@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info2026-06-29 00:43:20
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@jerome@jasette.facil.services2026-05-25 14:13:02
Un Québécois a monté le Mont Everest Š 23 ans, le plus jeune Š le faire.
Il a raconté son histoire sur son Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/p/DYuxFJwk5kk/
J'ai lu beaucoup de livres sur l'Everest, c'est vraiment souvent trop téméraire et les gens prennent des risques i…
@izzychambers@vivaldi.net2026-07-26 11:40:32
@… It's happened often over the past 40 years on extreme SEC rule proposals, in my experience.
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com2026-05-27 01:56:57
@… Fair. I’m using mine as Airplay speakers, either from my phone or Mac, so in that sense I don’t get to experience that awkwardness.
@seeingwithsound@mas.to2026-07-23 07:44:01
University of Texas study, for blind or low vision participants: Living in an AI-filtered reality: Participant recruitment & eligibility screening form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfrJaZokMcnv7t0ExHT1hdVZ8dEsgV-AymJxguendMqTKxEZA…
@iam_jfnklstrm@social.linux.pizza2026-05-26 13:44:59
I've been looking at cars for some while (really need a new one) and found a Kia Ceed from 2019. Any day soon someone will drive it to me so I can have a look at it. It's looks good on paper and pictures - but I'm picky on the driving experience. And scared... it may be one of the most expensive purchases I've done ever (exept for bying my apartment). What if it breaks down.... I have nightmares and dreams of rolling in comfort.
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-05-20 10:01:28
I'm going to deviate a bit from my normal audience and focus in on #tech (especially #Security folks). I came across the practice from public health and emergency management and brought it into work. They seemed to have never heard of it. I'm curious how common my experience is. (Please boost for visibility)
Have you ever used table top exercises in your work (such as, to verify a runbook would work as expected)?
@markhburton@mstdn.social2026-05-23 08:34:51
Appalling standard of Primary Care in this article.
My experience is a lot better. Efficient web-led system but GP sees us if indicated/in doubt.
However there's little continuity: a big practice and a different GP (or pharmacist or health care assistant) each time. At my age I expect a named GP. One problem is the GPs are all part time (good salaries).
It seems some NHS GPs no longer ‘see’ patients, they process them
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2026-06-22 14:22:58
The sports medicine facility I go to for PT sent me a survey. The last question was a big text box to tell them about my experience so I wrote this:
“Overall a great experience. My only complaint is the bike rack in the parking structure that is super-cheap/poor quality and not even bolted down.”
#bikeTooter
@3sframe@social.linux.pizza2026-06-26 14:13:21
Job hunting is truly bizarre right now.
And I know, ghost jobs/AI screening/mass discrimination... But.
Found a remote job, met what they wanted and more. They wanted a unicorn and I fit perfectly with the job description. I have the certs, a portfolio, and experience to prove it too. These are niche skills so I doubt the pool is very large.
Threw in my resume and got rejected 2 days later without a call back. The email was from a real person and stressed that a real person…
@aredridel@kolektiva.social2026-07-11 17:06:34
Content warning: on sexism in technology work
For those that don't know, I help run a large women in technology chat group on Slack. It's been going for 11 years now! (ask me for an invite if you want one and that's appropriate!)
It has deeply shaped how I think about technology, especially the social side. There is so much embodied knowledge in that community, it's amazing. And it's also such a window into how much the mainstream of technology writing is dominated by men. We talk about it differently! We're much more likely to be critical, and to be critical of the _structures_ in tech. Sometimes that comes off as kneejerk "Ugh BRIAN!" to some of the bullshit men to do women in the workplace, but also embedded underneath is an understanding of rarely-mapped power structures in the field. So much advice out there is written assuming that there is no dissent, no silent frustration, no quiet abandoning the job when the pressures are unresolved. And so much of the tech world, press and on social media alike, has no insight that this attrition even happens.
