Found this mechanical calculator at a garage sale the other day. Oiled it up, made a replacement for a missing foot, and now it's crunching numbers like it's 1960.

Make computers ding again.

Join us for NixOS CN Meetup #1 on August 9–10 held at ShanghaiTech University’s Pudong Campus, the first-ever Nix-focused event in China!

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/first-ever-nixos-cn-meetup-2025-08-09-10-shanghai/67457

#nixos #nixlang #meetups

TIL you can embed #python dependencies in a gist and then run it as a one-shot script using uv. In screenshot 1 I've pulled in pyfiglet to create a snazzy message. You can inline your dependencies into your script using `uv add --script <dep>`. This adds the necessary preamble as a comment (screenshot 2). I came across this tip whilst surfing Simon Willison’s gists. I've linked to Simon's more detailed blog post and the documentation in #uv. https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/19/one-shot-python-tools/
https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/scripts/#declaring-script-dependencies

One of the reasons I have been a strong advocate for the use of persistent digital identifiers, especially ORCIDs, is because they facilitate trust in authorship while simultaneously supporting the personal life decisions of authors to change their name. #openscience @eLife

https://elifesciences.org/inside-elife/066f1e3e/elife-latest-new-policy-allows-for-name-changes-in-published-papers?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic

@mcc what if instead of attract mode, some games had a 'repel mode'

Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
https://www.politico.eu/article/helsinki-no-traffic-death-roads-eu-accident-finland-driving-transport/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication

This Plane Flies Slow Because Its Wings Really Blow

https://hackaday.com/2025/08/02/this-plane-flies-slow-because-its-wings-really-blow/

grammatical gender reveal party

To see the output from when your computer started, run dmesg(8). If it has
been replaced with other messages, look at /var/run/dmesg.boot.
-- Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com>

Hiding secret codes in light protects against fake videos https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/07/hiding-secret-codes-light-protects-against-fake-videos

Fact-checkers may have a new tool in the fight against misinformation for AI generated or manipulated videos.

A team of Cornell researchers has developed a way to “watermark” light in videos, which they can use to detect if video is fake or has been manipulated.

@janetJanet at Tech Reclaimers had a great time talking about TechReclaimers at #FediCon yesterday. Terrific people and good conversations.

All of us here are really excited about building alliances, growing our community and making friends.

Let's #ReclaimTech together!

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Impromptu lightning talk at #FediCon from Kris Constable describing ConsentKeys, a privacy-preserving authentication model.

@dansup sharing a multilayered approach to distributed community governance at #FediCon

Pixelfed is building relays to assist with content brokering and caching on the network. It’s intended to be comparable to how Bluesky relays work.

#FediCon

Someone asked Dan earlier about why Sup wasn’t built on XMPP or Matrix. As someone who lived through Diaspora integrating XMPP, that kind of integration is a bad time.

#FediCon

If you want to look as cool as us, you can snag some merch here: https://store.anew.social/

Hi from afar to everyone at Fedicon this weekend! Miss you all. Hope it’s great!

I’ve been vicariously enjoying the stream of #Fedicon posts, almost makes me feel like I was there. Props to all of the speakers, @deadsuperhero and others for the live blogging, and most importantly @reiver for organizing Fedicon itself!

走了16000步，買完東
好像又emo了

@dansup sharing a multilayered approach to distributed community governance at #FediCon

I just told @dansup, “I have a hard enough time making breakfast in the morning. How do you make so much stuff?”

And he basically told us, “Practice!”

If you want to look as cool as us, you can snag some merch here: https://store.anew.social/

Dan proposing some big ideas to solve AP problems with tech. Nice.

Dan building up onboarding tools to directly counter instance paralysis. YES!

@dansup sharing a multilayered approach to distributed community governance at #FediCon

Tip of the day: ​​

Cuddling a cat tummy is like cuddling an angel. It has antidepressant and anxiolithic properties and it's 100% natural.

Ask your nearest cat provider. It might also work with cat girls, to an extent.

『物語化批判の哲学』を読み始めた、またはコンテンツ消費者の魂について
https://note.com/kitaitimakoto/n/n74e5c06b2f60

なます
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I can't speak for Julian, but I can talk about my impressions from @boris 's presentation.

He went through a dozen different apps running on the ATProto network that create custom data types and interactions and distribute them through the network. It's all happening on the client side, so these new apps aren't their own PDS servers; they can concentrate on cool client experience and leave the distribution up to the back end.

This is almost exactly parallel to the ActivityPub API. It was cool seeing recipes, check-ins, images, events all being created and managed by server less web clients.

It definitely reenergized me for focusing on the ActivityPub API.

Installed a new #neovim theme because it's very important to me that my code be pink

Installed a new #neovim theme because it's very important to me that my code be pink

Well, this week’s @gamesatwork_bizGames at Work dot biz has awesome content about #AI, #videos, #gaming and Cool #tech - so I apologize in advance for an audio issue, caused sole by me. Cleaned it up as much as possible. Great show, with my friend and co-host @andypiper .

Meet me at da kitty lounge #ʘ‿ʘ

ウは宇宙やバイのウ！の続編が出てる！！！！！！！！！！！！！こりゃせにゃ！

WebGPU enables local LLM in the browser. Demo site with AI chat

Link: https://andreinwald.github.io/browser-llm/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44767775

Join us for NixOS CN Meetup #1 on August 9–10 held at ShanghaiTech University’s Pudong Campus, the first-ever Nix-focused event in China!

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/first-ever-nixos-cn-meetup-2025-08-09-10-shanghai/67457

#nixos #nixlang #meetups

be funny if bismuth became popular not as a VM but just as a way to write C without having to actually use C

be funny if bismuth became popular not as a VM but just as a way to write C without having to actually use C

撤収してます
赤道儀とかの装備は重くて登山に持って行けないので最小限度の装備での星景撮影でした
たぶん上手くいってるはず……いっててくれ

too sensitive for this world.

so freaking dark in the dark parts.

so freaking bright in the bright parts.

Look at these little mystery boops that showed up overnight under on of the bird-of-paradise leaves!

Tiny little fairy boops??

grammatical gender reveal party

Impromptu lightning talk at #FediCon from Kris Constable describing ConsentKeys, a privacy-preserving authentication model.

Congrats to @slev.life who did the hard work and made @shiki.style's JS engine compatible with 100% of the built-in languages! github.com/shikijs/shik...

docs: update js engine compat ...

Hi from afar to everyone at Fedicon this weekend! Miss you all. Hope it’s great!

I’ve been vicariously enjoying the stream of #Fedicon posts, almost makes me feel like I was there. Props to all of the speakers, @deadsuperhero and others for the live blogging, and most importantly @reiver for organizing Fedicon itself!

방글라데시와 러시아의 인구와 영토비교

오 스택오버플로우 올해 설문 결과 나왔구나 survey.stackoverflow.co/2025

2025 Stack Overflow Developer ...

From a CBS news segment from July of 1985 discussing the busting of various #hackers and BBS operators in New Jersey.

Ouch, but also 💀

Will be uploading the entire segment to Internet Archive later today.