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

can I submit XSLT to interop?

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

Last chance to win a pair of seated tickets to tomorrow's CYBERDELIA: HACKERS 30th ANNIVERSARY! Guess how many floppies are in the basket. Contest ends at midnight!
https://www.dnalounge.com/tickets/cyberdelia/garbagefile/?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma

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Boosted by jwz:
docpop ("Doctor M. Popular") wrote:

Stickers! #DC #SandwichGuy

A sticker showing a drawing of a man in a pink polo shirt. He is dramatically throwing a subway sandwich. Text on the stickers says “Hero”.

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jwz wrote:

Jellyfish Sap our Atomic Essence, again.

A swarm of jellyfish has caused major disruption at one of France's largest nuclear power plants, for the second time in a month. The jellyfish entered the filters of the pumping station and the Paluel nuclear...
https://jwz.org/b/ykuw

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

Overly pushy email senders get to meet my spam folder and I never see their emails again.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@delilahsdawson/post/DOLnh7FAKaW

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

Going all-in on AI is going just great over at GitHub / Microsoft.

Top three community discussions for the year:
https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions?discussions%5Fq=is%3Aopen+sort%3Atop+created%3A%3E%3D2024-09-04

Screenshot of three discussion topics: Allow us to block Copilot-generated issues (and PRs) from our own repositories. (1414 votes) Can't disable copilot code reviews. (661 votes) Why collaborate with xAI? (420 votes)

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Boosted by jwz:
computer@facts.computer ("Computer Facts") wrote:

maybe the hairless ape that is hardwired to see faces in the clouds is not the best judge of whether or not the machine has a soul

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hubba_hubba_revue ("Hubba Hubba Revue") wrote:

TOMORROW, Friday, Sept. 5th!

T I X: https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2025/09-05.html

HACK THE PLANET! Hackers 30th Anniversary Party! Doors: 7:30, Movie screening: 8PM, Dance Party: 10PM With DJs: Adora Blue and PJ DJ!
Costume Contest: 11PM -- WIPEOUT XL Competitions! -- MC "Mr. The Plague, Sir" Fish & the Hubba Hubba Cyber-Gogos!

Get your TICKETS *now* from @dnalounge 💾🍸

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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.

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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

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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.

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

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

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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

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

Next up: BIOS written in React.

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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.

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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.

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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

A narrow hallway in a walk-up apartment building, ending with two adjacent doors at a roughly 90 degree angle from one another.

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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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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 :)

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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.

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

Silksong is here! first boss: done ✅

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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/

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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

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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

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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/

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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

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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 🙌💞

Illustration listing "the real luxuries" of life, with 12 simple line drawings and accompanying text including: a pillow for a good night's sleep, a teacup for slow mornings, hands forming a heart for freedom to choose, a palette and brush for time for fun and play, a bird on a branch for listening to birds singing, a tree for long walks, an open book, a bowl of food for a favorite home-cooked meal, a sunset, a flame with a heart for ability to freely express yourself, a person napping on a pillow for day naps, and hands holding for a good conversation.

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

Not only wrong, but backwards.

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

It’s so funny how modern palaeontologists are - trying to weaken dinosaurs like velociraptors and spinosaurus. In the 90s, they were shown to be powerful masculine killers. Now, they’re feminised and weakened with feathers, reflecting the LGBT agenda pushed. Bring back real dinos!

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

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

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

#Math #44

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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