The real Y2K story was getting people to share information with others about affected systems.

We stand on guard for Pikachu: how the Canadian Armed Forces responded to Pokémon trainers coming on base.

On top of unit tests, functional tests, integration tests, and static analysis, you need a linter. Tom Scott illustrates with the story of a date string format error.

Note to @bodegacats: learning how to live in community from cats.

The US DHS plans to increase the fee for archival immigration records from $65 to over $600 per file. This will make it harder for many to prove they are citizens. But that’s what white supremacist governments do.

17776 but it’s convincing people to stop playing football long enough to convert the Sun into a drive to move the solar system out of the way of a imminent supernova.

Thinking of getting a good Android phone unlocked, installing Lineage on it and making that my main phone.

Blessed kitten child

Yoda in analytical chem with his HP calculator: Polish Reverse is notation I use, hummm.

David Graber’s talk on Managerial Feudalism at this year’s CCC fits in with Mar Hicks’ study of the decline of the British Computer Industry in Programming Inequality.

I have a couple of dresses from Eileen Fisher, they have a label begging me to return them used instead of selling them on a secondary market. I suspect if they could make the items vanish from my back, they would.

One of the first British all-women rock bands toured with the Kinks, the Stones, and opened for Jimi Hendrix. What ended their run wasn’t drugs or fame, but the culture’s expectations of what women owed men.

I’ve been looking forward to seeing the Great Nebula in Orion through my own telescope. Tonight I’m seeing it.

Betelgeuse, be your best self and leave us human astronomers guessing what you are up to.

Context of previous.

HRH Lizzie Bennet Tribble is most annoyed this morning.

Kicking the fools who respond to reports of payments handling issues caused by systemic racism by saying “bitcoin fixes that” in the junk as a service.

Happy, merry holidays.

ETA: There may be some image rotation issues when posting from Android.

To try out the new Firefox Android browser, I bought an inexpensive phone. And now I find myself customizing it and thinking about trying it as my primary phone for a bit.

Thanks to @tabatkins for catching a Jekyll template bug that broke the UU Name Generator, which has been running since 2005. Holiday changesets for the win.

New Year’s resolution: play more Patriarchy Chicken on men who expect me to yield the sidewalk to them.

Development of antibiotics needs public funding for development, manufacture, and distribution.

Depending on capitalism for critical medications is a fool’s game.

Does this mean that “Basic Income” Yang is really “Based” Yang?

Remember that UBI is worthless without healthcare, housing, education, and supplements for people with additonal needs. And UBI with Nazis is not Justice.

The war between adtech and privacy has reached the passive agressive stage. I filed an enhancement bug because, rot1, really?

Following up on Mallory’s thread on abuse of tags: the attached post from a BJP member proclaiming that she supports Courtney Millan; the attached poster is for a rally in support of the BJP’s racist anti-Muslim law.