DOGE: Mission Accomplished

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/post/3m6ciwm2h3c24

As should surprise exactly no one, BIMI is useful for adding authenticity to email scams.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brand_Indicators_for_Message_Identification

Seems like Intuit QuickBooks can be useful for sending BIMI-compliant spam, too.

#spam #bimi

On today of all days, there’s a story here somewhere, I know it.

“Roses! I said I wanted roses!”

“Oh. Flowers? From _them_? Again?”

“Next time, call my lawyer!”

Woodworking tools:

The dado-cutting tool I’ve been seeing used in a video series is the Mafell NFU Groove Cutter.

It’s basically a portable track saw loaded with a single-piece dado blade.

For those unfamiliar, commonly-available dado blades in the US are positively Rube Goldberg designs, comprised of two sawblades sandwiching separate and sharp and fast-whirling blades.

This Mafell brings the table saw to the timber, and with what looks to be a decidedly better (and seemingly safer) blade design than most of the US table saw dado blades I’ve worked with.

Not a cheap power tool, though.

https://produkte.mafell.de/usa/mortising/groove-and-multi-cutter/groove-cutting-machine-nfu-50

#woodworking #dado #mafell

My brain might be mush some days, but this doesn’t look like any Canadian map I recall.

Not unless The Crown Estate has reclaimed and reorganized Alberta and British Columbia.

I’m not liking this wrong-around-the-edges AI world we’re now awash in.

It reeks of self-organizing mass gaslighting.

All these recent discussions of error handling and mishandling and parsing and NaNs in my timeline all circulating like NaTs on an #Itanium are reminiscent of the video player controls seen on a very much not-small website.

Oh, and as for NaNs and videos, and for the ~three of you that haven’t yet seen it, “A lightning talk by Gary Bernhardt from CodeMash 2012”, a very short and very funny video on this same topic:

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

#humor #humour #wat #NaN #floatingpoint #FloatingPointArithmetic #fp
https://oldbytes.space/@arclight/112047281273277753

Random DEC and Maynard History:

Atari had a video game Major Havoc, where a clone battled the evil Vaxxian empire located on Planet Maynard.

Entirely coincidentally, the headquarters of the producer of VAX supermini computers, Digital Equipment, was located in Maynard Massachusetts.

The pub located across Main Street from DEC’s Maynard Mill headquarters had a Major Havoc game for a while, too.

DEC used an addressing system that identified each site, building, floor, and pillar and mailstop within each DEC complex worldwide. Within the many buildings located in the Maynard Mill, the aforementioned pub self-allocated the next highest available building number for themselves, “becoming” (IIRC) MLO25; building 25.

Of course, various meetings were then held in building 25.

An image of mine showing a quiet evening in Maynard is included below.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200129064604/https://web.maynard.ma.us/history/mill-history.htm

https://collection.maynardhistory.org/items/show/7291

#digitalequipmentcorporation #Maynard #atari #MaynardMill #History #retrocomputing #retrocomputers

Random Firefighting info…

What the inside of some fire training looks like.

Inside a hot room with heavy fire showing (burning wood pallets), firefighters becoming familiar with how turnout gear insulates and protects them, and allows them to breathe.

Without protective equipment, this room would be fatal.

This particular image is also unusually smoke free too, as this is a training session. Visibility inside a modern structure fire is often non-existent.