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Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

larsfrommars@toot.garden ("procedurally generational talent") wrote:

please make art. it is the vainest and most futile thing you can do and also maybe the meaning of life

Reblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):

undefined@treehouse.systems ("knuxify") wrote:

@ptrc @psykose got inspired

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• the "cow tools" comic, but the head of the cow is replaced by the gnu logo, the tools are replaced by some common output from ./configure, and the image is captioned "Auto tools" (remote)

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

Obnoxiously hyper-conservative guy down the street has replaced his anti-Biden flags with Israel flags, to the surprise of pretty much no one.

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

lhgmk2@mas.to ("Longhairedgit") wrote:

Raise a glass to those wonderful souls who keep our instances and servers running over the festive period, so that weirdos like me can continue avoiding talking to family.

Cheers you splendid people, may you have the merriest thingies of all the thingies. 🍻

Reblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):

erin@coolmathgam.es ("site reliability erin") wrote:

mildly threatening

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• A Marriott promotional email with the subject “The Hague is Waiting, Erin” (remote)

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

Minitel!

https://social.v.st/@th/111637372970700775

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

th@v.st ("Trammell Hudson") wrote:

@kjhealy computers used to be so cool

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• amber crt on a car mounted computer with a tiny keyboard (remote)
• minitel 1 with a slanted CRT built into the small keyboard unit (remote)
• oliveti terminal built into a desk with a round crt to the side (remote)
• cm-2 super computer made from eight black cubes with red blinking lights (remote)

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

kjhealy ("Kieran Healy") wrote:

I feel like it's time for a more widespread revival of the 1970s design aesthetic for computer terminals, input faceplates, and keyboards.

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• DEC VT20
• ADDS Consul 980
• DEC PDP/12 faceplate/switch array
• Data General Dasher D2

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

gabrielarana@texasobserver.social ("Gabriel Arana") wrote:

Celebrating Mexican Christmas today and made this Bûche de Noël (bourbon hazelnut chocolate cream swirl, ganache, meringue mushrooms)

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• Traditional French Yule log with meringue mushrooms (remote)

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

yurnidiot@mstdn.social ("Frosty the SnowMandu 🥟") wrote:

Greg Joswiak, John Ternus, and John Gruber discussing Mac hardware while wearing fancy AR goggles. @gruber

#VisionPro #WWDC

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• add4dadaa5a69a1f.mp4 (remote)

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

dangrsmind@sfba.social wrote:

Mystery?

https://phys.org/news/2023-12-diversity-species-higher-farming-yield.html

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

“fewer insects means fewer pollination visits, which means the effort and energy that a plant is putting in to produce nectar and make itself attractive is going to waste. As it shrinks its petal size and cuts down on making nectar, the diminishing numbers of insects have even less reason to stop by.

Other aspects of the field pansies, including the leaf size and the total size of the plant, hadn't changed significantly across the decades.”

https://sfba.social/@dangrsmind/111643298136569297

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

Excited for #37c3. Lots of great talks, assemblies and sessions, from the looks of it.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Also here: Cat, who considers himself one of the Christmas gifts, and also one of the two reasons all the baubles hang so high.

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• A black cat with shiny eyes, wearing a red and white scarf, lying under the Christmas tree next to a box wrapped in Christmas themed shark paper.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from this Jewish/Russian/Italian/Mexican household in Germany 🎄

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• Living room illuminated by candle light, fairy lights, and a projector screen showing Notting Hill. A festively decorated dinner table with almond cookies in the middle, and a Christmas tree full of felt and plush baubles.

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

Also, my father died on xmas 30 years ago. My brain is exceedingly confused on this day, and it doesn't feel great.

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

Missing the days when I had three kids romping at 5am on xmas morning.

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

oh gawdz… if I hear that David Sedaris XMas Elf show on NPR one more time I’m gonna murder someone

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

sure, why not…

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• db64d2b6fedca13b.png (remote)

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

It's a slack Xmas. I think I'd be amenable to a visit from the Spider Queen.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/12/25/xmas-planskaput/

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• Spider Queen asks "How about | inject you with paralytic venom and let my offspring feast on your still-living flesh?" Bembo replies, "Can I name a couple of them" (remote)

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

The Christmas Eve equivalent of sitting on the keyboard

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• Cat sitting in wrapping paper

teller ("Siim Teller") wrote:

@nadim Congrats!

Reblogged by mbrubeck@mefi.social:

arthurwyatt@wandering.shop ("Arthur Wyatt") wrote:

Version of “baby it’s cold outside” but it’s actually about persuading the kids to wear weather appropriate clothing.

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

I'm not even in that many Discords and I still feel like it's way too many.

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

brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson") wrote:

Happy Yule to all who celebrate. And a lovely day to all that don't, too. Xx

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

Just to clarify, I'm not blaming the maintainer of the GIMP snap. Maintainers owe me nothing, and I'm thankful for everything they do (and will try other solutions if that doesn't work for me). I'm discussing the wrong idea behind snaps. As well as flatpack and appimage, by the way.

Software as an island tends to suck.

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

The root of the problem is that apt is not a packaging format. It's a big, working ecosystem solving many problems of installing software into a system. Ubuntu is not willing (nor able) to replicate this ecosystem, but they keep pretending that you can sacrifice basic usability for security and treat every application as a self-sufficient island. You can make it work for some, which are either simple or have been created that way (Firefox). But it's never going to work in the general case.

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

Here's a perfect example of what's wrong with Ubuntu's crusade to move software into snaps: if you install #GIMP from snapstore, you don't have an easy practical way to install G'MIC into it (a plugin that basically makes GIMP still worthy of running). Why not? Because, as the maintainer of the snap says[1] there's no way he's going to be the arbiter of what to include. [cont…]

[1]: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/gmic-gimp-and-snap-in-20-04/17094

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

Every engineering manager should read this once a year:

https://kellanem.com/notes/new-tech

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

I forgot how genuinely silly Yoda's intro is.