I'm usually ready to defend Lufthansa as not being as bad as some travel influencers make it out to be.
That Swiss flight from Montreal to Zurich was very mediocre though...
Anyway I have a 12 hours daytime layover in Zurich. Any tips?
That's Not A Gun, That's A Cannon
When a billionaire dies their senators should be buried with them.
My notes get set to private after a few months, so I have to repost my introduction periodically. Boosts welcome.
Hello, I go by Null! I am a programmer, avid reader, long-time Tabletop RPG (TTRPG) GM, anticapitalist, weird horror fan, aspiring (if shy) writer, and a long suffering fan of anime. I identify as agender even though I don't talk about it much. I also enjoy cooking, brewing, mushrooms, gardening, ravens, typewriters, and well... a little of everything. I just like to answer questions.
I generally post random observations, tabletop RPG experiences, political thoughts (CWed), news commentary, short anime reviews, and the like. Please feel free to drop in for a message or reply - I'm open to conversation. Also, do feel free to let me know if I commit any faux pas. I'm pretty open to good-faith commentary and it's important to me that people feel safe.
Things I am reading right now (I can't focus on one book for long so I rotate):
* Audition by Ryu Murakami
* No Gods No Masters by various
* Vagabonds: Life on the streets of 19th London by Oskar Jensen
Pure quality predictian libraries presents: smachin glass breaks
Imagine had Mozilla taken care of the 938 partners that tracks you?
Instead we get shitty chatbots.
It's 2025, and you buy a book that has a poop emoji on its cover. And it's not the humour section.
The Wildlife In My Yard
I would like to wish my darling wife Lulu, @lulu_bear, a very happy birthday. You mean more to me each day. I know you're going to have a fabulous day and let's look forward to another happy year ahead. I love you. XXX
Judging by Forged in Fire, there’s a lot of bladesmiths in North Carolina. It kinda feels like there’s someone from there in almost every episode.
I really don't see what the fuss is over this "frame generation" drama
The Feather And The Brick
I hate the github issue no activity bot. It’s one of the most offensive ci jobs i have ever seen. Having your issues being closed automatically because project maintainers dont give a fuck or dont have time to respond feels like a robotic kick in your teeth.
Hypersonic Boom
I HATE GOOGLE DRIVE! BURN, BURN, BURNBURNBURN!
¼na3 a ja sa cítim vyspaný.. teraz čo?
Oh, I didn't know that. It was just the first thing that came to my mind. I am unfortunately, nowhere near that place of the world. I am in the middle of nowhere, more or less. we could certainly could try giving this more than just one meaning, also the emphasis. I find this quite fascinating now.
.@reverendbigdawg is live with the John Zone on www.hkcradio.com.
Someone in the neighborhood has a fireplace going.
Meanwhile, I have a fan on.
It's 57 degrees F (about 14 degrees C). Not cold enough to play with fireplaces, in my opinion, but someone apparently disagrees.
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I use drugs all the time, and I have a house, healthcare, and a job. Why should we deprive low-income and unhoused people of the freedoms we all engage in?
#capitalism #LateStageCapitalism #socialism
"The Economist" has an article titled, I shit you not, “Universal Child Care Can Hurt Children.”
What an incredible fucking ghoulish thing to write. But then, that’s #capitalism for you!
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It always makes me laugh when an iPhone app that basically does one thing throws a dialogue asking "Hey! Are you enjoying the app?"
I got that this morning.
From Duo.
And I'm just looking at the question thinking, yeah. Yeah, you know what, I am enjoying Duo authenticator. It sure is a... multifactor authentication app. It absolutely is.
Severe Dysfunction
Don't delay, mew today! - Maddie
I'm uploading a bunch of stuff (about 7TB of it) to a Servarica Mammoth Storage VPS, which I'm basically using as a personal backup box.
Seens about the best I can do is around half my upstream, pretty close to 500 Mb/sec. In a little over twelve hours, I have so far uploaded 2.2 TB. Weird to think that I now consider that sort of slow.
Seens about the best I can do is around half my upstream, pretty close to 500 Mb/sec. In a little over twelve hours, I have so far uploaded 2.2 TB. Weird to think that I now consider that sort of slow.
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In 2002 I had the best broadband I could get. My friend Nathan really wanted a game, so he brought over a hard drive, attached it to my system, and downloaded over 1gb. It took 2 days.
Hahahahaha. For some reason, I just got this mental image of a kitty cat in a bag. And for some reason, that seems so cute to me, for the moment. And I'm not much of a kitty person. I prefer my wuff puppies any day. But a kitty in a bag is still cute, LOL.
LOL. Yes, kitty in sink is most definitely cute. I had a room mate with a rather large cat who loved to do that. He'd leave the tap on just the tiniest drip, and kitty would scrunch his fat bulbous form into that bathroom sink, twist his head more than half way around to point his face up, and just hang his mouth open under the tap and catch the water drops, LOL. Silly cute kitty.
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@BorrisInABox oh yes it is! especially when they are sleeping and you turn on the cold water. oops! did I just say that?
ugh I feel like I/we talk too much. - Maddie
@IzzyOnDroid ich warte nun seit Wochen dass die u-Version von RethinkDNS endlich in FDroid ankommt. Hättest Du Lust, die in Dein Repo zu packen damit das schneller geht?
