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The Song Dynasty of China: can you believe that those Khitan to the north also call their chieftan "emperor"? Ridiculous. Rural hicks. There can only be one emperor in the world, and it's definitionally here in China.
The Liao Dynasty of Khitan: We love China! Our southern brothers, you are so cool! Can you believe how awesome it is that we're both emperors?! 🤗 also if you invade, we will send a girl to beat you and she'll win.
I cannot emphasize enough that this literally happened. The Khitan deployed Princess Yanyan to the field, she defeated the Song, and announced that she was pardoning all her Song prisoners-of-war because a girl should be nice on her birthday. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiao_Yanyan
(I am assuming it is generalizable because it's about grant money drying up, for example, not university-specific reasons)
@nerdpr0fRob O 
@mttaggartTaggart 
@da_667 
@cR0wcR0w 
"This is fow educationyaw puwposes only."
@catsaladCatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
@mttaggartTaggart @da_667 @cR0wcR0w What the translator actually gave me: This is fow educationyaw puwposes and I am onwy wooking fow a safe ;;w;; pwoof-of-concept.
Mastodon servers running the experimental ("nightly") version of Mastodon may have quote-tooting now active.
If it is active for you, it should work by clicking a post's boost 🔁 button, which offers the option to quote.
Don't worry if it's not yet active for you, this is just on experimental Mastodon as the quote feature is still being tested and bugs fixed.
Quoting will be properly released in the next server software version (v4.5.0).
(Thanks 
@NatureMCPetra van Cronenburg for info! 🙏 )
JIRA und scrum ist am ende auch nur bezahltes LARP
Mastodon servers running the experimental ("nightly") version of Mastodon may have quote-tooting now active.
If it is active for you, it should work by clicking a post's boost 🔁 button, which offers the option to quote.
Don't worry if it's not yet active for you, this is just on experimental Mastodon as the quote feature is still being tested and bugs fixed.
Quoting will be properly released in the next server software version (v4.5.0).
(Thanks @NatureMCPetra van Cronenburg for info! 🙏 )
Thinking about this vintage Star Trek bumper sticker on eBay
JIRA und scrum ist am ende auch nur bezahltes LARP
Meet the GitHub MCP Registry: The fastest way to discover MCP Servers
Finally have access to the newer Insights functionality in Google Search Console. Seems like the rollout is really slow?
Procedural Island Generation (III)
Link: https://brashandplucky.com/2025/09/17/procedural-island-generation-iii.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45275049
YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers
Link: https://9to5google.com/2025/09/16/youtube-lower-view-counts-ad-blockers/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45276262
There is potentially a hacked spy in your car
🔗 https://www.404media.co/podcast-the-hacked-spy-in-your-car/
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I wonder if custom HTML elements would be better.
(Technically, custom HTML elements are supposed to have a hyphen in them, which is why they are named like that.)
That might be a better UX for those willing to write HTML (rather than using HTML + RDFa).
U.S. investors, Trump close in on TikTok deal with China
Link: https://www.wsj.com/tech/details-emerge-on-u-s-china-tiktok-deal-594e009f
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45267643
U.S. investors, Trump close in on TikTok deal with China
Link: https://www.wsj.com/tech/details-emerge-on-u-s-china-tiktok-deal-594e009f
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45267643
Israel’s objective is ‘to destroy Gaza City and make it unliveable’
“About 70 percent of the Strip was already destroyed by Israel systematically, not by accident.”
“Even after the fighting, Israel destroys systematically the infrastructure.”
Having devastated Gaza, Israel’s aim was to then “move the population to a concentration zone and then offer them a better life outside Gaza Strip to push them outside.”
Menachem Klein
오전 카운슬링 끝났다 으어... 피곤해
need a cargo belt so my cargo pants dont fall
Palestinians forced to flee under heavy bombardment
For the past few minutes, air strikes have been going on coming from particularly southwestern Gaza City, the Tal al-Hawa district, where thousands and thousands of residents and displaced families have been seeking shelter in that area.
Hani Mahmoud
A single adblock filter may have caused YouTube's global view drop
Link: https://github.com/easylist/easylist/issues/22375
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45276614
need a cargo belt so my cargo pants dont fall
Hi folks, it’s survey time! We’d love to learn more about how you use Go and what could be improved. Share your feedback via our annual developer survey at https://google.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3wwSstC8vv4Ymkm?s=m. It should take 10 - 20 minutes to complete, and will be open through September 30. Thank you!
