@aral@mastodon.ar.alJust got these messages from @seengoals@mastodon.social, one of the members of Gaza Verified, basically accusing me of running a fundraiser for Gaza and keeping the proceeds (I have no fundraiser on any fundraising site anywhere) and extorting me to share his fundraiser or he’ll apparently go public with it.
So here’s what’s going to happening instead: Nabil has been removed Gaza Verified (
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsPerhaps the main difference between myself and vibe coders is that we have completely different backgrounds.
I've learned coding as a kid, with no friends and no Internet. I didn't do it because it was cool; nerdy stuff was the exact opposite of cool and was likely to get you bullied. I didn't do it because it promised good salary; as a 10-year old, I didn't ponder much about my future, let alone salary. I did it because I was bored, and it was something interesting to do.
I didn't do specific exercises, but rather created whatever I've found interesting. I wasn't graded, I had all the time in the world, and I've enjoyed solving problems. Even if I had access to the Internet, I doubt I would start looking for ready solutions and copy-pasting them. My code was always mine, and I was proud of it; at least at the time.
Of course, nowadays I do stuff I don't enjoy as well. But I'm a grown man who takes responsibility for what I do. And even if my code is shit, it is my shit, and 100% eco.
#NoAI #NoLLM
@detondev@social.linux.pizza
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"I accidentally became a FOSS maintainer and all I got was this lousy new perspective on librarianship"
https://www.hughrundle.net/i-accidentally-became-a-foss-maintainer-and-all-i-got-was-this-lousy-n…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioI’ve had this contingent of the language police show up in my replies a few times now over the word “cosplay,” and look…
OK, I get it, I get the instinct to say “Don’t drag me into this!” and I applaud the effort to push fascists out of communities, yes to all that…
…and also we need to recognize that what ICE is doing absolutely •is• cosplay. The word means “costume play.” It refers to assembling and wearing costumes that are not necessarily functional, but show affinity for a particular subculture by reproducing characters from that subculture’s popular narratives.
ICE are cosplaying Call of Duty. That is an accurate description of what’s happening. (Listen to “Gear.”)
I make software and I make music. I don’t think either one of those things •should• be about violence. I don’t •want• them to be about violence. But both are used in the service of violence, like it or not. I shout the violence out whenever it shows up. But would be ridiculous for me to point at what Palantir does and say “That’s not software!” Unfortunately, it •is• software. To deny that would be beyond self-defeating; it would be irresponsible.
ICE •is• doing cosplay, and we hate it. It’s an insult to the cosplay subculture. It is an insult to the whole of humanity. Fascism creeps into all of our spheres, into every beloved craft and community, and the response is never to pretend it’s not there. The response is to drive it out.
@…
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@wildrikku/115956545807535535
@fgraver@hcommons.socialI was lied to today. By a coworker, who is also a superior and I had a great deal of respect for.
It was a pretty big lie.
I feel betrayed. I am disappointed. I am furious. I am hurt.
I can put up with a lot of stuff in general. I understand that it’s not possible for everyone to be completely forthcoming in every situation.
But I cannot accept being lied to. It is my red line, and it sends me into a righteous fury.
I’ve called them on it. In writing, with refer…
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI used the recipe from Sally's Baking Addiction (using cooked.wiki) and they turned out great!
Nice crispy tops, though I had about half of the brown sugar/cinnamon mix left, as it seemed like way too much.
I didn't have sour cream or plain yogurt but I did have blueberry yogurt, so that seemed appropriate. I used oat milk because that's all we have in the house.
I normally do not use liners but I did this time.
@hex@kolektiva.socialAfter the whole Adam Something "dating advice for leftist men" thing, I realized I should probably write something about that. I didn't, but I realized I should. Here I am sort of getting around to it.
I had a friend call me an "elder" at one point. I was like 35 at that time, but like... a lot of old leftists are just dead or in prison, so we take what we can get I guess. Being also an elder in the sense that I'm an elder millennial, who is also a parent and married for almost 10 years and all that, I guess I'm technically qualified.
So here it is, dating advice for (straight cis) leftist men:
1. Don't.
That's it, actually. That's the whole thing. Let me explain a bit.
First of all, this is dating advice for neuroatypical folks. We're way overrepresented in both extremes because this system wasn't built for us. And that's who is *the most* confused by all the relationship stuff, and most likely to try to apply all this masculinity/manosphere bullshit. I'm also talking a bit from experience here, as a neruo-spicy trying to "figure out" how to date within a paradigm entirely built around neurotypicals and their relationships. It's garbage. Throw it out. There's nothing worth saving.
