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

BFH, 1 each, brown in color. the one essential tool for raising an antenna, or doing almost anything else 🤡

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

okay, antenna is up for tonight’s 6m net

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/117382963679112384

Can confirm, we took one of the covers off, and all of the lightbulbs are warm white underneath colored glass. They sell them under the Fern Lighting brand in the Garden Centres.

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MrLovenstein ("J. L. Westover") wrote:

Option C: Back my kickstarter 🔥 https://kickstarter.com/projects/mrlovenstein/mr-lovenstein-presents-fun

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zackwhittaker ("Zack Whittaker") wrote:

Good to see LibreOffice leaning into "no AI" as a software feature. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/06/libreoffice-says-no-ai-is-now-a-software-feature/

Bypass for ad-blockers: https://web.archive.org/web/20261006154328/https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/06/libreoffice-says-no-ai-is-now-a-software-feature/

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

I'm enjoying my studying so far but ye gods am I doing nothing else with my week right now... hopefully that will ease up as I get more used to the course.....

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

New post: “Two Weeks with the Fitbit Air”

It's a different experience than the Apple Watch, but is it better?

https://coyotetracks.org/blog/two-weeks-fitbit-air/

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

(the research we took this from is some years out of date, but our understanding is that COVID immunity from vaccination is significantly longer-lasting than immunity from infection. so it does still make sense to get vaccinated.)

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davep@infosec.exchange ("David Penfold :verified:") wrote:

At the hotel reception I said "I'm awfully sorry, I forgot what room I'm in".

"No problem sir" the lady said. "This is called 'The Lobby'".

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skinnylatte@hachyderm.io ("Adrianna Tan") wrote:

it is my birthday. i'm in a safe and calm place, with my loved ones. my birthday wish is for all beings to experience safety, joy and peace.

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

time to muster some brain cells & energy and put up my 6m quad loop for tonight’s SSB voice net

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

fucking cheapskates. the infection numbers have been failing to follow the heaviest-in-winter thing for quite some time now, the correct time to offer this vaccination was six months ago.

policymakers would have known that; delaying was a financial decision.

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

ah

we received an email from the province inviting us to have a COVID vaccination

we'll, uh, just wait until we're sure we won't be sharing our COVID infection with anyone before we do that ><

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

RE: https://masto.deoan.org/@jsonstein/117395760900905205

I just find it to be totally amusing that folks are using one or more LLMs to attempt to undermine the Giant Adobe Monopoly with a FOSS effort. TBH, I don't give a sh*t if it was developed by 3 raccoons in a trenchcoat. if you have ever worked with poor starving student visual creators, then you know what a pisser it is to not have the money for Adobe tools.

I was forced to listen to my daughter piss and moan as *she* was forced to learn GIMP to make up for lack of funds in college. if it works and it is FOSS, I say let the raccoons have their day.

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thetnholler.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("The Tennessee Holler ") wrote:

UPDATE: Trump just awarded another $3 BILLION military contract to a company backed by his son Don Jr. (and Peter Thiel) — what skilled businessmen these Trumps are!

Robbing the American taxpayer in broad daylight.

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eeeps@front-end.social ("Eric Portis") wrote:

After a decade at Cloudinary, I am looking work.

I'm a web developer who's done a lot of devrel, too. I'm good at:

- building on the front of the front end,

great at:

- the web platform (browsers and standards),
- researching and communicating the hows and whys of all sorts of things,

and the stem of my T-shaped skills is:

- "images, on the internet".

If you could use any of that or know someone who could – hit me up!

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

this stuff is basically a FOSS Rust suite to replace the Adobe suite:

https://github.com/storytold/

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weatherwest ("Daniel Swain") wrote:

Just did some number crunching using latest (Oct 1) ECMWF seasonal data, and I must say that I've never seen such high predictive confidence in a very wet California winter. This is a truly extraordinary forecast amid a record-strength El Niño event. [Thread: please read to end.]

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

this stuff is interesting https://getartcraft.com/

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

Golden glade. … or at least it would be a glade were it not for a tarmac patch in the foreground :-)

#photography #darktable

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

If only I had 8 limbs, I could have carried more spiders home.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/10/06/too-many-spiders-2/

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brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net ("Brooke Vibber :neocat_cofe:") wrote:

Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering teams at Wizards of the Coast are unionizing with the Communication Workers of America (same national union umbrella as Wikimedia Foundation's US workers!)

https://unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-studiox-join-uwotc-cwa

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

take care of your fingers, kids. you need them. you won't feel the damage until much later, but you are inflicting damage.

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davefischer@hachyderm.io ("Dave Fischer") wrote:

State of the art datacenter, 1937:

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vertical-files-prague-czech-republic/

#RetroComputing

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

if you live in the bay area and you keep a clipper card on a device, which device is it?

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

you ever accidentally do something on-purpose for 40 years?

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

the nature of the pain often helps us correlate these problems with specific things we've been doing for decades that we knew were bad but hadn't yet felt the effect of

in this case we think it comes from WASD gaming. oops.

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coreyspowell ("Corey S Powell") wrote:

The Nobel Prize in physics goes to Francis Halzen, who figured out how to turn a cubic kilometer of Antarctic ice into an enormous neutrino detector. The resulting IceCube experiment is now studying extreme events across the universe.

Remarkable, mind-expanding research.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2026/press-release/ #science #tech #nature #Nobel

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matt@toot.cafe ("Matt Campbell") wrote:

@glyph Because, as I learned years later, the rule is that focus can be taken from the process that owns the current focused window by a process that was *directly* started by that process. So yeah, the app's executable should just run the app directly, in the original process.

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matt@toot.cafe ("Matt Campbell") wrote:

@glyph I had a kind of related problem on Windows back in 2002. The first real desktop app that I shipped, primarily developed by a team that was there before me, was in Java. To give the app its own executable, icon, etc., I wrote a little launcher in C that, instead of embedding the JVM, just executed javaw.exe with the right args and env vars. On Windows XP, that meant that the app didn't consistently get focus on startup. 1/2