I fucking hate this fake Super 8 film effect showing the sprocket holes....
Showing the sprocket holes mean you can't even properly handle the digitised version in your edits.
#Microsoft is really a horrible company. Seems to only care about investors. Certainly not customers. I'm so happy to be using a Linux desktop and no longer using Windows.
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I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone
Microsoft has deprecated windows 10, yet million of users still use it. They say the hardware is not supported, yet they keep pestering us with endless pings.idiallo.com
Say it to my face!
Why do sent DM's show up twice in home buffer meows?
it's like streaming gets the message and then the other pulling API also gets it and TC doesn't realize it's a duplicat or something I never was able to figure it out.
Now playing more Rim World on a Sunday. youtube.com/live/ku3yfDsMJVU?f…
RimWorld for December 21, 2025
Let's dive back into RimWorld.Enjoy the stream? Here's how you can help me continue to make great content.Click the like button on these videos.Please share ...YouTube
This is your city on driverless cars.
A blackout in San Francisco yesterday cut power to traffic lights. Drivers coped; Waymos just stopped moving, often in intersections, stranding passengers and compounding gridlock.
sfstandard.com/2025/12/20/waym…
Waymo suspends service amid widespread blackout-related disruption
Company temporarily pauses robotaxis in San Francisco after cars stalled out and blocked intersections, causing traffic jams.Kevin Truong (The San Francisco Standard)
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Přátelé máme tu zimní slunovrat. To znamená, že se nám začínají krátit noci a prodlužovat dny.
Hlavně to ale znamená, že je čas otevřít solarogafy, které od letního slunovratu (21. června) snímají dráhu slunce na obloze. Že ještě nemáte #solarograf? Nové video jak si jeden vyrobit už teď na VHSkách 
vhsky.cz/w/3inz7oFAC2UgRc2RTFy…
Včerejší noc byl také nov, tak máme skvělé podmínky na sledování Ursidů 
We set up a new Mastodon instance focused on supporting nonprofit/charitable organizations. If you know of such an organization looking for a place in the Fediverse, please point them our way.
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#nonprofit #mastodon #fediverse
Charities.Place - Empathy Forward
One of our goals at Empathy Forward is to support long-term projects that benefit society. Part of that is helping […]James Smith (Bene Homini Society)
I wish you could gift people doordash giftcards. I've survived on peanut butter and jelly, buffalo chicken dip and a frozen chicken meal for the last week. I'm craving taco bell in the worlds worst way. Tacos and a mountain dew baha blast...
i would do it in a heartbeat, but I don't know how it works. I don't know if they'd ship you something, or send an email code, or how that'd work
More than a 1,000 Docker Hardened Images (DHI) are now freely available and open source for software builders, under the Apache 2.0 license.
YAML is such a stupid, stupid format for human-written config files. I've just spent an hour finding a two-space "error" in netplan. Using spaces (or tabs) for semantics was (and still is) a mistake in makefiles, it was a mistake in Occam, it's still a mistake in Python and it's a mistake in YAML. It's a mistake whenever humans are supposed to write these files.
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We've got plans to host a special #CircusInPlace vidchat next week for folks who need a hideout from the holidays.
Most likely Wednesday evening.
Hang in there, friends. ❤
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect, has intended us to forgo their use.”
Galileo Galilei
this might be a weird question, but are you always truly genuine with your friends or family, or do you catch yourself saying things that sort of give the impression of connection without really saying anything? or maybe you intend to actually have a conversation, but end up just sort of landing on lines that are sort of aesthetically pleasing without substance? Or maybe you notice people doing that to you sometimes
is there a word for this behavior? are we talking at each other instead of to?
I feel myself very slowly reverting back to my pre 2021 era and no. No no we will not be doing that. I am absolutely not here for it and NGL I really really fucking hate myself right now. Stupid stupid fucking stupid.
Don't doubt yourself. This shit is hard and takes a lot of practice. It will be easier if you don't beat yourself up when you screw up. One thing that helps me is to literally count to 3 in my head. Usually if I'm about to say something I'll regret, that helps me at least rework the thought so that it doesn't come out as harsh. Anything that temporarily interrupts your ability to respond should work.
Guess whose track is playing on my Sonos speakers right as I write this? open.spotify.com/track/6GIBtLI…
I'm glad they took away that award from Claire Obscura for having AI generated assets during development. I hope we maintain our integrity and only give awards to video game companies that abuse their employees with terrible working conditions and mandatory overtime so they can't even be present at their child's birth
Ing's extremely excruciatingly annoying when you try to follow the instructions from a Github repo, only to find out that they are all wrong or, at least, don't work as advertised. Also, these sorts of hickups usually happen with repos that rely heavily on Python modules... :)
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IMHO: I spent a couple of hours listening to a bunch of top songs generated by Suno v5, their latest model. Sad to say, but it’s comparable to the average music on Spotify from the last two decades. The key word is average though. The mixing, production, performance, arranging, and songwriting are all passable. Sometimes you notice slight audio artifacts or too many words crammed with awkward phrasing, but people wouldn’t even notice as background music in a random coffee shop or airport. #AI
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It wouldn't be all bad if for the question who's gonna earn money on that? Thinking out loud... Imagine someone hacks Suno one day! What sort of music will come out of this? LOL
@vick21 I wonder what the saturation will do to music industry. Digital music production and social media democratized for indie artists, but now AI is democratizing mass production. Anyone with good music taste can do it, and people are already floodding streaming services with AI music. I read about an Uber driver with no music background making a few hundred bucks a month by generating AI tracks. Also some AI generated songs already hit number one on the charts.
