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2026-07-30 18:19:26 CEST

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I'm still hoping you will put releases in the Accrescent app store!

2026-07-27 10:33:25 CEST

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of course it wouldn't address a problem it's not designed to address. The problem it's aimed at is people's complaint they they can't use nojs browsers to access sites behind anubis. Apologies if I missed your point, the "throwing logs at human legs" reference doesn't mean anything to me.

2026-07-26 21:05:36 CEST

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you're right, I use it only rarely, to check accessibility of my own web interfaces in links2.
If there were an anubis-aware http proxy that you could connect through with a nojs browser, and it would handle the challenge and serve plain html, would that be a useful piece of software for people?

2026-07-26 20:41:48 CEST

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I've heard like a hundred people complain bitterly about anubis, but for me it's totally unobtrusive, it flashes for like a half second on sites and I don't even have to click anything, it's like 5% as obnoxious as a captcha. So I'm wondering: am I missing something massive here? Is there some explanation why it would be a barely registerable concern for me but excruciating for others? Is my tolerance for this type of interruption just on the high end? Are people just babies?

2026-07-15 21:01:00 CEST

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this is good to know! I've come away from some of our past interactions thinking you must have been very overwhelmed or distracted by something but now I'm considering it may have been this 💛💛

2026-07-05 22:05:25 CEST

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this is absurdly phrased. Red State agriculture literally feeds the nation. Make your point without misinformation?

2026-07-05 21:35:50 CEST

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a lot of people don't consider that egg cartons are super easy to modify! Go for A and cut off the excess. Doesn't even require a tool, you can pull it apart with your hands. If it's all getting pulped in recycling or mixed into compost anyway, there's nothing to lose. Main reason to go with another option is if you're reusing or upcycling the carton.

2026-06-24 21:49:58 CEST

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what licenses are these distributed with? Do you know if redistribution is permitted?

2026-06-19 02:22:05 CEST

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what made Google vital back then was that they were selling a vision of the library in the palm of your hand and the world map in your pocket, and went around an app category at a time launching best in class user experiences that blew everybody out of the water. They had a generational run of product launches. What the heck is W even proposing to do? They could be evil, incompetent, boorish, or somehow miraculously none of those things, but they don't even seem to be proposing anything?

2026-06-19 02:15:20 CEST

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I haven't seen any signs of competence or lack thereof from W, as it still seems to be in alpha state and could fully be vaporware that never launches or could work fine, as far as any of us know, right? What I'm unimpressed by is that W seems to totally lack any vision of a better world, or even a better app. Their whole schtick seems to be "we're them, but with the cool and popular kids, trust us, they're all here just out of frame laughing and having a great time"

2026-06-19 01:54:59 CEST

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that seems generous to me. I remember when Gmail was first launched, on April Fools 2004. Web mail back then was in sorry state, slow, feature poor, tiny allocation of storage made you constantly delete emails, and search was atrocious anyway. Gmail improved dramatically on that in every single way. How does W Social even propose to improve social media except by being associated with the European elite? That's the whole value proposition, right? I can't see it actually getting adopted.

2026-06-18 01:49:37 CEST

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I kinda thought this was a style AI favors, but as a non cartoonist a lot of cartoons kinda look like this to me

2026-06-17 23:22:11 CEST

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that corner could be careless, I did notice that; but as a mathematician, cartoonists playing fast & loose with geometry for a clearer scene has bugged me forever, so that doesn't strike me as a clear tell. Usually when you have image model generated geometries it lacks the ability to keep the counts and continuities of lines consistent, but those are good here. Could be generated & touched up by a cartoonist though, that I can believe.

2026-06-17 23:16:47 CEST

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there's a number of things here that have typically been very difficult for AI to pull off. I scrutinized it for the type of careless details you're talking about, which I normally find in abundance in generated work, and if they're present here it's below my ability as a non cartoonist to detect.

2026-06-17 22:44:42 CEST

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it would be very well composed for an AI piece, but the lack of attribution is concerning

2026-05-07 04:23:37 CEST

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hurd is going genai https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2026-02/msg00133.html

2026-04-23 17:34:17 CEST

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Scots-Irish ✅
Came through Southern Ohio ✅
That article babbles on like AI though 😞

2026-04-23 02:08:21 CEST

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they say it like "lord willin' an' the crick don't rise" with a short i. One of my aunts when she was a girl was caught halfway across the creek on the way to school one morning when a flash flood hit, and she was found hours later clinging to the top of the highest boulder singing hymns at the top of her lungs. I sometimes think of that story when I hear that phrase.

2026-04-22 21:09:09 CEST

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my dad's family in Southern Illinois say the same.