His video had some line comparing not having sex to your house being on fire. I'm not gonna bother to quote it because I'm busy with actual life. But like, that's exactly what I'm talking about. I recognize that and it's horribly destructive. Men who buy in to patriarchy actually believe this, because those men value themselves based on (hetro) sex. Yeah, if you think you're worthless because you aren't "getting laid" then yeah, you're gonna feel like that's an emergency.
"Dating" as a paradigm turns humans into roles. It dehumanizes us all, and thus makes human connection much harder. It is a game that, like thermonuclear war, can only be won by not playing.
When you abandon "dating" and just act like a human, everything starts to be easier. There's no such thing as being "friend zoned" because you're just friends. Sometimes friendships become other things, sometimes they don't. It doesn't actually matter, because if you're actually there for friendship then you don't *need* anything else.
My grandma, at 98 I think, gave me some advice. My grandparents always got along well, and were married for enough decades that I listened really closely. She told me I should just do things I loved to do and everything else would work itself out.
And it kind of did.
I understand the fear, the idea that you'll die alone. I get that. I get the loneliness. It all hits a lot harder when you have ADHD emotions and past trauma. I get that. But that fear is self-manifesting. When you build your confidence, when you don't *need* to be "in a relationship," you have more room to actually build relationships. For me, dating was dehumanizing. When I abandoned that, I was able to actually be a good partner, and I was able to find my partner.
I would advise against marriage as well, but we did get married for legal reasons. It can still be hard to maintain that, to see each other as people rather than roles. That becomes extra hard as parents. But the times that we cut through that are the times we're closest. Those are the times when it becomes easier to remember that we're both humans and all human relationships need tending.
Roles don't need to be tended because they are classifications. Classifications are static. But relationships between humans are not. Humans are messy and chaotic. Humans have all kinds of complex needs and desires.
So yeah, don't date. Just be a human and see what happens. Maybe google "relationship anarchy" and see where it takes you.
If you have ADHD, it can be especially useful to understand that relationships with neurotypical folks can be especially difficult. Assume you're incompatible with 90% of the population as your baseline, and you'll start to understand why the standard "dating" thing has made you feel so alienated and miserable.
Neurotypical folks generally have no idea that atypicality exists, much less how it impacts relationships. Having to conform to a neurotypical relationship just adds additional mental strain unless you find someone (really special) who can do at least some of the work.
The ADHD thing was especially important for me. There were so many things I was told to do in specific ways by neurotypicals that never worked for me. Their advice always made me feel like a failure. When I was finally diagnosed, I realized they were just giving advice for the wrong type of brain. It was advice I could never use. Basically all dating advice I ever got fell into this same category.
That's my braindump. Maybe I'll develop it more in the future, but I'm busy so maybe not. I hope it helps someone who is struggling like I was.
@frankel@mastodon.top
@davidaugust@mastodon.online"I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character."
—Tim Curry
#acting
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioMastodon question, I'm trying to completely filter/hide posts with specific hashtags and I can't get it to work.
I set them up as filter for "#blah" and I'm enabling to filter the Home timeline but they just stay in my Home timeline—I've tried with and without "whole word" on.
Is there some known issue in v4.5.7 or am I missing something?
@erikdelareguera@mastodon.nu
@mlawton@mstdn.socialBeyond stoked. I knew the snowblower didn't start the last time it snowed and suspected I'd forgotten to use fuel stabilizer. That old gas must have gummed up the carburetor, I figured, even though I wasn't sure what a carburetor looked like.
So, thanks to the internet, I learned how to find and clean it out. Success!
Then I thought I'd better try the generator, given that this storm is supposed to be a doozy. Also failed to start. So I set to cleaning it out next…
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.ioI just scrolled through #LinkedIn and read my feed for the first time in 2 months. *shudders*
Enough internet for the day, I need a book and some tea to earn my brain cells back.
(In all seriousness I was shocked by just how homogenous everyone’s writing style is: every post had the same rhythm and the same uncanny, unnatural cadence. That’s not how anyone speaks! Or writes! Every sentence just reads like the author is blowing smoke up their own ass)
(Also - I didn’t see a single new idea that I hadn’t seen a year ago when I used to actually scroll through LinkedIn every day)
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialIf you are buying a new computer, there's no need to throw the old one away. I was really surprised last year how many items found another owner.