theguardian.com/technology/202…
theguardian.com/technology/202…
AI slop tops Billboard and Spotify charts as synthetic music spreads
Hits include country songs and a Dutch anti-refugee anthem, both entirely made without human compositionAisha Down (The Guardian)
Ein sehr gutes neues Video von Ultralativ zum Thema KI, und warum Kunst von KI niemals menschliche Kunst ersetzen kann und damit auch der Frage, was eigentlich Kunst ist, und wann und wie viel wir ihr zurechnen. youtube.com/watch?v=kUuwvJfQfI…
Künstliche Intelligenz: Für euch reicht’s
Generative KI ist unausweichlich. Auch deshalb, weil Influencer, Fernsehsender, Marken und Co. eine Geisteshaltung entwickelt haben, dass generierte Imitate ...YouTube
Guess what, #Nextcloud? #OneDrive has a "Copy Link" in the file context menu. And guess what? They also open a dialog, like with whom to share, for editing or for viewing, but this dialog is fully accessible. Webbish, yes (I would prefer a native Windows API one), but fully accessible.
And guess what even more? #GoogleDrive also has "Copy Link" in their context menu. Aren't they secure enough? I don't know. But they are *convenient*. And *accessible*.
UPD. this post was inspired by my struggles with sharing Nextcloud links and by this ongoing discussion. TL;DR: The option was there, it worked like a charm, but then it was removed because of "security".
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#Accessibility
And guess what even more? #GoogleDrive also has "Copy Link" in their context menu. Aren't they secure enough? I don't know. But they are *convenient*. And *accessible*.
UPD. this post was inspired by my struggles with sharing Nextcloud links and by this ongoing discussion. TL;DR: The option was there, it worked like a charm, but then it was removed because of "security".
github.com/nextcloud/desktop/i…
#Accessibility
The public share link has been removed with the 3.15 client version.
Hi, The public share link has been removed with the 3.15 client version. Could it be possible to bring back this feature ? Below, a screen from a right click on a folder/file with the 3.14.3 client...SebjuFrab (GitHub)
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Speaking of self-hosting, I'm planning on getting back into Indieweb stuff this coming year, and I think it's time to start self-hosting some apps.
WTF would I want an AI to preview the link, Firefox.
Another fucking thing to disable.
So what do we blinds actually use as virtualisation software?
Please something else than VM Ware? I feel like already the download is redicolous.
Please something else than VM Ware? I feel like already the download is redicolous.
you will never guess what stevie wonder's real first name is
The Vancouver Christmas tree right after its lighting ceremony, at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC. — December 2010
This is deliberately out of focus.
Olympus E-P1, m-Zuiko 17mm f2.8
(20101202_PC031144)
Happy (slightly belated) Yule (to folks in the northern hemisphere, a blessed Litha to folks in the south). The darkest day of the year is now behind us and while the cold will remain for some time, we are already on the steady path to warmth and summer.
Happy Winter Solstice.
Winter is here.
I don't really care much about cerifications of any sort so I can't be sure I'm describing the right one, but I remember when working at a small ISP/datacenter we wanted to get SOC II (??) compliance to please some customer and the process was like this:
Me: what are the requirements?
🤖 We have to document all our processes and procedures
Me: and then what?
🤖: an auditor will verify (by quizzing you in front of a computer screen they don't understand) to prove you're following the documented processes and procedures
Me: okay, but like what do we have to do? How long do we have to retain customer backups, for example?
🤖: there is no requirement. How long are you retaining customer backups?
Me: well we had that failure so right now we only have 6 months
🤖: so document 6 months
Me: can we just say one month? And then we exceed our documented retention by a good margin?
🤖: yes
Me: this is a scam isn't it?
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i would really appreciate it if people didn't keep re-tooting images without ALT text / image description.
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AI can write bugs for you too
#odemčeno Jen aby se nám vláda nerozbila dříve, než dostala důvěru.
denikn.cz/1926006/pan-ministr-…
„Pan ministr se trochu porouchal.“ SPD šokoval její šéf obrany Zůna, hnutí přitom Rusko za agresora označilo také
Analýza: Páteční tisková konference ministra obrany Jaromíra Zůny (za SPD), respektive její ohlas se hnutí vymkl z rukou.Jan Wirnitzer (Deník N)
happy wintersolstice to everyone celebrating!
Oh, look. Winter solstice says hello.
Well, guess time to unwind with the latest Saturday Night Live episode. Maybe that'll get me out of coding space. I just need to get in that vacation Christmas Holiday space spirit somehow.
This is your reminder to cancel all those subscriptions you signed up for on sale at the end of 2024 that are about to renew at full price next week.
#adhd
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I'd like to thank everyone who offered me birthday wishes. All of your messages were greatly appreciated.
Same to you as well, may your #Yule be blessed, peaceful and joyous. It's gonna be a busy one here, with a morning service (the one I play on #SleighRide for) and an evening service for which I'm playing #HandChimes. First year I'm actually making it to the intergenerational pageant service in quite some time. I think I've maybe made it once or twice over the 11 years I've been here.
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happy to be playing with #GTK again! this time enhanced by libadwaita.
I always found the treeview APIs hard (things did improve along the way) but doing this stuff with Rust holy shit. 😵💫
the ListView API *should* be easier to deal with than TreeView, even for bindings, since there are no cell renderers or tree model implementations. We need more demos/tutorials, though.
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