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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

“It is too hot outside to do anything, I will stay inside and do nothing this Sunday.” . . . “Hmm, it is nice and cool in the office.” * starts working *

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

It’s Bay Area’s turn in the barrel.. autumn sucks here. October is the hottest month of the year. Just going to hide indoors for the next few days

Weather forecast showing 90+ degrees farenheight (34 celsius) for the rest of the week because fuck you it’s October this sucks

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Gell-Mann Amnesia effect but for AI boosters confident software development is a “solved problem” but THEIR jobs could never be done by AI because Reasons

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

We are, in fact, back on our bullshit. We must’ve been here a hundred Fridays at least. Tommy’s Skyline to the Sea was back on tap, it’s done really well! Different from the usual Barebottle Brew Co beers.

Skyline to the Haze is a hazy IPA with 7% ABV, named after the iconic Skyline to the Sea trail. Surf Detective is also delicious.

A flight of beers outside under a still and hazy sky at Barebottle Brew Co. in Santa Clara, California.

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

There, I fixed it. (The buttons are virtual. They can always face the correct direction.)

The Duoman is a clever iPhone Duo app for the that looks like a Sony Walkman.

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Booked a trip back to the east coast to get away from this nonsense

Weather forecast for Sunnyvale shows 90 degrees in October

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Sunrise was 7 a.m. over Black Mountain west of Cupertino this morning

High clouds are pink and orange, reflecting the sunset just over the horizon behind us. A pale purple band just over the horizon is the “Belt of Venus,” which is the shadow of the earth cast against the sky by the rising sun. The golden and olive hills are furred with a marine layer extending out over the Pacific Ocean.

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

AI bubble pops when AAPL market cap stays over 5T for five days straight

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Today I got to drink a beer brewed by a trail runner friend who works at Barebottle Brew Co. Worlds colliding!

A flight card showing Skyline to the Haze as the first glass. “Did you try it?” My dude how could I not hello

Skyline to the Haze is a (very!) hazy IPA 7% ABV. “Named after the iconic skyline-to-the-sea trail, this beer channels the reward at the end of the hike (run!) with bright, citrusy New Zealand hops.”

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Melbourne rocker Ecca Vandal’s single MOLLY comes on hard and then there’s these unexpectedly beautiful moments as it draws to a close. eccavandal.bandcamp.com/album/molly

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MOLLY, by Ecca Vandal

1 track album

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Sweeping Promises released a new album (it’s in stereo this time!) after signing to Sub Pop and they’re on tour. “The San Francisco date was Friday, September 18 at the Rickshaw Stop, so you just missed it,” 😩 sweepingpromises.bandcamp.com/track…

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Accent, by Sweeping Promises

from the album You Say I Romanticize

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

“Only 12 hours? Sure, I can finish that audiobook in a week.”

Libby offering a "Quick, skip the line!” seven day loan of the audiobook for Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel, which is 12 hours long.

I’d placed a reservation on September 17.

“You are 77th in line (started: 101st). 43 copies in use. 123 people waiting in total. 3 people waiting per copy. Your library has acquired 1 more copy… “

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Someone lost a fight and TouTube has detailed summaries on demand now

Google in their quest to jam Gemini into everything now prompts users to ask for a summary of any video. The previous “summaries” were so deliberately vague as to be useless. But, mixed feelings: the goose is being stepped on.

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

It is unclear to me why a physically out-of-print book should command such a premium price in ebook form.

It costs $70 to license a DRM copy of Japanese Women Writers. I guess the publisher wants them to remain obscure?

I bought a used hardcover for less.

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

15 years ago I worked on-site on a contract for Apple, but not at Infinite Loop, but an anonymous building in Monta Vista off Bubb. Came back to see if I could re-create a photo I’d taken outside after calling home one evening.

Photo taken with an iPhone 3GS around 6:15 pm looking at the sun setting behind an angular building. A large stone pine is silhouetted against the pale sky.

Same photo taken with iPhone 17 Pro. The composition isn’t 100% but the dynamic range sure is better.

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Took me a minute to find my copy of Neuromancer. How many of these have you read?

The cracked, beaten spine of William Gibson’s first novel Nueromancer in the Ace Special paperback (2nd printing) peers from a row of other paperback fantasy and science fiction novels and short story collections, mostly Del Rey “The Best of” along with some Fritz Leiber, Stanislaw Lem, all kinds of stuff a kid would find in a Doubleday bookstore at the mall in 1986 or so.

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Nice sunset over Twin Creeks Sports Complex by Sunnyvale Baylands last night

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

This is Private Press Brewing in Santa Cruz, California. “We serve very strong beer in small glasses at 55 degrees Fahrenheit. We spin the whole album, both sides.”

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

About a year ago we started watching “The Bureau” (Le Bureau des légendes) and we just finished the finale for season three. Outstanding television. The storytelling, direction, acting, the music, the plot. Seemingly innocent everyday things like a flight crew laughing while checking into a […]

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Ghost in the Shell fans, I have good news and bad news for you

Ghost in the Shell Blu-Ray Box with English is 35,000 yen which translates to $228 which is… a lot. Yikes lol

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

I argued (good-naturedly) with an old friend at 6:30 in the morning about whether Android was a Linux distribution or not because we are both terrible nerds.

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

One one hand, the product is sometimes useful, on the other hand, the company is awful

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

I was today years old when I realized 豚骨ラーメン was ton KO tsu ramen and not ton KA tsu ramen. There’s a handful of Japanese words I’ve only heard or spoken and never read.

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

It was a beautiful afternoon at Santa Cruz today, sunny, warm, cool ocean breezes, the works

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

Late to the party, but I really enjoyed Jane Harper’s 2016 mystery novel The Dry. What a debut! The story takes place in rural Victoria, Australia and she really conveys a different place and the people. Lovely writing, terrific descriptions […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

The audiobook artwork for The Dry shows a ghostly figure peering out over dry yellow grass against a dark, starry sky. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE (one of the highest grossing Australian film opening weekends ever!) If you’re still reading this alt text you should give the audiobook a listen mate

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

After two years, I’m halfway through Wanikani. Two more years to go, I guess.

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Talkin’ about the price of the house The day I bought a house I will never leave the house Trust me, believe me, call me I swear, I will never leave the house The day I bought a house I will never leave the house You call me on my phone you ask me “Where you are?” I said, “I’m in the house” […]

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Finally defusing this unwanted hair-trigger “Swipe between pages” gesture after losing my place one too many times just absently brushing my trackpad.

There is a Trackpad Settings under “More Gestures” that disables “Swipe between pages” which can reset forms in Safari or jump around in Books etc.

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

We ran the southern extent of the Santa Cruz mountains, here looking over the Calero Reservoir and the marine layer far below.

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

“I couldn’t pay my rent so the sheriff came and tossed all my belongings out into the street."

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

“Well, where *I* live, we get money for nothing and our chicks for free,”

A private developer is proposing a high-speed airport rail system that will cost Chicago riders a lot of money. A kind stranger responds to this proposal with, "The equivalent train journey from the airport in Seattle is $6. I believe it's only $1 if you're over 65.” Which may be true, but isn’t very helpful to people in Chicago.

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too many names @mikeymikey.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

For those of you trying out the lovely Afterglow After Dark emulator app from @halcyon - if you're trying to get the screen saver portion to work on any recent version of macOS, you may need to decouple your wallpaper choice from also being your screensaver […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

I still iTunes Match. Apple Music just informed me 27 tracks it knows I uploaded are “undownloadable” with Error 7608. Joke’s on them, I bought these tracks, so they can’t prevent me from listening to them.

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