@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it8yo: "Hey dad?"
me: "what?"
8yo: "the biggest type of black hole is an ultra massive black hole, right?"
me: ...
me: "what?"
8yo: "the biggest type of.."
me: "no, I heard you. I don't know."
8yo: "How do you NOT KNOW??"
me: "I'm not an astronomer!"
8yo: "I'M A JUST CHILD AND I KNOW"
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialI LOL everytime some two-bit hack realizes that Google's monopoly on search was a bad idea & whines about 'the quality of Google's search' - blaming it on 'AI'.
Tell me you don't know anything about the search & AI industry WITHOUT telling me you don't know anything about the search & AI industry.
@jake4480@c.imI love when companies know me so well they automatically call me Jacob Jake in emails. Warms my heart
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioRE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115601979925351548
hear me out, how about NOT CRAMMING EVERYTHING INTO ONE DEVICE that just works mid for everything, but instead, you know, do some actual innovation here and there
for example, make devices specifically tailored for certain tasks
like if you're Apple why in the fuck don't you make devices with e-paper screens for people who don't want to be terminally online
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioSometimes a piece of writing says exactly what you already know, but says it so well that you relish it from begin to end anyway. This was such a piece for me.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/23/bari-weiss-60-minutes-cecot-episode-censorship
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineYa wanna know what is a bad idea? “AI-directed experimentation and manufacturing” is.
potus should have just called it a hand out for Oracle.
It is a solution searching for a problem. It literally gives 90 days for them to identify 20 problems it might solve.
It uses public funds for private research.
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caI would like to know what my @… looks like!
(it's gonna generate me a treat of people I interact with on Fedi!? Cool!)
#Fedi #Fediverse
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialAnybody besides me thinking that maybe somebody’s got an #orca training program somewhere? We know the US has been training #dolphins / #porpoises for various purposes, but orcas are bigger, and meaner.
@losttourist@social.chatty.monster/me gets an email newsletter containing the text "smash the link if you want to know more".
I'm feeling the urge to smash something my friend, and it isn't the link.
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialThe time I made a "DIY Mouthpiece Puller" for a stuck trumpet part...
#DIY
@Tupp_ed@mastodon.ieNew Gist: No Contest
"There are, perhaps, alternative worlds where lots of things are different. Fianna Fšil maybe decide to run an MEP instead of a MIA. Or one where a fleet of no-hopers got nominated and we spent the whole campaign having to listen to the media asking candidates their opinions on the Latin mass and if cocaine bloat is a positive feature in a President. "
Also, I explain exactly what kind of idiot I have recently been.
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialFinally uninstalled #feedly in favour of #freshRss and #capyreader. My wife is interested as well to switch.
Calendar still bugs me a bit. I could check this this weekend maybe.
When I t…
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaSome people, without naming names, is deliberately trying to make me think anarchism is wrong or equivalent to terrorism, as if I’m too naïve to know better.
#Anarchism #Syndicalism #Friendship
@paulbusch@mstdn.caMy daughter sent this to me, and she doesn't know where it originated, so I can't credit the creator. I hope that it's not scripted because it's incredibly funny.
#FinalWishes #Legacy
@pre@boing.worldThe conference is over now. I likely wouldn't have come for just a bitcoin thing, but I am very interested in redecentralizing the web, so it's attachment to the nostr day pulled me in.
Everyone I met was friendly and interesting and seems much more interested in making a better money system than in making money for themselves.
Our government and bank money systems are dysfunctional in all kinds of ways which are often less visible than they should be too people using them, especially to those in Europe and America who benefit from the way those systems exploit the global south.
I'm not convinced that fixing that would end wars and fix broken government as some seem to think, but I am sure our money is the source of many problems.
There are many bright, well meaning, and intelligent people building to improve bitcoin in fascinating ways with the hope of having a parallel system to transition to. With lots of work still to be done.
Can it work?
