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About a year ago I came across the Xenia Plymouth theme that 
@fernfern 🌱 made and have been using it with a slight tweak to add a loading bar since then, until a few days ago when I was like "But what if it was using the summoning circle art from 
@Neotheta instead?" 
Today I finally sat down to switch out the image, and this is the result!
Edit: Inspired by a comment I fiddled with things some more, using the two-step module instead of the previous script. Now it has a spinner instead of the (inaccurate) loading bar, a working password prompt and a couple pre-defined messages for the various Plymouth modes.
The original artwork by Neotheta
Source code:
helpful cli message
FATAL: --help requires a value
✨ 💖💕🌹💐💖 💙💜💖🦋🌺💜🎼 🎶 🎸 Now playing Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness 🔔 Digital CD 44.1 kHz version 🎹 📚 📖 🎻🎻 🎼 🎶 ✨ 💖💕🌹💐💖 💙💜💖🦋
The wren is easily recognised by its small, round, plump shape and its distinctive small chestnut-coloured tail which is almost continuously cocked up.
My drawing is available...
https://theweeowlart.etsy.com/listing/1852556202
#FediGiftShop #ScottishArtist #MastoArt #CreativeToots
#wren #BirdIllustration #Birds #BirdDrawing #BirdArt #BirdArtist #OriginalArt #Drawing #PenAndInk #ColourPencil #MixedMedia #Artwork #TraditionalArtist #ShopIndy #GiftIdeas #ArtShop
呪いか?
Build local networks with decentralised solutions that are #OpenSource #FreeSoftware and based on #OpenStandards not because you want to fight BigCorp, but because you want to help your neighbours. Focus on solutions, not on problems you can't really solve. Build bridges, not walls. Deal?
Heads up: I'm about to start migrating my account to 
@vaurora@mstdn.socialValerie Aurora 🇺🇦 as part of my ongoing project to get off US-hosted/owned infrastructure.
If you follow me on this account, you should be migrated automatically... but last time there were a few dozen people who got left behind, so you might want to double check in a few days!
Hello! I'm Valerie Aurora, systems software consultant and cat appreciator. I'm an American who immigrated to Amsterdam in 2023.
I'm migrating to mstdn.social from 
@vaurora@wandering.shopValerie Aurora as part of my project to move all my online presence off US-hosted or owned infrastructure.
Follow me for tech stuff, computer jokes, internet resiliency, and the unfortunate intersection of tech and geopolitics.
Thriendly tip: You can add as many as 150 profiles and 5 topics to a custom feed, and create up to 128 feeds 👀
Pinned.
For reasons.
Just published: https://medium.com/@jwnsquared/i-see-you-6aa9468ee952
I have a voice. Please help me use it.
뭔가 무성애 스펙트럼도 한가지가 아니니까 대충 콜라로 예시를 들자면 콜라를 마셔도 딱히 달고 시원한건 못느끼겠음 단맛이란걸 못느낌<<이 흔히 무성애라고 했을때 가장 좁은 범위의 의미인거 같지만 사실 저는 뭐 마신다고하면 음 달고 시원하군 하는 편이거든요 근데 굳이 그 삼시세끼 후식까지 콜라를 마실 필요를 못느끼는건데 온세상이 삼시세끼 콜라 안마시면 죽는것마냥 굴고있음 이게 이상하다는거임 난 그냥 언젠가 콜라가 땡길때도 있겠지 아니면 안마시는거고 굳이 기력과 돈을들여 찾지도않고 인 것 뿐인건데 죄다니가시원~한콜라안먹어봐서그래이난리를
The recording of "postmarketOS - what is it and what's new?" has been released!
Not in the video: three very nice people in the front immediately holding up their laptops as somebody in the audience asks about postmarketOS on other devices than phones 😀
Check out the other talks from the FOSS on Mobile Devices room too. I saw most of them and they were quite interesting!
Hi, I'm Falko. Your friendly intergalactic wild hog.
I moved not too long ago to Värmland and to accommodate both old and new contacts, I'll write mostly in English but will boost in all languages.
A majestic FLOOF appears! 
Which?
hello, friends: a quick guide to what you can expect from me here in the Fediverse
+ inspirational quotes, positive affirmations
+ boosted #educational content
+ pics of #cats and cuteness
+ feel good things, places
+ music I like e.g. #bonkwave
Thank you, I love you xoxo
#introductions #aboutme
Hello! Since I'm new to this instance, I'll do an introduction.
