KelsonV @KelsonV@wandering.shop

Soon the struggle begins to convince the kid to actually go to bed the last night of spring break.

Brute force login alert from a site I manage, letting me know that an IP had been locked out: "The last username they tried to sign in with was: 'scamnumbersalert'."

I...why would you even expect that to work?

No, brain, Duolingo and iNaturalist are not the same. I mean yes, they're both green icons and they both have owls in them, but that's about as far as it goes.

Thank you, Google, for your monthly reminder that you track my movements and that I haven't gone much of anywhere lately.

Heh. "Why Does Iceland’s Fagradalsfjall Volcano Look Like a School Science Project?" And why the type of lava and type of eruption make it (comparatively) safe for people to see it up close.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/erupting-volcano-in-iceland

#volcano #iceland

Free brick!

Spotted a few years ago, stumbled across the photo again today.

I really need to get the rest of the photos off my old phone so I can wipe it.

And now I'm reminded of an essay I saw years ago about how people are more likely to ask for a preference to change application behavior than just ask it to change.

Interesting: "Across many experiments, participants tried to fix problems by adding stuff" even when removing something was a simpler solution.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/04/the-takeaway-is-that-we-dont-tend-to-take-things-away/

@brion reminds me of the time I got into the comic con ticket system solely because I copied and pasted the URL instead of clicking on the actual link in the email that went through a redirector that couldn't handle the load