Cleansing kitten for your feed.

Physics of why Belgian beer foam is so stable
Triple-fermented Belgian beers have the longest-lasting foam; single-fermented lagers have the shortest.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/physics-of-why-belgian-beer-foam-is-so-stable/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

I'd be way more into Westerns if they came in better pasta shapes than Spaghetti.

@ricci He did an event at a bookstore near us, and it was a helluva lot of fun. I'd say go, if you can!

Working on something you're personally invested in is ideal when it comes to motivating people to commit to the often frustrating work of learning, so bringing a thing you generated and have found the need to crack open to edit the code is not a bad place to start.

Ideally you'd get guidance from someone who already knows how to code and I do think that'll become even more important than it is now, but of course it does not "scale" etc.

@sue This was something I ran into quite a bit when I was mentoring actively.

For most, learning happens best when they're directly engaged with a relevant project. Regardless of your "learning style" or whatever, a project gives you reasons to ask questions about what you're trying to learn and potentially self-service answers (by asking, reading a manual, discovering you were asking the wrong question, etc.). From the mentor side, engaging with folks deeply and frequently is expensive time-wise and doesn't really scale.

The problem gets worse as the type of learning gets more specialized. I couldn't imagine trying to pick up my current field without access to stuff that would cost a *lot*. I feel lucky to have gotten a job early on that gave me access to those resources, but so many don't/won't have that opportunity. You'd think networking vendors would want to make it easy for new learners to pick this stuff up, but in my experience, they only do so for the customers that are paying them a lot already.

I do *not* care if it is technically an arachnid. It is a *bug* because it is *bugging me.*

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The deep frustration of being a career mentor seeing brigades of underemployed and unemployed young cybersecurity people, yet also working in a niche where we -can't find enough young people to hire- because schools and entry level gigs are not teaching firm enough basic computer fundamentals for us to successfully teach their graduates OT and legacy technology.

If you hate Windows, simply switch to Linux so you can hate Linux instead

@dee I feel like I have to have this conversation with everyone who comes to me for WiFi help. Just because your AP is screaming doesn't mean it can hear your phone/laptop/etc.

I'd never achieve this, but I wish I could persuade my neighbours to all turn down the signal power on their Wi-Fi.

High power is like shouting in a crowd, everyone has to now shout... and then no-one can be heard.

The key is how low can you turn your Wi-Fi power with everything working... and the answer is much fucking lower than most people would imagine.

But yeah, here I am living in London and able to pick up Wi-Fi signals in a highly congested part of the network that comes from houses on the other side of the street and a few doors up.

Also... who even puts their address as their SSID? idk... people just cannot be helped

"Having a good week?"

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A working QR code in the style of Piet Mondrian. Inspired @divbyzero and @andrewt.

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@paparatti I'd tell ya to get your mind out of the gutter, but, uh, I'm right there with you. Very happy to have some moisture back.

The real question is: On accident, or on purpose?

My favorite interview fail to talk about was pulling all of AT&T's traffic towards…a large cloud provider I worked for…through a single LACP bundle on the West coast of the U.S. 🙃

#NetworkingFail

@paparatti I haven't ever been able to find an eggplant dish I'd seek out. If you find something that manages to push that button for you, I'd be excited to know about it. ☺️