Kelson
@notes.kvibber.com
Techie, software developer, hobbyist photographer, sci-fi/fantasy & comics fan in the Los Angeles area. He/him, pronounced KELL-son (rhymes with "Nelson").
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Kelson
@notes.kvibber.com
· Jun 8
Original post on notes.kvibber.com
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I've realized over the last few years that my political position boils down to:
1. Don't be cruel unless you have to.
2. You usually don't have to, even when someone's going to get hurt.
3. One of society's goals should be cutting down on situations in which cruelty seems necessary […]
1. Don't be cruel unless you have to.
2. You usually don't have to, even when someone's going to get hurt.
3. One of society's goals should be cutting down on situations in which cruelty seems necessary […]
Me: "Huh, I didn't know that chain had a location here."
_Goes to OpenStreetMap to add it._
_Sees it's already on the map._
_Sees that I was the one who added it a year ago._
_Goes to OpenStreetMap to add it._
_Sees it's already on the map._
_Sees that I was the one who added it a year ago._
February 6, 2026 at 1:14 AM
Me: "Huh, I didn't know that chain had a location here."
_Goes to OpenStreetMap to add it._
_Sees it's already on the map._
_Sees that I was the one who added it a year ago._
_Goes to OpenStreetMap to add it._
_Sees it's already on the map._
_Sees that I was the one who added it a year ago._
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Well, everyone, you can now submit a comment to let the FCC know what you think about SpaceX asking for 1 million satellites for "AI datacenters" whatever the fuck that means.
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-26-113A1.pdf
Comments due March 6.
I am having a very hard time believing […]
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-26-113A1.pdf
Comments due March 6.
I am having a very hard time believing […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
February 5, 2026 at 1:26 AM
Well, everyone, you can now submit a comment to let the FCC know what you think about SpaceX asking for 1 million satellites for "AI datacenters" whatever the fuck that means.
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-26-113A1.pdf
Comments due March 6.
I am having a very hard time believing […]
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-26-113A1.pdf
Comments due March 6.
I am having a very hard time believing […]
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Words that came out of my mouth just now: "Open Source is not a magic wand that allows you to not spend money on software development."
February 5, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Words that came out of my mouth just now: "Open Source is not a magic wand that allows you to not spend money on software development."
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The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!
This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub […]
This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub […]
Original post on fedi.simonwillison.net
fedi.simonwillison.net
February 5, 2026 at 12:26 AM
The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!
This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub […]
This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub […]
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This is a kind of subtoot about something that I doubt anyone here knows about and it'd be boring and petty to explain. But I just wish more people understood that if you are doing some obscure thing with a small group of people who care about it you SHOULD promote other people doing the same […]
Original post on sauropods.win
sauropods.win
February 5, 2026 at 2:43 AM
This is a kind of subtoot about something that I doubt anyone here knows about and it'd be boring and petty to explain. But I just wish more people understood that if you are doing some obscure thing with a small group of people who care about it you SHOULD promote other people doing the same […]
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I remember hearing this a decade or so ago when Alexa came out.
No. The future of apps is not voice.
The problem isn't tech. It won’t be fixed by AI, or smarter assistants, or whatever.
Far too many tasks are inherently slower or too ambiguous to be reasonably controlled by voice.
Voice is […]
No. The future of apps is not voice.
The problem isn't tech. It won’t be fixed by AI, or smarter assistants, or whatever.
Far too many tasks are inherently slower or too ambiguous to be reasonably controlled by voice.
Voice is […]
Original post on indieweb.social
indieweb.social
February 5, 2026 at 2:06 AM
I remember hearing this a decade or so ago when Alexa came out.
No. The future of apps is not voice.
The problem isn't tech. It won’t be fixed by AI, or smarter assistants, or whatever.
Far too many tasks are inherently slower or too ambiguous to be reasonably controlled by voice.
Voice is […]
No. The future of apps is not voice.
The problem isn't tech. It won’t be fixed by AI, or smarter assistants, or whatever.
Far too many tasks are inherently slower or too ambiguous to be reasonably controlled by voice.
Voice is […]
February 4, 2026 at 10:46 PM
If your response to someone complaining about harassment is to harass them for making the complaint, you are part of the problem.
That includes telling them the problem isn't as bad as they think it is, because chances are they've seen things you haven't. (DMs, replies that only reach some […]
That includes telling them the problem isn't as bad as they think it is, because chances are they've seen things you haven't. (DMs, replies that only reach some […]
Original post on notes.kvibber.com
notes.kvibber.com
February 4, 2026 at 6:06 PM
If your response to someone complaining about harassment is to harass them for making the complaint, you are part of the problem.
That includes telling them the problem isn't as bad as they think it is, because chances are they've seen things you haven't. (DMs, replies that only reach some […]
That includes telling them the problem isn't as bad as they think it is, because chances are they've seen things you haven't. (DMs, replies that only reach some […]
_sigh_ no, systemctl doesn't have a `restop` command...
