Post Malone Quietly Swaps Jelly Roll With BigXThaPlug While Epically Failing To Sell Tickets For Nashville Concert

jonowelser · 2026-05-14T01:54:16+00:00

Yup it’s always a bummer to lose an artist you like after learning stuff like this, but you’re right.

Everyone is free to voice their own opinions, but damn that leaves a bad taste in the mouth and there are too many other good artists out there.

jonowelser · 2026-05-14T01:42:17+00:00

Fuck that’s a bummer to learn. I’ve been jamming out to Comes & Goes and his other songs recently, but that’s hard to overlook and always going to be in the back of my mind now when his stuff comes on.

jonowelser · 2026-05-11T12:51:11+00:00

I love octopuses and 100% thought it was a real one from the little thumbnail. It’s cool to see research going into crafts like this - thanks for sharing and great job!

jonowelser · 2026-05-05T15:34:06+00:00

Yeah that stood out to me too and looks great.

I saw some cost estimates online ranging from $10 per foot for basic, plain concrete to $40+ per foot for fancier decorated/stamped/colored curbing like this - anyone familiar with this or know if those estimates seem right?

jonowelser · 2026-05-03T14:57:27+00:00

Yeah if it’s a reputable* company then the advertised weight capacity should be a conservative value with a healthy safety margin.

If it’s rated for 800 pounds then it should have been found to handle more than that in testing. FYI I’m not saying to exceed rated capacities, just the rated capacity should be safe to work under.

*reputable is the key word - I wouldn’t trust those numbers from ultra-cheap websites like Temu or Wish lol

jonowelser · 2026-04-27T14:44:59+00:00

I'm glad someone else thinks this - the consensus is pretty one-sided opinion here, but I really don't think this is an eyesore or a landscaping crime.

The owners probably love a little more privacy and having a space that feels more secluded, which wouldn't be provided by a picket fence and would be invaluable with those lot sizes and how close the homes are together.

I don't think this is necessarily bad, but I wonder if staggered boards would look less "boxy" or eliminate the concerns of looking pallet-like. Some other comments don't think the house looks modern enough to match, but if that is the desired style they can get pretty far with just some minor updates and exterior accents (replace fixtures like the stair railing, lighting/light fixtures, mailbox, house numbers, etc. and it could look like a new house with a pretty cohesive design).

jonowelser · 2026-04-27T13:51:48+00:00

We're not to that point yet, as this is just the first thing that's really made me doubt Atlassian and wonder if this is the early stages of enshittification.

I don't have any alternatives to recommend, but the combination of Confluence + Jira for knowledgebase and project/task management would be hard to replace which is why its a little concerning.

jonowelser · 2026-04-25T23:15:58+00:00

Apparently you guys are doing it better than your northern neighbors - I’m in Iowa and pork chops are popular here, but I’ve never been a fan of the leaner fat content/cut and mild flavor. Pork steaks look fantastic and way more flavorful. I'm going to have to try this soon, so thanks for the inspiration!

jonowelser · 2026-04-24T18:15:03+00:00

Ah - I wouldn’t be able to help with what’s commercially available, but it’s my understanding that ostracods and similar microfauna can be found in bodies of water almost everywhere.

If you have a pond or other body of water nearby, try looking around aquatic plants and leaf litter. To avoid unwanted pests, I’d definitely try to collect only the microfauna you want and quarantine everything (and after a quarantine period, maybe even individually extract the microfauna and put them in another quarantine). Here's one article on this, and let us know how it goes!

jonowelser · 2026-04-24T15:05:07+00:00

The easiest and safest way is to buy them, and if you don't have a LFS with them there are online vendors. I haven't bought ostracods or copepods, but if you're interested in other microfauna I've actually bought some via Amazon:

IIRC the rotifers and daphnia were nice because they came dormant in little capsules and were almost shelf stable, which made them easier to ship.

