One for Bookstodon:
Stephen King's It starts with this:
"The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years – if it ever did end – began, so far as I know or can tell..."
My question is, who is the narrator? The "I"? It's been a couple of years since I read the book and I've only read it once, so maybe it says and I've forgotten.
Is it Mike? Or King sort of doing a Tolkien? Or something else?
I'm fine with spoilers obviously but probably best content warn them for other people.
@bookstodonbookstodon group

What is infinity, and why it's not trivial to show that 0.9999... is equal to 1:

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/09999-1

@JessTheUnstillJess👾 yeah I don't really link mine from the resume because there's a lot of spaghetti in there hahah

Loom (DOS EGA)

@glyph

🔘 Maybe Later

#SilentSunday

My friend @blenderdumbass@mastodon.onlineBlender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud ) is implementing ActivityPub for his blog platform and running into weird issues - Lemmy/Misskey can find his account (@blenderdumbass@blenderdumbass.org) but Mastodon can't, even though ActivityPub requests are hitting his server.
He wrote up the full technical journey with all the RSA signature headaches: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/please_help_me_with_activity_pub
Anyone with ActivityPub experience who could take a look? Code is here: https://codeberg.org/blenderdumbass/BDServer/src/branch/main/modules/ActivityPub.py
#ActivityPub #Fediverse #WebDev #Python
❤️

#Breaking Bisan is talking on a live stream with the Madleen Crew!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owkHeIEzACQ

#Bisan #Madleen #FreeGaza #FreePalestine

Added some more glow

Agile is dead. We killed it on purpose.

https://blog.robertroskam.com/p/agile-is-not-scrum-20f89dbdff17

Part of living under capitalism is the fact that any given thing you love could go away at any moment for arbitrary reasons of inter-/intra-corporate politics https://mastodon.me.uk/@Giselle/114647223315094774

おさけのんでからねちゃお

Starting to see job listings that specifically ask not to send them ChatGPT / Copilot / AI slop lmao

#연친엉덩이훔치기

#Breaking Bisan is talking on a live stream with the Madleen Crew!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owkHeIEzACQ

#Bisan #Madleen #FreeGaza #FreePalestine

build your exit on the way in

Good morning! just a regular lazy Sunday morning in 2025, time to make coffee and leisurely survey the news to check the essentials, and see if:

- my carton of $2/ea eggs need to be in the trash because they’re going to kill my family
- the air quality is going to be unbreathably bad today because of wildfires
- the air quality is going to be unbreathably bad because of tear gas
- the US is (still?) under martial law

Truly the origins of the public mental health crisis are a mystery

Another Post so I can pin it:

When I post about a topic, there are usually current circumstances or a current event related to it.

I rarely just post about a topic, because it's just on my mind.

A rant/complaint is usually related to something that happened recently.

蜘蛛網絲王國與路燈的交融

自分がいま住んでいる周辺の歴史とか調べていて、このへんが変な方向に行くのいやだなとおもっているんだけど、市議の動向をいろいろチェックしてみて、ある市議が「歴史、文化、自然を大切にする」とウェブに書いていてとたんに典型的な保守くさみがでてきてかつ日本会議とか書いてあったりする。うわぁと思うんだけど、自分が地域の歴史調べるのと同根から来るものなんだとおもう。

a new type of job employment has arrived, thanks to vibe coders 🤣 can you imagine security of such apps?

#ai

Just added a new store to the fediverse mechandise awesome list, Forge & Craft. Get an amazing fediverse t-shirt and check out the rest of their merch, too! Any sales, fedi related or not, support the creators directly.

https://shop.forgeandcraft.co.uk/

#FediMerch

Ask your favorite LLM to give you a random number between 1 and 25. It will always give you back 17.

True intelligence 😂
#ai #llm #genai

From: blenderdumbass . org

This article is published on a website which is powered by BDServer. And I'm trying to make this website support ActivityPub, so you could for example, subscribe to me from your Mastodon account. Yet it is easier said than done.

If you have any experience with ActivityPub, web-development or Python, please consider helping me. We have BDServ...

Read: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/please_help_me_with_activity_pub

#activitypub #fediverse #mastodon #bdserver #python #programming #webdev #federation #API

a man with a vendetta

APx is finally available on crates.io / docs.rs

https://docs.rs/apx_sdk/latest/apx_sdk/

This is an ActivityPub library used internally in Mitra and in other my projects.