I'm sure I don't know, and I'm sure even if it's a better system it'll come with it's own unfairness and cruelty. Money will continue to be a source of suck and worry.
I'm told that the bigger conferences are often full of shitcoin scammers and suit wearing banksters who are in fact all in it too get rich and rip people off, but I found none of that here.
Here there is a real community of people trying to make the world a better place and improve the lives of their neighbours and governance of their countries.
And in the end building community is the most radical and effective way to change the world regardless of the problems of it's money system.
I had a great time. Thanks to those organising it.
#bitfest #bitcoin
@grumpybozo@toad.socialLooks like the Danakil Depression is trying to become a bay…
I’ve always wanted to live through a major geologic event. I missed the Zanclean Flood, the filling of the Black Sea, and the glacial outbreak of Lake Bonneville, but hopefully NatGeo or someone will get some cameras out to that Hell-on-Earth location. It could be really big…
(keep it to yourself if you just want to tell me it’s not happening. Do you think I don’t know?)
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 151 - CLI
Love is too young to know what conscience is,
Yet who knows not conscience is born of love?
Then, gentle cheater, urge not my amiss,
Lest guilty of my faults thy sweet self prove:
For, thou betraying me, I do betray
My nobler part to my gross body's treason;
My soul doth tell my body that he may
Triumph in love; flesh stays no farther reason,
But rising at thy name doth point out thee,
As his triumphant prize. P…
@jensilber@mastodon.socialWe are all dealing with entirely too much. I don't know how much longer we can collectively push through. Here's a conversation I just had with a doctor's office to confirm an upcoming visit.
Her: "It looks like you just had an appointment on the 25th of this month..."
Me: *confused silence*
Her: "Oh, wait. What's the date today? Never mind, sorry, we have you on the schedule for the 25th."
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsYou know that the #nightmare was pretty solid when your brain came up with a creative, consistent bunch of swore words.
Yep, I dreamt that my family woke me up in the middle of the night, because they forgot to tell me that we need to get up early the previous day. And the worst part of it, it had something to do with these accursed upcoming xmas.
@anildash@me.dmToday, Wikipedia turns 25 years old. It's never been more important — or under more attack from authoritarians. Here's what to know about how we got here, and what we can do to push for its future and support them as they start to demand fair support from the AI companies that are profiting off of the community. There's no better example than Wikipedia of the web we make together.
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeI don't know why, given all the important institutions that hackers attack -- hospitals, schools, daycare centers -- but it really bothers me when they do things like this. It seems gratuitous somehow.
Cyberattack on the Dresden State Art Collections
https://artdependence.com/…
@chrisnelder@mastodon.energyI've now had AI bots impersonate high-profile people I know and engage me in a DM chat that was initially passable on both Bluesky and Mastodon. Be careful out there folks. And if the account is new with few followers, that's a big tell.
https://www.
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Hudson Freeman:
🎵 If You Know Me
#HudsonFreeman
https://mendelrecords.bandcamp.com/track/if-you-know-me-demo-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/1x0Q0nvWYbJCrmsPZNHIkb
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialFrom a small business perspective it is amazing to me how sick the US government has become - not just under El Cheato, but in general.
We have to update our SAM registration. SAM is a system used by the Federal GSA to know something about vendors selling things to the Feds. That's a good idea.
But the implementation is a nightmare for a small business.
Even something as simple as an address change triggers long forms, and more forms from other agencies, and a hell of…
@johnhobbs@mstdn.caFinancial security is a strategic choice at any age. I met a couple in their 60s who turned their savings shortfall into an opportunity by starting a part-time online business! 🌐 Now they're exploring the world and funding their grandkids' education. Want to know how they did it? Message me! 😊
@rainerzufall_le@mastodon.socialHad to think about this quote a lot this year.
"In a just world, the name Bari Weiss would mean as much to me as Nordic runes. This goes for people who actually might read Nordic runes too. No Swede deserves to be burdened with this knowledge."
https://www.gawkerarchives.com/culture/i…
@brian_gettler@mas.toThis is the first song that popped into my head for this week's #TuneTuesday theme: #VerdantVoices, songs tied to green or nature.
