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

Next to export is #Pages lol. There was a time many years ago when I did *everything* Apple's Pages. What a weirdo.

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

Makes total sense that blog post from the GitHub CEO opens with "AI" slop art meant to look like something from Studio Ghibli... Dicks.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange ("Nonya Bidniss :CIAverified:") wrote:

Survey says: people believe some crazy shit. https://carsey.unh.edu/publication/can-government-control-hurricanes-new-survey-results-conspiracies-science
h/t Carl Zimmer https://bsky.app/profile/carlzimmer.com/post/3lvtadqmw4k2x

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

Great example why we don't use writing apps with proprietary file formats.

These are my journal entries for the discontinued version of #DayOneJournal

It looks like I can just change the format to TXT and I get something readable. So I'll have to do that for all 30 something entries.😭

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

OMG that is so ugly a move… sometimes cruelty is the point

Exclusive: US Air Force denies early retirement for key group of transgender servicemembers - https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-air-force-denies-early-retirement-key-group-transgender-servicemembers-2025-08-07/

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

Shout out to #Mela: a markdown-based recipe app with amazing export ability and no subscription. Just pay once.

Mela goes into my consolation project. God, I love apps like this.

https://mela.recipes/

#WritingApps #recipes

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

Ahh I also still have version 1 of #Drafts on my phone!

This is perhaps one of the best designed writing app I've ever used. I was so mesmerized by it when it launched. It's so simple and intuitive.

The new version is pretty good too. And I think the app has maintained its core mission over the years. Kudos to #Drafts. One of my all time fav #WritingApps

Boosted by jwz:
oneunderscore__@threads.net ("Ben Collins") wrote:

From this month's edition of The Onion.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

What does it mean when someone who is silent on condemning Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people has no end of words to malign those of us speaking out against it?

🤔

#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #StopIsrael #StopArmingIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine #complicity #genocideDenial

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

Going through all my old writing apps so I can consolidate the export files into one folder.

Went into #Evernote for the first time in years and my god, how the mighty have fallen.

No shade to anyone who uses Evernote, btw. Just I remember it being really good. Now, I had to sit through a promo video and two video ads before I could see my files. And I'm guessing there's not an export ability. Might have to just lose those notes.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
dale_price@mastodon.online ("Dale Price") wrote:

Every time I look at anything Liquid Glass, this is all I’ll ever see

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
DGI@graeber.social ("David Graeber Institute") wrote:

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
ApostateEnglishman@mastodon.world ("The Sleight Doctor 🃏") wrote:

That these tech bros openly love fascism is the best reason not to use any knowledge systems they control. Why would you allow these megalomaniacs to control what information you can access? Elon has already admitted on X that he intends to change human history to suit his own agenda. Since then, Grok has been caught literally praising Hitler! Use traditional search or read books.

Now Perplexity AI is partnering with Trump's own propaganda echo chamber, Truth Social.

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/08/06/3128331/0/en/Trump-Media-Begins-Public-Beta-Testing-AI-Search-Engine.html

aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

@NfNitLoop Hey Cody, sorry for the late reply; things have been a been hectic here recently.

Thanks so much for the heads up. It’s a placeholder site at the moment and it was apparently still running on Site.js (https://sitejs.org), which I deprecated and replaced with Kitten a while ago.

I’ve now got Kitten running on the server so it is up and running again.

Thanks again for letting me know :)

PS. If you experience any issues with Kitten, please do let me know. I’m currently working on improving the Markdown support in it quite substantially :)

Boosted by jwz:
PhineasX@mastodon.art wrote:

Hello friends, I know I'm only indifferently active on this here elephant site, but I thought I'd throw out an offhand mention that the state of the world — and specifically the state of the extra-boned country I live in — is putting the financial vise on me of late. I have some things to sell on my personal internet and selling some of them would help if you should care to inspect the wares…

https://octophant.us/buy

Boosted by jwz:
sundogplanets ("Prof. Sam Lawler") wrote:

Well fuck. Reflect Orbital just filed for their first satellite with the FCC. https://www.reflectorbital.com/

I hate them even more than AST SpaceMobile. At least AST does something mildly useful, unlike Reflect Orbital, which is 100% a scam and will collide with a lot of junk in orbit.