February 4, 2026 at 12:47 AM
_sigh_ no, systemctl doesn't have a `restop` command...
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A quotation from **Bill Watterson**
> CALVIN: Isn’t it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor? When you think about it, it’s weird that we have a physiological response to absurdity. We _laugh_ at nonsense. We _like_ it. We think it’s funny […]
[Original post on friendica.world]
> CALVIN: Isn’t it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor? When you think about it, it’s weird that we have a physiological response to absurdity. We _laugh_ at nonsense. We _like_ it. We think it’s funny […]
[Original post on friendica.world]
February 3, 2026 at 8:54 PM
A quotation from **Bill Watterson**
> CALVIN: Isn’t it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor? When you think about it, it’s weird that we have a physiological response to absurdity. We _laugh_ at nonsense. We _like_ it. We think it’s funny […]
[Original post on friendica.world]
> CALVIN: Isn’t it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor? When you think about it, it’s weird that we have a physiological response to absurdity. We _laugh_ at nonsense. We _like_ it. We think it’s funny […]
[Original post on friendica.world]
> It sounds weird at first, but this is one of the strengths of immutable systems. Instead of downloading and updating only the files you need, the system grabs a whole new image. When I first tried Fedora Silverblue, I compared its update process to cars. While mutable systems are like stopping […]
Original post on notes.kvibber.com
notes.kvibber.com
February 3, 2026 at 6:48 PM
> It sounds weird at first, but this is one of the strengths of immutable systems. Instead of downloading and updating only the files you need, the system grabs a whole new image. When I first tried Fedora Silverblue, I compared its update process to cars. While mutable systems are like stopping […]
RoboCop: A Glorious, Scathing Satire of America
https://reactormag.com/robocop-a-glorious-scathing-satire-of-america/
Depressingly, everything it satirized about the 80s is par for the course today.
https://reactormag.com/robocop-a-glorious-scathing-satire-of-america/
Depressingly, everything it satirized about the 80s is par for the course today.
RoboCop: A Glorious, Scathing Satire of America - Reactor
"Serve the public trust. Protect the innocent. Uphold the law."
reactormag.com
February 3, 2026 at 1:52 AM
RoboCop: A Glorious, Scathing Satire of America
https://reactormag.com/robocop-a-glorious-scathing-satire-of-america/
Depressingly, everything it satirized about the 80s is par for the course today.
https://reactormag.com/robocop-a-glorious-scathing-satire-of-america/
Depressingly, everything it satirized about the 80s is par for the course today.
Reposted by Kelson
I really cannot stress this enough. When I visited France, I visited a building where I read an entry in a log book where a Nazi recorded my great-grandmother's death in the camps. The name of this building was the "Musée de la Résistance et de la *Déportation*". It was not the "museum of the […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
June 9, 2025 at 7:11 AM
I really cannot stress this enough. When I visited France, I visited a building where I read an entry in a log book where a Nazi recorded my great-grandmother's death in the camps. The name of this building was the "Musée de la Résistance et de la *Déportation*". It was not the "museum of the […]
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January 31, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Let's have another cup of coffee, and let's have another slice of pie.
A cup of coffee for depression treatment has better results than microdosing
#coffee
A cup of coffee for depression treatment has better results than microdosing
#coffee
arstechnica.com
January 31, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Let's have another cup of coffee, and let's have another slice of pie.
A cup of coffee for depression treatment has better results than microdosing
#coffee
A cup of coffee for depression treatment has better results than microdosing
#coffee
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Useful creature. book of hours, Flanders c. 1300-1310. Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, W.37, fol. 187v.
#medieval #medievalart
#medieval #medievalart
January 30, 2026 at 6:00 AM
Useful creature. book of hours, Flanders c. 1300-1310. Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, W.37, fol. 187v.
#medieval #medievalart
#medieval #medievalart
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There's a lot going on in the United States. If you plan to exercise your legal right to protest, we kindly remind you to not RSVP online, "check in" on a social app, or share your name or email with protest organizers.
Protesting a tyrannical government is core to American culture, and […]
Protesting a tyrannical government is core to American culture, and […]
Original post on mastodon.neat.computer
mastodon.neat.computer
January 29, 2026 at 10:34 PM
There's a lot going on in the United States. If you plan to exercise your legal right to protest, we kindly remind you to not RSVP online, "check in" on a social app, or share your name or email with protest organizers.
Protesting a tyrannical government is core to American culture, and […]
Protesting a tyrannical government is core to American culture, and […]
"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone."
Minneapolis Proved Something MAGA Can’t Accept: Most People Are Actually Virtuous
Techdirt riffs on a recent Atlantic piece.
Minneapolis Proved Something MAGA Can’t Accept: Most People Are Actually Virtuous
Techdirt riffs on a recent Atlantic piece.
Minneapolis Proved Something MAGA Can’t Accept: Most People Are Actually Virtuous
There’s a line buried in Adam Serwer’s recent Atlantic piece on the Minneapolis resistance to ICE that deserves to be pulled out, examined, and posted on every lamppost in America: The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. Read that again. It […]
www.techdirt.com
January 29, 2026 at 8:10 PM
"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone."