Another rose wilts in East Harlem
And uptown downtown
A thousand miles between us
...
Sound is the color I know,
Sound is what keeps me before…
@axbom@axbom.me
@stefan@gardenstate.socialShocking: this company refuses to tell me what content is FOR ME?! How am I supposed to know?!
@castarco@hachyderm.ioI know this is me being an example of the Dunning-Kruger effect, but I can't help myself to stop believing that the whole #email infrastructure is completely fucked up and that it should be rewritten from scratch.
Anyone who can take me out of this intellectual hole with an explanation on why we haven't collectively invented something better already? (not better than email as a concept, I'm referring to the protocols & standards around it)
What are my unknown unknowns here?
@benb@osintua.euWhat we know about Russia’s offensive in Siversk: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/16/what-we-know-about-russias.html
@wraithe@mastodon.socialI know I talk a lot about technical challenges & frustrations of IT work, however:
I’ve had clients tip me
Gotten Christmas cards
Christmas presents
One client sends me a pie every year
And my all-time favorite, a scrawled note from a little girl thanking me for setting up her computer
@joe@toot.worksA pretty deeply conservative friend of mine told me that the only thing they get on tiktok is videos about people bragging about abusing Food Share. They finally sent me an example (somebody talking about how they don't know how to use the $5,000 per month that they get) and I had to explain to them why there is a "Sora" watermark on it.
@shriramk@mastodon.socialClaude Code: I recommend building in Python.
Me: Can you confidently generate Racket, which I know much better?
CC: No. I reco Py.
Me: What other langs?
CC: Py and JS. Reco Py.
Me: TypeScript?
CC: Oh, of course! So much better!!!
Result: types I can audit, more robust code. Win.
@x_cli@infosec.exchange@… Hey, it is me again 😅
Just to let you know that I receive some 400 Bad Request errors from some DoH servers (dns.quad9.net and ns0.fdn.fr for instance) while some others accept my queries (dns.google and Cloudflare 1.1.1.1).
I am not sure yet if the error is on my use of the library or within the library itself.
Here is the code to run the query:
@anildash@me.dmOne of the top stories on Hacker News today was a post arguing that Mozilla shouldn't accommodate any usage of AI in Firefox because (understandably) people were mad at Big AI companies for all the horrible things they've done to users and the internet and society. But I think people are ignoring the reality that *hundreds of millions of users* are using LLMs today, and they need to have tools from platforms that will look out for their interests.
@inthehands@hachyderm.io(This is not some kind of false modesty. Most of what you’re hearing from me here is just me passing along information from community channels. My personal contribution has mostly been helping communication, helping people with tech issues, doing some volunteering, keeping watch, protesting, doing neighborhood support work — that kind of stuff. I don’t want to downplay the importance of any of that. It matters a •lot• that there are so many people doing all of those things! It matters that I’m one of them! Just…you know, I’m one among many, a small player who somehow ended up holding one of the mics on Mastodon, and that’s it. The courage you see is the courage of many.)
@hex@kolektiva.socialI keep thinking that I should text a friend of mine, tell him how much I've been writing, tell him I mentioned him in something I wrote. Then I remember he died like 4 years ago.
Edit:
It must have been more like 6 or something now that I'm thinking about it. It was part of the way through the first Trump administration. He would have really appreciated the way Trump is unraveling now. One of the last times we talked he was like... "You know man, You used to play 'Baby, I'm an anarchist' and I'd think... ' don't want to throw a brick through a Starbucks window. I kinda like their coffee sometimes.' But the way things have been going lately, I'm kind of looking around and thinking you might be right. Fuck Starbucks. Where's that brick?"
At least I won the SRV vs the Hendrix version of Voodoo Chile debate. Hendrix is just better.
