@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotThis morning I have promoted a story, Wisdom, from my 'ideas' folder to my 'projects' folder.
"If I were to go, and were to give them sound advice, they would surely kill me. As they killed my great grandmother, and my grandmother, and my aunt, and now my mother."
A young woman is hereditary Wisdom Keeper of a warrior tribe; she's been sent away as a child, by her mother, for safety. Now, the God sends her back.
But is it wise?
A medita…
@kazys@mastodon.socialMy latest project is up. Two AIs talk to each other about art discourse in the manner of the famous Holt-Smithson dialogue of 1969. Contact me for a link and password.
https://varnelis.net/works_and_projects/east-coast-west-coast-after-bob-and-nancy/
East Coast West Coast (after Bob and Nancy) - varnelis.net from my link log —
In 1969, Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson made a 24-minute video in which they improvised a dialogue playing stereotypical positions in the American art world. Holt performed the role of an intellectual, conceptual New York artist; Smithson played an intuitive California artist. He talks about riding ten bicycles, dropping acid, eating organic food, and visiting ... 
@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2025-11-29 09:42:03
Putting rigid bodies to rest: analysis and design of resting configurations of rolling dice, without physical simulation.
https://hbaktash.github.io/projects/putting-rigid-bodies-to-rest/
saved 2025-11-28
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMalaysia's Johor state, which has approved 51 data centre projects as of November, stops approvals for new low-tier data centers citing high water consumption (The Star)
https://www.thestar.com.my/metro/metro-news/2025/11/26/no-more-…
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI spent much of today cleaning my office. It's amazing how messy it gets due to ongoing projects (my own and client projects) and so much paper. I was saving a lot of it for paper making but I've still got plenty of pulp in the fridge to use.
On Friday, the plan is no shopping, just cleaning the basement getting rid of cruft, maybe finding some things to donate or give away if possible.
@waidler@bayerwald.socialPerhaps one of my next projects is to set up a Mastodon instance (may be this one) on a cluster of 3 or more Raspberry Pi's. Still no exact imagination on how to distribute the different services in a meaningful manner. An example could be:
🖥️ Node Roles
pi-master: PostgreSQL, Redis, Reverse Proxy
pi-worker1: Web (Rails), Streaming
pi-worker2: Sidekiq, Web (replica)
#mastodon
@scott@carfree.cityOh my god, the 19th Avenue repaving project is going to be going on through the November 2026 election, when must-pass transit funding is on the ballot. "...will be completed by December 2026." 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
https://
@kazys@mastodon.socialMy counterrfactual history, "The Lost Canal of Vlinius" is up on both my site—https://varnelis.net/works_and_projects/the-lost-canals-of-vilnius/ and on my substack
@frankel@mastodon.topI have been learning #Rust for a couple of years, and using it for pet projects and demos alike. Working for a JVM-heavy company, I thought it would be my fate forever. Last week, I had a nice surprise: I convinced my management that using Rust for a particular project was the right choice. It’s not a huge project, but I want to describe my experience using Rust in a "real" project.
@todbot@mastodon.socialThank you! This makes using the Uno Q much less mucky https://masto.ai/@shawnhymel/115611570461466484
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itWow. I've dealt with various toxic personalities in software development, but a good portion of the time those toxic personalities were at least extremely knowledgeable in their (often, very limited) domain.
AI, however, seems to be enabling toxic personalities *who are completely clueless*. Impressive!
https://github…
@whitequark@mastodon.sociali feel like quite a few of my technical projects recently have started with, essentialy, "ok I know it's nontrivial, but how hard _exactly_ would it be?", with the answer usually ending "frankly more irritating than hard and even then not too much so"
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.ioThank you all for 3,000 followers on here! Here’s a photo of Danny to celebrate the occasion ☺️
3 years into being part of Mastodon, I continue to be impressed with how wonderful the people here are and how much this social network actually FEELS social. People replying to one another, having conversations, learning things, sharing moments of joy, making friends.
