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A note about current events
You might notice that I don’t really talk about current events all that often. Some might interpret that as me sticking my head in the sand, being ignorant, or being uncaring and complicit.
None of those are actually true. I’m aware of what’s going on in the world, but I don’t have anything to add to the discourse on it. Instead I try to focus on bringing joy and positivity to the world - so I post stupid dad jokes and project updates. 1/2
Trauerhaltestelle auf dem Friedhof Ohlsdorf in Hamburg - Wände, die bemalt werden dürfen
#MonochromeMarch
(zine permission granted)
Glassworm Is Back: A New Wave of Invisible Unicode Attacks Hits Repositories
Link: https://www.aikido.dev/blog/glassworm-returns-unicode-attack-github-npm-vscode
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47387047
Separating the Wayland Compositor and Window Manager
Link: https://isaacfreund.com/blog/river-window-management/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47388137
Grandparents are glued to their phones, families are worried [video]
Link: https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0n61dg3/grandparents-are-glued-to-their-phones-families-are-worried
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47389784
man oh man, i thought pi day would never end
A (German/italian/English speaking) glass friend is looking for a (guest?) room in #Munich from April-July, 1 night a week (Weds-Thurs - because they lecture at one of the universities)
They only have a small budget, but can give you glass 😅
Let me know if you know of anything and I’ll pass it on to them/put you in touch.
So ways in which masto is my favorite...
1. I woke up to over 500 notifications and just said FUCK audibly. This is going to be a whole thing. But no, it was just a wide ranging and interesting discussion about America's class and social systems, and how they terribly disadvantage most Americans.
2. I can edit my posts to clean up my terrible spelling
A SwiftUI story in two images…
Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis
Link: https://www.theculturenewspaper.com/hollywood-enters-oscars-weekend-in-existential-crisis/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47386856
https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260312-this-is-not-the-computer-for-you this is the best blog post about computing or computers I have ever read. Cuts to the heart of everything that matters. Please read it
@swelljoeJoe Cooper 🇺🇦 also, not for nothing but giving developers slow computers doesn't really help them focus on optimization that much because developers spend more than half their time running (also slow) dev tools that they have no control over. giving them a computer that runs their tools slowly so that it will *also* run their output slowly in the hopes that they'll get *so* upset that they will torch their employment by yelling at their management is not a recipe for success
@swelljoeJoe Cooper 🇺🇦 in closing, I could beat Casey Muratori in a fist fight
Did you miss the #PyTV livestream earlier this month? It's not too late to watch it. Wanna know how it goes? Check this out: https://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2026/03/python-unplugged-on-pytv-recap/
#Python #AI #OpenSource #DataScience
https://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2026/03/python-unplugged-on-pytv-recap/
Did you miss the #PyTV livestream earlier this month? It's not too late to watch it. Wanna know how it goes? Check this out: https://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2026/03/python-unplugged-on-pytv-recap/
#Python #AI #OpenSource #DataScience
https://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2026/03/python-unplugged-on-pytv-recap/
The Amstrad CPC6128 edition of New York Warriors was released with both disk sides containing the first side, losing a whole side of levels! Lost for 36 years, author Fred Williams has kindly allowed Games That Weren't to release the lost full version:
https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/03/new-york-warriors-missing-levels-recovered/
It is thanks to Kevin Edwards that the game was preserved, after Fred sent his 3" disks to Kevin.
Well, cat, sitting ON my sewing is not the smartest thing you've ever done... not the least smart either, to be perfectly fair, but somewhere in the top half of things I wish you wouldn't do. I have had to extract the pincushion from partly underneath him more than once.
If instance admins allow AI Agents on their platform and they keep harassing us I have no other choice then to silence that instance
Again, I do not pay these massive costs each month to host robots
Let's keep the #Fediverse human shall we? 
Wee Simon is out of it this #Caturday.
Pixel wishes you a pleasant #Caturday night.
캐논 노이즈는 종종 독특한 패턴을 띄는데, 필름 그레인 비슷하기도 해서 굳이 안 지울 때가 있다. 소니제 센서의 매끈함과는 다른 매력이 있다. 파나소닉제 센서보다는 인위적인 느낌이 있고. 많은 수를 써 본 건 아니지만 카메라 메이커별로 정책 차이는 분명히 있다.
naturzukunft @naturzukunft@socialhub.activitypub.rocks
This FEP defines a standardized notification collection for ActivityPub actors. A new notifications property under endpoints (ActivityPub §5.7) provides an OrderedCollection containing Notification objects that inform the actor about relevant activities.
Unlike the inbox, which receives raw activities, the notification collection holds server-generated notification objects. Notifications only exist within the collection — read notifications are removed. Batch removal is supported via FEP-db70 (RemoveAll) with optional FEP-34c1 filtering.
