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owl@beach.city wrote:

*Looks at Yamaha workstation synth*
It has FM!

*Looks at Yamaha stage piano*
Also it has FM!

Do Yamaha just put FM into everything?
(I'm in favour.)

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev") wrote:

@CodingItWrong on static typing in Ruby: https://codingitwrong.com/2020/10/19/problems-static-typing-doesnt-solve.html

Matches my experience with Python. When people think they need type checking to not drown in their code, most of the time they'll be better of dedicating all this effort to fixing actual problems: tight coupling, lack of test coverage and unnecessary object-oriented fluff.

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davidrevoy@framapiaf.org ("David Revoy") wrote:

@Greg 😆 Here is a sketch.

I'm not sure the sentences I wrote for the speechbubbles works, are catchy and/or sounds good English.

Any quick proofread/dialog help from anyone native English speaker reading this thread is welcome. :blobcatheart:

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owl@beach.city wrote:

Fnark Berhert`s Nude

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seafrog@glitterkitten.co.uk ("swamp witch activated") wrote:

freemasons are hilarious, to me

"lets get together in a secret blacked out room and learn secret handshakes and have super important Men's Discussions™, no girls allowed!!! we will recite weird ritual phrases and have conversations that are so secret and important that a man must stand at the door with a real actual fuckin sword to stop any Outsiders hearing us"

bro just play dnd im begging u

technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:

wow the Odyssey class really looks like the Sovereign class got crossed with a humpback whale, huh?

https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Odyssey_class

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• it's a huge Federation ship; the saucer is sleek and swept back but the secondary hull around the deflector dish is super bloated (remote)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:

I've probably said something like this before on here, but one of my favorite things about the internet has been increased access to used books.

owl@beach.city wrote:

Can "curb" mean something other than a literal curb?
DHL can deliver something "to the curb" but the nearest curb/car road is not that close.

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ieure ("Maybe it's Eyesaline") wrote:

RT @ieure This is WILD

> Pumpkin is the name I have given to my port of PalmOS running on the x64 architecture.

> This is where Pumpkin is different from emulators: it can also run native applications at native speed. If you have the source code of a PalmOS application, you can compile it for Pumpkin OS with minimal modifications.

https://pmig96.wordpress.com/2021/09/08/pumpkin-os/

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remotestorage@kosmos.social ("remoteStorage") wrote:

1. https://remotestorage.io now features a new design which can be updated by simply editing text in markdown files

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polymerwitch@social.polymerwitch.com ("B") wrote:

If you are a radical leftist, a friend, BIPOC, trans, and/or a sex worker I would happy to give a basic digital security training online for free. I've been doing them for about a decade.

owl@beach.city wrote:

Sad captcha

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• Captcha depicting some hellish cityscape with no bicycle accommodation. It asks me to select all square containing bicycles, but there are none. (remote)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:

I just received an update for the "VGC Illustration" kickstarter where they highlight the post on mastodon for helping them get the word out. It's a little weird seeing references to mastodon outside of mastodon, but it's good too.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vgcsoftware/vgc-illustration-the-drawing-app-of-the-future/posts/3296027

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Greg@social.coop wrote:

Can I just gloat for a minute?

One of my teams has a quarterly "Yak Shaving Day" (or week) which is cool but the coolest part is the graphic they have for this edition:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Yak

<3

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• Illustration of a yak in a sport coat and a keyboard (modeled on a sun microsystems + lisp machine keyboard) with text stylized like "Back 2 the Future" but saying "Yak 2 the Future". (remote)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Shoulda chopped him up in 1865, if you ask me.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/09/09/the-drawing-and-quartering-of-bobby-lee-has-been-done/

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owl@beach.city wrote:

Landbeast

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• Tabby cat curled up in bed between two blankets. The blanket by its feet is green, and the other one is blue, making it look like land and sky. (remote)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

The habit racists have of calling their critics "creationists" is in the news again.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/09/09/i-love-it-when-they-call-me-a-creationist/

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danie10 ("Danie van der Merwe ✅") wrote:

RT @danie10 European Commission Report Declares Open Source Software and Hardware to be a “Public Good”

"This information is essential to develop policy actions in the field"

See https://abopen.com/news/european-commission-report-declares-open-source-software-and-hardware-to-be-a-public-good/

#technology #EU #opensource #government #economy

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cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:

For those of us who have never heard of "Robot Unicorn Attack":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Unicorn_Attack

cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:

Tzag, good people of the fediverse. This seems like the kind of video that would've already blessed my timeline, but since it hasn't, I guess I'll bless yours.

Robot Unicorn Attack "Always" by Erasure All-Vocal Cover by Elizabeth Zharoff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z06PYj2EXFI

owl@beach.city wrote:

"Microsoft might well want you to keep using Microsoft Edge but however good it might be you’re perfectly within your rights to use something else. And having Edge pushed on you can get tiresome.

Removing it isn’t straightforward, neither is making sure it doesn’t come back."

It... comes back?

It's bongos to me that no major operating system lets me decide what programs I want on my computer.

Anathema wrote:

Shoutout to all the British folks on my plane ordering alcohol the moment the plane took off, at 10:30am

Anathema wrote:

European cities always look much nicer than British ones. No wonder we are so miserable all the time.

owl@beach.city wrote:

"If your time off is not in whole hours, please note that the decimals are 1/100 of an hour and not minutes.

E.g: 1 hour and 15 minutes is 1,25 hours.

Here you can find a help to count minutes as 1/100 of an hour."

How do you put that in instead of fixing the UI.

Anathema wrote:

A 6 hour podcast about nuclear weapons? Hardcore History lives up to it’s name.

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jaranta@scholar.social ("Jonne Arjoranta 📚") wrote:

Wired has an interesting article on the practicalities of how history is made on Wikipedia.

https://www.wired.com/story/one-womans-mission-to-rewrite-nazi-history-wikipedia/

Anathema wrote:

Tried to get rid of some body hair but did it wrong so now it looks like I got into a fight with a cat

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev") wrote:

"It's important not to get angry at people for what they don't know." — Taliesin Jaffe (as Caduceus Clay)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:

Reading a book it is! Thanks, fediverse!

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conservancy@mastodon.technology ("Software Freedom Conservancy") wrote:

Conservancy is looking for a website designer to help us with a new project! We're looking for someone with design experience and familiarity with FOSS tooling. Pay is between 20-60$/hr depending on experience
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2021/sep/07/website-designer-short-opportunity/