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I've been coding for 20 years. I've always enjoyed it but the problem the code fixes has always been the reason I did the coding. I just want to fix problems.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@dandrumheller/117106758638850145
I've done EXACTLY the same! Over decades, I'd install Red Hat or Suze or others I've forgotten. But then I'd get annoyed by something, wipe them and go back to a Win/Apple OS. …

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glynmoody/116776806933094318
When you've got prostitution, you've got pimps too.

I've been remote, fully since 2009 and would like to keep it that way.
#fullremote
∩ Ludovic Hirlimann :
"I'm slowly starting to look for my next Gig. I've been consultant, QA lead, SRE, Sysadmin, and support engineer over the course of my career"
[via Ponos]

Ponos - Alternative européenne open source et IA à LinkedIn
Réseau professionnel minimaliste, sans tracking, respectueux de votre vie privée. Conforme RGPD.

YouFibre is the UK ISP I use - they've got an August offer on for £20/month for 200Mbps (symmetric) on 2 year fixed. I can't say their tech support is particularly technical, but hey it's been carrying my bits just fine for 18months, and I've got IPv6. They do £5 extra for a fixed IPv4 (which I've not used).
(There is talk about their owners being bought by the owners of Virgin)
They'e OK with own router
(I've got a referal code of 4K4NTY which wo…

Actualizado #sailfishOS. Alguna aplicación ha dejado de funcionar por dependencias rotas, pero en general todo bien....

Oof.
#TIL that I, for many years, have used a word consistently wrong.
I've used the word "ignorant" when I meant to say "nescient" (🇧🇻: "uvitende").
Now I know that "ignorant" contains a measure of willfulness that "nescient" doesn't. 😅
So when I've said things like "we're all born ignorant" – I see now…

when covid happened Grey's Anatomy had a whole season about how terrible it was for medical staff... i think that's exactly what Inside Job would've been like when the Epstein files released

I thought I've read that #hashtags can't be found via "follow hashtag" of posts that did not have the hashtag in its initial version. Therefore, editing a post for adding hashtags doesn't work.
This does seem to confirm: https://

Organising conferences I've tended to do a call for full papers but it's always felt awkward. Like why require people to write 4 pages to apply to do a talk? Especially when it's unpaid work (sometimes even pay-to-speak), and when people generally don't just read out their paper anyway so the paper ends up fairly unrelated to the talk.. Like writing and speaking can be just very different things.
So I think for the next @…

Listen to Britain’s dawn chorus of 1976: the dramatic loss of birdsong in 50 years. Great audio reconstruction.
Same here near Utrecht, the Netherlands: From deafening chorus to almost silent spring, in the 30 years that we've lived in the same place: 1996-2026
https://www.

I've done most of these at one time or another.
Also a Robert Owen statue on Corporation St (or at least there was, by the Coop Bank).
Four ways to discover the radical north-west | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/four-ways-dis…

Everything in life, at some level, is about storytelling, so they say. Yet, telling my own story, about my own work, the reasons/impetus, the processes, the details, mistakes, insights, lessons, connections etc. It is the hardest thing ever.
People don't buy the art, they buy the artist.
As much as I do love writing, I've always strongly disliked writing about my creative works/efforts, probably because I so often wanted The Work™ to stand on its own and also because I so frequen…

i've been thinking of making a little #polca inspired language that uses #multivectors. and i noticed that it would probably make sense for the multivectors to replace the number type, with scalars being just a particular kind.
but that seems to conflict somewhat with the existing design of p…

To my followers at US educational institutions: need a vibration isolation platform? MinusK is giving away a couple of them to university departments, all you have to do is apply.
(I'm not affiliated or sponsored with them in any way, but I do have a BM-4 isolator from them in my lab, which I paid full retail price for, that I've been very happy with)

The wind here today is crazy. And it happens every frickin' Tuesday, which is our bin day, and all the frickin' bins blow over and all the recycling or rubbish blows into all the yards and into the streams. Our bins are entirely unfit for purpose with a rapidly changing climate. It stresses me out. Already been outside several times to pick up as much of the stuff as I can from my neighbours' bins (we've got aftermarket rubber catches on ours so they don't pop open and bl…

