I signed out of my infosec job earlier this morning to try and sleep off a migraine, thinking "surely nothing absolutely hilarious will happy today, I won't miss anything"

only to wake up to all my socials posting a single numeric digit

"2026-10/19" perfectly normal way to write a date, sleepy brain

Has anyone made, like, a Kill-a-Watt with an ESP32 in it yet?

I don't want to put all my appliances on the internet quite yet, but being able to ping some of them to see if their power usage has dropped to zero yet would solve 99% of all my smart appliance needs, because all I really need is a reminder that I put something in the wash two hours ago and should move it along to the dryer now

Finally, I own a real computer

such is the state of my life that's there's a bin in on the kitchen floor that contains primarily
1. small bags of potato chips (assorted flavors)
2. ISA modems [from approximately 1984-1995]

handing a db-25 cable to an autistic friend of mine, and when they ask "why?", I say "so we can engage in parallel play!"

9pm on a wednesday is definitely the time to decide you really need to port one of your programs to Windows 3.1

spoiler alert: you'll be porting it forward

I love hearing about hardware problems where it's like "well that can't have broken that way, just from doing that" and then there's follow-up and NOPE, it's really broken that way, from doing exactly that. huh. Computers are weird.

I've been saying since the 2000s that it's important that every big software stack have at least one angry new software grad to fight back against entrenched complexity in the existing codebase.

sometimes there is a good reason why we can't "just do X, Y, or Z" but someone should be still raising the question, damn it

So it's my birthday, and I'm currently the only one of three disabled trans people in my household who can work, but 16 months of being bedridden and ongoing chronic migraines have left us very broke. If you'd like to send a few dollars as a gift, that'd be very appreciated!

https://ko-fi.com/fooneturing

It's always slightly annoying to me when there's keyboards that can switch between bluetooth and a separate proprietary protocol, because they always run into the problem of what to name that separate option.

* RF - Ah, so their Bluetooth isn't going over radio now?
* 2.4g - hey quick question: what frequency is that Bluetooth running at?

Happy International Lesbian Day, from VGAPride!
Here's one of the many lesbian pride flags (the 5-stripe variant of the "sunset" flag).