@aral@mastodon.ar.alLittle JavaScript tip:
You know you can comment out code to quickly disable it:
```js
/*
console.log(‘I won’t run’)
*/
```
But did you know you can also use a labelled block with a break statement to do the same thing in a more flexible manner?
```js
disable: {
break disable
console.log(‘I wont’t run’)
}
```
Then, you can quickly the move the `break disable` to different lines to execute different bits of code wit…
@yaya@jorts.horsehello my #fuckaas friends in my phone
you know about mastodon. you may have heard of lemmy, the fedi equivalent of reddit, or pixelfed, the fedi equivalent of Instagram, or bookwyrm, the Goodreads equivalent.
but did you know there's like 8 bajillion other things in the fediverse that you can check out and start using in place of corporate-captured platforms? it's true!
@cdarwin@c.im“Talking about lethality and killing and blowing people up
— you know, it’s usually true that people who talk like that and pound their chest are the ones that did the least. …
You can’t be asked to do things like that,
which are not normal parts of the human experience,
and not have that weigh on you pretty heavily.” https://
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzWhy the Cowboys' matchup with Commanders is more important than you think https://insidethestar.com/why-the-cowboys-matchup-with-commanders-is-more-important-than-you-think
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeDid you know crabs never jaywalk?
They stick to the sidewalk. 🦀
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioYou know Mozilla, how about just idk making the best browser instead of...
*checks notes*
..."doing for AI what we did for the web".
https://blog.mozilla.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/278/files/2025/11/Mozilla-Summary-Portfolio-Strategy.pdf
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialDid you know Trump repeatedly lied lied LIED & bankrupted an entire sports league all because the NFL hurt his feelings?
▶️ One Man’s Ego vs. the NFL: Donald Trump and the demise of the USFL - Press Box Chronicles
https://youtube.com/watch?v=lCjWo9A_51E&si=LGdbd7…
@jake4480@c.imNow playing some LOUD, raw, feedbacky d-beat punk rock from St. Louis' DRILL. This is their demo from May. Did I mention how insanely fucking raw and feedbacky it is? 😂 The vocalist's screams and screeches, some great riffage and such. You KNOW I love shit like this.
https://drill314.bandcamp.com/album/de
@stf@chaos.socialdid you know that even gold has an E-number? it's number is E175
@sean@scoat.esFlip side of this: ~3 years ago, I got automated calls from “RBC Visa”. I ignored them.
Then my card stopped working.
So I called the number on the back of my card and said as much.
The agent gave me a hard time: “So you JUST IGNORED our calls about this?”
“No; I didn’t know they were you calling.”
“How did you not know they were us?! It says ‘this is RBC Visa’ when you answer!”
“That’s indistinguishable from fraud.”
He did not like that. He thought …
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialHow does it feel to have given $60 of your money to bail out Argentina?
What, you did not know that $60 was pulled out of your pocket (and the pocket of every man, women, and child in the US) to be gifted unto Argentina?
https://www.pbs.org/newsho…
@hippyjo@c.imI remember people describing the rise of the Internet as the "Information Age".
Now we live in the Age of Lies.
The age of lies is a tragic time, where our attention is manipulated, stolen, and exploited for the gain of greedy monsters who only care about squeezing every nickel out of you that they can.
All we get in return is distracted, abused, and poorer, in every sense of the word.
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldDid You Know I’m A Writer?
Reflecting on the writing I've done over the years and the people who know about it.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/did-you-know-im-a-writer/
@hynek@mastodon.sociallazygit is perfection and that sadly means i will never learn jj
https://www.bwplotka.dev/2025/lazygit/
@hex@kolektiva.socialI think I need to clarify some shit for (white) liberals.
