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L. Rhodes (@lrhodes@merveilles.town)
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People keep reacting to Blueksky VC news with variations on "now they're going to enshittify," but no. Not yet. VC funding is runway. It's time they can devote to user-friendly features that boost growth. For years to come, Bluesky will look and feel increasingly great. The bits they build in...
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Tomáš (@prahou@merveilles.town)
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Attached: 1 image Wisdom of the Pentium-M Man #unix_surrealism #comic #penguin #ai #technomage
on Sun, 1AM
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makeworld (@makeworld@merveilles.town)
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What To Use Instead of PGP https://soatok.blog/2024/11/15/what-to-use-instead-of-pgp/
on Sun, 6AM
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Luci Paper (@zens@merveilles.town)
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seeing a renewed debate about mastodon vs bluesky today and one thing that always sticks out for me about these discussions is a complete lack of a shared vision for what the fediverse should become in the future. some people want an exact twitter clone complete with all its bad profit...
on Fri, 1AM
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L. Rhodes (@lrhodes@merveilles.town)
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@alex@dair-community.social Mastodon isn't really situated for mass appeal, but when Twitter sold, it was effectively the only Twitter-like alternative on offer. Now that there are alternatives that were built specifically for mass commercial appeal and growth at scale, it's unsurprising to see...
on Thu, 5PM
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L. Rhodes (@lrhodes@merveilles.town)
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"That's what a good tool does: it hides the complexities and lets the user focus on their end goal." No. Absolutely not. A good tool may save you the trouble of having to engage complexity, but if it hides those complexities, then it is narrowing your ability to understand and your capacity to...
on Wed, 10AM
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L. Rhodes (@lrhodes@merveilles.town)
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I wish we'd stop spreading this misconception: "The most important way [Threads, Bluesky, and Mastodon] align is they all live on top of open, accessible protocols." https://www.augment.ink/bridges-the-last-network-effect/ Threads doesn't live on an open, accessible protocol. Its actual...
on Wed, 1AM
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⛧ HANNAH CRAWFORD ⛧ (@embyr@merveilles.town)
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Attached: 1 image When people ask what it's like to work in gamedev I'm going to show them this post from now on.
on Nov 10
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Kartik Agaram (@akkartik@merveilles.town)
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@andy_matuschak@toot.io I think "indie" might actually be essential to the endeavor. Any institution can't be depended upon to leave employees alone in the long term. Administration and management is a constant occupational hazard. Institutions domesticate us. A little wildness is essential to...
on Nov 9
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Tomáš (@prahou@merveilles.town)
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Attached: 1 image PSA #unix_surrealism #veilid #hacker #poster #comic
on Nov 7
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Devine Lu Linvega (@neauoire@merveilles.town)
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BABA IS OPERATING-SYSTEM
on Nov 5
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Tomáš (@prahou@merveilles.town)
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4.4K Posts, 386 Following, 1.68K Followers · *je ne suis pas surréalisme* Author of #technomage in #unix_surrealism and a machine ascetic.
on Nov 4
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Tomáš (@prahou@merveilles.town)
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Attached: 4 images Hi. I am a surrealist. Surrealism in the machine age is the process of creating hardware, software and art without the constraints of corporate guidelines and the appeal to the popular. It is the act of becoming an extension to the universal will to create indiscriminately....
on Nov 4
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Attached: 1 image Sunlight reflects off the Salish Sea as seen from the International Space Station on April 11, 2020. It is incredible to see our home waters in this way.
on Nov 3
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cathos (@cathos@merveilles.town)
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Content warning: python question - not for the bot
on Nov 3
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Ramsey Nasser (@nasser@merveilles.town)
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is it just me or is the quality of vs code... getting worse? i am writing coffeescript (for reasons) and i want to autoformat the file, it says i dont have a coffeescript formatter, so i install one, then i try and format the file again and... it says i dont have a coffeescript formatter. huh.
on Oct 31
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Luci ‘O Lantern (@zens@merveilles.town)
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Software Is Not The Answer To Everything
on Oct 30
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L. Rhodes (@lrhodes@merveilles.town)
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Saw a couple of school kids perform The Cranberries song "Zombie" today. Children do love songs about the Troubles.
on Oct 27
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Tomáš (@prahou@merveilles.town)
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Attached: 1 image it's very cryptic. #unix_surrealism #openbsd #9front #sdf #hackers #art #comic #thinkpad
on Oct 27
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😈 vox-hell 🔥 [voxel] (@voxel@merveilles.town)
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Attached: 1 image Starting a thread to occasionally post some #dreamcast project updates to. Added bitmap font support today, not wearing my glasses right now but I imagine this text reads just fine
on Oct 26
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Philippa Markovics (@unkai@merveilles.town)
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Attached: 1 image watching @TodePond@mas.to debate a video of @livcomp@hachyderm.io inside a video of @livcomp@hachyderm.io 🌀
on Oct 23
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L. Rhodes (@lrhodes@merveilles.town)
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Attached: 1 image What current actor would cast to play this guy?
on Oct 23
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rezmason (@rezmason@merveilles.town)
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The plan, originally, was to play Myst. They remade it once again, and I bought it and sat through the 10GB download. It turns out it requires macOS 11+, so I decided to put Mojave in a VM for my 32-bit applications, which was another few GB. And then I downloaded macOS 12, which is another...
on Oct 22
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Kartik Agaram (@akkartik@merveilles.town)
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Attached: 1 image @thekkid@fosstodon.org @eli_oat@tenforward.social This thread inspired me to create a little doodling app. Check it out. I'm using the game engine idea of a _pivot._ Any time I toggle into doodle mode I have to first pick a pivot from one of the characters on screen. All my...
