@slightlyoff so they released updates to the medicine dropper and overheating lamp apps?

@CosmicTraveler

#TravelTuesday

Nagano
A7rV + Sirui Saturn 50/2.9 Anamorphic lens

#Photography

One way #Canada can fight back #cdnpoli

“legalizing jailbreaking let Canadians get more out of their own property [and] turn America’s tech trillions into Canada’s tech billions — while making Canada digitally sovereign by facilitating the uncoupling of Canadian ministries, corporations, households, and devices from America’s cloud. This is how Canada removes the digital kill switch it handed to America...that can shut down its tractors, phones, and governments.”

https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2026-08-elbows-really-up-peoples-revolutionary-front-of-carneyism-d4dfa7e2a8d5?sharedUserId=elasticgordon

The Python (3.16) docs now have a page detailing the time complexity of operations on built-in types: https://docs.python.org/3.16/library/time-complexity.html

Thanks to everyone who helped review and improve it. Hope it saves you some time ;-)

#python #docs #python-perf

@pluralistic

"True Carneyism has never been tried – especially by Carney. It's long past time someone gave it a go"...

Oh boy my country deifintely needs to (México).

Sick.

My @smh @theage cartoon.

@eramdam I'll give it a shot, then. I've been using phanpy on desktop for a while now

I can beat Usain Bolt's 100-meter record on my bicycle. Should you be impressed?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/world/asia/chinese-robot-100-meter-usain-bolt.html?unlocked_article_code=1.71A.Ak_q.-cl0sRFvK0xm&smid=url-share

Addressing the claim that America was built by “hardworking people” by reminding everyone that America was *actually* built on the backs of enslaved Africans and on the genocide of Indigenous people.

@zkat honestly not much.

@fantinel @comfortzonepodcast omg happy birthday!

Got a nice flower in my hat today. Also happy to see the butternut squash I had to replant doing so well.
#sun_mountain_farm_club

Louisiana Girl, 8, Dies After Contracting Rare Brain-Eating Amoeba
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/us/louisiana-child-dead-brain-eating-amoeba.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into U.S. @u-s-newyorktimes

@lauren @ai6yr Somebody eventually has to pay up. Telecom companies are a lot of things, but they are not charities. ;)

@mcourcel Burnout it seems. @mckensie @Winelectronic101

@lauren @timoj @ai6yr let it be positive. Ive been in tech 40 years. I enjoy allowing spammy orgs to drop energy into my buckets, as ive been doing since the 90s. Folks like myself see it as game and sport.