Minneapolis Proved Something MAGA Can’t Accept: Most People Are Actually Virtuous
Techdirt riffs on a recent Atlantic piece.
Minneapolis Proved Something MAGA Can’t Accept: Most People Are Actually Virtuous
Techdirt riffs on a recent Atlantic piece.
New post on my website!
Using the loop_end Hook With Multiple WordPress Loops
I tried to add some custom navigation at the end of the posts lists using the loop_end hook, but it got added twice. Another plugin was running through the Loop and calling rewind_posts(). To make my code only run […]
Using the loop_end Hook With Multiple WordPress Loops
I tried to add some custom navigation at the end of the posts lists using the loop_end hook, but it got added twice. Another plugin was running through the Loop and calling rewind_posts(). To make my code only run […]
Original post on notes.kvibber.com
notes.kvibber.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:16 AM
New post on my website!
Using the loop_end Hook With Multiple WordPress Loops
I tried to add some custom navigation at the end of the posts lists using the loop_end hook, but it got added twice. Another plugin was running through the Loop and calling rewind_posts(). To make my code only run […]
Using the loop_end Hook With Multiple WordPress Loops
I tried to add some custom navigation at the end of the posts lists using the loop_end hook, but it got added twice. Another plugin was running through the Loop and calling rewind_posts(). To make my code only run […]
It's 2026 and I'm _still_ fighting email rendering quirks in Microsoft Outlook, even though they finally switched everything off of using Word to render HTML a few years ago.
January 28, 2026 at 6:35 PM
It's 2026 and I'm _still_ fighting email rendering quirks in Microsoft Outlook, even though they finally switched everything off of using Word to render HTML a few years ago.
[uspol]
It's weird to see phrases I used in yesterday's messages to my rep and senators in the subject lines of various groups' calls to action this morning, but I guess "Enough is Enough" and "No More" are kind of gimmes.
It's weird to see phrases I used in yesterday's messages to my rep and senators in the subject lines of various groups' calls to action this morning, but I guess "Enough is Enough" and "No More" are kind of gimmes.
January 27, 2026 at 5:54 PM
[uspol]
It's weird to see phrases I used in yesterday's messages to my rep and senators in the subject lines of various groups' calls to action this morning, but I guess "Enough is Enough" and "No More" are kind of gimmes.
It's weird to see phrases I used in yesterday's messages to my rep and senators in the subject lines of various groups' calls to action this morning, but I guess "Enough is Enough" and "No More" are kind of gimmes.
People talk all the time about fresh hell and hell freezing over, but I can't find any advice on stale hell, how to tell if hell is past its expiration date, or what temperature it should be reheated to.
January 26, 2026 at 8:51 PM
People talk all the time about fresh hell and hell freezing over, but I can't find any advice on stale hell, how to tell if hell is past its expiration date, or what temperature it should be reheated to.
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🕊️ “I’m Not Mad At You” by Harry Welty
This snow sculpture by Harry Welty in Duluth is a memorial for Renee Nicole Good, who was tragically killed in Minneapolis earlier this month. The sign on the snow-car features her own words: “I’m not mad at you.”
11 […]
[Original post on mastodon.online]
This snow sculpture by Harry Welty in Duluth is a memorial for Renee Nicole Good, who was tragically killed in Minneapolis earlier this month. The sign on the snow-car features her own words: “I’m not mad at you.”
11 […]
[Original post on mastodon.online]
January 25, 2026 at 10:02 PM
🕊️ “I’m Not Mad At You” by Harry Welty
This snow sculpture by Harry Welty in Duluth is a memorial for Renee Nicole Good, who was tragically killed in Minneapolis earlier this month. The sign on the snow-car features her own words: “I’m not mad at you.”
11 […]
[Original post on mastodon.online]
This snow sculpture by Harry Welty in Duluth is a memorial for Renee Nicole Good, who was tragically killed in Minneapolis earlier this month. The sign on the snow-car features her own words: “I’m not mad at you.”
11 […]
[Original post on mastodon.online]
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Don't worry, I've got you
Rest in Peace, Alex.
Beautiful street art tribute by Topsy (topsy_paints on Instagram) in Seattle, U.S.
Rest in Peace, Alex.
Beautiful street art tribute by Topsy (topsy_paints on Instagram) in Seattle, U.S.
January 26, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Don't worry, I've got you
Rest in Peace, Alex.
Beautiful street art tribute by Topsy (topsy_paints on Instagram) in Seattle, U.S.
Rest in Peace, Alex.
Beautiful street art tribute by Topsy (topsy_paints on Instagram) in Seattle, U.S.
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The Republican position on guns is and always was that guns can only be used by lone wolves to murder schoolchildren or by Republicans to murder whoever they want.
January 25, 2026 at 6:52 PM
The Republican position on guns is and always was that guns can only be used by lone wolves to murder schoolchildren or by Republicans to murder whoever they want.