The US government just banned consumer routers made outside the US You can keep using your existing router.

This seems like a big deal.

www.theverge.com/news/899172/...

Wait the ring wraiths know my position?

3d printed object with lots of random colors because it's just a prototype part

Sometimes the prototype printed with filament scraps is cooler looking than the final product.

Dr. Douglas Comer

Dr. Douglas Comer ready to give his keynote "Software Distribution Now and Then: How the Internet Changed Everything" at #SCaLE. @socallinuxexpo.bsky.social

Amir Jakoby giving his presentation

My last session of the day (other than the keynote)... Amir Jakoby on Making OTTL Go Brrr 40x. #SCaLE.

Slide from Jeff Deifik's Cracking Passwords Like a Boss presentation

Cracking Passwords Like a Boss, presentation by Jeff Deifik at #SCaLE. His slides on the statistics of actual found passwords is fascinating.

Presentation available online as well... jdeifik.com/Cracking_Pas...

Mark Russinovich presenting

Who would have ever guessed it... Microsoft CTO Mark Russinovich at a Linux conference. #SCaLE

"Nearby Glasses". Scans for Bluetooth Mac addresses associated with the glasses. I think it's Android only.

Warning message from the Nearby Glasses app

Walking around at SCaLE and got this alert, and sure enough I was standing next to two people with Meta spy goggles. So the app really does work. #scale

Me at SCaLE

Southern California Linux Expo, here I come.

Mexican breakfast

Hell yeah breakfast. Carnes Asadas Pancho López in Cypress Park.

A badge showing that IvyMike has contributed 1012865 discovered wifi networks to wigle.net

Sometime in the last week I hit ONE MILLION discovered WiFi networks on @wiglenet.bsky.social

P.S. They should send everyone who hits that milestone a plaque. Including me. Because ONE MILLION. :)

I swear when I went from the Model 1660 to the Model 1670 I could not believe how FAST 1200 baud was. :)

Octoprint "award" for cancelling ten consecutive prints on the same day.

Some days 3d printing do be like that tho.

2025 #OctoPrintWrapped: 586 prints completed, 115d 5h total print duration, 2d 14h 54m longest print, Monday busiest weekday, 553 files uploaded, 7 octoprint versions.

Been busy

Homophobia Is the Charge That I Gave Him Another annoying moment – a tiny one – yesterday, this one coming from the Ron Popeil of our times, Snoop Dougg.

Snoop Dogg, radically uncool. michaelianblack.substack.com/p/homophobia...

Polymaker HT-PLA-GF 3d printer filament

First time printing with Gluten Free filament, wish me luck.

My theory: Corporations are seeing little-to-no return on AI tools because a majority of work at any large organization is some form of interdepartmental infighting. When both sides of a conflict have stronger tools, the needle doesn't move at all.

I'm convinced I could have a lucrative business going into apartments and fixing problems with miswired 3-way circuits and nothing else.

"When wiring a 3-way, 4-way, 3-way switch setup, it matters which wire goes where. Unless it's not obvious what the wires are... in that case just put any wire in any spot." - The Handymen of America.

Hey "Autodesk Fusion" I'm just gonna call you "Fusion 360" forever, just letting you know. @autodeskresearch.bsky.social

A giant snowman model wearing a Dodgers uniform.

Published a couple of new 3d models on Printables so that I could dress my @3dprinty.xyz Giant Snowman up in a LA Dodger uniform for August.

www.printables.com/model/138655...
www.printables.com/model/138656...

BTW this means that after months of thinking "I wish you could customize the toolbar" I realized... you can customize the toolbar. It's super easy.

He watches The View

Modified Fusion 360 toolbar removing filet and replacing it with chamfer.

3d printers enthusiasts of the world: Please sign my petition to make this the default on Fusion 360. @autodeskresearch.bsky.social #3d #3dprinting #3dprinters @3dprinting.bsky.social

Masterful gambit

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAh4...

BirdNET-PI

You can also build a little raspberry pi station, or buy a prebuilt device, that listens 24/7 and uploads the accumulated data to the Birdweather site so that scientists can track bird migrations. I have one and it's super neat. www.birdweather.com/birdnetpi

The obvious errors are not a bug; they are a feature. RFK Jr is saying "I'm going to submit the biggest pile of crap you've ever seen and get away with it because I have the power and you do not". This is a deliberate middle finger to science, and Trump's base eats it up.

Does it count if the guy punching the Nazi is also a Nazi himself