Overheard: YOYO - You Only YOLO Once

Talking about electricity usage is like this:

Them: "So what is a kilowatt-hour exactly?"
Me: "Well imagine that you had a 100-watt bulb and you used it for 10 hours. That's 100 watts x 10 hours. One kilowatt-hour."
Them: "Sure, but what's a kilowatt-hour?"

Nextdoor: Easy to join, impossible to unsubscribe from all their emails. Today's new email is from a new Ask Local feature.

But thanks. t hat makes sense now

Like the long way or the short way?

I'm just trying to print on both sides to save paper

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You sure were loud, dude.

Super loud lightning in Berkeley! Lights flickered. Centered in SF. A rare event for us.

Artemis II Flight Day 9: Crew Prepares to Come Home - NASA On their last full day in space, the Artemis II crew began the morning with “Lonesome Drifter” by Charley Crockett as they approached Earth at 147,337 miles.

Artemis II Earth re-entry starts in just a couple hours! 8:07 p.m EDT. (5:07 p.m. PDT)

www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio...

Want to track it?

* Nasa live streams: youtube.com/nasa
* An official tracking website: www.nasa.gov/missions/art...
* A hobbyist site (struggles under load): artemis.cdnspace.ca

Berkeley: the Ohlone Greenway bike & pedestrian trail, between N Berkeley Bart station all the way to the Gilman/Westbrae commercial district, is finally getting some major improvements including new crossings at every major crossing

After 20+ years of talk IT'S FINALLY HAPPENING!!! IT'S HAPPENING!

GPUs on login nodes also needs have allocation controls & accounting, otherwise it's a free resources & the smart, smart users will find a way

There is some progress on these controls being discussed in the k8s/cloud-native world, where companies may not have followed a login-compute split like HPC

Did the Ubuntu security team take 7+ months to respond to @qualysofficial.bsky.social's private communication about #Crackarmor vulnerabilities ,as suggested at blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilit... ?

Friday security disclosures are bad in N. America, worse in Friday *night* in EU & later timezones.

The value of cryptocurrency is backed by the full faith and credit of the cryptocurrency community.

Marked-up image for my records:

Thanks Berkeley neighbor for adding back a safety barrier to this bike hazard on Virginia & McGee. I noticed last night someone removed my cone &I was going to replace it this week. City of Berkeley still hasn't put in a permanent fix.

I am curious how the repair rate on these will compare to hybrids. Hybrids are great for range, but they tend to have a higher repair rate than either ICE or EVs. Is the onboard gas generator a simpler and more reliable solution vs hybrid engines?

Our New Combo Washer/Heat Pump Dryer Uses Less Than 1 kWh of Electricity Per Load - CleanTechnica Last year we bought a combination washer and heat pump dryer and have been pretty impressed. Not only does the machine offer significant convenience where you put a load of clothes in and literally tw...

"New Combo Washer/Heat Pump Dryer Uses Less Than 1 kWh of Electricity Per Load" cleantechnica.com/2026/02/06/o...

Emergency alert from the City of Berkeley. City found some explosive photography chemicals in a residence near Colusa & Tacoma, right near Thousand Oaks school just a block from Solano Ave

"But photography was supposed to be a fun hobby" they said

www.berkeleyscanner.com/2026/01/26/c...

Berkeley hazmat: Shelter-in-place order on Colusa Avenue Residents with a block of Colusa and Tacoma avenues "should prepare to be out of the area or inside your home for at least the entire day."

BREAKING: Here's everything we know about the shelter-in-place advisory issued for North Berkeley on Monday morning. We'll continue to monitor the situation.

Brief power outage in Berkeley near the North Berkeley Bart station. Only lasted a few seconds. PGE.com/outage doesn't show anything so it must have been brief for everyone

Voting over and over until the other side becomes exhausted and gives up.

My other favorite Google Easter-egg is the title for the Google 404 error. It contains an humorous typo.

This Google definition for "Pedantic" doesn't explain what Pedantic means. This is irritating.

Today I realized is an Easter-egg-- It's written this way *because* it will irritate the pedants. Well played Google. Well played.

In the latest round of enshittification:
* Apps use Android notification screen for mandatory advertisements w/ no opt-out option (Except disable all)
* Atlassian inserts Formula 1 advertisement into their enterprise Confluence software. No way for admins to disable
infosec.exchange/@SecureOwl/1...

The inspiration for today's complaint:

Gemini vs a treasured quote from www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UMq...

Duty Calls

Just had a thought: Are we going to be dealing with AI gaslighting for the rest of our darned lives? Are we going to dealing with those 👍 & 👎 buttons forever?

I mean I've been correcting people on the Internet for half my life already...

xkcd.com/386/

My friends, some Gen-zers were listening to some classic 1980s punk and referred to it as "Screemo"

Google's Gemini 3 is apparently causing a fair amount of load on the Google infrastructure. Folks are complaining about errors like "We are at capacity, we'll be back soon" since at least yesterday.

For me just now, Gemini on Google Docs is very slow.

Melissa had to plug in every single cable to every single port. Kit comes with 50,000 pieces.