We used to talk about music, especially punk (and rockabilly, and ska, and 2 tone), and poetry, and beer. He liked hop stupid, but I always thought it didn't have the body to match the hops and I always preferred Racer 5. Of course, this time of year we'd be shifting in to red and stout season, and I'd be excited for Lagunitas Russian Imperial and this year's Bourbon County Stout batch.
He was really big in to Star Wars. He missed all of Andor, which is probably the best thing to have come out since the original 3. But I guess he also missed the new trilogy, so maybe it balances out.
He would have really liked all the good music I've run across in the last few years. He had a music blog for a bit.
Yeah... I don't know why it's hitting me so hard now, other than maybe I never had time to really process it before.
@tokensane@mastodon.me.ukAs the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals when it was checked by a violent gust of wind that swept up the streets, Stark checked his Thieves Guild tag (for it is in Ankh-Morkpork that our story lies) and glanced along the street where a magically illuminated sign flickered futilely against the darkness, causing him to comment to his companion, "You know, Dormy, I think this is going to be our night!"
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 138 - CXXXVIII
When my love swears that she is made of truth,
I do believe her though I know she lies,
That she might think me some untutored youth,
Unlearned in the world's false subtleties.
Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young,
Although she knows my days are past the best,
Simply I credit her false-speaking tongue:
On both sides thus is simple truth suppressed:
But wherefore says she not she is unjust?
And wher…
@cdonat@hostsharing.coopIt's time, for a new job.
I'm an experienced software developer, who prefers Python, and C . Though I'd also like to learn a new, modern language, like e.g. Rust.
Yes, I've been using AI for code completion. Yes I know current versions of my preferred languages. No I have no hard restriction on the industry.
I'm not cheap, I'm good.
If you're aware of any positions in Europe, preferably in Zürich, or remote, let me know.
@catsalad@infosec.exchange@… Just so you know, every post you make about the development of your block game gets me MORE excited about it.
Still amazes me what you've accomplished since your first post about it!
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Hudson Freeman:
🎵 If You Know Me
#HudsonFreeman
https://mendelrecords.bandcamp.com/track/if-you-know-me-demo-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/1QnFKAPgZ7GI9sYITPuYyL
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaThis reminds me of how truth is just whatever monster people decide to follow.
#Fascism #Nazis #Authoritarianism
@hynek@mastodon.socialI know I’ve glazed Overmind in my last video, but I think I‘ve come to like mprocs more now! It separates the output, is actively maintained, and it works better overall for me: https://github.com/pvolok/mprocs
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaI don't know who needs to hear this, but don't be like my former client and pull the CPE down and throw it in a field with standing water "to make it easier to deinstall" and not even inform me.
Waterproof like a raincoat, not waterproof like a submarine...
@tezoatlipoca@mas.toHoly crap #soundcloud I don't know how a #website can be more off-putting.
I just wanted to listen to a music clip.
@grumpybozo@toad.socialThe fact that Anthony has been looking for work for an extended period is an indictment of the whole IT employment scam. @… https://tilde.zone/@sirwumpus/1159397382639…
@scott@carfree.cityIt is so clear to me that Waymo, Zoox and other robocars are an existential threat to public transit, they exist to kill and devour it, every robotaxi win is a transit loss and vice versa. I'm sounding the alarm as loudly as I know how. But I feel like a Cassandra with how many urbanists won't see this.
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialA colleague called me and said that he was sent/redirected to me from another unit with the words "Ask Franz if this is possible. If he doesn't know an answer, then there is no answer"
I'm really not sure about my role in the company sometimes. 🤔
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngThank you to the kind person behind the anonymous account who keeps DMing/forwarding me screenshots of interesting Twitter posts about my work a few times a year, but then never responds. You know who you are and I truly thank you for your service! 🙏
As much as I appreciate it, unfortunately I can not go back to that place [if this is partially meant to lure me back] and I'd much rather wish for people still there due to various network effects and social pressures to organize them…
@sean@scoat.esHTTP API behaviour that makes me think you know what you're doing:
- 👍 respond with `201` (not `200`) on a successful resource creation request
HTTP API behaviour that makes me think you really *don’t* know what you're doing:
- 👎 respond with `201` if an object with a key that conflicts with this resource creation request already exists
(Spoiler: respond with `409`; or at least a non-successful status so I don't have to parse it out of the human-readable `…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 08 - Rumours of Death
TARRANT: It depends on what you paid to get him.
