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seemaze··on Why Doesn't Anyone Want to Fix One of America's Scariest Roads?
If that strikes a chord with you, please take a moment to consider the following message:

https://morethanjustparks.com/roadless-rule/

seemaze··on Why doesn't anyone want to fix one of America's scariest roads?
"The motorized tourist, reluctant to give up his back-assward view of the world, demands that the park administration pave the trails, clear out the brush, and put up guard rails... he wants luxury and convenience, and he gets it—at the cost of the wilderness."

--Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire

seemaze··on America.gov
you should not have pushed that button..
seemaze··on macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess
>Mac OS has become an absolute travesty of an OS

It's the worst desktop OS there is.. except for all the others.

seemaze··on The smart home graveyard is getting crowded
Isn't downtime the whole point of having a switch though?
seemaze··on Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain
Isn’t that how diesel trains operate?
seemaze··on On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted
This incident not withstanding, persistent undo breaks my mental model of file state. I treat writes as commits, which allows an open and modify session to be an exploratory branch until I decide to save it.

It is counterintuitive in the same manner as when excel persists undo history chronologically across the running application process, and not separately per document.

Similarly AutoCAD intersperses application parameters and tool configurations alongside actual data operations in it's undo history.

seemaze··on Drawgent: Coding agent on a live Excalidraw canvas
Excalidraw offers their own open source first party MCP endpoint[0] and server[1]:

[0]https://mcp.excalidraw.com

[1]https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw-mcp

seemaze··on An airport cooled by natural ventilation
Psychrometrics[0] is a long studied field of perceptual human comfort in relation to temperature and humidity.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychrometrics

seemaze··on Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell
Microsoft is actively harming the laypersons comprehension of their data with 'features' such as this.

Reasoning about the basic shape of data with real estate managers using the Btrieve[0] database on DOS (and then XP) in years gone by was noticeably more straight forward than wrangling the monolithic excel monstrosities encountered today.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrieve

seemaze··on Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models
This dog only barks when given biscuits
seemaze··on Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech
My primary use case for TTS is converting written content (blogs, articles, etc.) in to clips I can listen to on the go.

Is there a good browser extension that does this with a flexible TTS backend? I know Qwen, Kokoro, and VibeVoice all have decent quality..

seemaze··on Strands Harness
I their web icon a pepe frog? hard pass if so..
seemaze··on Suspension of the de minimis administrative exemption for imports $800 or less
I was charged $46 of import fees on a $137 of art supplies from the Czech Republic this May.
seemaze··on Qwen Image 2.1
pedants unite!
seemaze··on Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash
Can confirm here as well. Running ilintar/qwen3.8-flash-next-gguf-strix-halo (IQ4) on pwilkin/strix-llama.
seemaze··on DeepSeek v4.1 Flash Is Now Our Best Hacking Model
How does GLM 5.3 Flash rank against it's big brother and the latest Deepseek?
seemaze··on Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger
no
seemaze··on iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
Everything in 26 takes longer with all the bs easing that got drizzled over the interface.
seemaze··on Ex-FTC boss Khan: break out the handcuffs for AI CEOs, citing 1934 precedent
Depends on if you're referring to experience defrauding the American public, or protecting the American public. That can have different answers depending on what which side of the transaction you sit.
seemaze··on Ex-FTC boss Khan: break out the handcuffs for AI CEOs, citing 1934 precedent
we could do all of them, but they all seem to be up to date on their tithe. AI has a somewhat mixed record of tribute.
seemaze··on LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'
Are there any useful resources for finding devices that don't have surveillance apparatus built in?

I'm still not purchasing a television. The last thing I need is more screen time in my life.

seemaze··on LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'
As someone who hasn’t owned a television in decades, why would a TV even need a microphone in the first place?

How many other household devices have a microphone whose primary function is orthogonal to recording audio?

seemaze··on The Last 24 Hours Are the Opening Scene in a Horror Movie
This appears to be a copy-paste wall of other persons social media posts assembled by a jazz historian with an alarmingly high frequency of the term 'honest' in their blog titles..
seemaze··on Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists
forgot about this verse:

I'm a peeping tom techie with X-ray eyes

Things are going great, and they're only getting better

seemaze··on Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists
>Future so bright I need to wear ... shades[0]

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qrriKcwvlY

FTFY

seemaze··on Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapses
As they say, time is money.

In the age of the rampocalypse, the peasants may not have a choice between the two.. time it is!

seemaze··on Household Laser Cuts
I've had great success designing durable objects using the sheet metal modeler in OnShape[0] and have them fabricated with SendCutSend[1]

[0]www.onshape.com [1]www.sendcutsend.com

seemaze··on Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer
Would love to see video of the application in action. Was recently researching eink displays for motorcycle navigation, but the refresh rates were not up to par for realtime automotive navigation..
seemaze··on Hackers had a live feed of every ID verification company scanned for over a year
>driver's licenses expire in the US, usually on a 5-10 year cadence

Standard Arizona drivers licenses only expire when the licensee turns 65 years of age, and must be renewed every 5 years thereafter.

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