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@dckim@mastodon.social @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social DOGE's cuts to humanitarian aid, USAID in particular. A tracker co-created by Boston University professor Brooke Nichols projected over 780,000 deaths — mostly of children, many of infants — due to the Trump administration’s early-2025 USAID cuts, caused by malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, and more. These deaths were widely predicted from the beginning, a direct, known, and undeniable consequence of DOGE’s actions.

@nocontexttrek Clearly, he's referring to duct tape.

@infobeautiful@vis.social Also that juuling is never actually cool, birthdays lose coolness except for milestone spikes until you're older and every birthday is a milestone. Whoever wrote the alt text didn't really pay attention to the graph and the jokes embedded in it. And if it was auto-generated, that just serves as a reminder that auto-generated alt text doesn't understand the image, or what's important in it.

@annaleen@wandering.shop Apparently the signup form doesn't like '+' in email addresses. :-( In this case I'll just use a different address to subscribe, I but thought someone should know.

Strange that with all the authoritarian techbros naming stuff after Tolkein, none seem to have called a gen-AI model Grima 🤔

@intrepidhero@vmst.io @wanderinghermit@mindly.social Yeah, that's the term I've seen in connection with iNaturalist

@Siph Reminds me of the alert to "depress brake pedal to start" on my car. I just don't have the heart to tell it any more sad stories. It's already been stepped on enough.

From what I hear of the ticket sales, the Onion was right.

@dtgeek@mastodon.social really... I'm thinking they should start bringing iron lungs to parent groups like they bring car wrecks to high schools before homecoming and prom

@lolspam Or a drummer.

TIL that Last.fm... is still aroundhad been bought by a megacorp at some point in the pastis independent again. https://support.last.fm/t/last-fm-is-now-independent/118591

@hub@cosocial.ca @RikerGoogling@mas.to no, but his agreement with the Collective requires they acknowledge him as a Founder

So tired of searching for how to do ABC and finding "why would you want to  do that? just do this other thing instead" when the other thing won't solve the problem I need ABC for. Even better when searching for the next thing up the line also turns up "why would you want to  do that? just do this other thing instead"

Interesting approach: a minimalist, db-less static site generator blog where every post is stored as exactly one JSON file and comments are offloaded to either the Fediverse or Bluesky, according to the blogger's preference. I've got way too much customization in my current #11ty and #ClassicPress setup, but it would be interesting to look at for a side project or experiment. Though I'm not convinced JSON is better than Markdown with front matter. Yes, it moves the parsing complexity from the build stage to the saving-your-work stage, so I suppose that counts for something. https://blogsh.app https://mastodon.social/@blogsh/117016992194995688 #blogging #blogsh

What bothers me most these days are changes that miss the point, without showing that they're deliberately exploring a new take. To pick an example from my avatar, I have a lot less trouble with Discovery season one digging into darker-and-edgier and ends-justify-the-means starfleet because 1: it's different characters and 2: by the time you get to the end of the season, you realize it's been an extended meditation on whether that kind of story fits Starfleet to begin with.... ...than Picard season 3 just being darker and edgier trek with the TNG cast

@passwordsarehard4@mastodon.social @gary_alderson@infosec.exchange @pthane@toot.wales @HI_Greens@mastodon.scot Yeah, the fact that for-profit shipping companies often find it cheaper to hand the package off to the post office instead of finishing the job themselves does make you wonder. Of course as private companies they also have the option of deciding some delivery areas aren't worth the cost and just not ship there at all, which isn't an option for the USPS as a public service.

@dtgeek@mastodon.social Sometimes I wonder if Musk has spent the last quarter century nursing a grudge over the way the X->PayPal thing went down. Other times I'm sure of it.

@RikerGoogling@mas.to You can no longer read or reply to a post via subspace relay, only posts on your current planet.

@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social I guess Dia sort of fits with them, but I'm not sure it was ever meant to do anything other than convince someone to buy the company after Arc failed to do so. (I kinda miss Arc, but Zen doesn't insist I sign into a cloud account just to use it.)

@dtgeek@mastodon.social and of course the same people who pushed for new laws to stop China from legally owning a large chunk of tiktok are happy to waive existing laws for this.

@BrokkoliMuskel@chaos.social I spent waaaay too much time trying to fix those phone cord spirals

Connecting things can be fun! But when they don't line up exactly (again: massive shared setting and characters built up over multiple generations of writers, artists, actors, special effects, etc), that shouldn't get in the way of what might be fun about the story itself.

@pwassonchat@eldritch.cafe @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social I'm reminded of an article something like 10 years ago when someone looked at the paper clip maximizing problem and said, so basically you're afraid that future AI might act like corporations?

The Firefox equivalent to degoogled or ungoogled should be "nozilla."

