I'm a death lawyer. It's nice. But what surprises me is how rarely people do cool stuff with their money (or their bodies) when they die. "UhHhH tAkE cArE oF mY wIfE wHeN I DiE," "i LoVe My ChIlDrEn EqUaLlY." Grow up.
Where are the bequests of fortunes to shirtsleeve relatives in exchange for spending a night in a haunted house? What about having your remains loaded into a cannon and fired into rush hour traffic? Where are the scholarships for bagpipers and other undesirables?
Ask not for whom the bell tolls
It tolls for ^G
For those who hear it tolling not,
It tolls but visually
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Rozhovor s muzikantem s ~milionem sledujicich na Instagramu:
"Ja zadnej link delat nebudu. Zadnej muzikant nikdy zadnej link nedelal. Linky mi posilaj. Poslete mi link a kdyz se mi bude libit, tak si ho dam na Instagram."
Kdybyste nevedeli, jak se dela sales v hudebnim svete, tak ted uz to vite. Poslete link.
Jdu delat link.
Too big too fail.
Kodak.
From 1983 to 2012 (it's Chapter 11 bankruptcy), Kodak had spent US$25B in R&D, and not a single successful hit product came out of it.
Morning everyone. Weird dreams about camping. Why would I dream about camping? I can't stand camping.
Hope you're all doing well, regardless of your opinions on camping.
“The ‘Freedom Convoy’ was a foreign-funded occupation and political destabilization movement, not a grassroots movement about COVID mandates." And of course #PeePee was its hand servant. cultmtl.com/2025/10/observatio…
#Cdnpoli #NeverVoteConservative #democracy #FreedumConvoy
An ever-changing collection of commentary and observations by Montrealers or about Montreal politics and culture.Cult MTL
De opleidingscommissie van de Vakgroep Wijsbegeerte en Moraalwetenschap aan Universiteit Gent besliste om het gebruik van generatieve #AI voor bachelor- en masterproeven dit academiejaar te verbieden. Maar die beslissing wordt van hogerhand teruggefloten. #UGent omarmt generatieve AI en dat geldt voor alle opleidingen.
apache.be/2025/10/08/ugent-ver…
UGent omarmt generatieve AI en dat geldt ook voor opleidingen die bezwaren uiten.apache.be
I am a bit sad today, because I won't be able to finish the next animal illustration, inspired by the Ubuntu release, in time for the official release date tomorrow.
It will probably take another two weeks.
Nevertheless, Focal Fossa will ensure the focus remains high ☀️ 💕 
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Boop the nose for good luck! 🍀
#art #mastoart #fediart #krita
Lol, #framework decided to sponsor Hyprland as well?
Did they swallow the entire #DHH pill?
Beyond disappointing.
xcancel.com/FrameworkPuter/sta…
We're happy to keep sponsoring and enabling more of the Linux ecosystem! We've also just recently joined @linuxfoundation and become (maybe the first?) corporate sponsor of LVFS (Linux Vendor Firmware Service).Nitter
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"After two years of genocide in Palestine, a massive demonstration converged in Mexico City to demand that the government sever ties with Israel. The march was blocked by police, who assaulted and arbitrarily detained protesters and members of the press. Later, at a rally in front of the US Embassy, speakers condemned the Mexican government's complicity and demanded an immediate end to all military cooperation with Israel."
piedepagina.mx/2-anos-de-genoc…
@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #Mexico #CDMX
A dos años del genocidio en Palestina, una multitudinaria movilización convergió en la Ciudad de México para exigir al gobierno la ruptura de relaciones con Israel.Pie de Página
Innovative and terrible product idea:
A mouth implant that automatically senses food/drink intake and releases flavors to optimize for your palate; it learns from your saliva production
Never again have to manually add salt to your food or sugar to your coffee, possibly in front of other people
Sensory sovereignty
Flavor cartridges are a subscription service; dentists sell/install/maintain, like Invisalign
We start off with sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami; version 2 includes capsaicin
Ran across this gorgeous diagram (at left) of the cyclic execution schedule of the software used on Skylab (1970s). I love this way of thinking about cyclic execution, but I didn't realize anyone else used it!
At right, one of my (less pretty and much less hand-drawn) diagrams from an article I wrote on graphics demo architecture... 40 years later. (And ten years ago, gosh.)
In the replies below, I talk about the old ways of drafting, if you're curious.
There's also some mild kerning inconsistency, which strongly suggests that the lettering (in Futura medium, naturally, this was the Space Age after all) was done with a dry transfer lettering sheet, or _potentially_ with a template guide at very large scale. But my money's on dry transfer.
Dry transfer lettering is a thing I'm _just_ old enough to have learned about in drafting class. For those of you who learned to draw post-computer, let me introduce you to Letraset:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letraset
Again, the artist was clearly a pro: the baselines are impeccable and the keming in general is near-perfect. But not machine-perfect. Which I like.
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Hey there.
