@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2026-08-27 16:01:00
@… yes, one hundred percent, in my experience.
Understanding the Foundation Board’s Role in the FreeBSD Ecosystem | FreeBSD Foundation — <https://
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2026-08-27 16:01:00
@jon@henshaw.social2026-08-26 12:39:17
I woke up and removed the Google integration in my contacts app that imports from Google Contacts and it was a cleansing experience full of zero regrets.
@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.
@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…
@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…
@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
@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 …
@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/
@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
@zachleat@zachleat.com2026-07-21 14:51:31
@… ahaha I have noticed this but in my experience it seems inconsistent!
@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…
@trezzer@social.linux.pizza2026-08-18 21:55:53
@… Whenever it’s been a while between messages, one end of the conversation no longer receives messages in my experience. I use it with my partner, and sometimes there’ll be a month or two without a message through Delta, and my messages just aren’t delivered until she opens the app on her iPhone. Is this a known issue?
@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/
@cdarwin@c.im2026-08-05 03:28:25
Why can drones replace soldiers in Ukraine but not firefighters?
Chief sergeant Guillaume Millet, a firefighter of 24 years experience heads the Fire and Rescue Service branch of the CFDT union in the Gironde, the region worst hit by wildfires in France this summer.
He says that while the techniques for tackling fire have not changed much, technology in forest fire detection has.
"The big change, especially in my département, is that now we've got cameras assisted …
@jan_wagemakers@social.linux.pizza2026-07-22 16:37:03
@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
@patrickquin@furry.engineer2026-08-13 09:42:26
Content warning: job anxiety
Submitted my self-eval perf review yesterday. It's so different this year around, as it felt like I was reapplying for my job. More and more I am suspecting disclosing my disability was a mistake, as the new HR in town might be looking for pretexts to cull the herd based on LLM hype. My past handful of experiences of applying for jobs while working my current one, even for curiosity rather than putting my experience up for bid, did not go anywhere.
Yet in the coming months I might …
@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…
@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)
@fell@ma.fellr.net2026-07-17 05:26:34
@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.
@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
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info2026-08-12 23:24:45
New experience last night. I dreamed in Morse code.
I didn't dream that I was sending Morse code with a key, or that I was listening to someone else send Morse code.
I was just dreaming my thoughts, expressed in Morse.
I have zero recollection what the topic was, though. Just imagining Morse, at probably about 25WPM.
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2026-08-22 10:31:33
EDIT: boosts no longer needed thanks to @… with the find!
In case anyone else wants to read a sweet article about action hierarchies in video game play, the link via the wayback machine is: #GameDesign
@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
@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.
@aardrian@toot.cafe2026-08-07 16:25:21
I was unaware that I could not keep the original CodePen editor (yes, probably in one of the emails I didn’t read). But I tried the 2.0 once and didn’t go back.
Today I was forced into the 2.0 and my first experience was… underwhelming.
This after the window sat idle for 10 minutes.
@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
@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)
@sakhavi@aoir.social2026-08-13 11:59:16
Current #LLM-driven degradation of software seems to follow an eternal pattern of humans and #technology, where the former seek the latter as a shortcut through reality and experience any resistance and complexity as loss and insult. In my publications I’ve called this “prelapsarian programming” bc it betray…
@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…
@shriramk@mastodon.social2026-08-02 00:53:38
For a while programming looked most under AI threat, but math has taken pole position. My theory for why is 2-fold:
1. Math has had 1000s of years to get to clean formulations.
2. Math is self-contained: no "network misconfigured", etc. to gum up the works.
The latter brings to mind Davis and Hersh's definition of mathematics in "The Experience of Mathematics": "the study of mental objects with reproducible properties". That makes it (like…
@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.social2026-07-02 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
@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.
@Gord1i@fosstodon.org2026-07-28 14:47:30
I'm moving on from the City of #CapeTown in just under a month. It's been a wild ride, and in the fullness of time, I'll definitely write something long form on my experience.
However, if I owe you something City-related, now is the time to ask before the train leaves the station!
@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 …
@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…
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info2026-06-29 00:43:20
@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.
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2026-08-11 23:25:20
Just finished "What Elephants Know" by Eric Dinerstein. Leaves me with very mixed feelings: it's a novel in many ways about Nepal, and I don't doubt that the author's experience living there gives him a not-insignificant window into the culture, plus there are multiple people mentioned in the acknowledgements as judging faithfulness to Nepali culture. I myself have no direct connection to the country, nor enough knowledge to see any clear inaccuracies in the writing, nor ways in which it directly disrespects the culture.
That said, my instincts say this is a portrayal of the culture and country that probably elides much about the downsides of foreign influence and the monarchy (something I naturally distrust as an anarchist). At minimum, the internal contradiction is clear between the police as an inept and dangerous institution when encountered directly, but as a clean and unproblematic way to resolve problems with criminals when the Maroons subplot needs wrapping up. This is typical of neoliberals who have begun to acknowledge the most obvious problems with police but who refuse to admit the necessity of police abolition. Furthermore, there's a strong thread of white saviorism thrown in, and a big piece of meritocracy to go along with it. This story presents only highly particular fictionalized solutions to the real structural problems facing the elephants and other animals it describes, and the solutions it imagines require reliance on institutions which are in the real world fundamentally untrustworthy.
I enjoyed learning about the ecology of the Nepali borderlands, and about the cultures surrounding elephants there, plus some of the diversity of religions and cultures that interact in the area, and the story was satisfyingly written in terms of the main character's trials and responses to them, if I disregard the issues mentioned above.
If anyone has recommendations for novels in English (including via translation) by actual Nepali authors, I'd love to hear them, as I'll be looking for that perspective to balance this one.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon
@teledyn@mstdn.ca2026-08-02 12:42:50
I do like #jellyfin and have come to depend on it, but it's these dumb design decisions, and when the back-trace is littered with references to Microsoft code, well, I don't want to profile anybody, but it's a red flag in my (long) experience. It worries me.
It's just dumb. Deleting a missing file is a warning at best, not a stacktrace abort; a playlist fail shouldn't stop the party and call for a tech.
@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