#linux Today I learned about the pv command. How did I never know about that after 40 years in the business?

Hello #guix peeps, guix archive --export util-linux > hold is giving me guix archive: error: corrupt input while restoring archive from #<closed: file 7fc0622a1a10> Any clues?

Just testing... > quotes

#writerscoffeeclub September 24: How do you handle asides? Parenthesis, em-dashes, commas? I write everything in UTF-8, being especially careful to distinguish between single closing quotes and apostrophes. I will use all the methods for asides, depending on how ‘aside’ they actually are. I'm […]

This satirical blog post really illustrates the problem with a lot of technical writing. Amazing technical writing is so good and then everything else reads like this https://anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-a-non-developer-read-the-tutorial-you-a-developer-wrote-for-me-a-beginner

The flapping bird animation on this page is *delightful*. https://www.yuque.com/ #css #svg #webdev

@khleedril @MastodonEngineering Easiest way is to load the web version of your instance on a desktop/laptop. The version will be bottom of the left hand column. Yours is currently v4.4.4

#wordweavers Sep 23: If anyone in your world has imperfect vision what, if anything, can they do to correct it? Ship, stop arsing around with my eyes and put them right, will you?

#foss developers, you have until Sunday to register participation in Mycelium's Stage-1 Bootstrap 'vote'. It is happening at https://khleedril.org/mycelium-vote. There are jumping-off points to the white-papers with instructions there. 1/3 #mycelium #myceliumboot1 @inthehands @kissane#foss#mycelium…]

#scribesandmakers 9/20. Do you have a lot of cooking equipment? My kitchen is chock full of it. The real question is, is this the kitchen's fault for being too small, or the utensils' faults for being too numerous? Did I answer the question? What does the question actually mean? Define 'a lot'.

"I’m seething with rage towards Microsoft and its utter incompetence and maliciousness. Let me, for once, not mince words here: Windows 11 is a travesty, a loose collection of dark patterns and incompetence, run by people who have zero interest in lovingly crafting an operating system they can […]

If you commute by car, #police #algorithms can predict what time you’ll likely head home on any given Wednesday & what roads you’ll take to get there. The city’s computers are constantly passively compiling this information in case it is of use to them later, a version of the film [book TYVM] […]

The old web was decentralized: - Newsgroups - Personal Websites - Bulletin board - Email as a service, not a platform - Internet relay chat (IRC) - Early blogs Then corporations arrived with money and lock-in, turning the internet into centralized ad farms (Meta, X, TikTok). Users became […]

This is beautiful; pure poetry: https://obsidian.md/blog/less-is-safer/ (Obsidian’s dependency-management philosophy.) I have a suggestion: If you have a project or repo that's getting popular, stop writing features for a few months and implement this instead. #softwaredevelopment […]

Dear #foss, #gnu friends, the vote to accept voting on the Mycelium network, A.K.A. bootstrap stage 1, is now open; you have until end of Sunday, 28th September to register. It is happening at https://khleedril.org/mycelium-vote, and the effort is fully described at […]

Dear #foss, #gnu friends, the vote to accept voting on the Mycelium network, A.K.A. bootstrap stage 1, is now open; you have until end of Sunday, 28th September to register. It is happening at https://khleedril.org/mycelium-vote, and the effort is fully described at […]

It's wild to think we used to watch TV on particle accelerators.

#foss developers, the vote to accept voting on the Mycelium network, A.K.A. bootstrap stage 1, is now open; you have until end of Sunday, 28th September to register. The white paper is at https://khleedril.org/mycelium-bootstrap-1, and the vote itself is happening at […]

It’s a hard ask for any author, because Amazon is traditionally the biggest market and the biggest potential source for new readers. If there’s any chance of you buying my books, I’d much rather you look at my store on Smashwords: www.smashwords.com/profile/view... #indieauthor #writinglife #books

Terry Pratchett's Pyramids is a magical book which explores the preposterousness, and cost, of following ancient traditions for the sake of it. https://rdmp.org/dale-mellor/bookblog/?review=pyramids #terrypratchett #gnuterrypratchett @bookstodon #reading #scifi #pyramids

Recently Miss R (6) told me that pink was a "lazy colour", along with brown. She couldn't explain why that was so. So I asked what colours were the oppose of lazy, and she said they were "bright" colours, but that "bright" here wasn't optical brightness (not in so many words). I can't recall […]

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door. Source code and a downloadable app to try it yourself […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Finished reading The Bane of the Black Sword by Michael Moorcock. I will not read anything else by this author as long as I live. #scifi #reading @bookstodon #michaelmoorcock

#scribesandmakers - 6 September. What's the hardest thing about gardening? Trying to talk sense into weeds.

