@danyork@mastodon.social2026-07-22 03:53:46
@danyork@mastodon.social2026-07-22 03:53:46
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk2026-08-21 17:13:02
Oh hello there, you're going to be forcefully replaced:
#retrocomputing
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2026-07-14 16:34:45
@… they're not warning about how AI is bad.
There's much more to it. Like, the first paragraph of this month's announcement explains that they're deploying advanced AI tools.
#Reddit
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2026-08-21 17:53:18
Just finished re-reading volume 1 of Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou by Hitoshi Ashinano in English official translation, checked out from one of my local libraries. It's really cool to see lots of the excellent Japanese stuff that I read through fan translations mostly online in the 2000s and 2010s not only come out as an official translation, but make their way onto library shelves for random people to discover without having to be deep into Japanese culture fandom.
YKK is of course a pretty legendary manga, and even though I'd read it before, it had been a while and the manga is so much more feelings-based than plot-based that it was at least as enjoyable the second time through. Ashinano's sweeping curves that capture the wide open landscapes of Minato are beautiful, and her characters also capture a particular feeling of freedom and kindness that's lovely to immerse oneself in. It's the kind of world where you understand immediately that the gun is just a memento and doesn't represent any kind of violence, foreshadowed or otherwise. Calm down, Chekhov, have a coffee, and get with the extremely relaxing times.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon
@darkrat@chaosfurs.social2026-07-14 17:03:16
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-06-20 13:35:18
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RecordReview
Arthur Sullivan, William Gilbert, Jennifer France, David Webb, Charles Rice, Academy of Ancient Music & John Andrews:
🎵 Ah, leave me not alone / We're called Gondolieri (The Gondoliers)
#ArthurSullivan #WilliamGilbert
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2026-07-06 09:48:55
RE: #solvinity
@geant@mstdn.social2026-07-09 14:10:41
Join us for the GÉANT Cybersecurity Awareness Campaign 2026 🛡️
Small habits. Big impact.
That's the theme for this year’s campaign, and we're inviting our international #Research & #Education community to be part of it.
Do you have useful tips and tricks for how to bett…
@emd@cosocial.ca2026-06-11 02:13:35
This feels very much like a Fediverse thing…I’m looking to re-wild my backyard.
Anyone know someone in Metro Vancouver who could help me?
Boost for each please.
#gardening #rewilding #vancouver
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2026-06-11 06:26:44
Chip in to support #RecklessBen & Bryan defend themselves against Bricks & Minifigs & get back Bryan's #StarWars #Lego collection
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk2026-07-15 14:02:17
Just typed in a RAM test program on my Series 7 BBC Model B - it passes clean; hmm - doesn't explain the instability then.
Also, I don't seem to be able to (reliably?) write to a floppy - hmm. save file, *. and find it's nto there. Hmm. Tried formatting and it's verifying bad. So some more debug todo.
(Also, hth did I type so much on a Model B keyboard, the keys are HARD)
@tomkalei@machteburch.social2026-08-19 13:31:48
RE: #Dune. 🏜️
In nur knapp 2h alles was ihr über den DOS-Klassiker von 1992 wissen müsst. :blobcatsip:
Und hört euch unbedingt auch die anderen Folgen von @… an, z.B. Folge 49 über den verschollenen 16-Spieler-Modus auf dem GameBoy!
#retrogaming #podcast
@DamonHD@mastodon.social2026-06-06 07:01:38
#today is #RepairCafé ... and we're also on the way to setting up a new branch in a smaller library nearby!
@cdarwin@c.im2026-08-02 20:56:28
Peter Thiel wrote a forward for the Sovereign Individual, by Davidson and Rees-Mogg,
which says that the shift from “mass democracy” to “individual sovereignty” can happen “invisibly”
(and without a shift in public opinion)
via tax-free zones and free ports
And that the power of nation states will eventually splinter into fragments
#PeterThiel
@underdarkGIS@fosstodon.org2026-07-26 19:11:16
RE: #renmakesmusic
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2026-05-24 15:42:26
Content warning: Minor spoilers for "A Psalm for the Wild-Built"
Just finished "A Psalm for the Wild-Built" by Becky Chambers. Overall it's good but I also have some Thoughts.
