Disney wants Kimmel back on the air, negotiating with Kimmel. Disney should have never gave given into pressure from Trump administration to suspend Kimmel.
variety.com/2025/tv/news/jimmy…

Trump’s EO on H-1B visas has thrown the tech industry into chaos overnight

I just published an email Google sent H-1B employees yesterday warning them to not leave the US / to return by midnight tonight sources.news/p/heres-googles-m…

For the next GTK cycle, Matthias has been working on a format for symbolic icons that can be rendered efficiently by GTK, including animations; it is based on a subset of SVG with custom vendor attributes:

discourse.gnome.org/t/animated…

If you want to experiment with content creation apps, or towards a shared implementation, feel free to drop by on Discourse.

#design #icons #gtk #ux

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 14 updated and 1 added apps:

* PinePods: a complete podcast management solution that allows you to host your own podcast server and enjoy a beautiful mobile experience 🛡️

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:

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it seems to have improved for me slightly after going into accessibility and turning everything visual off, especially under motion. But iOS 26 feels laggier in general for me, including random periods where my phone will just get hot for no reason and drain battery very fast. This has been consistent through the entire beta cycle and I was hoping it would get fixed for release, but I guess not. We have another iOS 13 on our hands it seems. Now if only I could find some hope somewhere for all this to improve...

Major news: New Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses will feature its own screen reader, text size and magnification options for blind and low vision people. Huge thanks to @emassey0135 for spotting this and sharing. Full story here: doubletaponair.com/meta-ray-ba… #blind #tech #accessibility

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The biblical genesis story reads like an amateur game jam devlog

Day 1: create day/night cycle
Day 2: water effects and skybox
Day 3: make the map
Day 4: more sky graphics
Day 5: add decorative critters
Day 6: desperately try to make all the actual characters in one day
Day 7: fuck it, submit early, can't be arsed any more

Final results:
Earth, 4.1/10, placed #5327 overall

#5327

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It’s no longer satire

thebeaverton.com/2025/09/us-am…

"software supply chain" oh okay so you have a contract and a business relationship... No? You found some shit on github that says "NO WARRANTY" and whose license requires you to affirm that Cirno is the strongest in Gensokyo and you used it without even auditing in production code and now you're mad it broke? Is that what happened? Are you stupid? Yes, yes you are!

Kyiv Independent - Russia launched a large-scale missile and drone attack on Ukrainian cities overnight, killing at least two people and injuring 32 others. kyivindependent.com/russia-lau…

How to Write in Cuneiform, the Oldest Writing System in the World: A Short Introduction

openculture.com/2025/09/how-to…

Before and after the 2024 election, Elon Musk made it clear he disliked environmental regulations and considered them a barrier to innovation.

His companies, from Boring Co. to xAI, have been accused of finding ways to sidestep regulations. Here's what to know:
propublica.org/article/elon-mu…

#ElonMusk #Environment #Regulation #Business #SpaceX #Tesla #Musk

Good morning, Mastodon! I’m here with a friendly tip. If you’re buying a new iPhone this year, and your current phone is updated to #iOS26, you need to perform an extra step if you're going to trade in, sell or give away your current phone. In settings, you'll need to turn off stolen device prtection. If you don't, the phone will prompt a 1 hour security delay when you go to erase it. That is all!

[Yesterday was] Talk Like a Pirate Day.

People think that means yelling “ahoy” or “avast.” But that's Treasure Island movie talk, not real pirate talk.

Pirate talk wasn’t (just) about silly words. It was about refusing to speak the language of kings and merchants. (A very serious thing, so speaking sillily is a fine way to refuse, on its own.)

What made a pirate ship a *pirate* ship was that it rejected the laws of the empires around it, laws that were communicated with words. So words make a big part of that rejection *possible*: pirates developed their own specific "codes" for how to organize their efforts, in a world dominated by one code.

On a pirate ship, the captain wasn’t a monarch. He was elected, and he could be deposed the moment he stopped serving the crew. The quartermaster wasn’t a servant; he was the counter-power that kept the captain in check. Articles weren’t law imposed from above; they were agreements drafted and sworn collectively. If a crewmember was injured, lots of ships' code guaranteed their share, because survival depended on everyone being taken care of.

That’s what gave pirate words their force. “Mate” wasn’t a gimmick. It named an equal, someone with a voice and a stake. “Share” wasn’t wages; it was recognition that the plunder belonged to all, not hoarded by bosses or thrones. Even the insults, the threats, the bravado! they came from a world where empire’s rules had no legitimacy.

Pirates carried the violence of their time: patriarchy, racism, brutality. They weren’t outside history. But they also proved that crews of outcasts could generate their own order, one that terrified rulers precisely because it was anarchic, egalitarian, and contagious.

So if you want to talk like a pirate today, don’t (just) pretend with accents. Speak the way they did: from a code made by equals, against the legitimacy of law, in defiance of the world that tries to govern you. That’s pirate talk.

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I'm a computer programmer with a Fediverse account, and I am this many years old.

Please consider boosting for a more representative sample.

#programming #poll #demographics #fediverse #age

  • 10-20 years old. (1%, 3 votes)
  • 21-30. (16%, 33 votes)
  • 31-40. (27%, 55 votes)
  • 41 or older. (55%, 112 votes)
203 voters. Poll end: 4 weeks ago

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Since I've been having a lot of fun adapting classical music to chiptune style, I thought maybe I should follow all the way through and make an entire asset pack for RPG-type games...? Since I'm not composing everything from scratch, it could be very affordable relative to the amount of music. This is "Torrent" by Chopin, which I think sounds very Boss Music...

#music #classicalmusic #chiptune #gamedev #rpgmaker #jrpg

> #Meta has used back-to-school pictures of schoolgirls to advertise one of its social media platforms to a 37-year-old man

> The man noticed that posts encouraging him to “get Threads” (…) were being dropped into his Instagram feed featuring embedded posts of uniformed girls as young as 13 with their faces visible and, in most cases, their names.

> The children’s images were used by Meta after their parents had posted them on Instagram to mark their return to school.

theguardian.com/technology/202…

#meta
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