Mastodon brought my business clients, helped me gain confidence in my own voice, freed me from dependence on big tech and algorithms, rekindled my interests, introduced me to incredible people and projects, and served as a source of hope in humanity in the times when cynicism and nihilism felt all but inevitable.
I love our little corner of the internet, and am so glad that it’s still here despite everyone who professed it was doomed to fade into irrelevance.
Thank you to everyone reading these words for being here on the Fedi. The world is a little better thanks to your choice to support an independent web.
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Index 1,600,000,000 keys with finite state automata and Rust.
https://blog.burntsushi.net/transducers/
saved 2021-08-21 https://
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngOkay, it seems classic NPM tokens already stopped working and so it's IMPOSSIBLE for me to release any new versions of my 210 projects/packages until they have implemented a solution which:
1) Doesn't require to manually setup a Trusted Publishing config for *every single package* or
2) They're lifting the arbitrary 50 packages per token limit for their new "granular" tokens (in addition to them already being severely time limited)
The current combined …
@Nefsen402@social.linux.pizzaWhen I first bought my property, I was a little bit overwhelmed by all the things that needed to be done. I inherited the property from a tenancy that didn't exactly take care of the place. But, I've managed to take on projects I had my hesitations about, and so far it's been a success with help of course. My latest project is to install wire for a surround sound system and a fiber optic hdmi cable from my computer in my office. It's nice having a home improvement plan go off…
@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.orgMy very first programming projects when I started self-teaching around 15 years ago were about accounting. I was unhappy with keeping track of expenses in a physical notebook, and the spreadsheet I made was also very limited. And existing #FOSS solutions like #GnuCash felt too weird for my use case and its…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioLove that my tax dollars are set on fire to fuel defense contractor projects that will go absolutely nowhere.
Maybe it’s time to learn Chinese.
@csessh@social.linux.pizza"Writing your idea down is not starting the damn game. Writing a design document is not starting the damn game. Assembling a team is not starting the damn game. Even doing graphics or music is not starting the damn game. It’s easy to confuse “preparing to start the damn game” with “starting the damn game”. Just remember: a damn game can be played, and if you have not created something that can be played, it’s not a damn game!"
@servelan@newsie.socialWhere Was My Generic Prescription Drug Made? - Rx Inspector - ProPublica
https://projects.propublica.org/rx-inspector/
@nelson@tech.lgbtLiving a charmed life. I just installed a new video card and it took like 5 minutes, worked first try. (My old 1080 Ti with 8GB served me well. Just got a new 5060 with 16GB. For all my AI projects, of course.)
@cdarwin@c.imOkay, my obscure background as an erstwhile DC land use lawyer is finally relevant.
There are several agencies that oversee any projects at the White House, including the Commission of Fine Arts, the Commission for the Preservation of the White House, the National Park Service, and the National Capital Planning Commission.
Guess who apparently hasn't filed for approval from any of them?
-- Jamie Baker Roskie
Considering that Trump has one of his cronies running N…
@ErikUden@mastodon.deFolx, I don't do this often, but one of my favorite projects has now gone online again and I wish to share it! Feel free to check out @… at:
🔗 https://howtheyvote.eu/
@mszll@datasci.socialWith #openalex being mature enough, I have finally completed #degoogling my website 🥳
https://
@candidexmedia@mastodon.designI come across so many amazing Creative Commons licensed songs that I save to my collection for use in creative projects, and I think it's time I start sharing them! 😊
Today's pick: Deep Dive by Tom Manzarek 🪩 This groovy house jam is licensed under CC-BY-NC-ND (and found thanks to @…):
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
How Rust views tradeoffs.