How many times have you wondered if someone you're talking to in an informant sent to entrap you? How many times have you or a friend of yours been hit by a car, intentionally? How many friends have been hit, or almost hit? Ever been stabbed? Know anyone who has? Has the FBI ever knocked on a friend's door? Have police ever kicked down your door? Have you ever been arrested? Pepper sprayed? Does the sound or smell or blast balls give you flashbacks? Do you ever wonder what all the CS exposure is doing to your body? How many times have you been shot or shot at? Do you wonder every day if this is the day they'll come to kill you? Would anyone in your social circle answer these questions differently?
When you vote, you risk nothing (big asterisk, but if I'm talking to you then it doesn't apply to you). What you get out of voting is exactly what you put into it. Direct action is the same.
If you aren't worried about someone murdering you, then you probably aren't actually threatening the system. That's the difference between voting, and doing something useful. If they had to murder all the liberals in order to keep going, fascism would end. If they're only murdering radicals and marginalized people, then you're just like all the "good Germans" who hated Hitler but did essentially nothing.
It's already that bad for some people. How much are you willing to risk? How many people are you willing to sacrifice for your comfort? These are the questions we're all thinking about every time you tell us to vote.
(I'm tagging this #USPol so it's easy for folks to filter out if they're already well acquaintaned with the horror. I'm not CW, because USPol is just expected to be triggering.)
@teledyn@mstdn.caA proud achievement of my half-century IT career happened in 1996 consulting to the #UNDP toward the first published edition of the Humanity Development Library.
It seemed easy enough: "It can be fairly estimated that 1/3, or about 20 million pages of UN, and as much University and NGO material are very useful. Those 20 million pages useful UN publications probably contain about 50% of solutions for major World problems. This information must be released in digital format for non-profit redistribution in all countries."
also portable and accessible to all platforms, everywhere.
Happily, not only did the project live on, but thanks to @… our once-intractable problem of global delivery is now globally solved!
So, whether or not this is timely, I don't know, but should you need to suddenly rebuild some semblance of civilization from scratch…
Humanity Development Library 2.0 CD-ROM 1998 : #HumanityLibrariesProject : #InternetArchive
https://archive.org/details/humanity-development-library-2.0
@boris@cosocial.caDid you know that SpaceShip .com, who is a Domain Registrar plus a bunch of other hosting services, has something called "Alf AI"?
Yes, I am going to bug them to sponsor ATmosphereConf - what a perfect match!
https://www.spaceship.com/alf-ai-assistant/
@paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
Did you know that a Dodecahedron is a 12-letter name for any 12-sided shape. And did you also know that on this day in 1962, the Canadian Government decreed that our dodecahedron nickel was decadent and that round was right. Pre-1962 nickels are now pretty worth a nickel, but a coin in "mint condition" has been known to fetch a few pennies more.
Have you noticed there are more coin buying events in your neighbourhoods over the past few years? Some of that activity is driven by buyers taking advantage of people wanting to sell old jewelry, collectibles, or jars of coins that are sitting in the back of drawers or closets. But the rise of digital transactions, particularly increased during COVID when no one wanted to touch your infected money, has increased the collectible value of coins and, in some cases, the actual metal value exceeds the face value.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Numismatist
http://canadiancoinnews.com/otd-12-sided-five-cent-coin-becomes-round/
@aardrian@toot.cafeMe, a hammer salesman: “Let's fix that window, you know, for accessibility.”
[ smashes glass ]
you: “Why did you do that?”
me: “For accessibility.
you: “It wasn’t broken.”
me: “I made it better for accessibility.
you: “But how does th—”
me: “FOR ACCESSIBILITY!”
[ waggles hammer overhead ]
@UP8@mastodon.social☎️ Did You Know That There Are Camera-Less iPhones?
#electronics
@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to"To future historians—not just of computing, but of humanity—the current period will be a dark age.
How was Facebook used by students in the 2010s? We cannot show you, that version of Facebook is not hosted anywhere.
What correspondence did Vint Cerf have as president of the ACM with other luminaries of computing industry and research? We do not know; Google will not publish his emails."