Updated  park/viewpoint review on my website! Del Cerro Park ★★★★☆ Incredible views of the Pacific Ocean, Catalina Island, and the coastal hills and canyons from the top of the Palos Verdes Peninsula. Calm and quiet, usually breezy. https://kvibber.com/reviews/places/del-cerro/ #park #palosVerdesPeninsula #ocean #coast #delCerroPark #places #review

@veronica I still prefer native packages where possible, though TBH on Fedora it's mostly out of inertia. The biggest problems I've had have been getting flatpak apps to talk to other apps outside the sandbox through something like NativeMessaging. That reminds me, someone sent me a link a few weeks ago to a script that should get flatpak browsers talking to keepassxc. I should dig that up, give it a try and see if it works with my setup!

@weirdfish@literatur.social @kallekn@mastodonsweden.se @gisiger@nerdculture.de @bookstodon@fedigroups.social That's what I've done with a few books I've read from there.

Whoa, spell check, those are two VERY different things! (Though admittedly one can be a delivery channel for the other.)

Well, that's a relief, at least: KDE e.V. has taken money from Framework, but only after verifying that Framework had severed their (already very limited) ties with DHH and Omarchy. Also, all of this happened a year ago, before Omarchy received a ludicrous amount of money from a veritable rogues gallery of villains. https://pointieststick.com/2026/09/23/kde-and-ai-and-you-and-me/ I had noticed that Omarchy no longer appears on Framework's list of sponsorships after the debacle last fall. #framework

@gary_alderson@infosec.exchange @HI_Greens@mastodon.scot Spoken like someone who's never waited in line at the bank, gotten shuffled between 5 different call centers talking to customer support, or had to navigate corporate bureaucracy

Kind of funny that judging by the number of comments on each article, more people pay attention to @osnews@mstdn.social when they write about AI than when they write about operating systems.

I think I accidentally brought the distraction machine from the cautionary tale, "Don't Bring The Distraction Machine."

@simonzerafa@infosec.exchange @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk I suppose there was that one time that an airline's customer support bot made up a refund policy and a court ruled the company had to honor it. Would be nice to see more of that sort of thing!

@infobeautiful@vis.social The alt text misses the U-shaped curve where skateboarding becomes cool again if you can still do it in old age, and the curve is filled in so it looks like a half pipe skating ramp.

@dtgeek@mastodon.social what did they think was going to happen with a tool like that???

@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social Looks like Comet's still around. I wonder how long before it follows Atlas, or if Perplexity will reuse the name for something else.

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Famous for his Blue Raincoat.

@atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org This isn't the thing an LLM told you to investigate, is it?

@djwfyi@fosstodon.org Yeah, the prologues tend to be very detailed. If you haven't read the series before, I should warn you that books 8-10 are kind of a slog. He was adding more and more story threads and trying to fit all of them in, then started pulling things together. I don't know if writing New Spring is what got him focused again, or if that was when he got his diagnosis and realized his time was limited.

New  book review on my website! Always Coming Home, Ursula K. Le Guin ★★★★★ Not a novel, not quite a short story/poetry collection, but a fascinating, thorough exploration of an imagined post-apocalyptic rural utopia in a far-future Napa Valley. https://kvibber.com/reviews/books/always-coming-home/ #ursulaKLeGuin #scienceFiction #solarpunk #community #futureEarth #books #review

@dtgeek@mastodon.social Can't say I'm surprised, but I am disappointed. And the timing of the announcement really adds insult to injury.

FFS you'd think Sublime Text would let you close the hundreds of empty "new files" you accidentally "created" without insisting on asking whether you want to close each and every one.

I like this quote from The Boring Internet (about how a lot of it's still around, just overshadowed by the glitzy, extractive, corporate net, and we can still build on top of that foundation) The boring internet isn't protected by innocence. It's protected by awkwardness. also: Every property that made these protocols feel old and uncool to you in 2014 is part of what's keeping them alive in 2026. #InternetHistory #PersonalWeb #IndieWeb #IStillFunction

@brennan@social.lol Not really. For a while I used the WordPress app occasionally, but I always had to go back and clean things up from the website afterward. Add that my phone typing has gotten worse over time (or maybe the onscreen keyboards have), while my physical keyboarding has gotten better. (That kinda surprised me -- after how many decades of typing, suddenly I'm touch-typing more reliably? How? And it's not like I stopped typing on phones either, so why has that changed?) I guess the closest I get to blogging from my phone now is when I write a social media post (or thread) that I later fix up or expand, or when I jot down notes that I build on later. I'd much rather connect a tablet to a smallish keyboard than deal with the tiny screen and tinier touch-points if I'm going to write anything longer than, say, this.

Looks like some of the neighbors decided not to wait for the slurry seal to finish setting before parking on the street. I hope it's not stuck too badly to their tires tomorrow morning. Plus there's the neighbor who decided (briefly) to try driving on it less than two hours after it was laid down. But the one that's really just out there is the city garbage truck. Really, they couldn't coordinate that with the paving?

@arnan@mas.to That's another one I've been looking at! I've actually considered embedding PureComments in one of my 11ty sites to see what it takes to do it.

New  game review on my website! Legends of Amberland ★★★★☆ A fun throwback to the early Might and Magic and Bard's Tale fantasy games of the 1980s and 1990s. Grid- and turn-based, with old-style pixelated graphics and LOTS of side quests. https://kvibber.com/reviews/games/amberland1/ #fantasy #rpg #amberland #retro #games #review