> The [Bush] album title [Sixteen Stone] comes from a real life experience. Sixteen stone translates to 224 pounds, allegedly the weight of a young woman who catfished one of Rossdale's friends via a personal ad.
hahaha this was like 1999, what a pro
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ooooh the Musicbrainz issue is due to server load but I'll never know if they post updates about it because Mastodon.social is preventing me from seeing their posts
Search with the @-URL is half-broken. Maybe try replacing it with /users/<user>/statuses/<post number>. There's something wrong in Pleroma where it deletes the slash before the @, but it should then try to fetch using the expanded URL.
I can fetch the post no problem using both links. Maybe time to check logs :/
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YouTube doubles down on enshittification. The site will no longer load videos if it detects ublock origin on your browser.
A "joke" for, like, 3 of you tops:
Hairy Partch — Delusion of the Furry
At this point if you have no kids and no real health issues you should just opt out of the health insurance system in the USA.
Join us. Don't be afraid. They still have to treat you in the ER. You can negotiate hospital bills down significantly when no insurance scam is involved.
We can break the system so there is no other option but a full reform.
@RandomDamage my dad needed long-term treatment and they just denied it and let him whither away and die, and that was with good insurance.
"corporate wants you to find the difference between these two pictures" meme
@RandomDamage I paid over $80,000 in premiums (still with a huge deductible!) between 2017-2024 for absolutely fucking nothing when that money could have been invested. I got the best deal I could possibly get being self employed by getting a group plan for my 2-member (me and wife) LLC which most people don't know you can do
Even just having that $80k in a bank account would be better than relying on insurance for almost all medical incidents, especially because they STILL demand more money from you regardless
It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch.
A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out a fact sheet about them to a bunch of journalists, but very few are going to write about this. So, let me try posting it all here.
Here's what I know about Reflect Orbital and all the downsides:
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Holy fuck. I had not heard about this. What the actual fuck. WHAT THE FUCK??????!!!!
It’s like no one ever read any cautionary sci-fi, ever.
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Panic button update:
Data layer designs are done, so I figured I’d jettison a few sanity points and let the internet try naming it.
In case you haven’t a clue what I’m on about, here’s the idea.
Blind / VI user struggles to use website or app because accessibility sucks. They hit a button that lets them report the product as inaccessible, and why. Other users can search for up to date accessibility info, and get an early warning if the try using something that’s clearly broken for their setup
Next generation Electron build tooling based on Vite.electron-vite.org
Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: A tale of three customer service chatbots; and more!
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So will der Freiburger Weihnachtsmarkt Besucher gegen Terror und Amok schützen swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuertt…
Am Donnerstag, den 20. November, startet der Freiburger Weihnachtsmarkt. Eine Neuerung im Sicherheitskonzept soll vor Terror- und Amokfahrten schützen.SWR Aktuell
Christ on a bike, ntp.org reduced to begging for cash.
How many billions are sloshing around in the tech sector at the moment?
The NTP Project conducts Research and Development in NTP, a protocol designed to synchronize the clocks of computers over a network to a common timebase.NTP: Network Time Protocol
I think what's worse is that it somehow costs that much money to run their website which has almost nothing on it
also they're being scummy. The fundraising started at $3000, then was changed to $4000, and now it's been changed to $8000
wtf???
The #OpenPGP ecosystem is moving forward with new certificate formats from RFC 9580, as well as upcoming #PQC support via datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft…
We are working towards support for these modern certificate types on keys.openpgp.org
For this, we need to overhaul and extend our user-facing workflows, as well as the API that KOO exposes. The KOO board has decided to move forward based on the HKPv2 protocol:
datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft…
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This document defines a post-quantum public-key algorithm extension for the OpenPGP protocol. Given the generally assumed threat of a cryptographically relevant quantum computer, this extension provides a basis for long-term secure OpenPGP signatures…IETF Datatracker
In 2006, Steve Jobs unveiled what I was sure was an april fools joke... but turned out was actually produced.please subscribe. http://scyth3934.cfYouTube
This is the nerdiest article I've read in quite some time. It's glorious in its context, if depressing in its content.
(Archive link in following post.)
theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/…
#dnd #tolkien #sff #fantasy #games
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”Adam Serwer (The Atlantic)
Discover how Nextcloud will grow the digital sovereignty movement, investing in people, open source, and community.Christoph Weissthaner (Nextcloud)
Filing this one beside "I will face god and walk backwards into hell" and "you cannot kill me in a way that matters" on the list of Impossibly Powerful Phrases With Baffling Origin Stories.
toot.cat/@pup_hime/11553196384…
"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.reki singular point (Toot.Cat)
From an unrepostable follower:
"The light inside is broken, but I still work" - a sign taped to a vending machine, spotted by a Twitter user. (originally "the light inside has broken".)