Second Dog is recovering from surgery. It's been a week since her spay, and we've been wondering when High Energy Collie would return.
As for us, younger child brought back a fever and sore throat from school, as they always do after about a month. They gave it to me.
So yesterday, having taken a few days off work, I had finished a round of Feeding Kids and Administering Medicines and was settling down for a very much needed nap. Second Dog appeared, in a perky mood, and…

I've just discovered how to create stickers from my phone photos. The world is not safe, but we knew that. For #caturday have a sticker of a very asleep Sparky bear ♥️

Dün bir haber gördüm. Haluk Levent eskiden bir programa katılmış ve "çocukken annemin manav dükkanından para çalıp arkadaşlarla okey oynamaya giderdik" diyor.
Adana'da okey kumardır.Şu an durum nedir bilmiyorum ama onun dediği yıllarda eğlencesine okeyi ancak lokallerde filan oynayabilirdiniz. Her açan kişi diğer 3 kişiden para alır, birini kahveciye verir. Yani bunu yaptığını söylediği yıllarda 18 yaşından büyük olması gerekiyor.
Annesinden çalan adama teslim edilen …

In the 8 hours we've been childless so far, I have: Played videogames, done some house chores I've put off for weeks, written a basic React webapp, learned about a new technology (Knative), inventoried our freezer, watched a movie, and taken a bath.
That's more than I get done in a week, easily.
The power has been unleashed.

I love working with Nick. I've worked with him for a very long time, and couldn't recommend him highly enough.
I would also love to continue working with Nick. If you've got a project for us (or just for him), reach out! https://sloan.host/@nick/117112429900657125

Let's get this straight: anything created with "AI" is #slop.
It doesn't have to be vibe-coded. It doesn't have to be horrible code. It doesn't matter that you've spent hours perfecting the prompt. It doesn't matter that ten people have spent a week reviewing it in detail.
As long as an "AI" took part in writing it, it's slop. It's an unethical technology, and anything created with it is tainted. It's an inhuman technology, and you're supporting it. You're being disrespectful to your users and contributors. You're putting your own convenience over humanity. You're aiding the worst murderous assholes in the history of humanity. And what's perhaps worst, you quite likely believe that you are making a net positive contribution, that you're helping people, while you're actually disrespecting and harming them.
#NoAI #NoLLM

I've switched to Nova from VSCode as my primary editor on my Mac. When I made the switch about a month ago, I added this function to my .zshrc:
code () {
echo "use Nova instead \`nova\`, or if you really want VSCode, \`vscode\`"
}
Could I have just pointed a code alias at nova? Sure, but how then would this dummy ever learn?
I hit my function today, first time!
Context: My primary way of open a project to work on it is from my terminal now nova…

Mastodon 4.6 - Mastodon Blog
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/mastodon-4.6/

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And at its heart is a simple mission, to stay deeply relevant for our members and for Europe.
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Edit complete! Will post a link once we've got it on YouTube...
#MusicVideo #TheAdventuresOfDirkBalsäk #Filmmaking

We've reached the "your contribution wasn't significant enough to earn the additional characters required to spell out your name" stage of capitalism.
#ScottHumor #Videogames #FamilyLifeVideogame

I've had a calm start into the weekend and I'm quite grateful for that 💕

Oh, I've ordered from Wonder a handful of times since it opened. Guess I'll stop that.
https://www.alxnow.com/2026/08/18/delivery-robot-service-expanded-in-alexandria-to-wonder-food-hall/

Delivery robot service expanded in Alexandria to Wonder food hall | ALXnow
The deployment of autonomous sidewalk delivery robots is expanding further in Alexandria. Serve Robotics announced today (Monday) that the Wonder food hall at 3615 Richmond Highway will offer robot deliveries. The New York City-based Wonder, which has been rapidly expanding in the D.C. region and beyond, opened the Potomac Yard location in January. The food

RE: https://zpravobot.news/@Rainmaker1973/116947607420994226
I've been saying this for so damn long.
Also, if you do cover our fields, don't do it continuously for many, many kilometers. Go patchy.

Everything We've Learned About Raiders' Backup QB Battle https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-everything-learned-about-backup-battle

@… - I'm looking for a script you've been talking about in a podcast. You use it to fix audiorecordings, normalize, eq and stuff. But you have so much in your repo so I can't find it (I don't remember the name). It's a terminal script. Do you know what I'm looking after, and if so - what is the name of the repo?
Thanx in advance!

