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

apparently the trans agenda has gotten to our zistors?

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

cheap japanese cabbage pancake? call that economiyaki

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

german fediverse users? call that the fediwurst

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I can no longer plug my keyboard into a USB-A port on my thunderbolt dock. nothing else has changed that I am aware of; I can still plug it in to a USB-C port. It’s a USB2 device. It originally worked with my USB-A ports.

I don’t have time for this shit

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veronica@explains.social ("Veronica Explains") wrote:

Looking for help with KDE Plasma.

I have a teleprompter, it mirrors the screen. Mirror in this case doesn't mean "shows the same thing another screen does", I mean literally: it's a mirror. Like the kind that reflects light back at you.

In swaywm I can easily apply a transform flipped on that display, in order for the mirror to show me the correct information. In GNOME I can use gdctl to perform a similar transformation. Does KDE Plasma have a similar utility?

Please note: I am not talking about "rotating" a screen, I'm talking about flipping, inverting, or reversing a screen so that it is visible in a literal physical mirror

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

in 0% surprising news, the story of moving a cable for Dobby's grave turns out to be *completely made up bollocks* to fill a space in the papers in August

Dan Davies went looking

https://backofmind.substack.com/p/chortle-on-a-chortle

seems to be a publicity push from the power company making up a story, which the BBC and NYT just ran as if any of this fucking happened

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

If you haven't spent a regrettable amount of time marvelling at @mwichary's https://text.makeup/, I have good news! The night's still young.

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

personally i am all for writing code to make things go faster.

of course i actually write code.

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Geri@veganism.social ("Totts") wrote:

When you watch the #eclipse through a colander, you must be careful not to strain your eyes

Xxx

Straight out of the book of >>>> @dgar looz

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

I think my next cross-stitch project will be eclipse-flavoured because I was cross-stitching an (unrelated) picture while watching it

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

It's kinda fun seeing everyone aweposting the eclipse. Like a giant shared human experience of watching the moon eat the sun

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1@mastodon.vierkantor.com (":anne_triangle: Δ-44203.1 'Carbon' :neobot_floof:") wrote:

What an event. They should do this more often. 24/7 for example.

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ytetic@4bear.com ("Ytetic") wrote:

Once upon a time there was light in my life
Now it's 8.5% less
Nothing I can do
Partial eclipse of the heart

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Foritus@toot.dusepo.co.uk ("Charlotte") wrote:

Remember that staring at Eclipse IDE for too long may cause brain injury due to overexposure to Java

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

urban spanner

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AlexSanterne@fediscience.org ("Dr. Alexandre Santerne 🌍") wrote:

The #Sun is gone…

… for less than 2 minutes.

#totalsolareclipse #eclipse2026 #astronomy

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pikesley@mastodon.me.uk ("Per Inoboedientiam Ad Astra") wrote:

Various groupchats lighting-up with #eclipse pictures. Including some of Totality from Spain 👌

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

♬️ NUDA + SINE at DNA Lounge tonight: Wed Aug 12, 8pm!
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2026/08-12d.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #nuda #sine #darkwave #synthwave #industrial #gothic #livemusic #concert #sanfrancisco

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jwz wrote:

@glyph I guess with a sample set of 2 I don't know for sure that it's the serial number; it could well be sorting the base64 hash of that plus the manufacture date plus ... But there is something intrinsic to each physical monitor that determines their ordering.

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

The latest #Freebooters can also be found on

Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/14S8Y0D4ZH89YYnR8gsWb9?si=--fr7a5dTtClDJ-I0FGV7w

YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER2GxD4uDU4&list=PLRghqP%5Fja6wk

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

New #Freebooters is out!

https://freebooters.uk/media/20260812-freebooters.mp3

sky@schub.social ("Sky Schubert") wrote:

half of europe is staring at the sky

... and like, can you please not? i'd like to have privacy, please o_O.

jwz wrote:

@glyph Yup. I had to physically move them to get the "boot screen" to be on the left.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

To be clear, I *know* of like 10 different services which I could probably make the case for at least some of this stuff, so I don't need you to do a research project for me here just to find hosting services, what I want is strongly-held opinions about a best practice in this area. Ideally something that you've used, but fine if it's just something that you've heard positive opinions about.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@jwz I mean I guess this is better than "random", but, holy shit. what.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@jwz welp. time to become the joker

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jwz wrote:

@jalefkowit I eventually determined that the way macOS decides which of my (identical model) monitors is "screen 0" is which one has the lexicographically lowest serial number. Regarless of what ports they are attached to.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

"cheap, able to be sustainably run on a modest *hobby* budget indefinitely" and "possible for civilians to interact with, without having to learn what a 'cloud orchestration engine' is" are really load-bearing here

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

"They're doing their best" is an assessment, not a permission structure.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Let's say I'm teaching someone to code. What's the best option for a place for them to be able to host a website that is:

A) able to run arbitrary code[1]
B) self-contained; I don't want to set up 5 different services
C) as cheap as humanly possible

[1]: in my case I care the most about being able to run a docker container that can listen on an arbitrary network socket, but for services that hit B and C really hard I would be OK being restricted to Python and/or HTTPS if that were the tradeoff