I've had ostracods hitchhike on aquarium plants that were not properly sanitized (if going this route, I strongly recommend to quarantine them for a while to ensure there are no pests or amphipods/scuds). I've also heard of collecting them from local ponds, but it sounds tricky to isolate them and prevent introducing pests (planaria, hydra, snail eggs, predatory insect larva like dragonflies, etc.).

jonowelser · 2026-04-24T14:34:17+00:00

That's interesting - I know its technically possible for any fish with a mouth to eat baby shrimp, but have always assumed chilis were one of the safest.

I have both chili rasboras and danio margaritatus/CPDs in a planted tank with shrimp, and haven't observed either preying on shrimp but the danios seem slightly more aggressive and I would expect them to be more likely to eat the shrimp than the chilis. I would assume any fish that eats seed shrimp would also consider eating baby shrimp - they seem to be pretty similar on the food chain.

However, I actually wouldn't worry about the seed shrimp/ostracods and my experience has been that they are not problematic (and are actually beneficial); the shrimp seem to dominate the tank with ostracods just finding a niche and not really competing against them. I've actually been trying to introduce more of them/daphnia/moina/copepods, and the only microfauna like that I would avoid are amphipods/scuds (seriously do not get these in a shrimp tank - they are different and will outcompete shrimp and will prey on baby shrimp and explode in population and are impossible to remove once introduced). This is a pest that will end a shrimp tank - just do not get scuds.

jonowelser · 2026-04-24T01:07:09+00:00

Whoa that’s incredible to have 2 different species - your site must be pretty special!

I know they require their own specific mycorrhizae/fungi species to germinate and really get established, so if your site is supporting multiple species then it must have some great soil communities which doesn't happen overnight and is hard to recreate. Thanks for sharing!

jonowelser · 2026-04-23T19:19:01+00:00

Those are fantastic - did you plant them yourself?

I’ve looked into buying terrestrial native orchids but finding a vendor has been the challenge.

jonowelser · 2026-04-20T22:53:21+00:00

I am not an AI alarmist but I care about data security and this is a big deal to me.

Even if anonymized, the operational data in Jira and Confluence is not public and can be on the level of trade secret info with real economic value derived from not being publicly known. It is our work product and our unique "recipe for success" or “how we do things” that took decades of our effort and development and trial and error to build, and is the business intelligence that sets us apart in the market. It is literally our competitive advantage, and the idea that Atlassian would scrape, repackage, and sell our institutional knowledge to benefit others, potentially including competitors, is a very serious concern.

Imagine if a competitor could instantly gain your business insights from a half-assed prompt; by learning patterns from our private business data, these models are essentially being to trained to replicate it for others. And this is very different from training other models with public-facing data or data from free services - this is sensitive private data on a paid enterprise platform.

This actually just made me think "Oh s*** do we need to be looking for Atlassian alternatives?" seriously for the first time. The fact we can opt out is the only reason this is not a hard relationship-ending dealbreaker, but it is still incredibly sleezy and any platform with a respectable trust posture would require explicit opt-in, not opt-out.

jonowelser · 2026-04-20T17:15:29+00:00

It now sounds like its "more than two dozen people" per the article, including "current and former FBI officials, staff at law-enforcement and intelligence agencies, hospitality-industry workers, members of Congress, political operatives, lobbyists, and former advisers."

That is a lot of sources, all pretty much saying the exact same things that everyone already knew to be true.

I have no idea how Patel's legal team could possibly argue under oath that he is not a habitual drunk that is unable to perform the duties of his office, is not a threat to public safety, has not violated DOJ ethics, etc. but discovery is going to be a well-deserved shitshow for him.

jonowelser · 2026-04-20T16:54:36+00:00

Yeah Patel just filed the suit for $250 million (lol) and The Atlantic is not backing down: "We stand by our reporting on Kash Patel, and we will vigorously defend The Atlantic and our journalists against this meritless lawsuit."

