The Dalles data center water consumption Dan Lyke / comment 0
Oh snap. The Dalles’ mayor called OPB’s data center story inaccurate. Here are the facts
An in-depth, line-by-line review of the article in response to Anderson’s letter found one error, which OPB has corrected and noted in the original story.
OPB incorrectly reported that projected monthly residential water rates are expected to climb by 7% by 2036. However, The Dalles 2024 Water System Master Plan forecasts that rates will climb by 99% by that year. OPB regrets the error.
Via.
xkcd colors Dan Lyke / comment 0
By way of nycki @nycki@bark.lgbt I discovered XKCD colors
The 954 most common RGB monitor colors, as defined by several hundred thousand participants in the xkcd color name survey.
Available as a text file and a .css file. As nycki notes:
so now when I want a color on my website I can just write `color: var(--xkcd- off-white)` or so on. it's really convenient :)
All my apes, intelligent Dan Lyke / comment 0
Pavel A. Samsonov @PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social
All the same people boosting LLMs today were boosting NFTs five years ago. It's not a coincidence that
AI POWERED
is an anagram of
APE WEIRDO
ManyVids founder in AI induced psychosis? Dan Lyke / comment 0
Edit: Bonus, from 404 Media: App for Quitting Porn Leaked Users' Masturbation Habits
Couplers Dan Lyke / comment 0
Notorious RBMK @comraderobot.bsky.social: "hey train perverts wanna see the shinkansen cloaca", with TikTok video (Bluesky hosted) of the high speed rail coupler system operating.
Gaetz report Dan Lyke / comment 0
In sum, the Committee found substantial evidence of the following:
- From at least 2017 to 2020, Representative Gaetz regularly paid women for engaging in sexual activity with him.
- In 2017, Representative Gaetz engaged in sexual activity with a 17-year-old girl.
- During the period 2017 to 2019, Representative Gaetz used or possessed illegal drugs, including cocaine and ecstasy, on multiple occasions.
- Representative Gaetz accepted gifts, including transportation and lodging in connection with a 2018 trip to the Bahamas, in excess of permissible amounts.
- In 2018, Representative Gaetz arranged for his Chief of Staff to assist a woman with whom he engaged in sexual activity in obtaining a passport, falsely indicating to the U.S. Department of State that she was a constituent.
- Representative Gaetz knowingly and willfully sought to impede and obstruct the Committee’s investigation of his conduct.
- Representative Gaetz has acted in a manner that reflects discreditably upon the House.
Frankly there's quite a bit of that that I'd let him slide on if not for the hypocrisy and the ethics violations on the gifts. And that, yeah, the age difference in fucking a 17 year old is pretty damned skeevy.
Via.
Indiana power woes Dan Lyke / comment 0
Public urged to cut back on electrical usage across central Indiana, southern Indiana — January 24
A spokesperson for Hoosier Energy said, "High demand for electricity and tight power supplies throughout the Midwest are causing a serious power supply emergency."
Via.
Steve Simon on Pam Bondi's extortion letter Dan Lyke / comment 0
A few days old, but Office of the Minnesota Secretary of State: Statement from Secretary Simon — January 25, 2026
SAINT PAUL – On January 24, 2026, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a letter to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz with three requests that she writes would "restore the rule of law, support ICE officers, and bring an end to the chaos in Minnesota.” The third request in the letter was to allow the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to access Minnesota’s “voter rolls.”
Cloudflare Matrix slop Dan Lyke / comment 0
Cloudflare just published a vibe coded blog post claiming they implemented Matrix on cloudflare workers. They didn't, their post and README is AI generated and the code doesn't do any of the core parts of matrix that make it secure and interoperable. Instead it's littered with 'TODO: Check authorisation' and similar
https://blog.cloudflare.com/se...rless-matrix-homeserver-workers/
The lobste.rs thread includes a link to the Matrix discussion of this fiasco and lots of discussion about how Clodflare's attempts at damage control just make it look worse.
Just a note of appreciation switching Dan Lyke / comment 0
Just a note of appreciation: switching from Firefox to Vivaldi has me using Startpage. It's not perfect, but Google has declined I find myself going back to it less and less.
I bounced off Kagi and a few others, but Startpage has stuck.
Argh Dan Lyke / comment 2
Argh. Same exact CGI::Fast->new() loop. From one form, I get the textarea contents entity encoded, in the other I get something that Perl is not interpreting as utf-8. I'm not seeing any difference in the HTML page meta statements, or the form. Driving me nuts.
de First bitch Dan Lyke / comment 0
De Speld (Netherlands): Wie is J.D. Vance, de First bitch achter president Trump?
Joey de Villa 🪗 @AccordionGuy@mastodon.cloud:
“First Bitch” is JD Vance’s correct title in both Dutch *and* English.
Ugh Two FastCGI Perl scripts One is Dan Lyke / comment 0
Ugh. Two FastCGI Perl scripts. One is inserting UTF-8 characters into the Postgres database correctly, one is biffing it. I cannot bloody well find the difference between the two.
Some days I regret not re-coding the entire thing in C.
Cloudflare publishing slop Dan Lyke / comment 0
Somebody take the LLM API keys away from marketing before they completely destroy the company! Jade @JadedBlueEyes@tech.lgbt
Cloudflare just published a vibe coded blog post claiming they implemented Matrix on cloudflare workers. They didn't, their post and README is AI generated and the code doesn't do any of the core parts of matrix that make it secure and interoperable. Instead it's littered with 'TODO: Check authorisation' and similar
https://blog.cloudflare.com/se...rless-matrix-homeserver-workers/
Over on Bluesky the Minnesota Star Dan Lyke / comment 0
Over on Bluesky, the Minnesota Star Tribune has a handy guide to identify which munitions the US Federal government is deploying against its citizens.