In a future where the rich kids are being raised with a digital Cyrano beside them to sweet-talk their way into the best jobs, four friends train together for a battle to prove that other kinds of minds might still have the edge.
My new story “Understudies” in Clarkesworld.
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I think I’ve finally worked out what really bugs me about Meson subprojects. It’s the fact that they can be used to force you to become the packager of your entire dependency stack.
A seemingly-harmless “can you add x as a subproject because it’s not widely available” then turns into “you need to make sure x is statically linked” and “you need to audit what files get installed as a result of x” and so on.
subprojects solve a problem, and I don’t have a better solution, but I get irked.
idk if you're aware of this, but you can go to your local Tractor Supply or equivalent farm store and you can buy a gallon of Chlorhexadine for dirt cheap. It's the blue stuff your vet will sell you at a high markup (and they'll dilute it; you'll have the concentrate). You can use it for flushing wounds etc. It's an incredibly good antibiotic, like iodine but doesn't stain. It can stay active for 24hrs+ and keep working so a quick splash a day is good enough and does an incredible job of preventing infections
Very commonly used on horses, livestock, etc which is why the farm store has it
Unsatisfied with the lack of clarity in her answer, Douthat pressed, “OK, let me try that again: If a president defied the Supreme Court, what would you do?”Coney Barrett then admitted that the court’s hands would largely be tied because there is a limited enforcement mechanism at its disposal.
“Well, as you say, the court lacks the power of the purse. We lack the power of the sword,” she conceded. “And so, we interpret the Constitution, we draw on precedents, we have these questions of structure, and we make the most with the tools that we have.”
The court lacks the power of the sword? What? Yes they absolutely do have the power of the sword. She's parroting something from Hamilton in the Federalist papers which makes sense because she identifies as an originalist. But we've had the Court already cover this and announce their authority:
The ability to punish disobedience to judicial orders is re-garded as essential to ensuring that the Judiciary has a means to vindicate its own authority without complete de- pendence on other Branches. "If a party can make himself a judge of the validity of orders which have been issued, and by his own act of disobedience set them aside, then are the courts impotent, and what the Constitution now fittingly calls 'the judicial power of the United States' would be a mere mockery." Gompers v. Bucks Stove & Range Co., 221 U. S. 418, 450 (1911).
They have the power to deputize anyone they want to enforce their orders. If they needed to they could call up private militias, local and state police from anywhere, even veterans give them the power to enforce their rulings. Funding and supplying them might be tricky, but not impossible.
She's just capitulating. Either the Court is co-equal or it's not. Cowards.
My wife told me today as she left for work that if she died at this point in her life it would be okay because she has had the fortune to live a life free of war, famine and control, allowing her to live a happy and largely care-free life.
After she left, I started wondering how many of us from the richer countries are starting to realise how good it has been.
It has been good. So good. I don't want war, suffering and disease. It's not acceptable!
I want the life I've had for everyone!
"In the absence of war, we're questioning peace;
In the absence of god, we'll pray the police"
-- Laibach (Eurovision)
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 22 updated & 1 added apps:
* Call Limiter: lets you set time limits for specific contacts and let the app automatically hang up when the limit is reached 🛡️
RB Status: 731 apps (57.1%)
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo 
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).IzzyOnDroid App Repo
There is an issue with Firefox under KDE not getting KDE's custom keyboard shortcuts to work so I can META+C / META+V for almost everything... except Firefox. Which is annoying.
why not ctrl+c and ctrl+v? try using ctrl+c in your terminal and see what happens instead of copying :)
the default of ctrl+shift+c and ctrl+shift+v is insane finger gymnastics to me
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If you’re enjoying the Matrix Conference, we owe the organization to the two people on the right!
@HarHarLinks and @braid are the most organized troublemakers I could find (or who found me?)
10/10 team, would recommend, would do it again.
Was würdet ihr tun, wenn nach 14 Jahren nun doch mal ein neuer Linux-Rechner dran ist? Wie aussuchen? Wo kaufen? Worauf achten?
Office, Bildbearbeitung mit GIMP und Raw, gelegentlich Filmschnitt. Komplexeres muss er nicht können, aber das möglichst noch in 10 Jahren.
Desktop oder Notebook mit Docking Station - bin noch nicht entschieden...
#followerpower
Gern boosten!
Ich stehe vor derselben Frage.
Vor 10 Jahren hatte ich Tuxedo's für den Arbeitgeber gekauft und war sehr zufrieden. Inwischen sind die außerhalb des Budgets und in den letzten Jahren habe ich doch öfter von Problemen gehört.
Möglicherweise könnte es wieder einer von
ixsoft.de/cgi-bin/web_store.cg…werden. Da kann man sie auch mit Linux vorinstalliert bekommen.
Linux - Shop für Software, Fan-Artikel, Bücher, Hardware, Zubehörixsoft.de
My name is Mohammad Mazen Dawood. I am 20 years old and from northern Gaza. I was a computer engineering student, full of hope and passion to finish my degree and start working to support my family.Chuffed
@cpm
Fun Fact: Claire has an old Altec/Lansing Three Channel with the Floor Bass? You now the cheap one that could get you evicted from an apartment complex? THAT one.
I'm so amused.