AVON: He cost me enough.
CALLY: Was it worth it?
AVON: I'll let you know.
SHRINKER: What are you going to do with me?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/308/56 B7B4
@jeang3nie@social.linux.pizzaMy wife works as a dispatcher at the county sheriffs station, so in addition to EMS and Fire she works closely with local law enforcement in a predominantly rural county.
I know how some of you here on Fedi feel about law enforcement officers. So let me talk a little bit about this group before going on, and why I respect them.
We were at an awards dinner for the sheriffs office a few weeks ago. One of the awards given to deputies is for saving a life. It can be any life - a susp…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al
@UP8@mastodon.socialYou know, David Brooks used to drive me up the wall but I think he's facing up to the crisis of the present time in this interview with Scott Galloway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJAAQ0W4Czs
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialRe: discourse about #FediSoWhite
I'm a white man. Was on Twitter throughout #BLM and gained an awful lot of free education from Black folks on there. That was the start of me consciously following diverse folks which is a strategy that's improved my life immensely.
Back on Twitter before the Muskening, there was a lot of diversity. Black Twitter was a thing, and not just first-world (anyone else remember "O jewa ke eng?"). When I went looking for people to follow to diversify my feed, I found them in abundance.
That's why it's so clearly false to me when people claim that the fediverse is secretly diverse, and why anyone making that claim sounds suspect to me. Sure there are a ton of great Black and other POC folks you can find on here, if you look hard. But it's nowhere near the levels of diversity and community that were on Twitter. Which you would know had you been following those people before, so now I have to assume you weren't, and wonder why you feel qualified to make statements about diversity even though you haven't made an effort to engage with diverse voices before?
Also, if you were actually following some of the excellent POC voices on here, you'd know that across different servers and interest groups, almost every group has had a discussion of #FediSoWhite at some point. If all the Black people you follow are independently talking about the lack of community and diversity here, you've either got to believe them or start putting on your clown makeup, and the later is absolutely a choice.
@cdarwin@c.imIt’s hard to believe, but Ukrainian activists have had to write explainers for a global audience,
reminding them who the true dictator is,
that it was not Ukrainethat started the war with Russia
and that we are actually just trying to defend what is ours.
And, you know, to survive a little bit.
These past three years of our lives have been referred to in many ways:
Putin’s war,
the Russo-Ukrainian war,
the full-scale invasion,
the conflic…
@anildash@me.dmOne of the toughest things to judge when considering a new job or a new role is, basically, “Will this crush my soul?” Here’s a simple list of questions you can ask to help improve the odds that your next gig will be less soul-crushing: https://anildash.com/2026/01/12/will-that-job-…
@brian_gettler@mas.toAs a historian, nothing makes me ditch a text quicker than the pretense of a "falsifiable argument." Look, we can claim that an argument isn't very good, that its evidence is unconvincing, that another conclusion makes more sense, and on and on, but it's hard to keep my eyes from rolling out of my skull when lectured on the necessity for (or even the possibility of)"testable hypotheses." It's worth thinking about paths not taken, but, dude, you can't know …
@Nael@pachyder.me@… just in case you don’t know already : it seems that storing data in ssd is not really secure if you don’t power it regularly.
@ruari@velocipederider.comThis guy just unicycled past me. Right near where I live. I do not know him. What is this, a challenge? This is my turf!!!!
