get YouTube to add Bluesky to their custom sharing widget in desktop/laptop browsers.
By campaign I mean using whatever Google offers, such as feedback forms, feature requests in a Google Group group, sharing posts and threads in social media, and a change.org petition.
By campaign I mean using whatever Google offers, such as feedback forms, feature requests in a Google Group group, sharing posts and threads in social media, and a change.org petition.
How to Calculate a Square Root Without a Calculator
and it is not the Newton's method approximation
youtu.be/6evC4klO_lI?...
by MindYourDecisions at YouTube
and it is not the Newton's method approximation
youtu.be/6evC4klO_lI?...
by MindYourDecisions at YouTube
How To Calculate Any Square Root. What You Never Learned In School (In America)
YouTube video by MindYourDecisions
youtu.be
October 28, 2025 at 12:56 AM
How to Calculate a Square Root Without a Calculator
and it is not the Newton's method approximation
youtu.be/6evC4klO_lI?...
by MindYourDecisions at YouTube
and it is not the Newton's method approximation
youtu.be/6evC4klO_lI?...
by MindYourDecisions at YouTube
Anyone up for a campaign to get YouTube to add Bluesky to their custom sharing widget in desktop/laptop browsers.
By campaign I mean using whatever Google offers, such as feedback forms, feature requests in a Google Group group, sharing posts and threads in social media, and a change.org petition.
By campaign I mean using whatever Google offers, such as feedback forms, feature requests in a Google Group group, sharing posts and threads in social media, and a change.org petition.
October 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Anyone up for a campaign to get YouTube to add Bluesky to their custom sharing widget in desktop/laptop browsers.
By campaign I mean using whatever Google offers, such as feedback forms, feature requests in a Google Group group, sharing posts and threads in social media, and a change.org petition.
By campaign I mean using whatever Google offers, such as feedback forms, feature requests in a Google Group group, sharing posts and threads in social media, and a change.org petition.
Google makes Gemini "available" in Gmail but it can't write messages, can't make filters, has a hands-off attitude to actually working with the email.
I just don't understand the world.
Go in the email and there's an AI writer-editor, but not in the side panel.
I just don't understand the world.
Go in the email and there's an AI writer-editor, but not in the side panel.
October 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Google makes Gemini "available" in Gmail but it can't write messages, can't make filters, has a hands-off attitude to actually working with the email.
I just don't understand the world.
Go in the email and there's an AI writer-editor, but not in the side panel.
I just don't understand the world.
Go in the email and there's an AI writer-editor, but not in the side panel.
An app that takes all news stories in all those newsletters you subscribe to and never read the emails from and makes them into a cool looking news web page with different formats you can easily click through.
October 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
An app that takes all news stories in all those newsletters you subscribe to and never read the emails from and makes them into a cool looking news web page with different formats you can easily click through.
My free year of premium Perplexity ran out, and I didn't use it that much.
It's hard changing my ways after frequent and later constant Googling since 2008.
I still want pages of search results that my search terms, not generated answers to questions.
It's hard changing my ways after frequent and later constant Googling since 2008.
I still want pages of search results that my search terms, not generated answers to questions.
October 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
My free year of premium Perplexity ran out, and I didn't use it that much.
It's hard changing my ways after frequent and later constant Googling since 2008.
I still want pages of search results that my search terms, not generated answers to questions.
It's hard changing my ways after frequent and later constant Googling since 2008.
I still want pages of search results that my search terms, not generated answers to questions.
Open alternatives to schools and authorities? Sounds good.
Austrian watchdog rules Microsoft illegally tracked students via 365 Education, violating #GDPR. Schools & authorities blamed, but Redmond can’t dodge responsibility. Time to switch to open alternatives? https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/13/microsoft_365_education_gdpr/
October 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Open alternatives to schools and authorities? Sounds good.
Which AI "deep search"systems can handle a "Can you dig up some dirt on" request without any whining about not harming people or finding a need to make a balance answer, like "Can you did up any dirt on the Nazi tatoo guy Graham Platner?".
October 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Which AI "deep search"systems can handle a "Can you dig up some dirt on" request without any whining about not harming people or finding a need to make a balance answer, like "Can you did up any dirt on the Nazi tatoo guy Graham Platner?".
Reposted by Chuck Baggett
Reminder: If you absolutely must read that dreck, you can download it for free at Anna's Archive without giving JKR a penny annas-archive.org/search?index...
October 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Reminder: If you absolutely must read that dreck, you can download it for free at Anna's Archive without giving JKR a penny annas-archive.org/search?index...
Reposted by Chuck Baggett
There are bound to be a number of people who aren't worried yet because "I don't have SNAP, I have (My State) EBT."