First, it was very pleasant to finally read some non-trite utopian solarpunk after having read stuff like Octavia Butler recently. Both hope and despair can be poisonous on their own IMO, so getting some balance in is nice. It's definitely a very valuable thing to be able to lay out an actually desirable and in many ways imaginable future given our grim present. Chambers is no LeGuin though. I'll probably be reading more of her work and maybe she fleshes out these ideas elsewhere, but at least in this book there is no focus on either how the transition to a better society could happen nor on how the better society holds up in the face of adverse events and inclinations. Compare LeGuin's "The Dispossessed" or N. K. Jemisin's short story "The Ones Who Stay and Fight" and it feels like there's something important missing from Chambers' portrait of a future society. Of course, maybe the point is to make a cozy book, in which case fine, there's certainly a place for such things, and I can look for deeper inspiration elsewhere.
The second big thought I had was that Chambers' worldview seems not well-informed by certain indigenous perspectives, and this creates some contradictions. For example, (minor spoilers) when Dex enters the wilderness there's a whole bit about understanding humankind's place in nature and how human settlements are what we're used to but they're only a brief interruption of the vast untouched wilderness. Along the same lines, much of the world is intentionally left untouched by humans as a way to keep it pristine and natural. Later however, a character makes the point that humans *are* animals. The indigenous perspective that I appreciate would agree with that, and would further question the value in distinguishing between human influence on ecosystems and influences that others have. More sharply, one might observe that there's a bigger difference between how different kinds of humans relate to and influence their environments than between how less-disruptive humans and various animals do the same: the strip-mine-operator vs. migrant tribesperson impact difference is probably much greater than the migrant tribesperson vs. beaver gap, for example. Rather than talking about limiting human disruption, then, as if all human-environment interactions are disruptive and must be minimized, we could/should be talking about how to create human societies that have beneficial relationships with their environments and acknowledging that we actually have many positive examples of that, both historical and contemporary. Chambers' utopia is a "humans dominate nature but restrain themselves so that their disruptions are minimal and thus nature can thrive" vision, but what I'd even more like to see would be a "humans study old ways and make new ones so that they can interact positively with ecosystems again" vision, including some of "here are the places that sometimes breaks down but also the patterns and institutions that ensure repair of those breakdowns and thus long-term sustainability."
Final big thought: Chambers' utopia is too homogenous for my tastes. Of course it's hard enough and valuable work dreaming up and sharing any utopia and Chambers' transcends triteness in a number of ways, so this criticism is a bit rude. But the single shared religion, lack of mention of conflicts around shared decisions, especially historical society-defining ones, and nagging questions like "what about the people indigenous to the now-uninhabited lands?" and "what about the indigenous peoples who weren't part of the factory-building societies?" leave me wishing for more nuance in this direction.
All in all: a good book, and I'm criticizing out of a place of appreciation, not scorn. I've got there sequel out from the library as well and will probably detour to a few other books but get to it pretty soon.
Sadly I don't remember who, but I got this one because of a recommendation on here, so thanks if you're someone who recommended it!
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon
@eingfoan@infosec.exchange2026-06-27 14:47:46
RE: #renewables
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2026-06-22 15:38:59
The summer is heating up! #Edmonton and #Montreal are flooded by historic rains, Lytton BC is under threat again by wildfire, and Vancouver Island is in a historic drought.
Does Environment Canada have the ability to warn us and track the changes in our climate? The government is cutting ECCC services and capabilities at a time that we need it more than ever.
Here's our petition to tell them to restore Environment Canada!
#e7465! We're hoping for many more before the summer ends so Government can't ignore this issue.
Here’s what we, citizens and residents of Canada, are asking from the #Carney Government:
1. Reverse cuts to Environment and Climate Change Canada that impact weather forecasting, meteorological research and climate science;
2. Restore and maintain Weatheradio and other accessible public alert systems;
3. Protect and expand weather observation and climate monitoring stations across Canada;
4. Ensure adequate staffing and long-term funding for ECCC programs, scientists, meteorologists and technical experts; and
5. Recognize weather forecasting and climate monitoring as essential public safety infrastructure.
The petition ends August 26th in time for the new session in the fall. We have the summer to get it done!
