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Eagles' Lane Johnson explains why he's getting close to his 'peak' at 35 years old

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/eagles-

Eagles OT Lane Johnson believes he's still improving at 35: 'I'm getting close to maybe my peak' https://www.nfl.com/news/eagles-ot-lane-johnson-believes-he-s-still-improving-at-35-i-m-getting-close-t…

Small achievement: Managed to configure the Steam controller for #BattleForWesnoth, so now I can play it on the big screen. 🎮 (The tricky part was getting the controller's mouse emulation work under Wayland, but then it's great for mouse keyboard games!) BfW is still one of the greatest games of all time, if you ask me, and it simply never gets old. 🧝‍♂️

After working with WordPress’ new full site editor, I feel like I’m either losing touch with WordPress, or getting old. I found my self Googling how to do things far more often than I feel I should have. It’s a great feature, but it’s a whole new learning curve, and not intuitive enough.

Replaced the garbage #disposal last night. It's one of those jobs like redoing the guts of a toilet; seemed intimidating but it was far easier than I expected. (Replacing with the same model helps.) #insinkerator #diy

Ask yourself: How many water bottles thrown at cops are worth keeping one innocent American* teen out of inhumane #ICE detention?
For anyone criticizing the #LA protests or suggesting they should stop for any reason, let's be clear about the stakes. Read this article (or my summary):
https://abcnews.go.com/US/massachusetts-teen-detained-ice-family-video-ice/story?id=122511685
This 18-year-old was snatched without a warrant, because he was in his dad's car and allegedly (possibly a lie or mistake) his dad drove recklessly. He's been in the US since he was 5, originally on a student visa that's since expired. He is an innocent American, by any reasonable definition of those two words*. Thankfully, he's since been released on bail, but he may yet be held indefinitely in ICE detention (in inhumane conditions that have been repeatedly documented) and/or separated from his family & friends and shipped off to Brazil where he last lived when he was 5 (ICE does not care whether he speaks Portuguese, has any family there, etc), all potentially without due process (though he seems to be getting that in this case). Even if this doesn't happen to Marcelo due to the media attention & protests, it is certainly happening to other innocent Americans throughout the country who aren't as lucky to have people standing up for them.
Here's Marcelo speaking about detention conditions and those he was detained with:
https://youtube.com/shorts/ZpZMUb9aEys?si=bpK-022CU7Acb5RY
Do you know how many kids like Marcelo were detained in LA yesterday? Probably zero, because of the protests, including their confrontational tactics. The most "violence" I've seen (from the protestors) is throwing a water bottle at a line of heavily-armored riot police. So the protests are working to protect the community. If you're suggesting a change in tactics, consider whether your suggested tactics (like pre-scheduled non-confrontational protests that have been happening for weeks) will protect the Marcelos of LA.
*Whether he's innocent or American should not in fact matter, but sadly it might to some reading this. If that's you, you've still got some growing up to do.

laptop was emitting electronics-in-distress pheromones, and it stopped working without AC power. it's old enough that I felt ok about getting a new one.
new laptop is fine, but somehow I lost my Blue Prince cloud save, and of course it isn't in my disk backups. so I'm starting over, again.
(old laptop will go to Free Geek, which might try to refurbish it, but will probably just extract a few organs for transplant, and then e-compost the rest)

"Dang, this is a heck of a song. When did they release this? Oh, twenty years ago"
Every. single. time.
Man, I'm getting old

Shinichi Kobayashi has idyllic memories of growing up on Naoshima, one of the nearly 3,000 islands scattered across Japan's Seto Inland Sea.
"We would go clam digging," said the 75-year-old, who became the island's mayor in 2018.
"During the summer, I would spend entire days swimming in the sea, catching turban shells and fish, getting deeply tanned."
"I don't recall seeing any foreign visitors," he added.
Kobayashi's hom…

Setouchi Triennale 2025
The Setouchi Triennale is a contemporary art festival held every three years on the islands of the Seto Inland Sea.

Getting a lot of new old followers in the last couple of days; have you finally accepted me in your circles or did something happen with a sciency mastodon server? 👀

I wanna make some cool hardware stuff but idk what to make aaaaaaa ;-;
Ideally it should be something useful or really really cool
I have two old Arduino Unos at home, but I’d be open about getting some pipicos or esp32 or something.
Extra points if it requires some soldering to put my iron to good use :3
(tho while ordering custom PCBs is cool (feel free to send cool stuff that use them), getting them shipped here is quite expensive I think)
Any recommendations?