Women, collectively, though, understand it. We notice the patterns of promotions. We understand the way that if we're in our 40s, we're rather likely to have a manager who is a decade younger than we are, with no particular experience. We notice when men are lauded for spending time with their family instead of work on occasion, but women are expected to be present at all times and rarely seen positively for doing the exact same things.
And yet, any given instance is always shrouded in deniability. The pattern generally holds, but is this one my fault? Do I not measure up? Or is it sexism?
That's what these structures rob from us: we never have the clarity in feedback that it is accurate, that is us that must change. When we stick to our guns, are we being obstinate, or are we correct? That information is denied to us by sexism. It only becomes clear in aggregate, and even then it is very hard to find action to take on it except to acknowledge it and move on.
I don't think people talk about that ambiguity enough: we're always looking for the clear sexism, the man speaking over the women, the trading sexual favors for advancement, the clear pattern of pet-to-threat that so many women experience as they age or gain skill in the field. But the bulk of sexism that we experience is in the structural poisoning of feedback.
@laimis@mstdn.social2026-06-23 16:56:56
What a journey this release of #lucenenet has been on, two years in the making! Glad to see it come out and the world gets to experience all of the work that has been put in. It's such a massive effort by only very few contributors.
My contributions have decreased substantially, now I just test the release and 1 on pushes or some internal discussions. That's about it. Not too sad …
@zachleat@zachleat.com2026-07-21 14:51:31
@… ahaha I have noticed this but in my experience it seems inconsistent!
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizza2026-06-22 03:31:17
A Graveyard of Missed Opportunities
Finally finished my reflection on OpenSUSE, which I started on June 10th already. Better late than sorry 😆
https://thesaigoneer.bearblog.dev/a-graveyard-of-missed-opportunities/
@sean@scoat.es2026-06-20 03:34:27
I recently acquired an old Dell server for my homelab setup. I haven't touched real enterprise hardware in quite a long time. It's been a good [re]learning experience.
Let me just say this, though: putting a second computer inside the server for management (IPMI/iDRAC in this case) is genius, and it's a REALLY nice safety net.
(Short version for the unaware: independent console access and server configuration in a web UI on its own ethernet port. e.g. can reboot serve…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-06-22 15:24:42
“My kids will never experience it”: Cowboys legend Dez Bryant opens up on painful childhood trauma in emotional Father’s Day message https://www.sportskeeda.com/nfl/news-my-kids-will-never…
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scot2026-05-20 02:30:38
The LibDems are pro-nuclear and hate nature. In my experience, people who get their knickers in a knot over seagulls generally hate immigrants as well and are bigoted with regard to LGBT people. It's the party for backwards people.
We humans have fished-out the food stocks that used to support gulls and polluted their air and water. The way to support them now while we sort out those problems are to make sure they get fed.
A gull that is not hungry is not going to try to stea…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2026-07-07 12:59:03
"Every time we are forced to flee, I feel like I grow ten years older overnight." -- @…
This must be the experience of many #Palestinians. Almost every family in #Gaza
@frankel@mastodon.top2026-07-15 15:22:15
Enjoy this week's Java Geek, special vacation edition.
https://blog.frankel.ch/java-geek-weekly/145/
@detondev@social.linux.pizza2026-05-15 10:32:20
Being in these fucking nests of iphone ui and tab lists and <div> and pun usernames and ai pop-ups strip literally everything of the sublime. Maybe I should force people into temples I created myself to experience my creation no matter the cost
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-06-06 11:56:43
I gave the Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness crew the significant challenge of trying to make me sound coherent in this interview with Inmn Neruin. I was managing some pretty significant sleep deprivation and a mild cold, but I think it turned out pretty good (despite my best efforts).
But I did talk a lot about my trauma related to some of my experience living in #rural areas, and in doing that I was definitely not as careful as I could have been to talk about that as a trauma experience rather than as reality. Some people get trapped in rural areas, but other folks live there because they find beautiful things.