October 27, 2025 at 1:56 PM
There are bound to be a number of people who aren't worried yet because "I don't have SNAP, I have (My State) EBT."
With the invention of time travel, we might create a new category of thing to do, retroactive suicide.
If you go back in the past and kill your past self, and your past self is dead but there's still you from the future there, can you be charged with murder, or was it suicide?
If you go back in the past and kill your past self, and your past self is dead but there's still you from the future there, can you be charged with murder, or was it suicide?
October 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
With the invention of time travel, we might create a new category of thing to do, retroactive suicide.
If you go back in the past and kill your past self, and your past self is dead but there's still you from the future there, can you be charged with murder, or was it suicide?
If you go back in the past and kill your past self, and your past self is dead but there's still you from the future there, can you be charged with murder, or was it suicide?
I tell Grok dot com to make images of ads that are fun, upbeat looking, and different from each other, for a product that comes in a box,called "Slow Death" with bullet points of Reduces Quality Of Life, No Compensating Benefits, And It's Pricey, and this is what I get:
October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I tell Grok dot com to make images of ads that are fun, upbeat looking, and different from each other, for a product that comes in a box,called "Slow Death" with bullet points of Reduces Quality Of Life, No Compensating Benefits, And It's Pricey, and this is what I get:
Reposted by Chuck Baggett
Milwaukee’s “smart” battery: 300A of telemetry, zero cell balancing—your drill is now a $200 brick that snitches on itself before it dies.
Reverse-Engineering The Milwaukee M18 Diagnostics Protocol
As is regrettably typical in the cordless tool world, Milwaukee’s M18 batteries are highly proprietary. Consequently, this makes them a welcome target for reverse-engineering of their interfa…
hackaday.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Milwaukee’s “smart” battery: 300A of telemetry, zero cell balancing—your drill is now a $200 brick that snitches on itself before it dies.
Reposted by Chuck Baggett
His mother, his father, and now his siblings. What an entitled, morally corrupt family the British people revere and Keir Starmer protects:
www.celebitchy.com/946940/mail_...
www.celebitchy.com/946940/mail_...
Cele|bitchy | Mail: Is Queen Elizabeth to blame for how Prince Andrew turned out?
Celebitchy is a daily gossip and entertainment blog, started in 2006, which also focuses on liberal politics, royal coverage and fashion.
www.celebitchy.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM
His mother, his father, and now his siblings. What an entitled, morally corrupt family the British people revere and Keir Starmer protects:
www.celebitchy.com/946940/mail_...
www.celebitchy.com/946940/mail_...
Reposted by Chuck Baggett
About 90 ancient tribes, who choose to remain isolated from civilisation, are likely to be wiped out in the next ten years as YouTube vloggers, missionaries and tourists threaten to expose groups to new diseases.
(£) www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
Nasty, arrogant, entitled, egocentric.
(£) www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
Nasty, arrogant, entitled, egocentric.
Influencers put isolated indigenous groups at risk for YouTube views
A charity found that nearly half of all remaining remote tribes are under threat from outsiders trying to make unwanted contact
www.thetimes.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:32 AM
About 90 ancient tribes, who choose to remain isolated from civilisation, are likely to be wiped out in the next ten years as YouTube vloggers, missionaries and tourists threaten to expose groups to new diseases.
(£) www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
Nasty, arrogant, entitled, egocentric.
(£) www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
Nasty, arrogant, entitled, egocentric.
Reposted by Chuck Baggett
Being a parent of school-aged kids in the current technology environment is insane.
There are no textbooks. There's at least three separate LIMS systems. Lunch is cashless and there's a 3rd party lunch money service.
1/x
There are no textbooks. There's at least three separate LIMS systems. Lunch is cashless and there's a 3rd party lunch money service.
1/x
October 27, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Being a parent of school-aged kids in the current technology environment is insane.
There are no textbooks. There's at least three separate LIMS systems. Lunch is cashless and there's a 3rd party lunch money service.
1/x
There are no textbooks. There's at least three separate LIMS systems. Lunch is cashless and there's a 3rd party lunch money service.
1/x
Reposted by Chuck Baggett
Sad to learn that great jazz drummer Jack DeJohnette has played his last on this Earth.
So much great music he played on, including with Miles, Sonny, Sun Ra, Jarrett, Herbie, Abercrombie, and his own brilliant music as a bandleader.
Here’s a favorite track:
spotify.link/TpFqRr09NXb
So much great music he played on, including with Miles, Sonny, Sun Ra, Jarrett, Herbie, Abercrombie, and his own brilliant music as a bandleader.
Here’s a favorite track:
spotify.link/TpFqRr09NXb
October 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Sad to learn that great jazz drummer Jack DeJohnette has played his last on this Earth.
