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jwz wrote:

Anyway the world is on fire but I spent all day writing tty curses code for an extended joke that like 5 people will ever notice and I regret nothing.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

Alex, 27, said it wasn’t hard to go freelance. ‘I just quit my 9-5, ate ramen, and used my family’s vacation home to save money while I built my trust-fund business.’ Sponsored by Fiverr

jwz wrote:

Dear Lazyweb, I have a system .service and .socket pair, and my script is being launched when I telnet to its port, but stdin seems to be a pipe instead of a pty -- ncurses / ioctl TIOCGWINSZ doesn't work on it. How do I make it go?

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
ghibli@beep.town ("Studio Gifli Bot") wrote:

Attachments:

• gifv: Acorn.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
helenchong@social.lol ("Helen Chong :prami_pride:") wrote:

I wrote about using the CSS light-dark() colour function to set light and dark modes on my websites after learning about it from @sarajw's article about it:

https://helenchong.dev/blog/posts/2025-02-15-joined-the-light-dark-side/

Boosted by jwz:
dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

You should ask yourself this question:

If the Trump regime was intent on destroying the United States, what would it do differently than things like wrecking public health and scientific research -- and essentially everything else it's doing?

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
laemeur@mastodon.sdf.org ("LÆMEUR") wrote:

Here's a special song for your special someone:

#valentines #romance #thisguyissingle #canyoubelieveit

Attachments:

• video: A short rock ballad, badly oversung. The lyrics are: When the sun shines in your eyes, It's just like an enormous, distant ball of fusing hydorgen emitted photons that streaked across space To your face Where they refracted through the lens And reflected off the iris And disappeared into the pupils of them... The song is followed by laughing children and an ad-lib from the singer, saying "Your eyes, I mean. It's a song about the eyes, but it's a long run-on sentence." The singer's son chimes-in at the very end with "wow, that was terrible. Are you sure you love her?"

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
zicklepop@nyan.lol ("melanie kat") wrote:

“I Am So Excited for METAL EDEN” from Blog of The Enby Witch

My wife wrote about her excitement for the release of the big game she worked on for years.

https://blog.of.the.enbywit.ch/blog/metal-eden/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
otaviocc@social.lol ("Otávio :prami:") wrote:

👨‍💻 Folks, I’ve created a GitHub repository for my #Tapestry (by @Iconfactory) Connectors.

I have two connectors there for now, one for https://social.lol and another for https://some.pics.

Let’s call them “beta” versions as they might not be perfect. If you find anything, please let me know or create an issue on GitHub.

Ah, and send a pull request if you have code improvements.

Happy scrolling! :prami:

https://github.com/otaviocc/tapestry-connectors

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

Days off are never actually days off.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/02/14/fridays-are-not-working-for-me/

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Reasonable

RE: https://www.threads.net/@theonion/post/DGESJpWqaYc

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

No one is coming to save us, the people who would do that are getting fired

Boosted by jwz:
pandora_parrot@beach.city ("Pandora") wrote:

Yeah

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

If anyone out there is working for the federal government and is managing systems in the crosshairs of the ongoing coup attempt, I am begging — begging — you:

Let them fail.

Don’t stop them from breaking it when they do something stupid.

Don’t help them learn the system when they shouldn’t even have access to the system..

Don’t set up self-healing guardrails for systems left unattended after you’re locked out or fired.

Don’t save them from themselves.

LET THEM FAIL.

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Boosted by jwz:
sandwich@mastodon.world ("Benj⛤min") wrote:

#HappyValentinesDay

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bitmage@mastodon.sdf.org wrote:

@jwz
I think of her line "then we're stupid and we'll die" often these days.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
vanellopemint@mastodon.art ("🦋ShouldbeWriting🦋") wrote:

An ancient temple of slime-covered stone rested in the ocean depths, a many-tentacled creature carved above the inky entrance. An amorphous blob appeared. "Hello! Superior Being Pizza! I have an order for a Mr. Kat Thulu?"

A tentacled creature shuffled forth. "Goodness, you really can deliver here? Humans fear this place...."

'Well, I AM made of energy," the delivery being replied. " We deliver anywhere! Even an eldritch god craves a meat lover's pizza once in a while, amIright?"

#tootfic

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
audrey@toot.cat ("Audrey E.") wrote:

I hope you like power outages, because the BPA is becoming critically understaffed 🙃 https://www.opb.org/article/2025/02/13/bonneville-power-administration-workforce-donald-trump-resign-severance-hiring/

Boosted by jwz:
SafeStreetRebel@sfba.social ("Safe Street Rebel") wrote:

By initiating a high-speed chase over a burglary in Stonestown, cops ended up sending six people to the hospital and destroying a parklet, all the way over in the Mission. Exactly what we predicted March 2024's Prop E would do

https://missionlocal.org/2025/02/sf-police-chase-car-crash-prop-e/

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dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

♬️ Just announced: Thu Mar 20, 7pm: POW: POW THE 13TH: LIVE MUSIC AND GAMES COLLIDE
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2025/03-20.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #8bitsf #bitbrigade #dannybstyle #lizzrobinett #deloreanoverdrive #chiptunes #videogamemusic #electrorock #livemusic #concert #sanfrancisco

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• gifv: c78a5659380b8888.mp4

jwz wrote:

Happy Ninth Birthday, Priscilla Stratton.
https://jwz.org/b/ykiO

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• gifv: ea6f431954064a47.mp4

jwz wrote:

Phineas made you a valentine.
https://jwz.org/b/ykiM

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@mattblaze I always wonder -- why do they resign instead of forcing the administration to fire them?

Boosted by jwz:
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Insofar as I know, "how to write a devastatingly withering resignation letter" is neither a topic taught in law school nor tested on the bar exam. These folks had to pick it up on their own.

Here's the latest SDNY prosecutor resignation in the Adams case.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ldcd@treehouse.systems ("Aled;cd") wrote:

@joe https://bellard.org/tcc/tccboot.html

Just need to add support for modern CPU microarchs

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Aphelion@mastodon.sdf.org ("Michelle") wrote:

You said forever
As if stars aren’t
Caving in,
As if galaxies
Aren’t fading out,
As if we were
Immune to entropy,
And I believed it.

#poetry

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

No one is ever going to respect this administration. They're too venal and incompetent and, frankly, too querulously petty for that.

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

#theStudio wants you to step up your steps!

https://thelastnubian.bandcamp.com/album/b-boy-break-it-down-tribal-step

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
jarelion@social.lol ("jarelion :totoro:") wrote:

in my tangerine era

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Chris@aus.social ("chris") wrote:

Okay if you all can replace reCaptcha et al with this, I'd feel far less rage every time I have to complete one (and probaby look forward to them). Please and thank you.

MapTCHA, the open source CAPTCHA that improves OpenStreetMap

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5879-maptcha-the-open-source-captcha-that-improves-openstreetmap/