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The labour and resource use requirements of a good life for all
#economy #environment

Ladies & gentlemen, I am pleased to announce that I have just published my new album: Dark Little Tales. It's an orchestral mockups album (with decent sound) that I have been working on these last months. While it isn't a #metal album as I'm used to do, it's still #dark and

It's not all roses and sunshine. Although Brand makes quite decent beers, this Winter Bock (ABV 7.5) was a bit underwhelming. A bit flat, sweet, imho they missed the target here.
#beersofmastodon

I need a recommendation for a new iPhone 16 case. The Apple Silicone case which I bought, and that I thought would last a decent wedge of time, only lasted 11 months before snapping at the USBC port.
The Apple Genius said that it wasn't covered by warranty, which didn't really impress me as I'm very careful with my phone. The Silicone is also peeling at the bottom.
#Apple #iPhone

This thread is brilliant, and a call to action.
#visionzero #annarbor https://b…

Adam Goodman (@akgood.bsky.social)
The @annarborobserver.bsky.social newsletter had a decent summary of the dynamic at the #a2council Transportation Commission meeting last week (https://mailchi.mp/aaobserver/a2view-november-26-2025?e=476ffa7e6c ). But we need to take some time to talk in detail about why the city's presentation was so damaging and damning... (🧵)

Day 9: Eniko Fox
Edit: added a store link for Kitsune Tails.
We're back to videogames, and with another author who's on the fediverse: @…
Fox has developed a few games, but the one that I've played and love is Kitsune Tails. It's a sapphic romance take on Super Mario Bros. 3, and (critically for a platformer) it's got very crisp controls and runs smoothly. I think one thing a lot of indie platforms devs struggle with is getting those fundamentals right, because on the technical side they require very challenging things like optimization of your code and extremely careful input handling that go beyond the basic skills necessary to put together a game. From following her on Twitter and now the Fediverse, it's clear that Fox is a deeply competent programmer, and her games reflect that. Beyond the fundamentals, Kitsune Tails has a very sweet plot with a very cool twist in the middle, and without spoilers, that twist made both the levels and gameplay very difficult to design, but Fox rose to that challenge and put together a wonderful game. Particularly past the plot twist (but in subtle ways before it) Fox is able to build beyond SMB3 mechanics in ways that gracefully complement the original, and the movement in the game ends up being difficult but extremely satisfying, with an excellent skill/speed response allowing for both slower, easier approaches that work for a range of players and high-skill extremely-fast options for those who want to push themselves.
There have been plenty of people I follow with indie game projects that are kinda meh in the end, and I'll still boost them without much comment if they're decent. Fox' work is actually amazing, which is why if you've followed me for a while you'll know I tend to mention it periodically, and which is why she makes this list of authors I respect.
You can buy Kitsune Tails here: #20AuthorsNoMen

#Intel actually provides decent public documentation on their boot flow and #firmware images:

Introduction to Key Usage in Integrated Firmware Images
This document provides background information on manifesting and signing of Intel and OEM components and the establishment of the Chain of Trust.

New LP dropping soon. It will be a set of orchestral mockups with decent sound.

I used to run a few generative Twitter bots, all of which are now defunct due to Elon-related API restrictions, focus and audience shifts, etc. I'd like to resurrect a couple, and maybe even ensloppify one with AI (to attract VC $€£) but it appears botsin.space is dead. Any decent botting instances left? Is mastodon.bot alright? Should I just start my own instance, and make my hobby trying to get federated, instead?

We actually had a decent number of Trick or Treaters last night (around 25)!!
Pretty good Halloween despite it being windy as hell & blowing my 8’ Beetlejuice sandworms head (put up like 2 days before) around.