Unlike some other ActivityPub libraries, this library is low-level. It doesn't restrict what databases or frameworks could be used, and doesn't care about object types or properties. There are only URIs, keys, signatures, JSON documents and HTTP requests.
It also contains primitives for building nomadic applications (FEP-ef61).

The license is AGPL-3, but I might consider changing it to a more permissive one.

#apx #activitypub #rust

There was software before Bill Atkinson, and there was software after Bill Atkinson. The fact that the latter is nothing like the former is in large part due to his genius.

Apple, please consider renaming the Apple Design Awards after Bill. It would be a fitting and timely honor.

yes machine please write for me

Elastomeric respirators can protect you against:

- airborne viruses like COVID
- toxic compounds in wildfire smoke
- tear gas

It’s a great idea to have one on hand and ready to go in these uncertain times.

If you use the C shell, add the following line to the .cshrc file in your
home directory to prevent core files from being written to disk:

limit coredumpsize 0
-- Dru <genesis@istar.ca>

Strategic fartcoin reserve

https://youtu.be/-5DncosnP3Y?si=4RlbJ-F5sga8-lx3

it was apparently BPPV time this morning, not as severe as it was when i first got it 8 years ago, but also weird is that two half-assed epley moves seem to have subsided it...still too scared to do a full blown fly all the way down to try to tempt it out

@leyrer There%20are%20no%20spaces%20allowed%20in%20filenames

Sunday chill with the pups.

@risottobias @smallcirclesjust small circles 🕊 probably because nodeinfo was written for discovering service information for interoperability, not for contact / moderation?

i hate to even ask this... what's the latest in zettelkasten software? i kinda miss roam, for all its faults

in the course of a function's execution, it may encounter a perfectly normal situation in which it successfully accepts its inputs and returns a value to the caller. this is called an "acception", and we can process these values using "acception handlers"

My feedback to the EU regarding the newly proposed law forcing all websites to plaintext store everything users do or write for law enforcement.

This may be the dumbest law the EU has proposed as of yet, and it already attempted chat control and article 13 / 11, so this says a lot!

Not only have providers complained for decades about the cost of storing so much user data, of which 99.99999% won't ever be used, but also does law enforcement rarely need this kind of data, and by the time they've legally gained access to it, it won't be stored anymore.

It's a horrid invasion of our privacy, but the perfect tool for fascist regimes, for whom we are paving the way with this!

If you only invite corporate spyware lobbyist orgs to draft a law, this is the result. Peter Thiel couldn't have written a better proposal.

Stop this law if you wish for any citizen of this continent to respect you as an institution!

so sheepy~

#art #mastoart

For the record, I've been emdashng and ellipsing since before the collaborative context collapse, so if you ban me for that, your fucking loss.

If you really wanna know it’s me, you’ll see me endashing numerical ranges 9–5 and also outside business hours.
https://functional.cafe/@ELLIOTTCABLE/114648886995762140

XBOX 핸드헬드 기기 개발이 발표되었는데, ASUS ROG 기기라고. 엑박 라이센스를 내준 듯? 콘솔에서 서드파티 내는 건 그렇게 좋은 신호는 아닌데 흠....

Happy 30th birthday to #PHP. I wrote a history of it several years ago: “If CGI scripts were the start of interactive programming on the web, then PHP was the natural next step — at least on the server-side. Just a month after Brendan Eich created the JavaScript scripting language at Netscape, an independent developer from Canada named Rasmus Lerdorf released the first version of a toolset he called Personal Home Page Tools (PHP Tools).” https://cybercultural.com/p/1995-php-quietly-launches-as-a-cgi-scripts-toolset/

RP) 아니 어떻게 합금 이름이 초초두랄루민

스위치 2 스탠드의 비밀: 초초두랄루민과 비슷한 정도의 알루미늄 합금으로 만들어졌다고 함. #NintendoSwitch2WelcomeTour

"People don't fake a depression. They fake being okay. Remember that. Be kind."

There was software before Bill Atkinson, and there was software after Bill Atkinson. The fact that the latter is nothing like the former is in large part due to his genius.

Apple, please consider renaming the Apple Design Awards after Bill. It would be a fitting and timely honor.

build your exit on the way in

Thank you Bill for all you’ve done. We’re running MacPaint today at the computer museum.

#apple #macintosh #mac #billatkinson #MacPaint