@kagan Yes, but that's the gig: Dealing with screaming nightmares so that an elderly customer in Omaha can do their banking themselves on a system they are comfortable using.

No regrets.

Yes, Windows (ab)users it's your favorite time of the month once again (ducks). Microsoft today released updates to fix more than 50 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, including patches for a whopping six "zero-day" vulnerabilities that attackers are already exploiting in the wild.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/02/patch-tuesday-february-2026-edition/

Ngl feeling good about finding this beautiful kufiyeh at goodwill lol though I guess someone decided to give up on the movement

@knizer

I'm up for it. There's fewer Free and open source meetups these days in #Boston.

a friend sent me the 50 pesos axolotl !!

@lzg god to live in a country with currency that is Overly Cute

@jaz i mean, if the argument is "i have the indexable flag turned on in AP but that actually means i only want my data to be processed by orgs that have a solid website with a ToS and everything", than i can understand that, but that also means were in even more trouble than we already are and we should just delete that entire indexable flag, because theres too many embedded assumptions now floating around

there's at least $26 million out of circulation because people are hoarding these bills for being too cute https://www.msn.com/en-us/society-culture-and-history/general/mexicans-are-refusing-to-spend-this-50-peso-bill/ar-AA1VW2lw

ALL media I have ever posted myself has alt text, you can check me on that

I try to make sure boosts also include this!

Gro-Tsen writes:

I did the math. 🙋

👉 It's Sept. 3, 32BCE (reminder: “32BCE” actually means “−31” 😒) in the proleptic Julian calendar = Sept. 1 prol. Gregorian.

The Western equivalent of the Mesoamerican Long Count is the “Julian Date” (NB: “Julian” here refers not to Julius Cæsar as in “Julian Calendar” but to the 16th century scholar Julius Scaliger). The Julian Date simply counts the number of days from an arbitrary remote reference point (Nov. 24, 4714BCE proleptic Gregorian). More practically, on 2000-01-01 it equaled 2 451 545 (at 12:00 UTC if we want to use fractional Julian dates).

For example, today as I write is Julian Date 2 461 082 (well, 2 461 081.9 because it's not yet noon UTC). And the date of Sept. 1, 32BCE [prol. Greg.] we're talking about corresponds to Julian Date 1 709 981. More convenient than all this dealing with complicated calendar conventions.

So to convert a Long Count date to the Western calendar, we first convert the Long Count to an integer (trivial: it's already just an integer written in base 20-except-18-in-the-penultimate-digit), we add a constant (C) to get a Julian Date, and we convert to our messy calendars.

BUT! What is this constant C? This is known as the “Mayan correlation”. For a long time in the 20th century there was a debate about its value: scholars could relate any two Mayan dates, but not situate them exactly w.r.t. our own calendar. Various values were proposed, ranging from the (frankly rather ludicrous) 394 483 to 774 078, an interval of about 1000 years! (😅)

https://bsky.app/profile/gro-tsen.bsky.social/post/3meiqswj7b22a

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Odin slammed his paw into my keyboard and opened the web development console. truly he is my son and heir

I threw this up on Metafilter too, but why not here? Lazyweb, a question:

On a whim, I've added zipper pulls to a bunch of my clothes and coats. It's such a small, inexpensive thing but it's an improvement I notice dozens of times a day, especially wearing winter gloves.

So I'm thinking about aggregating marginal gains now, and wondering what other options like this I have. What is the _smallest_ thing - in terms of size, cost, effort, whatever - that has made your life better in some way?