Another great post in the I Want to Love Linux series, this time about Wayland #accessibility: https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-want-to-love-linux-it-doesnt-love-me-back-post-4-wayland-is-growing-up-and-now-we-dont-have-a-choice/ #a11 #linux #gnome

The Zen of Task Management with #orgmode (in #emacs) https://bzg.fr/en/the-zen-of-task-management-with-org/

You guys know Clarissa, right? That doorstop by Richardson? *crickets* OK let me start again. There's this really long book. Not much happens. It's the perfect read for 2025! And some folks from my alma mater are doing a reading group on Substack, reading the letters from the book on the dates […]

Candle auctions are still held today as a form of tradition. In Chedzoy ... , a plot of church land is sold by candle auction once every 21 years. In Tatworth, a 6-acre (24,000 m2) plot is auctioned by candle once per year. In Leigh, Dorset, two pieces of land, Alton Mead and Bere (or Beer) […]

I love landing on one of those #apache or (less common but possible) #nginx pages that is a list of files and directories. Happens less often these days https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=115522289#DirectoryListings-DirectoryIndexes #web #internet #old

This game is a weird historical curiosity. Interactive fiction game where a genie teaches you #lisp https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=zj3ie12ewi1mrj1t I think @zarfeblong coded a Lisp interpreter in z machine. for this. #functional #interactivefiction

Gary Dahl came up with the idea in a bar while listening to his friends complain about their pets; this gave him the idea for the perfect "pet": a rock. [2] A rock would not need to be fed, walked, bathed, or groomed, and it would not die, become sick, or be disobedient. Dahl said that they […]

WTF #kubernetes in like 17k lines of bash #devops #weird https://github.com/simplenetes-io/simplenetes?tab=readme-ov-file#simplenetes---magic-free-clusters

Very amusing video. I fixed my lactose intolerence by eating all the lactose" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h90rEkbx95w

Just discovered the forgotten websites subreddit. Pretty entertaining https://www.reddit.com/r/forgottenwebsites/ This parody chemical company website is the kind of stuff you get. Pretty weird/droll https://www.alliedchemical.com/ #indieweb #webrings #old #internet #reddit

"Lowlander Great compositions produced with vivid tone colours and floating in a warm reverb... some of it reminiscent of a calming sanctuary hub in an otherwise dangerous computer game. Favorite track: Ritual of the Moon." […]

Let us assume ... that you just hate grass. You have a lawn, and you want to have a lawn't. Your disgust and loathing for the entire notion of lawns burns with the heat of a thousand suns, and you have found yourself in possession of a soulless plot of monoculture ornamental grass, in a […]

Kubernetes is hard sometimes. #k8s #devops

Just heard about a historical event called "Disco Demolition night" where they blew up a crate of disco records on an MLB field and folks started rioting O.o https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco_Demolition_Night #weird #music #disco #mlb

We've got a Learning Lab tomorrow on chainguard's #python container image. Switching your #flask, #django, or #openai app over will drop you down to ~0 known vulnerabilities just by using a different base image. We'll go into depth on it tomorrow at 12 EST […]

Did a deep dive on where the Grype container scanner's data comes from. We also build Grype's DB with their open tooling https://dev.to/chainguard/deep-dive-where-does-grype-data-come-from-n9e #foss #security #cve #devops