@crell@phpc.social
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioWhat @… said here, and so well said.
Note that deciding it’s the wrong time to rub somebody’s nose in how incredibly wrong they were doesn’t make them any less wrong. Listening is not the same thing as accepting. Sometimes it’s a moment to say “you dumbass,” and sometimes it’s a moment to say “And how did that work out for you?” The wise know the difference.
People who were taken in by the likes of these scammers •can• walk out of it in moments of cognitive dissonance — and if you’re in a position to do what Luna describes with someone you know, you might just change a life.
https://defcon.social/@corbden/115329960629783431
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys defense is going to set 2 NFL records this season https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-defense-is-going-to-set-2-nfl-records-this-season
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizzaThe hidden gem. Another one.
Did you know Alpine Linux has a vibrant community, delivering the latest desktop environments?
KDE Plasma 6.5.4, of course. But also Gnome 49.2.2? And, since y'day afternoon already, Cosmic 1.0?
That's the one I'm gonna go for.
Unexpected, but really amazing. Don't tell too many people 😂
#alpine
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scotI kid you not, this is improving my French. Not just with rugby posts, but because I have the frame of reference I can get the gist so I do well with them. If I don't know a word I hit the translate button. Short posts like this and from other accounts are doing more than Duolingo ever did. I could clean up on Duolingo but not really properly learn much at all.
@… …
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Did you know that for every US$1,000 a person has in savings is roughly equivalent to the direct #Emissions generated by flying from New York to Seattle every year”
#Banks are a core part of how we store and spend money. This
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgStarting your week by getting your DUX in a row ;-)
#retrocomputing #hpux
https://hachyderm.io/@thejpster/115521<…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialPicture the human body. Zoom in on a single cell. It lives for a while, then splits or dies, as part of a community of cells that make up a particular tissue. This community lives together for many many cell-lifetimes, each performing their own favorite function and reproducing as much as necessary to maintain their community, consuming the essential resources they need and contributing back what they can so that the whole body can live for decades. Each community of cells is interdependent on the whole body, but also stable and sustainable over long periods of time.
Now imagine a cancer cell. It has lost its ability to harmonize with the whole and prioritize balance, instead consuming and reproducing as quickly as it can. As neighboring tissues start to die from its excess, it metastasizes, always spreading to new territory to fuel its unbalanced appetite. The inevitable result is death of the whole body, although through birth, that body can create a new fresh branch of tissues that may continue their stable existence free of cancer. Alternatively, radiation or chemotherapy might be able to kill off the cancer, at great cost to the other tissues, but permitting long-term survival.
To the cancer cell, the idea of decades-long survival of a tissue community is unbelievable. When your natural state is unbounded consumption, growth, and competition, the idea of interdependent cooperation (with tissues all around the body you're not even touching, no less) seems impossible, and the idea that a tissue might survive in a stable form for decades is ludicrous.
"Perhaps if conditions were bleak enough to perfectly balance incessant unrestrained growth against the depredations of a hostile environment it might be possible? I guess the past must have been horribly brutal, so that despite each tissue trying to grow as much as possible they each barely survived? Yes, a stable and sustainable population is probably only possible under conditions of perfectly extreme hardship, and in our current era of unfettered growth, we should rejoice that we live in much easier times!"
You can probably already see where I'm going with this metaphor, but did you know that there are human communities, alive today, that have been living sustainably for *tens, if not hundreds of thousands of years*?
#anarchy #colonialism #civilization
P.S. if you're someone who likes to think about past populations and historical population growth, I cannot recommend the (short, free) game Opera Omnia by Stephen Lavelle enough: https://www.increpare.com/2009/02/opera-omnia/
@jonippolito@digipres.clubDid you know that the Learning With AI toolkit has a speakers bureau for AI and education? Filter for expertise like "agents administration" or "data bias," then click on presenters to watch recordings that demonstrate their presentation styles.