I heard the same old food systems scholar on the radio this morning discussing Jamil Jivani's call to end temporary foreign workers. The host asked some interesting questions about the origins of the program but dude didn't have much to say beyond "when I was young and worked on a farm..." because he's not a historian.
For any journalists out there, try getting in touch with Edward Dunsworth instead. Ed's an excellent historian at McGill of migrant labour in C…

Getting the travelbug after reading this:
"It turns out you’re never too old to go Interrailing around Europe | Phil Mongredien"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/22/interrailing-europe-sons-family…

Are you four years old? Are you sitting down? Let me tell you something. You ain't getting no pony.

So #Gentoo #Python eclasses are pretty modern, in the sense that they tend to follow the best practices and standards, and eventually deal with deprecations. Nevertheless, they have a long history and carry quite some historical burden, particularly regarding to naming.
The key point is that the eclasses were conceived as a replacement for the old eclasses: "distutils" and "python". Hence, much like we revision ebuilds, I've named the matching eclasses "distutils-r1" and "python-r1". For consistency, I've also used the "-r1" suffix for the remaining eclasses introduced at the time: "python-any-r1", "python-single-r1" and "python-utils-r1" — even though there were never "r0"s.
It didn't take long to realize my first mistake. I've made the multi-impl eclass effectively the "main" eclass, probably largely inspired by the previous Gentoo recommendations. However, in the end I've found out that for the most use cases (i.e. where "distutils-r1" is not involved), there is no real need for multi-impl, and it makes things much harder. So if I were naming them today, I would have named it "python-multi", to indicate the specific use case — and either avoid designating a default at all, or made "python-single" the default.
What aged even worse is the "distutils-r1" eclass. Admittedly, back when it was conceived, distutils was still largely a thing — and there were people (like me) who avoided unnecessary dependency on setuptools. Of course, nowadays it has been entirely devoured by setuptools, and with #PEP517 even "setuptools" wouldn't be a good name anymore. Nowadays, people are getting confused why they are supposed to use "distutils-r1" for, say, Hatchling.
Admittedly, this is something I could have done differently — PEP517 support was a major migration, and involved an explicit switch. Instead of adding DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517 (what a self-contradictory name) variable, I could have forked the eclass. Why didn't I do that? Because there used to be a lot of code shared between the two paths. Of course, over time they diverged more, and eventually I've dropped the legacy support — but the opportunity to rename was lost.
In fact, as a semi-related fact, I've recognized another design problem with the eclass earlier — I should have gone for two eclasses rather than one: a "python-phase" eclass with generic sub-phase support, and a "distutils" (or later "python-pep517") implementing default sub-phases for the common backends. And again, this is precisely how I could have solved the code reuse problem when I introduced PEP517 support.
But then, I didn't anticipate how the eclasses would end up looking like in the end — and I can't really predict what new challenges the Python ecosystem is going to bring us. And I think it's too late to rename or split stuff — too much busywork on everyone.

@… The whole AOSP management is exhausting, isn’t it?
That’s good to know. My iPhone is 5 years old and still works fine… I could see myself getting a new phone for GrapheneOS and keeping this one around.

"Dang, this is a heck of a song. When did they release this? Oh, twenty years ago"
Every. single. time.
Man, I'm getting old

Just picked up this #Salter Improved Family Scale to gift a friend who's getting married and is into old-fashioned stuff and British stuff.
But, it doesn't quite sit at 0. Does anyone have any experience on how to tare a machine like this? There's no knob as far as I can see. The plate on top also doesn't seem like it can be removed without force.
More pictures below. …

If you watch two seasons of careful and painful manuvering by the rebels in "Andor" and then watch "Rogue One", it feels like you have much less tolerance for Jyn Erso's shit.
Oh no, this is "getting old" isn't it?

Im having a mental battle of cheap vs lazy. I have an old Thinkpad laptop i use for teaching. (T40?) Circa 2015ish. But it works just fine, no issues with Fedora, and giving Garuda a try for now on it. Its a good laptop. Problem is that its heavy. And I have to carry a work laptop (MS Surface, win11) as well. And two laptops in the bag is a bit of weight. So I am debating getting a refurb X1 Carbon. But the cheap part of me is going "NOOOO". Ugh, internal conflicts.

Went over to the neighbors this morning for coffee on the porch. A little gathering of neighbors they host once in awhile.
Noticed his wife was not remembering well, we attributed it to the fact we are all getting a bit on the old side.
I gave her a bar of soap I made and explained it was chocolate soap. Made with cocoa butter, cherry kernel, almond and avocado oils and colored with cocoa powder and smelled and looked like a chunk of chocolate. Explained she should test it on her…

"Dang, this is a heck of a song. When did they release this? Oh, twenty years ago"
Every. single. time.
Man, I'm getting old