Hello everyone. We have a special treat for you: a new blogpost that is a audiovisual whirlwind tour through a neglected era of music technology. It's easily the longest, but also the best-researched and most fun thing we've ever written: hikari.noyu.me/blog/2025-08-24…

I keep reading that the “right way” to use AI for coding is to treat it like a team of junior developers.

Wow, every developer’s dream: writing less code, managing more people, and reviewing lots of poorly written code. And with the added bonus that the “junior devs” you are pouring all this time into, will never improve as a result of your efforts.

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As a nuclear engineer, I have never been asked to show my portfolio of reactor designs I maintain in my free time, I have never been asked to derive the six-factor formula, the quantization of angular momentum, Brehmsstrahlung, or to whiteboard gas centrifuge isotopic separation, water hammer, hydrogen detonation, or cross-section resonance integrals.

There's something deeply wrong with an industry that presumes you're a fraud unless repeatedly and performatively demonstrated otherwise and treats the hiring process as a demented form of 80s-era fraternity hazing.

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The Jury has spoken 👉 Meta stole Flo app users' intimate menstrual data. 🩸

Yep, Meta wants it all - even your most intimate data.

Find out why here: tuta.com/blog/meta-guilty-flo-…

#FloApp #FlowMenstrualApp #Meta

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@drathir , probably I will never understand the women who need to lead such notes. I mean any notes for their m cycle. Because it is natural, intuitive, even easy. In 95% and even more the lady can feel and trust her body. It’s not like flush.. it takes time with regular and very precise warnings.

Pity that so many people can’t read or sense these body signals. Because they happen a day or even several days before.

Poll: How many screens do you work with? 🖥️

Vote + Boost 🔁 = ❤️

(Feel free to reply with how this setup helps you 👇)

#Linux #Arch #LinuxMint #Fedora #Debian #Ubuntu #Desktop #FOSS #Privacy #Security #OpenSource #Microsoft #Windows #TechNews #CyberSecurity #Tech #Technology #Apple #OS #iOS #MacOS #OperatingSystem #Monitor #Monitors #Screen #Screens #TV #OLED #2k #4k #HD #Job #Work #Productivity #Multitasking #Dev #DevOps #Development #Developers #DevLife #SysAdmin #TechCommunity

  • 🧍 Just 1 screen (0 votes)
  • 🧑‍💻 Dual setup (2) (0 votes)
  • 🧠 Triple or more (0 votes)
Poll end: 2 days ago

It’s interesting that `git exclude` seems to be a relatively unknown feature.

(Then again, there is so much to git.)

It is so handy for personal and temporary files.

I use it for justfiles in other people’s projects, for example.

I also use it for a personal Django management command where I can run random code from.

Since my git blame config breaks if I don’t have `.git-blame-ignore-revs` in a repo, I also make that file if needed.

Check out git exclude if you haven’t yet!

#git

#git

Spotify JSON history to readable txt converter, an app to convert your Json Spotify data to friendly readable format has been released:
This is a simple offline tool that converts Spotify's JSON streaming history into a clean, readable text file. It works entirely in your browser.
It all started when my "Discover Weekly" playlist on Spotify refreshed and all the great songs I liked were gone. Unfortunately i was on the trip, and music was playing in the background, so i forgot to add those songs to the library. I checked the listening history in the app, but that only shows the last 50 tracks.
Then I discovered that you can request your full listening data from Spotify, so I did it and received a ZIP with large JSON files.
Files were technically readable, but not convenient at all, so I wrote a small HTML + JavaScript tool that converts them into a clean text file with just the date, artist, and track title. It works offline in your browser and makes the Spotify history actually useful.
tdprograms.ovh/pfiles/SpotifyJ…

No entiendo lo del “LB”. Lo veo mucho, y es como si me estuviera perdiendo algo. Como si “LB” fueran las siglas de “Mensaje fuera de contexto” en algún idioma que yo desconozco.

Sé que significa “last boost” y hace referencia al último toot que se ha hecho rt. Pero (a) ese toot no tiene por qué estar cerca y a veces obliga al lector a entrar en el perfil a buscar y (b) el toot con “LB” puede haber sido retooteado, y lo mismo se escribió hace varios días, lo que hace casi imposible encontrar el toot al que se refiere en su inicio.

