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AmyFou 🕊️<p>what controls when submenus open downward vs when they open upward? </p><p>Here on the 'don, my 'emojis' submenu typically opens downward (boo - it often goes past the bottom of the screen) on a first try, and upward (yay! always works) on a second try.</p><p>Screencaps from a submenu in calendly.com that opens downward (yay! all options visible!) when it's the at the top of a list, but upwards (boo! opens *behind* a spacer that obscures several options).</p><p><a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/UI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UI</span></a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/webdev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>webdev</span></a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/css" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>css</span></a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/sorcery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sorcery</span></a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/oops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oops</span></a></p>
Ian Kluft ✅🖥️📡<p><a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/UCaaS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UCaaS</span></a>: Unintended Consequences as a Service</p><p>It's part of everything you buy anyway... Stop denying it.</p><p><a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/engineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>engineering</span></a> <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/oops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oops</span></a></p>
Ian Kluft :verified:✈️🎈🌋<p>Ouch. A brand-new ANA 787-10 on delivery from the Boeing 787 factory in Charleston, South Carolina <a href="https://avgeek.social/tags/KCHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KCHS</span></a> on July 18 was taxiing out and clipped its wingtip against the tail of a parked Breeze Airways A220-300. The A220 had diverted to Charleston and was waiting for fuel with passengers aboard. 2 injuries aboard the A220. Both aircraft were taken out of service for repairs. <a href="https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/528264" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/</span><span class="invisible">528264</span></a> <a href="https://avgeek.social/tags/aviation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aviation</span></a> <a href="https://avgeek.social/tags/travel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>travel</span></a> <a href="https://avgeek.social/tags/avgeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>avgeek</span></a> <a href="https://avgeek.social/tags/oops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oops</span></a></p>
@haitchfive<p>The Big OOPs: </p><p>Anatomy of a Thirty-five-year Mistake – BSC 2025</p><p>by Casey Muratori</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo84LFzx5nI" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=wo84LFzx5nI</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>I don't watch or attend a lot of conferences and talks these days, probably for the same reasons you shouldn't watch as much tv and believe it all as you used to.</p><p>But to me, at least, this is a deep and serious one worth your time in a fundamental way. If you are a programmer who actually cares about code, anyway.</p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/oops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oops</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/compsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>compsci</span></a></p>
Brian Swetland<p>zfs on linux tip: use serialno based device names *not* /dev/sd# labels that are dynamically assigned (like say due to slightly different disk spin-up rates at boot).</p><p>If you fail to do that, zfs unmount POOL, zpool export POOL, zpool import -d /dev/disk/by-id/ POOL can get you fixed up.</p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/zfs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>zfs</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/oops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oops</span></a></p>
AI6YR Ben<p>Lol just saw something about "AI software CEO on Jumbotron" 🤣 <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/oops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oops</span></a></p>
Guillaume Gaullier<p>Looks like I accidentally started an <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/FSCFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FSCFriday</span></a> on CCPEM... 🤭 😅</p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/CryoEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CryoEM</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Oops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oops</span></a></p>
Calishat<p><a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>police</span></a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/drugs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>drugs</span></a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/oops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oops</span></a></p><p>'The Westbrook Police Department said it mistakenly posted an AI-generated picture of items from a drug seizure to its Facebook page after an officer asked ChatGPT to add a police badge to the photo.'</p><p><a href="https://www.pressherald.com/2025/07/01/westbrook-police-say-they-mistakenly-posted-ai-generated-drug-seizure-photo-on-facebook/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">pressherald.com/2025/07/01/wes</span><span class="invisible">tbrook-police-say-they-mistakenly-posted-ai-generated-drug-seizure-photo-on-facebook/</span></a></p>
Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) ✅🚀🛰️<p>"Artificial Gravity" by XKCD comic (Fediverse mirrors <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.xyz/@xkcd" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>xkcd</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://indieweb.social/@xkcdbot" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>xkcdbot</span></a></span> ) - Engineering errors often arise from neglecting to control a necessary parameter. <a href="https://xkcd.com/3111/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">xkcd.com/3111/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>astronomy</span></a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>space</span></a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/oops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oops</span></a></p>
RonSupportsYou<p>Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote: "Joe Biden's crooked census counted millions of illegals who should’ve never been here and should’ve never been counted." </p><p>James Surowiecki corrected her: "The last census was done when Donald Trump was president." <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oops</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a></p>