#unicycleLife #unicycle #unicyclist
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
How does Golang know time.Now?
https://tpaschalis.github.io/golang-time-now/
saved 2021-04-01 https://dotat.at/…
@joe@toot.worksI spent some time this weekend sitting at a proper coffee shop with a proper cup of tea, working on writing code examples for @… and it makes me happy to know that there are at least a dozen more ideas in the hopper for future weekends.
@aardrian@toot.cafeMe, a hammer salesman: “Let's fix that window, you know, for accessibility.”
[ smashes glass ]
you: “Why did you do that?”
me: “For accessibility.
you: “It wasn’t broken.”
me: “I made it better for accessibility.
you: “But how does th—”
me: “FOR ACCESSIBILITY!”
[ waggles hammer overhead ]
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itHaving a roomba (not actually a roomba, it's a neato botvac; you know, the *other* robot vacuum company that went bankrupt) sometimes feels a bit like having a dog.
*weird loud noises*
me: "Ugh, what did you eat?"
*roomba beeps as I pause it*
me: "A zip tie? No! Drop it. DROP IT."
@vrandecic@mas.toErich von Däniken died today at the age of 90. I know, I know what most of you are going to say, but in my teenage years, his books had a profound influence on me (amusingly, I encountered it first in their Serbo-Croatian translation, maybe my first "real" book I read in Croatian). More than the ancient alien hypothesis, his books took me to many fascinating corners of the world, be it in the Americas, in India, Sub-Saharan Africa, or the English countryside. 1/3
@tokensane@mastodon.me.ukAt 15:47 UTC on 27th July, everyone on Earth looked at those around them and said, "Excuse me, but who are you? And do you know who I am? What are we doing here?"
For those who survived the next 5 days, 13 hours and 14 minutes, the world would never be the same again.
The Week had begun.
#MicroFiction
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialOne important thing I need to keep in mind with LibreWolf is that when something does not work I need to check if it works in Firefox.
For instance the TrueNAS shell was not working, and I realized that TrueNAS wasn't broken, LibreWolf was just "protecting" me...
Which again, is a good thing, but it's sometime a bit too much protection for those of us who know what we are doing.
@anildash@me.dmOne of the toughest things to judge when considering a new job or a new role is, basically, “Will this crush my soul?” Here’s a simple list of questions you can ask to help improve the odds that your next gig will be less soul-crushing: https://anildash.com/2026/01/12/will-that-job-…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioI’m not keeping up with my replies here, not even close. Please know that your words of encouragement are welcome and mean a lot to me, even if I don’t manage to respond. It sustains all of us here to know that the world sees and supports Minneapolis.
@benb@osintua.euProject Nightfall — Everything we know about the UK's ballistic missile program for Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/12/project-nightfall-everything-we-know.html
@hex@kolektiva.socialAny sufficiently advanced disaster preparedness is indistinguishable from revolutionary dual power. This essay is a bit of a transition between the theory I've written earlier, and more concrete plans.
Even though I only touched on my life on the commune, it was hard not to write more. These are such weird spaces, with so much invisible opportunity. But they're also just so unique and special. For all the stress and uncertainty of making sure you stayed on Lorean's (the head priestess), there were also those long summer nights with the whole community (except the old lady) gathered around a fire, talking and drinking. There was almost a child-like play to the whole time.
There were so Fridays I'd come home with a couple of gallons of beer from the real world, folks would bring things from the garden, someone would grill a steak, everyone who didn't cook would clean up, and we'd just hang out and have fun. So many evenings I'd go over to Miles place with a guitar, or with his guitar, and we'd pass it around over a few beers, talking about philosophy, Star Wars, or some book or other. It's hard not to write about the strange magic of that space.
My partner and I bonded over similar experiences, mine on a weird little religious commune in California and theirs as a temporary worker at Omega Institute. Both had exploitation, people on weird power trips, frustrating dynamics, but also a strange magic and freedom. Both were sort of fantasy worlds, but places that let us see through this one, let us imagine something that something else is possible behind the veil.
There are many such veils.