Nothing to get rich of, but avoid unnecessary e-waste
https://www.locked.de/how-i-gave-my-old-computer-parts-a-s…
@servelan@newsie.socialEx-CIA Director [Brennan]: "I Believe Iran More Than I Do Trump" - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/03/ex-cia-director-i-believe-iran-more-than-i-do-trump/
@theprivacydad@social.linux.pizzaWhile the syllogism for "I have nothing to hide" is sound, it ultimately detracts from the argument of privacy as consent.
https://theprivacydad.com/the-best-version-of-i-have-nothing-to-hide/
@joe@toot.worksI just got home from the grocery store and I'm finally starting to warm up but I'm still sitting in the car in the driveway. I don't want to go outdoors, but I know I need to.
@cdarwin@c.imNo!
Fuck you!
STOP!
GET OUT!
I'm fine, I'm breathing
I'm just angry
I'm 70 years old and I'm fucking angry
Oh, just fuck off
https://bsky.app/profile/acyn.bsky.social/post/3md6ps742sw2q
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Ryli:
🎵 I Think I Need You Around
#Ryli
https://dandyboyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/i-think-i-need-you-around-b-w-when-i-fall
https://open.spotify.com/track/4l9DfviSHfUScr53dtu0sS
@CerstinMahlow@mastodon.acm.orgHi @… , I use the app on my iPad. Since maybe 12 hours it keeps crashing :( I use lists. I did not change any setting for the app or for any of the lists. If I visit one particular list, the app crashes, I can reproduce this, it’s only this one list. When I open Ivory again, all timelines and all (!) lists are back to a status before the last crash. That’s quite annoy…
@tante@tldr.nettime.org"his is, in fact, how "workload" works under capitalism: labor is perpetually squeezed to do more, to generate more surplus value, to create more profit for the boss. Technological advancements -- that's what "AI" purports to be -- enable more to be done during the work day"
(Original title: Something I Can Never Have)
@ruari@velocipederider.comSo I have had paid a monthly donation to #Signal for years. For reasons I cannot be bothered to go into right now I decided to put my subscription on hold for a bit.
Now, I have to say, I do not like how this is implemented on Signal (for Android). It is harder and less obvious than it should be.
Settings − Donate to Signal − Donate to Signal − Switch to 'Monthly' − Clic…
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.infoWorking WFD CW today. Didn't yesterday due to doing storm preparations. Not a serious contester here, just pulled up not1mm, and am using it to send code so that I don't slow down more serious folks with my bad keying, just using the key when I need to send something that I didn't have a macro for, or to send slowly. Just now, I was delighted that I copied a 2x3 call on first hearing at 35WPM and then was deflated to hear "TEST" afterwards. I didn't know what contests are currently active, b…
@hllizi@hespere.deI still remember the abject horror I felt when some "ConservaMom" on twotter back in the day 'pointed out' to those who wanted free and universal health care that a Ferrari would no more have value if everyone had one.
I don't know what exactly I replied, but it got me an instant block and I'd be ashamed of myself if it hadn't.
It really is a brain worm. But is there any hope for the affected? I think even in my most demented free-market-believer day…
@grumpybozo@toad.socialIt occurred to me that I have not expressed this in a while or quite this way…
I truly appreciate almost* every one of my followers. I don’t lock my account for various neurotic reasons but I do *curate* my followers for humanness and other vibes. I don’t “follow back” much, as my firehose is already too much. I block or at least soft-block most new followers.
*: except for the handful who seem to keep {un,re}-following as some dumb engagement farming.
@Kingu@sakurajima.moeI have a tablet whose main function is to play Polytopia in the metro. No Sim and most of the time no wi-fi either.
So I turned out all notifications
But now I get notification to tell me I can enable notification in settings...
I'm sick of this.
@yetiinabox@todon.nlI'm in a "Trans Ally" course this morning. There are no trans people actually on the course, either as teachers or as participants.
Fortunately, I have you lot ! I'm guessing I've learned more from my own family and the eloquent trans activists here than I ever will in a formal course...
#trans #transally
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizzaWell, the site I complained earlier about blocking me using ad blockers then allowed me to see their site is doing it again. I checked and I actually whitelisted them so it isn't ad blocking. They are running scripts that detect ad blockers. Did I use Chrome? NO, I prefer Vivaldi.
I have zero problems seeing ads. You can show multiple ads without a problem. I have a problem with their invasive scripts grabbing all the data about me and my device.
They block me and it doe…
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeI had a cookie today!! :neocat_nom_cookie:
But I ate it...
so now I have no cookie :neocat_cry:
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsI'm still thinking about a longer blog post about LLMs, and one of the things I keep thinking about them is how they not only cause direct harm to the community, but also make people more suspicious of one another. And then I've been pointed out this text:
"I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me."
