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I feel like I'm at a furry convention
My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server
Link: https://terminalbytes.com/iphone-8-solar-powered-vision-ocr-server/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44310944
Cobra is an incredible tool out of the box, but what if we gave her a little glow up? Check out our latest project, Fang that makes your existing Cobra CLI applications a little more fabulous
https://github.com/charmbracelet/fang
Fang gives you:
- fully styled errors and help/usage pages
- automatic --version
- a hidden man command to generate manpages using mango
- a completion command to generate shell completions
- custom theme support
- silent usage output (help is not shown after a user error)
function_name().map(|_|()).map_err( |e| e.into() )
…that nonsense after function_name() makes me feel like I did something wrong, but I don't know what.
Yikes, the latest iteration of “the 2024 election was stolen” conspiracy crap is an order of magnitude more bonkers than the last. And, unsurprisingly, echos almost perfectly the bonkers stuff from 2020, with the parties reversed.
Just stop.
#Mitra v4.5.0
https://codeberg.org/silverpill/mitra/releases/tag/v4.5.0
https://codeberg.org/silverpill/mitra-web/releases/tag/v4.5.0
- FEP-ae97 activities targeted at followers collection are delivered to all known followers (previously only direct addressing was supported).
- Compatibility with Tusky client.
- Compatibility with Fedi Circles.
- Mentions, hashtags and quote links lead to local pages, even when opened in a new tab.
- New translation: Vietnamese.
오늘은 10회반복만 해야징…
서울시,. 서울시의회가 후원한다는 K-가족축제가 통일교 행사고, 오세라비 등 안티페미니스트 불러서 강연을 시킨다는 듯.
But here’s the thing: anyone could make music •before• gen AI. Some more skilled or more artistically successful than others, sure! But that’s not the point. •Doing it• is the point. •Living it• is the point.
A product that promises to generate it for you so that you neither do it nor live it is antithetical to the point, is hostile to the idea of art itself.
(Note: that’s exactly what the artists in the OP are •not• doing! They are all grabbing the AI and actively •doing• and •living• while poking at the curious new object.)
5/
Similarly, hostility to education cloaks itself as support by saying that education should be useful, should be practical, should be focused only on what students need, should be narrowed to what students need, should narrow students, should narrow students into being only what capitalism needs.
I wrote extensively about this dangerous line of thought here:
https://innig.net/teaching/liberal-arts-manifesto
6/
Just finished watching Andor season 2. This series is an absolute gem ♥️⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Mastering Model Context Protocol (MCP): Building Multi Server MCP with Azure OpenAI.
Remember: the most important step in debugging a piece of code is to make sure it’s even being run before you start changing it 🫠
🦀 It’s here! The program for #rustconf 2025 is live!
Browse it to find a bunch of exciting talks from project & enterprise leaders who will be covering the role of Rust in AI, embedded systems, communities, and more!
🗓️ Sept 2–5 in Seattle & online
📋 Schedule: https://rustconf.com/schedule
You don't want to miss #rustconf25! Registration opening 🔜
A huge thank you to our inaugural 2025 #RustConf sponsors:
GOLD: 
@jetbrains, Microsoft
SILVER: Arm
More to announce soon!
Without support from our sponsors, #rustconf25 wouldn't be possible. Learn more about sponsorship here: https://rustconf.com/become-a-sponsor/
But here’s the thing: anyone could make music •before• gen AI. Some more skilled or more artistically successful than others, sure! But that’s not the point. •Doing it• is the point. •Living it• is the point.
A product that promises to generate it for you so that you neither do it nor live it is antithetical to the point, is hostile to the idea of art itself.
(Note: that’s exactly what the artists in the OP are •not• doing! They are all grabbing the AI and actively •doing• and •living• while poking at the curious new object.)
5/
Similarly, hostility to education cloaks itself as support by saying that education should be useful, should be practical, should be focused only on what students need, should be narrowed to what students need, should narrow students, should narrow students into being only what capitalism needs.
I wrote extensively about this dangerous line of thought here:
https://innig.net/teaching/liberal-arts-manifesto
6/
(and the only reason I use WhatsApp is because of network effects - I only started using it last year; sparingly and begrudgingly)
Oh, Beeper effectively breaks the end to end encryption of WhatsApp and other encrypted chat applications. Back to the drawing board with that one. (thanks @piuvas for pointing that out)
https://www.beeper.com/faq#how-does-beeper-connect-to-encrypted-chat-networks-like-signal-whatsapp
A huge thank you to our inaugural 2025 #RustConf sponsors:
GOLD: @jetbrains, Microsoft
SILVER: Arm
More to announce soon!
Without support from our sponsors, #rustconf25 wouldn't be possible. Learn more about sponsorship here: https://rustconf.com/become-a-sponsor/
Some co-workers want to talk about use cases for "AI" and one of them is "organizing meeting notes" and I want to just scream. Like, that's a real skill. Fine, if you're using "AI" everybody (reasonable) acknowledges you should be able to recognize shitty output. Cool. But the technologists I work with are using this *because they don't know how to take minutes.* This is a century-old skill at this point, and we're just,,, reinventing from first principles. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!
#Commission for Drift 'Lissa
Thank you very much for the commission!
#art #character
https://bsky.app/profile/driftlissa.bsky.social
What's Manyfold all about? How are we bringing 3D print models into the fediverse? Watch our 5-minute speed demo from 
@fediforum last week to find out!
🎉 Today we're bringing 3D print hosting into the Fediverse! 🎉
Have you wanted to escape the walled gardens of Printables, Makerworld and Thingiverse, and host your 3D content somewhere more open?
