I know people are nostalgic about film, but using a bunch of chemicals and letting some rando in some shop see all your photos is objectively worse.

Now if only people would have proper privacy on their digital devices!

In other news, it's super fascinating how film is actually made!

Lastly, I have a Pentax Spotmatic camera with four lenses, case, all the extras available for sale to a good home. One lens is even the desirable japanese radioactive one!

it.slashdot.org/story/25/11/05…

Kodak Quietly Begins Directly Selling Kodak Gold and Ultramax Film Again - Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares a report: Kodak quietly acknowledged this week that it will begin selling two famous types of film stock -- Kodak Gold 200 and Kodak Ultramax 400 -- directly to retailers and distributors in the U.S.

^{it.slashdot.org}

I’m tempted to buy that just so that I could see what the change I get back looks like

Who do you know who wants to come work full time on #ElixirLang OSS tooling? (Boosts appreciated!)

jump.ai/careers?ashby_jid=3908…

#ElixirJobs

Jump

Jump is empowering financial advisors and their clients to thrive in the age of AI. We're growing incredibly quickly with a team that comes from Google, Stripe, JP Morgan, BILL, Nitrogen, Harvard, Stanford, and other top companies and schools.

^Jump

Happy Birthday @inkscape !

22 years old right now!

Long may we continue.

#inkscape #foss #oss

Flathub and Snap: healthy competition as far as a community vs company-led project can go, we acknowledge mutual existence and move on

Fedora: gugu gaga aiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeee
social.treehouse.systems/users…

TheEvilSkeleton 🇮🇳 🏳️‍⚧️

2025-11-04 03:50:53

If you are not yet convinced that Fedora Flatpaks is a hostile 'alternative' to Flathub, here's a good one for you:

An indeterminate amount of their packages are, in fact, directly based on existing manifests from Flathub. Not by manually inspecting code themselves; rather, by running a script which goes through Flathub's APIs and parses the respective apps' manifest to generate manifests for Fedora Flatpaks: pagure.io/flatpak-module-tools…

All this, without crediting the original authors.

#Flatpak #Flathub #Fedora

Tree - flatpak-module-tools - Pagure.io

^pagure.io

Support your local food bank & pantries with your money, not food donations.

Food banks & pantries can use the money much efficiently than any individual donor.

Boost Appreciated:

@hacks4pancakes
@jerry
@sarahtaber

Hank Green video:

youtube.com/watch?v=HwLaKBHIT7…

Pinned comment from the video:

@gabrielag9846:

Food banker here with an IMPORTANT MESSAGE: You listening? PLEASE DO NOT use your money to buy cheap food for the food banks or pantries. Just give them that money. I'm 100% serious. Food banks, especially the really organized ones, can get WAY more for the dollar than any individual can, unless you're literally ordering by the truckload from a manufacturer like we are. Feeding America has a whole purchasing network with negotiated prices that make this system work. Also, every time you buy and donate random food items, it creates work for the food bank/pantry. We need to inspect it for safety, sort it into categories, and then work it into inventory. If you donate money, we use it to buy much more food, and we intentionally purchase based on what kind of item is needed. It can also be used to put fuel in the trucks that gets the food to its ultimate destination.
We absolutely do appreciate every donation, and we use items donated from food drives and individuals every day. But look at it this way: You can buy a 5-lb sack of potatoes for $3.00, for example. I can get them for 50 cents per sack because my organization has negotiated the price with the distributor and ordered 10 pallets of them. We need every kind of support we can get right now, but PLEASE let us do the smart shopping

#foodinsecurity
#usgovShutDown

This Shutdown is Different

It just seems like the whole point is to show off how disfunctional everything is and I hope to god that that backfires, not just against the current adminis...

^YouTube

go to university, they said. youll learn the secrets of the universe, they said

university:

I sometimes here liberal apologists and defenders of wealth inequality point out that the rich live just like the rest of us, there's no big distinction in the bundles of goods we have access to. We eat the same things, use the same computers, sleep in the same beds.

Setting aside for a moment whether this is true (I personally don't have a private plane or a yacht) granting the hypothesis opens up a question:

So if wealth doesn't actually get you anything substantially better, how is it an incentive?

Because, those same liberal apologists keep telling us without the enormous incentives to the rich, they would not contribute their prodigious amoutns of value to our economies.

But they just told us they don't get anything meanignful back from it.

So what's going on?

This argument is self-defeating. Either wealth gives rich people something substantial (and therefore wealth inequality means most go without whatever that is, and therefore must be removed), or wealth does not give anything substantial and is not an adequate incentive, so it may as well be removed.

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#ZoomText #ScreenMagnifier #Magnification

If you make $100,000 a year (not bad), it will take you 10 million years to earn a trillion dollars.

If you make a million dollars a year (wow!), it'll still take you a million years to earn a trillion dollars.

Tax the rich.

Maybe the real reason Big Tech turned on us is that their original plan was to monetize our search history by advertising things we were looking for, but we were all looking for things nobody wants to sell, like "better working conditions" and "social justice" and "affordable housing."

#enshittification

What I love is how Zohran Mamdani's father Mahmood found out about Marx.

"Soon after, he learned about Karl Marx's work from an FBI visit." -wikipedia

FBI guy said, “Do you like Marx?”

I said, “I haven’t met him.”

Guy said, “No, no, he’s dead.”

“Wow, what happened?”

“No, no, he died long ago.”

I thought the guy Marx had just died. So then, “Why are you asking me if he died long ago?”

“No, he wrote a lot. He wrote that poor people should not be poor.”

I said, “Sounds amazing.”

After a Con MP crossed the aisle yesterday... Another Con MP (who was rumoured to cross the aisle) has resigned. And that's after we've heard of talks of threats made to them from PP's team.

🍿

(I really do hope they're not actually getting threatened... I want our politics to be better, damn it)

#cdnpoli

Me in math class 5 years ago: "dude, why am I learning logarithms, when will this ever be applicable in the real world"

Me recently: BASE_DURATION * log2 (1 + height / (BASE_DURATION * M_PI)) + BASE_DURATION

(Don't ask why this equation "works" or why a specific number or constant is there. Part of the process was just me combining constants and praying it works)

I'm on the night train from Kolari to Helsinki, returning from a work gig. This is the longest distance direct train trip in Finland, covering most of the country. It lasts around 11+ hours with around 900km distance.

I've always wanted to take one of these trains, as most of the train is sleeper cabins. Check out mine!

#train #trains #finland

Recently saw someone boost this critique of incrementally replacing C/C++ code in an existing codebase with Rust to improve security:

mstdn.jp/@landley/115504884945…

I guess his point is that bridging between languages can add more scope for bugs and vulnerabilities than the original C or C++ code. But some projects are in fact bringing in Rust in this incremental way. I wonder how such efforts are going in practice. One success story I know of is GNOME's librsvg, which is now completely in Rust.

Hacked Stalwart into letting me match wildcard domains and alter the spam scores

blog.feld.me/posts/2025/11/sta…

Stalwart Wildcard Trusted Domains

There currently is no out of the box feature for Stalwart for you to match wildcard / subdomains of a

^{Makefile.feld}