I'm always amused at the origin of.
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” This seems increasingly true.
# "Using LibreOffice and other Free software for documents as a lawyer"
I was asked recently about how I get on using LibreOffice for document-related legal work, and I promised to write down some thoughts.
The short answer is that I use a mix of LibreOffice and other FOSS tools, and I’m very positive about it, with no particular concerns.
If you have questions, please do ask!
@libreoffice @christianschwaegerl @hzulla when someone offers feedback about your UI they aren’t under any obligation to cite exact reasons for their dislike nor are they required to be accurate in their comparison.
The message is they don’t like it and they don’t feel it is modern. It is enough of a concern for them that they avoid using the software.
I’m not saying I agree or that you should do anything about it, but your…
I'm reading the comment by @christianschwaegerl and hearing "it has grey. Windows 9x had grey. Therefore the design is 90s".
Can't please everyone I guess. Keep up the good work guys!
@libreoffice @christianschwaegerl @hzulla Personally I find the LibreOffice interface refreshingly functional, after the persistent nightmare that is ribbon interfaces. ("Why use one click when you can force users to do it in three?")
FWIW, my 15yo much prefers it, too, so it's not just "what I was used to in the 90s" (or "before Office 2007 made everyone re-learn how to use MS Office from scratch", as the case may be).
@libreoffice @christianschwaegerl @hzulla Imagine choosing not to use a screwdriver or hammer because they don't look different than they did when last used a decade or more ago.
LibreOffice works. It has worked. It's what Microsoft has feared for two decades even if it doesn't have a glossy corporate-funded 2025 appearance.
Bonus: Libre Office isn't going to steal users' IP to train its LLM.
/choir-preaching
@libreoffice @christianschwaegerl @hzulla I grew up with the 90's Windows UI and have formative memories of using MS Office as a schoolkid in the early 2000's. A few years later the ribbon UI appeared, making me not find anything, while Windows has lost all semblance of the visual clarity it had in those days - I know enough about computers to have forgotten more than most will ever learn, yet I'm also blind to Windows 11's new context menu's copy/cut/paste icons.
LibreOffice intuitively works "the way office suites have worked all my life". I'm glad that when I need it, it hasn't gone and changed to follow some new (or resurgent old) design trend.
Careless redesign doesn't work for Windows, it doesn't work for MacOS, and it certainly doesn't work for for underfunded FOSS productivity tools used by millions of people daily. Change can be good and necessary, and I certainly tend to resist it at first, but change also needs a good justification. Constancy and stability over time is one of the best features for a tool to have.
And if you read this far, thank you so much for your work.
Oh neat! I see the notebookbar has gotten some TLC since I last tried it. Looking good! Gonna go ahead and turn it back on and give it another try.
Thanks for all your hard work!
To whom it may concern:
Someone fixed the accessibility of the torrent listview in QBitTorrent version 5.1.3.
I wish I could find out who did it so I could personally thank them.
This has made my day. In a world where updates are often measured by how much a11y they break, this has been a rare moment of joy and comfort.
Thank you.
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Seems like it was Andrew Johnson, or akj.
github.com/qbittorrent/qBittor…
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It looks like #libreoffice #impress does not react to the forward and back buttons on my mouse at all. Would be very handy to be able to use that as a presenter though. Is there any way I can set this up easily? (And maybe a bug report to make it happen by default?)
@libreoffice is that broken just for me or a missing feature in general?
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I'd never heard of this piece of software until someone filed a bug against Leap for our version being too old and not working there. Here's our description for the package:
"Gramps gives you the ability to record the many details of an individual's life as well as the complex relationships between various people, places and events. All of your research is kept organized, searchable and as precise as you need it to be."
There's software for that? Interesting.
@koblas "we need to transfer your job to Santé Québec" "it's a new contract, not union"
how doesn't that sound obvious
also piratisation I mean privatisation...
Hey, look at that — a 🎣 #phishing campaign targeting users of the lovely secure email service @Tutanota hosted on Vercel.
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lookyloo.circl.lu/tree/2084488…
urldna.io/scan/691491953b77500…
A perfect example of how new hosting platforms offering LLM-powered tools are being abused to craft highly targeted phishing campaigns that perfectly mimic the real service’s identity.
urlDNA: The definitive DNA test for websites. Analyze URLs for phishing, malware, tech stack, and brand impersonation. Powerful API & Python package for developers.urldna.io
RE: furry.engineer/@ret/1155371738…
Welcome to the encrypted side. 🔒
Officially switched to @Tutanota@mastodon.social today!Ret (Furry.Engineer - Duct tape, hotfixes, and poor soldering!)
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