Mastodon Feed: Posts

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

WordPress & plugin developers, please understand CSS specificity! 😭

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

The Harmonic Convergence led to the Harmonic Concordance which now leads to the Harmonic Emergence, which is all nothing but empty noise from some New Age wackaloons. It's embarrassingly stupid and vapid.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/02/10/year-of-the-fire-horse/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

A tiny dilapidated house with a modern touch.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #landscape #nature #naturephotography #landscapephotography #abandoned #decay #trees #sky #grass

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
beka_valentine@kolektiva.social ("beka valentine") wrote:

deploying solar panels over farms increases crop yields by up to 18% by preventing them from getting scorched, meaning huge solar power plants can be built with no harm to natural landscapes

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/11/19/france-agrivoltaics-trials-show-early-crop-and-livestock-gains/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
macmanx@social.lol ("James Huff :prami_pride:") wrote:

“Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show delivered a powerful message and made international headlines. The show was dense with symbolism, including messages of Puerto Rican pride and independence.”

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-cultural-impact-of-bad-bunnys-super-bowl-halftime-show

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
eff ("Electronic Frontier Foundation") wrote:

Though age verification mandates claim to protect children, in practice they create harmful censorship and surveillance regimes that put everyone—adults and young people alike—at risk. Don’t believe it? Learn more here: https://EFF.org/Age

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
gikiski@social.lol ("Gik :prami: | 💙➡️🇺🇦") wrote:

The last mile for making Discord feasible beyond this change or requirement would remove the central agency in charge of making that decision and distribute that agency. It has all the “server” or “channel” separations in-built. It just needs to cut centralization.

Yeah, yeah, corporate entity IP ownership blah, blah, blah.

Banging my User Bill of Rights drum.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Eniko Fox") wrote:

i've been using qbasic for a few days now and damn this thing was nice for its time. it has breakpoints and step through debugging, and an immediate window where you can input code and run it to do stuff like print out variables

it's... really good? my biggest issue is that the text editor controls are kinda clunky, especially when it comes to indentation

also its bizarre how nice it is to program in a language where i don't have to worry about null dereferences (they're impossible in qbasic)

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

latest UX deceptive pattern I despise:

1. Enter credit card details
2. Tab to "continue" button
3. KAPOW! auto-focus "remember for later" disguised 3rd-party "your privacy is important to us" garbage

😩

Boosted by jwz:
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

“can you recommend an alternative?” no. that’s why I’m so fucking angry. we fucked it. we’re no longer capable of making online chat protocols or web browsers or discussion forum software that people actually want to use. it’s all shit. every choice is either proprietary and exploitative or awful open source garbage sucking all the air out of all alternatives and forks, operated by fucking terrible people. we let this happen.

you want there to be an alternative so you can skip being angry too.

Boosted by ratatui_rs@fosstodon.org ("Ratatui"):
orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

Real-time profiling in the terminal 👀🔥

🚒 **eprofiler-tui** — A TUI flamegraph viewer for OTLP profiling data

💯 Streams profiles over gRPC & renders an interactive/zoomable flamegraph.

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/rogercoll/eprofiler-tui

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #profiling #performance #observability #opentelemetry #terminal

Attachments:

• gifv: 55f89d91aab0b428.mp4

Boosted by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
freexian@hachyderm.io ("Freexian :debian:") wrote:

#Debusine aims to be an integrated solution to build, distribute and maintain a Debian-based distribution. The lower-level pieces of its workflows are called tasks. A few examples are Sbuild, Lintian and Debdiff worker tasks.

Adding a new worker task can help you extend the capabilities of a Debusine instance.

Our new blogpost - https://www.freexian.com/blog/debusine-write-task/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social covers how to write one with a detailed example of adding a worker task that runs reprotest.

#freexian

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I know it's a long shot but if someone who sees this found their way to Mastodon through one of the leaflets we distributed at #FOSDEM, I want to hear from you--what did you think of the leaflet? I need to generalize those for other events.

Boosted by jwz:
RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:

"Hate Cops"
Seen in Sydney

Boosted by jwz:
amplifyukraine.eu@bsky.brid.gy ("AmplifyUkraine 🔱🇺🇦") wrote:

IOC bars Ukrainian athlete’s helmet honoring athletes killed during war #Ukraine

IOC bars Ukrainian athlete’s h...

