i finally did it. i made all the laundry. a l l o f i t. i will now never have to do the laundry ever again.
@ErikUden Har! Har! Har!
Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
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neovim?
no! vim.
:wq
Mx. Riley
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We age-restrict things like alcohol and gambling not because they are 'safe for adults', but rather because at some point you become fully responsible for your own choices. And some adults then make terrible choices with them.
If Meta's products are addictive for children, *they are also addictive for adults*. If children's learning capacity is harmed by #AI, *the same can happen for adults*. It's simple and straight-forward and we need to acknowledge this isn't a 'child problem'.
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A grand day out.
A class of guide dog puppies recently visited the Scotland's National Museum of Flight as part of their training. Puppies Bill, Elba, Jenny, Kell, Kez, Marty, Vinny and Wray explored the museum to help them get used to busy and unfamiliar environments. Watch the museum's reel to see how they got on.
#globalmuseum #museums #dogs #guidedogs #Scotland
Hackers talks about how the earliest personal computing pioneers of Silicon Valley, the pioneers of the homebrew club, were gradually corrupted by turning their dreams into businesses and how this destroyed other humanistic efforts like the revived Community Memory
Hackers even does better at conveying the depth of sexism in the history of these things. while Nooney occasionally says things amounting to "also of course he was a MAN so duh", Hackers actually shows the fundamental core issues
Jules she/her
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@afewbugs @Tattooed_Mummy @John_Loader @john @neil and on a decade timescale it's often a pain regardless of apps. there was a recent FarmCraft101 video where he ran into this sort of problem - his inverter was faulty, the manufacturer still exists, but his installer went out of business, and the manufacturer says support requests have to go through the original installer, they don't have their own field techs, and they can't accept the liability of having an individual do the electrical work.
@urda Thanks. Still sorry if it caused any problems 🤗
@mastohost just a pager alert before bed but I knew you had it.
Jules she/her
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@afewbugs @Tattooed_Mummy @John_Loader @john @neil solar systems that require any kind of cloud service or manufacturer involvement to configure and monitor them are a real nightmare. it's not just because the manufacturer might go out of business and the cloud service can disappear, but because a lot of the manufacturers delegate support to the system installer, so if the installer goes out of business (very common) you can be left in limbo land and getting support becomes very high friction.
They don't want your pix, they want your account, so they can use it for scams.
@dashdsrdash Indeed. Gonna be tricky with 2FA and all that. I hope.
Stefano Marinelli
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This post received a lot of comments and reactions, which is great!
It also proved that my little Raspberry Pi Zero W, powered by NetBSD, could handle the load.
Now - to help me test how much load it can tolerate - please boost and react to this post! 🚀
@whitequark thank you for walking me through how to do this, and yeah, something on server-side is double-escaping things 😞 I even realized there was a way to directly edit the contents of the settings.json file in the Etherpad admin GUI but it still gets re-escaped somewhere
@whitequark but! thanks to you, I have edited my first POST request
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Police using surveillance technology “to stalk people, especially romantic interests, current or former partners, is so common that in the NSA they actually have a cute little word for it,” EFF’s @evacide said. “They call it ‘LOVEINT.’ It’s short for love intelligence.” https://www.wave3.com/2026/08/27/shively-officers-flock-camera-case-reflects-pattern-officers-misusing-surveillance-tech-track-women-expert-says/
AIPAC already taken
Interesting phenomenon on grocery store shelves in the past year: a bunch of the major Asian food brands have traditionally imported products into the US to make English packaging versions, then reimported those into Canada. We're starting to see many of those show up in Canada directly imported from Asia, with the original-language packaging and a sticker.
@misty
I was at T and T this morning and there did seem to be a lot of labels i couldn't read. Maybe this was part of what you were seeing, but maybe it was because it was T and T and their customers don't fool around.
Our tendency has always been to buy Asian products because made in the USA usually means inferior ingredients and safety. Quality is job last down there.
Email: “Sorry to hear you’re having trouble logging into Instagram.”
I mean, I’m not. But also: what absolute melon is trying to hack my Insta? There are about five pics on it.
They don't want your pix, they want your account, so they can use it for scams.
@mastohost thanks for squaring it away, downtime wasn’t too bad in the middle of the night here.
@urda Thanks. Still sorry if it caused any problems 🤗
It's been a tough few years for MacStories.
An explanation of why we resumed posting on X, and what comes next:
@viticci Some recent choice words from Musk, proud owner of Twitter:
* "Anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor"
* "She is a traitor to the West, plain and simple" (in reference to a recent interviewer)
* "Deal with traitors before invaders. They are committing high treason."
* "First the traitors, then the invaders" (screenshot from Citizen Vigilante pointing gun at camera)
Per Nate Silver, Twitter is a far-right cesspit: https://www.natesilver.net/p/social-media-has-become-a-freak-show
I am sad & embarrassed on your behalf.
@whitequark thank you for walking me through how to do this, and yeah, something on server-side is double-escaping things 😞 I even realized there was a way to directly edit the contents of the settings.json file in the Etherpad admin GUI but it still gets re-escaped somewhere
@evan I think the language barrier is the first thing to tackle. Live video calls are the hardest format for non-native speakers, so shifting more of the work to written communication would help a lot, and every meeting really needs minutes, even rough ones, since at least those can be run through a translator afterward. I've tried the newer real-time transcription and translation tools a few times and honestly the quality still isn't there, especially with ActivityPub-specific jargon that general models just don't recognize; feed a bad transcript into a translator and it gets worse, not better. Written async channels, like the FEP process already is, seem like a better fit for now. On the community side, @fedidevkr (a Korean fediverse developer group I'm part of) has been kicking around the idea of a session where people draft FEP proposals together in Korean first, then translate and refine into English as a group. Still an early idea, but I think local hubs like that could lower the barrier more than any single W3C-side change.
@hongminhee @evan @fedidevkr >Live video calls are the hardest format for non-native speakers
and timezone is also an issue since most English speaker live in Europe or America, so the time different is too large.