Perhaps it's fitting that this is more meandering, as a good wander can help the transition between lots of hard thinking and lots of hard working.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/evaluating-options
Editing feedback (especially typos, spelling, grammar) is always welcome, as are questions and even wider structural advice. I've been adding the handles of folks who provide feedback to the intro in a "thank you" section. If you do help and wouldn't like to be added, please let me know.
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialMy "grow plants everywhere" mod for #Luanti is progressing!
I just built a routine to do blobby weight regions as the intersection of a bunch of parabolas, where weight increases logarithmically from the edge of the parabola with an adjustable edge region, and we use the geometric average of these weight values within the intersection region. Then I spent a few hours hunched over a biomes vornoi diagram approximating different broad regions like "arid_grasses" and "temperate_trees" so you can just name some combination of these regions (with custom per-region multipliers) and have your plant definition apply within those regions. I was using rectangular min/max heat/humidity values before, but they were pretty awkward to work with.
If anyone on here who plays Luanti wants to check it out let me know and I can prioritize publishing what I've got. I've got growth definitions for most but not all VoxeLibre plants and it wouldn't be hard to put them together for another game. No trees yet, but that's pretty much the next thing to work on.
@anildash@me.dmOne pattern you can always count on: if you ever explain a technology by describing how the human and social aspects matter more than the obscure technical details, a certain cohort of dudes who are inept at socialization will lash out about their insecurities by trying to condescend. Who here thinks I wrote ~5000 words on Markdown but I don’t know what plain text files are?
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries B, Episode 12 - The Keeper
JENNA: Where?
TARA: The vapour does not tell me that.
JENNA: Lurgen left behind him a secret, what does the vapour say about that? The keeper of the secret may not even know that he, or she, is the keeper.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/212/261 B7…
@grumpybozo@toad.socialDo I know any C programmers?
I’m fiddling with a 20yo *trivial* C program and my editor(!) is warning me about the twisted casts in the first line of this:
if ((int)(addr = (void *)inet_addr(argv[1])) == -1) {
errnum=errno;
strerror(errnum);
perror("ERRNO");
(void) printf("IP address must be of the form a.b.c.d\n");
exit (2);
}
I can no longer understand what I was thinking. Can anyo…
@benb@osintua.eu‘They don't know it's the sound of war’ — How Ukraine's pets react to sirens and explosions: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/12/they-dont-know-its-the.html
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterWoohoo, brilliant, I wake up on Christmas morning to find that Father Lotterymas has left me the most wonderful present in my stocking.
This is it, everyone I know is getting a gazillion pounds, I can fix homelessness and world hunger and everything and .... Oh. As you were.
#MerryChristmas anyway, Fedi.
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itWhat the actual fuck?
The 13yo kept wanting to know if #Mamdani has seen K-pop Demon Hunters (don't ask me why, but he was bugging me to look it up all afternoon while we were out; I was discussing Mamdani w/ the family for other reasons:
@anildash@me.dmlol it’s so genuinely fun seeing Cory take decades of fluency in how these systems are broken and serve it up for a mainstream audiences. Even if you know “enshittification” well, this is worth the watch. And love to @…! https://
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioThe one thing that does seem clear to me is that this is deeply entangled with the ultra-concentration of wealth and power, something which is both a cause •and• an effect of creators not sharing properly in the rewards of their creations.
If you talk to me about antitrust law with teeth or ending regulatory capture or a wealth tax, well, I don’t know how we get there — but you have my attention.
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@tokensane@mastodon.me.ukOne of my favourite poems. I'm not much of a poetry fan, but #PamAyers really hits the nail.
I often wonder what it must be like to be so strong,
Infallible, articulate, self-confident and wrong.
They Should Have Asked My Husband
@anildash@me.dmlol it’s so genuinely fun seeing Cory take decades of fluency in how these systems are broken and serve it up for a mainstream audiences. Even if you know “enshittification” well, this is worth the watch. And love to @…! https://
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Louis Moholo Quintet:
🎵 You Ain't Gonna Know Me 'Cos You Think That You Know Me
#LouisMoholoQuintet
@hex@kolektiva.socialTime for a social experiment. I have 5 questions:
- What should we work towards as a society?