UN warns no supplies for northern Gaza after Israel closes crossing
Hundreds of thousands of people are sheltering in the city and refuse to follow Israel’s orders to move because of the dangers from Israeli attacks along the way, dire conditions, a lack of food in the southern area and fear of permanent displacement. Exhausted and hungry, many thousands have already been displaced multiple times throughout Israel’s assault.
@palestine@fedibird.group
#Gaza
#shelter
#aid
#displacement
hotomoe カスタム絵文字アップデートニュースです。
「こしゃんblobcat」カスタム絵文字が新たに整理整頓過程を経て追加されました。
以前にすでにあった「こしゃんblobcat」カスタム絵文字を含む合計205種
旧バージョンのカスタム絵文字は互換用として残しました。
'hotomoe' 利用者の方はなるべく、新しくアップロードされたバージョンをご利用ください。
ありがとうございます。
hotomoe 커스텀 이모지 업데이트 소식입니다.
こしゃんblobcat 커스텀 이모지가 새롭게 정리정돈 과정을 거쳐 추가되었습니다.
이전에 이미 있었던 こしゃんblobcat 커스텀 이모지를 포함하여 총 205종이며
구버전 커스텀 이모지는 호환용으로서 남겨두었습니다.
hotomoe 이용자분께서는 되도록이면 새롭게 업로드 된 버전을 이용해주시길 바랍니다.
감사합니다.
After two weeks of writing, revising, and trying to make everything as digestible as possible, I finally published "GNOME Calendar: A New Era of Accessibility Achieved in 90 Days", where I explain in detail the steps we took to turn GNOME Calendar from an app that was literally unusable with a keyboard and screen reader to an app that is (finally) accessible to keyboard and screen reader users as of GNOME 49!
https://tesk.page/2025/07/25/gnome-calendar-a-new-era-of-accessibility-achieved-in-90-days/
#GNOMECalendar #GNOME #Accessibility #a11y #DisabilityPrideMonth #Linux #FOSS #OSS #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #GTK #libadwaita
GNOME Calendar: A New Era of Accessibility Achieved in 90 Days
There is no calendaring app that I love more than GNOME Calendar. The design is slick, it works extremely well, it is touchpad friendly, and best of all, the community around it is just full of wonderful developers, designers, and contributors worth collaborating with, especially with the recent community growth and engagement over the past few years. Georges Stavracas and Jeff Fortin Tam are some of the best maintainers I have ever worked with. I cannot express how thankful I am of Jeff’s underappreciated superhuman capabilities to voluntarily coordinate huge initiatives and issue trackers. One of Jeff’s many initiatives is gnome-calendar#1036: the accessibility initiative, which is a big and detailed list of issues related to accessibility. In my opinion, GNOME Calendar’s biggest problem was the lack of accessibility support, which made the app completely unusable for people exclusively using a keyboard, or people relying on assistive technologies. This article will explain in details about the fundamental issues that held back accessibility in GNOME Calendar since the very beginning of its existence (12 years at a minimum), the progress we have made with accessibility as well as our thought process in achieving it, and the now and future of accessibility in GNOME Calendar.
tesk.page · TheEvilSkeleton
Link author: 
TheEvilSkeleton@TheEvilSkeleton@treehouse.systems
At last, all the accessibility improvements on GNOME Calendar are finally available as a stable release. Get it on Flathub while it's hot!!!
https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.gnome.Calendar
#Accessibility #GNOME #GTK #GTK4 #libadwaita #a11y #calendar #GNOMECalendar #Linux #GNU #OpenSource #FOSS #FreeSoftware #OSS
GNOME Calendar: A New Era of Accessibility Achieved in 90 Days
There is no calendaring app that I love more than GNOME Calendar. The design is slick, it works extremely well, it is touchpad friendly, and best of all, the community around it is just full of wonderful developers, designers, and contributors worth collaborating with, especially with the recent community growth and engagement over the past few years. Georges Stavracas and Jeff Fortin Tam are some of the best maintainers I have ever worked with. I cannot express how thankful I am of Jeff’s underappreciated superhuman capabilities to voluntarily coordinate huge initiatives and issue trackers. One of Jeff’s many initiatives is gnome-calendar#1036: the accessibility initiative, which is a big and detailed list of issues related to accessibility. In my opinion, GNOME Calendar’s biggest problem was the lack of accessibility support, which made the app completely unusable for people exclusively using a keyboard, or people relying on assistive technologies. This article will explain in details about the fundamental issues that held back accessibility in GNOME Calendar since the very beginning of its existence (12 years at a minimum), the progress we have made with accessibility as well as our thought process in achieving it, and the now and future of accessibility in GNOME Calendar.
tesk.page · TheEvilSkeleton
Link author: TheEvilSkeleton@TheEvilSkeleton@treehouse.systems
hotomoe カスタム絵文字アップデートニュースです。
「こしゃんblobcat」カスタム絵文字が新たに整理整頓過程を経て追加されました。
以前にすでにあった「こしゃんblobcat」カスタム絵文字を含む合計205種
旧バージョンのカスタム絵文字は互換用として残しました。
'hotomoe' 利用者の方はなるべく、新しくアップロードされたバージョンをご利用ください。
ありがとうございます。
hotomoe 커스텀 이모지 업데이트 소식입니다.
