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@evanEvan Prodromou From a purely marketing perspective, it's a great ad.
The post disrespects the victims of both Grok and Epstein, so it's unethical.
Posting on Twitter makes it worse.
help I've been programming in lisp for too long, I don't remember how to put commas after arguments anymore. I can't add a semicolon to the end of a line
very close to spinning up an owncast server to stream japanese dinosaur simulator
ICE and other federal agents continue to occupy metro Minneapolis, leaving many people afraid to leave their homes and in need of assistance from others sin the community. You can help from anywhere by contributing to a regional Immigrant Rapid Response Fund set up by the Women’s Foundation of Minneapolis. This is a Mastodon for Minneapolis effort! https://www.grapevine.org/giving-circle/doWhZ3Z/Mastodon-for-Minneapolis 1/
the gay fox girl SMB3-like is once again on sale on steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1325260/Kitsune_Tails/
also includes: aro/ace rep, kuribo shoe anywhere, accessibility options (including flying back up on a temporary cloud on death), the monty hall problem, optional minigames and kaizo levels, and more
How to block Bluesky from Mastodon:
1. Go to the profile page of the account @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy
2. Click ⋯
3. Click "Block Domain" to stop seeing Bluesky accounts
4. Click "Block" to prevent your own account being bridged to Bluesky
You may need to copy-paste @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy into the search box on your server to make the profile appear.
If you can't find the account @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy, your server is probably already blocking the Bluesky bridge.
The #illumosCafe #Mastodon instance has been upgraded to v4.5.5
To clear the screen, use "clear". To re-display your screen buffer, press
the scroll lock key and use your page up button. When you're finished,
press the scroll lock key again to get your prompt back.
-- Dru <genesis@istar.ca>
It's pretty cool that I can tell an agent that CI broke at some point this morning, ask it to use `git bisect` to find the offending commit, and fix it. I then went to the bathroom, talked to some people in the hallway, came back, and it did a swell job. https://ampcode.com/threads/T-019bdc95-07bb-70c9-9db4-1218d41decb2
저랑 ☆디 코☆ 친추하실분이 계시다면 마음찍어주세요 디엠으로찾아갑니다 일단아무나받고보는중임 음성채팅이나 단체디코는안좋아함 성향안맞음.... 있으면좋은점: 1. 내가블스에없어도나를볼수있다 (아무튼좋은거맞음) 2. 일단나랑대화를할수있다 3. 마리모를할수있다 4. 성향안맞으면안좋아할수도있는데 친해지면인스타릴스보내는친구마냥뻘얘기잘함 듣는것도함 님이 화내는것도 들어줄수있음
Myrlyn, the new graphical package management GUI for openSUSE, reaches Version 1.0 with community repositories for openSUSE Leap 16.0, configurable search mode, improved zypp history browser
https://github.com/shundhammer/myrlyn/releases/tag/1.0.0
#opensuse #opensuseleap #myrlyn #rpm #zypper #yast #linux #linuxdesktop #qt6 #opensource #freesoftware
The #illumosCafe #Mastodon instance has been upgraded to v4.5.5
New blog post, in which we figure out how to include big video and WASM files in a static site without adding them to the git repo. We do this with Nix because when you have a build-system shaped hammer, everything starts to look like a build-system nail.
Adding big files to a static blog with Nix
In this post, we figure out how to include big video and WASM files in a static site without adding them to the git repo. We do this with Nix because when you have a build-system shaped hammer, everything starts to look like a build-system nail.
scvalex.net
Link author: 
scvalex@scvalex@mas.to
How did I improve the performance of WAT parser? via 
@fanfTony Finch https://lobste.rs/s/nc6kkk #performance #rust #wasm
https://blog.gplane.win/posts/improve-wat-parser-perf.html
Gladys West, the mathematician and computer scientist integral to the creation of #GPS, has passed away. She left a lasting impact on mathematics, geodesy, and computer science. https://spectrum.ieee.org/gladys-west-hidden-figure-gps
'Schnee und Eis nah dran' #FotoVorschlag ' Snow and Ice closeup'
Oh I have to post this photo again. Sorry if you've seen it in the past already.
