Just heard a Yardbirds song I didn't know followed by a Rolling Stones song I didn't know.

I can totally see how the Stones derive from American blues. Damned if I can tell how the Yardbirds did, or their descendants Led Zeppelin, tho they told everyone who would listen that American blues was their jam.

Working theory: they were listening on Bluetooth pods that were paired at the time with a different source than they thought.

Medieval very good friends burial site discovered

800-year-old 'hugging skeletons' are genetically confirmed as Poland's only medieval same-sex double burial

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/800-year-old-hugging-skeletons-are-genetically-confirmed-as-polands-only-medieval-same-sex-double-burial

@spencer
Hi, I am one of the founder organisers of the Rugby and Coventry Repair Cafes and I now run them both.

Happy to chat or I can just send you the notes I've made.

Where are you based?

Martin

#repaircafe #repair #repaircafes

Tonight's Low Quality Ad is for this Knitzilla T-shirt. Yes, he is still going to destroy Tokyo. He just needs to finish knitting first. Knitzilla has priorities.
https://collabs.shop/ei58dq

@radiofreefedi @nham @TIBtv thanks for supporting my friend!

Build a lattice, raise people up and you will soon find that there are others doing the same for you.

👏 👏 👏

@repaircaferugby Hi there, Martin! I'd love your notes; I'm currently very early in the ideating stages—this is barely more than a pipe dream—so I don't quite feel committed enough to trouble you for a chat.

I'm located in the US, in the state of Oregon.

…perimeter against all things LLM. And version 8.0 is a big step up. Try it out. 🔗 https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/vivaldi-8-0-is-the-anti-ai-browser-update-we-ve-all-been-waiting-for/ar-AA23Lfkf 🧵 2/2

I'd lost faith in Firefox management several years back, and #Vivaldi is now my browser of choice. They focus on privacy, customization, and speed, proving a small company can compete with big tech giants. Not open source, but alligned with my values. Vivaldi wisely filled the "market gap" for a non-big tech, non-AI web browser that firecely protects my privacy. I use Chrome now only as my "Claude speaks to it browser" and I keep all my real web experience cordoned off like a… 🧵 1/2

Many social networks have an artform. On Twitter, it was about brevity; and on Cohost, it was the CSS crime

And on Fedi, it's composing the post with the most unhinged but accurate content warning.

My wife and I celebrated our 17th anniversary today with our annual bike ride. This year was the lovely Pumpkinvine Trail in NW Indiana.

After the ride we ended at Goshen Brewing Company sitting outside with all the dog people. It was a wonderful day.

Prism 0.16.2 is out!

What's new:

* A bug was introduced in a prior release which caused Python wheels, produced in CI, to have zero backends, due to LTO optimizing them away. This no longer occurs.
* The Python wheels no longer build libspiel for the spiel backend because it has practically no mainstream adoption yet and requires that you build it from source.
* Similarly, spiel is no longer built with Prism in CI/CD releases because it is LGPL licensed and we would therefore have to ship the libspiel/libspeechprovider libraries along with Prism for Prism to load.
* Several bugs were fixed in the Orca backend and winelib which caused the Orca backend to malfunction in strange ways, such as trying to use a non-existant D-bus path or triggering a C++ length error. Thanks go to @pvagner for finding these.
* Prism now initializes geom and glibmm when prism_init is called for the first time.
* The Python bindings have been altered to prefer the Prism libraries shipped with the wheel at all times before prefering system-provided libraries (using RTLD_DEEPBIND and RTLD_NOW).
* The Orca backend will now properly clear the IS_SUPPORTED_AT_RUNTIME bit (and only that bit) instead of mistakenly clearing the entire bitset (except for IS_SUPPORTED_AT_RUNTIME).
* The system access backend no longer requires delay-loading SAAPI32/64 and Prism can now stand in for any SA API that exists on your system.

Dependency updates (PR #47):

* gradle-wrapper has been updated to 9.5.1.
* com.google.android.material:material has been updated to 1.14.0.
* com.android.library has been updated to 9.2.1 (which facilitated a significant rewrite of the android portion of the build system).

Download: https://github.com/ethindp/prism/releases/tag/v0.16.2

spot the difference

@lauren

Ironic. Consumer sentiment in the US at its lowest point since the Korean War.

@josephcox
Please post more excerpts of the video, or even just most of the raw footage, with any personally identifying information edited out

Naw brey I blame the Dem base too. I mean you folks have literally watched your Party lose to a reality TV show, child rapist, nazi assclown billionaire with a brainworm, a guy whose catchphrase was literally "you're fired." Twice. And not once have you demanded that everyone running this party, all the steering committees, all the "seniority" leaders be removed from power. You haven't done it. You've clung to people who lead you to ruin because "afraid of Trump" just like they wanted you to.

@randahl nope, never heard of this. That's the weirdest thing I've ever heard.

Are the prices in that particular shop very high either way? It's basically a 10 000% markup on any type of clothing anyways.

@moonrabbit thank you, pain is somewhat better now than it was this morning, and I got to spend time with some nice birds in my yard. 💚

How goes your day?

@ClimateJenny

Pretty cool that their remote video link thing is working. Again, not particularly surprising, but very interesting to see the spaceship in space.