Not only is #RuralOrganizing critical (Trumpism grew out of areas neglected by "the left"), but rural living can be beautiful and rewarding. I briefly mentioned growing up throwing knives. A friend of mine lived way out in the woods, and there's something special about having a playground that spans several square miles. Intertwined with the old settler colonialism, antisemitism, *phobias, and isolation, that is at the heart of a lot of my personal rural misery, there's also a joyous and feral thing that taught me a lot and, I think, helped me organize more fearlessly. That thing is both individualist and collectivist, in different ways, and I don't think it's well understood without experiencing it. There's far more nuance than I was able to offer (and I definitely could have been more careful not to play into anti-rural stereotypes).
I think I said, "no one wants to live there." People do. You do. So let me try to fix that by giving you a chance to talk about that. I also talked about how slow things move, how nothing changes, but there are also sometimes opportunities to change things in huge ways specifically because structures don't exist to stop those changes. So while I'm bumping this zine and interview, also I want to use this as an opportunity to welcome my rural comrades to help fill in the gaps:
What draws you to where you are?
Do you choose to live in a rural area vs urban, and why?
Is there any other thing I've said that you would like to correct?
What other things should folks know?
https://www.tangledwilderness.org/features/near-death
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2026-06-18 07:45:06
I hope all mastodon instances quickly install Mastodon 4.6 so i can add people from their servers to my "Collections".
#Mastodon46
@jan_wagemakers@social.linux.pizza2026-07-22 16:37:03
@Cognessence@social.linux.pizza2026-06-18 14:28:17
I have a slightly niche CD-production request:
I’m putting together a collaborative CD release to accompany an artist’s monograph (the CD will slot into the book). We’re organising the CD-production side ourselves and everything but the audio itself is outside my experience.
The pressing plant the artist chose doesn’t offer DDP creation, and my mastering engineer friend isn’t able to do this one. I’m not really in a position right now to buy DDP software and learn the workflow in…
@brichapman@mastodon.social2026-05-15 00:38:01
Check out my latest article - "What is uniquely human in an AI future?"
https://www.brichapman.com/p/what-is-uniquely-human-in-an-ai-future?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social&src=mstdn
@bammerlaan@mastodon.nl2026-05-19 10:58:10
I'm in the market for a reliable sewing machine—I want to replace my old Singer. I made a mistake at first, buying an old Bernina Virtuosa with mechanical/electronic issues (luckily returned).
A sewing machine repairman told me that early digital Berninas are risky, and he recommended a mechanical Bernina 930, 1030 or 1031.
A serviced vintage Bernina 930 is now on hold for me at a dealer.
Anyone here with Bernina 930 experience? #Sewing #Bernina #SewingMachines
@bthalpin@mastodon.social2026-07-16 22:05:09
I saw a Reddit post earlier complaining about Americans saying they invented the internet, and another just now from Oxford grads wondering if they could keep their e-mail addresses.
I then tried to find my old e-mail address, which lead me to remember that my online experience pre-dates the internet, and covers the moment where things pivoted from HALPIN@UK.AC.OXFORD.VAX to halpin@vax.oxford.ac.uk
(Big-endian to little-endian, in Dublin terms)
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2026-06-13 09:44:45
Every year I am stupidly late booking family holiday as the experience of booking train tickets was toooo depressing.
This year (I'm still late), a reply to my post the other day about travel sickness on swedish trains reminded me of the railfinder.eu site and honestly - it's a revelation. Doesn't cover everywhere yet, but definitely going to be using it a lot more for international rail travel in Europe.
https://www.railfinder.eu
@lanefu@social.linux.pizza2026-06-20 14:33:04
It's funny how ive been a systems person forever, and homelabbing forever, using Linux forever, but these days I'm not a power user at all. I just don't have much drive to fine tune my user experience at all.... Even kicking the tires on an path for RSS-based consumption makes me realize how much fine-tuning I need to do in terms of managing and filtering content, workflow, etc.
But this is the price I guess I have to pay if I want to detox from doom scrolling.
@fell@ma.fellr.net2026-07-17 05:26:34
@annsev@troet.cafe2026-05-14 11:30:38
Has someone in the community experience with #Pelikan 400N?
The cork in my piston fountain pen has shrunk. It needs to be repaired—has anyone else had this problem before?