Full text: //codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/34ec/fep-34ec.md
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Rent covered, emergency bills covered. Your generosity is invaluable. 💕🙏 thank you so much.
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Please help us keep a roof over our heads, and keep our cat with us. I’ve had him for nearly 20 years and he really needs me in this phase of his life.
Sheena, at my mom's house, has created a bed. #cats #catlife #catsofmastodon #silentSunday
I grabbed a copy of Goodnight Punpun at Bookman's down in Tucson. I had no idea what I was getting into. Full of tragedy, awkwardness and abuse it still manages to be a gripping read and even a little uplifting. I haven't been this captivated since I read 20th Century Boys. I don't know if I can really recommend Punpun though, it's challenging stuff. #manga #punpun
Tech companies defeat bill as AI drains local water supplies https://www.theolympus.net/13531/
Washington House Bill 2515, which aimed to make data centers pay for their own grid infrastructure and use clean energy, failed in March 2026. Despite passing the House, the bill was defeated in the Senate following heavy lobbying from tech giants like Microsoft and Amazon. They will keep using clean water and electricity but bill needs to be paid by locals.
🕐 2026-03-15 18:00 UTC
📰 ネットワーク何もわからん！そんな私がネスペ合格までに役立った本まとめ (👍 67)
🇬🇧 App developer shares books that helped them pass Japan's Network Specialist exam, going from basic IP knowledge to advanced networking concepts.
🇰🇷 앱 개발자가 기본 IP 지식에서 일본 네트워크 전문가 시험 합격까지 도움된 책들을 공유합니다.
If you need to create a FAT32 formatted USB thumb drive, find out its devicename
running dmesg(8) after inserting it. Then create an MBR schema, a single slice and
format it:
# gpart create -s MBR ${devicename}
# gpart add -t fat32 ${devicename}
# newfs_msdos -F 32 -L thumbdrive ${devicename}s1
-- Lars Engels <lme@FreeBSD.org>
@jared 
@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
ace! Here’s my Juno when he was little
Serenity’s crew will return in Avengers: Doomsday.
Die Tochter ist bei ihrer Bildung so weit ihrem Alter voraus: statt Physik zu lernen hat sie ihr Zimmer aufgeräumt und gesaugt und putzt jetzt das Badezimmer. So etwas kenne ich sonst nur von Studenten.
GIANT BAPPERS APPRECIATION POST
Canada Lynxes have such enormous paws, I love them!!!
Long thread
Should I cut it or just yank it? 🧵
Long thread
@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) Give the sweater to a “friend” then pull the rouge thread while they’re wearing it. Every part of your actions will be outwardly kind and internally needlessly cruel and self serving . 🤣 🤣 🤣 Or get a minion to do it for you… Organized religion has been doing that for centuries
A couple of 20-year-old developers make $500,000 a month promising to help men to stop watching porn, but exposed their private porn watching habits.
https://www.404media.co/viral-quittr-porn-addiction-app-exposed-the-masturbation-habits-of-hundreds-of-thousands-of-users/
Billionaire tech owners like Elon Musk are profiting from hate and misinformation on their platforms.
Greens will bring in new rules to hold social media platforms to the same standards as traditional media publishers to tackle online hate and extremist content.
ok it's actually looking proper now except that it throws an access violation when i exit so that's probably not an amazing sign
update: i fixed the access violation
you're telling me 3 bits of red/green and 2 bits of blue isn't enough to smoothly gouraud shade a triangle? i'm shocked, shocked!
well. not that shocked
It’s becoming real... When you build clean interfaces from the ground up, the next GUI is not magic. It is a concrete architectural vision, solid technical design, and a few prompts away...
nicole mikołajczyk shared the below article:
shrimple 🇵🇱 🏳️⚧️ @shrimple@www.shrimple.pl
verbose list of my week's blog posts with current to-do ambitions and accomplishments
Read more →Die Tochter ist bei ihrer Bildung so weit ihrem Alter voraus: statt Physik zu lernen hat sie ihr Zimmer aufgeräumt und gesaugt und putzt jetzt das Badezimmer. So etwas kenne ich sonst nur von Studenten.
Instagram will remove end‑to‑end encrypted chats on May 8, 2026 🔓.
Without E2EE, private messages could become accessible for data analysis or AI training, raising serious privacy and user‑trust concerns 🤔.
🔗 https://proton.me/blog/instagram-end-to-end-encryption
#TechNews #Facebook #Instagram #Meta #Privacy #Encryption #Security #DataProtection #SocialMedia #Chat #Policy #AI #Surveillance #UserRights #FOSS #DigitalRights #Technology #E2EE
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