"""
I am a writer. A writer who also happens to be Kenyan. And I have come to this thesis statement: I don't write like ChatGPT. ChatGPT, in its strange, disembodied, globally-sourced way, writes like me. Or, more accurately, it writes like the millions of us who were pushed through a very particular educational and societal pipeline, a pipeline deliberately designed to sandpaper away ambiguity, and forge our thoughts into a very specific, very formal, and very impressive shape.
"""
#AI #LLM
@danyork@mastodon.socialAVFTCN 040 – Returning From A Hiatus, and Plans for 2026
I'm back. After a self-imposed hiatus for most of 2025, I'm returning to something I've been deeply missing... writing and speaking. If you've been following me for any length of time, you know that not writing or speaking is, for me, a kind of pressure that builds and builds until I am ready to explode. 🤯 So what happened? The short version: my role at the…
@hanno@mastodon.socialWhy does this keep happening? Grammarly recently introduced an AI chat, and also, their spell-checking service, which previously was their main product, suffers from constant reliability issues since them. I'm paying for this service, because it used to be good, I never asked for an AI chat. I can go to ChatGPT, or Google, which used to be a search engine and is now an AI chat with a worse version of the search engine attached. Not that I'd want any of that.
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotLast night I discovered a huge 'new' bug in the integer arithmetic of my #Lisp system which I'd been unaware of because I don't have a unit test for it and it isn't something I'd been worried about and don't normally do.
Weirdly, it makes me feel hopeful. It is this:
:: (- 5 4)
1
:: (- 4 5)
4,294,967,295
What's happening here? Integer…
@tokensane@mastodon.me.ukI read this, and I thought, she should try the Fediverse. But then I thought again. I present as male here (because I am). So would I see this misogyny here even if it was a problem? So I'd like to ask, would young women actually be better off here?
> I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous | The Guardian
@theDuesentrieb@social.linux.pizzaFor some time I thought that it would be nice to have a kinda library software that I can use to keep track of all the books I have, especially in different formats (physical, audio, e-book, library available)
And with a Raspi I wanted to try a self-hosted version
What I found is booklore: https://booklore.org/docs/installation
@jake4480@c.imWoke up & had a hankering for 7Seconds- threw on my favorite of theirs. Ultimate wake-up music. 'Good to Go' is 1999 strong. Had this when it came out after I heard a promo, when I was 19 in '99. I like their earlier and later too, but I feel like this one is a sweet spot- a real masterpiece. Reissued in 2021!
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot#notaphotoofmycats I've had my cook on this weekend. Apart from haggis, obvs, I made a ton of mashed potato to freeze so that I have it there for fish pie and cottage pie. We have a fair bit of swede too but then we also have a whole haggis left to go with it. I made celeriac and carrot soup (I am a celery botherer unlike the estimable @…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialAn extremely fascinating article (in French with link in reply to machine translation) via @… :
https://todon.nl/@yetiinabox/116282855527740634
I had not yet submitted myself to a deep dive into Thiel's theology, but it's way more interesting than I had imagined, and explains why he would call his company Palantir, which has always seemed a baffling choice to me. Apparently he's read One Piece, and imagines himself to be constructing A World Government?!?
Also I feel I understand a lot of things about Silicon Valley better now including lots of stuff about social network harms & corporate goals/policies. Belief in Girard's theory of mimetic desire (which I'd not encountered before) explains so much of SV founders' behavior and also it being at least partially reflective of reality explains both their success and some of their harms.
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Turning an old Amazon Kindle into a eink development platform.
https://blog.lidskialf.net/2021/02/08/turning-an-old-kindle-into-a-eink-development-platform/
saved 2021-02-09
@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Thundercat:
🎵 I Wish I Didn’t Waste Your Time (Radio Edit)
#NowPlaying #Thundercat
https://thundercat.bandcamp.com/album/i-wish-i-didn-t-waste-your-time
https://open.spotify.com/track/356A6LLhntlbIxP8h0Lf3Q
@al3x@hachyderm.ioDoes anyone known if it is possible to configure #NetNewsWire to only refresh manually?
I couldn’t find such an option in the mobile apps. I still hope I did not know where to look.
I searched Github issues too.
I hope @… or @… could share a hint.
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itAlright, attempt #3 at watching Sinners.
The first time I got about a minute in before my kid fell asleep. I figured it would take her much longer, so I shut the movie & left.
The second time, kids were asleep and I was waiting for my wife to get home. I figured she'd be at least 45 mins, but I got 5 mins into it & she opened up the door.
