This is fucking bleak on Spotify:

https://www.theverge.com/column/815744/music-recommendation-algorithms

'The [former Spotify] employee explained that, "the vast majority of music listeners, they're not really interested in listening to music per se. They just need a soundtrack to a moment in their day."'

Music changed as a response to this:

'Songs got shorter, albums got longer, and intros went away. The hook got pushed to the front of the song to try to grab listeners' attention immediately, and things like guitar solos all but disappeared from pop music. The palette of sounds artists pulled from got smaller, arrangements became more simplified, pop music flattened.'

rofi-script is cool but it's also awful -- why does it only render when each script fully exits?

if it could handle the scripts streaming data, it would be easy to have scripts "watch" some thing and update entries

e.g. my bluetooth rofi script could in real time add or remove entries, and replace entries when connected/disconnected

lets all sync our random number generators

PR firm 'planted story' about Iran funding Palestine Action in media https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/pr-firm-chief-admits-placing-claims-about-palestine-action-iran-funding-uk-press?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #socialist #canada

“My girls, sir, they didn't care for the Overlook at first. One of them actually stole a pack of matches, and tried to burn it down. But I ‘corrected’ them sir.”
https://indieweb.social/@adamghill/115521088944575532

En cas de manque de chat de zolis chats
J'ai fait deux collections
Une pour Umé : https://pixelfed.ch/c/854086824482125677
Une pour Zouzou : https://pixelfed.ch/c/854085974786537309
#CatsOfMastodon #MastoCats

This class will
be invisible
for a short
time.

Andy Robertson on his future: “The relationship between me and the club has been a wonderful one. They've done everything for me. I think I've not been too bad for them in terms of signing from Hull for £8m and what I've done.
“I'm relaxed about the whole situation. If it is my last year, then it's my last year. If it's not, then so be it. I had a bit of a stressful summer in terms of decisions. I've said to myself to just try and enjoy the next few months and then obviously it will start probably taking over my life. That's what happens when you go into your last six months.”
#LFC

from my link log —

Decompression is up to 30% faster in CPython 3.15.

https://emmatyping.dev/decompression-is-up-to-30-faster-in-cpython-315.html

saved 2025-11-11 https://dotat.at/:/FW9NR.html

New Open Source Hardware board in stock: ESP32-C5-DevKit-Lipo Dual band 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz WiFi 6, Bluetooth 5 LE, Zigbee, Thread, Matter in breadboard friendly DIL format
https://olimex.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/new-open-source-hardware-board-in-stock-esp32-c5-devkit-lipo-dual-band-2-4ghz-and-5ghz-wifi-6-bluetooth-5-le-zigbee-thread-matter/ #esp32 #esp32c5 #iot #wifi6 #zigbee #matter

Intanto è uscito il nuovo disco degli Agnostic Front.
Si, proprio loro.
Eh già.

#ChiNonMuoreSiRivede
#FediMusica

About the nazi-security-digital complex and threat to democracies worldwide:
‘Once #Palantir becomes indispensable to government operations, once #Anduril’s drones become the NATO standard, once #nuclear facilities power the #AI systems running everything else, the transformation becomes irreversible.’
https://mondediplo.com/2025/11/01zlonger-view

No, your website is not "working correctly" unless it is working correctly on two *different* rendering engines.

I lived through the IE6 era, I do not want to live through that kind of bullshit again. And trust me, neither do you.

#WebDev

For me it's even worse, because i not only got that in the 90's, i also grew up in the 70's during the oil crisis. Speed limits were lowered to 55 mph to save gas, fuel efficiency standards were first introduced, President Jimmy Carter had solar panels installed on the White House roof and addressed the nation on TV about saving energy while wearing a sweater so the White House thermostat could be set lower in the winter, and all the schools had stickers on the light switches reminding you to turn the lights off when leaving a classroom empty. Energy conservation was huge when i was growing up. Now it's "go ahead and use enough electricity to power a house for a month so you can make a video of a three eyed cat playing a banjo"

#AI #energy