you know, a nice little thing that's quietly gotten better is how many video games a) present character genders as styles to pick from rather than an inalienable trait of you, the player and b) reassure you that you can change it later

Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights - Julia Evans:
https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/09/27/replacing-the-old-battery-on-rechargeable-bike-lights/

@Chagne Pour comparer, on ne fait pas des films de 5h, y'a une raison. Aussi, je pense spécifiquement aux essais, pas aux fictions.

Something very weird happening with @write_as DNS / name servers at the moment, seemingly out of nowhere.

I could use some help debugging / discussing privately, if anyone has a little more expertise with this. Boosts appreciated!

You do not have to hand IT to the techbros: Coding is *not* the "special case" where genAI is a good idea.

https://parsingphase.dev/tech/LLMs/ydnht.html

Here comes v0.5.9 as a private archive download for all SSI263 synthesizers. Thank you to all who reported bugs, you should see them fixed. V0.6.0 is coming later today on the release page.
I wonder how people are finding the sound of this one, any improvements, if at all. Or is it worsening.
Https://eurpod.com/synths/blazie-ssi263-0.5.9.nvda-addon
https://eurpod.com/synths/accent-ssi263-0.5.9.nvda-addon
https://eurpod.com/synths/speakout-ssi263-0.5.9.nvda-addon

DJ mattcurtis is now playing the matt curtis productions birthday by , right here on Galaxy Radio! Listen here at either https://beats.seedy.cc:9005/public/gr or https://beats.seedy.cc:9005/listen/gr/radio.mp3

And to be clear, they're lying. When the fires are burning around them, when the jackboots get turned on THEM, you see how much they care. They care a lot.

This is like a child being told to stop breaking something and then smashing it in response because "can't tell me what to do."

And that doesn't make them less dangerous; it's just like everything else about the Nazis, it's not a fully formed ethos. They have not thought it through. They are ppl who purposely replace truth with feeling.

if you'd like to donate to #Fediverse projects that are explicitly against inclusion of "ai" bullshit in the codebase, here's an alphabetical list of some fedi server projects which are all against "ai" [source] and are looking for ongoing financial support:

• GoToSocial: donate to GoToSocial
• Iceshrimp: donate to Iceshrimp dev
• Snac2: donate to Snac2 dev
• Wafrn: donate to Wafrn contributors

@reillypascal ahh that is super cool! Thanks, that’s most of the work done, looks like 😆

Column: All A.I. Projects Are Digital Asbestos

https://www.segasaturnshiro.com/2026/09/24/column-all-a-i-projects-are-digital-asbestos/

<- they're writing about games on a console I've never touched. I have no view on this. But the point stands.

@meljoann an IndieWeb friend of mine, https://dead.garden, uses bashblog, which sounds like what you're talking about!

https://github.com/cfenollosa/bashblog

I haven't used it, but it looks cool and it might be a helpful reference.

@Chagne Un chapitre c'est une unité cohérente. Une unité de 50 pages, c'est une unité qui va être consommée de façon fragmentée, avec des interruptions qui rendent son unité plus difficile à suivre. Qu'est-ce ce qui est *si* impossible à dire de façon plus courte qu'on ait besoin d'une unité dont la longueur s'approche de celle d'un livre entier ?

@Wtebbens Actually the dithering of the website didn't work yet.

Now everyone, including the student who did the design (you might have an idea), is happy!

Autumn is back, and so I get to pull out our big 15" thinkpad from storage. It's a bit hypnotizing to move to back to a screen with twice as a many pixels.

Some rich tech asshole: "I am a fascist. Here is a list of fascist things that I, a full-blown mask-off fascist, believe"

Equivocating FOSS Libs on here: "Well, it's impossible to say if he's actually fash. He's said some racist things, sure, (and I'm apparently OK with that?) but I don't believe he's actually a fascist"

In this week’s newsletter, we talk about secondary rights and get space tackling the origin of a pair of album covers for Jonn Serrie.

Plus an exclusive digital wallpaper of ARMENIA for our paid subscribers…

https://theartofmichaelwhelan.substack.com/p/city-in-the-sky