#fountainPen
@mikeymikey@hachyderm.io2026-05-14 03:17:13
Nice things about the experience though?
Can confirm the Puck works with macOS.
Once you get past the Privacy setting configuration, Steam on macOS was able to natively update both the firmware of the Puck and the controller (needed to plug into each, one after the other) - which was pleasant to see, as that kind of thing can be overlooked
Also - in Big Picture mode they have a nice indicator for remaining battery life on the #steamcontroller
Overall, I think my primary usage for this will continue to be as a controller for #SteamDeck - but it's feels nice to have as an option for Mac as well
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@nelson@tech.lgbt2026-06-10 17:37:49
Had my first hard failure of the Linux desktop today. Wayland locked up 100% CPU, had to reboot. I've run into a bunch of bugs in various things. The bloom is off the rose, but I'm still really liking the Linux experience overall.
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2026-06-06 04:41:22
@… in my experience, GNOME is more difficult, especially in a virtual machine.
294977 – x11/gdm: GNOME Classic on Xorg: unable to unlock the screen — <https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/sho…
@UP8@mastodon.social2026-07-05 16:17:17
@pixelpusher220@dmv.community2026-06-01 22:06:39
In Charlotte, NC visiting family and forgot to update my ad blocker. Got served this local ad for a "Tour The Titanic" experience with recreated room/hallways etc.
Tempted to call and ask if they include the water experience as well
https://thetitanicexhibition.com/charlotte
@johnhobbs@mstdn.ca2026-07-25 13:23:17
Embracing life's challenges is crucial. They propel us onward. Concluding a 50-year career wasn't easy, but it strengthened my resolve. Remember, wisdom is your greatest ally in crafting new paths. Regardless of age, it's NEVER too late to ascend with experience and resilience. Embrace your strength! #NeverTooLate #ResilientSeniors
@blackknight95857669@social.linux.pizza2026-07-08 02:14:34
nophenia (PC) Wander through the dreams(?) of a wolf girl.
Taking a break from the thinky pain games with nophenia, which showed up in my Steam discovery queue and I thought "well that's odd looking" and just bought it on a whim. I don't really want to say too much about this game(?) as it's another one of those things you just kinda have to experience.
Functionally, it's a low poly 3rd person walking sim in which you traverse some surreal landscape…
@luana@wetdry.world2026-06-21 18:54:34
After my awful experience with share sheets on Android, and due to the complete lack of a share sheet in Linux: Can we have a xdg-share-sheet-portal thing or something?
I'm saying this thinking of postmarketOS, as from my Android experience I'm predicting that an even less streamlined sharing process on a phone wouldn't be great either (but to be fair at least file managers on Linux let you copy files to clipboard, so there's no way it'd be worse than whatever the fuck is going on in android)
@markrsmith@smithtodon.org2026-05-30 21:26:31
My first experience with a battery lawn mower.
Our 15-year-old Honda gas motor works fine, but the handle broke in a way that makes it unusuable. We will sell it for parts. We bought a EGO Power LM2130SP 21" mower. It came with a charger, 7.5Ah battery, and the deal included another 5Ah battery. Shipped from Amazon in a week.
#EGOPower
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-05-06 19:08:41
I have some sketches of an essay that I need to write, but I think it's worth brain-dumping a bit more in the mean time.
#LLMs are an attempt to make tech grow forever. But like, how many "your mom/a friend, but done by a precarious worker instead" apps do we really need? Everything right now is in the AI grift hole, but there's almost nothing of interest (even if you ignore the ethical concerns). Like, no, I don't fucking want a robot to lie to me about my groceries. That doesn't sound like a useful feature. There's a lot of useless shit being pumped out to prop up the bottom line, and a lot of people just want to be able to use their old phone for more than a couple of years.
No one is happy with this. No one wants this. Except the billionaires who are forcing us all to drink the capitalism koolaid, because they'd rather exterminate life on earth than live in a world where they experience consequences.
