Been running some keyboard demos through Suno's cover feature. Here's a very different cover of Unterlandersheimweh with lots of rhythm and some not-so-normal pacing.
Yum yum, my apartment smells good today. I'm going to a dinner get together tonight, and I'm bringing slow cooker roasted potatos. If they taste as good as they're smelling, I'm not sure if I'll be able to wait for dinner lol. I might have to taste one for scientific purposes lol.
Tyler L. Russell is ripping off Nick Fuentes with the aim of securing a white ethnostate in Canada. He's recruiting "an army of nameless, faceless" kids to do it.
Several times it stopped at around 18.000 imported messages and returned an error. Maybe I don't need to import all messages, but I'd like to find the ones I actually have imported. The search function in the Android app finds nothing. 🤔
Hi there. We have had multiple discussions within the company about leaving Meta and X. We have decided to stay on them for now, as it is a channel for us to actively spread privacy and educate people on those platforms. We not pay or advertise on these platforms, we simply use them to spread privacy.
@Tutanota est réellement meilleur et aussi moins pingre : - l'app desktop fonctionne même pour les comptes gratuits - le calendrier aussi - les labels ne sont pas limités - la poubelle se vide automatiquement - etc. et surtout le cryptage sécurisé est post-quantique !
For those with a qualifying print disability, the following Doctor Who title was recently added to Bookshare.
Doctor Who: Eden Rebellion by Abi Falase On the crystalline planet of Yewa, the Gardens of Kubuntu are a true Eden, said to be the most peaceful destination in the universe. At least, until the Doctor and Ruby arrive.Ancient rivalries between Yewa and its more prosperous sister world of Bia are being stirred by forces unknown, threatening to plunge its people into anarchy. With Ruby swept up in the fire of the Yewan rebellion, the Doctor finds dark secrets buried deep in the planet’s ancient history – and his hopes for a lasting peace hanging by a thread. For sinister guardians stalk the Gardens of Kubuntu, while an implacable enemy plots in the shadows – and in plain sight…
In the last little while, I’ve been playing around with docker in looking to containerize my Go transit project. Finally starting to see why people find this so cool.
I must admit that Docker still confuses the hell out of me. I am never certain what I'm doing, or what is happening in the background, or what the actual benefit is. A friend has tried to explain it to me once, but he failed. I never know if this is a virtual machine of sorts, or what exactly all of this stuff does.
Hey, any of my blink Tootorians know of a good Visual Studio Code tutorial with screen readers? I just can't get a handle on all the various screens. I feel like William Shatner in Airplane 2.
For everyone who thought link shorteners were a good idea.
The lesson here is that if you don't own it, it will undergo enshittification. Even if it looks cool today.
Posting your blog articles on Substack? Telling people to use Bluesky or Threads? Enshittification is only a matter of time. I'm not sure why most people never learn the lesson.
Shockingly, ChatGPT doesn't consume as much power as previously thought — A new study reveals the stats were based on "napkin math" with the assumption that OpenAI powers next-gen models with dated GPUs windowscentral.com/software-ap…
Explore common accessibility challenges blind users face when navigating online tables and learn how to make digital tables more accessible for everyone.
Yesterday was a big day in the ebook world, and not in a good way. In case you missed the news, Amazon is planning to remove the ability to download purchased ebooks from their website starting February 26th, 2025.
The Rubber Mallet Man hits us on the head three times every day. No one knows why. I think he just enjoys it. But, what can you do?
It hurts so much. I hate it. But, today was the WORST day. While I was in line waiting to get my bonks, I saw that the guy in front of me was hit just ONE time!
Naturally, I was furious. I threw a fit until they dragged the bastard back and bonked him two more times.
I'm definitely getting angry about the right things in this situation.
Sometimes I have this notion... what if no one got hit in the head with a rubber mallet at all? But it's so hard to think about with my head hurting so much.
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5 people charged with the torture and murder of a black transgender man. It seems they were torturing him for some time. His body was found in a field. 13wham.com/news/local/4-arrest…
Farmington, N.Y. — Five people face murder charges after a Minnesota man reported missing man in Ontario County was found dead in a field in Yates County.
Eigentlich wollten wir heute in die Therme gehen. Dann nochmal auf deren Webseite geschaut. Menschen werden nach **biologischem** Geschlecht (deren Betonung) beim Eintritt einsortiert und evtl. abgewiesen.