By 1999, Microsoft had vanquished Netscape in the browser war, Google was starting to show up competing search engines, and Napster and Blogger had arrived to shake up our culture. https://cybercultural.com/p/internet-1999/ #internethistory Author's note: if you read and enjoy my article, don't […]

Wikipedia's resistance to enshittification is fascinating to me.

This is coming up because I'm trying to understand the American obsession with "crime" Crime, all across the country was worse in the 70s and 80s in nearly any way you might want to quantify it. Number of murders, number of reported crimes, public disorder etc. It's a very broad and obvious […]

I'm currently working hard on the next stage of the #mycelium bootstrap. If you produce open code or work in open governance, and have your own website, and haven't already, please consider engaging with the Stage-0 bootstrap. It is for the good of us all in the long run. Remember it is simple […]

In case we needed more warning against #bigtech + a push towards #digitalsovereignty... @pluralistic on scorching form. https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115130382805060633 [email protected] - William Gibson famously said "Cyberpunk was a warning, not a suggestion." But for every tech leader […]

#forgejo has opinions on my work; is this one true? Relevant? I feel like the day has started badly.

https://xkcd.com/2347/ recursion

## Is it possible to allow sideloading *and* keep users safe? https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/08/is-it-possible-to-allow-sideloading-and-keep-users-safe/ In which I _attempt_ to be pragmatic. Are you allowed to run whatever computer program you want on the […] [Original post on shkspr.mobi]

11, french, in a UK CofE (church-funded public) school.

#pennedpossibilities 768 — How do you balance writing with personal life? I write when time presents itself. Which is almost never these days.

I now integrated comments and tips and rechecked all parts of my #libre #book on #guix #scheme: - debug with exceptions and backtraces - profile your code - note list-set! (and warn about mutating) - leave out the `make help` (needed to save a page) - actually working guix pack example - got […]

Gotta say it sucks to hear over the last 30-40 years how progressive policies that directly help citizens could never be enabled by the stroke of a pen, but in just a few short months a moody dictator can enact any cruel authoritarian idea no one wants or needs and it gets implemented nationwide […]

#rust #diesel Am I missing something? Diesel does not actually abstract away the database back-end, does it? I mean, I have to hard-wire MySQL into my code, and if it is passed 'pg://...' as a database URI it will fail. Doesn't this defeat the purpose?

@Gargron Imagine buying something from a local store instead of amazon was called "sideshopping" and there's a massive campaign to delegitimize buying items from stores not approved by amazon. Completely absurd. Why accept that exact ideology when it comes to installing software on your phone?

If you're truly principled about rejecting #racism, #fascism, #extremism (or at least not monetizing it), it sure seems weird to still be using #substack when there's so many guides on how to get off it. ✅ Migrating from Substack - Ghost https://docs.ghost.org/migration/substack #ghost […]

The benefits of having an amazing public library system cannot be overstated. Almost any books, textbooks, media, vinyl records, they have it here. They have free printing services. Protect and resource libraries.

I really didn't expect things to work as smoothly as they are. The RPI is still plugged in to power but Ethernet disconnected. Been using the #guix router without incident for the entire second half of the day. Performance is outstanding, and my remote VPNs even connected in and I'm hooked up to […]

Bumping this as I've had no replies. If I still don't I guess I'll have to submit a #guile bug report. https://cyberplace.social/@khleedril/115065774770251275

#guix is friking addictive. Seriously, if you want to create a complicated router server thing in Debian, youre gonna have to install packages, config them, test it out manually, etc. In the end you'll have an artifact that does that task, but if you want another one... Good luck. Yes you can […]

#guix help. The following code bombs out instead of reaching "Okay". There is nothing at port 8989, and my program has to be able to take any URL from the user. How can I make this work, reliably? (use-modules (ice-9 receive) (web client)) (receive (response body) (with-exception-handler […]

#writers - to anyone else - what do you do with your upcoming ideas? They go into a supermassive black hole which exists in the centre of my head.

I was inspired by @sophie's blog and have made my theme switcher a bit more visible. Still need to design a few new themes though 😆

Welcome to the enshittification of cars. This is the worst thing to happen to cars since SUVs. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62weyp4qqgo

Mike Wright has been a long-time recorder of talks at conferences, including category theory conferences. He has a huge archive of recordings (>100k hours) and needs support to digitise them and make the archive freely available online. There are talks going back 50 years, and the project will […]

Calling all #foss, #gnu, #guix developers! Please help if you can with the Stage-0 bootstrap of a Mycelium network. The purpose is to provide mutual provenance: in the first place it will prove we are actual humans. The salient features are * you are not discoverable, * there is absolutely no […]