It must be galling to him that we no longer have the pre-Reagan pre-cable FCC regs and station norms that empowered the POTUS to monopolize the media in primetime.
I expect that many non-olds don’t even realize that was a thing. Once upon a time all TV was broadcast and most was network-affiliated or network-owned, and those all took the feed from the White House when it was offered. There was no escape... @…

Scott MacFarlane on Twitter
Brutal response from FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez to Trump's call for ABC and NBC to be stripped of licenses "It is ridiculous to call for broadcasters to lose their license simply for making the same editorial decisions they've made under presidents of both parties. Those editorial decisions are protected by the First Amendment, and the FCC has no authority to punish a station for refusing to air a blatantly political speech. This is a naked attempt to bully broadcasters, and the FCC should ha…

Nogle gange hader jeg at bo på bŸhlandet. Da jeg boede alene, var det ikke det store problem, for så fyrede jeg op for anlægget, og så kunne knallerter, save og bonderŸve forsvinde som dug for solen. Når man så bor sammen med en, der dels altid går rundt med stimuli i hovedtelefoner og bliver overvældet over musik med lyrik i længere tid, så er der pludselig ingen måde at stoppe det på udover at tage hovedtelefoner på, som så bliver lŸbende afbrudt af spŸrgsmål eller hund der kræver opmærkso…

@… @… @… I don't know if I've linked this one to you before; apologies if so.
…

What we've seen from Travis Hunter at Jaguars training camp: 'Travis just came out of nowhere' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49640399/jacksonville-jaguars-travis-hunter-2026-training-camp-takeaways

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Mass Gothic:
🎵 Every Night You've Got to Save Me
#MassGothic
https://massgothic.bandcamp.com/track/every-night-youve-got-to-save-me-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/0jgGnGKZ4Cs108ysdBjueX

I've loaded the cannons, checked the sails, and made sure the ship isn't currently leaking. Time for more Windrose! Drop by the chat, grab a tankard of whatever you're drinking, and let's go hunt some booty. 🦜⚓
💻 Join the crew: https://www.twitch.tv/tuxramus

This is why I've never believed the words "lifetime lubricated". This ball joint that I just took off my wife's Kia hasn't seen grease in a few years at this point. It's always scary when they come apart during removal, too. Glad that I caught it before that could spontaneously disassemble itself while she was driving.
This us taking way longer than I usually do for this kind of repair, mostly because I'm taking frequent breaks to avoid inhaling too much s…

I've seen one of the candidates for my ward's city council seat a lot lately. Sometimes doing campaign stuff - like handing out leaflets in front of the subway (Kid2 and I enjoyed the sudoko). But also just wandering around. I've never seen our current councilor, who's hoping to get ahold of the mayor's office to ensure that the low-tax city gets back to crumbling as fast as possible, outside a highly scripted event. Anyways, I really, really hope she wins and not just be…

A unique moment. Having 7 packages in the repo now and they're all updated this week ;-).
One returnee (Brave Origin) and one new entrant: Tixati, the GTK torrent client I've been using for almost a decade now.
#slackware #archlabs

I have to remember when building new systems I've never done before, to take regular snapshots so I dont have to blow everything away and start from scratch again. Speaking of, anyone installed Mailman3 on a RHEL based system? All the offical docs talk about is Debian (and apt), plus my venv understanding is weak so I messed that up to.

@… being honest, I've signed up, posted a pic and left it there. I love to have options, but sometimes it is like too much 🤣🫠

Morning all! Spending this morning working on a couple of courses for my clients (goal-setting, clarifying and using values) plus a ton of admin that I've let pile up this week.

Brian Schottenheimer: "We've Got to Play on the Edge, Not Over It" | Dallas Cowboys 2026 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJY2QbXzj4k

"Ideally, that's what you've got in an acting career is an equal number of dramas and comedies and an equal number of small films and big films."
—Jason Bateman
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Excuse me? @costarastrology

Since yesterday, I've read a couple of times that the allegations against Jason Arday had been unfounded. They were not.
Several truth can exist at the same time:
- being guilty of scientific misconduct
- being the victim of a ideologically motivated witch hunt
- the media has blood on its hands
You do not need to be innocent to deserve basic human dignity.
1/2

We've just been shopping with our bike trailer again.
✅ Weekly errands
✅ Sports
✅ Enjoyed some sunshine
✅ Saved some gas ⛽
I can only recommend those devices!