This time, I'm sick, kids are asleep, & I have literally no other responsibilities other than staying awake until pro…
@usul@piaille.fr @hex@kolektiva.socialThis is actually not too far off from a pamphlet I wrote at my community college as an experiment in "turning assignments into creative writing." I was taking a religion class, so I decided to create one. I was working in a group and by the end we had developed 3 sects of the religion and we each talked about our sect and how it related and differed from the original text.
I also handed out pamphlets at a mall, half as part of a psychology class (because why not find a way to reuse my material) and part as an experiment to see how long it would take to get kicked out of said mall. (The answer was bout 15 minutes, if I remember correctly.)
Somewhere between there and here, the books "The Evolution of God" and "Non-Zero" came out (written, interestingly but probably unrelated, by someone who lived in the town with that mall where I handed out those flyers). These books both have heavily overlapping ideas with the original pamphlet (lost, which may not be the worst thing since it was full of spelling and grammar errors).
But both of those books had a decidedly theistic flavor, though, I think, they were more generally liberal. The whole #CultPunk thing feels like a missing piece to something that's been bouncing around in my head for... uh... some years. But not so much at the front of my mind.
It was actually in the hospital, on pain killers and ketamine, that this all came rushing back. Perhaps that's the right state of mind for such things.
@NFL@darktundra.xyzJoe Flacco discusses potential retirement: 'I don’t think that’s hit me yet' https://www.nfl.com/news/joe-flacco-discusses-potential-retirement-i-don-t-think-that-s-hit-me-yet
@unixorn@hachyderm.io@…
I just saw the 2026.3.4 announcement this morning, so I guess I'm updating again tonight. At least I know a quick fix now.
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.debitcoin_alpha: Bitcoin Alpha trust network (2017)
A network of who-trusts-whom relationships among users of the Bitcoin Alpha platform. Each directed edge (i,j,w) represents the rating of user j by user i, in which i assigns j a weight w on a scale of -10 (total distrust) to 10 (total trust) in steps of 1.
This network has 3783 nodes and 24186 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Signed, Timestamps
@roland@devdilettante.comRemember 2013 when i wrote ruby scripts, https://github.com/rtanglao/momogs , that used the get satisfaction API to report on Mozilla Thunderbird Desktop SUMO metrics? Neither do I :-) but i'm cooking up something better in python! hooray for "free compute" and i wish ruby was as popular as p…
@seeingwithsound@mas.toFortunately my brain is quite slow, so as long as I'm healthy I won't need an invasive BCI (brain implant) to output faster than I can type or talk (with or without AI), and I'll use a headset or smartglasses for AR/XR.
@davidaugust@mastodon.online"I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character."
—Tim Curry
#acting
@ellie@ellieayla.netI regularly drag my feet on some upgrades, but this is getting a bit ridiculous. I'm using an iPhone 13 Mini because my tiny hands can't hold the giant phablets. And iOS 18.7.2, because I hate the AI junk crammed into everything and don't want nauseating translucent UI effects. But there's a lot of security bugs lately that might demand something to change. Uggghh.
I wish portable pocket computers were less capable and had more battery life.
#apple #wtf
@dawid@social.craftknight.com @rasterweb@mastodon.socialI was using the Python csv library for a script but decided I should dig into the pandas DataFrame stuff instead.
It was more complex, and it took me awhile to figure things out, and I had to read a bunch of web pages explaining things.
But in the end, I am 100% happy I did it that way.
I did not want to ask some AI/LLM for the answers, or to write the code for me.
Because for me, the struggle and the journey is part of creating something worthwhile.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io“It will be a Cambrian explosion of democratizing making software!”
A thing I rarely hear about in the hype about all this: what do people actually want?
Like, I wouldn’t want to make my own shoes even if it was easy to learn how. I just don’t care. Someone else can make them better and I just give them money for it. 99.99% of people think about software like this.
@hex@kolektiva.socialThis is actually not too far off from a pamphlet I wrote at my community college as an experiment in "turning assignments into creative writing." I was taking a religion class, so I decided to create one. I was working in a group and by the end we had developed 3 sects of the religion and we each talked about our sect and how it related and differed from the original text.
I also handed out pamphlets at a mall, half as part of a psychology class (because why not find a way to reuse my material) and part as an experiment to see how long it would take to get kicked out of said mall. (The answer was bout 15 minutes, if I remember correctly.)
Somewhere between there and here, the books "The Evolution of God" and "Non-Zero" came out (written, interestingly but probably unrelated, by someone who lived in the town with that mall where I handed out those flyers). These books both have heavily overlapping ideas with the original pamphlet (lost, which may not be the worst thing since it was full of spelling and grammar errors).