Adoro il Genio :verified:<p>ADORO IL GENIO - BRRR!</p><p>I prossimi giorni saranno i più caldi dell'anno (pare). Abbiamo pensato di regalarvi un po' di "freddura"...</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/adoroilgenio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>adoroilgenio</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/1luglio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>1luglio</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/fumetti" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fumetti</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/fumetto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fumetto</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/cartoon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cartoon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/comic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>comic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/comics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>comics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/vignettedivertenti" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vignettedivertenti</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/vignetta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vignetta</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/striscia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>striscia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/vignette" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vignette</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/comicart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>comicart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/chiappe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chiappe</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/blackhumor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blackhumor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/oops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oops</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/meteo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>meteo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/freddo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freddo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/caldoestivo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>caldoestivo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/caldo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>caldo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/neve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>neve</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/pupazzodineve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pupazzodineve</span></a>⛄ <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/frosty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>frosty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/freddure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freddure</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/inverno" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>inverno</span></a></p>
Mr. Bruno :antiverified:<p>No one is safe. Especially those who have a lead foot. Seriously, can you do this much damage if you're going a safe speed in a parking lot? I don't care if they're a sheriff or not! They can't claim they didn't see it with the STOP SIGN sticking up out of the bollard!</p><p>Stolen from the desk of <a href="https://xcancel.com/WorldBollard/status/1937864482845602263#m" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">xcancel.com/WorldBollard/statu</span><span class="invisible">s/1937864482845602263#m</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/bollard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bollard</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WorldBollardAssociation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorldBollardAssociation</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/oops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oops</span></a></p>
Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:<p><a href="https://social.wildeboer.net/tags/Oops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oops</span></a>. Sorry, Donald, your own people say your magnificent bunker busters didn't really do the job.</p><p>"Strike Set Back Iran’s Nuclear Program by Only a Few Months, U.S. Report Says"</p><p>(gift link) <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/us/politics/iran-nuclear-sites.html?unlocked_article_code=1.RU8.qlv2.dovY7s0N5glS&amp;smid=url-share" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/06/24/us/poli</span><span class="invisible">tics/iran-nuclear-sites.html?unlocked_article_code=1.RU8.qlv2.dovY7s0N5glS&amp;smid=url-share</span></a></p>
Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:<p>TIL you can bring down a jet by adding a few litres of biocide to the fuel tanks. <a href="https://social.wildeboer.net/tags/Oops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oops</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.flightglobal.com/safety/biocide-overdose-blunder-suspected-in-a321-dual-engine-incident/138004.article" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">flightglobal.com/safety/biocid</span><span class="invisible">e-overdose-blunder-suspected-in-a321-dual-engine-incident/138004.article</span></a></p>
Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) ✅🚀🛰️<p>"Exoplanet System" by XKCD comic (Fediverse mirrors <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.xyz/@xkcd" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>xkcd</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://indieweb.social/@xkcdbot" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>xkcdbot</span></a></span> ) - Dealing with such faint observations at such enormous distances, there are so many ways to misinterpret your data. <a href="https://xkcd.com/3103/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">xkcd.com/3103/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>astronomy</span></a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/exoplanet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>exoplanet</span></a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/oops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oops</span></a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humor</span></a></p>
Timothy Shortell<p>"Did I drop a peanut?" <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/BirdsOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BirdsOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/BirdWatching" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BirdWatching</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/SunflowerSeeds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SunflowerSeeds</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/Peanuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Peanuts</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/Oops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oops</span></a></p>
Ian Kluft ✅🖥️📡<p>Such an unlucky choice of name for the one-billionth GitHub repo! <a href="https://mastodon.social/@film_girl/114666857574839958" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@film_girl/114</span><span class="invisible">666857574839958</span></a> <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>software</span></a> <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/oops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oops</span></a> <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/WTF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WTF</span></a></p>
AI6YR Ben<p>Holey holey, holey! Through the wall drive thee! <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/oops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oops</span></a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Dev.ua: How censorship plays against the Russian Federation: Yandex gave away Russian military facilities in Moscow, blurring them on its maps. “The Russian company Yandex, by order of the Russian Ministry of Defense, blurred out military facilities in Moscow on its map service, thereby revealing their location. At the same time, all these facilities are displayed on Google Maps. Now, behind […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/07/how-censorship-plays-against-the-russian-federation-yandex-gave-away-russian-military-facilities-in-moscow-blurring-them-on-its-maps-dev-ua/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/07/how-censorship-plays-against-the-russian-federation-yandex-gave-away-russian-military-facilities-in-moscow-blurring-them-on-its-maps-dev-ua/</a></p>
AI6YR Ben<p>I thought one of my monitors here was failing.</p><p>Screen getting dimmer... couldn't see stuff, contrast off.</p><p>Thought I had to buy a new monitor (this one is off a curb somewhere).</p><p>Then the cable finished falling out.</p><p>(plugged it back in and it's all good again LOL... but those tightening screws are darn near impossible to reach)</p><p><a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/IT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IT</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/computers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computers</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/oops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oops</span></a></p>