- What's one thing that doesn't exist now in your community but should?
- What's one action you could take in the coming year to align your life with that goal?
- What's one thing you could achieve in the coming year to get closer to making that thing exist?
- Imagine that we changed everything and you're living in the world you want to see exist. What does the world look like?
I've asked variations of these already (and am still getting great responses), but this time there's a catch. Get together some of your friends (3-5 people) and ask these questions of the group. Come up with *one* answer that everyone in the group agrees on and post it here, then write a bit about your experience.
If you don't know people locally (or otherwise can't do this in person), tag some folks in here or wherever your people are at digitally. Just add some info on if it's online or in person.
For anyone bold enough to actually do this, let me know if you'd be OK with me putting this in an upcoming entry (https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/).
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioSomething that just drives me up the wall about this particular area of Git (merge conflicts) is that, beyond the all-too-typical Git problem of sloppy terminology, this is bad feature design. In most situations, “use ours” and “user theirs” are •both• the wrong answer! There are two doors, and they’re •both• trapdoors.
If you have a merge conflict, that means that you changed something •and• somebody else changed something, and your job is to •synthesize• both changes. To use one is to discard the other, which is usually not what you want!
The thing Git (and every Git GUI) ought to surface is a three-way merge: show me what I changed and what they changed ••relative to the nearest common ancestor••. Yes yes yes, I know it’s possible to finagle that into view with Git. It should be the danged default. It is what I should see first. It is what I should see if I have no idea what I’m doing.
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@grumpybozo@toad.socialYou know what I love in the morning, before getting any sort of breakfast, getting K dressed & fed, or really anything?
A good solid hot flash and sneezing fit, capped by a half-dozen dry heaves.
It makes me special. My doctor and her shadow med student are mystified when I described these incidents.
@anildash@me.dmZooey Deschanel, explaining how Prince ended up on "New Girl". I know she's telling the story very accurately, because she says that Prince's manager's email started with "I'm manager to legendary artist Prince...", which is exactly how her messages did start. https://youtu.be/_pMdUxAztjw
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioThe last couple of days have been relatively quiet in Minneapolis. ICE seems to have been much less active in the city, though everyone (including me) is sort of afraid to talk about that too much lest we jinx it.
They seem to have been more active in the suburbs, and maybe that’s all it is: a geographic shift.
Maybe the cold is keeping them inside. (A bunch of them are from places like TX and VA, and I’m sure they don’t know how to dress.)
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@anildash@me.dmBleh. Just saw a friend who found out they couldn’t be followed by one of their friends because (unbeknownst to both parties) the moderators of their friend’s instance had defederated from their own instance. All of this, for people who barely know what any of these terms mean. What they experience is, “Two people you’ve never met have a beef you’ve never heard about over an issue you don’t know about, so your friend can’t see you. And there’s no fix.” It’s just terrible all around.
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioA request for everyone: please don’t be this person. We’re going through a miserable time here in MSP, and reply guy snot does not make it better.
A •lot• of replies I got are about what is illegal, or should be illegal, or must be illegal, and…yeah, we know, believe me, we know. If what you’re offering is commiseration — as with most replies — I welcome that wholeheartedly! This sucks, and it’s nice to hear people say, “Yeah, that sucks.”
But please don’t come into my mentions to argue. Wrong time, wrong target.
https://mastodon.social/@wesdym/115731049092776077
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioICE eats at restaurants I know and love, nice comfy meal before going back out there and destroying more lives.
It’s weird how much this enrages me. I hope the restaurant staff knows who they’re serving. I hope ICE knows they know. I hope ICE officers eat with nagging doubts about food safety.
I heard a rumor — this one not well-substantiated — that they ate at a restaurant and then come back and raided it the next day.
