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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Ayyyeee my chocolate banana bread is a hit 🎉

I'm gonna get fancy and add chocolate chips. Was thinking I can add them frozen? I wonder what that does to the texture of the bread though. I know for scones, frozen butter bits are what makes a scone the way it is.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Y'all are awesome thank you.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

As far as skill level, I think I could install / manage most things. Though, I would like to look at some "it just works options"

If you know of something that's more technical, but worth it because of the features, im down for that too

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

I'm considering buying a computer and using it has my home server. I'm tired of paying Apple to store ten thousand screenshots in iCloud.

I also want to own my music and other media files.

Basically, I want all my storage to be in my hands.

Anyone know of good open source software I can use to achieve my goal?

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
blog@shkspr.mobi ("Terence Eden’s Blog") wrote:

I don't have a community

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/03/i-dont-have-a-community/

I get confused when I hear statements on the news like "community leaders have called for calm" or "community leaders will be encouraged to host informative programs" or "assurances were provided by local community leaders" or "community leaders have launched a campaign"...

I want to ask you a simple question. Who are your community leaders?

Take a moment to think about that.

Who are my community leaders?

I don't know how I identify myself. And I'm not sure if that's a problem or not.

I don't have a religion.

I don't have a profession, as such. My career is a haphazard mish-mash of jobs. There's no chartered body which speaks on my behalf and asks me to submit to their rulings.

I am a member of a Trade Union. But they don't ask anything of me other than monthly fees. I'm free to listen to them or not.

I know a few of my neighbours. They're nice enough, but I don't share anything much with them other than a postcode. I doubt we'd band together for anything more than an ad-hoc litter pick - and that's unlikely to be organised by a "leader".

I don't follow sports, so have no answer when someone asks me who my team are. If the captain of the England squad runs a campaign about men's health then I'm unlikely to know who he is, let alone trust his advice.

I'm not a member of a political party. Even if I was, I doubt I'd follow all their edicts. I've got a local councillor and MP - I wouldn't describe their relationship to me as a leader.

What are my tribes?

Humans are a social species. I have friends - both online and meatspace. But I don't feel like I have a community.

I am a geek. Would I describe Torvalds and Doctorow as my "community leaders"? Nope!

I enjoy drinking beer and cider - I even go to festivals. I don't care what you drink, or if you don't drink. I don't care what CAMRA defines as "real" - if you enjoy it, drink it.

I love Star Wars, but who leads that community? I ignore the people who get upset that a person who doesn't look like them is now a protagonist. I didn't need to be lead to that conclusion.

I have opinions about LGBT+ rights. But I'd far rather listen to the experiences of my trans* friends than those from a self-appointed leader.

There are things I like, and people within those communities who opinions I find interesting. But I'd struggle to call them leaders.

My hobbies include not collecting stamps

Can I only define myself by the things that I'm not?

Am I missing out on some vital human experience?

I'm not naïve enough to think that I've derived my own personal philosophy - everyone is a composite product of their culture and environment.

But it troubles me. Everyone else seems to have a community, and a leader. Do I need a community? Do I need to be led?

#meta

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
pfriedma@pfedi.pfriedma.org wrote:

Weather alert notification is throwing up its hands in exasperation

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
fesshole ("Fesshole 🧻") wrote:

I went down a skateboarding ramp in a wheelie bin. Glad for the experience and grateful I didn't get injured but would not try again.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Searching I found some mention on social media of Tim Burton admitting to the inspiration, but nothing with a credible source.

I must know 😭

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Looking back, I wonder if Jack Pumpkinhead was inspiration for Jack Skellington

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Being Left Behind Enjoyer") wrote:

the mythical machine month

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Who remembers the nightmare that is the Return to OZ? I was sure this was a knock off movie by some now-defunct studio, but no, this is a Disney movie. Who greenlit this??

This sequel to The Wizard of Oz scared the hell out of me as a kid, partially “the wheelers.” But I remember watching it multiple times? https://m.ok.ru/video/927388404280

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
jonossaseuraava@post.ebin.club ("rosmopiälikkö kuiva kus") wrote:

Need
https://store.gamersnexus.net/products/microslop-parody-t-shirt

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ianbetteridge@vivaldi.net ("Ian Betteridge") wrote:

@davidgerard It's really quite a thing that we have reached the “have faith, unbeliever” stage of AI already. Although these are mostly also the guys who made “HODL” a thing.

jwz wrote:

macOS 26 guest user.