But both of those books had a decidedly theistic flavor, though, I think, they were more generally liberal. The whole #CultPunk thing feels like a missing piece to something that's been bouncing around in my head for... uh... some years. But not so much at the front of my mind.
It was actually in the hospital, on pain killers and ketamine, that this all came rushing back. Perhaps that's the right state of mind for such things.
@Kingu@sakurajima.moeI came home and opened Youtube and this is what my "short video" look like.
Not that I want a "short video" section to begin with but it's that kind of thing you can turn off for a limited time only... a concept I don't really understand but maybe that's just me.
But the thing is I am glad I opened this loops account. If you like japanese idols, please follow me at
@…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Sophie B. Hawkins:
🎵 Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover
#SophieBHawkins
https://baophimegamix.bandcamp.com/track/07-sophie-b-hawkins-damn-i-wish-i-was-your-lover
https://open.spotify.com/track/12PFlQcD67JU53PV3Gj3Dj
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"Wie wenig du gelesen hast, wie wenig du kennst – aber vom Zufall des
Gelesenen hängt es ab, was du bist." (Elias Canetti, dt. Schriftsteller, 1905–1994)
[via https://ub.hsu-hh.de/go/moinmoin]
@erikdelareguera@mastodon.nuI Paris vann cykeln över bilen. De rödgröna behåller makten även i Marseille och Lyon. Men nationellt är bilden mer komplex. https://www.dn.se/varlden/erik-de-la-reguera-paris-cyklar-vidare-vanstern-behaller-makten-i-storstaderna/
@frankel@mastodon.topThe Software Essays that Shaped Me
https://refactoringenglish.com/blog/software-essays-that-shaped-me/
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialYesterday was February 24th and I thought "Maybe I should record an album for the RPM Challenge" so I might be doing that? I mean, I still have a few days left...
@hanno@mastodon.social@… Fun fact: Espresso House has been expanding to Germany in recent years. I don't like it. I remember that I always found it a quality coffee chain in Denmark Sweden. I think they're doing something different here, or I'm hallucinating.
In any case: Espresso House in Sweden is, as far as I remember, also quite expensive, I guess you could say they…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioI wrote a static site generator for a course web site (https://comp127.macalester.digital/f25/). I like it, and I’m poking at documenting and open-sourcing it so that other instructors can use it for their own courses if they want to.
It needs a cute name. Suggestion box is now open in the replies.
EDIT: I was a fool to mention Moodle in the original version. It’s wrecked the replies: everyone’s talking about LMSes, and all the name suggestions are about Moodle — when the point is that this is not anti-Moodle, but a tool to solve a different set of problems.
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsSince my job is stable now and I have saved up some money, I have decided to stop accepting donations via GitHub Sponsors and Ko-fi. I would like to thank everyone who helped me over the years. There are people who need the help much more than me right now.
If you needed a suggestion, @… is doing a lot more than me for #Gentoo these days and will certainly appreciate your help. He's also way nicer than I'll ever be.
https://github.com/sponsors/thesamesam
https://ko-fi.com/thesamesam
To the best of my knowledge, Gentoo project does not need extra money right now, but there are other awesome projects such as Disroot or many Fediverse instances that would definitely use some help. However, in general I'd suggest towards supporting individuals rather than projects: people need money to live, and can use your donations directly, while projects are often bound by red tape.
Finally, please support human artists and craftspeople (and I'm counting human software developers in that). Donate to projects and people who resist enshittification and who refuse to use LLMs. They need the money.
Once again, thanks for all.
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.degenetic_multiplex: Multiplex genetic interactions (2014)
Multiplex networks representing different types of genetic interactions, for different organisms. Layers represent (i) physical, (ii) association, (iii) co-localization, (iv) direct, and (v) suppressive, (vi) additive or synthetic genetic interaction. Edge direction (i,j) indicates gene i interacting with gene j.
This network has 6980 nodes and 18655 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Protein interactions, Unwe…
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialSo last week I asked people to share their blog URLs, and I got a whole bunch of them! And I’ve been trying to go through them, and some go back to 2015… So there’s a lot to do. I did find a really interesting one about GPX files and Python, but it uses Google maps, and I’m not sure I want to do that since I prefer OpenStreetMap. Nice to find interesting gems though, in the 1,500 (gulp!) blog posts I’m going through.