@… Oh, because that description *before* text from the cards seemed like something imperfect AI might detect in an image (i.e. saying the image shows "two red cards" instead of "two decks/stacks of red cards" or "dozens of stacked red cards" or something similar).
Just thought it would've been ironic if you did use AI, giv…

In an employment update: things are looking up and I've got my tech interview later this week. So completely stoked, it'll be nice to have "income" (which I've heard is really awesome to have).

I built the @… Stream video manager I've always wanted right into @…. It's privacy-first, free, open source, and you can download and install it today.
Features:
▪️ Manage all of your Cloudflare Stream videos

Coywolf Video Manager: A WordPress plugin for managing Cloudflare Stream videos
Coywolf Video Manager is a WordPress plugin for managing Cloudflare Stream videos, auto-generating VideoObject Schema markup and XML sitemaps, and adding likes, views, and upload dates.

For people wondering when the AI bubble is going to pop, I present you with this message, received by a paid-in-full customer of OpenAI.
Not a good look when you have to tell paying customers you've run out of resources.

I've added tons of new roads in #kartaview around #gabrovo #osm

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jbaert/117115229615888173
In the almost 30 years of my career, I've never felt & witnessed the combined dynamics mentioned in [1] and those about sacrificing agency/control, described below, more directly than in my recent h…

I'm watching Signs Of A Psychopath 11x07 "I've Got a Criminal Mind" #SignsOfAPsychopath

I've Got a Criminal Mind
A killer brutally murders an elderly couple, and detectives quickly focus on their 17-year-old grandson who lives with them. When they finally capture…

Ran some rough numbers based on solar production YTD. I'm at 9.7 MWh generation so far.
Assuming the current trend continues and the downward curve is symmetric matching the upward, I project 12.8 MWh, perhaps a bit less, by end of year. This is only about a quarter of my consumption, but is substantially higher than the 9 MWh the installer estimated (which I've already exceeded).

I'm slowly starting to look for my next Gig. I've been consultant, QA lead, SRE, Sysadmin, and support engineer over the course of my career
[via Ponos] https://ponos.fr/thread/c1riz7glafq44rrd419w9vclo

Ponos - Alternative européenne open source et IA à LinkedIn
Réseau professionnel minimaliste, sans tracking, respectueux de votre vie privée. Conforme RGPD.

I've just finished #LibraryBingo. My picks were:
Non-fiction: On Sheep, Diary of a Swedish Shepherd
Genre you usually avoid: graphic novel Persepolis
One word title: Nonesuch
Book set in a foreign country: The Quiet American
Book made into a film: Murder on the Orient Express
Book chosen on cover alone: The Hazelbourne Ladies' Motorcycle and Flying …

RE: https://mastodon.social/@baraa1998/116776179282200618
@… is someone I've known and been supporting for six mont…

Got myself a selection of small resistors for making dummy load for a PSU, and a few more random ones - don't see the silver band much!
(I've got to say Rapid electronics in the UK was - ordered just before 4pm yesterday,delivered before 2pm today on standard delivery).
#electronics

Just arrived, the result of a rabbit hole I went down recently.
Harich 'Communism without Growth' (1975 Ge, 2034 Sp)
Not available in English ttbomk, but I can read this translation.
Really interesting engagement with the Meadows Limits to Growth report, from the GDR. Parallel to another from Zagreb at the same time.
The quality of the bits I've read is great.
Verso UK should bring it out.

I'm afraid I've developed some kind of addiction to buy music from Qobuz 🫪🤭
#Qobuz #Music #DRMFree

Giants-Jaguars trade grades: Jacksonville acquires former Ravens starter as John Harbaugh ships off ex-player

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/giants-jaguars-daniel-faalele-trade-grades…

Its amazing to me how much different journal access is from college to college. I've been working on homework for a program at one University but often can't get journal articles, so I ask my wife who works at an Ivy. She gets them in seconds.

I've had to bug a colleague who's on vacation several times lately but apparently only when he and the family are at the same Italian restaurant. I keep pulling him back in?

