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The littlest sir, though doing a lot better lately, still has anxiety and is alarmed by loud noises he doesn't recognise. It's kind of adorable how he looks to me to make sure I'm not worried about a noise, and I'll explain to him ("Just someone beating their rugs outside") and despite not understanding a word, he'll believe my tone!
Here he is, looking so very little.
@aeva By the way, my wordpress is fixed and my "No Compiler" LLVM-direct-from-Lua blogposts are now available again. With mojibake because apparently my advanced technology of "emdashes" and "ellipsis" are too advanced for Wordpress. I'll keep tinkering…
i think i've been starting to really like stuff/art that is flawed but well meaning, that was done under constraints and it shows, where someone really wanted to execute on their vision but it was too much for them, it almost collapsed but they published it anyway etc
naming things is truly the hardest problem in computer touching
#S3 test. 1 2 3 check!
I've been testing out the 8BitDo Retro Keyboard (famicon version) on my OpenBSD desktop running dwm. Not only do all the keys function as expected, the volume knob worked out the box with zero config!
Not sure if I should give credit to 8BitDo or OpenBSD on that one 😛
私達は問題にドラスティックな特効薬を期待してしまうが、大抵の問題は泥臭い「そんなの誰でも知ってる」解法を地道に積み上げることでしか解けない
XMPP鯖立てたら電気通信事業法適用されるのかなと思って調べたが、無料でやる分には問題なさそう
@nixCraftnixCraft 🐧 oh shit, do i have to behave now? :D
Deploying LLMs with Octopus | by Matthew Casperson.
Thanks to EuroPython for putting on such a great event this week, where we were proud to have a booth! While in Prague, Rust Foundation Global Community Coordinator Ernest Kissiedu presented a lightning talk on the intersection of #rustlang and AI. Thank you to everyone who joined.
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千葉かよ……おそろしい / JR千葉駅構内 女性2人を金づちで殴った疑い 男子高校生を逮捕 | NHK https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20250717/k10014866921000.html
Casey Muratori – The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-five-year Mistake – BSC 2025 https://lobste.rs/s/rnnpqm #video #historical #programming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo84LFzx5nI
My experience with Claude Code after 2 weeks of adventures
Link: https://sankalp.bearblog.dev/my-claude-code-experience-after-2-weeks-of-usage/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44596472
Accessible Form Builder for Government Digitization, who is building this?
Create forms that default to WCAG compliance with clear dev handoff specs
Simulate screen reader flow, tab orders, semantic structure
Integrates with legacy CRM/ERP frontends
起きた。さて、今日・明日の予定を組み立てねばだよ。
A problem I have in my life is that the amount of constant upkeep I have to do just to keep my WordPress website serving pages is so great it means I don't have enough time to replace WordPress with something that isn't fucking awful
When in doubt, blame Coldplay.
@socketwenchCantakerous Lesbian Sourceress I have not written PHP since the Obama administration. I am looking at some code which, for reasons I do not know, is accessing the 0th element of (something) using curly braces. Do you agree with the following statement?
- If it is an array, and I replace the curly braces with square braces, it will work and be safe.
- If it is a string, I need to replace it with a call to the substr() function.
Another #solarigraph. 7 months on a drainpipe on the back of my sister's house.
#whoLovesTheSun #pinholePhotography #pinholeCamera #photography #sun
“We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. [...]
The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.”
— R. Buckminster Fuller (March 1970, _New York_ magazine)
There are over 2,000 operational Gods watching over us, and we must assume they are involved with the fediverse. 
so, i ported #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer to webusb
@socketwenchCantakerous Lesbian Sourceress If I were allowed to do it with curly braces instead of substr, I would do it, as it produces cleaner, clearer code.
In hindsight, checking to see if Treesitter had a Valgrind suppression file format syntax was.... ambitious. This should be a well scoped and fun project for someone who wants to or likes writting Treesitter parsers though: https://valgrind.org/docs/manual/mc-manual.html#mc-manual.suppfiles
Huh.
Mozilla is hiring a VP of Community, through the Foundation, who are technically the Company's boss.
Want to come make a change for how Mozilla works with outside contributors and what-not?
When life gives you lemons (broken CPUs), you make lemonade (idle power usage measurements)!
Unfortunately, it’s exactly as I predicted: The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D consumes 10-15W more power in idle (also active idle) compared to the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K.
The 12900K measurement is an entirely different machine, the 285K vs. 9950X3D measurement was done in this machine (only swapping Mainboard and CPU): https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2025-05-15-my-2025-high-end-linux-pc/
In practice, I need a working CPU, so AMD it is, I guess, but… :(
@lcamtuflcamtuf 
@bagderdaniel:// stenberg:// And the galling part (or one of the galling parts) is that as you respond the the thread, you're slowly teaching the AI (or the human submitter) how to get better at fooling you.
Everyone's like "oh, run your own website, why don't people just run your own website" an then self-hosting a website turns out to be a miserable, grueling, thankless, neverending grind with the occasional risk of something really dangerous happening and it's your fault
Lighthouse of Alexandria Rises Again as Giant Blocks Resurface After 2000 Years
Link: https://greekreporter.com/2025/07/01/lighthouse-alexandria-giant-blocks-resurface/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44554530
TIL that including "from:me" in the search box in Mastodon will search my own posts.
So obvious that I feel like an idiot for not realising before!
vue vapor doesn't yet support ssr hydration but it might be possible to use them even now with `ssr: false` (or in a client-only component or page)
... as always, I think the best thing to do is experiment
let me know if you need any help 🙏
vue vapor doesn't yet support ssr hydration but it might be possible to use them even now with `ssr: false` (or in a client-only component or page) ... as always, I think the best thing to do is experiment let me know if you need any help 🙏 roe.dev/ama #ama
I got this great 90s Japanese graphics program installed called Multi Paint System (through RetroArch) and it has some really lovely features, thinking about how much of a mono culture we got after so much of the world settled for Photoshop. Shout out to 
@gingerbeardmanmatt sephton for leading me down this rabbit hole.
