Huh. I appealed the speed camera ticket online. They sent an email saying that it was being reviewed but nothing else since. Suddenly this morning when I try to check the status of the ticket, it doesn't seem to exist any more.

I don't want to just assume they've waived it, but I don't know what else to make of this. It'd be nice to have some sort of confirmaion.

I was always bothered by the scene in #StarTrek II when they used Reliant's prefix code. The input device they used made absolutely no sense from an electronics (or user interface) standpoint.

It just recently occurred to me though that it makes absolute sense from a quick and dirty movie prop standpoint.

Had the car towed to the mechanic's and walked to my brother-in-law's to wait for the mechanic to call us with the damage.

That was a longer walk than I expected. We also took a "shortcut" along a walking trail that I found on OpenStreetMap.

I was sure we were going to spawn a true crime documentary: couple disappear into woods never to be seen again.

Had to power cycle my router and my sshfs mounts... persisted somehow?

I'm not complaining, but I am confused.

We were driving home and suddenly heard a clunk and the battery light on the dash suddenly came on.

Fantastic. We've been driving Instacart to make ends meet. We can't afford a huge repair bill right now. Hopefully it's just the alternator belt that snapped.

This car is 20 years old. It's not like it owes us any favours, but it's still a problem. The one positive thing I can say about this car is that of the two major issues it's had, it's always had the courtesy to break down a couple blocks from home so that we can limp back there and figure out what to do next.

Just saw lemons priced at .98¢

I wonder if Verizon's gotten into the grocery business.

@🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) A question about security pins:

My understanding is that the said pins are the key pins, not the driver pins, so if I'm gentle enough to not over set them, the shape of the pin should be completely irrelevant, right? I mean, they'd only pose a problem if they were pushed beyond the shear line, wouldn't they?

Wanted to know if I could set gelatin faster by putting it in the freezer instead of the fridge. This is the first paragraph of the first result I found on the subject.

When it comes to culinary creativity, gelatin is a versatile ingredient that can bring remarkable textures and flavors to our desserts, jellies, and savory dishes. However, those who have worked with gelatin often find themselves asking: “Will gelatin set faster in the freezer?” In this article, we’ll explore the science behind gelatin, how it sets, and whether using a freezer can indeed speed up the process.

That's a lot of reading for what the author knows damn well is a yes or no answer I'm looking for. I kind of understand why people like the idea of "AI summaries". Though I imagine this whole article was spit out by an LLM in the first place. Gotta keep people on the page as long as possible to drive up potential ad revenue, right?

Working on a simple #web site for a client, and I'm trying to balance keeping it from becoming a bloated mess of unnecessary code, and minimizing the amount of unnecessary work I have to put into it.

For one feature they want, I'm tempted to install #jQuery. It feels like unnecessary bloat, but it makes the process easier. How much overhead does it really add?

I live very close to a large German club.

As always, It's going to be a long (and loud) October.

Busting out #LibreCAD to design a logo for a client. Every time I use it I have to re-learn how. #AutoCAD has trim an extend commands to trim and extend lines. In LibreCAD, they're both trim for some reason.

I love #FOSS, but sometimes...

Open ai (capitalized like that) has just emailed me from a .ru domain, telling me that I need to update my payment details to continue using their "Premium" service that I never subscribed to.

I'd better get right on that.

I love how when PHP fails on this project it just gives me a blank page rather than an any kind of useful error message, essentially "something bad happened, you figure it out."

Also, testing in production is fun. 🙃