Von Miller candid about joining Cowboys, Super Bowl ‘holiday’; and more https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/von-miller-candid-about-joining-cowboys-super-bowl-holiday-and-more

I'm mentally casting Ben Aaronovitch's #RiversOfLondon, which I'm listening to for the umpteenth time. I've just heard Walid described as short and sandy so:
🎬Abdul Haqq Walid: Adrian Scarborough
🎬Thomas Nightingale: I'd have Bill Nighy if he was younger (even though TN is really about 100), so maybe Matthew McFadyen?
🎬Zachary Palmer: Jon Pointing
🎬A…

I can work in both French and English. I'm interested in infrastructure roles.
#infrastructure #sysadmin #sre
∩ Ludovic Hirlimann :
"I've been remote, fully since 2009 and would like …

Ponos - Alternative européenne open source et IA à LinkedIn
Réseau professionnel minimaliste, sans tracking, respectueux de votre vie privée. Conforme RGPD.

Just worked with an #acting #coaching client who is new to acting. For a take on the first scene they've done, I asked them to change one physical thing they were doing. That take, from the first sentence suddenly had a different life behind it. So good to see.

What Raiders Need More of in Week 2 and Beyond https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-what-need-more-week-2-beyond

Dear friends
You know I've been writing a lot lately about people in #Gaza whose verified accounts have been suspended in the crackdown on #Palestinian accounts on mastodon.social.
Nourhan is someone I've been corresponding with for some time; she's an academic, a very dignified…

Von Miller candid about joining Cowboys, Super Bowl ‘holiday’; and more https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/von-miller-candid-about-joining-cowboys-super-bowl-holiday-and-more

I think the demo board firmware is getting close to... I won't say done, there is always more things I can pack in there, but "good enough to show off at an event".
I've got:
* NRZ PRBS7/31
* 2D-PAM3 PRBS-31
* 1000baseX (no packet generation yet that's my last big TODO)
* QSGMII (also no packet generation yet)
* 100baseTX (working packet generation)
* Various clock/pulse outputs
* UART
* SPI / SPI flash
* Serial RGB LED…

What Raiders Need More of in Week 2 and Beyond https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-what-need-more-week-2-beyond

I've just uploaded my resume at #cv #resume…

3 Key Raiders Players To Watch Against Chargers https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-3-key-players-watch-against-chargers

#Gaza is a hot, arid place, Scotland a cool damp one. There aren't that many commonalities between them. But here, too, we pick, and sing about, the wild mountain thyme. Fortunately for us, we have other things to eat with it.
I've seen several people from Gaza lately commenting the wild thyme is the last thing they have left to add savour to their food. Here @…

Thyme, Heavier Than Hunger 🌿💔
In Palestine, thyme needs no introduction. It is the scent of old homes, the memory of quiet mornings, and a small piece of our land that we carry with us wherever we go. 🇵🇸

3 Key Raiders Players To Watch Against Chargers https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-3-key-players-watch-against-chargers

3 Raiders Poised for Big Days Against Los Angeles https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-3-poised-big-days-against-los-angeles

3 Raiders Poised for Big Days Against Los Angeles https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-3-poised-big-days-against-los-angeles

Raiders Legend Fred Biletnikoff Makes Major Move https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-legend-fred-biletnikoff-makes-major-move

Raiders Legend Fred Biletnikoff Makes Major Move https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-legend-fred-biletnikoff-makes-major-move

3 Chargers Offensive Players Raiders Must Monitor https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-3-chargers-offensive-players-must-monitor

3 Chargers Offensive Players Raiders Must Monitor https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-3-chargers-offensive-players-must-monitor

Projecting Raiders’ Offensive Leaders Against Chargers https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-projecting-offensive-leaders-against-chargers

Projecting Raiders’ Offensive Leaders Against Chargers https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-projecting-offensive-leaders-against-chargers

Raiders Report: What Drove Las Vegas' Week 1 Offensive Success https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-report-what-drove-week-1-offensive-success

Raiders Report: What Drove Las Vegas' Week 1 Offensive Success https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-report-what-drove-week-1-offensive-success

Raiders' Week 2 Injury Report: Latest Updates, Game Status https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-week-2-injury-report-latest-updates-game-status

Inside the Massive Overhaul of the Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-inside-massive-overhaul

Inside the Massive Overhaul of the Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-inside-massive-overhaul

Raiders' RB Ashton Jeanty Has a Story to Tell https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-ashton-jeanty-story-tell