どこで間違えてしまったんだ
reading: "I scraped a conference website and vibe coded up an alternative UI"
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/17/vibe-scraping/
the result:
When you’re smol but clearly need the ENTIRE COUCH #CatsOfMastodon #RipleyAndJonesy #JustRipley
Bluesky Report – #125
Bluesky has announced it is rolling out an age verification system in order to comply with the UK’s Online Safety Act. Users in the UK will be asked to verify their age, using a variety of options. Bluesky uses Epic’s Kids Web Service for age verification, which allows users to verify via an ID scan, payment card verification or face scan. If users in the UK choose not to verify their age they can still use the Bluesky app, and only adult content as well as the DMs will be made inaccessible. Bluesky is implementing the system as a compliance with the Online Safety Act, which requires all platforms that contain adult content and can potentially be accessed by children in the UK to implement a “highly effective age assurance” system. This part of the law goes in effect on July 25th, and non-compliance risks a fine of £18 million. Bluesky PBC is implementing this age verification system in their own apps only, and other Bluesky clients have their own responsibility to implement such an age verification system. Other clients have not yet announced to be implementing an age verification system, meaning that users in the UK who do not want to share their information can sidestep this barrier by using another client to access the network.
This new age verification system as part of the UK’s Online Safety Act happens in a context where other countries are also thinking about adding age verification systems to social networks, and this will likely shape how social networks operate significantly going forward. I’ll be writing more on this in the coming weeks. For more of an analysis on how both Bluesky and the fediverse respond differently to these age verification systems, see this article I wrote earlier this week.
Eurosky is a newly-unveiled project that aims to build public-interest infrastructure for social networks. The project is part of the Free Our Feed initiative, and consists of Robin Berjon and Sherif Elsayed-Ali from Free Our Feeds together with Sebastian Vogelsang, developer of multiple ATProto apps including Flashes. Eurosky is build on ATProto, and the first deliverable the project is working on is Commons for Content Moderation. It is a shared moderation system for ATProto, which will allow independent developers and startups that are considering to build apps on ATProto to use as a content moderation system. The goal is to have such a moderation relay in beta by December 2025. Future plans include more independent ATProto infrastructure located in Europe, such as a PDS and a Relay. I’ll be writing more on Eurosky soon.
Cabildo Abierto, which roughly translates as Open Town Hall in Spanish, is a new discussion platform for the Argentinian community, build on ATProto. Cabildo Abierto provides a variety of forms of discussion, with both long-form articles and wiki-style posts, which are all put on ATProto. The platform is currently invite-only and being actively developed. Although I do not have a lot of information on Cabildo Abierto yet, it is a platform I’m definitely watching as it provides a type of social media platform that does not closely mirror the style of ‘Big Tech platforms but on an open protocol’, and it’ll be interesting to see which direction the developers will take the platform.
Bluesky has partnered with Kickback Soccer Media, a new media platform for football in the US. The new media outlet is part of the growing popularity of the sport in the US, and focuses on the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which is also scheduled to take place in the US. The partnership between Bluesky and Kickback Soccer means that “Kickback Soccer will provide exclusive original content and weave references to the social-media outlet into its programs”. Bluesky is also aiming to make the platform a first-class destination for sports, with other partnerships like the NBA as well.
Event planner app Smoke Signal is taking the next step for ATProto interoperability by showing events that are created on other ATProt-powered event platforms. Smoke Signal uses a shared community lexicon for events, meaning that other apps can reuse the same lexicon for their events as well. Smoke Signal does not automatically show events from other platforms, it only shows events created by accounts who have opted in on Smoke Signal to have their external events also be displayed on the site.
ATP Airport is a beautifully designed tool that lets people move their account to a different PDS. With the latest update you can now create your own rotation key as well. Rotation keys are both one of the more powerful and least accessible features of ATProto: it allows you to create an additional master key for your account, that allows you to always gain back control over your account even when you lose the password. This is a powerful feature, but Bluesky does not provide an easy interface for people to use this. ATP Airport also explicitly warns users of the risk of using the feature, as malicious actors who have the rotation key have complete control over the account.
Last week I noted that Bluesky and ATProto are at the bleeding edge of building multi-person interactions with LLMs, with AI chatbot Void as a prime example. The developer of Void, Cameron Pfiffer, wrote a detailed explanation of Void this week and how the bot functions.
Bluesky posted a new job listing for Data Scientist, as well as various other roles such a Feed Algorithms engineer and more.
For those interested in retro design: Safari is an ATProto repo explorer in the style of Windows 95, and Longhorn Bluesky is a Windows client for Bluesky in the theme of Windows Longhorn.
ATProto-powered writing and publishing platform Leaflet latest update gives the ability to theme and customise each publication.
Independent researcher Conspirador Norteño takes a look at some of the patterns with the “Bluesky is dying” media articles.
SoraSNS is a multi-network client for Bluesky, Mastodon, Misskey and other fediverse platforms, that has gotten a redesign.
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As #Django turns 20 we’re starting to explore the tough existential questions at the #EuroPython social… does the Django pony have a name?
The patterns of elites who conceal their assets offshore
Link: https://home.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/07/patterns-elites-who-conceal-their-assets-offshore
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44596963
Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models Tech Report 2025
Link: https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/apple-foundation-models-tech-report-2025
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44596275
Everyone's like "oh, run your own website, why don't people just run your own website" an then self-hosting a website turns out to be a miserable, grueling, thankless, neverending grind with the occasional risk of something really dangerous happening and it's your fault
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