@fellmoon it was! I need to take some time out to tidy up and trim them a bit, and publish them with ente. Probably in December.

@zardoz contraptioneer is the best new slur we've come up with in a long time. type of guy who exclusively thinks about contraptions for already solved problems. slonking off the bill and melinda gates foundation for funding to build a rube goldberg machine that captures 0.001% as much carbon from the atmosphere a day as a single tree

@adamgreenfield

I didn't know: that's terrible.

@adamgreenfield @akamran @Npars01
It all sort of depends on the magnitude of the disaster and type of disaster.

Sharing resources over a larger population can have a lot of benefits - major earthquakes, floods, forest fires, hurricanes, etc. can (and do) overwhelm even regional resources.

I've had to respond to multiple OSS security issues recently and the wild thing is that agents can now generate exploits just on the *rumour* of a bug. This throws security embargoes out the window, as the fix is less important than the knowledge of its existence. What on earth are open source maintainers supposed to do next? https://anil.recoil.org/notes/rumour-is-the-exploit

@david_chisnall

It's a bit tiresome sharing a first name with that odious sack of catshit.

@craiggrannell It's possible to shop for locally sourced organic food.

But I'm not suggesting that we're required to live morally perfect lives. I do think, however, that a reductive analysis that focuses exclusively on politics, and makes one's actions moral or immoral based only on that factor, is missing a lot. For example, oligopolies are inherently bad, regardless of whatever politics the CEO espouses (which is often BS PR anyway).

@TheBreadmonkey Wow. Like emptying the vacuum cleaner, only mostly hidden from view. I like that the streets and sidewalks seem to be free of litter. I can tell a lot about how much people respect a place, by whether there is trash strewn or not.

When J and I had to fly to the West coast of the U.S. for a funeral, we played a little game I call "spot the trash." We were in one of the most Posh places you can find in California: Los Altos. We were there for three whole days and did not spot one bit of trash anywhere on any street or sidewalk. We could never ever afford to live there (even buying a small apartment would set you back $1.2 million USD) but it was so fun to visit, like a strange land. And as a side note, I got to meet my Iranian extended family members, which was fascinating. They escaped, right before the revolution in 1979. We learned a lot from them about how different and open the culture had been there, before the religious crackdown. Both my stepbrother's wife and her brother were able to continue their education here and thrived. It made me sad to think of the families who didn't have the money to leave and start a new life, but I was mesmerized by their story.

Sorry, Ben. I really went off on a tangent there! Thanks for letting me reminisce.

@randahl you can’t grab a robot by the p….
Hence trump doesnt care

“Les exigences américaines ne sont pas cohérentes avec la relation entre deux États indépendants, mais poursuivaient l’un des objectifs affichés par Donald Trump, faire du Canada le 51e État. […] Mark Carney se place à l’avant-garde d’un front de résistance occidental à la tentative de vassalisation trumpiste“

https://legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/08/23/le-discours-integral-de-mark-carney-contre-la-vassalisation-du-canada/

@codinghorror

Billy Joel -- Allentown
Bob Marley -- No Woman No Cry
Grandmaster Flash -- The Message
Phil Collins -- Another Day In Paradise
Yip Harwell -- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

I was also preparing to suggest "Minimum Wage", but you got it. 🙂

"A book about me? Well are you going to read it to me then?"

@codinghorror @Kimberley I guess that excludes Neutron Dance - Pointer Sisters too?

hands down best model on printables. you don't even need a 3d printer for it!

https://www.printables.com/model/1626925-wago-tpu-filament-keychain

@dch all of that looks amazing :)

Today, I’m letting you know that toot.community will close permanently on 28 October 2026.

This decision is final, and the server won’t be handed over to anyone else.

When I started running toot.community, I really enjoyed it. Over time, it became more stressful and less rewarding.

Every day, I deal with spam, bots, technical issues, abuse reports, and user conflicts. Much of the moderation ends up being about personal disagreements rather than actual rule-breaking.

More importantly, I don’t enjoy how people interact on social media anymore. Too often, conversations turn hostile or confrontational. A small amount of conflict and bad actors takes up a disproportionate amount of time and energy.

I find myself feeling more angry or discouraged after spending time as an admin, and that’s not what I want from social media or a volunteer project.

There’s also the financial side. I’m very grateful to everyone who donated, but donations haven’t covered costs for a long time. I’ve had to shoulder most of the expenses, time, and responsibility myself.

The server is now closed to new registrations and will remain online until 28 October 2026, so you’ll have three months to find another Mastodon or Fediverse server and move your account.

You can find Mastodon’s official migration guide here: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/

Please note that Mastodon can move your followers, but it can’t transfer your old posts or uploaded media to your new account. If you want to keep a copy, download an archive.

If you’d like to stay in touch, you can follow my personal account here (@jorijn).

@neil @melocopon Google Wallet does more than Catima (it also does ID documents, NFC payment, etc.) but if you only care about things with barcodes (concert/event/plane tickets and supermarket discount cards) it works as a simple fully-offline replacement with no tracking.

The saving grace is that, while this amazing technology will pump out scans, you can use the very same technology to sort out the scams, with only a few false negatives, and perhaps some false positives!

And in eight months' time, it might be able to code something that isn't absolute trash!

@macfranc @politica
E perderà alle elezioni successive. Se vuole sopravvivere oltre i pochi anni di governo il PD, a parere mio ha due opzioni:

1. Spostarsi completamente al centro diventando una sorta di nuova DC
2. Dare spazio alle istanze della società: lavoro, casa, salute, istruzione, diritti costituzionali a 360°. Cioè a quello che chiede la sinistra. Qui non si tratta di rivoluzione bolscevica, e neppure francescana 😉😂. Si tratta di scegliere quale indirizzo dare all'economia: dei capitalisti o dei cittadini. Si tratta di portare a compimento la nostra Costituzione su lavoro, salute, dignità diritti etc: i primi 12 articoli ancora disattesi.