What is a good source of evidence-backed recommendations on normal skin care products? Finding anecdotal suggestions is easy, and many of the clinical studies touted by commercial products have laughably small sample sizes. Asking for a me. I love and honor my parents. I got the "respect real […]

It’s too early for “Shattering Peace” spoilers. Some of us read slowly, some of us need to finish this other book first, and so on, Having said that, I did finish it a few days ago and can heartily recommend it to any @scalzi fan, even if you haven’t read (or reread) the earlier books in the […]

https://codeberg.org/miekg/dns should conform to deleg draft-03, but no way to confirm this as I do not know of other tooling I can use to test this against. #dns #golang

You have 209.237.226.90 www.opensource.org in /etc/hosts. Is opensource.org now an empty non-terminal? (it's not, but it's weird and probably never properly documented?) #dns

why is trump "realdonaldtrump" on truth social? was donaldtrump taken?

The best way to get people to stop calling you a fascist is to amp up being a fascist.

Huh, spam from 1Password offering me “Early access to Comet, the new AI browser from Perplexity”. I’m perplexed all right, about why 1Password, an outfit I mostly like, is doing this. I want a serious relationship with my security-technology providers, not a spammy one that flirts with sketchy […]

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

#FoxesInLove on our focus issues:

The almost-full moon creeps out from behind the gingko tree, And yet I am not in Japan.

The reason that some people say "they grow up so quickly!" about your child is that it's been many, many years since you updated your Slack avatar that is a photo of when they were young and adorable.

Enshittification covered in the comics page: https://comicskingdom.com/rhymes-with-orange/2025-09-02

@ErikUden @davidgerard they’ve all moved from “NFTs are the future of fairly compensating artists!” to “AI is the future of never needing to compensate an artist again”

The new Debian 13 installer still does not let me specify UTC as my timezone.

A few days back I tweeted and blogged about the brand-new RFC 9839, and also published the first draft of tiny Go library to help enforce the subnets defined in the RFC. Got lots of useful input on the library and have progressed it enough to do a v0.8.0 release […]

So, if Apple officially announces the new iPhone on September 9, when do we hear about speed bumps / price decreases on laptops? Didn't that used to happen before school started?

In Trump America, Kennedy assassinates YOU.

Yet another I love about Mastodon: someone posts a niche nerdy status report ("Suddenly in need of a 68K assembler and also I guess learning 68K assembly") and gets over a dozen possibly-helpful responses from people who share that niche. @mjg59

Working with people like Tim is wonderful. Having yet another RFC with my name on it is OK too, as long as it changes the world for the better. https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/115077611175692444

For pete's sake, @mozilla : if you want to measure whether the AI/ML features are worth a damn, put a big green "disable all AI in my browser" button on the version update screen and put some telemetry around how many people instantly click it. Just about everyone I know who has taken the 142 […]

What is your preferred method for linking to GitHub pages that are in Markdown format, when you want the link to point to the raw version and not the "let's helpfully resolve the Markdown for them" version?

SRE, noun: a person who is not afraid that a lightning strike will cut off power to one of their precious datacenters, but somehow cannot handle the inevitable march of time expiring their certificates.

I barely follow anyone on BlueSky. I wonder how much of the "move everything off GitHub and on to Codeberg" energy there is there. Same question for LinkedIn. (I'm not even going to ask about Xitter because there are so few actual devs there.)

I wish I had known in my 20s that selling science fiction to venture capitalists was way more profitable than selling it to publishers of science fiction

I just heard the pre-release listening party for this album: https://mollytuttle.bandcamp.com/album/so-long-little-miss-sunshine It drops on Friday. It could easily be a hit across genres. Seriously. She's got it all.

<the sound of a zillion techies thinking of answers to "Why did you move all your repos from GitHub Codeberg?">

OpenSSL is a 5 million USD revenue/year company with more than ten full-time employees. Makers of some the Open Source world's worst documentation. For an API that is enormous, quite weird and full of hidden magic that is not what you would expect.

Asking for an opinion from all my #python friends. The non-work Python project I'm developing has a few places where I need to find the most recent text above the current position that matches a #regex. I can either: - Require the non-standard regex module (https://pypi.org/project/regex/) […]

This looks like it will be awesome: "Apple: The First 50 Years" https://www.applefirst50.com

If you didn't get enough Dead this last weekend: https://www.sfzc.org/calendar/events/online/dharma-and-dead-lyrical-discussion-grateful-dead-online-89 (Not mentioned in the biography at the bottom of the page: before becoming a monk at Tassajara, Kokyo was a tour rat. He comes to this talk […]

Dear Universe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He08FTJXzYs I would just like to stay stuck today; can I stay stuck today? Can I just this once say "fuck today" and let me stay stuck today?

fucking tradeoffs #dns #golang

vibe coding was meant to be pejorative

I feel like the responsible thing for a company shutting down a link shortener to do is to donate the mapping between short URL and original URL to an organisation like @internetarchive such that broken links can be replaced in archival data

I guess this train is deadheading

Is there some kind of contest within Apple to see how little contrast can be used while still *technically* indicating a selection? One of these disks is selected, believe it or not!

Prediction: if Bezos buys Condé Nast for his wife, the New Yorker will have to curb its left leaning writing, it will lose half its readership, and he won’t care.

@annaf There’s some weird shit in the dusty corners of Unicode: https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1FB00.pdf

Musk made a Nazi salute and programmed his bot to spew antisemitic conspiracy theories, but of course these two things occur in complete isolation from each other and it would be unfair to draw conclusions about a person based on the things he does and says.

https://ericwbailey.website/published/you-must-listen-to-rfc-2119/ is funnier than any April 1 RFC from the past many years.

I really don’t understand the push to for a computer replicate what goes on in the human brain. I mean, I know what goes on in mine and it just seems ill advised for a computer to be thinking those thoughts.

I'm creating a Python package, and I need to be able to read a plain text file holding some configuration. Python's `import` can only read modules, and I absolutely don't want to have the text I need as a quoted string in the module because the configuration has escapes in it; I want the user to […]

Asking for a friend: If a US person wants to open an account with someone who requires you to not be a US person, is there a writeup of an easy and probably-reliable route to do so? This is more than "use a VPN to look like you are in a different country", but not as much as "here is how you can […]

ICE *already* can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas. So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget? The answer is: you.

"[...] the defining event that marked the start of the gay rights movement in the United States and around the world." Happy "Stonewall was a riot" day! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_riots #stonewall #stonewallriots #stonewallwasariot #lgbt #lgbtqia #history #otd

Collab / call platforms: Just add a "When someone shares their screen, give all other attendees a 'Can you see what is being shared? Yes / No' button already.

In a private #Github organization, in a private repo filled with NDA code, Github decided that to automatically start reviewing that code using Copilot. Mind you, Copilot is disabled for this organization. Could we please just fucking not ?! Not […] [Original post on social.sandervankasteel.nl]