guess who has two thumbs and just scored three novavax appointments at costco for tomorrow morning 🤞🤞🤞
@woozle it is theft prevention..well resale prevention
@LottieVixen Well, CarMax sold it to me just fine without knowing the PINs, so... 
(And if I can figure them out, so can a thief. If they were settable that would at least make a little more sense, but they are absolutely immutable.)
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remember to check under your pillow tomorrow morning for gifts from the uhhhhh, the kirkary... the charlieth fairkirk... from the uh... You know what nevermind
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goddamn it I've done all the Posting, I thought I was going to be Through It by now
So, our 2010 Honda Odyssey has this weird feature(?) wherein anytime the battery gets disconnected, you have to enter a PIN for the nav system and another one for the radio.
CarMax didn't know what the numbers were when I bought it.
I took it to our local Honda dealer, and they reset them for me but wouldn't tell me what they are.
I figured out on my own that they're based on serial numbers -- I found the numbers and was able to derive the correct PINs, and we now have them both stuck on the dashboard for easy reference.
(Once you enter them, they're both unlocked until the next time the battery gets disconnected or discharged. You don't have to enter them whenever you start the car, even many days later.)
What I really want to know, though, is this: WHO EVEN THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA???
@woozle it is theft prevention..well resale prevention
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People saying "First time iPhone Dock is on the right" are forgetting...
So, our 2010 Honda Odyssey has this weird feature(?) wherein anytime the battery gets disconnected, you have to enter a PIN for the nav system and another one for the radio.
CarMax didn't know what the numbers were when I bought it.
I took it to our local Honda dealer, and they reset them for me but wouldn't tell me what they are.
I figured out on my own that they're based on serial numbers -- I found the numbers and was able to derive the correct PINs, and we now have them both stuck on the dashboard for easy reference.
(Once you enter them, they're both unlocked until the next time the battery gets disconnected or discharged. You don't have to enter them whenever you start the car, even many days later.)
What I really want to know, though, is this: WHO EVEN THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA???
Took this photo last night facing Manhattan of the twin beams of light in remembrance of today. Sending love and peace to everyone.
@zackwhittaker @briankrebs incredible photo
i am looking for a book that i'm sure exists but i can't really describe the topic exactly.
"a history of driveways"
an architectural history of how entranceways to houses, temples, palaces, etc. places that receive people are designed based on the prevailing technology and social needs.
like how in the bible they talk about just rolling up to the city gates and yelling at whoever was there because there were like only 50 guys and if you brought 10 of them up to the wall it was a big deal. the mythology of the long rural gravel driveway headed by pa with his shotgun as representation of the survivalist american patriarch. the need for the development of the U shaped driveway to manage high-status guests with a balance of ceremony and efficiency, particularly with the rise of cars, both the vehicle and the ability to gather more high-status people in a place more frequently.
that kind of thing. what would you call that
@jonny Not driveway-specific, but closely related: English Country House. Can't remember the author right now. It's about thresholds and spatial restrictions and how they're communicated. I tried a library catalogue search on title but "English country house" brings up too much, and it's worsened by the fuzzy searching that the front-desk librarians foist upon us in the name of "discovery" (and their patronising assumption that we're too ignorant to know what we're looking for). You might get there if you can click through to the serious search interfaces that tend to be increasingly hidden these days.
There are studies of Renaissance and early modern French palace architecture that do similar things, looking at the long lines of rooms and how you can get only as far along as your welcome allows.
"Liminal" was once a good keyword but it's been largely diverted by people who write about non-spatial boundaries.
I've been reading about the DCP (digital cinema package) standard.
If you're not familiar, this is the standard distribution format for movies in theaters.
It's an open standard built, built around linux PCs and JPEG2000, with movies distributed as 100+ GB files on ext2 formatted HDDs and/or SSDs.
@ajroach42 I’ve always found it fascinating! Contributing factor to JPEG2000 being a preferred image format for digital image preservation despite the format’s relative failure of adoption in the general computing space.
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I don't want to bore anyone with the details but I'm starting to notice how misinformation can propagate through LLM generated pages... and it's bad.
When you hear "misinformation" you think probably think about slanderous political lies, or propaganda, and that's out there too. I'm talking about something much more boring and hard to clean up.
Of course this isn't a new problem with information. It's been a problem in scholarship, and on the internet for decades.
"Factoids"
Japan's Seishun 18 ticket was once a cheap way to travel across the country. But after a significant downgrade, can you still make the local train-only pass work for you? https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2026/09/12/travel/seishun-18-downgraded-ticket-tips-trains-travel/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #life #travel #rail #shinkansen #jr #travel
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Had you heard of Omarchy before the last week or so ?
I have many regrets in life, one of which is refusing to learn to drive almost 20 years ago (and in all the intervening years since). But since I can't rewrite the past I just have to overcome that fear now...
@idzie If it makes you feel any better, my spouse learned to drive pretty late (mid-twenties), and they're driving great now. They also have like ridiculous levels of ADHD that was completely unmedicated until recently, so like, neurodivergence needn't be a complete obstacle either.
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Mab the black cat is trying to fall asleep with her head on my keyboard, but it's got mechanical switches and they click right in her ear whenever she starts to drift off
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The sky is trans 🏳️⚧️
been following and taking notes on the Biocomputing guys, who have a computing substrate that is or will be based on human neurons
now you might say "why" and "ew" and "the fuck"
me also
it's one pack of somewhat disturbing absolute fucking weirdos in australia they've been doing this since 2019?
they decided they needed biological computing
it does not of course work or do anything
they can only barely get any VC. if it was the hot new vc grift i'd have real material
what if robocop but dumb as shit
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On Sept 11th, I think about Cindy Cohn's description of what it was like to come into work at EFF on September 12th, knowing that everything positive she had hoped to achieve was now on hold and we were in for several desperate years of playing defense.
