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

That's the sort of edgy, contrarian commentary I know you've come to expect from me.

Boosted by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
santiago@framapiaf.org ("Santiago") wrote:

Early detecting regressions in #Debian: #Debusine helped to identify that libcloud's tests https://bugs.debian.org/1113939 will fail with the most recent #paramiko upstream release, before uploading paramiko to the debian archive. Libcloud will also probably FTBFS.

These are the autopkgtest artifacts for libcloud: https://debusine.debian.net/debian/developers/artifact/2431086/

Regression testing will be even better when the whole feature gets finalised: https://salsa.debian.org/freexian-team/debusine/-/issues/791

Boosted by denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert"):
arclight@oldbytes.space wrote:

@alda As a nuclear engineer, I have never been asked to show my portfolio of reactor designs I maintain in my free time, I have never been asked to derive the six-factor formula, the quantization of angular momentum, Brehmsstrahlung, or to whiteboard gas centrifuge isotopic separation, water hammer, hydrogen detonation, or cross-section resonance integrals.

There's something deeply wrong with an industry that presumes you're a fraud unless repeatedly and performatively demonstrated otherwise and treats the hiring process as a demented form of 80s-era fraternity hazing.

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

You know what's really great? Not getting polio.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Electron is proof that if you abstract just hard enough, everything becomes a browser.

Next up: BIOS written in React.

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

"Who designed this?" you might ask.

Small NYC brownstones such as the one shown here were generally either built from the start as multi-family tenements, or were built as single-family homes and later subdivided into apartments. In the former case, the layout into individual units was part of the original design and generally fairly sane. In the latter case, landlords often tried to squeeze every square inch of rentable space out of the existing layout, at the expense of things like hallways.

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

Captured with a small mirrorless camera and 50mm lens.

This hallway reminded me of a sight gag in the Coens' "Inside Llewyn Davis". I like that the two neighbors have to share a doormat.

The starkly bare hallway and contrasting tones between the walls and the doors and floor make this as much a study in abstract shapes as it is about urban living.

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

Hallway, NYC, 2014.

All the pixels, not much room for anything else, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/13337114073

#photography

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
disisdeguey@expressional.social ("Disisdeguey🔻Pavlichenko🇵🇸") wrote:

"A man on the streets in the UK is asked about "the problem of inmigration" and dismantled talking points with ease"
I'm in love 😍✊️
#uklabourgovernmentimmigration #UKElitesucks

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• video: A man wearing a white cap, with a moustache. Talking straight to the camera.a text on the screen says: "A man on the streets if the UK is asked about "the problem of inmigration" and dismantled talking points with ease"

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

In case anyone’s wondering what’s happening with the all the profile photo changes… yes, I’m having fun in Photo Booth :)

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

I’m still not confident that I’m going to be able to make this creative writing brainstorming app—there’s a strong “the last 10% will take 90% of the time” vibe, and I’m nowhere near the last 10%—but I suspect “no AI” will be a selling point, not a negative.

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🥐") wrote:

Silksong is here! first boss: done ✅

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺") wrote:

I wrote a little blog post about how you can use an emoji as your website's favicon.

https://chriswere.wales/posts/how-to-use-an-emoji-as-your-websites-favicon/

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
fabienmarry ("Fabien") wrote:

Always amazes me (=depresses me) how many parent drive under 1mi to bring their kids to school in Land Rover “defender”.
Dude, the most threatening thing you could encounter is the lollipop lady. Leave your tank at home.
https://mastodon.online/@BrentToderian/115142759475316861

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

What genius thought Chorus was a good idea? Don't copy the conservative habit of using dark money sources to pay for propaganda.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/04/chorus-a-very-very-bad-idea/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMFhVYdwWH4

Boosted by joeri_s@mstdn.social ("Joeri Sebrechts"):
piccalilli@front-end.social ("Piccalilli") wrote:

Functional custom elements the easy way

Function-based JavaScript is really common in frameworks like React and Vue, but what about Web Components? Ginger is here to show you how to build a reusable function to do just that.

https://piccalil.li/blog/functional-custom-elements-the-easy-way/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
researchfairy@scholar.social ("The research fairy") wrote:

Don't feel obliged to start your criticism of generative AI with some unsupported claim that it is useful, good, revolutionary, or will have other applications

You can just say it's bad and you don't have to pull your punches

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
PhoenixSerenity@beige.party ("Ms. Que Banh") wrote:

Good morning, fedizens / fedifriends / masto-mateys 🌅

A reminder on the real #luxuries in life 🙌💞

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

Not only wrong, but backwards.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/04/theyre-feminizing-dinosaurs-now/

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

TACO: https://mstdn.social/@noelreports/115146459859417144

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
linuxgal@techhub.social ("🌈 ☯️Teresita🐧👭") wrote:

#Math #44

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Lazarou ("Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈") wrote:

Isn't it nice having TWO left wing parties able to call out what Labour has become under Keir Starmer.

For the past year it's been relentless gaslighting, being told by Labour that Fascism is ok and we're all wrong for being upset at a genocide, but now there is a pushback!

https://www.itv.com/news/2025-09-04/jeremy-corbyn-starmer-has-opened-the-door-for-farage

#UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #Corbyn #Starmer #Farage #Fascism

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

Many thanks for the great people who contributed in the previous days ❤️ Your help means the world for us

We still need your help, my friends. Please help us before it's too late 😢

https://chuffed.org/project/121561-urgent-help-for-ahmads-family

Please share the post with your friends ❤️

#gaza #palestine

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

Good morning my friends :underheart:

I'm still alive.

I'm preparing myself for the first Tawjihi exam that will be hold on Saturday.

I'm trying to focus. I'm trying to be strong.

Please keep me in your prayers :underheart:

#palestine #gaza

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

The situation is deteriorating very quickly!

We started hearing the tanks movements at the night. They are getting closer every day.

Every single atom of my soul is scared. Scared as never before. This time is totally different.

I don't know what to say! Does anyone feel of us? Can you imagine what we go through?

#palestine #gaza

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

700 days of suffering! We survived many times. I don't know how this time passed. I experienced a famine. I lived around 400 days in the tents. I saw the death in front of me many times.

What is scary is that the worst will come soon. I don't know if we'll survive again!

I really don't know.

#gaza #palestine

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🥐") wrote:

Atlassian 😂 thank the lord I don't use those browsers, Atlassian software is soul destroying

https://www.theverge.com/web/770947/browser-company-arc-dia-acquired-atlassian

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
hell@defcon.social ("hell \ Rebekah Hellberg") wrote:

Apparently cows kill more people than sharks every year.. tbf how they kill ANY sharks at all is beyond me

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

Top blogging tip: don't stop using multisyllabic words just because they confuse and scare the genius iconoclast polymaths over on HN.

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

I have a very tiny connection to the Epstein files via John Brockman.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/04/epstein-was-a-window-into-the-privileged-elite/