It feels like every few days now I learn that someone who had engineering opinions I thought were terrible also has social and political opinions that are reprehensible.

And now for a very different song. The worst thing that can happen when you're trapped in a box canyon with a bunch of outlaws. the very very worst thing.

OK questa non la sapevo. Il nostro amico Leo della Settimana Enigmistica in realtà è una BD francese!

https://zona-bede.blogspot.com/search/label/Ludo

@Jeremiah I find legibility depends on the watchface used. Big numbers and high contrast colours help. Have you tried one like BRUTAL? https://apps.rebble.io/en_US/application/67c751c6d2acb30009a3c812?section=watchfaces

Well you can't be good at everything.

The Linux Audio Wiki¹ has been updated to the latest DokuWiki release again. Thanks @dokuwiki for making the update process such a breeze.

¹ https://wiki.linuxaudio.org

#LinuxAudio #DokuWiki

Attorney General Bonta Files Lawsuit Challenging USPS Rule Restricting Mail-In Voting, Interfering with Elections https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-files-lawsuit-challenging-usps-rule-restricting-mail

The new @pixelfed webUI is connected to the backend and working flawlessly 🥹

Months of work, several attempts, and now I'm going to spend a few more days on a DM button that is four pixels too far down, and 12 pixels off rotation.

Being a perfectionist has its downsides. This is one of them.

But it has to be Pixel Perfect 🤩

Trust me fam, it will be worth the wait.

#soon #pixelfed

@TheBreadmonkey it scares me that this day may come in my life.

@emilymbender @deccamuldowney but professor, ai is just a tool don't you know. there's no such thing as an externality of course.*

* there is some amount of sarcasm in this toot

did you know that Fibonacci numbers (where each number is the sum of the previous two) can convert miles to kilometres?

1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, ...

pick any number in the sequence as your miles, and the next number in the sequence approximates the number of kilometres

this works because the ratio of consecutive Fibonacci numbers converges to 1.6180334 (the golden ratio φ), while the number of kilometres in a mile is 1.609344

to see how close this is, consider the approximation compared to the actual kilometres

miles km actual km

1 2 1.61
2 3 3.22
3 5 4.83
5 8 8.05
8 13 12.87
13 21 20.92
21 34 33.79
34 55 54.71
55 89 88.50
89 144 143.20

#math

Certo, del resto è noto che quando non studi ti viene tutto meglio e il cinema italiano odierno ne è la prova

EDIT perché vorrei che fosse chiaro che sono sarcastica. Tra l'altro sto cartello me lo sto vivendo come un attacco personale, con tutta la serenità che mi contraddistingue

@davidgerard let them fight https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/757/498/89c.gif

I feel that I've been seeing the misogynistic B-word more lately than I have in the past. People who are otherwise good, I've seen using that word casually. How do I stop this trend??

# Results for LLM usage in Debian

> This resolution therefore affirms that generative AI is neither exempt from nor subject to special rules beyond the standards already expected of Debian contributors.

Well. There's a thing.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2026/08/msg00360.html

The best that can be said is that Iraola's team remains undefeated in the league. Isak is on this team just barely because he happened to score a second before being subbed. Wirtz was able to contribute more especially during the first half. The strange arrangement with Gakpo paid off with makeshift right wing work setting up Isak. Our defence is still wobbly, Mac Allister helped to some extent, but this is not something that gets fixed with a DM alone.

#LFC

The Galaxy Z Flip 8 is at its best when there’s friction
https://www.theverge.com/tech/986033/samsung-galaxy-z-flip-8-review?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Smartphones @smartphones-theverge

The Sufis used to say that “the pen is in the hand of the Enemy.” I think a worthwhile contemporary extension is “the tool is in the hand of the Enemy,” always.

Corollaries follow.

PaperCut zero-day: “Boring” print servers become domain-wide threats

PaperCut’s urgent zero-day advisory is raising concerns well beyond the vulnerability itself, particularly given how many PaperCut servers are exposed to the internet and the potential for unauthenticated SYSTEM-level access....

https://itnerd.blog/2026/08/29/papercut-zero-day-boring-print-servers-become-domain-wide-threats/

@simonzerafa interesting, what do they do exactly? Explicitly read and write back the data? I wonder how much work is done by the controller themselves and I've always been curious whether they scrub data at rest or not (if you don't explicitly access it for a long time).