*adds game physics to ur modular synth*

"'이재명이 이준석에게 맨스플레인 시작함'이라는데" "이준석이 여자였어?" "이준석은 보이라서?"

It's the last week to get your early bird ticket for PyCon Finland for only 80 €! After 31st May 2025, they go up to 100 €.

Get your ticket today from http://fi.pycon.org

#PyConFI #PyCon #Finland #Python

It's the last week to get your early bird ticket for PyCon Finland for only 80 €! After 31st May 2025, they go up to 100 €.

Get your ticket today from http://fi.pycon.org

#PyConFI #PyCon #Finland #Python

Learning Physics with functional programming and Haskell. ~ Esteban Marín. https://dev.to/estebanmarin/learning-physics-with-functional-programming-and-haskell-l1h #Haskell #FunctionalProgramming #Physics

A friend of mine making a pertinent point at Parkrun today.

#trans #lgbtq #politics #bigotry #fascism #capitalism #lgbtqia #queer

New ideas are a bit like DNA mutations. Recombinations of fundamental blocks without any assurance that they will amount to something.

Most will simply not lead to a functioning organism: they are incomplete, internally inconsistent, misconstrued.

But even the few that do, they simply become seeds.

Whether they actually germinate and grow depends on random circumstances such as time and location.

In other words, the "external environment"

#innovation
#digitaltransformation

1/N

Ask HN: Go deep into AI/LLMs or just use them as tools?

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44079303

The 🐑 #Shepherd 1.0.5 is out, with fewer 🐛 and coming straight from its new 🏡!
https://gnu.org/software/shepherd/news/2025/05/herding-to-codeberg/

If your industry (AI) can only exist by ripping the work of others without credit, then it shouldn't exist.

The big companies are just steamrolling over the rights of everyone because they're getting away with it. Governments have been cowardly to act on this.

👀 Quite an aesthetic photo of #PhanpySocial https://mastodon.social/@iPhoneBlog_Link/114561768469905253

Direct link: https://www.iphoneblog.de/2025/05/24/phanpy-mastodon-im-web/

feet hort

Admin of todon.nl suggests, and rightly so, that the default/flagship Mastodon instance (isn’t decentralisation great?) be moved to a more neutral jurisdiction than Germany:

“Herewith the urgent request to move the Mastodon server presented to new users as the default (mastodon.social) to a more neutral jurisdiction (e.g. Switzerland). An alternative is to set up a new Mastodon server in a more neutral jurisdiction, which can then serve as a new flagship server.

The trigger for this is the regular negative moderation of people who speak out against the largest and bloodiest genocide of our time, the one in Palestine. In particular they use (or abuse, how you want to look at it) of a German law that seeks to counter so-called Holocaust reversal. With hiding behind this law, the moderators of mastodon.social (and especially its owner) are also unwittingly sitting in the chair of the (German) judge.

Apart from the fact that one local law should not affect the entire Mastodon project, the question is whether this law and the concept of Holocaust reversal are legally tenable in an international context.”

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions/34747

Mastodon mod closes the ticket after stating “There is no current plan to make changes to the Mastodon instances operated by Mastodon gGmbH. People are free to choose any Mastodon server when signing up for the platform.”

And this (see screenshot) is what that “choice” looks like.

This decentralisation anti-pattern – along with the fact that they didn’t close registrations after hitting a certain size to create a social precedent and allow distribution to other servers (as I advised Eugen to do back in the day) – is why there is a flagship instance to begin with when it’s an absolute contradiction of terms in a system that purports to be decentralised.

#fediverse #mastoson #mastodonSocial #todonNL #Germany #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza

Some people drop beats.
Some people drop names.
I `sudo rm -rf /$empty_var/*`

If you are married or in a long term relationship living with someone for years how did you meet your partner?

(Pick whatever fits best)
(Not everyone needs or wants this kind of relationship but I'm curious about how those who did and found it paired up.)

The metre originated in the French Revolution

Link: https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-05-20/metre-treaty-anniversary-metric-system-measurement-metrology/105302024
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44073867

Struggling to get the SBS app on my TV to just play the goddamn news and after watching the spinning wheel of death for minutes, turning it off and on again, no really off, reconnecting the goddamn Bluetooth for the umpteenth time, and remembering fondly the days when you just had to adjust the aerial to find the sweet spot where the picture wouldn't roll.

Hey! This afternoon, I'm giving two introductory workshops on #NixOS and #RustLang at @hsgHackerspace.Gent, and I'll do it again next Saturday at @tdose :)

today is another rendition of @tbernardTobias Bernard 's wonderful #BoilingTheOcean hackathon in #Berlin ! (and i'm finally back in town at the same time it's happening)

there will be a lot of local-first peer to peer related work, systemd/mkosi topics, and hopefully some #postmarketOS stuff too

i'll be hacking on pmbootstrap unshare support (removing the need for root access to use pmb), and maybe looking into pmb/mkosi integration (building on the mkosi support for pmOS that @craftyguyClayton has been working on the last few days)

totally forgot to post about this before but if you're in town and wanna stop by do come along, details are here

https://pad.gnome.org/enwydsh2RO2Dv4oOXBz4CQ

Kaleidoscopico https://lobste.rs/s/2v5n2d #art
https://www.linusakesson.net/scene/kaleidoscopico/index.php

Eruption on Mount Etna (Sicily) giving the illusion of a Phoenix in the sky.