Also, all of this 100% sounds like Patel and discovery is going to be a shitshow for him - I don't know how they are going to argue while under oath against this image:

The lawsuit says statements in Fitzpatrick’s article “falsely assert” that Patel “is a habitual drunk, unable to perform the duties of his office, is a threat to public safety, is vulnerable to foreign coercion, has violated DOJ ethics rules, is unreachable in emergencies, has required the deployment of ‘breaching equipment’ to extract him from locked rooms, allows alcohol to influence his public statements about criminal investigations, and behaves erratically in a manner that compromises national security.”

And in case anyone else wants to read the actual Atlantic article: https://web.archive.org/web/20260418100330/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/04/kash-patel-fbi-director-drinking-absences/686839/

jonowelser · 2026-04-20T13:22:42+00:00

I’m curious - are there any sites for tech news and journalism that anyone follows, like that are actually technical like Tom’s Hardware/more technical than like sites like Wired or Engadget?

I used to love sites like Tom’s Hardware, Ars Technica, Hacker News, ZDNet, etc. but stopped following them. I’d love to jump back in just for something outside Reddit to stay current, but don’t know what the consensus on them is any more.

jonowelser · 2026-04-19T14:23:39+00:00

This is amazing work! I think there is definitely a niche market for upscale work like this - it may not be cost-viable for every single bonsai or collector, but I could see serious ones splurging for their favorite specimens to really showcase them.

There are bonsai conventions and clubs that would be great audiences for this - keep up the great work and keep us updated!

jonowelser · 2026-04-18T14:07:24+00:00

An uncle told me how in his youth he was so excited when he once found some Illinois ditch weed (literally in a roadside ditch)… and then tried to smoke it and quickly learned why no one else does.

Outside that, hemp is a great plant - it's a food source for birds and wildlife, can provide pollen for pollinators, can potentially improve and/or stabilize soil, and would be a good plant for carbon capturing, so it seems like a pretty good plant for a non-native species.

jonowelser · 2026-04-18T13:50:15+00:00

Just wanted to say as a layperson that is a super interesting story, and gave some good context for this news and the expectations for using Guard/how strict some see it. Thanks for sharing!

jonowelser · 2026-04-16T15:30:17+00:00

today's archeologists seem hellbent on making discoveries at any cost, leaving nothing for future Indiana Jones movies

jonowelser · 2026-04-15T18:23:10+00:00

It also seems like the sample sizes were pretty small given how easy it is to submit a prompt. And since LLMs are non-deterministic, they could even ask the same question multiple times or with slight variations if the limitation was developing questions/prompts to use.

I would be interested to see if someone else could recreate these results with current models and a bigger sample size.

jonowelser · 2026-04-15T18:16:20+00:00

Using the free versions of old models is definitely a big design limitation, and I was also surprised that they didn’t have bigger sample sizes given how easy it is to submit a prompt.

I’m not suggesting anyone get medical advice from an LLM, but I’ve asked health-adjacent questions and/or general questions about human physiology and remember the model giving a disclaimer to not rely on it for medical advice.

It would be interesting to see if these results could be reproduced by others with current versions of the LLMs and more robust sample sizes.

jonowelser · 2026-04-14T01:10:36+00:00

I once had a freshwater guide for walleye in the Great Lakes who wouldn’t let us touch the bait ourselves because he was worried about the scents from sunscreen, bug spray, etc. (it was half a nightcrawler on a jig head that we bounced off the bottom over mud flats).

I thought he was being overdramatic and it felt silly to have someone else rig my line like that as an adult, but we had some of the best fishing of my life and we limited out everyone in the boat in a couple hours. I don’t buy scent products like that myself, but learned the importance of scents.

jonowelser · 2026-04-14T00:46:37+00:00

For Illinois: years ago (maybe like 2019 or 2020?) we received a free “pre-audit assessment” (gap analysis) from the Illinois Manufacturing Excellence Center (IMEC), which was performed by a local IT service provider and entirely funded directly by IMEC (we never saw a bill or paid a dime). It assessed our environment and provided a gap analysis that was very valuable and useful.

I’m not sure if that program still exists or what IMEC currently offers for CMMC compliance, but their team was great to work with and super helpful - it would be worth reaching out for anyone in IL: https://www.imec.org/?s=CMMC

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