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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 8h

Been meaning to read Victor Wooten's book "The Music Lesson" so I just got it. Already absolutely jamming with this book. His philosophy of music matches mine so well... To learn music, JAM, and think about groove, and rhythm and phrasing and all these things, its not just about learning some […]

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maco @maco.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Hey, for anyone looking for an alternative to #meetup, just a heads up that there's a Fediverse alternative. It's called Mobilizon.

https://mobilizon.org

I'm starting to use the US instance (mobilizon.us) for tech and dance events here in the DC area.

And hey, #elixir people? It's written in […]

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 1d

All right guys. It's been a long day and I've still got a URI, so hoping tomorrow when I wake up I'm doing better. We had some delicious Calzones tonight, and I took the dog for a walk, so I'm functional but just low energy. Will be looking for some quality shitposts and maybe a little good news […]

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Current Music I know something about: Yussef Dayes, Brandee Younger, Theon Cross, Nubya Garcia

Current Music I literally know nothing about: Taylor Swift

#jazz #jazzisdead

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 1d

I really think there's value in a shitload of witches casting the most vile curses on the entire fascist apparatus in the US, not just broadly but on the individual players... These people are frightened little shits and hearing about how their teeth will fall out and their skin peel off and […]

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Michael Grinder @mgrinder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

@dlakelan Looks like ulisp runs on them http://www.ulisp.com/

uLisp

www.ulisp.com

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Clint (he/him) @conejoclint.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/07/rutgers-professor-turning-point-usa

A red banner displaying the word "Rutgers" hangs from a wooden post, with vibrant orange trees in the background, suggesting an autumn setting.

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 2d

My two boys are doing their math and asking me questions. A dangerous thing. We've discussed how real polynomials if they have complex roots, they always come in pairs. We've discussed how to find the minimum of a graph using a graphing calculator. And we've discussed how the admonition that […]

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Anyone know of a scheme implementation that works on rpi Pico or similar hardware? Why should python people have all the robot fun?

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mr_daemon @mr-daemon.untrusted.website.ap.brid.gy · 2d

@JessTheUnstill I unironically think about this shitpost at least once a week, and it absolutely is something important to remember

An old da share zone meme showing a human skeleton posed mid-run, with the following text:

JUST WALK OUT
you can leave!!!

work
social thing
movies
home
class
Dentist
Clothes shoppi
too fancy weed store
cops if your quick
friend ships

IF IT SUCKS... HIT DA BRICKS!!

real winners quit

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 2d

I don't think I mentioned that my wife, bless her, cleared all the crap that had been piled onto my desk by the after fire house cleaning people, and my actual empty desk is there waiting to be set up once I am no longer sick... True love.

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Each person in our house has gotten a upper respiratory thing each separated by about 3 days... Its not COVID thankfully, and lasts like 3-4 days... But I'm the last one and I woke up feeling sick this morning. Got the kids to school (they're over it) been lying in bed since. Need some soup […]

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 3d

PUSD the local school district sent home comms saying they need to do $33M/yr or so in cuts. AFAIK thats like $2500/student/yr which is probably around 12% of their per student budget or something (all numbers only accurate to back of envelope levels). A lot of this is structural deficits where […]

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 3d

kubernetes and docker and microservices and such... it's all just reproducing the early 90's microkernel architecture... we didn't leave microkernels behind, we just made our hardware so big that Linux is basically a microkernel controlling a herd of containerized daemons #computerscience #hottake

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𝚝𝚓𝚠 @thomaswebb.net · 3d

This thing always happens where someone wants to drive home just how bad things are by comparing to somewhere. ICE is gestapo. US religious right is Taliban, etc.

Then others will respond that obviously this isn't a foreign import but has deep precedent where it stands.

I think the real […]

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hex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Because this has shown up trending every couple of days for the last week or so, these are not clowns from #Portland. These are clowns from Germany in 2007. #pdx has it's own creative resistence. Let's celebrate the real things they're doing right now.

I'm […]

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Clown posse posing behind German law enforcement, in Germany... Not Portland.

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AJ Sadauskas @aj.gts.sadauskas.id.au.ap.brid.gy · 4d

@juergen_hubert A thing that often happen is the visibility of abusive posts us not set to "everyone".

So it's important to be aware that when there's an abusive reply, it might not be visible to you.

There are also some instances that take a very lax attitude towards moderation.

Now, if your […]

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 4d

I dont think I'm exactly in the target audience for KPop Demon Hunters. Wednesday Addams was more my speed.

Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 4d

My sister has decided she hates windows 11 and is probably going to switch to using a Linux system. She used a Debian laptop for the last few years of her degree at Reed, back in like 2004 ish. Back when 802.11b PCMCIA cards were how you got that new fangled WiFi, and she wrote her undergrad […]

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 4d

My sister went to follow the instructions for uninstalling PC App Store which is, according to the publisher responding to me on BlueSky via my bridged account "not malware". As soon as it pops up the window "Do you want to uninstall this app" PC App store pops up an always-on-top app that […]

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 5d

Curtis Yarvin is fantasizing about fleeing the country because “Stephen Miller and his ilk” aren’t going far enough, fast enough and are only trying to “look tough”:

The second Trump revolution, like the first, is failing. It is failing because it deserves to fail. It is failing because it spends all its time patting itself on the back. It is failing because its true mission, which neither it nor (still less) its supporters understand, is still as far beyond its reach as algebra is beyond a cat.
Because the vengeance meted out after its failure will dwarf the vengeance after 2020— because the successes of the second revolution are so much greater than the first
—I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country. Everyone else in a similar position should have a 2029 plan as well. And it is not even clear that it will wait until 2029: losing the Congress will instantly put the administration on the defensive.

When you see clips of masked DHS goons hauling off some equally masked anarchist, you may be tempted to cheer. Don't. Yes, charges will be filed. No, it will not harm the anarchist—it will make his day, his year, and maybe his life. All the money and power in the world will be at his defense. He will not even need to lift a finger to organize his own lawyers, much less pay them. In the end, as with many of the BLM rioters, he will probably be well compensated, with taxpayer funds, for his trouble. Not to mention all the pussy and/or dick s/he will, as a martyr, be entitled to! For the Islamist, this reward is only in heaven. But for the leftist it comes on earth.
The reward for Stephen Miller and his ilk is also on earth. They look tough. They're doing something. That they are not even doing 0.01% of what it would take to solve the problem —that, at much more risk to themselves, the most they could probably do is 0.05%-matters not. They can milk it as far as it goes. They, too, will sell books.

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Me (preparing the cold soup from the Mexican restaurant for my sick sons lunch, operatically): pooooosole miiiiooooo

Him: 🫤

Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Basically, is there a good way to get her a decent malware remover without using a browser on her windows laptop?

Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 5d

I wasn't able to send her the MalwareBytes install exe via signal because Signal refuses to let you send .exe files.

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Dear #windows #infosec #security people. My sister is an average windows user. It appears she has a compromised browser, she tried to download VLC, the compromised browser may have routed her to a different download and now she has some malware called PC App Store.

Other than just sending her a […]

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