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@StephenRees@mas.to
2026-10-10 16:56:10

A record-low vote share for Quebec's incoming government has reignited a long-standing debate over how the province elects its leaders.
The Parti Québécois secured enough seats to form a minority government despite getting only 28 per cent of the popular vote — the lowest vote share for a governing party in Quebec history.

Parti Québécois win with record-low vote share revives calls for electoral reform | CBC News
A record-low vote share for Quebec's incoming PQ government has reignited a long-simmering debate over how the province elects its leaders.

@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.org
2026-10-09 09:32:51

I do like that #SolveSpace can load images (though only pngs...) for reference to design your model around. But I really wish it was a *little* easier to auto-scale it to its real dimensions 😅

Solvespace screenshot, showing a loaded photo of a Philips OneBlade shaver's charger socket with a caliper placed on top for reference. Five contruction lines are constrained with four angles, just so one dimension (60mm on the caliper) can be calibrated to have proper dimensions in SolveSpace.

@nemorosa@mastodon.nu
2026-10-11 13:58:23

#WordWeavers 11 Oct: Share a passage from your WIP where the setting is doing as much storytelling as the characters.
This is a passage from 'Management Apologises for the Inconvenience':
#thementalmansion

‘Oh! Oh, this one. This one’s a beauty. Hold on, don’t breathe too loudly, it’s delicate.’
They lift a dream that glows colder than the others. The moment it rises from the chest, the air around you cools, and the shadows shimmer as though dusted with frost.
The cloud unfurls, slow and reverent.
You’re standing in a winter night so still it feels enchanted. Moonlight glistens on untouched snow, each crystal catching the light like a tiny star. The trees are coated in frost, their branches glit…

@cwensel@fosstodon.org
2026-09-30 17:18:49

Hey all
Finally, I think we landed on a great design with handling both reference (and seed) data in retrofit.
This week we demo managing reference data as part of the schema. Reference data is the data that apps only read, and never write, like zip codes and states. This includes data that might change slowly over time, like an order status label, or even currencies.
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Manage PostgreSQL reference data with the schema · retrofit
Capture a PostgreSQL lookup table's rows from pg_dump into a data file pinned to the operation log, retire the .sql side file that held them, rename the table and its column, and see a hand edit to the witnessed data file fail validation.

@avstockhausen@fedihum.org
2026-10-09 07:07:43

Forked Will Mattingly's "Scripture Detector" App (thanks!) for use in the #PatristicTextArchive (added Greek bibletext and import/export of PTA TEI files). Code: https://
github.com/PatristicTextArchive/scripture-detector-pta - Syriac and Armenian to follow asap...

Screenshot of the Scripture Detector PTA Application showing a text with highlighted scripture passages (in different colors depending of kind of quotation/allusion) and references on the right side..

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-10-22 23:06:52

a16z rebrands a16z Crypto as a16z Frontier and expands the fund's scope to back startups developing AI, robotics, and other emerging technologies (Camila Grigera Naón/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/10/22/venture-gian…