My Apache server is getting for many days a massive amount of requests on a particular repository, which kills it (due to maximum workers limit passed). I've deactivated the repository and I'm banning IPs still trying to access it, and in less than an hour I have already ~17000 unique IPs banned.
That really looks like a DDoS even if I have no idea why somebody would attack my server.
How can I deal with that? Note that I don't want to use Cloudflare.
TIA
Anubis maybe? I've heard that (some) AI bots now have the ability to bypass that but maybe worth a shot?
Weighs the soul of incoming HTTP requests to stop AI crawlers - TecharoHQ/anubisGitHub
@daniel yeah, thinking about it, but I'm not sure about consequences on accessibility. Also in this case I'm still having requests when I've blocked the URL, it's returning 403 (but still creating workers, which at the end block Apache).
I may have to move to NGINX, it should handle better this kind of things.
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as soon as someone steps up and implements it: gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient…
The fediverse is decentralized, there are no blockers, just go and do it!
I think it would be very necessary to add the opportunity to rate and comment the apps in f-droid. If one would recognize that a app was a...GitLab
Interview with Hanna from Tuta Mail, the most secure email provider in the world. This is no sponsored, so support my work here: https://www.patreon.com/thehatedone Tuta Mail: https://tuta.The Hated One | Invidious
Hi I'm Cy, a total loser who has written some novels that nobody reads at fedicy.us.to/stories/ I also do a lot of programming that nobody uses or looks at, such as fedicy.us.to/forum Don't have a cell phone, don't make any money, don't have a family, or any sort of relationship, can't have a family at this point, never went on any adventures, don't have any life experiences to relate, and don't really sing, play, or write music anymore. There's nothing about me worth knowing and I am a little bitter about it. I'm currently not committing suicide and uncomfortably lingering and serving as an example of how everything you tried to do to make things better has failed.
Anyway I post silly jokes and actually boost crisis posts and try to find people posting good news, instead of bad news.
Have you ever started laughing, because something someone said was so ridiculous you knew it must be a joke, but now you're looking around, and not everyone is laughing, not nearly enough people are laughing!
That's just how it feels all the time now.
Side point on #ChatControl: When I worked on the law in the European Parliament, in the face of questionably legal, and highly problematic behavior by DG HOME, I prepared a whitepaper on why it was such a terrible Idea.
As it is in the public interest, I have decided to make that white paper public.
I have an idea. Instead of giving billions to a war monger for a so called "shield", why can't we use these billions to build a resilient infrastructure in Canada, notably infrastructure for a "Canadian cloud" that is vendor neutral and can work without any connection to the US.
Subsidising the GAFAM to build data-centers is NOT that. It's just tax cut to american companies.
We could also fund (open source) software to also become less dependent on the US enshittification. The hundreds of millions of tax payer money that go annually out of the Canadian economy to fund US oligarch could fund a lot of Canadian sovereign *open source* software. Licensing is a key point here as well.
" when new money enters the economy, it benefits those closest to the source first while others face rising costs. Today, purchases of proprietary software echo this theory in a similar way. Vendors and shareholders profit early, while taxpayers and communities shoulder the burden of recurring fees, upgrade costs, and discarded hardware."
news.opensuse.org/2025/09/15/c…
Communities, governments and businesses face a choice that carries real economic weight as Microsoft winds down support for its Windows 10 operating system. ...openSUSE News
@thunderbird super excited about the changes to the DB you are working on. Are threads going to still be built only with headers (no weird algorithm which decides for us what is part of the same thread and what is not?)
Please keep RFC compliant threads! there are so few clients that still do this unfortunately.
blog.thunderbird.net/2025/10/v…
We're starting work on the long-awaited Conversation View! Learn how our developers and designers are working together to make it happen!Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)
More than 300 people will be attending The Matrix Conference next week. One of the most anticipated presentations is from Sweden’s Försäkringskassan.
Based on insights from eSam, the Swedish public sector wants to move on from proprietary, siloed communication systems.
Anna and Kenneth will cover the latest developments within SAFOS, a service designed to establish a national standard for secure messaging, video conferencing, and real-time collaboration.
conference.matrix.org/register
Join us for the Matrix Conference this October. The four day conference will take place in Strasbourg, France. Talks will be streamed live and virtual attendees will be able to ask speakers questions.conference.matrix.org
Andrej Babiš není spokojen s tím, že jeho zvažovaní koaliční partneři pouštějí na veřejnosti informace z vyjednávání.Barbora Kučerová (Seznam Zprávy)
State Of The Bird 2024/25 - great report by @thunderbird 's team: blog.thunderbird.net/2025/10/s…
Thank you for this wonderful piece of software. Can't wait to see the new database in action and I'll continue to donate ❤️
Let's dive into the details with the Thunderbird Annual Report 2024-2025 to see how we've grown and what we've accomplished in the past year.Ryan Sipes (The Thunderbird Blog)
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