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

Trick or treat candy is for everyone. Cute kid in an adorable costume? Candy. Teen not in a costume feeling self-conscious but hoping you'll give 'em candy anyway? Candy. Adults accompanying the trick-or-treating little kids so they don't run into traffic in a middle of a sugar high? Oh, you best believe they're getting candy. You, giving out the candy? Have a fun-size treat, babe, you deserve it. CANDY FOR EVERYONE, all the time and this year most of all.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

An open NFC tag standard for filament spools: https://openprinttag.org/

The data format seems nice, the generator looks slick, and it’s fully open. Finally, smart spools without vendor lock-in! 👏

https://openprinttag.org/generator/
https://specs.openprinttag.org/#/nfc%5Fdata%5Fformat

#3dprinting

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

I saw this when it first came out because I am old as hell and my now 49-year-old memory of it was that it was everything seven year old me wanted in a holiday special and more

RE: https://www.threads.com/@jackiekashian/post/DQebvnGiRlk

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

Perry County, TN is about to be at least a couple million dollars poorer because their sheriff is a censorious ninny

(gift article)

https://wapo.st/4qwXqSJ

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

This feels like discovering Williams-Sonoma is undercutting Walmart

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
gedeonm ("Ged Maheux") wrote:

Do you have apps that don’t seem to be syncing via iCloud properly? Turns out there’s a new iCloud terms and condition agreement you need to accept in IOS settings before syncing will work again.

My iPad alerted me to this but my iPhone did not and of course only accepting it on one device means syncing is still broken.

We’ve been getting a spate of users writing to complain that our apps have been having trouble with iCloud and now I think I know the root of the cause.

THANKS APPLE!

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
mamund (":mastodon: Mike Amundsen") wrote:

The key to progress is improving how we improve Making sure GenAI doesn’t replace our curiosity https://mamund.substack.com/p/the-key-to-progress-is-improving

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

AI: powered by old jet turbines, near you!

and you thought living near a bitcoin miner was bad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XREXd8V7Fck&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251030-ai-powered-by-old-jet-engines-near-you - podcast

time: 4 min 16 sec

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/10/30/ai-powered-by-old-jet-turbines-near-you/ - text

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
rosie_108@toot.wales wrote:

Cuteness for the timeline with @ChrisWere

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

Please join us this weekend: https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/c/no-kings-alliance-mutual-aid/event/create/

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

There are no accurate Hallowe'en spiders.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/31/a-doleful-lack-of-anatomically-accurate-spider-decorations/

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/azTWFSsefXs

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

Also contains some musings on writing as a craft.

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

Wrote up a few thoughts on media business strategy, audiences, the decline of web dev as a source of work (for me), and plans.

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

Every day is Hallowe'en if you're Jordan Peterson.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/31/tasteless-suits-made-to-fit/

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

Notes on strategy and audience as a media business: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/strategy-and-audience/

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

Retro photos: millennial Reykjavík: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/photos/retro-photos-millenial-reykjavik/

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

Firefox ESR is now v140 (from 128)

this is typically my lowest browser support target

https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/140.4.0/releasenotes/

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

Celebrate the holiday with Happy Fun Ball!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/31/happy-halloween-6/

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

Yesterday was spent updating and maintaining the beetle farm that lives in my living room. That's what a living room is for, right?

https://www.patreon.com/posts/tenebriarium-142486327?utm%5Fmedium=clipboard%5Fcopy&utm%5Fsource=copyLink&utm%5Fcampaign=postshare%5Fcreator&utm%5Fcontent=join%5Flink

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

“Understanding what "I am not 'anti-AI'… I am pro-craft." means to me | As in guillotine...”

https://loudpoet.com/2025/10/30/understanding-what-i-am-not-anti-ai-i-am-pro-craft-means-to-me/

> Meanwhile, actual expertise continues to be devalued across the board. Intellectual curiosity that helps develop that expertise is steadily being devalued in favor of “productivity” hacks. And my absolute favorite, AI “solutions” to problems that were created by previous non-AI “solutions” that also didn’t understand the original problem they claimed to solve.

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

Vim has always been charityware. Any money that was donated to the project went to ICCF Holand, an organization that helps marginalized children in Uganda.

Sadly, 2 years after Bram's passing, this charity will be dissolved. Future donations will be sent to a different charity called Kuwasha: https://groups.google.com/g/vim%5Fannounce/c/pUNbNXBLbKw

Bram's work over the years has done much good for disadvantaged communities. Whether you use Vim or Neovim, consider following their original creator's example in whatever way you can.

#vim #neovim

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
lrhodes@merveilles.town ("⁂ L. Rhodes") wrote:

I missed it before, but the new #Affinity app includes an AI chatbot called Ritson.

There's also the last question on this FAQ: https://www.affinity.studio/help/canva-ai-canva-ai-affinity-ml/

"Can I disable AI in Affinity?

"No, you can't disable or remove AI features in Affinity, but it's your choice if you use them."

So, yeah… thanks, but no thanks.

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

Not a huge fan of the idea that the business model for some of the more complex productivity apps around—the Affinity suite—is now limited to “let me upsell you to ‘AI’”. I’m glad they haven’t discontinued them, but these apps are too important for people’s work for them to become some ‘AI’ vendor’s cost centre

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
nolan@toot.cafe ("Nolan Lawson") wrote:

"I Built the Same App 10 Times: Evaluating Frameworks for Mobile Performance" by Loren Stewart https://www.lorenstew.art/blog/10-kanban-boards

One of the best web perf analyses I've read in a long while. Can't say the results are surprising, but it's great to see it all laid out.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
alda@topspicy.social ("Alda Vigdís") wrote:

So Affinity is now free but you pay for AI features?

And they are owned by Canva now?

This whole industry just running without viable income models and everyone is acting like it's fine?

Boosted by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):
ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:

On Monday, @bcantrill and I revisited an Oxide and Friends tradition: Books in the Box! We--and live listeners--share recommendations--worth a listen if you're looking for your next read! https://youtu.be/jBduzUVORnk

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
MomentsInGraphics@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Christoph Peters") wrote:

Ray marching is a common approach to GPU-accelerated volume rendering, but gives biased transmittance estimates. My new #SIGGRAPHAsia paper (+code) proposes an amazingly simple formula to eliminate this bias almost completely without using more samples.
https://momentsingraphics.de/SiggraphAsia2025.html

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ZLabe@fediscience.org ("Zack Labe") wrote:

Many important weather and climate data streams have gone silent as the U.S. government shutdown continues on.

As just one example, NOAA’s Global Monitoring Laboratory did not release its regular monthly update for greenhouse gases, such as for carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide.

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

it is all downhill from here

https://ohai.social/@redsad/115465169355314751

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Strandjunker@mstdn.social ("Andrea Junker :verified:") wrote:

If Prince Andrew used Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring, he should go to jail.

If Bill Clinton used Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring, he should go to jail.

If Donald Trump used Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring, he should go to jail.

That wasn’t so difficult, was it?