Have a speaker to recommend who's not on the list? DM me and I'll send you a form to submit a name, specialty, and recording of any events for consideration.
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.socialThere's a word for seizing tankers in high seas. Piralty? Pirany? Pira something... It's what those guys off the coast of Somalia did for many years, you know, the pirates?
Oh, yes, piracy. That's it. Piracy.
@mapcar@mastodon.sdf.org@… did you know, that you were quoted by the De Programmatica Ipsum magazine?
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/return-to-innocence/
@comex@mas.toDid you know it's possible for two lines to appear to diverge in a 2D perspective view, but actually converge in 3D? Kind of the opposite of parallel lines in 3D converging in 2D.
I discovered this while trying to implement a clipping algorithm. At first I didn't believe it was possible, it felt so foreign to everyday experience. It actually happens whenever two lines converge behind the center of projection, but we rarely see that IRL.
(Image rendered from pov of came…
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe@…
I know! Why would they do that? Did they imagine that abusing an online space would never have consequences? Did they also imagine that―in addition to taking pleasure by causing offence―they might dictate where, or when, the consequences arise? Every action has a reaction.
I'm so glad that you see my point.
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itY'know, I don't really need daily emails from the place I buy water filters from.
I hate how every fucking company out there is like, "oh you ordered something from us, that means we'll add you to our spam list. DID YOU KNOW WE'RE HAVING A 20% SALE ON THIS THING THAT ISN'T EVEN COMPATIBLE WITH THE THING YOU BOUGHT?? HURRY AND SAVE NOW!"
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 03 - Volcano
VILA: Obsidian. Even the name sounds nasty. Do you know why it escaped the galactic war?
CALLY: If it did.
VILA: Well, Zen says there's no sign of any battle fleet wreckage on the surface.
CALLY: Not as far as we can see.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/303/48
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldEngaging in a bit of navel gazing. Or maybe wool-gathering. I'm not sure which. #NewBlogPost
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/did-you-know-im-a-writer/
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaI know some of you don’t like Pixelfed as a whole, or maybe just the pixelfed.social instance.
I’ve been lazy and haven’t switched instances yet, but I did post a story: @…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioDid you know that there’s a streaming movie and TV show app that costs nothing and has no ads, just need to log in with your library card (if you don’t have one you can probably get one instantly online from your local library).
Available in tons of countries as well.
https://www.kanopy.com/
@soundclamp@mastodon.xyz
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangePro tip: did you know you can tell what language a puppygirl speaks by the sounds they make?
"Awawawa" is a dead giveaway they're a native German speaker.
If they speak English, it's going to be "rerererere" instead.
@cjust@infosec.exchange
@tante@tldr.nettime.org"An LLM helped me with some task" is not a good argument for these things increasing productivity. Did you also factor in all the cases where it made you slower? Where the output created extra work? And how much of your work/activity is that task?
All bigger studies we know (even those done by Google for example) show a total lack of meaningful productivity gains, especially when looking at a whole organization.
(There are few exceptions: Spam generation might see prod…
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeWOW, did you know texting currently prohibits PETTING CATS unless you see a kitty in person? Hang out with ME to PET cute kittens!
@kubikpixel@chaos.social30 years ago today "Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript" — Netscape Press Release (4. Dec. 1995)
🟨 https://web.archive.org/web/20070916144913/http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease67.html
Did you know the every…
@frankel@mastodon.top
@rachel@norfolk.socialYou know, even if Wes Streeting was right, this is an absolutely shitty way to be talking about someone else. Wes Streeting should be ashamed of this.
#ukpolitics https://f…
@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to"If George Boole is the 19th century’s AI scientist, then his contemporary machine learning engineers were Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace. The Difference Engine, which would be frequently cited as the first example of a (mechanical) programmable digital computer if it had been built at the time, was explicitly designed to _replace_ rather than _augment_ human thought. Just as modern software engineering managers use Jira to avoid thinking about process engineering."