[1]Jetzt irgendwie keine Lust mehr dorthin zu gehen. Weiß jemand ob das in der Form rechtlich in DE erlaubt ist? Greift da das AGG, oder so? Gerne
Jetzt mal unabhängig davon wie nichtinklusiv diese Regelung schon ist, ist es wenigstens eindeutig? "Biologisches Geschlecht" hingegen ist ja beim Eintritt überhaupt nicht bestimmbar? Und es geht ja auch nicht mal um Frauenräume hier sondern um ein "ausgewogenes Geschlechterverhältnis für die Familienfreundlichkeit". Was?
The lifehistory 'curve of happiness' does not look the same in non-industrialised populations. Interesting comparative study by #MichaelGurven Not really surprising, a bit stunning that there is any assumption Western lifestyles represent some kind of 'universal'?!
'In our study, we found that happiness levels did not consistently follow the U-shaped trajectory commonly observed in industrialized societies. In some cases there was a U-shape. But more often we observed an inverted U-shape, where middle-aged adults reported the highest level of happiness, or no significant age-related trend at all.
Overall, well-being often declined after middle age among resource-poor populations lacking social security and other institutionalized forms of protection. This aligns with prior research among low-income countries and even of wealthy nations during economic crises.
That being said, age itself was a weak predictor of life satisfaction everywhere. Sickness, disability and loss in productivity do a better job of explaining well-being than age. In fact, the few positive effects of age we did find usually disappeared when including measures of these misfortunes in our analysis.'
In nonindustrialized societies, health, productivity and economic security play much larger roles in determining happiness among aging populations, a new study finds.
The fact that employers publicly announce that they're laying off their "lowest performers" is shockingly cruel. Not only are you depriving someone of their livelihood, you're publicly branding them as a poor performer to harm their ability to get a new job.
That's not something you do simply to cut costs, that's targeted intentional cruelty to terrorize your existing employees into overwork and quell dissidents.
The price we pay for fragmenting our work across so many programming languages. I'm sure that in some language, someone has written a comprehensive open-source function for cleaning up file names such that they don't contain special characters on either Unix or Windows. But probably not in Elixir, the language I happen to be working in at the moment. And yes, in my middle age, this is giving me a greater appreciation for sticking to popular languages than I had even 5 years ago.
If people wonder why some of us sometimes get zealous in our promotion of Rust, here's my reason: I want Rust to be a wildly popular language so that lots of reusable functions like this one get written in it, because unlike some other popular languages, Rust is *really* good IMO. And Rust has the advantage of being practically reusable from other languages with minimal overhead.
I want rust to be popular so that there are a few more Rust jobs available. It is the only new approach in a niche occupied by C, C++ and Ada (Zig too may be - I want to see how its safety story pans out). Instead, there seems to be a dedicated team present to disparage the language on the basis of wild assumptions and drive away potential adopters.
Perhaps it's time to focus the attention on these anti-Rust brigades as much as they accuse the 'Rust evangelism strike force'.
And now I have to figure out how to generate a unique temporary file path in Elixir, presumably using some library function. I refreshed my memory on doing that in Rust earlier this week.
To be clear, I'm responsible for the decision to choose Elixir in this server-side web app. And when that decision was made about 5 years ago, doing that whole application in Rust would have been crazy. Maybe still is. And using Rust for this one function would add fragmentation *within* the codebase.
@multisn8 Yup, just found that myself. On a quick search, I couldn't find a standard library function to generate a guaranteed unique random filename. But I realized that I don't actually need that in this case, just the temporary directory.
As a non-programmer who works very closely with a programmer, I was doing a bit of reading and found this little piece of text that made me laugh, hard.
"Python and Go pick up your trash for you. C lets you litter everywhere, but throws a fit when it steps on your banana peel. Rust slaps you and demands that you clean up after yourself."
Not quite, IMO. Rust does clean stuff up for you in most cases; if it truly made you clean up after yourself, you'd have to call the drop function all over the place. What it slaps you for is making you prove that only one piece of code at a time owns each resource, so it can insert the cleanup code in one precise place rather than having to either scan all of memory to see what's being used (Go, JavaScript, Java, PyPy) or do reference counting everywhere (CPython, Swift).
But I can't immediately come up with a correction to the witty analogy. And witty analogies that are subtly wrong probably spread faster than correct but pedantic explanations.
@matt To me, that is a subtle difference. To me, that's analogous to a loud park attendant yelling "that banana peal belongs with all the other banana peals! Put it there!"
