Many #git users think --force-with-lease makes a force push safe. It *is* strictly safer than --force, but: - It only guards against one narrow scenario - It's easy to disable that protection without realizing it

Is this "Stream Anytime" wording new? I saw this while trying to find a Blu-ray on Amazon. The button takes you to Prime Video, and the price shown is the "Buy HD" price, but calling it "stream anytime" seems like a weaselly attempt to justify digital purchases being eventually revoked.

I remember learning in kindergarten that HOMES was a useful acronym for remembering the five great lakes. A bit on the nose to change it to SHAME, isn't it?

The first time I was saddened by the news of Optimus Prime's death was when I watched Transformers: The Movie (1986) in theaters. The second time was today. RIP Peter Cullen

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · last mo.

Peter Cullen, the legendary voice actor known for voicing Optimus Prime in the "Transformers" franchise, has died at 85

We've been getting some renovation done on our home for the past couple of weeks, and this morning there was a terrible high pitched tone coming from this work. It was loudest in the hallway to our side door, and second loudest in my office, which is almost right above that hallway. 🤕

The new UI layout in Chrome for Android really makes for a cluttered bottom of the screen, especially with button navigation enabled. This is the way the bsky.app looks on my phone in Chrome. Three separate button bars, each with its own "home" button (at least the last is a circle, not a house).

I went down the garden path on this headline when I first read it: I initially read "steps" as a verb. The funny thing is, it almost works that way because stepping up the waterslide requires walking on water.

The Onion@theonion.com · 3mo ago

Dad Carrying 2-Person Inner Tube Up Waterslide Steps Like Christ Bearing Cross

Is this Droste?

Haus of Decline@hausofdecline.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Is it just my imagination, or does the voice in Ubuntu's "Test speakers" tool sound kind of like Frieren's English dub voice?

Language Barrier The fantasy trope that every member of a given species speaks the same language is a bit silly. Co-author credit to my daughter, who came up with the concept. For more of my comics, read "Love and Hex" on Webtoon! #comics #webcomic #dnd #ttrpg #dragons #funny #art #bskyart

Canadians, we have limited time to take action on C-22, the disaster surveillance (and much other terrible things) bill: opencivics-labs.github.io/dontsurveil.... Make your voice heard. There's not much time left!

@standard.site A question about site.standard.document: Is bskyPostRef supposed to point to a post owned by the same user (ie: in the same repo), or is it possible for it to reference a Bluesky post from a different user?

@merriam-webster.com ex-fiance rhymes with science?

Ever since Google search and Google assistant on my phone started using different voices I've noticed that search's voice has begun using some pretty weird pronunciation in some cases. Like today I asked it to add a series of numbers, and discovered that it has a lot of trouble with small numbers.

I've been using Python for over 25 years now, but only got around to really learning how its type annotations work recently. It got me thinking again about something that seems like a bit of a "truism", but I think has some interesting implications...

Even their outage map doesn't work.

Status Is Down@statusisdown.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Xfinity is reportedly down for thousands of subscribers right now. Are you one of them? #Xfinity #XfinityDown https://community.designtaxi.com/topic/25065-is-xfinity-down-march-16-2026/?do=findComment&comment=26947

App passwords can be used to sign into bsky.app, not just third party apps. You can't create an app password while signed in with one. The UI doesn't do a great job of explaining *why* you can't, though. It highlights the name field as if that's the problem, and doesn't show any error messages.

Most apps that let you authorize other apps with OAuth also have a page somewhere in their UI to revoke these authorizations. I would have expected something like this to be in Bluesky under Setting → Privacy and Security (which is where App Passwords are managed), but it isn't there.

Google's "people also ask" answering the important questions. (Yes, those of us who observe daylight saving time *will* be losing an hour of sleep on Sunday. 😑)

Caramel, one of my kids' cats, sometimes likes to leave a "gift" outside of people's doors: one of her cat toys. Today she left not one, but *three* toys outside of my office door. (The precision placement is all hers.) #cathursday

We forgot to take the wreath off of our front door, and last week we discovered that a bird had made a nest on it. We have since been avoiding the use of our front door so we don't risk scaring it off or damaging the nest. Today we discovered that one of the eggs has hatched.

PSA: remove snow from your car before driving, or it could blow off and temporarily blind the drivers behind you, or worse. Every time I go to Tahoe in winter I see many Californians driving with snow still on their vehicles, but this is the craziest example I've ever seen.

We're using #atproto to build a #decentralized social media app that lets you control your own algorithm. Here’s why...

I saw this sign (below the informational billboard) on a recent trip to Costa Rica, and thought it was interesting that the original Spanish ("no drones") is a better English translation than their posted "translation" ("don't drones").

Posting this as a PSA for anyone else (or possibly my future self) who runs into this issue, as Googling was not helping me out...

"This is a Spoon." I animated prose from voice talent @gideonemery.bsky.social that I found particularly helpful in our America.

Android's setRotateEulerM function (which is supposed to create a rotation matrix for 3D vectors) has a bug that makes it pretty useless. This bug was reported 15 years ago. A fix has even been provided in the comments, and yet the issue is still open to this day.

A recent Android update somehow broke all of my launcher shortcuts so they forgot what their main icon was supposed to look like, and they just started showing the app's icon twice like Dr. Evil and mini-me. If you ran into this problem too, recreating the shortcuts seems to fix the problem.

There was a funny glitch in the subtitles of the most recent episode of #Pluribus. When Carol says "this white powdery stuff", the word "white" is replaced by "#D1AD2C", which is the color code for the yellow used in the subtitles. A "search and replace" error, or a weird Easter egg?

left is the network engineer's system at home, right is at work.