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

Rarely these days do I agree with James Woods but today is that day

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/james-woods-rob-reiner-death-remarks-1236609668/

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

Thinking about writing a short story in the style of WattPad smut. Sort of like a parody (haven't flushed it out yet). Any advice about common tropes, distinctive writing style, reading recommendations?

#Writing #ShortStory

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
jmj@social.lol ("Joanna J. :prami_contented:") wrote:

Thank you to everyone who used status.log this year. And thank you for your patience with me in getting updates released. I'll try to do better next year. :prami_hearts: #TelemetryWrapped

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
otaviocc@social.lol ("Otávio :prami:") wrote:

👨‍💻 My native omg.lol app for macOS Tahoe is on GitHub (source and app for download):

https://github.com/otaviocc/Triton

It's possible to install it directly from GitHub or via Homebrew.

Why not the App Store?

There are a few reasons, actually. Apple needs an account to be able to use and review the application, and I would have to subscribe to another omg.lol account for Apple to use.

Also, it's much easier to release directly whenever I make changes, without having to go through Apple's review process. I still have to maintain a Developer Account to sign and notarize the application, but I can skip the store review.

I hope the app is as useful for you as it is for me.

#statuslog #omglol

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

Ég er nú ekki Morgunblaðstýpan en það er ágætis umfjöllun um myndasöguna Kötturinn og ég, sem ég gaf út, í blaðinu í dag #myndasaga #jólabókaflóð #bækur

cmiksche ("Christoph Miksche") wrote:

Sick of identical cron or scanner emails?

Try logdiff - a tiny open-source Rust CLI that caches streamed job output per key and emits only differences (unified diff or changed lines).

Drop it into any pipe and reduce noise instantly.

Repo: https://codeberg.org/chapati/logdiff

#DevOps #Rust #OpenSource

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

Tuesday status: Safari is worse than IE ever was.

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

“Are the Broligarchs Ready to Be on the Downward Turn of the Wheel? - TPM – Talking Points Memo”

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/are-the-broligarchs-ready-to-be-on-the-downward-turn-of-the-wheel

> But I’m also used to working on the assumption that outside of my world — one of people very up on politics, generally well-educated and with cosmopolitan social and cultural sensibilities — people can and quite frequently do think very differently. So I found myself surprised just how widespread hostility to AI is.

Boosted by jwz:
mhoye wrote:

Because you don't have a "network interface card", you have an ARM cpu, maybe even a whole-ass ARM SOC, handling ethernet frames on one side and talking PCI on the other.

You don't even have SD cards, because "memory cards" don't exist. That terabyte of storage the size of your thumbnail you bought? That's an ARM CPU managing the wear levels on its crap-ass flash backing storage while pretending to be a hard drive on the other side.

You don't know how many computers are in your computer.

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

The perfect snow plow name doesn't ex...

I stand corrected.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
NationCymru@toot.wales ("Nation.Cymru") wrote:

Councils should ‘not be afraid’ to run bus services
#News

https://nation.cymru/news/councils-should-not-be-afraid-to-run-bus-services/

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
dgar@aus.social ("Dgar") wrote:

Me: So do you have any kids?

Them: I have one that’s just under two.

Me: I know how many “one” is…

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

My 20+ year old furnace decided to suddenly die in the middle of December, so I had to make some spur of the moment decisions. So we're getting a heat pump tomorrow. I didn't plan on spending that much money on upgrading my HVAC system, but sometimes life just plans for you.

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

A collapsing Statue of Liberty is a little on the nose but I'll allow it

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1pnof66/a%5Freplica%5Fof%5Fthe%5Fstatue%5Fof%5Fliberty%5Fcollapsed%5Fover/

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tychotithonus@infosec.exchange ("Royce Williams") wrote:

"Let us be the repository of your passkeys" and "We may terminate your account at any time and permanently refuse to communicate with you" ... seems like a bad combination?

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
scott@carfree.city ("scott f") wrote:

Apropos of a gas station exploding in my neighborhood: Fossil fuel infrastructure is an ecological disaster every day, especially when there isn't an accident, when everything is "working" "safely."
https://theonion.com/millions-of-barrels-of-oil-safely-reach-port-in-major-e-1819571678/

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

WELL GODDAMN SHIT I specifically sent in an edit for the new edition to remove it and I will follow up with them to make sure it's out of additional printings, it sucks that it is still in there because it's a word that today me is ashamed that yesterday me used back in 2006.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@mj%5Fjames%5Fwrites/post/DSTB2Zlj9D6

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Bard frog #Dota2

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

I've been wanting to write more fiction. After that last few days, I think I got the push I needed 😭🫠😂

I'm done with "think" pieces for a while I think. I want whimsy.

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

I just restored (and modernized) one of the first things I ever made on neatnik.net, a goofy little interactive cigarette card toy.

And then I promptly made a WEOPALO. https://neatnik.net/animalloys#WE-OPA-LO

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

Reminder that you don't have to wait for the judgment of history, you can loathe and despise him now

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VeroniqueB99 ("Vee") wrote:

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ValerieSonh@masto.ai ("Valerie Sonh :verigold:") wrote:

For my American friends: help save the Internet and the Fediverse! https://www.badinternetbills.com/ #censorship #ageverification #Section230 #privacy #KOSA

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

Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die:

"ChatGPT allegedly put Soelberg at the center of a universe that Soelberg likened to The Matrix. Repeatedly reinforced by ChatGPT, he believed that “powerful forces” were determined to stop him from fulfilling his divine mission. And among those forces was his mother, whom ChatGPT agreed had likely “tried to poison him with ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2025/12/15/murdersuicide-case-shows-openai-selectively.html

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AlexKourvo@zirk.us ("Alex Kourvo") wrote:

Merriam-Webster out here doing the lord's work.

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

A few people commented they dislike the term "POC" and I agree. It's useful when describing the collective minority within a predominately white space, but outside of that, there's no binding agent and the term degrades fast.

Like, someone commented "I love POCs, but..." Excusing the "but" for a moment, you "love POCs"? Like a bag of peanut M&Ms? What is uniting us in your mind?

There's a famous tweet that said "I love POC food." WHAT IS POC FOOD? lmao

jwz wrote:

Today I got my periodic reminder of how much I fucking despise Python, and every so-called tool that has chosen to depend upon Python. Fuck this whole "ecosystem". I mean really get right up in there and fuck it. mesa-25.3.1# meson setup build ... Program
https://jwz.org/b/yk0h

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
cssbasics@hachyderm.io ("CSS Basics") wrote:

One #CSS Trick to Eliminate Scrollbar Layout Shifts: "To address this issue, you can use the scrollbar-gutter CSS property, which allows you to reserve space for the scrollbar, preventing layout shifts when it appears or disappears." https://www.amitmerchant.com/one-css-trick-to-eliminate-scrollbar-layout-shifts/

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

Age-based social media bans are *sigh*, but if we're going that route, should be brackets: nobody under 16? Fine, then nobody over 50 either.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
peritia@alovely.space ("Peritia System") wrote:

What is your fav browser?