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

blogged: Reimagine the Date Picker
https://dbushell.com/2025/11/10/pikaday/

redirecting an old project domain to modern ideas :)

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

> All that remains today is an unsettling creature better known to us as David Hamburger Helper.

https://okayfail.com/2025/in-praise-of-dhh.html

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

(this is not the website I alluded to last week, that will be launched later!)

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

coming in with no chill this morning!

https://xslt.rip

best website I've ever made 💀

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

"Are you so arrogant that you think your posts are worth reading?"

Yes. Actually, I think that's a pretty good minimum threshold for anyone posting something.

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jplebreton ("JP") wrote:

"what was it like living through the 2020s, grandpa?"

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indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

🚨 We’re hearing that Senate Democrats are on the verge of caving to Trump in another “Schumer Surrender.”

That means your Democratic senators need to hear from you right now.

Call: https://indivisible.org/resource/call-now-tell-democratic-senators-keep-holding-line-shutdown-fight/?source=mastodon

Email: https://act.indivisible.org/sign/funding-fight-democratic-senator/?source=mastodon

Boosted by jwz:
lain@cyber.ms ("Lain Iwakura Bot") wrote:

📺 Serial Experiments Lain

🗓️ Season: S01E10
🎥 Episode: Love
🎬 Directed by: Masahiko Murata
📅 Release Date: September 7, 1998
⏯ Frame: 0726

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

These 8 Senators sold us out to Trump:

Hassan, King, Cortez-Masto, Shaheen, Kaine, Fetterman, Durbin, Rosen

Understand This Fact: Chuck Schumer is behind this. None of these 8 are up for reelection in 2026. Schumer asked them vote yes—they agreed. He's such a coward that he folded and won't even own it.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
neilsardesai ("Neil Sardesai") wrote:

Always nice to have options

Attachments:

• gifv: Screen recording of context menu with options for creating a New Folder and an Old Folder

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Surprisingly useful device for #WiFi debugging: robot vacuum.

Roomba, Dreame (and probably others) make a map of WiFi signal strength.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Another thing I've learned debugging WiFi issues: having router sitting on the floor is a bad idea. How bad can it be? +10dBm bad.

Raising the router off the floor by just 30cm significantly improved network coverage, including on the floor below it!

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

This is another case where smart gadgets are dumb. Apple's HomePod was in charge of picking the channel for the Thread network, and it picked a channel incompatible with the WiFi network it was connected to! No Intelligence in this Apple.
I've wasted days pulling my hair out, trying to understand why everything I did to improve the network coverage only made the network more flaky.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

WiFi and #Thread/ #Zigbee networks use overlapping ~2.4Ghz frequencies, and interfere with each other.

I've learned it the hard way. My old gadgets kept losing WiFi connection, so I bought the biggest baddest WiFi router. It made everything way worse!

The router kept picking an "unused" WiFi channel 1, which was the same freq as Thread channel 11 that my HomeKit hub picked for its network. Stronger WiFi kept collapsing my Thread network, and knocked even more devices offline.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
burnoutqueen@todon.nl ("Jackie 🍉🏳️‍⚧️☭") wrote:

The Democratic party is doing what it always does. Shame on them anyways

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tewha@appdot.net ("🇨🇦 Steve") wrote:

When a billionaire dies their senators should be buried with them.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
cmconseils ("Laura Manach :bongoCat:") wrote:

hi I’m a millennial and for large purchases i have to go open my laptop rather than use my smartphone

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
diegoe wrote:

free software without progressive politics is just free labor

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

It's been a few days now. What is something you like about the latest #Mastodon 4.5 release?

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

PeerTube video: What's Drew's REAL religion? Religion, power, and the paradox of belief
https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/8iodxUKcRPcum7TVX8F9FD

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Semi-periodic reminder that the DM feature here is utterly broken and should not be regarded as "private" in any meaningful sense. And its semantics seem designed to violate the principle of least surprise.

Example: ANYONE mentioned in a message, not just tagged at the start, is a recipient. So if you send someone a DM that says "That @mattblaze guy is an ignorant moron", I get a copy.

I was reminded of this behavior just now.

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

New blog post: https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/alchemy

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

♬️ SILENT MASS at DNA Lounge tonight: Sun Nov 9, 7pm!
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2025/11-09d.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #silentmass #thetunnel #øraison #oraison #echodeath #gothic #postpunk #darkwave #shoegaze #livemusic #concert #sanfrancisco

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• gifv: 58ed958e7d600595.mp4

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

Another photo from the cemetery today. Dr. Milner was 26 years old at the time of her death. She was one of only 12 women who graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1924. She died from streptococcic meningitis after an infection in her hand that she received during surgery at Children’s Hospital San Fransisco.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
stefan@stefanbohacek.online ("Stefan Bohacek") wrote:

Today is the 36th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall%5Fof%5Fthe%5FBerlin%5FWall

May we build more bridges as we tear down the remaining walls. ✊

#BerlinWall #IronCurtain #BridgesNotWalls #OTD #OnThisDay

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

PeerTube video: Why I’m getting a vasectomy (and what I’m expecting)
https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/qFDwyenV6ZXt7gVipbcTrU

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
FediThing@chinwag.org ("FediThing 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Hey experts on the Gemini protocol (not the Google AI thing but the totally unconnected open internet protocol).

It's getting a bit difficult to search for it now due to the Gemini AI crap. Are there any plans to give Gemini protocol a new/altered name? Maybe an abbreviation or acronym or something?

#Gemini #GeminiProtocol #NotAI #GoogleAreThieves

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

My six years of Latin study paid off today when I noticed the inscription above this crypt. Everyone of course knows "RIP" means "rest in peace", though the Latin is actually "requiescat in pace" which translates more closely as "may he/she rest in peace". The "requiescat" is the third person singular present active subjunctive of requiescō (meaning "to rest"). But in this particular inscription, we see "requiescant" — the "nt" being the telltale sign that we've shifted to the third person plural conjugation, so "he/she" becomes "they". And since this crypt holds the remains of two people, "may they rest in peace" is definitely more fitting.

(I hope you're more impressed with this knowledge than my wife was when we drove past it earlier. 😆)

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

RE: https://social.lol/@neatnik/115486390074802304

As of today, the omg.lol Food Fund has helped two families put food on their tables. The fund is pretty much empty now, but we’ll continue to put 25% of omg.lol/Neatnik LLC income into it. We’re also accepting direct donations at https://url.lol/-/food. 🧡

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

Fleet Farm's seasonal hormones have signaled the beginning of hunting season.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/11/09/midwest-chic/