@peterhoneyman@a2mi.socialPSG edged out Barca in a close, exciting match and I am thrilled and celebrating by staying up late (imma try, anyway!) and spinning jazzy disks, starting with Sun Ra!
Did you know, according to Wikipedia the Sun Ra discography is one of the largest in music history and this is (a repressing of) his very first studio album, from 1957.
I don't really like it, ha ha! (My son gave it to me.) Maybe I'll trade it in and make space on the shelf.
![This photo shows someone [it absolutely me!] holding a vibrant red vinyl record album at home with framed artwork [by detroit artist Zubel Khachadoorian!] on the walls. The album cover features a striking gold circular design - a spiral or scribbled sun-like pattern with radiating lines extending outward like sun rays. The text on the album repeats "sun song" multiple times, and there's a small logo in the bottom right corner that appears to say "palmyra."
In the background, you can see severa…](https://files.a2mi.social/media_attachments/files/115/302/225/480/794/092/original/a2204ee502ba31a6.jpeg)
@gfriend@mas.toIn case you were wondering. (Since the mediators mostly can't be bothered to let you know.)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/18/what-did-jimmy-kimmel-say-said-comments-about-charlie-kirk?CMP=share_bt…
@whitequark@mastodon.socialhey did you know: dragonfly nyphs have thrust vectoring in their assholes! #themoreyouknow
@mrwedders@social.linux.pizzaDid you know if you make a Shopify dev store you can't currently delete it? Great, someone should tell Shopify's chatbot that confidently made up some instructions for me.
@hacksilon@infosec.exchangeI mean, there's a reason the switch for "I have guests over, let's turn off the most surprising automations" is called "haunted house" in my HomeAssistant.
https://retro.social/@ifixcoinops/115424228795514864
@hex@kolektiva.socialAs anarchists, when we were organizing against Trump, in the lead up to and early in his last term, we recognized the potential for repression. Radicals have always been targeted, but now he's going after moderate liberals. This is going to keep escalating, so it would be a good idea for liberals to *listen to anarchists* since we've been doing this for years.
Anarchists have been kidnapped and held without charges for months at a tim (check out https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_grand_jury_resisters. Only for those folks, they were kidnapped and held without trial under Obama.) Radicals have been doing this for years. It's worth your time to listen so you know how to prepare.
We had a bail fund set up. Support your local bail fund and don't try to start your own (liberals in Seattle did that last time). We focused on basic survival for our members. When the regime cracks down it will be random (since they can't get everyone). How are you going to support folks? Bail funds are a nice first step, but the whole process can take a long time. People can (and often do) lose their jobs, even if they aren't convicted of anything. Are you going to make sure targeted people are able to pay rent and get food? Are you going to make sure families are taken care of when a parent is kidnapped?
Resistence is only a threat if it's sustainable, otherwise they can just overpower and wait. You have to be able to wait longer. Occupations are *extremely* expensive. If you can support each other through an occupation, you can win.
So what is your plan? How are you going to make sure that those who fight can keep fighting? The best time to think about that question was under Biden. The second best time is now.
@georgiamuseum@glammr.usDid you know veterinary medicine students experience burn-out? Art can help with that!
This September, we partnered with the #UniversityOfGeorgia College of Veterinary Medicine on a program to enhance their students' clinical skills AND their well-being.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioThe most interesting type of replyguy is the meta-replyguy (as in the greek prefix, not the tech company).
Here's a typical interaction:
Me: [Question] Please only reply if you know the answer.
Someone: I googled it for 5 seconds, here's the answer. [It's not the answer.]
Me: Did you not read my post? I only wanted replies if you know the answer.
Meta-replyguy: You're an asshole.
???
@fortune@social.linux.pizzaConvention organizer to Linus Torvalds: "You might like to come with us
to some licensed[1] place, and have some pizza."
Linus: "Oh, I did not know that you needed a license to eat pizza".