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.socialin 9 monaten ist heiligabend. #servicetoot
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioFirst pressed CD while ripping that I can't find info for in any of the online CD databases. I have almost no info other than it says "Brooklyn New Style" and has 4 tracks (5:08, 10:25, 9:10, 9:49).
Ripping it anyway, maybe I can find info later.
@Kingu@sakurajima.moei MADE iT!! THE WACK-LOCK KEY!! :-)
`
partial alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols "caps_no_I" {
include "us"
key {
type[Group1] = "TWO_LEVEL",
symbols[Group1] = [ i, I ]
};
};
`
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsSometimes I feel that I could have my introduction much better. So I'll leave another piece here, and maybe one day I'll be able to find it again and use somewhere…
I'm a radical. I believe that every human has a right to dignity in life. Yes, even these people who allegedly "are too lazy to work".
I believe that everyone deserves safety, that nobody should be cold or starve, that everybody should be able to use a toilet or wash themselves, have access to healthcare and public transportation.
I think that restricting access to drinking water and toilets is a crime against humanity. The latter is also plain stupid, because it only leads to people using other places as toilets.
I'm so tired of the postsoviet labor cult (a kind of Polish thing). Seeing labor as a value in itself. Everyone must work, and it doesn't matter whether the work is actually beneficial, or outright harmful.
And last of all, I can't tolerate smokers. There is no excuse to harm yourself and everyone around you, just to satisfy your stupid addiction. And I'm also talking of all the random people who breathe all the toxins because smokers think they deserve to smoke everywhere, all the time.
@davidaugust@mastodon.online"I don't really look for specific types of projects any more. I'm not taking care of a career anymore. I'm just having fun acting."
—Kurt Russell
#acting #coaching #inspiration
@erikdelareguera@mastodon.nuJämnt i italiensk folkomröstning – Meloni riskerar näsbränna https://www.dn.se/direkt/2026-03-23/jamnt-i-italiensk-folkomrostning-meloni-riskerar-nasbranna/
@hanno@mastodon.socialMaybe this helps others: I have an external hard drive, and it was always quite slow. Looking into it, from what I could gather, both the drive and the laptop should support USB3 speed, also called SuperSpeed. But it didn't. lsusb and dmesg told me that the drive is connected with "High Speed (480Mbps)", while lsusb clearly said SuperSpeed (5Gbps) is supported. I googled around, and found many with similar problems, but no solutions or specific info. 🧵
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social'morgen!
@hex@kolektiva.socialI've mentioned it before, and I'm sure I will again, but, as much as there's a reason why I reject Christianity, there were also a lot of good things. Churches have governing bodies (with varying degrees of democratic representation) that guide the ministry (preaching and actions) as well as managing logistics (building maintenance, accounting, etc). This provides opportunities for self-governed collective action.
Quakers are the most radical in terms of this, and are basically anarchists. Quaker circles often meet at people's houses and can be as small as 3 people. There is often no leadership. A Quaker service could easily just be everyone sitting in a circle and someone talking at one point.
I grew up in a Presbyterian church, and one of my first jobs (at 11 or 12) was landscaping there. Within the church there were a lot of different trades, which meant that you could volunteer time and learn basically any kind of maintenance. Basically everything that needed to be done was done in-house. This also meant that if you needed a plumber, an electrician, etc, that you could pick one from within the church.
I remember painting the church, learning how to paint, with a bunch of other members of the congregation at a work party. I also remember being volunteered for child care during choir. There were a few rooms around that were used for different things, such as music practice. But these rooms could be made available for any type of community activity. This can actually include community organizing. In fact, Seattle GDC was offered an occasional space for organizing in a church (we didn't take it, but appreciated the offer), and that same church hosted a lot of other community events. I actually went to a queer relationships skills class once hosted in a church, which was great.
What I'm saying is that churches often act as a kind of parallel society up-to-and-including acting as dual power structures....
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI messaged my doctor's office about the extreme pain I am in. From the response:
"You should not be in excruciating pain, that is not reasonable."
I agree! Sadly they have no solution besides refilling my prescriptions, telling me to continue what I am doing, and telling me to wait a week for the next appointment.
(Luckily my daughter was just in Illinois.)
@davidaugust@mastodon.online"I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character."
—Tim Curry
#acting
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social'morgen!
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsI recall that a long time ago, someone told me I'm acting like a cat. Curious it didn't get me thinking; though I guess I didn't really know any cats back then.
@hex@kolektiva.socialIn the time I've been offline, I've been doing a lot and feeling a lot more mentally healthy. I've been exploring nomadnet a bit, looking at reticulum. I'm definitely going to go back to my break and being online much less regularly.