I've been on Mastodon generally since November 2022, looking for various types of community. Out of stubbornness, I usually try to keep my posts under 500 characters.
Among my more radical opinions:
- fascism is bad and human rights are good,
- climate change and public health are existential problems,
- a government that does not take care of those who need help is a failure.
I boost a lot - especially re: injustice, healing, animals, silliness and Star Trek - so please feel free to mute my boosts.
I try to use CWs for stuff that's more depressing / gloomy. I don't boost anything without AltText. I am excited to have EIGHT OPTIONS for polls.
Recently someone was surprised that Mia Rose Winter is my actual, true name
Yes, I'm realnaming, firstname lastname
To be fair, all of my name has been chosen by me and had to be fought for
This beautiful name that looks like the one of an artist is of my making, and these days also my legal one
Invite your community to join you on Surf!
We’re testing referral codes and if you’d like to get others creating feeds (maybe for a shared interest), just tell them to enter referral code Surf+YourHandle in the waitlist form. For example, our code would be Surf+Surf.
They can enter your code here: https://waitlist.surf.social/
See you out there. 🌊🌊🌊
Ten years ago, I released BuildSettingExtractor.
To celebrate a decade of the utility that gives your build settings an out-of-project-file experience, here’s a post about its origin story, design goals, and my favorite feature.
https://jamesdempsey.net/2025/01/31/ten-years-of-buildsettingextractor.html
ich bin nicht bereit aufzugeben
Here's is what the new Treasury Secretary said:
We’re going to stand this thing up within the next 12 months. We’re going to monetize the asset side of the U.S. balance sheet for the American people. There’ll be a combination of liquid assets, assets that we have in this country as we work to bring them out for the American people.
People have been focusing on the fund. "Why do we need it," "...we don't have savings to fund it" etc.
People are misunderstanding what Bessent said. I spent years "monetize{ing} the asset side" of corporate balance sheets. The phrase means selling stuff in order to turn it into cash. Over many years I arranged the sale of car leases, aircraft engines, tax benefits, servicing rights to assets, etc. There is an industry out there that has "monetized" the residual values of computers, intellectual property, David Bowie's music catalog, etc..
The important thing is not the sovereign wealth fund, the important thing is what they are likely to sell, which they haven't mentioned.
Remember kiddos, no one has ever earned a billion dollars. No one deserves a billion dollars.
No one. Ever.
Be the hermit you don't want to see in the world.
I'm just a boy, standing in front of some source code, asking it to compile.
Hello EU people:
There is an EU citizen petition to ban the use of "conversion therapy" on LGBTQ+ folks (i.e., trying to de-LGBTQ us— a process often described as "torture"). If you're interested, you can sign it here:
https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home
Please especially take note if you are a national of Spain, Slovenia, Belgium, or the Netherlands; the petition needs about 5x as many votes as it has now, but also needs to hit a threshold in four additional countries, and those are the four closest.
Let me celebrate 200 follows on #Mastodon — a humble milestone — by welcoming newcomers and exiles (X-iles?) to this humble platform.
Neither on #Twitter, nor on here have I told real-world acquaintances about my account. Partly as an experiment, partly out of shame, and partly because I wanted to complain about things in anonymity.😊
So it’s a sort of ironic milestone for me. I know 200 is an embarrassment in the realm of serious online clout. But I’m celebrating exactly that. I did it my way.
Bonjour! C'est sous un froid glacial que Polytechnique débute sa présence dans Mastodon. Toutefois, nos publications seront des plus chaleureuses!
Abonnez-vous à notre compte afin de suivre nos activités dans le domaine de l'enseignement et de la recherche en ingénierie.
I think most SDF members are capable of doing this if they have bandwidth and room.
ArchiveTeam Warrior - Archiveteam
#Archiving #InternetArchive
https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveTeam_Warrior
Open Science and Open Source Only With Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility.
Inclusion is essential to science, and science is only worthwhile if it lifts everyone up together.
https://ropensci.org/blog/2025/02/05/no-science-without-deia/
#OpenScience #OpenSource #OSS
PSA to #rustlang and #linux developers: there is a long-standing bug in the system allocator (glibc malloc) which causes it to hoard large sbrk buffers in arenas. By default, it uses heuristics to dynamically increase the mmap threshold—the point where it switches from using sbrk to mmap. In some scenarios, these larger buffers are never trimmed, causing a memory "leak". Some #libcosmic apps were affected, causing as much as 10-30x memory usage. To fix, see the PR below:
You should remember every single political commentator that told you that Trump couldn't be worse for Gaza than Biden. Whenever you hear from them in the future, remember how absolutely ghoulishly, cartoonishly wrong they were, how they failed so completely to have an accurate political assessment.
