What are folks using for social book reviews, discussion, etc? I'm looking for basically goodreads but not owned by amazon and ideally with some assurance that it won't eventually be owned by amazon or the like. I've been experimenting with bookwyrm. I like what it's *trying* to be, but it […]

Strong turnout for Austin's Alex Pretti memorial bike ride. The mood was mostly somber, interspersed with protest chants. Abolish ICE.

Ordered a pair of gmrs radios directly from the manufacturer's moderately janky site instead of from amazon. Just got a notification that it's been shipped via... Amazon logistics 🤣

There should be shaolin-esque monasteries where the monks practice circus arts instead of martial arts. ... wait, is that just a circus?

"Approved; go ahead and merge when you're ready." "Thanks! But I don't have permissions to merge." *monkey paw curls* GitLab: "You have been granted the Maintainer role"

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@rival_elf/115925818941368950 get in, hoser

Playing around with bookwyrm; aka "foss + federated goodreads" I like that you can post comments and quotes tied to a page number, but as far as I can tell there's no easy way to see others' comments and quotes for a particular book? Only reviews? I'd especially like to occasionally see what […]

typo of the day "curl --limit-rage ..."

Been seeing a survey going around fedi this morning about Discord's use of AI, but it's hosted on some other unrelated website, there's no mention of it on discord's blog and the first time I've heard of it is from mastodon, so, like, anybody got a source for this, or is this just someone […]

Update. Yesterday's killing of #reneenicolegood is getting massive public attention because it was recorded. Please bring your phone to demonstrations! Here's some advice on reducing the risks. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2020/06/tactics-to-secure-phone-before-a-protest/ Do […]

There is no d&d spell called "doom". I guess the wizards of the forgotten realms aren't into doom scrolling https://www.dndbeyond.com/search?q=doom&f=spells&c=spells

achievement unlocked: I'm getting in long enough stretches of backwards on the #unicycle that I'm starting to loosen the pedals. I guess I'd better start turning the seat around backwards for extended backwards-riding practice sessions

My trusty puzzle assistant. Well, he likes to chew on the pieces, so maybe not so trusty.

Dear #weather apps, I often want to look back and observe details about what today's weather was, or even what the weather was a few days ago. Why is this so hard to understand?

I keep pressing the space communism button but it just takes me to some AI BS

Young George Bailey was a bit of a mansplaining jerk 🤣 Little George: Made up your mind yet? Little Mary: I'll take chocolate. Little George: With coconuts? Little Mary: I don't like coconuts. Little George: You don't like coconuts? Say, Brainless, don't you know where coconuts come from? Look […]

Just don't ask me to juggle while turning right

Finally getting the hang of the no-hands #unicycle idle

The Onion going hard in their year in review. "Gang Initiate Forced To Peacefully Deescalate Conflict To Prove He Not A Cop" https://theonion.com/gang-initiate-forced-to-peacefully-deescalate-conflict-to-prove-he-not-a-cop/ #theonion #Humor #funny #acab

How is it the year of our FSM 2025 and the government is still making the "draw a black box on the PDF but leave the underlying text in the file" mistake https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1ptlms6/some_epstein_files_can_be_unredacted/

Groceries! And a 311 report to clear the bile lane and sidewalk after a car apparently plowed through some landscaping

RE: https://mastodon.social/@torproject/115685514689116776 State of the Onion community day starts in 15 minutes!

Recovering from my third ear surgery since getting sudden onset hearing loss in March ish. (They think due to an otherwise symptomless chronic sinus infection) 0. Steroid injection into eardrum. Local anesthetic only; barely counts as a surgery. Lost hearing came back slightly. Was given a […]

Enjoyed finishing the 3-body problem trilogy this weekend. The first part of the first book can be a bit overwhelming due to the large number of characters and seemingly unrelated plot threads introduced all at once, but once it got going I was hooked. Lots of interesting ideas, and the sequels […]

This handsome little monster has learned that the most effective way to notify me that he's hungry is to jump onto my desk and start gnawing on papers

Having fun so far doing #adventofcode again this year! I've done it before to help learn Rust and Zig, and/or challenge myself to shave cycles etc. The last few years I've *thought about* doing it with some new challenge but then end up not doing it at all. So far this year I'm just having fun […]

element client, after 2 weeks off: you have 6 unread mentions in one of your work channels! me: cool, where in the history? element: i'll never tell 🤭

Just a tip to turbo‑charge tar.xz archive compression/decompression on Linux & macOS The thing is 'tar cJf' uses a single‑thread by default (on both platforms). While this works fine, it can be much slower on large archives. On Linux you can unlock multithreading easily. GNU tar passes off […]

More little free library touring, this time adding them to OpenStreetMap via https://mapcomplete.org/bookcases.html

ordered food here. the server did 7 frame-perfect turnarounds in a row and launched themselves through the door speeding past my table at 700km/h but the plate was perfect. 5 star service, would eat here again

In the Netherlands I spotted an Alf t-shirt with the phrase "Null problemo!" I initially assumed this was the Dutch translation of Alf's English catch-phrase "No problem", but poking around a bit, I wasn't able to confirm that, and according to this reddit post […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

The bike and transit infra in Amsterdam was pretty awesome, as expected. We mostly walked and took trams to get around, but did do a couple group bike tours, which were a lot of fun. Pictured: bikes getting on and off of a free (!) ferry connecting Amsterdam to […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

#introduction: Hi, I'm a #computerscience / #tech person. Often with a #security and #privacy focus, though occasionally dabble in making art and games. These days I mostly work on the Shadow simulator/emulator, and using it to improve #tor https://github.com/shadow/shadow […]