Stuck in my head all day. It's so pretty. 🤩👻 https://youtu.be/m8eFOKYQcfA

For the company that established this entire category, Tile doesn’t seem to know or care how to actually protect their users. https://www.wired.com/story/tile-tracking-tags-can-be-exploited-by-tech-savvy-stalkers-researchers-say/ Between being bought out by Life360, refusing to integrate with […]

A new, independent source of news launches tomorrow. “We are a group of former Guardian and Observer journalists who think our turbulent times call for a different kind of media title: courageous, independent, diverse and built around a community of readers and journalists. “Our beat will be […]

War ravaged Portland

One of my posts here gained popularity in the #Flathub vs. traditional #Linux distributions debate and I still stand by my claim that @flathub enforces its rules more strictly than Linux distributions and checks maintainers more thoroughly. None of my […] [Original post on social.vivaldi.net]

Absolutely war-ravaged… 100% war-ravaged… Definitely war-ravaged… …provided you consider "pollen" an invasion force. O_O https://www.camscape.com/webcam/pioneer-square-webcam-in-portland/

@cassidy but remember: **The Last of Us™ Part II** Your wishlist item is available with your subscription. lol

Hey Sony, this is not how you do notifications. #playstation #ps5

Exactly this 💯 #actuallyautistic #neurodivergent

When captioning a Star Wars GIF, my phone auto corrected it to: “Obi-Wan Lenovo surprising Generally Previous”

Apple executives have long discussed how to slow innovation, or outright regress features, to get their customers to pay more less. The iPhone Air is the realization of that greed […]

Alligator Auschwitz

I’ve been using a Bluetooth mouse with my laptop because the trackpad is getting a bit janky (fingers get stuck… which is a whole other issue). Usually I have a Logitech mouse that has back/forward buttons, but I found an Apple Magic Mouse at a yard sale for literally $1 and have been trying it […]

I added a section to my Home Assistant dashboard to call out unavailable devices! Pretty happy with that. Next I'll add devices with low batteries… #homeassistant

#disney said in a statement Monday that “#JimmyKimmel Live!” will return to its #abc broadcast on Tuesday. The decision came nearly a week after ABC said it was suspending the late night show indefinitely, shortly after the host made comments linking the alleged killer of conservative activist […]

Slack's "tray icon" jump scared me today when testing out the status icons extension and using the experimental GNOME Shell light style. 🙈

Is the DM interface on Truth Social the same as on stock Mastodon?

Hey, lately, I've been generally unmotivated to contribute to free and open-source projects because I can't sustain myself long-term. I can't find any local or online job that allows me to make a positive impact and not feel depressed. I am not receiving a sufficient number of donations — the […]

This has got to be the worst on-stage failure of new tech since Elon Musk smashed the window Cybertruck https://aftermath.site/meta-display-ai-rayban-glasses-ai-fail-demo-lmao-look-at-this-huge-dipshit?giftLink=186c5655bd241742a2da2d40c3a6fccb

What would Wikipedia be “rated”? If you had age-based parental controls installed on a computer, would you expect your kid to be able to use a Wikipedia app? I would expect so (It’s an encyclopedia! Knowledge is power!), but if you rate it literally according to something like OARS, it gets […]

At last, all the accessibility improvements on GNOME Calendar are finally available as a stable release. Get it on Flathub while it's hot!!! https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.gnome.Calendar #accessibility #GNOME #gtk #gtk4 #libadwaita #a11y #calendar #gnomecalendar #linux #GNU #OpenSource #FOSS […]

Me: why is everything so dusty? People who can adult: you have to dust. Me: what, like annually? Adults: no, more like weekly. Me: that can’t be right.

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com p.s. this week I am on a USA/Canada tour with my new book. Details and preorder links at tomgauld.com

I have a bunch of fines I need to move from one hard drive to another for boring reasons, and am wondering if this is a good time to finally rebuild my home server. I have an Intel NUC plus a Synology NAS for storage, and I mostly just run #plex and #homeassistant. With Home Assistant, I’ve […]

I am looking forward to the big @moshidon update! Custom timelines specifically is how I genuinely feel like social media should be designed; I am surprised the official @Mastodon app hasn’t aped that and leaned into it especially with both Threads and Bluesky shipping something similar […]

Just for hopefully-not-future-reference: If I should happen to be killed by a gun-wielding assassin, feel free to politicize it immediately. No waiting period required on my account.

Why Americans Don't Walk To School - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lShDhGn5e5s this neighborhood he filmed looks so much like America-as-I-know-her that it hurts. When I was a child, I lived in a housing development, a separate loop from the main road, nothing but houses on both sides for the […]

I am thoroughly enjoying Breach. I never got super into the lore, but I feel like I have picked up a lot with Clancy and the YouTube videos. The City Walls music video was great, and such a finale to the story. https://youtu.be/5Ozjel72yjQ #music #twentyonepilots #rock #alternative

We are modernizing the user interface Pray we do not modernize it further

I did some pottery painting at a six-year-old’s birthday party. 🍄

The last few weeks have been really rough for me for a bunch of reasons, but I got some happy news today, so there’s that.

Anker has updated their Qi2-certified Zolo wireless charger listing to explicitly say it's not compatible with the Qi2-certified Pixel 10 series. Uuuuuh, what?? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DRCC47VC #android #qi2 #madebygoogle #teampixel

It’s wild to hear “political violence is never acceptable” in one breath, and “I hope he gets the death penalty” in the next.

Procrastinated it for a long time but given the world we live in, I added an "AI and content policy" to my website: https://tante.cc/ai-and-content-policy/

Calm down, Apple Music, “Bridge over troubled water” is just a song.

Fox #pixel_dailies #pixelart #gameboy

Seven years ago today I convinced a handful of fellow Linux and open source peeps to join me on top of a mountain after LAS. 🏔️ I hope to be able to attend the next LAS, wherever and in whatever shape it may take place. #linuxappsummit #las2018 #las2026 #opensource #linux

Excellent commentary from @jamisonfoser.bsky.social on why there is no good reason for the NYT or Washington Post to have ignored Trump’s explicit declaration of war on Chicago […]

Everyone wins! #alttext #accessibility

Happy #caturday 🌈🐱

Man, I really vibe when writing complicated announcements that have to be summarized at a higher level while remaining completely accurate. Idk what it is but it's my *jam*. Definitely one of my favorite things about writing release notes/updates/blog posts for open source projects.

It has been 0 days since I accidentally asked my dad about a sex toy accessory

GNOME Shell developers (or extension developers): first, forgive me for I have sinned; second, if I want GNOME Shell to show the app grid on startup instead of the overview, tell me why this is the wrong way to do it […]

I might start daily driving GNOME OS soon… but not how you’d expect. 👀 #gnome #gnomeos #linux #opensource

I absolutely don’t *need* to, but I am tempted to completely redo my website. 😶 I would preserve my blog posts, but I feel like deleting the CSS and most of the DOM to start from scratch with something a bit more modern/minimalist. It's just built up with cruft over the years both in code but […]

One of the side-effects of the AI bubble is that we stopped talking about alternative solutions to computing problems. Everything needs to be solved with "AI" - meaning an LLM - and nobody stops and asks if there is an alternative. This drives me mad because LLMs are not only unreliable, but […]

Hello there. My group has been using (free) Slack for chatting among ourselves. We are ~20 ppl in 3 locations, so chat has to work. We want to move, but whereto? We consider #nextcloud Talk, #mattermost, or #zulip. We are fine with #selfhosting. It must be #opensource. We just need the chat […]

I'm so embarrassed! I've kept my listing on https://pad.gnome.org/s/summer-of-gnomeos mostly up to date. But others have not. I've seen all the activity in the #gnomeos Matrix! And today was the last day? And now it looks like I'm in 3rd place!? I could even be second, depending if there's some […]

Sometimes 3D printing is just so satisfying. Gonna hide this li'l guy in the kids' Bluey-inspired bedroom and see how long it takes them to notice. #3dprinting #bluey

I upgraded to a Pixel 10 Pro because the promos made it super cheap for me—and honestly, Pixelsnap (Qi2/MagSafe) without a case. I disable all the AI features I can on my Google Account, so none of that new stuff interests me, but there *are* a handful of new things I’ve seen literally nobody […]