mark zero
@artifex.bsky.social
History & mystery; food/film/photos; speculative fiction; tinkering.
Introvert. I'm a nerd, not a geek.
Was @markzero on twitter for 18 years
public pronouns: he/him/they
Introvert. I'm a nerd, not a geek.
Was @markzero on twitter for 18 years
public pronouns: he/him/they
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Sometimes SMH is better parsed not as "shake my head," but "so much hate."
CANDY FLIP - Strawberry Fields Forever
YouTube video by X060X
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December 27, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals!
December 25, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals!
One of mine was 'no problems' but last date was 2023; one was 'problems,' also 2023, no follow up inspection, and one had a couple big bad warning letters, but nothing since the warning letter in 2022 :(
For decades, the FDA made it impossible to know which factory your prescription drugs were manufactured in.
ProPublica built a tool to show you. Here’s how we did it.
ProPublica built a tool to show you. Here’s how we did it.
How We Created a Tool That Tells You Where Your Generic Drugs Were Made
For decades, the FDA made it nearly impossible to know which factories were manufacturing your generic medications. ProPublica built a tool to show you. Here’s how we did it.
www.propublica.org
December 23, 2025 at 2:13 AM
One of mine was 'no problems' but last date was 2023; one was 'problems,' also 2023, no follow up inspection, and one had a couple big bad warning letters, but nothing since the warning letter in 2022 :(
I just realized, while looking up Sweeney Todd videos on Youtube, that Johnny Depp kinda got to play Edward Scissorhands twice. Not sure if that's good or bad.
December 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I just realized, while looking up Sweeney Todd videos on Youtube, that Johnny Depp kinda got to play Edward Scissorhands twice. Not sure if that's good or bad.
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Brian hopes that today, somebody put an arm around you and told you that you are good.
December 19, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Brian hopes that today, somebody put an arm around you and told you that you are good.
Sometimes SMH is better parsed not as "shake my head," but "so much hate."
December 18, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Sometimes SMH is better parsed not as "shake my head," but "so much hate."
ugh, synced Zen to my Firefox account and apparently it deleted the synced multi-containers data, so now even on Firefox it's lost the saved data for a lot of sites that were under containers that no longer exist :(
December 17, 2025 at 5:14 AM
ugh, synced Zen to my Firefox account and apparently it deleted the synced multi-containers data, so now even on Firefox it's lost the saved data for a lot of sites that were under containers that no longer exist :(
Just went to download the Zen browser beta to give it a whirl, and the website threw confetti to celebrate.
I like these people already.
I like these people already.
December 17, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Just went to download the Zen browser beta to give it a whirl, and the website threw confetti to celebrate.
I like these people already.
I like these people already.
December 17, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Had healthy food today (curry salmon bowl) and my stomach rebelled, so tomorrow I think I'd better get pizza to heal it. Or something with ketchup. Anything with lycopene in liquid suspension will probably do the trick.
December 17, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Had healthy food today (curry salmon bowl) and my stomach rebelled, so tomorrow I think I'd better get pizza to heal it. Or something with ketchup. Anything with lycopene in liquid suspension will probably do the trick.
Warning about Google's AI infestation having spread to GMail:
I'm in Gmail on my phone, deleting all mail that has "Atlassian" in it. I get to the bottom of the page, it resets and shows me more, so I start deleting those.
I'm in Gmail on my phone, deleting all mail that has "Atlassian" in it. I get to the bottom of the page, it resets and shows me more, so I start deleting those.
December 12, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Warning about Google's AI infestation having spread to GMail:
I'm in Gmail on my phone, deleting all mail that has "Atlassian" in it. I get to the bottom of the page, it resets and shows me more, so I start deleting those.
I'm in Gmail on my phone, deleting all mail that has "Atlassian" in it. I get to the bottom of the page, it resets and shows me more, so I start deleting those.
I lived in Portland a while back. Thinking of the people and places I knew in Oregon and in Washington, hoping everyone is okay.
abcnews.go.com/US/record-fl...
abcnews.go.com/US/record-fl...
'Extremely serious': Washington declares statewide emergency amid potential flooding
An atmospheric river event that's been slamming the Pacific Northwest with rain is now focused on western Washington.
abcnews.go.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I lived in Portland a while back. Thinking of the people and places I knew in Oregon and in Washington, hoping everyone is okay.
abcnews.go.com/US/record-fl...
abcnews.go.com/US/record-fl...
I don't live in Arlington, but I live so near I often shop there... or *did.*
Will try to avoid it even if it means going out of the way, now. But it also means paying closer attention to what Grand Prairie, Mansfield, and Irving are doing, since they get most of the rest of my shopping.
Will try to avoid it even if it means going out of the way, now. But it also means paying closer attention to what Grand Prairie, Mansfield, and Irving are doing, since they get most of the rest of my shopping.