So much great music he played on, including with Miles, Sonny, Sun Ra, Jarrett, Herbie, Abercrombie, and his own brilliant music as a bandleader.
Here’s a favorite track:
spotify.link/TpFqRr09NXb
So much great music he played on, including with Miles, Sonny, Sun Ra, Jarrett, Herbie, Abercrombie, and his own brilliant music as a bandleader.
Here’s a favorite track:
spotify.link/TpFqRr09NXb
In retrospect, our product name "Reduces Quality Of Life With No Compensating Benefits, And It's Pricey" was perhaps not the wisest of choices.
Too upbeat.
Too upbeat.
October 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM
In retrospect, our product name "Reduces Quality Of Life With No Compensating Benefits, And It's Pricey" was perhaps not the wisest of choices.
Too upbeat.
Too upbeat.
When I get a notification about a reply on Bluesky, in a desktop browser, and click on it, the reply appears quickly enough, but the part of the thread above it appears slower, and it seems slower now than in the past, and it's not many bytes.
Seems slower than in the past. Familiar?
Seems slower than in the past. Familiar?
October 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
When I get a notification about a reply on Bluesky, in a desktop browser, and click on it, the reply appears quickly enough, but the part of the thread above it appears slower, and it seems slower now than in the past, and it's not many bytes.
Seems slower than in the past. Familiar?
Seems slower than in the past. Familiar?
If you want to make an apple pie from Scratch, your must first create The Devil. Or a devil. As you prefer.
October 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM
If you want to make an apple pie from Scratch, your must first create The Devil. Or a devil. As you prefer.
Someone who doesn't follow me was the only who replied to a post linking to a space video on YouTube, listing what I think of as the most boring list of staple spacetubers one could possibly make, Marcus House, NASASpaceflight, CSIStarbase, Scott Manley, and Everyday Astronaut.
October 27, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Someone who doesn't follow me was the only who replied to a post linking to a space video on YouTube, listing what I think of as the most boring list of staple spacetubers one could possibly make, Marcus House, NASASpaceflight, CSIStarbase, Scott Manley, and Everyday Astronaut.
The video link in this image plays a link with ads that defeats the uBlock Origin extension's adblocking abilities.
Anyone know of CSS snippet for Stylish, or a JS snippet for the Tampermonkey, to hide such videos ? I keep forgetting and clicking them.
The video's are okay, but ads, ick.
Anyone know of CSS snippet for Stylish, or a JS snippet for the Tampermonkey, to hide such videos ? I keep forgetting and clicking them.
The video's are okay, but ads, ick.
October 27, 2025 at 1:12 PM
The video link in this image plays a link with ads that defeats the uBlock Origin extension's adblocking abilities.
Anyone know of CSS snippet for Stylish, or a JS snippet for the Tampermonkey, to hide such videos ? I keep forgetting and clicking them.
The video's are okay, but ads, ick.
Anyone know of CSS snippet for Stylish, or a JS snippet for the Tampermonkey, to hide such videos ? I keep forgetting and clicking them.
The video's are okay, but ads, ick.
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It's pretty creepy and scary how everything on our website is free. 👻
There must be a catch. 🤨
Today's list of free/clean software
from OlderGeeks.com
No ads - no crapware - no b.s. since 2008!
Missouri Ozarks, USA
#FreeSoftware #computers #software
There must be a catch. 🤨
Today's list of free/clean software
from OlderGeeks.com
No ads - no crapware - no b.s. since 2008!
Missouri Ozarks, USA
#FreeSoftware #computers #software
October 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
It's pretty creepy and scary how everything on our website is free. 👻
There must be a catch. 🤨
Today's list of free/clean software
from OlderGeeks.com
No ads - no crapware - no b.s. since 2008!
Missouri Ozarks, USA
#FreeSoftware #computers #software
There must be a catch. 🤨
Today's list of free/clean software
from OlderGeeks.com
No ads - no crapware - no b.s. since 2008!
Missouri Ozarks, USA
#FreeSoftware #computers #software
Good morning.
My sleeping difficulties have been worse than usual for a few days now.
The X dot com addiction has also been worse than usual. Engagement is so low there it's like typing into notepad.
In the dark.
My sleeping difficulties have been worse than usual for a few days now.
The X dot com addiction has also been worse than usual. Engagement is so low there it's like typing into notepad.
In the dark.
October 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Good morning.
My sleeping difficulties have been worse than usual for a few days now.
The X dot com addiction has also been worse than usual. Engagement is so low there it's like typing into notepad.
In the dark.
My sleeping difficulties have been worse than usual for a few days now.
The X dot com addiction has also been worse than usual. Engagement is so low there it's like typing into notepad.
In the dark.