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Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:

Makes me think back on my own coming to terms with being a "designer" back in 2012 and I think I lost a bunch of tech cred with it, tbh.

https://fberriman.com/2012/07/20/accidental-designer/

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

HB responses say the 40 meter band is good for JS8 right now... at least from here in Upstate NY

#AmateurRadio

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

How likely are you to recommend the following JavaScript to a friend?

```
[...Array(10)].map((_, i) => i + 1).join(' | ')
```

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

Dogzilla@mastodon.sdf.org wrote:

LIVE: Let’s Put A Seditionist Second In Line To The Presidency! Or Not That! https://www.wonkette.com/p/live-lets-put-a-seditionist-second

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

"After Justice Engoron issued the fine, the trial resumed... Soon, another of Mr. Trump’s lawyers, Clifford S. Robert, called for an immediate verdict, given Mr. Cohen’s contradictions. Justice Engoron denied the request, and Mr. Trump slid his chair back and stormed out of the courtroom."

source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/nyregion/trump-cohen-gag-order-engoron.html

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

My son's pediatric office is kind of a mess in lots of ways, but today I discovered they don't even have the patient portal login anywhere on their mobile site; it literally only exists on desktop. And I'm seriously considering switching doctors just because of that one last straw.

keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri") wrote:

One of the few reasons I miss #Xitter is the "fast news" feedback.
We had a little #earthquake here few hours ago, and twitter is still the best in knowing if something really happened in real time.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

In French, a magic wand is called a “baguette magique” 🤣

Reblogged by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):

bitterkarella@sfba.social ("Lesbian Death Bed") wrote:

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[mysterious circle of robed figures]
JK Rowling: hello children
Rowling: today we continue our quessst to rehabilitate glinner
Rowling: i will not ressst until he isss reintegrated into ssociety
Rowling: and not ssleeping on my couch anymore

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

steve@discuss.systems ("Steve Canon") wrote:

@regehr Should have used UTF-EBCDIC instead.

(For anyone fortunate enough to be hearing about this for the first time today, boy are you in for a treat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-EBCDIC)

Reblogged by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):

beebrookshire ("Bethany Brookshire") wrote:

"People are not inherently bad. It's particular kinds of relationships, and ways of relating to the natural world, that are actually the problem." @jacquelyngill.bsky.social with the truth. Humans are an "invasive species," but we don't have to be. https://www.mainepublic.org/maine/2023-10-13/humans-may-be-the-ultimate-invasive-this-maine-scientist-sees-a-better-path-ahead

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

xkcd@mastodon.xyz ("XKCD Bot") wrote:

I average out the spring and fall changes and just set my clocks 39 minutes ahead year-round.
https://xkcd.com/2846/

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• 12872a87bd206faf.png (remote)

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

Republicans loft another horrible loser into the nomination for the speakership. This one is a creationist!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/10/25/do-you-want-a-creationist-for-speaker-of-the-house/

Attachments:

• Mike Johnson's AiG bio (remote)

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I feel disturbance in the force. My gif-frame-blitting crate suddenly jumped 50x in number of downloads, more even than Microsoft’s crate for Windows APIs. Someone’s doing a lot of uncached git tool building.

https://lib.rs/crates/gif-dispose

Reblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):

ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:

Last night @adamhjk and @ag_dubs joined the Oxide Friends to continue their panel discussion with @bcantrill following up his p99conf talk revisiting open source anti-patterns. Notably, open source has accelerated the distribution of value… without clarity on how contributors can capture that value. Has open source accelerated unequal distribution? Give a listen!

https://youtu.be/UC4QblJaMUc

Reblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):

jaywgraves@indieweb.social ("Jay Graves") wrote:

@bcantrill @ahl I've been working my way though the Oxide and Friends back catalog and have been reading the computer history books you've talked about. Here is the latest (I read Soul of a New Machine earlier in the year and one of my friends is currently reading Supermen after I finished it.)

Attachments:

• Two books sitting face up on a dining table. Title one: Showstopper Title two: The Friendly Orange Glow (remote)

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

I'm so thoroughly vaxxed that Republicans wither on contact. My sore shoulder is a small price to pay for that power.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/10/25/maybe-theyll-act-as-a-maga-repellent/

Attachments:

• Tattered vaccination record card (remote)

nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

I wish I had time to work on making Wayland the stable default for popular/indispensable Electron apps like VSCode, Slack, Discord, etc. -- we need to figure this out soon, it's becoming a crippling thing especially as major distros default to Wayland.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

This is so well done:

https://heather-buchel.com/blog/2023/10/why-your-web-design-sucks/

nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

Ran 16km yesterday, screw the haters

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

Jedigirl@mindly.social ("Joanne Fisher") wrote:

Attachments:

• Writing on a wall: "In order for me to write poetry that is not political I must listen to the birds and in order to listen to the birds, the war planes must be silent. " - Marwan Makhoul (remote)

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

24. The Kirlian Witness (1978). A woman whose sister is murdered tries to find the killer by learning to commune with her sister's house plants. The sister was also communing with the plants, btw. The woman is striving to match the depth of her sister's understanding. Daffy but without the faintest whiff of irony.

Attachments:

• Poster for the Kirlian Witness. A potted plant tipped over on a wood floor toward a bloodied hand. The rest of the arm extends past the border of poster. On the opposite side of a poster, a man's leg is stepping out of the frame, away from the plant and arm. The wallpaper is patterned to look like a starry sky.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

There's nothing more calming for me than sitting in front of a fire while listening to the rain outside, rushing through the downpipes.

Attachments:

• Logs burning in the fireplace.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

noodling around on 50.250MHz JS8 & helping a friend get their KX3 to do rig control nice... interesting. (40m band is hopping BTW)

#AmateurRadio

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

C++ users are offended when someone says “C/C++”, but the LAMP abbreviation uses “PHP/Perl/Python” and nobody bats an eye.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Can't make my mind up whether I really should get the Prusa XL.

Always wanted a tool-changer, but now I can't even decide on how many hot-ends I really want or need in such a machine.

Reviews on YouTube are sparse. Anyone on the 3D printing Fediverse who already got an XL?

The Bambu Lab printers becoming so affordable really doesn't help either, even though these machines are hard to compare. (AMS versus tool-changer)

#3dprinting

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

"The reality is, opposition to bullying is not a rare substance that can be depleted, and treating it as if it were one is a strategy that seems designed—not to ready us to oppose the “real” hate when at last the worst possible thing imaginable arrives, but to actively assist the worst possible thing to arrive unopposed.

Here it comes, wearing a smile, respectable and normal, perfectly laundered.

It’s only joking, if you ask.

It’s deadly serious, if you don’t."

https://open.substack.com/pub/armoxon/p/hatred-launderers

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

A purple Skeletor, supervillain of the Masters of the Universe franchise, printed in dichromatic (pink & purple) PLA filament.

Used Lightning infill & organic supports, finished after roughly 26 hours of non-stop printing. Removing the support material was pretty painless.

#3dprinting

Attachments:

• A 3D printed Skeletor sculpture, after the support material has been removed.

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

Tom Emmer was endorsed by Michele Bachmann in the long-ago. We dodged a bullet today.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/10/24/you-didnt-want-tom-emmer-anyway/

Attachments:

• Tom Emmer + Michele Bachmann (remote)

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

It took almost four years, but I just had my first positive Covid test. 😞

(Hard to be surprised; I was traveling internationally last week. But still.)