@aardrian@toot.cafe2026-07-10 15:42:46
@stargazersmith@social.linux.pizza2026-08-11 00:49:37
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizza2026-08-10 17:45:28
Pissed off with the course. Three questions I provided the correct answer, they say wrong it was a different option. Retry the test and use their answer, wrong, it was my original answer. Do a third time, again their 'correct answer' get told wrong. Almost makes me think they don't want a perfect test.
I have been using Word for decades. At work the default for using dictation is [ALT]-~ According test question it is [ALT]-D. Excuse me, that does nothing . Even MS h…
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-07-09 20:42:02
from my link log —
A simple ray tracer written in the meson.build language.
https://github.com/annacrombie/meson-raytracer
saved 2023-11-19 https://
@hippyjo@c.im2026-07-11 18:33:55
Ukraine update from Giorgio Provincialli: Contrary to popular opinion, Ukraine is not a burden to support, it is a vital aspect of Europe's defense and an example of how modern warfare has evolved.
Share the friend link to bypass the paywall and support one of the very few independent journalists living in the kill zone of Ukraine:
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-08-11 08:00:05
inploid: Inploid: an online social Q&A platform
Inploid is a social question & answer website in Turkish. Users can follow others and see their questions and answers on the main page. Each user is associated with a reputability score which is influenced by feedback of others about questions and answers of the user. Each user can also specify interest in topics. The data is crawled in June 2017 and consist of 39,749 nodes and 57,276 directed links between them. In addition, for …
@CubitOom@social.linux.pizza2026-08-10 18:05:40
A local family and school community are seeking answers after school custodian was abducted by fascists (ICE) on his way to work (St. Johns County, FL)
Video Source
https://reddit.com/comments/1vjwzo2
Article
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2026-06-11 15:00:02
Just finished "The Terraformers" by Annalee Newitz (@…). It was recommended as a "solarpunk" book, and I'm currently on a quest to find more speculative fiction as good as Le Guin or Butler, so I was eager to dig in. Having tagged the author (hi) I'll try to be polite here, but I'll admit I was disappointed.
Newitz clearly has a powerful imagination and there's lots of great stuff in the book, but it's not at all pushing boundaries in terms of imagining future societies. I think the message and intent was good in a lot of places, but off or self-contradictory in others. I absolutely adore the relatively small point made at the end about revolutions being complicated and not boiling down to heroes and battles, but despite the book's attempt to avoid that, I think it still falls into that pattern. Without too many spoilers, the way that some big problems are resolved near the end leans too much on a legal framework without questioning how it's enforced, and that resolution then means that a few heroic acts are enough to tip the balance, which undermines the point about messy histories.
The biggest contradiction of the book to my mind though is with a central theme. The book really explores a world in which "anyone of any species can be a person, as long as we just bioengineer them to be intelligent enough," and it tries to make a point about how engineering limited intelligences is cruel. At several points characters comment about how personhood shouldn't depend on intelligence. There's even a brief quote about how maybe rivers could be people... But... the point could have been "anyone can be a person, regardless of intelligence." This would have made for much more interesting philosophical territory to explore IMO (how do we then bound personhood; how do we reconcile predator/prey relations between persons, etc.). These are also questions that the indigenous traditions Newitz draws on (and consulted about, as mentioned in the acknowledgements) has interesting answers for, but we don't get to explore them through Newitz' world, and because the question of personhood regresses to the question of intelligence, it feels like the moral philosophy of the ERT folks isn't any better than the "InAss" they disparage.
It's not a bad book overall, even if it doesn't engage with the questions I'm hungry to see others engage with. Newitz' efforts to sketch out a more vibrant and diverse future are still monumental and inspiring in a lot of ways. I'm just still looking for something more. Ultimately, I think it lives up to the "solar" but not very much to the "punk."
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-10 18:59:43
Conservative economist Andy Hall offers a damning condemnation of conventional politicians (although he is apparently oblivious of the import of his argument) 👇
Hall writes:
"Politicians do not respond mechanically to shifts in public sentiment
—they answer to donors, activists, and primary challengers,
not just median voters…
and sometimes they stake out new positions well before the public asks for them,
or refuse to move long after it has"
@aardrian@toot.cafe2026-07-09 13:25:17
“Link Popover Navigation”
https://adrianroselli.com/2026/07/link-popover-navigation.html
It uses HTML `popover` instead of disclosure widgets in a web site nested navigation bar.
Tried my best for anchor positioning that uses logical properties to accou…
