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jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
Yes I know I'm talking about Swift a lot recently but be assured my heart still belongs to Huntr/x
Mastodon FeedMastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
Seriously she just took the entire Hot 100 chart as it existed last week and just shoved it down 12 spots, that's actually kind of hilarious
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
Confirmed
Mastodon FeedChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺") wrote:
A classic style rambly video about my Newsboat and Lynx browser setup.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:
My Newsboat + Lynx browser setup
Mastodon FeedChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺") wrote:
New #PeerTube video incoming! Follow @chris to see it when it drops.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
Mara@hachyderm.io wrote:
I'm excited to share what I've been working on with @erikjee: RustNL's #rustlang Maintainers Fund!
Many people and companies contribute to Rust, but there are fewer and fewer paid positions for general maintenance (reviews,cleanups,etc). We need to fix that.
General maintenance is one of the most fundamental jobs in an open source project, but is one of the hardest to get paid for. Adding new features gets you promoted; keeping the lights on does not.
But everything depends on it. Code needs reviews, cleanups, docs. New contributors need mentors, etc.
A significant number of Rust maintainers who got paid for that have lost or quit their job recently. Due to RTO policies, a shift in responsibilities, budget cuts, and/or burnout. This is already quite noticable in the Rust project: longer review queues and more technical debt. This is a problem.
Through RustNL, the non-profit foundation behind the largest Rust conference (RustWeek) and the Rust Project's All Hands, we are setting up a fund to provide stable jobs for Rust maintainers. We want to employ six full-time maintainers in 2026.
Additionally, we'll provide internships and mentorship, to help retain promising new contributors. Not only do we need to make sure the current generation of maintainers doesn't burn out, we need to work on the next generation of maintainers too.
What we need now is companies who rely on Rust to step up and contribute financially. Having your business rely on the work of unpaid volunteers is not sustainable in the long term. It's a risk.And if your company contributes to Rust, keeping the project well-maintained will accelerate your work.
Over the last few months, we have spoken to the Rust Foundation and several big companies about our plans. The input we've received and the positive reactions so far makes us believe we can make this happen. Today, we are publishing our plans for a wider audience, in search for the required funding.
If your company is interested in funding Rust maintainers, please reach out to me or @erikjee!You can find our sponsors prospectus here: https://rustnl.org/resources/Rust-Maintainers-Fund.pdf
Let me know if you want to talk! 💛
(Message me through Mastodon, Rust Zulip, or email: mara@rustnl.org)
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Frontenders, I am *begging* you to earn whatever pride you take in your work. How? By testing what you make on the devices and networks most people have. It's not hard, doesn't take long, and there are great automations like webpagetest.org that can make it even simpler.
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
Media Notes (October 2025): https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2025/media-notes-1/
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
Media Notes (October 2025)
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2025/media-notes-1/
Some of the stuff I've been watching, a surprising amount of which is available on YouTube of all places.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Ra@mstdn.social wrote:
https://substack.com/inbox/post/175921873
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
sohkamyung@mstdn.io ("Soh Kam Yung") wrote:
"Hidden under tonnes of rock, a dinosaur superhighway is emerging - where palaeontologists are walking in the footsteps of these giant beasts.
This summer’s excavation at this extraordinary site has uncovered one of the longest trackways found anywhere in the world."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-5f8c77b0-92bc-40f2-bf21-6793abbe5ffe
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
Claiming it's "highly likely" that circumcision causes autism is an irresponsible lie.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/14/the-latest-medical-nonsense/
Mastodon FeedBoosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
mhoye ("mhoye (temporarily spooky)") wrote:
This is Roald Dahl's 1986 plea to parents to get their children vaccinated against measles; his daughter died of it in 1962, before vaccines were widely available.
Turns out measles can just kill you outright weeks or months or sometimes years after infection, when you're supposedly over it and healthy again.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
phire@phire.place ("jenny (phire)") wrote:
I wrote about AI art and why I philosophically refuse to use generative AI regardless of its potential utility, but it's actually about mortality and authoritarianism and book clubs and Bowling Alone. (I resisted an extended metaphor about curling, you're welcome / I'm sorry.)