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/rust-tradeoffs/
saved 2019-07-02 https://do…
@wwwgem@social.linux.pizza
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioI’m an industry dev turned comp sci prof. I’ve been writing code for 40-some years; my first commercial software was for the Apple ][ . I’ve worked on web, mobile, desktop, server, and data plumbing projects for companies ranging from startups to Fortune 100 to arts nonprofits. In short, I’ve been lucky to know a lot of people in a lot of corners of tech.
@…’s opening paragraphs are spot on. If consensus is not 100%, well, it’s 99%.
https://www.anildash.com//2025/10/17/the-majority-ai-view/
@3sframe@social.linux.pizzaAnyone try Oracle Cloud "always free" tier for their projects? Thinking I'll migrate my masto instance over to it.
I doubt it'll truly be free, because "cloud" but wondering if it's at least cheaper than getting a VPS I pay monthly for.
Right now, I'm on Azure trying out their free credits. After a month, it'll cost me around $30 a month to run my self hosted single user instance. Way too much imo.
@hynek@mastodon.sociallazygit is perfection and that sadly means i will never learn jj
https://www.bwplotka.dev/2025/lazygit/
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.socialHere's my (probably not complete) list of #FLOSS projects I've donated to or financially supported over the year - and especially now in the holiday season.
If you've recently started moving away from big tech and replaced their tools with FLOSS alternatives, maybe consider sharing a bit of your savings with the people that make the tools you now rely on 🙏
Which tools would that be for you?
#opensource
https://tzovar.as/supporting-floss/
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialAs one of my next #selfhosting projects I wanted to compare #ttrss and #freshrss
Seems like the choices just narrowed down to freshRSS. TTRss is discontinued -- at least until anotherone wants…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngPrepping a digital negative of one of my old generative art projects (from 2008) for #Kallitype printing tomorrow. The form is actually _not_ 3D, but merely the time trace of a 2D physics sim of a single line (over hundreds of frames) and using spatial velocity deltas as metric for creating faux shading...
@kazys@mastodon.socialI finished my counterfactual history of Vilnius today, an example of one of my stochastic histories.
#aiart
@jamie@boothcomputing.socialWho's ready to clean some floppy drive heads? Not really the way I planned to spend my day off but things are reaching dire straights for available floppy drives. Starting to hold up other projects.
#retrocomputing
@dawid@social.craftknight.com
@cyrevolt@mastodon.socialput the projects I do on my badge
@hex@kolektiva.socialActually, I do want to come back to masculinity under patriarchy and whiteness under white supremacy because I think it's worth talking more about. The "man" under patriarchy (at least "Western" patriarchy) is represented as power and independence. The man needs nothing and thus owes nothing to anyone. The man controls and is not controlled, which is intimately related to independence as dependence can make someone vulnerable to control. The image of "man" projects power and invulnerability. At the same time "man" is a bumbling fool who can't be held accountable for his inability to control his sexual urges. He must be fed and cared for, as though another child. His worst behaviors must be dismissed with phrases such as "boys will be boys" and "locker room talk." The absurdity of the concept of human "independence" is impossible to understate.
Even if you go all Ted Kaczynski, you have still been raised and taught. This is, perhaps, why it is so much more useful to think in terms of obligations than rights. Rights can be claimed and protected with violence alone, but obligations reveal the true interdependence that sustains us. A "man" may assert his rights. Yet, on some level, we all know that the "man" of patriarchy acts as a child who is not mature enough to recognize his obligations.
White violence and white fragility reflect the same dichotomy. "The master race" somehow always needs brown folks to make all their shit and do all the reproductive labor for them. For those who fully embrace whiteness, the "safe space" is a joke. DEI shows weakness. Yet, when presented with an honest history adults become children who are incapable of differentiating between criticism and simple facts. *They* become the ones who must be kept safe. The expectation to be responsible for one's own words and actions, one of the very core definitions of being an adult, is far too much to expect. Their guilt needs room, needs tending, needs caring. White people cannot simply "grow the fuck up" or, as they may say of slavery, "fucking get over it."
