"we can't have russia and China as neighbors"

Russia to Alaska: 2.4 miles (3.8 km) Bering Strait (Diomede Islands)

Russia to Greenland: ~550 miles (~880 km) Arctic Ocean

i'm starting to think i should start my LLM prompts with

"you are a system administration assistant with strong organizational skills and access to lots of examples and documentation. You suffer from severe impostor syndrome."

worked for me in my 20's! I don't recommend,but machines can suck it

14 yubikeys

My barn workshop has an infestation:

Spain and Portugal need to print some t-shirts, sell some merch:

I really want to get t-shirts made of this, actual, for-real map:

Ramit Sethi's book "I will teach you to be rich" is sometimes a little cringy in its anecdotes, but is laser-focus understandable on things like index funds.

Sunday matinee of Hamilton in downtown Seattle. Jamie’s first (touring) Broadway show!

My mom was a singer. (For real.) One of her showstoppers was “Killing Me Softly With His Song”.
I remember being like 6, and thinking “DAMN that’s a good song”
#ripRobertaFlack #lovemom

Thar be whales yonder!

Happy baseball season everybody!

Happy Elvis's Birthday, to all who celebrate.

congrats, bluesky, you've reached the "massive wave of hot ladies in my area followed you" phase of growth-hacking.

one of my year-end resolutions is going to be "send a kind and constructive note to anyone i have interviewed for a job but did not hire." It's literally the least a professional manager should do.

One of my neighbors works for Xbox. She has a phd in psychology

I’m at #hushcon this morning! Shhh!

Image of a ryobi cordless drill with an apple airtag tracker hot-glued to it

Money well spent:

perils of a weird brain with (something like) perfect pitch: the sound google meet makes at the end of a call is the first chord of Ed Sheeran's "Shape of You"

It is a good thing John McAfee passed away, otherwise we’d probably have a very colorful head on cybersecurity

i actually came back from defcon one year and tested positive for SWINE FLU H1N1

"con-flu" , or in the specific case of defcon, "hacking cough"

i think part of my compile-sandbox discipline was borne out of having x86 linux (and windows) workstations, and powerpc macs, back when all my production hosts ran java and perl on UltraSparc cpus. CPU diversity! #netbsd ! get off my lawn!
(re-send of this)

the last year or so, i've debugged a lot of issues for my developers that involved compilers and other toolchain stuff, because they now have arm64 cpus in their mac dev workstations. ...

i just installed the ios "openvibe" app (on my mac, actually, it runs fine on apple-silicon)
it's connected to my mastodon, bluesky, theads, and nostr identities. I'll try to post using that, so i'll be cross-posted on all those.

am currently using greasyfork.org/en/scripts/4... and tampermonkey to delete all my existing tweets.

Did all of North America catch covid this past weekend, or just the people I work with?

Did all of SOUTH America just join bsky and mastodon this weekend, or just the people I know?

Seattle looks like light pollution, but 70% of the sky is aurora

challenge ideas brainstorming list Contribute to ryancnelson/hamchallenge development by creating an account on GitHub.

I'm trying to start a thing: it's a participation-catalyst-game-challenge thing for #hamradio

github.com/ryancnelson/...

www.reddit.com/r/amateurrad...

When claiming absolute immunity from prosecution for acts by sitting presidents, aren't they also arguing that the CURRENT president could just send ninja hitsquads to MaraLago? They better think this through...

oh, i forgot to do my annual post superbowl twert, but now here:
"welcome to baseball season!"