Whats the latest (and in the easy) vulnerability scanner? I used to use Nessus back in the day, then OpenVAS was always a pain to get working. I haven't scanned anything in a few years so not sure whats in that "easy to use, decent output" category.

got to spend some time tinkering with my router today...
added Podman, bpftune and a Podman rustnet wrapper to clammy-ng.
rustnet is pretty cool. It's a nice blend between iftop, tshark, and something decent to look at. I hope they can add some more robust filtering. They recently added some eBPF support, but its hard for me to tell what its being used for.
#clammy-ng #homelab

when github dies, we'll have go back to running buildbots ourselves. it's annoying, but not _that_ bad; i've done a decent amount of it and i think it'll be okay
an amusing outcome is that writing projects in python now has a direct financial benefit over writing projects in rust

The initial example is based of my current character and it's looking decent. I'm not happy with the skill section, but this should get the job done. Still have to figure out how I want the damage to look on weapons. I also need to get spells into the schema, but I'll leave that alone for the time being.
#pathfinder2e

Last night's run: a decent one, but my night vision is not what it used to be, so a little slower than I would like.
Looking like outdoor #running tomorrow and Friday too with great weather. Today was a treadmill day, though, partially because that's all I had time for.
We shall see how long I can go with outdoor running this winter.

william burroughs's "a thanksgiving prayer" (1986), as rendered in mondo 2000 #3. https://archive.org/details/Mondo.2000.Issue.03.1991/page/n9/mode/2up

There is more than enough to go around. We just need to organise that.
This is how a matriarchal world order would arrange things:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800925003027

Time to go have decent meal in Italy

I am so sick of how badly companies maintain their software.
Take Roku. Their devices are rapidly becoming less reliable than a 1960 Austin Healey - meaning that you always have to have al alternate 'cause something is always broken.
Today it was the Roku Media Player. It no longer can play .mp4 files that it used to be able to play. It can do the sound, but not the video. It used to do 'em both, with decent synchronization.
But now, nope. Has Roku become yet a…

i distinctly recall this post that said something along the lines of "this fediverse shit is easy you can just post some shit like 'who up floofing they foxes' and get 7 billion boosts" but i cannot find it for the life of me despite it (iirc) doing pretty decent numbers
i am beginning to think i dreamt it

😟 Starmer finally finds his voice as he speaks from the heart | John Crace
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/30/starmer-finally-finds-his-voice-as-he-speaks-from-the-heart

Hm.
#EpsteinFiles

#today I am working on the #NewScientist article splurge, and my #research (I think that I may be able to make a decent step today), and keeping an eye on my house's energy systems as the first …

since its #cybermonday heres a resource incase you may need it to find decent cables or chargers.
https://social.linux.pizza/@NathanALV/114546908858925936

The goal is to claw back to a Champions League spot, which seems laughable presently, but the span from 11th where #LFC currently languish to 4th will be anywhere from 2-5 points by the end of the weekend. There are a lot of "ifs" required, but there is enough talent in the squad that it should be possible to make a decent push towards it.
The priority must be to shore up the defense. K…

This is a good thread on Bluesky wrt to enabler-brain and why some people (who you'd think are decent people) suddenly, out of the blue defend objectively terrible people and behavior.
(The reason is it makes them feel better—even when they know they side with literal racists.)
https://bsky.app/profile/amyhoy.bsky.social/post/3lzytgqdqbk2l

Having a great #career while simultaneously being a great dad feels impossible. The snag is, I feel like I can’t really be a good dad without bringing some decent money in.

Today is day 1 after the official end of the last halfway decent version of Windows before the AI craze. And have you loyal Windows 10 users all obediently switched to Linux :linux: , the only remaining usable privacy-friendly operating system? 😜 😎
#windows10 #windows

Pointless cover again. He's got a decent voice, but... can't we have Ben E. King instead?
#TOTP