Nothing grows forever. That's not how literally anything in reality works, or has ever worked, at all in history. Some people think that the universe itself may work like that, but that's only an educated guess. Finite things don't grow forever. Every organism, every society, every technology, every dynamic and adaptive system we have ever known goes through a growth phase and then goes in to a stabilization phase. Or, following a Malthusian pattern, grows until it reaches a catastrophic point and collapses. Like lemmings. Or reindeer. Or cancer.
@al3x@hachyderm.io2026-05-01 10:12:12
First experience with uv tool has been a disaster. I couldn't achieve anything I planned to (create an isolated environment for a project, pull in dependencies using pip, etc.). For every command I have spent a lot more time trying to figure out what command to run. It seems like I came to uv with my baggages and uv's take is rather different.
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2026-07-05 06:49:55
Have just started using Ente for secure, privacy focused photo back up and organisation.
So far I am actually pretty impressed. It's lightning fast and very easy to navigate - and I have tens of thousands of photos that it's definitely helping me to organise and search through easily. And share with non-Ente users too.
It's miles better than Flickr as a UI experience.
This is a test period before I decide if I migrate rest of family too.
However, I was under the impression the company was German/Dutch but it unfortunately appears to be US incorporated - even though the servers are supposed to be in NL, F and DE. It just makes me very suspicious that at some point the company will be sold off and the creeping enshittification will start again.
It is very frustrating. I could but am not very keen to self host. I have far too many other things going on in my life for that. But it does look like immich or memories for nextcloud is the only other good option. And this probably epitomises why most people just stick with (mostly US) big tech. It is so much easier and less effort than working out what the alternatives are.
@lpryszcz@genomic.social2026-06-29 08:06:14
My wife went to do yoga on the beach this morning... Accordingly to her it was such a terrible experience: sun recently rising was already shining strong, the sand was making changing postures difficult, noises made by the sea were distracting... and sand everywhere was just so annoying...
I like to say: typical problems of the "privileged" people!
Contrary, I love the beach, especially in the morning, because there is hardly anyone and it's not too hot yet.
It …
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com2026-05-12 04:22:21
Booking a rental car for Iceland next month.
I see electrics are finally becoming an option for rentals, so that's what I booked.
Excited and a little nervous to drive electric for my first time ever. I mean, I've test driven them at the dealership, but it'll be the first time I need to navigate the world of charging an electric car. In a foreign country no less, it'll be an interesting experience.
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2026-06-03 18:48:33
I wrote this in a discussion where someone was posting anti-ebike stuff:
“I’m a cyclist who switched to an ebike last year due to health issues. As a bonus it also allowed me to bike to work. I ride as courteously as I did on my acoustic, maybe more so. It’s about the rider, their experience, and the respect they show others, more than it is the bike.”
This seems like it’s shaping up to be a rough summer for responsible ebike riders who read the comments.
@pkraus@berlin.social2026-06-14 18:15:54
This might be a long shot, but if anyone wants to do a #PhD in #Chemistry or #MaterialsScience in #Berlin, I have an open position in my lab at @… :
https://www.jobs.tu-berlin.de/en/job-postings/204252
The project is on modelling and measuring electrical conductivity of materials. I'm looking for someone with experience in DFT and python, also willing to work in the lab. Feel free to reach out by email or forward to anyone you think might be interested.
Funding is confirmed at 100% TV-L E13 for 2 years.
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-07-02 07:40:30
There is more to #SolarPunk than solar panels and bikes. What we are talking about is being part of a living world. The hegemonic culture is one of hierarchical domination.
But many of the the cultures that hegemony suppresses bring a vibrancy to life. I don't buy yeast from the store, sealed in a plastic packet, a coffin for a living thing. I feed my sourdough. I am obligated to it, in a relationship with it, as the culture is reliant on me for it's survival. It speaks to me, with smell and color. I must pay attention. I have to learn it's nature, how it grows and eats at different temperatures informed by different times of the year. Mushrooms, yeast, kiefer, plants, independent things, things I can't control, life that is intertwined with my own.
