Ugh, after three attempts, finally got OpenBSD installed on a new laptop. There was a secret treasure BIOS option called VMD that needed to be dug up and cracked open. Before that, OpenBSD can't see the disk because it's in double secret probation windows only mode.

Weather for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ☀️

Forecast for the coming days:

Hourly forecast for the next 12 hours:

The people telling me it's a good idea to buy the dip were telling me last week it was a good idea to buy the peak. Not sure they're actually updating their advice to reflect current conditions.

Stayed up past my bed time to watch the Punked episode of Castle.

When will they ban Diet Coke?

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/rfk-jr-unveils-plan-to-phase-out-artificial-food-dyes-7f744cde

lol, somebody hasn't been to the United lounge at PHL.

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/travel/inside-the-countrys-saddest-airport-lounge-42bc7474

Doodles on a coffee cup? In this economy?

https://www.wsj.com/business/smiley-faces-are-in-animals-are-out-the-politics-of-starbucks-cup-doodles-6c2477e8

I unscrewed my pixelbook and I feel like this should count as aerobic exercise.

The great honk3 experiment may be coming to an end. Just got the renewal email for honkasaurus.world and they're going to bone me on the price. Premium domains in this economy?

New movie: Companion. What if Westworld, but with an app?

I really like these Westworld takes. I think the series got bogged down with its own mythology, a lot, but there's a lot of fun resetting the premise into different situations. Even if they exactly clone the whole robot finds ipad and dials up their settings, I think this is pretty fresh.

Last of Us

My dudes, where are the bastions?

Okay, so honk now builds with lazif, the world's laziest avif encoder. It will only load the libavif library if present, so builds are still kept simple. There's no reason to require this.

I need to wait another week or so for openbsd 7.7 to be released to upgrade my server to actually enable the code (long story). Will add a flag to disable anyway, too.

Really, today should be called JPEG day in celebration of YUV420.

What if snowpiercer, but actually just a prison? We have the technology, we can build it.

Why go to AC when you can go to beach in Philly?

Location: 39.9466 -75.188

An 8TB 3.5-inch HDD from Synology's Plus line, the HAT3310, costs $210 on Synology's web store. One of the original drives the HAT3310 is reportedly sourced from, the Toshiba N300, can be found for $173 at more than one vendor.

As far as vendor lockin upcharges go, that's peanuts.

What's the best Canadian TV show? I don't mean shows like The Expanse, which was filmed in Canada but clearly an American production. I mean Lost Girl, Lexx, Relic Hunter, Grand Star. Are any of them not painful to watch?

The day the potatoes dyed.

HN: nobody knows where I am because I only use a landline

I'm pretty sure using a landline also leaks location information. Normally I suggest people watch fewer Bond movies, but in this case, the scene where they call the guy up before blowing the bomb under his desk is instructive.

We don't need github dependabot; we have dependabot at home.

Dependabot at home:

for g in `ls */go.mod` ; do
  vi $g
done

I wonder what George Orwell would think about fake screenshots.

I'm trying out a thing adding libavif to honk, but it requires some tuning for size and performance, and depending on system config, which encoder gets used.

There's a giant volleyball recruiting tryout in Philly, which I discovered by noticing the line for brandy melville stretching around the block, which also led to the discovery that brandy melville is a thing.

The framework keyboard causes cancer.

https://frame.work/products/keyboard?v=FRANBKEN01

Elaida just drank Siuan's milkshake.

I just noticed all the WOT episodes are at least an hour, and usually about 1:10, long. I would have guessed 50 minutes, but they're not cheaping out.

Is this government efficiency?

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/04/why-are-two-texas-senators-trying-to-wrest-a-space-shuttle-from-the-smithsonian/

Pendulum swinging from "election denialism is bad" back to "election denialism is good". Nature is healing.