lowkey sad that all the CEST computer people got an extra hour to dunk on aws

OP: I’m enjoying using Signal for messaging! flossdingus at fosstodon dot social: You fool. You utter incompetent. I can’t believe you’d use Signal when LibreSquirt is right there.

@repeattofade It's one global real-time messaging and voice infrastructure, Michael.

yeah i’m sure the signal messenger team aren’t delighted to have to rely on aws either but nerdsniping them when you can’t build something better is helping no one

Obligatory XKCD

You know it's a good morning when BBC News becomes essentially a global status page

Everything okay babe? You've barely heckin nommed your konbini rolls https://gamedev.lgbt/@lukito/115400798683815118

Hey y’all, I need your help. Please re-toot if you can. There is a High School in Dexter, Maine that just won $25K from T-Mobile to support their football team. But they are in the running to win $1 million!!! Please go to VoteDexter.com and cast your vote! Thanks! 😘🩷

I wrote about the AI slop backlash and how platforms are starting to respond to it https://www.platformer.news/thursday-newsletter-5/

why have an AI bubble when you can have a

Just because you can do it, doesn't mean you should, exhibit P: M&S's horrifying chimera pumpkins

This is a very cool portfolio page from @parakeet if you like icons and symbols as much as I do: https://pdx.social/@parakeet/115366394397734731

Don't suppose anyone has successfully managed to get all their messages out of iCloud for the iOS to Android transfer tool?

I'm not sure, but the code might do something with UUIDs. #programming #golang #uuid

Hello fediverse, The AltStore is federating! It’s time to give developers and users an open platform to directly connect with each other while drastically improving app discovery. I believe so much in this mission that I joined their board to help. More here from @rileytestut […]

Damn, it finally happened – the Kobo Android app now offers one (1) font that’s actually suitable for a book, the lovely Vollkorn

Got my latest Covid update installed. My wallet’s feeling it more than my arm at the moment

a cross-model Mandela Effect LLM meltdown https://vgel.me/posts/seahorse/

Anyway, I got a new cable, and it's already trying to shame me

The writing in this post is superb. drobinin.com/posts/how-i-...

[Selfie, EC] Ms. Storm Amy said I can’t go out, but the pre-storm lighting was nice, so

It looks like development is winding up on the Mastodon client I’ve been using, so I’ve been checking out @phanpy again, and it’s become _really_ good – not just ‘good for a PWA’ but simply ‘good for an app’

🙌The first recognised union for game devs in the UK! 🙌 Workers at ZAUM now have a say on their pay and conditions at work with the support of the @iwgbunion.bsky.social Work in games in the UK? Join our union today: iwgb.org.uk/en/join/game...

This is probably the best podcast episode I’ve ever listened to about programming. It’s also one of the best podcast episodes I’ve ever listened to, full stop. (Thanks @TodePond, @jimmyhmiller, and @spiralganglion!) https://feelingof.com/episodes/078

Go: Format dates and times by just writing our reference date and time in your desired format! And the components of that reference just count up from one to seven! You don’t even need the docs! Me: Great! So the reference date is something like `0001-02-03T04:05:06+07:00` Go: Hahahaha you’re so […]

FYI Imgur blocking UK users isn't because of the Online Safety Act, it's because they're in the process of being fined for not following data protection laws. https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/media-centre/news-and-blogs/2025/09/statement-update-on-imgur-investigation/

This coffee smells almost brothy. Like it's been roasted with MSG or something

finally some normal fucking people on reddit

why did they title this like it’s a Famous Five novel?

boosting your local shitposter is SO important 💜

[politics.rb] Nice to see that the Railsfash love open debate so much that they’re *_checks notes_ * attempting to create a no-hire list. Nothing opens up debate quite as much as threatening people’s livelihoods!

Something better than decorative gourd season is coming. (Attn @jkottke).

Altered Beast was the second arcade board I ever owned and to this day the ending still delights me Look at that, dude's all "Yeah sorry, I had to turn into this wolf thing to come rescue you" and Zeus' daughter is all "No no no you're fine, no trouble, all good"

Underrated Mastodon feature: account notes follow people around as they move instances so you can be sure that someone is indeed Back On Their Bullshit

Took me a few minutes to realize the landlord of the leaky unit above my store was saying “ok i come tomorrow to check it out” with his voice to text language set to serbian #justchicagothings

Looks like the SSD in my laptop just decided it was tired of being a functioning drive after seven months. I have backups, but this is still annoying

I’ve never had a dream with an ending before. Like the plot concluded and it just stopped and I woke up, like a VCR with auto-eject

I realise this is just the third-party company that runs the discount scheme mail-merging in my union’s logo, but this is still very funny

OP: I’m enjoying using Signal for messaging! flossdingus at fosstodon dot social: You fool. You utter incompetent. I can’t believe you’d use Signal when LibreSquirt is right there.

Okay, the two different sizes for the keyboard are a complete nightmare #ios #ios26

Liquid Glass is actually giving me a headache with all the squirming refraction effects as I scroll :florshed:

I really would like to not have to care about eslint configuration file formats

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.

today's software preservation task one of the great crimes of the 21st century was that Mark Jones' (Core Design) Darkmere - an isometric adventure-RPG for the amiga - was poorly visually documented by the usual places like lemonamiga/mobygames/etc. perhaps for […] [Original post on dialup.cafe]

can’t believe that my favourite pizza place has enshittified¹︎ thanks to venture capitalism²︎ ¹︎ stopped doing their spicy marinara dip ²︎ nobody but me ordering it

The best sign in Québec #sktrip

So help me, I laughed #shitpost #meme #distractedboyfriend

Here is a map of supernatural hounds, primarily centered on the British Isles. The coverage of German-speaking lands is a bit sparse, but once I am further along with my own folkloric cartography project, I should have plenty of entries to contribute! #mythology #map #cartography #folklore #dog […]

the way they will switch the camera from puppet hands to real human hands when they zoom in UGH it’s so fucking bizarre we all need to be gay and obsessed with “Women Wearing Shoulder Pads”