в руки источников #пездуза попал черновик плана по завершению войны в Украине. Он состоит из 21 пункта. Вот основные этапы:
- прекращение огня
- обмен военнопленными и телами погибших
- начало поставок в рф гуманитарной помощи
- разоружение российской армии
- ввод в зону конфликта вооруженных сил арабских стран
- отстранение единой россии от власти
- начало восстановления рф
- создание временной администрации рф из числа палестинских технократов
- проведение демократических выборов
Ah yes, the Conservative government we elected will be tough on crime, and hire more RCMP agents!
Oh wait
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“This is how the federal government can help municipalities and provinces get criminals off the streets, disrupt and dismantle criminal networks, reinforce the justice system with tough and comprehensive bail reform and build a stronger, safer, more secure Canada,” the prime minister said.
Carney also said that tomorrow he will be making make “an important announcement on border security.”
ctvnews.ca/politics/article/ca…
Next week, the Canadian government will bring forward a new bail reform bill aimed at cracking down on violent and repeat offenders, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Thursday.Rachel Aiello (CTVNews)
Microsoft has just teased "something big" is coming very very soon to Windows 11, or perhaps could this be a teaser for the next gen OS?Sayan Sen (Neowin)
This is fantastic news! 🎉
Lit remains the gold standard in “I want to author #WebComponents but I must have DX I'm already familiar with”. It's truly an incredible project. It powers the best UI framework (imo) in the biz, @webawesome. It was used to build Adobe Photoshop for the web. It was used in Reddit's latest redesign.
Wonderful to see it's been gifted to the community and is no longer a “Google” project. Here's to many more years of being Lit! 🔥
lit.dev/blog/2025-10-14-openjs…
Lit is officially joining the OpenJS Foundation as an Impact Project!lit.dev
Well... almost.
Just thinking about it made the fire alarm dreams come back, but this time, I was living in New York but still going to high school in North Carolina, and there were some legistical issues after the school caught fire. I couldn't convince the bus driver to drive from Greensboro to NYC, because, at the fastest possible speed the bus could travel, with it's governor, including traffic, it would take about a day each way.
STEM, STEM, STEM. Stem voor bomen, bloemen, bijen. Stem 29 oktober voor alles wat leeft. 🌳🌸🐝
Stem Partij voor de Dieren. ✏️
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Tak už je to tady - moje přednáška o @MapComplete je součástí programu #konference @openalt 🤩
talks.openalt.cz/openalt-2025/…
#MapComplete #OpenAlt #OpenAlt2025 #Brno
Přednáška navazuje na moji loňskou přednášku o StreetComplete. Opět se dozvíte, jak vylepšovat mapu OpenStreetMap, tentokrát ale s webovou aplikací MapComplete.talks.openalt.cz
I may have asked this before, but I'd love to know if anyone out there is still using the Bookface Userstyles in a userContent.css stylesheet or with the "Stylus" or "Userscripts" browser extensions?
Because if nobody is really using Bookface Userstyles anymore I'd like to stop updating them. They have some significant differences from the Bookface scheme files and so require a lot of extra manual editing and testing to make sure they work at overriding the Frio theme. They may be how Bookface got started but I'm not using them myself anymore and wondered if anyone else is still relying on them?
Because now I've had to work on yet another branch for the Friendica development Release Candidate, which will at some point become the new "stable" version. But no doubt some server admins will continue running the current stable release well after the next version is released. So maintaining and updating Bookface is already a bit of work, considering it's a side-project that I can only get to when I have time. If people are cool with my dropping the Userstyles that would help.
Of course the existing Userstyles will continue to work with the current stable version of Friendica (2024.12). They haven't been updated to work with the Release Candidate and won't be if I'm retiring them. They'll still be available in my GitLab Repo though, I'm not going to delete them.
I know I said I'd like to stop updating the Bookface Userstyles but I went ahead and did it anyway. In part because I've needed to start using them again myself over at Friendica.World, which switched to the Release Candidate and the Bookface schemes get overwritten every time the server is updated or something.
Anyway, I started by adding all the Bookface 1.8.5 server-side changes to the Userstyles for Friendica Stable:
DOWNLOAD: Userstyles for Friendica Stable
And then did the same for the upcoming version:
DOWNLOAD: Userstyles for Friendica Release Candidate
Instructions on how to use the Userstyles can be found in the Bookface Wiki
AI giants like Nvidia, OpenAI and AMD are investing in one another, raising fears that a weak link could cripple the whole industry.Rob Wile (NBC News)
Since IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are represented by different resource records in the Domain Name System, operating systems capable of running both IPv4 and IPv6 need to execute two queries when resolving a host name.IETF Datatracker
V úterním vysílání #FokusVM mě zaujalo, když ústavní právník Jan Kysela citoval článek 9 Ústavy, který funguje jako pojistka proti autodestrukci.
Trochu jsem se začetl a zaujalo mě, jak jednoduše je napsaná. Dá se určitě pochopit snáz než podmínky libovolného věrnostního programu.
A 🇩🇪 iniciou a sua transição para o software livre 
"Os gabinetes governamentais de Schleswig-Holstein migraram do Microsoft Exchange e do Outlook para o Open Xchange e o @thunderbird ."
"A fase final envolve a migração do #Windows 
para uma distribuição #Linux ." 
pplware.sapo.pt/linux/alemanha…
#OpenSource #Microsoft #outlook #software #SoftwareLibre #LibreOffice #win10 #Win11 #FOSS #FLOSS #Alemanha
Poucos meses após ter anunciado que iria abandonar a Microsoft, a Alemanha iniciou a sua transição para o software livrePedro Simões (Pplware)
Nullstring 🏴☠️
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