"Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important."

~T.S. Eliot

Guys I figured it out

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The original Macintosh HD icon from system 6

The most incredible thrift store find

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A button down short sleeve shirt printed with bright rainbow care bears, ranging from muscular to chubby, in various ropes, jockstraps, and thongs

This article points to a common misconception around self-hosting.

The author tries hosting at home for a few weeks, & proclaims it is not the way. They then go on to argue for community managed server infrastructure instead (which is very much self-hosting).

Self-hosting does not solely refer to home-hosting ('on-prem'), nor sole owner-operator. It scales up to server infra in a datacenter, run & governed by those using it

So yes, the future is very much #selfhosted!

https://www.drewlyton.com/story/the-future-is-not-self-hosted/

#3124 - Grounded

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The comic shows a scene at an airport gate, viewed from above. There is an airplane parked with its boarding bridges connected to the terminal. Several airport service vehicles (luggage carts, fuel trucks, etc.) are scattered around the tarmac. Text reads: "This is your captain speaking. As you’ve probably noticed, we’re still grounded due to weather. But the first officer and I have been looking at bridge clearance maps and our top taxiing speed, and we have an idea." Hidden text: "We should have you at the gate in just under two hours--two and a half if we get pulled over."

I hate it when people bang on my door and tell me I have to be "saved" or else I'll "burn".

I hate their big red trucks and flashing lights too.

Typography is important, folks

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A title card for “The Final Stretch” but the type choices make it look a lot more like it says “Anal Stretch”

My cartoon for this weekend’s @theguardian.com books.

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Title: Doubts cast on another beloved inspirational tale Panel 1 Our investigations team has learned that the names "Jack" and "Jill" were invented to conceal a less than salubrious past. (image of smiling Jack and Jill with a bucket) Panel 2 The pair claim to have climbed a hill to "fetch a pail of water" but we found a number of water sources much closer to their cottage. (image of a water pump, atwo fountains and a drinking trough) Panel 3 (image of a book with the title "WELL: a memoir" by Jill) Jill now concedes that her account of Jack's fall and her own "Tumbling After" was intended to convey feelings, not "Cold facts". Panel 4 Multiple medical experts expressed Surprise that a broken crown was successfully treated with "Vinegar and brown paper. (Image of Jack with is head wrapped in brown paper beside an xray of his damaged skull).

The new NIST SP 800-63-4 is here! 🤩

If you have ANY interest in passwords and digital authentication, this is mandatory reading!

#PasswordsCon

https://www.nist.gov/blogs/cybersecurity-insights/lets-get-digital-updated-digital-identity-guidelines-are-here

https://ledger-cli.org

I feel this

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monkeyuser.com cartoon about codebases and neglected dependencies.

Always

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IF IT CAN BE DESTROVED BY THE TRUTH, IT DESERVES TO BE DESTROVED BY THE TRUTH. SCHULZ wastes.

@paul_ipv6 @ai6yr I grew up similarly. There's not much I can't do (aside: I despise plumbing). Taught myself BASIC at 6 on a TI 99/A (interesting but longish story). Started roofing at 7 (Uncle owned the company, journeyman by 10, also hate roofing). Also at ten found myself at NASA/Navy Base where I learned to electronics/RF and solder small things instead of gutter seams (thanks US Navy!)

Done construction off and on when our industry crashes occasionally.

I like other polymaths. You rock.

(Of course, I was using my phone for NFC versus the card itself ... perhaps that was the difference. And if so, why can't I use my iPhone or Apple Watch as my card at Citi's ATM like I can at Chase?

First World Problems, I know)

(And if you find otherwise, I would love to hear why.)

Friend: "I wanna do drugs this weekend but I also planned to move from Bazzite to Fedora proper on my desktop."

Me: "I love that you think doing a fresh Linux install and doing drugs are mutually exclusive and not the norm."

ICE is now the largest law enforcement agency in the history of our country.

Democratic governors, mayors, and lawmakers have the power to stop secret police tactics like abductions by masked ICE agents: https://www.bluestatedefiance.org/no-secret-police

Women-founded companies generate 78¢ of revenue for every $1 raised vs 31¢ for male-founded startups. They burn 15% less capital--in 2024 $270K/month vs US startups $320K/month. Yet female founded startups received only 2.1% of venture capital in 2024. https://www.inc.com/annabel-burba/female-founders-outperform-their-male-counterparts-but-receive-much-less-funding-study-finds/91212886

Sustainable Kaiju. #grickledoodle #godzilla #kaiju #sustainable #climatechange #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

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A cartoon illustration of Godzilla planting trees after destroying a city. Caption reads "His favorite thing about flattening a city was planting the garden after."

I have been feeding fake data about myself into every system I encounter since I was a teenager.

A data broker's portrait of me as a sixty-something businesswoman who drinks bud light proves that my history is a useless, contradictory mess as a result.

It's shitposting elevated to performance art.

Twice in the past week, I’ve received an edit notification about a post I’d previously boosted where the edit corrected bad or incomplete information. In both cases, I boosted the correction.

I’ve long wished for social media misinformation policy to be “If you saw the bad info, you see the correction.” Mastodon comes closer to that than anything I’ve previously encountered.

There’s been a lot of theoretical hand-wringing about allowing edits on social media. In practice, this aspect at least seems like a huge success.

#3119 - Flettner Rotor

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"And in maritime news, the Coast Guard is on the scene today after an apparent collision between two lighthouses."

Happy Spoonerism Day to all those who belly crate.

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The Bad Salad of William Archibald Spooner   Why do I always watch my birds? I know that statement sounds absurd but today I reached an all-lime toe when I received a blushing crow.   It’s wetting gorse – and here’s the crunch: my conversation packs a lunch. I’m not sure when all this began but I think I need a plaster man   to help me when my stouth gets muck. I should sit, perhaps, and bead a rook, fight a liar, or flick some powers. No, I think I’ll go and shake a tower. Brian Bilston

#sciencebitches #ShitIFind #mightbeuseful

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"Can I Lick It?" [Scientific Periodic Table of Elements color coded with "Sure, go for it," "Maybe not the best idea," "Please don't do that," and "See you on the other side."]