I actually totally forgot about the anniversary of the shooting, which is the first time that's happened since... uh... the shooting, I think.
I've definitely realized that, on some level, I've definitely used Mastodon (and formerly Twitter) as a coping mechanism, often in order to deal with the stressful things that I've found out about on Mastodon or Twitter.
But, again, none of those things really change our core job: build community. And that's part of what I've been neglecting, and what I can focus on more when I'm not spending as much time talking to people all over the world indirectly. Like, I can just chat directly with folks and talk about this shit.
Yeah, I do think there's value in this community. I don't think it's really screaming into the void (at least, not most of the time). But I know that I need the balance to be way farther on the side of direct engagement with comrades doing and building.
So that's what I'm gonna go back to. I feel as though it's a good sign that with all the writing about getting shot that I've been doing, and all the thinking about that, that the actual anniversary of the shooting I'm actually just thinking about bread.
And that seems like a good note to leave on. I'm gonna go back to some hacker shit.
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialBack in 1992 or so there was a cat that would hang around the Fang Gang House in Madison and I called the cat "Claude" (because it's like "Clawed") and Milt call the cat "Mr. Roarke" but I thought that was a dumb name so I made a trading card for the cat with the name "Claude" on it.
I'll never name anything Claude (or "Clawed") again.
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.socialich habe das gefühl, dass die kolleg:innen von der diözesanbibliothek häufiger gefragt werden, wie viele fenster ihr gebäude hat. 🤔🙃
[und ich muss jedes mal ein foto von der schönen perspektive machen, wenn ich da vorbeikomme.] #münster #bibliotheken
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsThere are days when I feel more lonely than usual, and I wonder if that will ever change. The problem is, there's a whole lot of unusual things I need, probably due to a combination of being on the spectrum, with all the oversensitivity of the senses, rich imagination and the trauma from past relationships.
So right now my girlfriend couldn't smoke, support capitalism, use strong perfumes, wear noisy shoes, jewelry, piercings, makeup, long nails, long/thick eyelashes… and probably there would be more if I put my mind to it. And it's only clear that the list will get longer with more experiences…
#ActuallyAutistic
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social☀️🚲😊
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"Diamond Open Access Needs Institutions, Not Heroes" by Curt Rice
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/18/guest-post-diamond-open-access-needs-institutions-not-heroes/
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems1. Get up 30 min. later, because you're planning to take the IC Kościan – Wrocław train.
2. Finish the morning routine 30 min. early, and take the direct Regio train instead, because what's the point of sitting for 30 minutes and waiting.
Yes, of course if I planned to take that train in the first place, I probably wouldn't have made it…
EDIT: the IC is delayed over 30 min. already, so I would have missed the transfer if I took it.
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"Redliche Normdaten in unserer Zeit"
https://wiki.dnb.de/spaces/GND/blog/2026/01/26/483428935/Redliche Normdaten in unserer Zeit
"Anfang des Jahres wurden die
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.socialder #KVK wird 30! 🥳
https://kvk.bibliothek.kit.edu/
zum geburtstag gibts eine kurze umfrage:
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social'morgen!
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"New data blocks and updates to Pipes CE"
#RSS #manipulation
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.socialübersehe ich was, oder vergibt liverpool university press für seine #openaccess-bücher wirklich keine #DOIs? 🧐🤨
https://
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social#dogcontent meets #librarycontent: "Aktive Lernpause mit Pfötchen" in der SLUB Dresden! 📚🐶🐾📚
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"KI in der Spezialbibliothek: Darüber nachdenken oder einfach machen?"
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0290-opus4-200326 (Vortragsfolien)
"Die Forschungsbibliothek des Herder-Instituts, größte Spezialbibliothek zur Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuro…
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"An AI Tool Recreates Some of the Friction of Academic Search. Is that Actually Helpful?" @ Katina Magazine:
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/resource-reviews/2026/ai-tool-recreates-friction-of-academic-search<…
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"Author Name Disambiguation in Scholarly Research: A Bibliometric Perspective"
https://doi.org/10.1515/opis-2025-0035
"The rapid expansion of scholarly publishing has amplified the long-standing challenge of author name ambiguity in academic databases. This issue, manifesting a…
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"Classifying the Ways LLMs Summarise in Academic Search" https://aarontay.substack.com/p/classifying-the-ways-llms-summarise
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"Pigments of the Imagination: Art & Archaeology from Across the Colour Spectrum" Bodleian Libraries blog: https://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/sackler/2026/01/23/pigments-of-the-imagination-art-archaeology-fro…
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.socialguten nachmittag!
