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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
If the #IdesOfMarch teaches us anything, it's that there's no limit to what we can accomplish if we work together in a group.
goodnight. hopefully all of the world's problems will be solved by the time I wake up
If the #IdesOfMarch teaches us anything, it's that there's no limit to what we can accomplish if we work together in a group.
I have a couple of 4TB Samsung SSD drives and copying 2 TB from one drive to another somehow is estimated to take 4 hours? I get that SSD firmware does a lot under the hood to make the drive look good during the benchmarks, but the lack of transparency into what's happening with the drive (although, it gets pretty hot) is annoying
Show HN: What if your synthesizer was powered by APL (or a dumb K clone)?
Link: https://octetta.github.io/k-synth/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47386983
Mastodon boost/fav/reply #bookmarklet idea:
Add following bookmarklet, named eg. "boost/fav/reply" to your browser bookmark toolbar:
javascript:(function() {location='https://mastodon.social/search?q=' + location.toString();})()
Just change mastodon.social for your actual home instance, where you are logged in all the time. Eg. for me it is:
javascript:(function() {location='https://f.cz/search?q=' + location.toString();})()
If you are viewing original URL of ActivityPub status outside of your instance, which means, that you are not logged in and cannot boost, fav or reply, clicking on this bookmarklet will just open the same status "locally", where you are logged in.
Tested in #Firefox at least with #Mastodon and #Friendica statuses and it seems to work as intended. I used to copy+paste URL to my home instance search box, but this is single click solution.
I wonder if there is way for web site to offer you installing bookmarklet automagically (it would be probably insecure?)
Feedback welcome.
Just finished a balloon doggo for a baby shower
Pattern: https://ravel.me/dog-balloon-animal
been listening this new John Butler song on loop for 3 days now.
If you slave away for dollars and your dollars they don’t grow,
maybe you’re the wrong equation or the algorithm broke
And the screens yelling out with the great big ROAR,
you should try a little harder, you could do a little more,
you could have a piece of the pie, get what you are destined for,
you can be that 1 percentile with that 99 below
Israeli police have killed two young Palestinian brothers and their parents in the occupied West Bank, shooting all four in the head and face as the family returned from a Ramadan shopping trip.
Mohammed, five, Othman, seven, who was blind and had special needs, their mother Waad Bani Odeh, 35, and father Ali Bani Odeh, 37, were driving through their hometown of Tamoun late on Saturday when Israeli forces opened fire.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/15/israeli-police-kill-two-young-palestinian-boys-and-their-parents-in-west-bank?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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The less fun parts of #weaving
(With obligatory Supurrrvisor Corrie)
Grinding on the weekend, but I have accepted my fate, for it is the price of ambition sometimes
Today we released GIMP 3.2 with major new features, including vector layers, link layers (smart objects), DDS BC7 export, better PSD import including PSB for large images, MyPaint 2.0 brushes, and much more!
https://www.gimp.org/news/2026/03/14/gimp-3-2-released/
#GIMP #imageEditor #GPL #openSource #libreGraphics #GIMP3 #GIMP3_2 #GEGL #news #release
Now the fun part! #weaving #CatsOfMastodon #CraftingWtihCats
Admitting publicly that you only want this bill that is designed to disenfranchise voters is necessary to make sure your party wins is quite a choice. The GOP has done away with subtlety and euphemisms and is now all "we need to cheat because the polls say people don't like us."
Painting of a Cherub 🖼️
@SnoopJ No, meaning that application vendors are just fine shipping things that completely fail at the low end of tech specs.
Sorry for not being clear about that.
The best part of The Proclaimers live gig I saw in 1991 is when one of The Proclaimers looked directly at me and said “it’s proclaimin’ time!” then started proclaiming all over the place.
but IRCv3 still has no E2EEi don’t see that as a real issue with groupchat in particular because the fundamental problem that E2EE tech alone dosen’t solve is trust. take matrix as an example: absolutely nobody verifies the keys of every single device in the chat and nobody will notice if a privileged server entity silently adds uninvited members.
What makes Intel Optane stand out (2023)
Link: https://blog.zuthof.nl/2023/06/02/what-makes-intel-optane-stand-out/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47388141
Most people don't know this but the state is selling the Bay's dwindling sand -- so that for-profit companies can turn it into concrete.
Bay sand not only provides habitat for countless creatures, but literally shores up the shoreline. We *need* that sand to stave of erosion and sea level rise.
So we're suing.
Learn more: https://baykeeper.org/press_release/baykeeper-challenges-unlawful-sand-mining-leases-for-sf-bay/
Pictured: A sand miner on the Bay by Roger Cunningham
#sanfranciscobay #sfbay #bayarea #sand #sandmining #sealevelrise
Anyway, the Mayor of Galway visited for the parade, that's interesting
centering in CSS
Permalink: https://wizardzines.com/comics/css-centering
You do not have to use Mastodon through its official mobile app!
There are many other ways of using your Mastodon account, and most people who try the alternatives tend to prefer them.
The most popular alternatives are third party apps and your server's own website. These tend to have more features and faster updates. You can find out more at:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/which-apps-can-i-use-should-i-use-the-official-app-or-a-third-party-app
However you access Mastodon, it's still your same account and same server 🙂
You do not have to use Mastodon through its official mobile app!
There are many other ways of using your Mastodon account, and most people who try the alternatives tend to prefer them.
The most popular alternatives are third party apps and your server's own website. These tend to have more features and faster updates. You can find out more at:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/which-apps-can-i-use-should-i-use-the-official-app-or-a-third-party-app
However you access Mastodon, it's still your same account and same server 🙂
knocking at your door at 2am asking "why is your CLI not a library"
Put differently: this is the Electron killer, for better or worse, and not in the way that Apple killed Flash.
When PCs ship with 8 GB or less of RAM, application companies don't give a fuck, and so we get a proliferation of Electron and Electron-like platforms that consume gigantic amounts of RAM. That won't fly on something like the Neo.
modern retelling of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde where a kindly dentist moves to Miami and transforms by doing mysterious Chinese peptides into an OnlyFans trafficker and Crypto Bro
Yeees, they want to bring back Firefly, as an anime.
Let's make some noise (and hope they get all the creative freedom they need to make this into a success!)
#BringBackFirefly
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Everyone has a MacBook Neo take, so here's mine.
Apple has, in my opinion, been a net negative for computing, and to a stunning degree. They've normalized DRM for software so completely that it will possibly take decades to get back the rights that we lost. They've used that power to make life worse for queer folks and to cozy up to the Trump administration.
But. There's something fascinating about the Neo.
I wrote something (not directly about AI) on cryptogyny — sorry still depressing, BUT ☺️ I do end on actionable things and some fun examples along the way, such as
"Comparing [the 108 women scholars until 1800] with 58,995 [men], we find that they were on average better"‼️
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
RE: https://mastodon.social/@yayaver/116210451937109857
Listen to full albums, too.
Just listen: don’t just put music on as background noise. Pick a good album, and find a quiet place with a decent enough stereo or headphones (preferably not earbuds). Grab a cup of tea or a beer or a whiskey (whatever your sipping beverage of choice), get comfy, and really listen to the music.
When you were in grade school did your music teacher have you listen to music (say, “Peter and the Wolf”) and try to pick out the instruments? I hope so. Do that. Appreciate the interplay of instruments and vocals. Really listen to the lyrics (if it has them) if you haven’t before.
One of the tragedies of today is that people have basically all recorded music at their fingertips, but relegate it to background noise.
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
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