Time to go rage-scream in the hay field. And then go to a meeting with astronomers to talk about what we can do to fight it.

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

My worst mistake in my pursuit for the perfect writing app was using Ulysses for two years. This MARKDOWN app uses proprietary file formats and denies you access to your files in iCloud.

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

I still have my Vesper writing app downloaded to my phone. I feel like there's a really cool, if not heartbreaking story, around the failure of this app.

Vesper launched just before the cloud took over everything, and before subscriptions were the default business model.

#techhistory

https://daringfireball.net/2016/08/vesper%5Fadieu

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Would you believe a supermassive black hole was created by an egotistical deity just to brag to a planet of easily deluded apes? No? Then you're a bad Christian.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/07/the-arrogance-of-creationists-is-but-a-speck-in-the-face-of-reality/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

It’s here! @falseknees

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

FYI the ebook of Old Man's War is going for $1.99 here in US/Canada at (most) ebook stores, for, I think, today. Get it! Cheap! And then buy all the rest of the series including the upcoming seventh installment, The Shattering Peace! The cats need tuna!

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

Heck yeah, a brand new release of @spritely Goblins! v0.16.0! https://spritely.institute/news/spritely-goblins-v0-16-0-released.html

Faster, by a LOT! 10-20x speedups for multiple core operations!

And, a brand new Unix Domain Sockets netlayer, so you can use Goblins + OCapN for local IPC!

Plus a ton of other stuff! Check it out!

Boosted by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
freexian@hachyderm.io ("Freexian :debian:") wrote:

@cjwatson from #Freexian gave a great talk at #DebConf25:
“Using Debusine to pre-test your unstable uploads”
https://debconf25.debconf.org/talks/29-using-debusine-to-pre-test-your-unstable-uploads/

Learn what Debusine is, why we built it, and how you can use the features we have built to do QA work in Debian right now, including dput-ng integration, and scaling into clouds. Understand how Debusine runs builds & reverse-dependency tests before your package hits the archive — ideal for safer uploads and smoother transitions to Testing.

Watch the recording:
https://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2025/DebConf25/debconf25-398-using-debusine-to-pre-test-your-unstable-uploads.av1.webm

#Debusine #Debian

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
dzwiedziu ("Dźwiedziu") wrote:

@petrillic

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

This performance was amazing, and conducting the audience like a chorus took me by surprise:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz1LEYxFQ5Q

jwz wrote:

The stench of desperation on Feedly is getting positively necrotic.

"Oh yes, please give me a plausible-sounding almost-summary of things I am pretending to be interested in. You know. Technologies. Companies. Fast lane."

But it's a good reminder to download my data before they inevitably self-immolate.
https://jwz.org/b/ykss

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

New @the_freebooters video is out. We talk about i3 and the 'Online Safety Act'.

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/aRj8ot5FpRKMwgHLV5WY34

#Linux #OSA #Podcast

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

Captured with the Rodenstock 70mm/5.6 HR Digaron-W lens (@ f/6.3). Phase One IQ4-150 digital back (@ ISO 50, 1/30 sec), Cambo WRS-5005 camera (shifted vertically -10mm).

Red Rock Canyon is just 45 minutes from the Las Vegas strip, but completely lacks slot machines, neon signs, B-list entertainment, chain restaurants, and other modern necessities.

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

Sandstone, Red Rock Canyon, Nevada, 2025.

All the pixels, no exposure to nature required, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54702804473

#photography

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

I didn't know Transtifa, but I respect her work.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/07/what-happened-to-transtifa/