"and the whole damn place goes crazy twice, and it's once for the devil and it's once for Christ, but the boss don't like these dizzy heights; we're busted in the blinding lights of... closing time."

Dude, you will never write anything that sick. Neither will I.

“Apple Maps launches ads on iPhone, here’s what’s new”

Bullshit. Bullshit is what is new

@kevingranade @MaddieM4 "techbro" however is a slur, but only (as one respondent elsewhere in the thread notes) if you're saying it right

Relistening to another half-dozen episodes of the Magnus Archives season 4 last night...

There were plenty of backstories for recurring monsters, & an overarching plot about getting one of their friends out of a supernatural coffin.

For relatively self-contained episodes there was a meat pit, & a flood in a gentrifying neighbourhood.

"So we struggle and we stagger
down the snakes and up the ladder
To the tower where the blessed hours chime. And I swear it happened just like this:
A sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss, the Gates of Love they budged an inch; I can't say much has happened since, but closing time..."

This man is the debil with words my friends. Incredible.

Helping your friends, colleagues and family de-BigTechify their lives is like Morpheus fishing individual humans out of #TheMatrix:

Of course the absolute number of people you can free is infinitesimally small when compared to those who stay captured. But if you get the right people, they're enough for a revolution.

#BigTech #DigitalRights #Democracy

@thegibson
I just ironed on a Veilid patch to my hat.

Speaking of, I don't know if our mutual friend passed this to you but my node is getting a "cannot connect" error when I'm trying to connect to 10.10.100.1 and no one knows why.

"The way we are going to think tomorrow depends largely on what we are thinking today."

— David Leslie Brown

#quotes

@j3j5 @admin Vine a ver las respuestas para confirmar que ibas a poner ese mensaje, y que no estabas secuestrado.

Today it's #BandcampFriday, so I have extra incentive to buy a new album. My choice this week is on the popier side, though it has strong synthwave influence.

I got City of Once by W O L F C L U B. It's a nice chill album.

https://newretrowave.bandcamp.com/album/city-of-once

#NewMusicFriday #Synthwave #Music

Hmmmm, in skimming some code I want to pull into a dumbphone...

* It appears that I can offload HTTP requests onto cellular modems: HTTP-client, tick!
* I'm planning to the pull in the high-quality bare-metal text-rendering from an ereader, which naturally supports HTML + limited-CSS as part of implementing ePub: HTML, tick!
* I'll include ArduCam just in case: Camera, tick!

I just needed to find & bookmark https://github.com/dlbeer/quirc before committing to including a QR code scanner in my project!

This tho, is great enough to beat my embargo on "country and country like music." People say music is poetry, but honestly most song lyrics taken out of context do not make a poem. This one does.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-0lV5qs1Qw&list=RD7-0lV5qs1Qw&start_radio=1

@kevingranade @MaddieM4 i am deeply and passionately unconvinced this, in the face of literally every other problem in any way linked to the AI bubble, is an actual issue anyone needs to be concerned about for one nanosecond , though I'm tempted to post my long long list of AI slurs

Clanker
Slopper
Token tanker
Thought stopper

Slop receiver
Book refuser
Bot believer
Chat abuser

Claude clod
Human spam
Grok spod
Friend of Sam

"I feel like I'm going insane. I see so many people latching on to this idea that the mainstream developer culture matters. That being relevant to the now matters. That being adopted by businesses, start ups, and large scale projects matters. That any of the bullshit this industry and fake-ass community has excreted about how to write software matters."

https://www.sheeeeeeeep.art/compatibility-with-who.html

Oh god, I feel this quote! I have to deal with others' false notions of "What developers want"! As if that matters.

"Safeguard the health both of body and soul."

— Cleobulus

#quotes

@gleick The AI is a lie

"Put Linux On It" 🐧 by The Stop Bits

https://thestopbits.bandcamp.com/track/put-linux-on-it

The fresh summer hit we needed to keep this hot summer cool 😎

"""
I deny the concept of scheduled obsolescence. \
They tell me this machine is too old to be productive. \
That's just an invitation for creative installation. \
On floppy or CD \
I'll boot this you will see. \
I put Linux on it!
"""

@veronica

#EndOf10 #Linux #GNUlinux #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Windows10 #Windows11 #Sustainability #DIDay #Obsolescence

There are a few people so addicted to the visceral thrill of The Lottery that we'll never get them back. As with the pseudo-Marxist cult groups, they'll never stop forming circular firing squads, and they're best avoided.

But more and more activists are realizing that fighting the Culture Wars - on any side - only helps to undermine the respect for difference a healthy democracy relies on. We can support human rights for everyone much more effectively by not buying into them.

(3/3)

@fuzzyleapfrog ebenfalls Arbeit. Zu viele Deadlines für zu wenig Monat, und bis Oktober keine Besserung in Sicht 🫠