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Man Stores AI-Generated ‘Robot Porn' on His Government Computer, Loses Access to Nuclear Secrets:
"the man told investigators he felt his bosses spied on him too much and that the interrogation over the porn snafu was akin to the “Spanish Inquisition.""
Why are robots fucking on your computer?
What is this? The Spanish Inquisition?
Lololol https://www.404media.co/man-stores-ai-generated-robot-porn-on-his-government-computer-loses-access-to-nuclear-secrets/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
At least 11 million year old -- a spider squash prep.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/14/not-the-prettiest-jumping-spider-ive-seen/
Mastodon FeedBoosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
combs@mastodon.art ("Chris Combs (he/him)") wrote:
Here's "Subatomic," an artwork about the search for something impossibly tiny.
It's one of the artworks from my show, "Desperate Remedy/Little Ones," focusing on the search for neutrinos at the Sanford Underground Research Facility, a particle physics lab ~1.5km / 4850ft underground in a former gold mine; I am their artist-in-residence for the year.
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
Lol get fucked you ghoul
Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion defamation judgment in Sandy Hook case https://search.app/ktZhh
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“timely” is one way to put it…
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wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:
A few days after this, Star Tribune informed Angela Denker that they weren't renewing her contract. Three days ago, she shared the editorial that Star Tribune refused to publish. It speaks truth many of us, including media outlets, do not want spoken.
Denker says,
"Among others, Kirk was the progenitor of a new sort of young, white, male conservative."
#CharlieKirk #ChristianNationalism #Minneapolis #media #ToxicMasculinity #MaleEntitlement #misogyny #homophobia #heterosexism #racism
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Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
onokoto ("Onokoto █") wrote:
On most distros Python🐍 has a http server out of the box.
simply into the directory of your choice and execute the following command:
~λ python3 -m http.server 8080
#Lisp #GNU #Guile #Elisp #Emacs #Lambda #Linux #Bash #sh #BSD #Debian #python
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
golgaloth@writing.exchange ("Dave Dawkins (D. Harrigon)") wrote:
have you thought about trying a different economic system in your world?
#WorldBuilding #AmWriting #writing #ttrpg #dnd #GameDev #Gaming #capitalism #economics
Mastodon Feedchipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:
Okay, I know I'm just working through the toy “Your First Flutter App" codelab, but wow: Flutter's hot reloading is what Xcode's live preview wants to be when it grows up.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
probably a reasonable idea:
'Recent reports have indicated that Apple has suspended development of a truly next-generation Vision Pro, along with a lightweight and lower-cost "Vision Air" model, as it focuses its efforts on smart glasses.'
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CNN@flipboard.com wrote:
Military families concerned about not getting paychecks during government shutdown
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/14/us/video/military-families-paychecks-government-shutdown-food-pantry-ldn-digvid?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypubPosted into US News @us-news-CNN
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
from CNN site:
"CNN affiliate, KXXV, reported military families were in line at a food pantry as they feared not getting their paychecks during the government shutdown."
that is Not A Good Thing
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thejapantimes ("The Japan Times") wrote:
China-U.S. trade war and political turmoil in Japan weigh on Tokyo stocks, with benchmark index down 2.58% as traders return from long weekend. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/14/markets/stocks-after-coalition/?utm%5Fmedium=Social&utm%5Fsource=mastodon #business #markets #tse #nikkei #stocks #ldp #komeito #diet #sanaetakaichi
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
The most common forum used today seems to be Discourse. Blogs are WordPress. And retail is Shopify or WooCommerce (which is just another flavour of horrible and dysfunctional).
What have we done to deserve this?
(Don't answer that, I've read history books.)
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
Me when I have to wade into a Discourse theme to fix an issue for somebody: "OMG, this is a horrible POS. No documentation to speak of. Hyper complex. Why is anybody using this?"
Me when working on Wordpress: "OMG, this is a horrible POS. Why is anybody using this?"
Same with Shopify or pretty much any given established web project that's commonly used.
It genuinely feels like pretty much everything in tech, popular web software especially, is just unusably awful.