Boosted by jwz:
ianbetteridge@vivaldi.net ("Ian Betteridge") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/116044734580904397

Remember how American media spent decades telling us how they deserved special privileges because a free press was a bulwark against the decline of democracy?

Yeah, about that…

Boosted by db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕"):
NicMakesStuff@indieweb.social wrote:

📝 Wishcessibility

What do recycling and accessibility have in common?

https://www.nicchan.me/blog/wishcessibility/

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
juliusgoat.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("A.R. Moxon") wrote:

After Nixon was forced to resign, Republicans took the lesson not to stop being corrupt, but to demolish shared reality. After Romney lost with scant minority support, Republicans took the lesson not to stop being racist, but to demolish democracy. Once Trump is gone, what lesson will they take?

Boosted by mbrubeck@mefi.social:
donni ("donni saphire") wrote:

76 trombones is way too many trombones for me. I’ll never need more than 5

Boosted by jwz:
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

Not loving that local authorities are discovering hidden biolabs across the western United States and the CDC is like “we’ll call you back on that later, right now we’re way too busy trying to stop the woke mind virus”

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/las-vegas-bio-lab-reedley-california-pathogens/

#USPol

Boosted by jwz:
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

This part is especially important (emphasis added):

“If we have to destroy the stock market to save democracy, we need to accept that and, more importantly, •••the richest and the most powerful people in the world and in this country need to understand that that is a real possibility.••• There is no economic stability without democratic stability. If you take away our democratic stability, we will take away the economic stability.”

2/

Boosted by jwz:
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

This is exactly the groundwork we need to be laying right now, and I’m delighted to hear it coming from a US Senator (!):

If Trump tries to prevent a fair election from happening, then we need “a true national strike in the sense that, if they do this, if they try to overthrow our democracy, if you are allied with democracy, do not go to work . If you’re a pilot, do not show up. If you drive a train, do not show up. If you’re a teacher, do not show up. We grind the country to a halt.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/06/donald-trump-voting-midterms-democrat-national-strike

1/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
e18e@webtoo.ls wrote:

🚀 Big news: We’re now sponsored by the Google Chrome team through the Chrome Performance Fund!

Together, we’re advancing web performance and modern tooling—integrating Baseline + Web Features into our next module-replacements release to deliver smarter, environment-aware suggestions. Huge thanks for the support 🙏

read more here:
https://e18e.dev/blog/the-year-ahead-2026.html#sponsored-by-google-chrome

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Melt the ICE MN – Bring the Heat, Melt the ICE:

ICE out of Minnesota now
Release all detainees
Statewide eviction moratorium by March 1
Drop all charges against ICE resisters
Amnesty for all immigrants
Abolish ICE, DHS, and the police https://melttheicemn.com/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
franklinlopez@kolektiva.social ("Franklin López") wrote:

Minnesota’s turning up—melt ICE, fund the crews, and show the hell up. Pick a lane: streets, pickets, mutual aid, or boycott the cowards. 👉 Https://melttheicemn.com
#MeltTheICE #AbolishICE #Solidarity

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Okay so this is how I fixed it: I used Elmer's Glue to glue down the straps. Then, I "welded" the straps together by melting a plastic bristle of a broom. lol. Idk if that will last but it's better than before.

Boosted by jwz:
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

Dystopia notwithstanding, Ring's commercial about using their surveillance to find lost pets makes no sense.

They say 10M pets are lost per year & their service finds "more than 1 dog per day." So let's even say generously 500 dogs per year.

Out of 10M lost pets, they want Americans to commit privacy suicide for a .005% success rate???

"We fail 99.995% of the time! Let us violate your privacy!" is a helluva way to burn $10M in ads and destroy your brand.

I'm uninstalling my RING today.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

what if all the emails find each other

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
WeirdWriter@caneandable.social ("Robert Kingett") wrote:

@ohmu @benlockwood Readers go there. I write on my own website instead. This is 1 reason why though http://juliaserano.blogspot.com/2025/06/regarding-substack-and-writer-centric.html

Boosted by jwz:
Viss wrote:

did my civic duty today:
went to a local donut shop
noticed they had a new ring camera up.
i ask the nice hispanic girl behind the counter "hey you know ice can see through that ring camera, right?"
she goes UHHHH NO WTF I HAVE ONE AT HOME
"tear it out of the wall. yank the power. ring gives ice free access to those"