Evan Prodromou
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Have Wikipedia and Mozilla passed a point of inevitable decline?
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Adulthood is just cycling between "If I don't say yes to every opportunity, no new opportunities will ever be offered to me" and "Oh no, I have said yes to too many things" over and over until you die.
@evacide "I would prefer not to"
I love Freddie Mercury.
@leo for con events i use the hilariously generic "softseal" that does actually let me talk to people but unfortunately my tourette's comes out in crowds so i will often consider obfuscation of speech to be a benefit
@leo bookmarked your recs i don't have anything special. i do like having a VOC mask for when I Make A Mistake but that one is also the hardest on my nose
This is the first litigation of this particular flavor that I remember seeing. Feels to me like Google might be in dangerous territory.
Cape Breton fiddler Ashley MacIsaac sues Google over alleged defamation | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/cape-breton-fiddler-ashley-macisaac-lawsuit-against-google-9.7187490
@sashin and poettering likes it
@hipsterelectron well I'm sold, I will continue using emerge!
@petrillic yeah the WCH hardware debugger is a piece of shit, and on any WCH part “bigger” than a CH32V003 they use their own undocumented debugging protocol which kinda sorta vaguely looks like SWD that only works with their own debugger.
And talk about coincidence, right now I’m laying out a TC-2050 pinout I’ve used in the past that connects SWD, UART, and power.
@leo realized my n95s are not in fact 3m (which i knew but forgot) and they have a valve which is very nice. unfortunately i have the chad chin and this makes basically every respirator hurt my nose after a bit even size large ones. this happens with my height too. hate being the spectre of adonis
@leo for con events i use the hilariously generic "softseal" that does actually let me talk to people but unfortunately my tourette's comes out in crowds so i will often consider obfuscation of speech to be a benefit
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In honor of May the 4th, Lucy is in her Jedi costume.
On the heels of the awful substantive Supreme Court ruling and opinion in _Callais_, Louisiana’s governor sought to cancel an ongoing election, House primaries, which had begun before the decision was handed down. He ordered cancellation even before the Callais judgment was made final, “certified”. There is a Supreme Court rule which delays certification for 32 days, allowing time for a party to request rehearing. 2/
There are almost no times when the Supreme Court has not followed this rule. But the Callais plaintiffs applied to the Court to have the judgment certified right now and tonight the Court ordered this to happen, trying to quash ongoing lawsuits filed to prevent Louisiana’s governor from cancelling the election, a result in no way required by Callais itself. 3/
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> A drawing tablet is a large touchpad or touchscreen
On devices marketed as drawing tablets, the stylus functionality is usually technologically separate from the touch functionality. There are a few stylus technologies that use the touchscreen (I believe most USI-branded tablets and the apple pencil do this), but if you get a cheap USB drawing tablet, it will almost always not have any touch capabilities because the actual "drawing" part is implemented with some variant of EMR technology. I'd be surprised if there were any non-tablet-computer stylus input devices that use capacitive sensing for the stylus.
There are a lot of reasons for this: better accuracy/precision, lower noise (and thus lower latency), sometimes allows for a battery-less stylus, don't need to implement palm rejection, tilt/rotation detection, probably more that I'm not aware of.
Before Wacom's patents expired, most non-Wacom drawing tablets used an active EMR tech that requires the stylus to have batteries, but these days, since the basic patents have expired, there are plenty that don't.
A cool project that implements and explains the tech: https://patchouli.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Also honorable mention to the non-EMR non-capacitive Nintendo DS. And also light pens.
should i become a guix
d@nny g@ix mc²
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Some awesome person made a Vault Boy version of the Charlie Day conspiracy meme and, whoever you are, take a bow cuz this rules.
U.S. President Donald Trump's abrupt move to cut U.S. forces in Germany is the latest sign that efforts to keep the United States in NATO despite severe tensions over the Iran war have their limits. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/05/05/world/politics/trump-germany-troop-cuts-nato/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #nato #eu #germany #europe #donaldtrump #us #iran #markrutte
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If you had the resources, what book would you put in hotels, a la Gideons bibles? (This may be a very American question, I dunno.)
@hipsterelectron i do want a nicer elastomeric respirator though, been looking at a few different options (the MSA 900 has the clearest speech but moisture builds up inside, the 3M Secure Click has slightly less clear speech, the GVS Elipse is tiny)
@leo realized my n95s are not in fact 3m (which i knew but forgot) and they have a valve which is very nice. unfortunately i have the chad chin and this makes basically every respirator hurt my nose after a bit even size large ones. this happens with my height too. hate being the spectre of adonis
I was pruning the shit out of a flowering cherry on the berm.... Over the years it had thrown up suckers from below the graft which had grown thick and bushy. The flowering scion was being strangled and the neighbours had trouble seeing coming out of their driveway.
As I'm lopping the limbs before getting out the pruning saw, dude is walking past, we say hi, he lives on the next corner. Yikes. I've seen election posters for crank fringe parties on his fence. But then he says "I've got forestry loppers in the garage, I'll be right back" and five minutes later he returns with the biggest scariest loppers I've ever seen, forget cutting off a toe, you could cut someone's foot off with these...
... and he just works with me on this cherry, and the rogue shrubs and trees coming over my front fence for about an hour and a half.
And we're chatting about the neighbours and gardening and he's a bit too worried about crime IMO but I keep it light and by the end, man he's saved me an afternoon's work. And we've swapped numbers and who knows, maybe I can work on him.
No real moral here. I'm generally live and let live. And this is how we preserve the community.
@stephen Good Story. Inspiring. Thanks, needed that.
