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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I need a filter for my own posts. For instance, I could set a filter for "uspol", and then every time I compose a toot with that in it and hit "Publish!", it ill be dutifully placed on my timelines so only I can see it but otherwise it is not actually sent anywhere else. And not even visible publicly or in rss feeds.

Actually, if it didn't even show up in my timeline it would be fine too. Just send that stuff to /dev/null, mx. computer. Save me the effort of filtering myself.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Huh. I did not know Maemo was an active project:

https://leste.maemo.org/Main_Page

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

The real pet-killing monsters are the ones making the accusations.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/24/do-they-just-hate-animals/

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• dog cartoon with x's for eyes (remote)

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benbyrne@avantwhatever.org ("Ben") wrote:

#NowPlaying this beautiful new record from Seaworthy and Matt Rösner, made on the NSW south coast https://12kmusic.bandcamp.com/album/deep-valley

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

okay, this is wonderful… and reinforces my desire to never eat an octopus

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/23/science/octopuses-punching-fish.html?unlocked_article_code=1.NE4.BQlE.Gb8PLMApOI1B&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb&ngrp=mnp

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makethecatwise@digipres.club ("Leontien Talboom") wrote:

Last week, Tyler Thorsted, @archivist_Liz, Chris Knowles and I did a workshop on imaging obscure floppy disk formats at #ipres2024
As part of this workshop we produced a guide, which is available on Zenodo!

https://zenodo.org/records/13828372

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GottaLaff ("Laffy") wrote:

💪🏼👠 Via #Harris spox Lauren Hitt:

#Georgia Teamsters endorse the Vice President ahead of Trump's economic speech in Savannah today.

1.5 million active and retired Teamsters have now endorsed the VP, including more than 500k members in battlegrounds of Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Nevada

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GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

Cybersecurity explained

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

if
carpenters built buildings
the way programmers build software
then
the first woodpecker to come along
would destroy civilization

https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/113193255642012581

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

from “Jingo” by Terry Pratchett

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

“Swamp dragons tended to explode in the air, imps ate the messages and the semaphore helmets had not been a success, especially in high winds. And then Corporal Littlebottom had pointed out that Ankh-Morpork’s pigeons were, because of many centuries of depredation by the city’s gargoyle population, considerably more intelligent than most pigeons, although Vimes considered that this was not difficult because there were things growing on old damp bread that were more intelligent than most pigeons”

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manton@manton.org ("Manton Reece") wrote:

Social Web Foundation:

"The Social Web Foundation works to grow this new ecosystem in an open, healthy, and sustainable way—working with technologists and the public to build a new global town square that works for everyone."

This looks very interesting. I’m going to be honest, though, even though I know this is petty: I’m insulted that Micro.blog wasn’t given a heads-up about this before launch. We’ve only supported ActivityPub since 2018. 🤪

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zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman :11ty:") wrote:

pixel perfect is the enemy of pixel good

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ieure@retro.social ("Boosty Collins") wrote:

When you already own most of the Funkadelic discography, and assume you have to buy the entire Parliament discography too... that's the Funk Cost Fallacy.

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

We have these guys mucking up academic research, too!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/24/the-bad-actor-problem-in-academia/

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• "Not me" from the Family Circus (remote)

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amoroso@fosstodon.org ("Paolo Amoroso") wrote:

Sebastian Witowski explains why and how he still uses Make for Python projects and other tasks.

https://switowski.com/blog/i-like-makefiles

#make #makefile #python

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druskus@chaos.social wrote:

Today on no one should ever use yaml for anything:

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• Github issue: Toolchain version 1.70 is parsed as 1.7 #112 Happens in this pr: tokio-rs/mio#1806, workflow: https://github.com/tokio-rs/mio/actions/runs/9514447708/job/26226798660. Relevant GitHub Action config: - uses: dtolnay/rust-toolchain@master with: toolchain: 1.70 (remote)

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

thank you, CAPT Tully… the Union still stands

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edsu@social.coop ("Ed Summers") wrote:

A good quote to start Kill it With Fire:

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• [We build our computer systems the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.

 Ellen Ullman][5] ([remote][6])

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

The best Halloween spider ever.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/24/the-official-spider-of-halloween/

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• Vampire spider, Evarcha culicovora (remote)

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

In retrospect, it's kind of crazy that the two biggest developments in CPU technology over the last 20 years were "use much less power, for mobile" and "use much more power, for AI", and Intel managed to miss both of them

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Also, Adams' version of "War Machine" is worth checking out (the song he recently released). I was unaware he was involved in writing that one.

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

It just blows my mind that the abbreviation "WP" is explicitly *not* covered by copyright, and yet, Matt Mullenweg still tried to extort millions from WP Engine to "license" it.

He even updated the WordPress license page after the fact to try to throw shade on WPE and make his utterly baseless claim look better (even though *tons* of other businesses and products also use "WP").

Really sucks watching a once-respected figure in open source devolve into a petulant, borderline-criminal man-child.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

(Lapels are oddly convenient for that sort of dramatic action.)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Kim Wilde and Bryan Adams both released new tracks recently. I found out on the same day, and I had an urge to run out into the street and grab the first person I saw by the lapel and say, "Quick! Tell me what decade is this!"

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Back when I first heard about the effort to get real-time patches upstreamed into the Linux kernel, I initially assumed it was this one:

https://www.yodaiken.com/2024/09/19/rtlinux-retrospective/

I was less interested once I realized the patches going in were more "real-time" than real-time.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

2010's third-wave feminism was a wild ride.

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• Feminist Bakes Sourdough Bread Using Her Own Vaginal Yeast

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mhoye wrote:

Currently listening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdHhfhLBZLw

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Sophie@dice.camp ("Sophie 🎲🧩🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Ok so here’s something everyone should be aware of:

Computer mice are facing you.
The wire is the mouse’s tail, right?

That means those things you push down on aren’t buttons,

they’re buttocks.

LMB= Left Mouse Buttock
RMB = Right Mouse Buttock

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fox@front-end.social ("karolina") wrote:

a really good piece by @polotek that nails the importance of investing in core web technologies at individual and business level.

i’ve seen epic spends of creating whole rewrite the front end teams. it didn’t solve meaningful issues.

“Companies that want to reduce the cost of their frontend tech becoming obsoleted so often should be looking to get back to fundamentals. Your teams should be working closer to the web platform with a lot less complex abstractions.”

https://polotek.net/posts/the-frontend-treadmill/