Sources:
Edmonton “Deluge or rain” June 22 2026: #canPoli #CdnPoli #ECCC #RestoreCarneyCuts #RestoreECCC #Weather #ClimateChange #ClimateScience
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-07-17 22:30:14
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #The6MixWithMaryAnneHobbs
re:ni:
🎵 Herbie
#re:ni
https://reni1.bandcamp.com/track/herbie
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2026-08-16 23:32:08
Just finished reading "The Beast Player" by Nahoko Uehashi. I had already watched the anime, but it had been so king I didn't remember all the details. While the anime was great, the book is even better, and it's going to be high on my list of things to recommend to my children when they're old enough to read for fun.
The neurodivergent representation is cool, as is the deep central question of interspecies bonds and the political possibilities and dangers they entail. Uehashi handles the exploration of that question well in my judgment, including appropriate ambiguity without muddying moral clarity. Elin is a truly fantastic protagonist, not without flaws but nevertheless a excellent role model and a very sympathetic figure without being pitiful.
One thing I really love about Uehashi's writing is that she's not shy about using interior narration to tell the reader directly what a variety of characters are feeling, but when she does this she focuses on human contradictions, quirks, and weaknesses that make those characters feel much richer, and that remind the reader of all the ways our weird and sometimes contradictory or inexplicable quirks guide our actions just as much as both logical thought and predictable/expected feelings. None of the characters is an unerring source of wisdom, with every grand principle presented shown to have its weaknesses and biases, and even the wisest characters making mistakes and learning from them.
Overall, a wonderful book, and having also seen the "Seirei no Moribito" anime but not read the books, I'm excited to dig into more of Uehashi's extensive catalog.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2026-06-02 13:13:05
Well, we've finally packaged #Valkey (another #Redis fork) in #Gentoo, along with its #Python bindings.
Not that we wanted to, but #FakeRedis now started requiring it for tests so heavily that it was too much effort to patch it out. Just to be clear, it just requires the Python bindings, because its test suite happily runs against either Redis or Valkey, and literally doesn't support testing against both simultaneously. But to add the bindings, we needed the database to test them against. And since I've added the package too, I've put a lot of effort (and swearing) to test FakeRedis against both servers.
Should you be using Valkey? Well, let's put it like this. You shouldn't be using Redis, because it's enterprise quality shit. Valkey is roughly what happens when you fork enterprise quality shit and have no clue what you're doing. Though you are able to mostly get renaming right (one valkey-py test failed over the server calling itself "Valkey" rather than "Redis").
Disclaimer: I've only looked at the Python bindings. Maybe the maintainers are more knowledgeable with the server itself.
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2026-07-08 16:00:16
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-07-06 05:12:36
@pre@boing.world2026-08-14 08:32:07
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-05-26 15:12:17
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW
Harry Warren, Miles Davis, Red Garland, Paul Chambers & Philly Joe Jones:
🎵 You're My Everything
#HarryWarren #MilesDavis #RedGarland #PaulChambers #PhillyJoeJones
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2026-08-10 17:12:49
Just finished "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young. I'm reading a bunch of juvenile fiction right now in a quest to have some good recommendations for my kids to read in a few years when they're old enough, and this one definitely makes the cut, with deeply-integrated #OwnVoices Diné cultural elements, good (to my reading) handling of complex topics like divorce and depression, and cool magical elements. This is exactly the kind of new generation of kids' fiction I'm looking for that drops the regressive themes present in so much of what I read at that age. For example, I just before this I read Howl's Moving Castle and then The House of Many Ways by Dianna Wynne Jones, and while the first was pretty much great, the sequel has a whole benevolent monarchy thing that's central to the book in a way that weighs down the politics of the book a lot. Unsurprisingly, the indigenous perspective is a refreshing one.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon