I moved all the articles I saved in Pocket to a self-hosted @readeck installation and I'm really satisfied with the result. Readeck has the most useful functionality Pocket lost in the last few years and is very pleasant to use. If I find some free time I'll whip my #gentoo ebuild into shape […]

An extremely welcome initiative from the 🇪🇺 #eu: 🔋Phone Batteries must retain 80% capacity after 800 cycles. 📱Phone makers must provide 5 years of updates, 🪛 are banned from discriminating against repair shops, 🔧 and must provide parts for 7 years after EOL #eupol #sustainability #tech […]

happy pride!!!! support a queer youtuber if you must!!!!

I'll never get tired of seeing the Ukrainians humiliate Putin and his goons

Reminds me of the localization efforts on Mozilla's Firefox OS several years ago. "Ibrahima Sarr, a Senegalese coder, led the translation of Firefox into Fulah, which is spoken by 20m people from Senegal to Nigeria. “Crash” became hookii (a cow falling over but not dying); “timeout” became a […]

By the way... Folk know that the Pocket source code is published, right? (Well, most of it. There are a few deployment things that have private info that they're never going to publish because Security Keys and what-not, but that's different. No, you can't just spin up a Docker image with this […]

e-mail is text only and I'll die on this hill

I just bought my tickets for the #amiga40 anniversary in Germany! Yay! Amigaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa #amiga #commodore

This period wouldn't have a we're-back-in-1933 feeling without throwing anybody who isn't fully able-bodied under the bus https://www.theverge.com/games/669419/gaming-industry-accessibility-cutbacks

I recently had an interaction with the Italian embassy in the Netherlands which was... surprisingly helpful and kind. For a lifetime I've lived Italian bureaucracy as both a huge obstacle and an enormous time sink. Seeing it actually work on my behalf without having to spend hours on the phone […]

Floors will be mopped until masculinity improves #HouseBand #masculineenergy

I have a Lenovo ARM Windows machine and I needed an SSH client on it. Since OpenSSH has been available as a Windows component for years I figured I'd just install that. After all, why not? It will be auto-updated and is already integrated with the rest of the OS, what could go wrong. Hah.

I just realized that Almost Human made Legend of Grimrock - which was fantastic - then one-upped themselves with Legend of Grimrock 2... and then disappeared? I guess it's better to go out with a bang than with a whimper. That being said I'd be very happy if we'd ever get a Legend of Grimrock 3

From the article: > This enables them [...] to buy fish from their own subsidiaries at artificially low prices to reduce the wages paid to crews (who are often paid a share of the catch) and to transfer profits to tax havens […]

Today I've biked through the city and visited five different libraries to find a book and three comics I was looking for. I didn't call in advance to check if they had them, and I could have ordered them online, but I wanted to enjoy the search itself. Biking through unknown neighborhoods […]

The seven deadly sins: pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, and slop

The Menstrual Cramps supporting Soapbox. Always love it when the support hits hard

I think we should use the term "machine generated" more and more when referring to the outputs of generative AI. Given how tech companies try present "AI" into some kind of magic tool, and how they try to humanize the bots, I believe it's important to ground any discussion by pointing out that […]

I accidentally stumbled upon She-Ra and the Princesses of Power shitposting & memes and they're on another level. Super-high-effort, absolutely hilarious stuff. Much respect.

Dude, I got a Dell! (Latitude 7455) Gonna be putting Linux on it, no one worked on this one before (though it sorta boots with the XPS device tree). > > > https://patreon.com/valpackett <<< ^ help me cover my cuestionable financial decisions and […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]

I'm sure this applies to other countries too and I'm 100% not surprised, especially when it comes to the relationship between motonormativity and toxic masculinity https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/05/14/red-meat-and-cars-mean-french-men-have-a-26-higher-carbon-footprint-than-women-study-says

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Just got followed by a couple of accounts that have all the hallmarks of being bots. The accounts themselves are plausible-looking, with a handful of generic posts... However there's no way a person follows 6K different people within three weeks of joining the fedi.