Dear Lazyweb,

Back in the heady days of macOS 14, you could customize the default reset-to environment of the "guest" user (Safari bookmarks, items on Dock, etc.) by copying stuff into "/System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/". And of course macOS 26 seems to have completely fucked this. How do you accomplish this now?
https://jwz.org/b/yk4f

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha :mastodon: 🇪🇺") wrote:

The mystery of the fossilised keyboard 📽️

Attachments:

• video: A video of what appears to be a fossilised keyboard which has mystified many folk in England

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

TIL that saying "holy shit don't use ChatGPT for medical advice" is a "purity test". i didn't know that before. in fact I still don't.

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

“Tech's empiricism problem | deadSimpleTech”

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/tech%5Fempiricism%5Fproblem

> The industry thus becomes a place that includes some of the most awful people you know in positions of power and one that is more or less incapable of self-regulating.

jwz wrote:

Today's spam pro tip:
/etc/postfix/header_checks:
# Base64-encoded subject that starts with "【"
# /^Subject: *=\?utf-8\?B\?44CQ/ REJECT Spammer.

Boosted by jwz:
Minimus@archaeo.social wrote:

cavē Idus Martias! #bewaretheidesofmarch #minimuslatin

Boosted by jwz:
dnapizza@sfba.social ("DNA Pizza") wrote:

Bella Lugosi's Ched - mozzarella, cheddar, jack cheeses, garlic white sauce, corn, cilantro, tajin, lime

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autonomysolidarity@todon.eu ("Autonomie und Solidarität") wrote:

That's it!

#Antifa #Antifascism #Fascism

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
david_chisnall@infosec.exchange ("David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)") wrote:

‘Beware the SATAs of March’ doesn’t have quite the same ring.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
RabBrucesSpider1@mastodon.scot ("Rab Bruce’s Spider") wrote:

Social media for the blind:
Bluesky, hardly any Alt Text. To understand an image, you must open the post, tap on the image and hope your screen reader can describe it, or spend a minute or so scanning it.
X, hardly any image descriptions. The built-in AI will try to describe the images which is a major improvement, but you need to wait until the screen reader finishes reading all the info about the post.
Mastodon, loads of image descriptions. What a pleasure it is to browse my timeline here.

Boosted by joeri_s@mstdn.social ("Joeri Sebrechts"):
oldcoyote@c.im ("🌧️ jschof 🌼") wrote:

Explored what the platform has to offer with web workers for concurrency in vanilla javascript. You can have multi-threaded operations. It's just a bit of ceremony to put together:

https://jschof.dev/posts/2026/3/concurrency-with-workers/

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
janriemer@floss.social ("Jan :rust: :ferris:") wrote:

#Diverse perspectives on #AI from #Rust contributors and maintainers

https://nikomatsakis.github.io/rust-project-perspectives-on-ai/feb27-summary.html

Healthy debates are still possible, it seems. 🙏

#LLM #LLMs #RustLang #OpenSource

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I know 100% that people will argue with me over this, but I miss when movies were professionally lit, when actors were intentionally blocked, and when more than teal, orange and beige were allowed to be on the screen. The medium has something to do with it--film made a lot of these things fundamentally necessary--but I think it's more complex than just that. The last few years' movies are just not pleasant to look at, with very few exceptions, and the change occurred sometime around 2015.

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Kristian_Kiehling ("Kristian Kiehling") wrote:

"Online discussions are dominated by a surprisingly small, extremely vocal, and non-representative minority. Research on social media has found that, while only 3 % of active accounts are toxic, they produce 33 % of all content [...] 0.1 % of users shared 80 % of fake news [6,7]. Not only does this extreme minority stir discontent, spread misinformation, and spark outrage online, they also bias the meta-perceptions of most users who passively “lurk” online."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352250X24001313

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
wakame@tech.lgbt ("Not a Spring Onion") wrote:

@atax1a

2035:

"So, what's your job?"

"I write self-help books for computers."

zkat@toot.cat wrote:

I swear there’s few things that lift my mood as instantly and effectively as a new piercing. I can be in some deep void of despair and then I go get a new hole and it’s like I’m frolicking in a field all of a sudden

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

The MacBook Neo is held together by 68 screws, no glue, no adhesives.

Sounds like the right-to-repair lobby is making a huge impact(?) That, and maybe projects like Framework.

https://youtube.com/shorts/KVshPEmTNj8