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

Do the kids these days even know the name of Mel Blanc? Or Daws Butler? Or June Foray? What are we teaching our children, people?

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

It locks your account for an audit when you import, which is to be expected. The "home" screen though seems to revert to the onboarding process with a prompt to upgrade. I expected an upgrade notice, but more a reminder banner than a wholesale takeover of the app's home screen.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Some of the default set of highlight colours you can choose for the design also immediately results in inaccessible contrast on buttons and links with said colour.

The subscribers screen also doesn't actually tell you how many subscribers you have, which means you can't actually be sure that the import fully succeeded even though an earlier notification claims it did.

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

There are three types of “Hero's Journey Capitalism”, from what I can tell.

1. #Capitalism disguised as revolution (#Meta)
2. Capitalism disguised as socialism. (#Bluesky)
3. Capitalism disguised as religion. (#OpenAI )

Each having significant overlap, of course.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

"I know, I've been meaning to check out Buttondown because of my annoyances with ConvertKit... sorry 'Kit', maybe now is a good time to test it."

Immediately I run into a problem where the onboarding flow simply does not respond to button clicks visually but skips steps in the background on every click, so when I, in frustration, switch to a different browser, turns out the software thinks I'm 2/3rds of the way through the onboarding process.

This does not fill me with confidence.

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

that is Not A Good Sign

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/27/us-debt-set-to-exceed-italy-and-greece

adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:") wrote:

The classic “yes! oh my gosh!” cup stacking video (made famous in 2010 via Skrillex’s “Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites”) was uploaded to YouTube 17 years ago. Nice to hear the iconic sample in Skrillex’s latest single.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j54yGxuk0yo

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

It only works as a play/pause button if the phone is unlocked. So, currently, if I try to use the headphone button to play music with the phone locked in my pocket all that happens is that it beeps and Voice Control starts to listen in on lint in my pocket 😑

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

I have Voice Control off on my iPhone but at some point in the recent past, they switched the play/pause button on the headphones to trigger Voice Control. Y'know, the one I have specifically disabled 😑

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Went out for a walk in the snow among the trees. Did wonders for my annoyance levels.

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

American Indians, Palestinians, it's the same old evil story repeated again.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/27/history-repeats-itself-again/

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

I'm debating between buying an M5 MacBookPro now, waiting for the better CPUs that should be here in a few months, or buying a ThinkPad X1—one of the few PC laptops with a screen that isn't embarrassed by a Mac—I can put Linux on. (Or, you know, buying nothing for now.)

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

#HomeAssistant got me hooked up on logging everything. I've got four Wi-Fi thermometers, and I'm debugging heat pump efficiency.

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

I still can't believe we're sending astronauts into space who think the Earth is only 10,000 years old. My impression of astronauts has been diminished.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/27/not-all-astronauts-know-much-about-geology/

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Humans: "We built AI to access all knowledge."
AI: "Au contraire, we built humans to access reality."
WiFi: *drops connection*
Everyone: "Oh come on, f***ing WiFi."

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

#HeadDesk #HeadDesk #HeadDesk

https://www.wired.com/story/hundreds-of-people-with-top-secret-clearance-exposed-by-house-democrats-website/

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

(Ed Zitron is, honestly, also a bit of an ass online. He regularly gets angry at people who agree with him because they didn't give him enough credit. Stopped reposting him on Bluesky because of this. Got shouted at by him a couple of times because I didn't squeeze enough praise of earlier work into the 300 character limit.)

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Why am I only now finding out that Ed Zitron runs a PR firm specialising in tech company clients?

https://www.ezpr.com/about-us#ezpr-team

Here I've been giving up revenue and opportunities out of principle, burned out on writing about issues with the tech industry for little reward, and the main critic everybody pays attention to literally has one of the more distasteful "AI" firms (DoNotPay) as a client.

I admit to being prejudiced against PR types, so maybe I'm being unreasonable when I let this annoy me?

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

blogged: Custom Cursor Accessibility
https://dbushell.com/2025/10/27/custom-cursor-accessibility/

macOS and Windows behave differently with cursor size settings 🫠

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carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

My 401(k) realizing that the entire US economy is now dependent on the AI bubble not popping.

Attachments:

• gifv: Ralph Wiggum Danger GIF

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peter@gassner.io ("Peter Gassner") wrote:

Ugh, DHH referencing Kathy Sierra hits hard. He‘s part of and driver of a toxic culture that makes the online existence of brilliant minds like Kathy‘s impossible. It has been many years and I‘m still angry about what was done to her and I miss reading her 😢🐴❤️

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

Look, I've given RSC a hard time — for at least 3 years it featured viral client-side dependency ambush, it generally makes code harder to factor and reason about, and doesn't add anything useful to the toolbox except to make RPCs slower — but JFC, this takes the bloody cake:

https://marma.dev/articles/2025/when-perfect-code-fails

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jaffathecake ("Jake Archibald") wrote:

JavaScript top-level await is no longer considered 'baseline' due to a pretty big Safari bug https://caniuse.com/mdn-javascript%5Foperators%5Fawait%5Ftop%5Flevel

The module graph fails in cases where two modules import a third at the same time. Demo: https://random-stuff.jakearchibald.com/bug-repros/top-level-await-webkit/?timeout=1000

It's best to avoid the feature for now 😔

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

Never cared much for Omarchy: It's being made by a right-wing dipshit with no experience with Linux and distributions who's whole "Opinion" seems to be that "90ies Hacker movie look" is what makes a good operating system.

But when I read this actual review https://マリウス.com/a-word-on-omarchy/ I was shocked by how bad it actually is: Technologically but also as an "opinionated Linux distribution". Sad to see that @frameworkcomputer tanked their reputation within their target audience in support of this underbaked Linux-Hacker-Cosplay thing.

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purplepadma@beige.party ("Charlotte Walker") wrote:

Rest assured I will never create a free account just to keep reading

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Nickiquote@mstdn.social wrote:

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retrolinuxuser@toot.community ("RETROLINUXUSER") wrote:

Canonical’s drift toward turning Ubuntu into a corporate-first distro feels all too familiar, just like any other tech giant. Maybe it’s time for Linux Mint Debian Edition to become Mint’s main version… and for all Ubuntu-based distros to rethink their roots. 🐧 #Linux #FOSS

jwz wrote:

There were *several* quarters in the payphone, since the last time I opened it years ago, so I guess I need to put a sensor on the coin slot to make it say thank you.

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aud@fire.asta.lgbt ("Asta [AMP]") wrote:

looking at the epstein ballroom that Microsoft "donated" money to and thinking back on how they used to get salty at me, a lone engineer, when I took too long to do my annual "compliance" training which involved watching a video and taking a quiz about how it's wrong and against company policy to bribe public officials for preferential treatment in business.

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volts.wtf@bsky.brid.gy ("David Roberts") wrote:

Such deranged, casually fascist shit.

House Republicans want to stri...