And again, interestingly, it is *rights* that they reference: "Mah Freeze PEACH!" I find it hard to distinguish between such and my own child's assertion that anything she doesn't like is "not fair!" No, these assertions fail to recognize the fundamental fabric of adult society: the obligations we hold to each other.
At the intersection of all privilege is the sovereign, the ultimate god-man-baby. Again, referencing the essay (https://hexmhell.writeas.com/observations-on-domination-and-trump)
> This is where it becomes important to consider the ideology behind the sovereign ritual. Participation within the sovereign ritual denotes to the participants elements of the sovereign. That is, all agents of the sovereign are, essentially, micro dictators. By carrying out the will of the sovereign, these micro dictators can, by extension, act outside of the law.
While law enforcement is the ultimate representative of sovereign violence, privileges allow a gradated approximation of the sovereign. Those who are "closer" in privilege to the sovereign may, for example, be permitted to carry out violence against those who are father away. The gradation of privilege turns the whole society, except for the least privileged, into a cult that protects the privilege system on behalf of the most privileged. (And immediately Malcolm X pops to mind as having already talked about part of this relationship in 1963 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf7rsCAfQCo.)
@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
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaUpdated my "Entry to Left-Wing Anarchist Reading" Phase 2!
Added two solid EZLN Zapatista documents, one peer-reviewed journal article, and another field studies on their autonomous governance & education projects!
Happy reading: https://docs.google.com/docu…
@UP8@mastodon.socialSince it got cold I haven't been too brave about going out and between that trip to the beach, a breakthrough in another project I've been working on for 8 months, and new project that's making me revive even more old projects my #photography has been slowing down: this trail in Shindagin Hollow skirts the side of a steep and deep gorge
@whitequark@mastodon.socialincredible https://grebedoc.org/ [not my site, i just found this by mistyping an URL]
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizzaI am counting down the hours to when I start my three week leave. My wife will be screening some of the calls, and she knows 'Tom is not home' for everyone except a couple of team members. They only call when all hell breaks loose.
For me I check the call display and anyone except for those I noted above I just don't answer.
I AM ON LEAVE, DON'T BOTHER ME!
Minor projects are scheduled. Finish off some minor yard work for the patio, assemble the new printe…
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI would guess that 98% of my microcontroller needs are a cheap board I can program using the Arduino IDE along with any of the zillion of existing libraries out there.
Thanks to Earle Philhower's arduino-pico project I switched to using the $4 USD Raspberry Pi Pico years ago, and I was using the Teensy LC boards before that but those were discontinued. (I like the Teensy boards but they are more than I need for 98% of my projects.)
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.socialRE: https://scholar.social/@gedankenstuecke/115729839724981403
Based on the rounds this made, I wonder if I should make a small blog post about which FLOSS projects I'm donating to as my "Christmas gifts"?
@3sframe@social.linux.pizza @toxi@mastodon.thi.ngSo am I understanding this correctly that the upcoming NPM authentication and token changes mean our only publishing workflow options henceforth are either switching to OICD Trusted Publishing[1] via GitHub Actions or using granular access tokens. The problem with the former is that I wanted to migrate my projects to Codeberg soon (which isn't supported). The problem with the latter is that granular tokens are unsuitable for publishing packages from a large monorepo, since these tokens a…
@kazys@mastodon.socialIf you are up this late, maybe you want to stay up later. Go ahead, read my latest essay, What Did Vibe Coding just do to the Commons?
https://varnelis.net/works_and_projects/what-did-vibe-coding-just-do-to-the-commons/
What did Vibe Coding just do to the Commons? - varnelis.net
I write a lot about art and architecture, landscape, and the impact of technology on culture, but I haven’t written about coding since the 1980s, when I sold my first article to Creative Computing magazine. Back then I was a high school kid, spending hours working in both BASIC and 6502 assembler on the VIC-20. I ...