Arlington council votes 5-4 against reinstating protections in anti-discrimination ordinance
Arlington council votes 5-4 against reinstating protections in anti-discrimination ordinance
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fortworthreport.org
December 10, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I don't live in Arlington, but I live so near I often shop there... or *did.*
Will try to avoid it even if it means going out of the way, now. But it also means paying closer attention to what Grand Prairie, Mansfield, and Irving are doing, since they get most of the rest of my shopping.
Will try to avoid it even if it means going out of the way, now. But it also means paying closer attention to what Grand Prairie, Mansfield, and Irving are doing, since they get most of the rest of my shopping.
This season's EFF shirt choice is one of two they had before but they also include free laptop stickers. I already had the mouse shirt, so I'm looking forward to the one that looks vaguely circuity. Circuitous?
December 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
This season's EFF shirt choice is one of two they had before but they also include free laptop stickers. I already had the mouse shirt, so I'm looking forward to the one that looks vaguely circuity. Circuitous?
Modern Market claimed they wanted feedback about a recent meal, but it seems to have been in service of trying to add an AI slop review to Google:
December 3, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Modern Market claimed they wanted feedback about a recent meal, but it seems to have been in service of trying to add an AI slop review to Google:
Even the polar bear stuffed animals at IKEA have "last chance" banners on them, now.
December 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Even the polar bear stuffed animals at IKEA have "last chance" banners on them, now.
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The official voice of the US government is cruel, gross, and weird. What is that doing to us?
The official voice of the US government is cruel, gross, and weird. What is that doing to us?
Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.
www.motherjones.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM
The official voice of the US government is cruel, gross, and weird. What is that doing to us?
The server where I read about all the latest outages from admins in the trenches... apparently relies on Cloudflare.
Funny, I was just musing there a while back how services were seemingly falling over in alphabetical order. AT&T, AWS. And now Cloudflare.
Funny, I was just musing there a while back how services were seemingly falling over in alphabetical order. AT&T, AWS. And now Cloudflare.
November 18, 2025 at 1:32 PM
The server where I read about all the latest outages from admins in the trenches... apparently relies on Cloudflare.
Funny, I was just musing there a while back how services were seemingly falling over in alphabetical order. AT&T, AWS. And now Cloudflare.
Funny, I was just musing there a while back how services were seemingly falling over in alphabetical order. AT&T, AWS. And now Cloudflare.
The loss to taxpayers is only going to get worse as the data center bubble grows, especially as many newly finished ones sit empty without enough power.
This will also be worse than the mass abandonment in 2001-3, because more power plants are being built that all ratepayers will be on the hook for.
This will also be worse than the mass abandonment in 2001-3, because more power plants are being built that all ratepayers will be on the hook for.
US taxpayers being kept in the dark over datacenter subsidies
US taxpayers being kept in the dark over datacenter subsidies
Disclosure? We've heard of it
The US datacenter industry is reaping huge benefits from state-level subsidies, but transparency around these incentives is limited and states that do calculate their returns find they are losing money on the deals.…
dlvr.it
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 PM
The loss to taxpayers is only going to get worse as the data center bubble grows, especially as many newly finished ones sit empty without enough power.
This will also be worse than the mass abandonment in 2001-3, because more power plants are being built that all ratepayers will be on the hook for.
This will also be worse than the mass abandonment in 2001-3, because more power plants are being built that all ratepayers will be on the hook for.
It would look better without the tag on the side, but how else are people going to know you paid a lot of money for it? 🙄
November 11, 2025 at 11:04 AM
It would look better without the tag on the side, but how else are people going to know you paid a lot of money for it? 🙄
If you're tech support for family and friends who have to use/upgrade Windows, something else to worry about:
Windows 11 possibly turning on Bitlocker if they sign in with a Microsoft account, etc., even on the home version, without warning or permission
www.tomshardware.com/software/win...
Windows 11 possibly turning on Bitlocker if they sign in with a Microsoft account, etc., even on the home version, without warning or permission
www.tomshardware.com/software/win...
BitLocker reportedly auto-locks users' backup drives, causing loss of 3TB of valuable data — Windows automatic disk encryption can permanently lock your drives
Safety measures became an insurmountable barrier.
www.tomshardware.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:57 AM
If you're tech support for family and friends who have to use/upgrade Windows, something else to worry about:
Windows 11 possibly turning on Bitlocker if they sign in with a Microsoft account, etc., even on the home version, without warning or permission
www.tomshardware.com/software/win...
Windows 11 possibly turning on Bitlocker if they sign in with a Microsoft account, etc., even on the home version, without warning or permission
www.tomshardware.com/software/win...
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Reposted by mark zero
Opossum would like everyone to know
if you live somewhere where you can leave the leaves-
that’s where the tastiest snacks are😄
if you live somewhere where you can leave the leaves-
that’s where the tastiest snacks are😄
October 16, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Opossum would like everyone to know
if you live somewhere where you can leave the leaves-
that’s where the tastiest snacks are😄
if you live somewhere where you can leave the leaves-
that’s where the tastiest snacks are😄