[1] Licenced - refers in Australia to a restaurant which has government
licence to sell liquor.
-- Linus at a talk at the Melbourne University
@datascience@genomic.socialI did not know about ggplot_build() before. It can come in handy in situations where you want to access computed metrics of a #ggplot. https://ggplot2.tidyverse.org/reference/ggplot_build.html…
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialFat Putin the dumbass calls everyone he hates a communist.
... you know, communism? Where the government owns all the businesses?
JFC.
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2rrp7amblhg3xoly5n5huiqv/post/3m4yhmrdpok2n
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsDid you know that ELF files can contain woke symbols?
@yaya@jorts.horsechat did you know that you actually have to eat food multiple times a day to not feel like shit? pretty fucked up if you ask me.
@catsalad@infosec.exchange"Did you know cats enjoy tuna, and it makes their breath smell 5 times better afterwards?"
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 02 - Powerplay
AVON: My name is...
TARRANT: Your name is Avon.
AVON: How did you know?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/302/339 B7B2
@steve@s.yelvington.comI appreciate all the posts warning that the Supreme Court has not granted unlimited privilege to Trump's henchmen.
But you have to know he'll just grant blanket pardons, as he did to the January 6 traitors.
@portaloffreedom@social.linux.pizzaDid you know there is a scientific conference called Artificial Life? ALife in short.
It's actually quite a cool one. They are nerds that nerd about the game of life and the like.
@hippyjo@c.imDid you know?
Russia was originally called Muscovy, and it was a colony of Kyev!
Kyev was was one of the largest cities in Europe around 900-1000 AD, and they sent their worst nobility to Muscovy.
Then Russia was the bitch of the Mongols for several centuries.
They are nothing but second-hand toxic waste in human form - personal opinion.
Dylan shares all sorts of history and perspective of the modern situation, as a retired military analyst and Russian linguist.…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca“Canada did not sign the letter, Environment and Climate Change Canada confirmed to CBC News Friday.”
Canada is a problem.
A huge problem.
Our Prime Minister is in the Middle East instead of COP. That's all you need to know.
We're all so screwed right now... the world... all of us.
Our leaders in ‘developed' countries cannot extricate their minds from the Fossil Fuel industry and it's going to kill us all, or at least a very large proportion of us.
#COP30 #CanPoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/climate/cop30-showdown-9.6987443
@lanefu@social.linux.pizzaSince I'm shutting down lanecloud, there's a few tiny things I need to re-home.
Did you know that the ultimate homelab challenge is to not deploy clustered and HA services, when you know how to do it?
#selfhosted #homelab
@barijaona@mastodon.mgDid you know of Explain XKCD ?
These ones are moving.
Two years: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1141:_Two_Years
Seven years:
@sean@scoat.esI watched this video on how UTF-8 actually works, on the plane yesterday, and I think it’s very good.
For example, I learned about how the bits in codepoint bytes work; I did not know that before.
Definitely worth the time to watch (especially if you skip through the intro parts near the start), if you’re a visual/audio learner, IMO.
https://
@ThatHoarder@mastodon.onlineI flamin' did it! 200 episodes! 🎉
Podcast ep 200: Things I wish I'd known: a letter to Episode One Me https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-ep-200-things-i-wish-id-known-a-letter-to-episode-one-me/
@cjust@infosec.exchangeMaybe she should do a collab with Skrillex
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a69167004/jameela-jamil-accidentally-orgasm-farmers-dj-set/
@samerfarha@mastodon.socialDid I go a little extra with leftovers breakfast? Yeah, why not?
Pork, fluffy egg, waffled stuffing, homemade gravy (didn’t get any in my leftovers)
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialMy grandmother would always ask every German the question "You knew what was happening, why did you not do something?" The question was about the Nazi concentration and death camps. And it was a valid question.