But lying on the ground on top of a summit, waiting for the next gust of wind blowing the snow into my direction... this day will stay in my memories! - To me it is my absolute closeup of snow and ice.
(up to you if you judge the ice being the snow or my finger tips)
New blog post! Can you play Sonic Invaders on my clone of Australia's favourite 1980s computer/video game hybrid? Yes, at long last, you can. It is time to re-enter Dick Smith's fabulous world of Wizzardry. #retrocomputing #retrogaming #kicad #vtech
https://www.leadedsolder.com/2026/01/20/creativision-clone-snes-controller-board-prototype.html
On the one hand, I get it, the current 'web stack' on the frontend is an ongoing disaster. On the other hand, I am one of those people with jQuery on a work website despite not needing jQuery any more simply because we last significantly touched the JavaScript in something like 2019 and I have no interest in touching it again any time soon.
'This is sell America' – US dollar tumbles as globe flees US assets
Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/20/sell-america-trade-dollar-treasury-gold-us-trump-greenland.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46695061
Kiss Launcher – fast launcher for Android
Link: https://kisslauncher.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46690092
Computers weren't an economic bubble, at all. By the way, here's your pen and lighter with a built-in calculator, "I bet you've waited for it". Comes in gold (15,000 yen), black (12,000 yen) and silver (10,000 yen).
The brand names are:
- IC Calculighter
- Calcupen
Also, "NASA Microcomputers" is definitely not a copyright violation, lol.
(I/O magaizne, February 1979)
It seems the illustration standards back in 1979 were higher than they are today.
Aah, what would I give for a technical blog with such illustrations! (I know what I would give, a ko-fi/patreon/whatever subscription)
これまでも大したもんだったけどLiDAR付きルンバさんは帰巣本能さらに強化されてるなあ！
I found out recently about Bunnyrom, the program that every knock-off Tamagotchi runs.
https://bunnyrom.neocities.org/
I love the mystery of it, how despite its ubiquity, nobody seems to know its provenance.
I hate that it's ruined the mystery of the unplayed knock-off. Before I knew about this, I could look at a knock-off Tamagotchi on the shelf, or in an online store, and wonder about it. Yes, of course it'll be bad, but it might be bad in a new interesting way??
Nope, it's just Bunnyrom again.
You're invited to play a puzzle created by Heartade.
www.nytimes.com/games/create...
Wordle Puzzle Created By Heart...
1. Animation
2. Shadowmaps
3. Special villagers' outfits
Decisions decisions.
Diplomatische Ratschläge von Gouverneur Newsom für Europa. Kurz gefasst: Findet Eure Eier wieder und kriecht da nicht in unwürdiger Weise rum.
What Isaac Roberts Saw Without a Space Telescope
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/20/what-isaac-roberts-saw-without-a-space-telescope/
AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2026/01/20/ai-boom-could-falter-without-wider-adoption-microsoft-chief-satya-nadella-warns/
Oh dear me are people not "adopting" lying autocomplete widely enough to keep the line going up? Oh noes. Nobody could have foreseen this! 🤯
I cannot wait for the official announcement of a new #Microslop programme, Adopt-an-AI. 🤣
What an absolute tool. "The bubble might burst if you all don't help pump it!" 🤡
RE: https://mastodon.social/@bigzaphod/115928143563179770
I don't even know how much time I've spent in Ollie's Arcade over the years. I've never been all that interested in gaming, but the visual design here is just so good: imaginative, fun, and colorful. Classic Iconfactory—iOS design at its best.
This would be worth it just for the new game alone, but the fact that they want to make Ollie's Arcade free is a gift to the iOS community. Didn't have to think twice about backing this one.
root@kaka:~ sudo apt-get install inetutils-telnetd telnet
root@kaka:~ sudo sed -i 's/#<off># telnet/telnet/' /etc/inetd.conf
root@kaka:~ sudo /etc/init.d/inetutils-inetd start
root@kaka:~ USER='-f root' telnet -a localhost
...
root@kaka:~#
Animals that are called what they do:
Fly - flies.
