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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
stacey_campbell@aus.social ("Stacey Campbell") wrote:

Does this knife style have a particular name?

It was bought for me in 1983 from the Wangaratta Co-op store when I was about to move to Bundoora and start uni. The knife is branded Stern and was "Designed in Germany", whatever that means.

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

Also "in maybe 20 years" christ I'm getting old

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

I need to have two monitors mirror each other while another monitor shows something else. Seems Gnome can't do this, and so I'm about to try KDE, which.... I haven't run KDE in gosh, maybe 20 years? I wonder what I will think of it

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
TodePond@mas.to ("Lu wilson") wrote:

live coding on a bench
#pastagang

Attachments:

• video: algorave live coding on a bench. people dancing. night. Tivissa

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
Kroc@oldbytes.space ("Kroc Camen") wrote:

Unless you were largely cognisant during the late 90s, it's very hard to get across to you just _how_ bristling with positive energy computing was back then, just **look** at this opening screen, it screams "ARE YOU READY TO LEARN MOTHERF*CKER?!".

It has dolphins, in the clouds. How many smartphone apps welcome you with dolphins in clouds?

#encarta #90s #retrocomputing

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

I try not to be petty but I would pay top dollar to watch a "where are they now?" doc in ten years on grindset influencers of the 2010s and 2020s.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
sandriver@zoner.work ("Shifting Sand, Sandwich Fumbler :verifiedenby:") wrote:

@cwebber@social.coop ah yes, the two genders, knave and gay,

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

Step 3: loser behaviour

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de ("Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK") wrote:

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116862528952241826

TBH this just seems like normality on the Fedi 😀

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

boys used to be girls which is pretty cool, and girls were always gay

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that most big tech companies underreport how much water their data centers use.

They often disclose water used for cooling but omit what the power plants supplying them consume.

Meta is rare in counting both; 19B gallons in 2024 was 20x its direct use.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-data-centers-water-use-901e2902?utm%5Fsource=chatgpt.com

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

info manuals: absolutely amazing if you know how to navigate them in emacs, absolutely terrible for everyone else

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
vv@solarpunk.moe ("vv 💫 [follow my new artist profile!]") wrote:

new vv upgrade just dropped

Attachments:

• video: vv is wearing earrings which have a ring of LEDs and væ snap vær fingers and the earrings react to the sound by flashing

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

RE: https://solarpunk.moe/@vv/116862340401012931

this is a real thing https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2012/01/30/gender-benders/

> Girl itself evolved in much the same way. The word originally referred to a child of either sex. Back then, prior to the sixteenth century, girls generally were divided into knave girls, which were boys, and gay girls, which were female girls.

EDIT: I added context, because it may have sounded like I was joking originally. It really is a really thing. boys used to be knave girls and girls used to be gay girls

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
vv@solarpunk.moe ("vv 💫 [follow my new artist profile!]") wrote:

did you know that boys used to be called "knave girls" and girls were called "gay girls"? English is such a fun language

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

I did forget one tiny final step after last night’s social.lol migration, which is rebuilding home feeds. You may not have noticed, depending on how many people you follow and how much you stay on top of your home feed. In any case, I've kicked off the job that rebuilds those now, and your social.lol home feed will be back to normal within an hour or so.

Also, we just passed 11 hours of uptime on the new server (omg.lol’s first ever dedicated box, btw!) and everything has been rock solid!

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

Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the Democratic Socialists of America and why people should be afraid of them ...

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

Happy July 4th, USA. May the promise of a better nation one day be realized for every one of us who live under its flag; also and independently, may we all finish the day with the same number of fingers as we started it.

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik"):
darylsun@social.lol ("Daryl Sun") wrote:

🔗 ATTENTION ALL #omglol USERS!

Do you love #omgdotlol? Do you use #webloglol? Do you like #webrings?

Then I just launched the thing for you!

The Unofficial #weblogdotlol #Webring at https://source.tube/darylsun/unofficial-webloglol-webring

Yes, I got @neatnik's permission to run this.

Do you have any questions? Please ask away!

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
rk@well.com ("rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually") wrote:

My wife is a nurse at a trauma hospital, and will be working on the 4th of July. She has asked me to ask y'all to please do your best to avoid blowing yourselves up, as doing so means she might have to work late. Thank you for your attention in this matter.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
sbourne ("Sarah E Bourne") wrote:

The visiting Yuji has been introduced to the catio. He thinks it's very interesting. But he has since come back in and is sitting in a decidedly uninteresting place to think about it.

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
rbreich@masto.ai ("Robert Reich") wrote:

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

“The United States of America, established to overthrow a mad king, has elected, 250 years later, a mad king of its very own.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/04/us-history-destruction

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dmacphee@mas.to ("Daniel MacPhee 🔬🧬🧫🇨🇦") wrote:

“As the Americans return to their origin, to their primal urge, they are losing themselves. In a kind of atavistic dissolution, the originalists are rendering the constitution increasingly meaningless. The icons are desecrated. They paint over the granite of the reflecting pool. They have torn down the White House all on their own; the British didn’t need to burn it.”
#Exceptionalism #History
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/04/us-history-destruction?CMP=oth%5Fb-aplnews%5Fd-1

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

Can I build Ladybird under Darling on Linux and then run it on my mac? Let's find out.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Open source funding in 2026:

Writing code: ❌❌❌
Fighting lawsuits: 💰💰💰

Something about these priorities feels a bit backwards.

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

turkey vultures?

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

Never Forget! 🛸

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
vampiress@eigenmagic.net ("Elissa") wrote:

Blog post: Inspired by the video I just boosted - some honest thoughts on my AI remorse from my experiments earlier in the year.

It was bad, and I have SERIOUS regrets.

https://goodnameforablog.com/posts/very-average-prototypes/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right") wrote:

@laemeur I hope you don't mind if I post a link to your patreon here where you give a quick walk through?

https://www.patreon.com/laemeur/posts/pseudographic-v-162751285