Today we know about what ICE and DHS are doing, we know our country is going fascist and is trying to create Gulags and concentration camps and the kind of social fear that would be the pride of the East German STASI.
Here's a prime example - California Cit…
@hex@kolektiva.socialThere is a giant mountain in the US carved with the faces of a couple of slavers, and two guys who tried to stop slavery. Now most Americans will stop right there and say, "wait, two? Lincoln did that though..." They'll say that because Americans don't know anything about their own history, including the fact that the practice of slavery remained central to the southern economy well through Roosevelt's administration. If this is not familiar to you (because, maybe, you were taught history in the US) and you'd like to actually learn about that, you might want to read "Slavery by Another Name."
But let's talk about half-slaver mountain for a minute. This mountain is functionally a sacred site for Americans, but it's literally a sacred site for Black Hills Sioux. Speaking of stolen land, did you know that JBLM (a military base in Washington state) is built on land promised the Puyallup in the Treaty of Medicine Creek before being stolen in 1918? I remember being taught that all the land was stolen a long time ago and now there's nothing we can do. Yeah, does anyone remember that DAPL was under Obama? In fact, unused federal lands are supposed to be returned to the tribes from which the land was taken but there's a whole site to auction off federal property... That's a whole section of the government dedicated to violating the Treaty of Fort Laramie.
They could just comply with the treaty, as they are legally obligated to do. These violations are ongoing. Slavery, again, is still legal. Slaves are still used by major corporations today, they just have to be tricked into confessing to a crime first. The sins that this country is built on remain fully active today... Because the system was built to preserve white supremacists patriarchy. How could the founding of the US not lead *directly* to Trump? How could this have been different, from the beginning?
But, please, tell me, how, exactly, are you going to fix that by voting harder in the mid terms. How?
@pre@boing.worldNostrshire panel talking about Adam Curry's podcast2.0 , more tags in your podcast rss for payments, in the hope it can fund producers. Did you know besos takes 75 percent of all Audible money? Actors and writers sharing scraps from Amazon's table.
Hot news is that keysend tags are out of fashion and the bolt11 lnurl invoices are taking over.
Podcast platforms can be bridged through nostr to enable cross platform comments and discovery but making users create key pairs is to complex the fountainfm guy reckons. Wants to hide and shatter l abstract away that complexity.
#nostr #nostrshire #podcasting2.0
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itPolice just standing there helping while border patrol kidnaps people. Do you know why? Because ACAB. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:f7utvjkqbgwfjonqtpfcf5fu/post/3m3yivefgvs2u
@trondc@social.linux.pizzaNovember 1st arrived, and so did Fedora 43. You got to take the bad with the good, you know :-)
@Zer0Rank@social.linux.pizzaDo you know of any blog posts that writes about the small quality of life shortcuts, or cool small "secret" things in the Helix editor? Or do you have some cool snippets or configs you'd like to share? E.g. I didn't know about `x_`. The underscore trims any newlines from the selection, when `x` selects the whole line (including the newline). This makes pasting the selected text on the same line, without the need to backspace the newline. How did I never know about this unti…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioDid you know?
"AI" stands for Anthropomorphized If-statements
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeDid you know you could do all this more quickly and easily on our website at chrome://inducebrowsercrashforrealz
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialYup. Why should bad actors make up fake profiles when they can just copy yours?
DON'T ACCEPT LINKEDIN CONNECTIONS FROM PEOPLE YOU DON'T KNOW
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@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeWashington folks: anybody know the history of WAC 308-330-500 and adjacent statutes? What was the rationale?
When did it stop being enforced? And why? It's clearly a dead law, I've never seen a bicycle license plate in the ten years I've lived here. Although I guess a cop in a bad mood could probably still ticket you for violating it if they really wanted to.
@lordxxl@ruhr.socialI believe, my 5 year old daughter as a future in science:
Mom: "Your desk is completely stained, I can't remove those pencil marks! which pen did you use ?"