Wife's PC was acting up this morning. Turns out the AppData/Local and AppData/Roaming folders are gone from here profile. Magically disappeared. What the fuck Microsoft. I've got nightly backups, but this would be devastating for the vast majority of users.

Yesterday night I forgot my Nitrokey in the backpocket of my pants, and this morning it promptly went into the washing machine. I'm happy to report that it's still working perfectly fine. Sturdy little thing.

Windows has been running an update for three hours now, on my laptop. I swear upgrading Gentoo on that same box is a lot faster than this

Idea for an economics paper: Estimation of the negative externalities on software developers, in $, of CPU vendors saving $ on verification/QA prior to shipping a CPU model.

> Russia appears to be increasingly persecuting women in occupied Crimea. Ukrainian human rights organization KrymSOS warned in March 2025 that the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has escalated enforced disappearances, particularly against women, in Crimea since 2022. The Crimean Process […]

The problem with dystopian satirical fiction is that it's too real nowadays. You can sit around coming up with an idea for a short story but it just ends up being something like "DraftKings Jr: Sportsbooks for little leagues" and then you start to get terrified the silly idea you just had will […]

A short story about AI. I get a LinkedIn e-mail suggesting me a popular post from an AI-bro with an important-sounding title. The post is about a new Nvidia server and how it's a marvel of engineering. It includes a photo of the server. A comment below is from the actual author of the photo […]

We have a cronjob to spot unwanted utf8 letters in #curl PRs as we have noticed that GitHub will gladly show the for example (identical) Cyrillic version of a letter next to the Latin version in a diff and it is yes, entirely impossible for a human to spot […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Ship-to-ship combat? I didn't have to think hard about this one. In Saint Seiya I'd ship Shaina with Seiya over Saori every day. Canon be damned. #animangafoundit #saintseiya [email protected]

YouTube automatic translations are reaching a new level of stupid. I can't imagine who thought they'd be a good idea. The whole thing is a trainwreck of hilarious mistranslations, robotic vaguely podcast-ish voices and the inexplicable lack of a mechanism to turn the damned thing off.

I'm always humbled by how knowledgeable some of my colleagues are. Mozilla is a company with a lot of flaws but lack of engineering prowess is not one of them.

What a shame, nobody with enough guts to pick Sixtus as a name so that they could become Sixtus Sextus

My mother in law - who was born and raised in Rome like me - reminded me of an anti-clerical extremely crass Roman song about the Vatican and I can't stop thinking about it and giggling like an idiot

An example of the tech industry we've built. Do we put a reasonable limit on the weight of a PCIe card? No. Do we design a more robust retention mechanism for stupidly heavy ones? Nope. What do we do instead? Put a gyroscope on the card so you can tell when it's sagging. This is like thinking of […]

One of the upsides about the tariffs craze is that it finally put the conditions of workers in the off-shored manufacturing industry in the spotlight. Still, it's shameful that the reason why the near-slavery conditions of those workers entered mainstream discussions is that someone suggested […]

Had some 20+ year old cotton shirts that were sweat stained and gross, but instead of getting thrown out, they went into the washing machine with dye pods and now they’re good to go for another 20 years.

The old-school autoconf-based configure script in Firefox is gone. It had been checked into the codebase in 1998. I'm sure there's a bunch of people here who are younger than that file. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1957023

very disappointed by the Rose of Versailles movie.... somehow it completely removed most of the anti-fascism/eat the rich overtones of the manga on top of the first hour just being music montage after music montage

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If we loose contact because of defederation know that I'll follow you back as soon as possible. I'm dealing with complex and urgent issues at work and more importantly my family needs me (I won't elaborate on why or how). So this is not lack of interest on my part, it's lack of time and energy […]

This refactoring is draining me. So much work, so much complexity. Hopefully it'll be done before the end of the year and I'll be able to breath again.

I wish I had more time to check all the stuff that came out of #revision2025 but family life is so busy 😩

The Princess Strikes Back #starwars #theprincessbride #meme

The Princess Strikes Back #starwars #theprincessbride #meme

The pope-themed AI slop has already started trickling, brace for a tsunami of sludge

Time for crime! Gonna jaywalk all the way through Den Haag, show everybody I'm a nul-twintig