There's a lot more noise than signal these days. Where do the makers and the hackers look for interesting news / inspiration? My RSS feeds dried up a long time ago. (Shares appreciated) #makers #makerspace #makerspaces #hackers #hackerspace #hackerspaces #diy #diy_electronics

Been playing around with Rust and Bloom filters for common password detection! Using it to create a light-weight WASM package for use on password creation. I am not employed, this is just for fun, no I don't know why I'm like this. #Rust #WebDev #WASM

Luddites wanted to attack the machines that were destroying their cottage industry. They weren't even wrong. But they were unsuccessful. May software engineers succeed where they failed.

Thanks for making us laugh tonight @pftompkins.bsky.social! A welcome reprieve from our toasty little hellscape.

pretty cool: deer.social configured to point to a self-hosted bsky appview which reads from a self-hosted relay which subscribes to a self-hosted PDS which is where this "hello world" post originated it's bluesky independent from bluesky

Ugh I’m getting so many of these

it's really funny to think about things getting really good in about 120 years from today. an entire earth full of people you will never meet or know, having a great time here in your old house, in your old yard, drinking the same water you did. but happy

None of us can be sure what will “work.” You try multiple things and find your way in. Read some histories of the Civil Rights Movement by those who participated. They were never “sure” of what would work. Some campaigns fizzled out. But persistence, creativity, determination, and focus were key.

“This is like high-level stuff. This isn't $10 or $100. This is in the multi-millions with a president, two presidents, one with his wife and the other is a president. Like, this is... I don't know anyone higher.” “I'm really fucking scared, man.”

This x10,000. All day every day.

Anna Holmes@annabookwriter.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hey when dealing with Nazi disinformation, remember that repeating it only cements it in people’s heads, even if you actively debunk it. RFK: antivax brainworm word salad! You: RFK is pro mass death. Don’t repeat any of their messaging even to prove it wrong.

When ordered by Nazis to give lists of disabled people by disability severity, some doctors sent back exaggerated data to protect patients from forced work They didn't know that the "most disabled" were to be killed first The moral here isn't to tell the truth It's to never co-operate with Nazis

I do not believe in any tech product where the devs want us to view it with some form of religious awe, a divine gift redefining human experience and bequeathing knowledge unto us humble land apes. I believe in a tech product where the devs are like “this is handy for planning breakfasts”

Most Looney Tunes characters are effectively indestructible but I don’t think that’s true for Pepe Le Pew. I bet if you ran him over with a car he’d just die.

Hey, regarding Amazon disabling USB downloads: It can be totally bypassed with a download of free software, and one can strip out the DRM, by following the instructions at the link. Then the files are yours to do with as you will, as they should be.

Executive order to put Dilbert back in the newspaper

if I were writing stories about the gov "firing thousands of probationary workers" I would probably rewrite as "firing thousands of new hires -- who are often on a status called "probation" --" because I think the general understanding of "probation" is "in trouble for something they did"

It’s funny to me that Vince Vaughn has a private jet, is he afraid commercial passengers in the first class lounge will yell YOU’RE SO MONEY, EARMUFFS at him

Hey folks if you got the most recent iOS update, it’s real simple to turn off Apple Intelligence (which has been toggled on by default in hopes you’ll just go with it) Right there in settings you have “Apple Intelligence & Siri” with a toggle just for AI Flip that switch babyyyy

Penn State has halted submission and *acceptance* of NIH grants pending the resolution of the overhead rate cut. This lost time will never be recovered. The economic cost to Pennsylvania is enormous and the cost to humanity immeasurable.

Dave Vanness@djvanness.bsky.social · 2y ago

Text of email I received:

Anyone in #philly smell an electrical / chlorine smell? #philadelphia #gobirds

Everything about the young guys at DOGE is reminding me of the time that I, as a middle school/high schooler, was tasked with cleaning up the family computer, deleted a bunch of nonsense looking files, and then the family computer stopped working.

NEW - Ottawa Senators fans booed the American national anthem at the beginning of tonight’s hockey game.

Most of the people reading this have a sense of how bad things are right now. So for encouragement, here's a thread with examples of folks fighting back.

And now to start a needlepoint project for a friend.

Finally trying @tanstack.com Router! It just threw a type error when I made a route change and I'm sold.