Now you can, with our official public Manyfold instance, 3dprint.social!
➡️ Sign up now, at https://3dprint.social
❤️ And if you can, please support the project at https://opencollective.com/manyfold
"consider a hypothetical early intervention program targeting elementary school children’s beliefs about math success.
Such an intervention might use engaging stories and activities that would allow children and parents to explore together different “recipes for success” in mathematics that don’t rely on brilliance."
- Bauer, C. A., Poddar, A., Brummelman, E., & Cimpian, A. (2025). The Brilliance–Belonging Model: How Cultural Beliefs About Intellectual Ability Undermine Educational Equity.
"Works on my machine", oil on canvas.
Unknown artist, 2025
The largest possible idea I can fit in my head at once
us politics, transphobia
Jesus Christ I don't want to be a political account but when half the states in my fucking country want to ban kids from having access to healthcare because they think the category is icky, and the top court says "yeah that's cool", how the hell am I supposed to not be a little political? Fuck this
The largest possible idea I can fit in my head at once
My advice to anyone trying to Metal Gear Solid sneak their wife's bedside lamp away to steal it for their office whilst she's asleep and it's literally right next to her and apparently still plugged in, knocking a bunch of stuff over then waking her up angry, would be this.....
Don't do that
Remember: the most important step in debugging a piece of code is to make sure it’s even being run before you start changing it 🫠
Revolutionizing mashups by listening to hard techno on headphones ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcJ2qX2nvuE ) while my wife listens to Meatloaf on speakers and allowing the two to coincidentally sync up
[unnerving audio distortion]
On a whim, thought I'd try upgrading my #WSL #Ubuntu instance to a later release in hopes that updating from #Python 3.2 would make #Marimo actually work. do-release-upgrade actually worked pretty seamlessly, and then the new bullshit Canonical decided was a good idea reared its head. pip3 install marimo? "THIS IS AN EXTERNALLY MANAGED PYTHON, install things through packages instead!" (there is no package).
Guess it's finally time to learn how to use #archlinux
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Fuzzing for Porting Programs
Link: https://rjp.io/blog/2025-06-17-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-fuzzing
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44311241
@skinnylatteAdrianna Tan this is my favorite joke to tell people working in a restaurant/store, if the card terminal gives them trouble
"That's why they call it a POS, right?"
Surprisingly high hit-rate on getting a chuckle out of them
@SnoopJ @skinnylatteAdrianna Tan I'll have to remember that one
In similar situations I often mention that Douglas Adams said: all we want is stuff that works, and all we have is technology
if everyone could please stop making mistakes that are so extremely repetitive and on-brand that I can identify the person or organization making the mistake without looking at the byline first that would be great. mix it up a little, just spice it up with a new kind of mistake every now and then
the Public Health Agency of Canada has recognised nullification surgery:
https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/sexual-health/how-to-access-gender-affirming-care/options.html
❇️ quick update for y'all, profiles now include a commit tracker, we're calling it the punchcard! ❇️ 1/4
🐲 schlop schlop schlop schlop schlop
People often have difficulty reading content when there isn’t sufficient contrast, so it's important to have high color contrast. TPGi’s free color contrast checker tool allows you to determine the contrast ratio of two colors by using an eye-drop tool.
Celebrating FreeBSD Day with a look back at the story behind our iconic BSD Daemon, Beastie!
Dr. Marshall Kirk McKusick walks us through how this legendary figure got its name, debunks the "demon" myth, and brings BSD culture to life with humor, history, and culture gems.
🎥 Watch the full video on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/bKAp9Wremd0?si=_7QylTMDku8WyXFr
@glyph and also I think a generally useful reminder that ball park figures with made up numbers is total bullshit
@glyph actually this is a really good illustration of how making rough estimates with incomplete information becomes less reliable as scale goes up, and where the popular belief has it that you have more wiggle room to be wrong you actually have less
外明るくてビビる。
Came across this slide deck again just now. I think this quote stands up as an aim.
(there are also excellent quotes from 
@freerange_inc and Ella Fitzsimmons in there too)
https://doesliverpool.com/slides/makernoise-talk-we-dont-need-another-hero/
People often have difficulty reading content when there isn’t sufficient contrast, so it's important to have high color contrast. TPGi’s free color contrast checker tool allows you to determine the contrast ratio of two colors by using an eye-drop tool.
We’re thrilled to reveal our 2025 #rustconf program! 👀 this thread for the full list or visit https://rustconf.com/schedule
The Rust Foundation is proud to host #rustconf from Sept 2–5 in Seattle + online! Browse the freshly-announced schedule to find an exciting list of talks on AI, async, global adoption, embedded systems, and much more!
🦀 It’s here! The program for #rustconf 2025 is live!
Browse it to find a bunch of exciting talks from project & enterprise leaders who will be covering the role of Rust in AI, embedded systems, communities, and more!
🗓️ Sept 2–5 in Seattle & online
📋 Schedule: https://rustconf.com/schedule
You don't want to miss #rustconf25! Registration opening 🔜
The 
@frameworkcomputerFramework 
Laptop 12 might be the most repair-friendly laptop we’ve ever opened. Seriously. It’s shockingly easy to take apart, and for a touchscreen convertible, that’s rare. It earned a 10/10 on our repairability scale thanks to clever engineering choices:
- Screwless SSD clip.
- Cable-free battery removal.
- Clearly labeled mainboard.
- QR codes on every major part.
We tore it down. You can fix it up.
Full article: https://www.ifixit.com/News/111201/tough-tiny-and-totally-repairable-inside-the-framework-12
David Beazley
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