Yo prefiero citar con mención y enlace al toot al que me refiero, de ese modo mi comentario queda ligado a él.

Y sintiéndolo mucho, he añadido “LB” a mis filtros. Porque en serio que no me entero de nada 🤣

This is what I’ve been working on for last months at #CVUTFEL – electronic door sign for classrooms. 10.2" e-ink display, ESPink #ESP32 board from #Laskakit, battery (for some), a custom case, firmware and control server. Receives images via MQTT, sends telemetry back. #IoT

The case was designed in FreeCAD and printed it on Prusa MK3S and Prusa Core One. Firmware is built on Arduino SDK with patched GxEPD2_4G lib. Control server is written in TypeScript and runs on NodeJS. It renders screens to 2-bit grayscale PNG and sends via Mosquitto.

The price is ~115 EUR of you order the e-ink display and battery directly from China.

Most of this is my work, from the hardware up to the control server and also monitoring. It’s a very interesting project, a nice change from what I normally do because it’s a physical object. :)

This batch is 32 pieces and they will be installed mainly in Dejvice this month.

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Today, we are remembering David Graeber, who passed away five years ago.

“Nothing could conceivably be more violent than to tell us—and particularly our young people—we are forbidden to even dream of a peaceful, caring world.”

crimethinc.com/ShockofVictory

Is Serbia's Vucic preparing his escape to Russia?

Putin and Vucic met once again and officially they spoke about gas deliveries through Hungary. But strangely the transcript doesn't mention that Ukraine interrupted these deliveries last month.

So they must have spoken about something else pressing that cannot make it into the official transcripts. Right now Russia could hardly afford sending any form of support to violently suppress protests. So...?

@balkanika

bta.bg/en/news/balkans/959303-…

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Oh, I can't see the post, don't have bsky, and they haven't fixed accessibility. I went there not recently, but people didn't look worried or unhappy to me, or maybe there are places where it's not that widely seen. I haven't asked others who've gone, so I can't say more, but I won't also say that it's definitely not good with the whole happenings in the recent few years, nowhere has been good tbf.

Are you in Brazil this week? The World Blindness Summit and WBU General Assembly are taking place in São Paulo and NV Access are there!

From 9am on Wednesday 3rd (10pm Australian Eastern time), as part of the "Nothing About Us Without Us" panel, NV Access director Emma Bennison speaks on "Why Should Blind People Lead Their Organisations?"

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#Blind #WBU #WorldBlindUnion #WBUGA #WBUSummit #WBU25

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At WBU São Paulo on Wednesday:

At 2:30PM (3:30AM AEST), NV Access General Manager James Boreham, and Emma Bennison speak about "NVDA, A Global and Resilient Movement: Community-Driven Access to Digital Inclusion" as part of a panel on "Digital Access for All."

Watch the stream in your language:
English: buff.ly/6MD2HyJ
Español: buff.ly/epMunPT
Français: buff.ly/taTE6HW
Português: youtube.com/live/aOb1BAREXq0

#Blind #WBU #WorldBlindUnion #WBUGA #WBUSummit #WBU25

As I start into my office life, well sort of, I wondered if the #Blind have any tips or resources using #NVDASR with the typical MS Office programs and co. I'm familiar with Word, but what about Outlook (Mail and Calendar) Teams etc? I've never worked with these really, so anything is appreciated. @mastoblind @NVAccess
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We have training material on some of the main office modules (Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint).

Microsoft do have pages of shortcut keys for the various programs, eg here is their page for Teams: support.microsoft.com/en-us/of…

Often it is a matter of getting used to how your particular employer works, eg even in Word, they might send you suggested changes, but whether they do that in comments, track changes or highlighted text will vary which features you need to know :)

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@prose @dino @movim poez.io/en/ profanity-im.github.io/ are all actively developed too

EDIT: these were just from the top of my head, there are quite few others too, among which @kaidan / libervia by @Goffi / @monocles / @cheogram (this list _not_ exhaustive)

@joseph
@daniel