2026-03-04 02:25:45 CET

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JavaScript, golang and rust are all victims of language package managers that work with too little friction, in my view. Python and Java have more humane package commons because the package managers are obnoxious to work with, so people don't want to pull in 5000 transitive package drops to do something routine

2026-03-04 02:18:56 CET

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I'm working on something in this space :blobpeek:

2026-03-04 02:16:23 CET

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Guix is a wonderful island of respite from the M×N package managers problem

2026-03-03 00:30:36 CET

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who's deleting posts? I wonder if there's a thread archiver for fedi like xcancel &co

2026-03-03 00:21:59 CET

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I can't tell what thread you're talking about, but did you see the news that gnu hurd 64 bit port is complete? slowly chugging along

2026-02-24 05:42:46 CET

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to be clear, the shopping cart is not using audio, they're using an electric signal that's in the audio range in terms of frequency, so an electric speaker playing at that frequency will also create a weak electromagnetic signal at a frequency that can be detected by the shopping cart circuit

2025-12-18 19:50:09 CET

Found some salt and pepper shakers with @npub16ys…sjae energy
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/742/059/769/380/508/original/cb0cb45626e1acd8.jpg

2025-11-21 04:18:11 CET

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draft posts, that's it. I already have my site theme open source, so all that's closed is the content. Does any git forge support private branches in a public repo? That doesn't seem like a thing. GitLab has a tool to automatically mirror specific branches of a private repo to a public repo, which I could use, but I think it requires self hosted or premium, so I'm not inclined to do that.

2025-09-03 23:56:51 CEST

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I have wasted so much time learning weirdness and incompatibilities of the posix-style systems, yet whenever I try another one it feels like an insurmountable challenge to get productive. (eg I've spent time learning PowerShell, I do appreciate it and have gotten better at it, but in almost any situation I still prefer ugly old bash)

2025-08-12 18:50:44 CEST

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I was just wondering to my myself the other day how the small web was doing. Congrats

2025-07-14 00:13:22 CEST

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I think they are kinda hoping that an OEM will fork them and do a secure ungoogled phone using their software. They might consider that a feature.

2025-06-24 20:27:27 CEST

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I talked to their team at Google Cloud Next when they announced this feature. I said, "somebody's going to sign based on your summary, regret it, and blame you. you're not worried about that?" and they were like "interesting, nobody has brought that up, email us and we'll get back to you"

2025-05-22 21:31:50 CEST

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congrats! Can you say more about what you gain by having this be a dynamic site? My bias for the last ~10 years has been towards "make it static if it possibly can be," but I'd be interested in hearing a vigorous defense of dynamic homepages if you have one to offer.

2025-04-18 06:42:09 CEST

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this looks fun but "I looked at a ton of static site generators and all of them were complicated js" is so unserious. Why not just say "I looked at a couple trendy js options and didn't like either one?"
Why blow smoke as if you invented the concept of the simple php static site generator, a category with an embarrassment of existing options? Why lie when anybody can web search "no dependency php static site generator" and find multiple options on the first page of results?

2025-03-28 16:25:15 CET

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apps and app stores have such a bad security track record that the original post in the thread, touting Delta's many apps, comes off as very cavalier about security. Then you put yourself in the position of having to backpedal, explaining how your apps are different and safe. Maybe true, I still need to read and educate myself; but counterintuitive at minimum!

2025-03-28 16:22:06 CET

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I'm nodding along with all this. Before I'd adopt Delta chat or any similar platform I'd have to understand how it disempowers bad actors and sloppy users.

2025-03-28 16:04:45 CET

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thank you, I will be reading these links. It seems like you strongly believe in your mitigations here, and if that's the case, I would brag about this relentlessly and mention it every time you mention availability of apps.

2024-11-16 17:52:33 CET

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it wasn't shipping Wayland at all when you published the piece about accessibility, though. Of those on your list, elementary held back from shipping the busted experience. That seemed to be worth noting!

2024-11-16 16:55:58 CET

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I followed that whole saga, it was dismal. Glad the Mac is working better for you.
You should fix the note in your post that elementary is broken, because it still uses accessible X11 by default (Wayland will be an option in the upcoming release, but will not be the only option until accessibility features are mature there.)

2024-11-16 16:16:59 CET

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nice! I've thought about building a PC in that case but don't think I really have the space for it. Hope you find a good buyer, and condolences on the Mac!

2024-10-17 01:32:45 CEST

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whenever I play Dwarf Fortress I try and use Emacs keybinds

2024-08-29 01:38:40 CEST

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see, my girlfriend uses a label printer to put funny, lighthearted labels on things in the kitchen, and it doesn't come off like you're going to get lectured for putting something in the wrong place. The situations I've seen with control freak labels in the kitchen were hand written or inkjet printed.

2024-08-28 23:41:27 CEST

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it's weird if it comes along with an understanding that everything is to be Done Correctly in the kitchen or there will be Consequences. Unless it's a commercial kitchen or shared community kitchen. In my experience, the only people who put signs and labels on everything are control freaks.

2024-08-05 22:22:55 CEST

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you wouldn't normally use a server side framework for something like this react kawaii app, right? I guess that put me in the frame of mind to be surprised. Could be an interesting area to improve on the state of the art.

2024-08-05 22:02:43 CEST

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it seems shocking that one could easily write a bug that shares state outside your machine. Sounds like a footgun. Can there be some kind of more explicit mechanism where you mark consent for content to be shared over the network, and unmarked content warns or errors out?