Anteater - eats ants.
Bear - doesn't wear clothes.
Bearbeitung von Fahrgastrechten in unter 24 Stunden. Was ist denn hier falsch
What 
@n1xnxSteve Hersey says is what a lot of us have been lamenting since the ICE invasion started. Shouldn’t local police protect citizens from ICE?? Why this hasn’t happened is a really good question. Factors to consider:
- “Obstructing a federal agent” is illegal, and local police / politicians feel constrained by that (even if the agents themselves don’t seem constrained by the actual law at all, only by what they think they can get away with)
- Police can in theory cite federal agents for e.g. traffic violations or illegal plate swapping after the fact, as long as they’re not “obstructing” the agents — but how do you cite a masked person with fake plates who refuses to give ID?
- Some police are visibly supportive of ICE, chumming it up with them and giving literal fist bumps; a nontrivial subset are outright closet Nazis. A lot of people don’t really see any need to go past “ACAB” as a full explanation for all of this — and certainly The ACAB Hypothesis is…um, not really being proved false right now in Minneapolis.
- I think some police quietly resent ICE for stepping on their turf, but that does not seem to have boiled up into actual confrontation in MSP. One police leader here painted it in early Dec as “some people want to instigate a confrontation between Minneapolis Police, and that’s not going to happen.” Police culture says that police should be a neutral party in a dispute between ICE and residents, and actually protecting residents would be taking sides. (Duh, yes, taking sides that way is your literal job, you dumbasses…but I digress.)
- Some police (especially leadership) really want to get on the community’s good side after the murder of George Floyd, and see this as an opportunity, but unfortunately this has materialized entirely as non-interventionist support: “We responded to a 911 call and help a distressed resident after her husband was abducted!” “We transported children left parentless on the streets by ICE safely back to their home!” “Our officers volunteered at the food shelf!” OK, nice, good for you buddy.
So yeah, I’m wondering this too, and am bitter about it. https://tilde.zone/@n1xnx/115928447564126393
So it begins.
Danish pension fund to dump US treasuries "The US is basically not a good credit and long-term the US government finances are not sustainable," says chief investment officer.
Europe holds $8 trillion in USA bonds and equities. This is just the beginning.
Visualizing Delaunay Triangulation (2022) https://lobste.rs/s/1y3v8c #compsci #math #visualization
https://ianthehenry.com/posts/delaunay/
Potential #HotTake : If you’re a dad, and you don’t eat your kid’s leftovers there’s something deeply, disturbingly wrong with you…
1-Terabyte CD?
PC Mag - May 2000
https://books.google.com/books?id=FnxFfhjz2-gC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA84#v=twopage&q&f=false
Just one more cursed wordle before I go to sleep
You're invited to play a puzzle created by Heartade.
www.nytimes.com/games/create...
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:e4a32z23pazq5dxnucj6wpee/post/3mcunb46qa22h
Wordle Puzzle Created By Heart...
The Wikimedia Foundation’s chief technology and product officer explains how she helps manage one of the most visited sites in the world in the age of generative AI.
To clear the screen, use "clear". To re-display your screen buffer, press
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press the scroll lock key again to get your prompt back.
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My brother cannot patch his computer running Windows 11, because his computer does not support Windows 11 apparently.
What are they smoking in Redmond?
I have a recent MacBook that I connect to a monitor at work and one at home. The monitors are the same model of Lenovo and the computer thinks they are the same monitor. At home the monitor is beside my laptop and at work it's above. Thus each time I move my laptop I have to open display settings and tell the laptop to position the monitor correctly.
Surely there's a unique identifier that the monitor supplies that my laptop could use to differentiate between them? Or is this not true?
Don’t threaten me with a good time Satya
Does anyone know the #aurora forecast for tonight for central Europe?
The NASA forecast shows it as far up north as yesternight but more more intense. So.. good chances? Or did they underestimate yesternight and correct today, so bad?
Someone here will know :)
Christine Lemmer-Webber
Misty
Stefano Marinelli
Eugen Rochko
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