#Photography

I think there's a fun little pipeline exclusive to enthusiasts of the web platform:

- I want my personal website to be way simpler
- ugh, why aren't HTML includes a thing?
- oh right, they could be render blocking or reflow-triggering or circular
- I should write my own simple build step
- *designs own static site generator*

Admin of todon.nl suggests, and rightly so, that the default/flagship Mastodon instance (isn’t decentralisation great?) be moved to a more neutral jurisdiction than Germany:

“Herewith the urgent request to move the Mastodon server presented to new users as the default (mastodon.social) to a more neutral jurisdiction (e.g. Switzerland). An alternative is to set up a new Mastodon server in a more neutral jurisdiction, which can then serve as a new flagship server.

The trigger for this is the regular negative moderation of people who speak out against the largest and bloodiest genocide of our time, the one in Palestine. In particular they use (or abuse, how you want to look at it) of a German law that seeks to counter so-called Holocaust reversal. With hiding behind this law, the moderators of mastodon.social (and especially its owner) are also unwittingly sitting in the chair of the (German) judge.

Apart from the fact that one local law should not affect the entire Mastodon project, the question is whether this law and the concept of Holocaust reversal are legally tenable in an international context.”

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions/34747

Mastodon mod closes the ticket after stating “There is no current plan to make changes to the Mastodon instances operated by Mastodon gGmbH. People are free to choose any Mastodon server when signing up for the platform.”

And this (see screenshot) is what that “choice” looks like.

This decentralisation anti-pattern – along with the fact that they didn’t close registrations after hitting a certain size to create a social precedent and allow distribution to other servers (as I advised Eugen to do back in the day) – is why there is a flagship instance to begin with when it’s an absolute contradiction of terms in a system that purports to be decentralised.

#fediverse #mastoson #mastodonSocial #todonNL #Germany #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza

rqlite turns 10: Observations from a decade building Distributed Systems https://lobste.rs/s/tvi48r #databases #distributed
https://philipotoole.com/rqlite-turns-10-lessons-from-a-decade-of-building-distributed-systems/

slowly convincing my friends that sleeping in a cage is comfortable actually

today is another rendition of @tbernardTobias Bernard 's wonderful #BoilingTheOcean hackathon in #Berlin ! (and i'm finally back in town at the same time it's happening)

there will be a lot of local-first peer to peer related work, systemd/mkosi topics, and hopefully some #postmarketOS stuff too

i'll be hacking on pmbootstrap unshare support (removing the need for root access to use pmb), and maybe looking into pmb/mkosi integration (building on the mkosi support for pmOS that @craftyguyClayton has been working on the last few days)

totally forgot to post about this before but if you're in town and wanna stop by do come along, details are here

https://pad.gnome.org/enwydsh2RO2Dv4oOXBz4CQ

Friendly reminder

The world of Japan's PC-98 computer

Link: https://strangecomforts.com/the-strange-world-of-japans-pc-98-computer/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44076501

Easy way to mark all emails in a Maildir as read:
find . -name '*,' -exec rename 's/$/S/' {} \;

* requires p5-File-Rename

the fact that facet PR #666 is about cyclic types is poetic, to me: https://github.com/facet-rs/facet/pull/666

SDF Vintage Systems is comprised of 26 hardware, hybrid and simulated historical operating systems and computers accessible via the INTERNET.

You can support our efforts in preservation and access at https://icm.museum/join.html

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #community #retrogaming

Bluebells on the Fell of Barhullion, Galloway.
#Scotland #Galloway

Thank you Red Hat for being a Gold #sponsor of #GUADEC2025! 🌟

Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver reliable and high-performing Linux, hybrid cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies.

Visit their website to know more: https://www.redhat.com

Thank you @EndlessAccess for being a Diamond #sponsor of #GUADEC2025! 💎

Endless believes that youth should be able to shape their technology rather than be shaped by it. They harness the power of games to engage youth in learning 21st-century skills to build economic mobility and partner with nonprofits to solve the barriers of device and internet access.

Visit their website to know more: https://www.endlessos.org/

jfc I'm writing a build system again

@dbDavid Bushell 🐝 owning URLs is cool and self hosting is cool but what would be really cool is more layers of accessible, approachable, sustainable, shared infrastructure/commons. The lower layers of the internet are a miracle of collaboration but the upper layers are so toxic the only “solution” is to reject every dependency and DIY as a rugged individualist yeoman farmer. Another world of dependable community/collaboration is possible but… not like Glitch I guess.

In the Everlasting search for clients and servers Federated, detached from corporate underlords, connected to the masses I learned about the following client server duo

Client: Delta Chat
Servers: Chat Mail servers

One thing that jumps immediately into attention, is the fact that when you download the client, select a server, you get a QR code

When you've configured your client, you will immediately notice that you do not need to enter a password for your client. The system is passwordless by default.

You do not need to enter a multi-factor authentication code it doesn't need it.

What you need to do is be careful with, is who you share your link with. Go and play with it, see if it something for you

https://delta.chat/en/

#Federated #FediVerse #OpenSource #POSIX #Chat #Mail #Secure #encryption #programming #underlords

AI is a horrible tool in software development.

A team leader explains the problems in this post on Reddit:

"AI Slop PR's are burning me and my team out hard"

https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/s/MeNimUXpsy

Show HN: I built a more productive way to manage AI chats

Link: https://contextch.at
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44076449

"root for your friends?" I don't think so. sudoers maybe... and even then. https://josephthacker.com/personal/2025/05/13/root-for-your-friends.html

Let's take a look at the NixOS 25.05 release notes. 👀

Starting on the NixOS side of things: nixos-rebuild-ng, a full rewrite of nixos-rebuild in Python, is available for testing. You can enable it by setting system.rebuild.enableNg in your configuration (to replace the old nixos-rebuild), or by adding nixos-rebuild-ng to your environment.systemPackages (for side-by-side installation). It is expected that the next major version of NixOS (25.11) will ship with nixos-rebuild-ng by default.

#NixOS