Day 30: Elizabeth Moon
This last spot (somehow 32 days after my last post, but oh well) was a tough decision, but Moon brings us full circle back to fantasy/sci-fi, and also back to books I enjoyed as a teenager. Her politics don't really match up to Le Guin or Jemisin, but her military experience make for books that are much more interesting than standard fantasy fare in terms of their battles & outcomes (something "A Song of Ice and Fire" achieved by cribbing from history but couldn't extrapolate nearly as well). I liked (and still mostly like) her (unironically) strong female protagonists, even if her (especially more recent) forays into "good king" territory leave something to be desired. Still, in Paksenarion the way we get to see the world from a foot-soldier's perspective before transitioning into something more is pretty special and very rare in fantasy (I love the elven ruins scene as Paks travels over the mountains as an inflection point). Battles are won or lost on tactics, shifting politics, and logistics moreso than some epic magical gimmick, which is a wonderful departure from the fantasy norm.
Her work does come with a content warning for rape, although she addresses it with more nuance and respect than any male SF/F author of her generation. Ex-evangelicals might also find her stuff hard to read, as while she's against conservative Christianity, she's very much still a Christian and that makes its way into her writing. Even if her (not bad but not radical enough) politics lead her writing into less-satisfying places at times, part of my respect for her comes from following her on Twitter for a while, where she was a pretty decent human being...
Overall, Paksenarrion is my favorite of her works, although I've enjoyed some of her sci-fi too and read the follow-up series. While it inherits some of Tolkien's baggage, Moon's ability to deeply humanize her hero and depict a believable balance between magic being real but not the answer to all problems is great.
I've reached 30 at this point, and while I've got more authors on my shortlist, I think I'll end things out tomorrow with a dump of also-rans rather than continuing to write up one per day. I may even include a man or two in that group (probably with at least non-{white cishet} perspective). Honestly, doing this challenge I first thought that sexism might have made it difficult, but here at the end I'm realizing that ironically, the misogyny that holds non-man authors to a higher standard means that (given plenty have still made it through) it's hard to think of male authors who compare with this group.
Looking back on the mostly-male authors of SF/F in my teenage years, for example, I'm now struggling to think of a single one whose work I'd recommend to my kids (having cheated and checked one of my old lists, Pratchett, Jaques, and Asimov qualify but they're outnumbered by those I'm now actively ashamed to admit I enjoyed). If I were given a choice between reading only non-men or non-woman authors for the rest of my life (yes I'm giving myself enby authors as a freebie; they're generally great) I'd very easily choose non-men. I think the only place where (to my knowledge) not enough non-men authors have been allowed through to outshine the fields of male mediocrity yet is in videogames sadly. I have a very long list of beloved games and did include some game designers here, but I'm hard-pressed to think of many other non-man game designers I'd include in the genuinely respect column (I'll include at least two tomorrow but might cheat a bit).
TL;DR: this was fun and you should do it too.
#30AuthorsNoMen

RE: https://mstdn.social/@noelreports/115588340091106354
Now that’s a decent one-point peace plan.

Smartphone user experience designs still don't have decent intelligent graphical interfaces, speech interfaces, or text interfaces... though maybe a few things have changed since 2017. https://bookofadamz.com/when-will-smartphones-be-intelligent/

Hi @… people, I listened to the first episode of #StarTrek Khan this morning in the car, and it was actually pretty decent.
http…

It has always been in our nation’s darkest chapters that 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲.
We are — each and every one of us, whether we like it or not — living history today.
It is a time in which demanding what should be considered the most basic tenets of human dignity is considered 𝘢 𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘢𝘤𝘵.
To demand affordable housing,
a decent wage,
the right to healthcare,
that we pay to care for our people,
instead of the flattening of Palesti…

Donate to AOC.
Alexandria is fighting for progressive policies that can help create social, racial, and economic justice for all. That's why she's taking $0 from corporations and lobbyists and is relying on the grassroots to power her campaign.

50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band in #StPaul. decent audience tape: https://archive.org/details/jg75-11-22.141929.jgb.shure545.overlid.knudsen.gems.t-f…

quote tweeting with ivory on iOS
cc @… https://autistics.life/@joshsusser/115583984080301073

@… I have to get one Thursday, for the first time. Hope the music choices are decent.

1/ Money is definitely a serious cause of tension between C and I. I resent the fact that she has so much money in the bank but I’m the one bringing in most of the money on a day to day basis. I’m capital poor but have a decent income and she’s the opposite. This dynamic means that I have to watch what I spend while she continues to buy whatever she wants. To be fair, she does pull her weight on the general outgoings but I resent the fact she has additional cash to throw around that I do…

Jš vi IA mentindo e omitindo... Só o que me surpreende é usarmos isso para qualquer coisa, quer dizer, sermos usados por isso para qualquer coisa.
@… https://mas.to/@carnage4life/115228191

Maybe I ought to learn Dvorak layout for neuroplasticity reasons and also to be even more annoyed by being unable to get a decent ANSI keyboard in Europe

There's no need to promote a lot from YT. But for Ken Thompson I gotta make an exception:
https://youtu.be/OmVHkL0IWk4?si=ZlC9k6yrSK15hk_I
And, yes, it's more than 4 hours but that's what a decent interview takes up. Slice it and watch chunks at your leisure! I…