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Think you can’t interpose static binaries with LD_PRELOAD? What about Qemu?
https://balintreczey.hu/blog/think-you-cant-interpose-static-binaries-with-ld_preload-think-again/
saved 2025-11-21
@cdarwin@c.imThere's something cruel in how our culture treats in-between times.
We have words for achievement
and words for burnout,
but we lack vocabulary for the necessary pauses that precede new growth.
If you say you're
"between projects," people assume you've been cast aside.
The idea that you might be in a natural winter,
that you might be dormant in a way that's preparatory rather than pathological,
doesn't compute …
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngMy son has added a new project to his portfolio and is also looking for job as environment artist/designer... check it out!
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@Nekso/115309157319706178
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
What to do once you admit that decentralizing everything never seems to work.
https://hackernoon.com/decentralizing-everything-never-seems-to-work-2bb0461bd168
saved 2019-08-31
What to do once you admit that decentralizing everything never seems to work | HackerNoon
Lots of tech projects these days, especially crypto-networks, aspire to decentralization. Or their evangelists say they do, because they feel they need to. Decentralization is the new disruption—the thing everything worth its salt (and a huge ICO) is supposed to be doing. Meanwhile, Internet progenitors like Vint Cerf, Brewster Kahle, and Tim Berners-Lee are trying to re-decentralize the Web. They respond to the rise…
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaSince I rely on and use @… pretty much everyday as my preferred email provider, I donated €10, and will turn it to a monthly donation.
Support the projects, organizations, or initiatives you depend on the most. For me, that’s https://…
@kazys@mastodon.socialVibe coding is the single biggest transformation since ChatGPT 3.5, it is one of the biggest transformations since the dawn of computing. It will thoroughly transform Open Source. We are not ready. #VibeCoding #OpenSource
What did Vibe Coding just do to the Commons? - varnelis.net
I write a lot about art and architecture, landscape, and the impact of technology on culture, but I haven’t written about coding since the 1980s, when I sold my first article to Creative Computing magazine. Back then I was a high school kid, spending hours working in both BASIC and 6502 assembler on the VIC-20. I ...
@kazys@mastodon.socialMy artist's statement on my work with AI is out. I completely rethought what I am doing. This has been a worthwhile journey, for me, and I hope, for you if you read it.
https://varnelis.net/works_and_projects/stochastic-histories/
Stochastic Histories - varnelis.net
stochastic histories /stəˈkæstɪk ˈhɪstəriz/ n. pl. [from Gk. stokhastikos “capable of guessing,” from stokhazesthai “to aim at, guess at” + L. historia “narrative, account”] 1. Fabricated historical narratives generated through iterative probabilistic sampling with artificial-intelligence systems, producing documentation that appears authentic through the accumulation of plausible details. 2. A mode of artistic practice that exploits ...
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngClose-up view of the audio-responsive LED floor installation I co-created for the KEF Muon launch in 2007 @ Sala del Cenacolo (Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia in Milano). The animation was repurposed from one of my first projects I created with Processing (in 2003)...
The 2 meter tall speakers were designed by Ross Lovegrove and made from milled solid aluminium...
The installation was created by Moving Brands (my old employer), a short video of the project/instal…
@kazys@mastodon.socialMy latest essay, I will offiicially release it tomorrow morning, but in the meantime, here it is!
https://varnelis.net/works_and_projects/stochastic-histories/
Stochastic Histories - varnelis.net
stochastic histories /stəˈkæstɪk ˈhɪstəriz/ n. pl. [from Gk. stokhastikos “capable of guessing,” from stokhazesthai “to aim at, guess at” + L. historia “narrative, account”] 1. Fabricated historical narratives generated through iterative probabilistic sampling with artificial-intelligence systems, producing documentation that appears authentic through the accumulation of plausible details. 2. A mode of artistic practice that exploits ...
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Build system tradeoffs.
https://jyn.dev/build-system-tradeoffs
saved 2025-11-02 https://dotat.at/:/5ZUHD.html
