@theodric@social.linux.pizzaA friend came to visit, brought me a bottle of Irish whisky, and it's actually _good_. Not passable, not decent, but good. AND it comes in a health potion bottle! Wonders never cease. First non-Scottish, Japanese, or Indian whisk[e]y I've had that's worth the kcal. (The Swiss stuff I bought was disgusting at ~€90/500ml; the American stuff tasted like bananas; and, as ever, Canadian whiskey is the Canadian whiskey of whiskey.)
@izzychambers@vivaldi.net@… Yes, he was wrong on electronic surveillance, but he was honest and a decent man.
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialI honestly wonder why LED display manufacturers - especially portable displays - think buyers want crappy quality, monoaural speakers built into their displays.
Either provide decent audio through the speakers you include or don't do it at all.
#petpeeve
@joxean@mastodon.socialHow long can I take to produce, with decent sound, a 17 minutes symphonic orchestral song I composed last year? I calculate that at my pace it might very well take me like 4 months. Lol. Talk to you again in July.
@mlawton@mstdn.socialThe officiating has been... good? I'm not sure what to make of this.
Decent first half. Sunderland have been a bit lucky on a couple of occasions, both from Wirtz (post and header).
#LFC look better against low blocks, but it's clear that Endo is not best used as an upfield back. He's been excellent otherwise.
Konate has also been in a very physical battle all game. Kavana…
@lpryszcz@genomic.social'... let's face it, "fuck it, I'm out" seems to be the mantra of web application packaging these days. Our deployment and build setups have gotten so complicated that I doubt anyone really has a decent understanding of what is going on, really.'
Note, this is a state of affairs from 10 years ago... I suspect it has only gotten worse since 🫣
@finlaydag33k@social.linux.pizzaCO2 levels getting kinda high when I'm on my room...
Outside opening the window, any decent suggestions on how to keep it low?
Plants are kinda rough cus my room is pretty dark (and I like my dark room) and space is very limited...
#askfedi
@Dragofix@veganism.socialMining rush for critical minerals threatens Amazon land reform settlements https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/mining-rush-for-critical-minerals-threatens-amazon-land-reform-settlements/
@bencurthoys@mastodon.socialGrr and argh.
The people who make government websites generally tend to do a halfway decent job of meeting the spec, but they really really need to learn to push back when the spec is FUCKING STUPID.
Having just completed my "Annual Filing" with Companies House - and why is that even a thing, we're not posting fucking vellum to Victorian clerks who scurry up ladders to deposit the sacred paperwork in the appropriate filing cabinet any more - I got a new scary emai…
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizzaIn my tour of Arch KDE spins I've had a look at the latest EndeavourOS this morning. For now this strikes a perfect middleground: it is very close to core Arch, with some minor, non-obtrusive, tools added to it. Decent ricing ootb and also a nicely tweakable setup. No snapshots, no Nvidia tweaks ootb, but hovering around 1Gb in memory. Which is really sharp. On we go: CachyOS!
NB: what a geek does whilst waiting for his apartment in Danang 😎
@aredridel@kolektiva.socialI don't hate this episode. Klingons be Klingons.
Hamhanded start. Decent finish.
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euRewatching the two Tolkien film trilogies in chronological order, starting with The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. I like The Rings of Power, but I agree the series is ruefully inferior, especially considering the money they forgot to spend on cloning Tolkien himself and commissioning him to come up with a decent story. I still think they should have gone full on visualising the mythological legendarium. Which The Hobbit kind of does with the battle of the Stone Giants, and it's awesome.…
@markhburton@mstdn.social"The bubble has burst, decent people can see what they are, and those who were once unsure are now sure and are turning their backs on Reform UK LTD. All they have is their die-hard fan base of racists, fascists and bots and bots can’t vote."
It’s All Starting to Unravel for Reform UK LTD - Dorset Eye
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@bourgwick@heads.social50 years ago yesterday, the jerry garcia band in #sacramento. decent audience tape: https://archive.org/details/jg76-02-28.019016.jgb.aud.unknown.martin-warn…
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itShopping for bike stands. I'm not getting a professional quality one, but I would like one with at least a chance of holding up half of a heavier cargo bike. Found this one, which looks decent. https://www.amazon.com/VEVOR-Adjustable-Maintenance-Magnetic-Fol…
@drbruced@aus.socialRE: https://aus.social/@redezem/116292613535174588
This is a good read. A decent tl;dr is this quote: the global strategic reserve of oil appears to be as much of a strategic reserve as my strategic reserve of whiskey: Impressive in theory, only lasts a month i…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialAlso: we're seeing what happens when white people are actually motivated en-masse (and the George Floyd response was actually another decent example of this).
General strike -> capitalist class goes "oh shit we need to deescalate" -> temporary reprieve.
White people actually putting their bodies on the line (or at least near enough to it that ICE killed them) got results. This is direct evidence of just how much oppression depends on the social fragmentation it invests immense energy into creating in order to not get its ass kicked both ideologically and literally.
Also for those white people like me who are scared to participate: I don't have the numbers, but there were something like 50,000 people who stood up (even if we just want to count observers and joiners-of-whistle-crowds I'd guess at least 5,000-10,000). Two in that category died (more like 30 have died in the direct-targets-of-ICE category). So don't look at Pretti and think "protesting is so risky." Consider that both the odds of being the one or two killed are low, and that if you don't stand up quickly and strongly enough against this shit, the body count will grow much higher.
This isn't over, and continued escalation and resistance is super critical now. Rather than hoping the twin cities story is a story of heroes elsewhere who solved the problem, make it a story of an inspiring example that gets replicated in LA, Chicago, and all around the nation where ICE is trying to metastasize into an unaccountable secret police.
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaThe Kangoo makes a decent enough plow, but you need a sizable tractor to pull it. Back to the drooling board!
@mlawton@mstdn.socialDecent performance, overall. First home loss for Sunderland and you can see why they've been so hard to beat. Well organized and were dangerous in the 2nd half.
MOTM will likely be Van Dijk, with the game winner and a strong performance. For me, it's Konate. He had to play a VERY physical game against Brobbey and he managed it well.
Wirtz gets a shout out for his creativity and finding ways to pop up in space against at team man marking and playing a 5 man back line out o…
@alexanderadam@ruby.social
@cdarwin@c.imi think this attitude
— that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questioned
— is probably pervasive in the
White House
and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices
https://bsky.app/profile/jwmueller-pu.bsky.…
@roland@devdilettante.comWhy are folks so obsessed with lying about bicylcle lanes?!?
https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:a2kjkdp4rs6sbx56dmk2hern/post/3md3ruou2fs2x
@aredridel@kolektiva.socialIt was a half-decent episode. It'd have made a great season. Theater really is like that, but man would the lessons have hit harder if they'd let us come for the ride rather than shown someone else having them.
@bourgwick@heads.social50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band in eugene, a kesey family joint promoted by the springfield creamery. there’s a fine line between touring & local gigs, but to me that line is whether or not the gear went back to front street afterwards. spring ’76, show #1. only 2nd set survives on semi-decent audience tape:
@alexanderadam@ruby.social @theodric@social.linux.pizzaI have a notion that my ThinkPad C13 Yoga might make a decent FreeBSD target. Let's find out!
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterWell that was better than it could have been. Maybe we should be grateful Scott Mills got the boot and forced the BBC to give us at least one decent 1999 episode.
Have a great weekend poppers! #TOTP