But even my #bicycle speaks to me, which is something I hadn't considered until reading this and thinking about that framing.
It is not simply that "we need a different economic system." What we are talking about is a fundamentally different interpretation and experience of the world, from the hierarchical structure of death to a web of life, where even "inanimate" things become imbued with agency.
https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=2936873&post_id=151655646
@nelson@tech.lgbt2026-04-29 17:36:37
Wrote up my notes after using Bazzite for a few days. I've really liked this experience and may switch for real to using a Linux desktop for the first time in 20 years. But maybe not Bazzite, I'm not a fan of the atomic OS concept.
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2026-07-26 05:12:49
it's rainy on Vancouver Island which is great... but now our firefighters need to go help try to extinguish giant fires in the rest of the province. again.
it is almost every year now.
my kids have never known anything different.
but I have. And it fills me with guilt that I got to experience a better world that was ruined and continues to be ruined by people who knew better and CHOSE this.
Including every PM
Carney
Trudeau Jr
Harper
Martin
Chretien
Mulroney
Trudeau Sr
..... all of them had choices they could have made.
But it is the most recent ones that are the most culpable...
because every day, every year, that passes, the losses
mount, the path gets harder, the damage grows. "Evidence" at this point is irrelevant because every damn person knows it in their soul regardless what words come out of their mouth.
Every politician that continues this is complicit and should have done more. That includes every level of government including my brief moment.
So we fight on. So our kids might know something other than it always getting worse.
#canpoli #cdnpoli #climateEmergency #endfossilfuels
https://cheknews.ca/island-firefighters-deployed-to-help-battle-b-c-s-more-than-120-wildfires-1338610/
@luana@wetdry.world2026-05-17 13:44:26
Artists of fedi: if someone is commissioning you for a ref sheet, is there some quantity of references or provided details that gets too much or too specific?
In the past I’ve seen an artist saying they like receiving references, so I made like a pdf with references and like everything about my sona with as many information as possible. I then sent that to a friend that has more experience than me on hiring commissions and asked if they thought it should be more specific, tho they replied saying that it actually had way too much information and that could limit the artist’s artistic freedom.
So I really don’t wanna send something that’s way too much info, but also I do want the refsheet to actually reflect how I imagine my sona
@mikeymikey@hachyderm.io2026-05-14 03:12:55
Ok - here's my #macOS (Tahoe) specific #steamcontroller #gaming #steam personal experience, having tried it out:
So - it works!
BUT
The setup process from Valve does you no favors. While their help guide (https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/33E8-5EDF-24E6-4CFB#mac) has a Mac specific setup section - the on-screen setup in the Steam client itself does not help out Mac users at all
The guide mentions you need to grant Steam "Input Monitoring" permission - but until I did this, Steam didn't even agree the controller was connected (via USB directly or via the Puck)
And then the second permission "Accessibility" was explicitly necessary if you wanted to do a mouse and keyboard game and it needed to move the cursor (I chose Scritchy Scratchy as a test for this specific reason, especially since they just added macOS support)
Another downside: the default keyboard and mouse layout for the controller maps shoulder buttons to scroll up and down - but only a single increment per press! I had to reconfigure it to enable turbo/repeated scrolling events.
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@pixelpusher220@dmv.community2026-07-02 21:51:07
#Medicare #USHealthcare
question for anyone on Medicare. My spouse will be enrolling next year.
Her b'day is in August - which I'm wondering if that means she gets hit with double deductibles, one for the current insurance from Jan - July and then another for Medicare from August - December.
Was that your experience? Seems a obviously unfair 'feature' for b'days in the middle of the year and just wondering what or if they've done to address it.
The fun unusual twist is she's already on Medicare Advantage due to disability for her current insurance.
@smurthys@hachyderm.io2026-07-12 16:46:51
My wife and I went to a "Yakshagaana" #play today in #Udupi #India. It was only the second play we've ever sat through fully (our first was just last week).
I've so much to say about the experience but don't know where to begin, except say it was mind blowing and wish all #theater was this masterful.
🤯😊🙇♂️
#review