"I don't know mum, but I've an idea. I will get all my pens and draw over the desk again, so we can test which ones we can't remove! "
@UP8@mastodon.social🍎 Faster Rust builds on Mac
... been having this problem on Windows ever since there was Windows Defender!
https://nnethercote.github.io/2025/09/04/faster-rust-builds-on-mac.html
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries B, Episode 04 - Horizon
ORAC: With the help of the automatics, of course you can.
AVON: I know that.
ORAC: Then why did you ask the question?
AVON: [Smiles] I didn't. How long can I maintain myself?
ORAC: Is that a question?
AVON: Yes.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/204/484
@whitequark@mastodon.socialdid you know bash has builtin gettext support? i sure didn't https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Locale-Translation.html
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioDid you know?
You can help struggling billionaire owners of big tech companies that can’t build AI data centers fast enough by closing accounts and canceling subscriptions
@cdarwin@c.imMy name is Heather, and I was one of the very first hires for Barack Obama’s campaign.
I know how to win the tough fights — because I’ve lived them.
Now I’m leading North Star PAC to stop billionaire Jeffrey Yass and the MAGA machine from buying Pennsylvania’s courts.
If they succeed in the state’s Supreme Court retention election, they’ll rig the maps and lock us out of power for decades — just like they did in Texas.
But I can’t do this without you. While Yass and…
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafeThis doesn't really fit, but yesterday I heard Piers Morgan on BBC Radio 4 whilst driving. Blah blah blah about his new "book" 'Woke is Dead'.
I am fairly tolerant, and I do like Radio 4, and I rarely talk to myself when alone whilst driving, but I did say "Oh, shut up." ― and switched off. If you don't know who he is: be glad.
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@whitequark@mastodon.socialdid you know ITU has a document with the exact frequencies of dialtones and busy tones for every region? https://www.itu.int/ITU-T/inr/forms/files/tones-0203.pdf
very useful for getting modem handshakes period- and region-correct
@paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
Last weekend our granddaughter visited to help decorate our tree and we watched Elf, a movie about #Christmas spirit, because we were feeling Christmassy. I think the majority of Canadians believe in the spirit of this season. We're a little bit more polite and kinder, if that's even possible, and underneath the snark, the passive aggressiveness, the ##ElbowsUp, is a pack of big cuddly beavers. You don't have to take my word for it because places like Quebec City, Banff, and Vancouver regularly end up on lists for best places to sit on Santa's knee. He lives in Canada so not a surprise. Did you know that in 2018, Canada was ranked as #1 most Christmassy country in the world. They can't put it on the internet if it isn't true.
#CanadaIsAwesome #MerryChristmas
https://dailyhive.com/mapped/canada-ranked-1-most-christmassy-country-in-the-world
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialDid you know Michael Irvin STABBED a lineman in the neck & should have been charged with attempted murder but got away with it "because football"?
Listen to the audiobook, Jeff Pearlman's "Boys Will Be Boys".
https://www.audible.com/pd/B002V9ZBVG?sour
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeDid you know...
I like cats? :3
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io“But the open letter won’t do anything”
It’s really showing that a lot of you never did any organizing or political work.
The open letter is open so that _people in the community see it_, not because we don’t know how to address a letter to DHH or the Rails Core team personally.
Aka it shows people that they’re not alone in their criticism and opinion about DHH and the inaction of the core team.
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialRemember that #Trump has referred to #immigrants as “animals” and stated that they aren’t even human beings. “I don’t know if you call them people,” he said. “In some cases they’re not people, in my opinion.”
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@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioDid you know that Pascal, among many other things, invented public transport?
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialHey #GenX. Did you know the infamous WKRP "Turkeys Away" episode was based on an ACTUAL radio station promotion at KBOX radio in Dallas, TX?
See fact #2 for the story!
▶️ 15 Weird Facts About WKRP in Cincinnati (1978) You Never Knew