Da isser! – Mein, dein, unser Event-/Terminkalender im Fediverse:
→ https://calndr.de
auch verfolgbar unter 
@relaycalndr.de
#gancio #fediverse #events #calendar #kunst #kultur #musik #demo
For anyone who's wondering: we're in the Swedish-Chef-chicken-egg-bomb era of US foreign policy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM_gO2zReRs
#USPolitics #Policy #International #Fail #Muppets 
@GIFS_of_PuppetsMuppet GIF of the Day
I wrote an LLM-powered small CLI program that summarizes web pages. It's called Yoyak.
It occurs to me that my most recent solution to the correlation of the Bell test has a weakness. In particular, it requires an assumption about "statistical equivalence" of circumstances that I would rather not make.
The Tumblr version seems correct but unclear that "horizontal" and "vertical" represent arbitrary directions.
Note nothing has changed. For instance, if you use probability theory to predict the detections of a Bell test, you get the same result as QM.
Heeey! I'm so happy to finally take a step into this world—I'm very excited! ✨
I work as a musician and sound artist in experimental electronic music, and I love exploring different kinds of voices—the human, the cybernetic, the environmental, the imaginary, and so on. I find it very inspiring to delve into archival material and the many stories connected to human memory.
1/3
WTF
-The Sensitives-
Concert Picture
Bernau, 2023
Palle ( Vocals / Bass Guitarist)
Picture taken by me © arnica montana
#thesensitives #bass #punk #photography #concert #punkfoto #MusicWomenWednesday
ふぅ…
fellow miners & crafters, I took the time to write down all my minecraft related bookmarks that I've been using over the years.
from websites where you can download resourcepacks, datapacks, and mods - all the way to tools with which you can generate maps, commands, block-palettes and more!
make sure to check out the respective project's linked patreon & ko-fi sites if you have some money to spare to keep those tools alive 
Aus gegebenem Anlass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnSOrzMdfWg
quem não tá em desespero é pq ainda não entendeu a situação
Friends! We are happy to announce that #nttw9 conference will be held October 15-17 at @NLIreland! 😍
More info and registration link here: https://mediaarea.net/NoTimeToWait9
¿Usas una DNS segura en tus equipos / dispositivos?
Si tu respuesta es "no lo sé" tengo malas noticias para tu privacidad.
"¿Qué son las filtraciones de DNS?
Un servidor DNS es el primer punto de contacto del navegador al intentar acceder a información a través de Internet. Este es el caso de todas las URL que visita, los archivos que descarga y las imágenes que se cargan en un sitio web, incluidos los anuncios.
Por lo tanto, el servidor DNS conoce las páginas que visita y los recursos que busca y, como resultado, se filtra continuamente información sobre su actividad a su proveedor de servidores DNS."
Por defecto tu proveedor DNS va a ser tu operador de linea e internet (Movistar, Vodafone, Jazztel, etc...) o incluso, es posible que Google. Es decir, que ellos saben a qué accedes, cuando, cuanto y con qué frecuencia.
Pero tranqui, puedes chequearlo y solucionar este problema de forma facil aquí:
En esta web puedes ver si tienes "Fugas de DNS" y en tal caso te explican como resolverlas (usando en tus equipos y dispositivos un servicio de DNS cifrado, mullvad lo ofrece de forma gratuita y basada en la UE)
Warum der Waffenstillstand in Gaza mehr nicht sein kann
https://www.untergrund-blättle.ch/politik/ausland/palaestina-das-aufatmen-der-gefolterten-warum-der-waffenstillstand-in-gaza-mehr-nicht-sein-kann-008895.html
I'm looking for a job.
Me:
- 12 years of professional experience as a polyglot backend and infra dev
- Languages: Ruby, Java, Scala, Golang, Haskell
- Infra: AWS, GCP, Hetzner, terraform, K8s, docker, Nix
- Also: Postgres, MySQL, Cassandra, ES, Redis, RabbitMQ, Concourse
- Very open to learn new things
- Strong exp with CI, CD, TDD, XP
- Berlin, DE
Job:
- Tech focused
- Nice people
- No surveillance/LLMs/blockchains
- 100k €/year, less for a coop
- 4 days/week
Charlie Root 