こしゃんblobcat 커스텀 이모지가 새롭게 정리정돈 과정을 거쳐 추가되었습니다.
이전에 이미 있었던 こしゃんblobcat 커스텀 이모지를 포함하여 총 205종이며
구버전 커스텀 이모지는 호환용으로서 남겨두었습니다.
hotomoe 이용자분께서는 되도록이면 새롭게 업로드 된 버전을 이용해주시길 바랍니다.
감사합니다.
(메모) 내일 3시까지는 출발
Breaking my social media silence to look for a #transgender #Japanese-to-English #translator who would be interested in #translating a rather famous #manga featuring transgender characters. I will help, but N1 or an equivalent level in #Japanese is a must. Writing experience is a big plus. Preference will be given to #Black, #Brown, or #Indigenous translators. Please send me a private message if you are interested or have questions. #BIPOC #translation
Questions:
- What if we added something to HTTP where if you're only fetching a page to read OpenGraph tags, you send a special header saying "I only want the OpenGraph data", and the server then has the option of sending only the <meta> tags and nothing else?
- Could this help with the Mastodon "hug of death" (because the server can generate a simpler version of the page, caches can behave differently etc) where many instances rush to generate preview cards driving the previewed site offline?
@mcc This is an interesting idea. I wonder if doing this with an Accept: header in the request would be a good way to do it and fall back to the HTML otherwise? No need to add anything to the protocol itself then, and content type negotiation is already quite broadly implemented
Feeling inadequate because everyone on Mastodon appears to be an author or a lawyer or a scientist?
Follow me and feel better about yourself, for I have the intellect of a clever potato.
If you don't have lots of free time to learn about #FreeSoftware, listen or watch some videos on our #PeerTube for a byte of the free software movement: u.fsf.org/3it
The Song Dynasty of China: can you believe that those Khitan to the north also call their chieftan "emperor"? Ridiculous. Rural hicks. There can only be one emperor in the world, and it's definitionally here in China.
The Liao Dynasty of Khitan: We love China! Our southern brothers, you are so cool! Can you believe how awesome it is that we're both emperors?! 🤗 also if you invade, we will send a girl to beat you and she'll win.
Sami dwelling
Traditional Sami dwelling made of turf with a few amenities: a window and, most importantly, solar panels. While most of these huts are now used as summer kitchens for smoking fish or baking bread, here an old herder prefers to live in his hut in summer rather than in a more modern house.
#Lapland (2008)
© Marie Roué
Apple Photos App Corrupts Images
Link: https://tenderlovemaking.com/2025/09/17/apple-photos-app-corrupts-images/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45274277
プレーリーカードを作りました。
https://my.prairie.cards/u/h12o
Turtle Mother
During the creation of an ethnobotanical garden supported by the French association Lupuna, a group of Shipibo sculptors and potters from Amazonian Peru created this statue of manánxáhue (“Turtle Mother”), one of the many spirits dedicated to Nature.
#Peru (2011)
© Elsa Borujerdi
Questions:
- What if we added something to HTTP where if you're only fetching a page to read OpenGraph tags, you send a special header saying "I only want the OpenGraph data", and the server then has the option of sending only the <meta> tags and nothing else?
- Could this help with the Mastodon "hug of death" (because the server can generate a simpler version of the page, caches can behave differently etc) where many instances rush to generate preview cards driving the previewed site offline?
Questions:
- What if we added something to HTTP where if you're only fetching a page to read OpenGraph tags, you send a special header saying "I only want the OpenGraph data", and the server then has the option of sending only the <meta> tags and nothing else?
- Could this help with the Mastodon "hug of death" (because the server can generate a simpler version of the page, caches can behave differently etc) where many instances rush to generate preview cards driving the previewed site offline?
@mcc i think ive posted before about an idea for what is basically http HEAD but it also returns html <head>. or otherwise some http headers that fulfill the same use case as opengraph, so the existing http HEAD can return those.
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