@creaturr @lauchmelder @kuketzblog Thanks for the offer. Will consider it for the future, but currently, there's no plan to support additional repositories as the release process is very manual (and not automated).
как же сука меня бесит эта пизданина с завершением поддержки win10 и спасением своих компьютеров установкой линукса.
а) я недавно поставил win7 которая снята с поддержки хуй знает когда и под котрой уже почти ни что не работает.
секьюрити патчи до сих пор залетают.
б) у меня виндовому компу лет чтоли 7. и на нем вин 11 со дня релиза. и заебись все. если вашему компу 10 лет и он не тащит win11 - вы что блядь на нем делаете? в fallout 3 играете? в ворде объявы печатаете? нахуя вам поддержка?
Вот жопой чую левоту. Не могу объяснить внятно, но жопой чую, что это какое-то грёбаное лобби опять, как и с поддержкой хамасни. Особенно в свете кричащих заголовков: «Мэрия города такого-то перешла на Линукс, урррра, уррраа, улюлюлю!». Когда им говоришь, что не надо тогда пиздеть про дивёрсити, потому что как только вы отказались от майкрософтовского стека, accessibility идёт строем на хуй, во всяком случае, стабильная и всегда работающая, — они, естественно, отводят глаза.
For hundreds of thousand of years over the Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary, through climate change and hominid evolution itself, a technology/method for making stone tools remained the same.
The new research reported here shows 300,000 years of continuous - and stable - tool production at a single site in Kenya, but the record of this technique over multiple sites spans more than a million years.
A level of technological stability almost too alien for us to understand, given the age we live in.
arstechnica.com/science/2025/1…
10,000 generations of hominins used the same stone tools to weather a changing world
This technological tradition lasted longer than Homo sapiens have even been a species.Kiona N. Smith (Ars Technica)
I’m ready to get into the hook up scene with the possibility of dating if that arises. The problem is that I have zero idea of what I’m doing when it comes to finding partners who are open to ethical non-monogamy and kink. All of my relationships up to this point have been relatively vanilla and hetero. i’m not much of a going out to bars girlie and quite frankly I have valid safety concerns about going out to a bar solo in my neighborhood. I have no experience with the apps. In other words, I really need some advice. how in the hell do I get myself out there? #ENM #Dating #Poly #Polyamory #Relationships
It all sucks, the dating market is a bloodbath. The apps are extremely visual, and it's very hard to even get matches if you look blind. Maybe it's somewhat better as a woman, but in my experience as a man, it's not even worth trying.
"Billionaires spent just as much trying to defeat #Mamdani than if they just paid their taxes"
Yeah because it's not just about the money. It's about the misery. Misery makes for obedient workers. Can't have people walking around with pocket change because the bus is free, and a clear head because their kids are well taken care of. Who's working an extra twenty hours a week in those conditions?
#Capitalism is built on capital but it thrives on misery.
Why is Carl still crawling a million books later? Ugh this is too much of an investment for me
Moody
It’s incredible how often sighted people offering completely unsolicited help lead me astray. Took my daughter to a ballet lesson this morning and looked up a coffee shop to wait for her in. I’m walking up the block where I know the shop is, and smell coffee, so I turn to see if I can find the door. Right then, a sighted person stops me asking if I need help. I say I’m looking for the coffee shop on this block, and he says I’m close, but a couple doors away. So I think maybe the smell isn’t coming directly from the door and he must see what I’m talking about, right? Right??? He knows better because he can see, of course. He takes me to the door he thinks is what I’m looking for, and we say goodbye. I go inside, and immediately smell food, not coffee, and hear way too much silverware clinking on plates for a coffee shop. A woman greets me, and I say “I’m looking for the coffee shop on this block. I’m not there, am I?” “No, this is a diner,” she says. So I go back outside, walk back to where I was before, smell the coffee again, and walk right through the shop’s door no problem.
What good are eyes if you don’t know how to use them? #Blind #Blindness #disability
This thread is worth reading if you are a Google docs user.
Short version: When you export a document from Google Docs, Google replaces all your hyperlinks with links that allows Google to monitor the interactions of everyone you share your document with.
This hidden link replacement can potentially be used to build a model of your professional relations, where people who interact more with your content are considered a stronger relation.
Think about the implications.
fosstodon.org/@Joe_0237/111145…
Joe :ferris: :nixos: (@Joe_0237@fosstodon.org)
Today I found out that google docs infects html exports with spyware, no scripts, but links in your document are replaced with invisible google tracking redirects.Fosstodon
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Guus der Kinderen
in reply to Daniel Gultsch • • •Andy
in reply to Daniel Gultsch • • •Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)
in reply to Daniel Gultsch • • •In a certain way, I guess it's a blessing that you have enough layover time to visit the town. The only time I went through that airport, there was not enough time for that, and that airport is one of the most depressingly boring and uncomfortable ones I've seen 😑
P.s.: it was great meeting you last week to discuss the mobile XMPP clients landscape! I hope some of my teammates will start sending small merge requests your way soon, as I recommended we standardize on Conversations.