I think my point is more relevant to Rust versus C than Rust versus Python or Go. Rust will clean stuff up for you once you've proven single ownership. C makes you clean up stuff manually and does nothing to verify that you're doing it correctly. And then there's C++, which has the option to do automatic cleanup like Rust (Rust even uses the same confusing term for it as C++), but, like C, C++ doesn't verify single ownership, so you can get double-free or use-after-free like in C.
OK, I guess I do also have a point compared to Python or Go. Because Rust does cleanup that's both precise and automatic at compile time, versus Python or Go's automatic cleanup that requires runtime overhead due to its lack of precision, *and* Rust verifies that you're doing it correctly, Rust brings efficiency on par with C or C++ within reach of more programmers.
Have you seen the drama about some Linux kernel maintainers fighting back though? Some of these old guys really don't want to let go of C, I guess. Or, more charitably, I know at least one of them is concerned about the kernel using multiple languages in general, and I guess that's defensible.
The thing that brought it back to my attention this week is that the creator of Asahi Linux, the port of Linux to Apple Silicon Macs, resigned. marcan.st/2025/02/resigning-as…
Back in the late 2000s, I was a major contributor to the Wii homebrew scene. At the time, I worked on software (people call them “jailbreaks” these days) to allow users to run their own unofficial apps on the Nintendo Wii.
@matt Does it bring it within reach of that many more programmers though? One of the reasons I haven't taken the plunge in even trying to learn Rust is that I'm somewhat convinced I'll have to basically rethink all the patterns I'm familiar with and effectively start from scratch, and the Rust folks who effectively say "if it isn't working, it's fundamentally flawed and you need to refactor it coklletely" pretty much reinforce that. So I'd argue it only brings it within reach of a small subset of programmers who have been able to train themselves to think in very specific, pure "safe" ways.
@jcsteh Interesting perspective. I think it's fair to say that, in cumulative working hours, you've spent more time immersed in C++ than I have. In my Serotek days, I used C and C++ as little as possible, and yes, System Access's performance might have suffered some as a result. I admit that when I joined Microsoft, I was a bit incredulous that Narrator really was written all in C++, and interns even prototyped new features in C++. So maybe I was more open to learning the Rust way?
@matt @jcsteh I think there is something to that as well, because the programmer I work with attempted to write a boot watcher that was prototyped in Python in Rust. Meanwhile, he has experience with things like Objective C, C#, Java, Xojo, to name a few disparate examples. He found himself tying his brain into knots learning the concepts and had other things he needed to do. Go, on the other hand, he liked for the same project.
@jcsteh I admit I would find it nearly irresistible to write such a utility in Rust and try to make it as lean as possible. (Did you see my project to rewrite the System Access API client DLL in Rust and make it super tiny?) But I'm sure Go was adequate for getting the job done.
@jcsteh To actually answer your point though, yeah, I guess the rules around ownership, borrowing, and mutability required some relearning, though certainly not relearning how to program from scratch. I feel it's been worth it, but I know others may not.
According to an email, GMA Games is under new management. David Greenwood is stepping away, which isn't surprising given the lack of updates and new content since Time of Conflict. A company called NathanTech, run by someone named Nathan Smith, is taking over. The email says Smith is dedicated to audio game content, though I've never heard of him. I should play Time of Conflict again.
I don't rate any of His apps particularly highly, but better someone keep up the server and licensing servers than let them fall. I'd like an update for using NVDA in Lone Wolf, I miss that game.
In Brussels, I'll have the opportunity to present in the plenary session how Open Food Facts officially became a #DigitalPublicGood, transforming the food system worldwide in pursuit of United Nations's SDGs goals. After years of lightning talks, @openfoodfacts will also have its first stand at @fosdem this week-end. mastodon.social/@openfoodfacts…
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#FOSDEM 2025 🇧🇪 - here we come!
This weekend, we’ll keep a stand at FOSDEM’25 event in #brussels to connect & chat !
Free event at the @ULBruxelles@mastodon.online.
Doggy photo! Sleepy dog haha. She's kind of a guard dog/pet. #Dogs #DogsOfMastodon Described with Gemini because I give credit where it's do even if it's a software/computer thing.
When love is in the air, it's time to put it down on paper. If you ever find yourself having trouble thinking of Valentine's Day or anniversary gift ideas, how about sending your sweetie pie a billet-
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in reply to Chris 🌱 • • •well, you can always drink beer with some snacks behind a shop. At least that's what people do in Ukrainian villages & small towns (ok, any towns).
Do note that you may grow a beer belly from this activity.