on Oct 21
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R E K K A D A V E R (@rek@merveilles.town)
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Attached: 1 image Spelling with flags. https://rabbitwaves.ca/site/flags.html
on Oct 20
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Devil Lu Linvega (@neauoire@merveilles.town)
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Attached: 1 image #drawtober - 01 https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/vertale
on Oct 19
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(ghost of) Virag Bloom (@d@merveilles.town)
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Attached: 4 images Frame is done, now I have to build out the parts list. I'm super happy with the job they did on the welds, titanium isn't easy to get right. https://nnix.com/projects/2024-09-ja-jackson-2024/ #theWorkshop
on Oct 18
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felipe (@fkinoshita@merveilles.town)
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Attached: 1 image started my own smol application ecosystem! for now only a clock, calendar, rotating cube and about window
on Oct 18
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Nick Fox-Gieg (@n1ckfg@merveilles.town)
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Attached: 1 image Boosting for a friend looking for PowerPC (as in Classic Mac) developers... cc @mediaarchaeologylab@post.lurk.org
on Oct 16
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Artyom Bologov (t?he(y|m)?) (@aartaka@merveilles.town)
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Hey look @flatwhatson@functional.cafe, an implementation of SRFI-253 for Prescheme: https://aartaka.me/assets/prescheme-srfi-253.scm Entirely possible, like you said—only requires macros and a bit of type inference hacks! Feel free to use as you deem necessary. Note that the SRFI is not...
on Oct 16
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L. Rhodes (@lrhodes@merveilles.town)
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Dated hashtags… why?? No one's using the hashtag with last year's date in it, people who clock your event every year are probably already following one or more previous hashtags about it, and people who want to ignore your event shouldn't have to update their filters on an annual basis. Just...
on Oct 10
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Devine Lu Linvega (@neauoire@merveilles.town)
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archive.org is down! I'll just use wayback machi-
on Oct 10
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Philippa Markovics (@unkai@merveilles.town)
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Attached: 1 image clerk’s errors now accurately reflect developer emotions
on Oct 9
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A Ghostly Vision Of James Chip (@jameschip@merveilles.town)
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You know the mods are doing a good job on your instance when you don't see any of the sapm wave that people are talking about. Thanks mods.
on Oct 9
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Devine Lu Linvega (@neauoire@merveilles.town)
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Attached: 1 image :maru:
on Oct 3
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R E K K A D A V E R (@rek@merveilles.town)
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Attached: 1 image I've had StarDict(a terminal dictionary) on my computer for some time now, but I only added a synonyms dictionary recently! Been using it a lot, it's great :D!
on Oct 1
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Andy Altered-wick (@alderwick@merveilles.town)
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I'm trying to decide whether to draw something cutesy for Tanger-o-ween¹ or whether to draw something genuinely horrifying, like jazz music. I heard some on the radio today and you can just tell the singer was singing as if they were smiling… *shudder* TBH anything I can draw that is...
on Oct 1
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Helvetica Blanc (@helveticablanc@merveilles.town)
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Attached: 4 images I don't often post for a time-sensitive thing, but I figured some of y'all would like to know that my new set of Magic: The Gathering cards are now available! https://secretlair.wizards.com/us/product/1018463/tome-of-the-astral-sorceress
on Sep 30
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Luci for dyeing (@zens@merveilles.town)
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humans are not dots they are squiggly lines through spacetime. stop modelling them as dots in computer systems.
on Sep 30
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Philippa Markovics (@unkai@merveilles.town)
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“Modeling Chess” (https://neuroning.com/boardgames-exercise/) by @dobladez@mastodon.social is one of the best Clerk applications I’ve seen yet. Beautifully done ❤️
on Sep 30
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Eric Carl (@ericcarl@merveilles.town)
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Off to London tomorrow for a week’s vacation! If you have any recommendations for your favorite London spots, please share.
on Sep 29
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Caffeine’s Heir (@caffeine@merveilles.town)
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I will have some free days in London (UK) in December. Is there anything weird I should see or experience? Please repost if you think someone you know may have recommendations. Thanks. #askfedi #london #uk
on Sep 29
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Philippa Markovics (@unkai@merveilles.town)
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Attached: 1 video i swear it did that all by itself 😬
on Sep 29
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Tendigits (@tendigits@merveilles.town)
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Free Local Weather/News TV access tip: If you're like me and have a TV, but no cable subscription, you can get local over the air digital TV with just a coax cable. Cut off one end and strip a few inches down to expose the copper wire inside. Plug the cable into your TV's coax input with the...
on Sep 26
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Devine Lu Linvega (@neauoire@merveilles.town)
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Wow, Dijkstra's handwriting is not AT ALL how I imagined it. https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/ewd10xx/EWD1094.PDF
on Sep 26
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L. Rhodes (@lrhodes@merveilles.town)
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All these podcasts offering extra content for subscribers, when I'd pay for some editing down.
on Sep 25
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L. Rhodes (@lrhodes@merveilles.town)
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Shots fired. "The Atlantic is owned by Laurene Powell Jobs’s Emerson Collective, and the magazine is now, in effect, a subsidiary of Apple and a tool of OpenAI." https://harpers.org/2024/09/aboutouroctobercover/
on Sep 25
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Devine Lu Linvega (@neauoire@merveilles.town)
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Attached: 1 audio I never realized we could upload tracks straight into a post! That's cool. I might share some tracks I'm working that way then.
on Sep 24
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Kartik Agaram (@akkartik@merveilles.town)
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Attached: 1 video Please forgive me, I'm creating a new markup language.
on Sep 22