GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation: GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has resigned, and now GitHub will be part of Microsoft’s core AI engineering team. Github is no longer independent company.

https://www.theverge.com/news/757461/microsoft-github-thomas-dohmke-resignation-coreai-team-transition

Does anyone in my circle use/have thoughts on Qobuz? I buy a lot of music. I used to buy stuff on Amazon Music, but I've been trying to switch away from amazon as much as possible. Bandcamp is my preferred store now, but they don't often have stuff from big labels. I could buy/rip CDs, but I don't really want to store a big CD collection. So I'm looking for another store, and I'm impressed that Qobuz apparently offers lossless files too.

So far the best thing we’ve gotten through Amazon Vine was a pound of dried hibiscus flowers. Last night @elfkin brewed up a batch of cinnamon Jamaica and let me tell you it is muy refrescante this afternoon. 🌺😎

Any #Mastodon client recs for #iOS?

Listen, it’s very simple: In Britain we use the metric system, except for beer and milk, which come in pints. But not plant milk — that comes in litres.

Oh, and distances are in miles. But only if they’re too far to walk — if you can walk it it’s in metres. If you’re driving then your fuel efficiency is in miles-per-gallon, but petrol is sold in litres.

Oh, and your height is in feet and inches. If you don’t care much about your weight it’s in stone (but not pounds — no-one can remember how many pounds are in a stone and it’s hard to read the little tick marks on analogue scales). If you do care about your weight then your digital scales tell you it in kilograms.

Oh, and if there’s a heatwave then tabloids will forecast a “100°F scorcher”. But if it’s cold then it’s an “arctic blast” with “widespread temperatures below 0°C”.

I hope this clears things up.

Since I disabled #Bing from my #SearXNG instance, I get way better accurate results.

But I am biased by being a longterm #Microsoft hater. Since long before I actually had to setup and manage a whole Active Directory + Exchange infrastructure…

One of my favorite cookbooks. It’s also sweet knowing that I’m using someone’s Yia Yia’s recipe 🤗 Opa! 🇬🇷

It’s probably out of print, but worth finding.

“The Complete Book of Greek Cooking: The Recipe Club of Saint Paul’s Greek Orthodox Cathedral” (Hempstead, NY)

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The Complete Book of Greek Cooking: The Recipe Club of Saint Paul’s Greek Orthodox Cathedral” (Hempstead, NY)

So OnePlus is having a sale on the 512GB 13 right now. Is there any reason I shouldn't get one?

I know the 14 is slated for a January release (I think) but I'm not sure I can wait that long (and also not sure I should care about the feature differences).

If not a 1+13, what's your idea of the current "best" Android phone that I can get in the US (which means no Fairphone)?

Cartoon by Mike Ramirez.

“I find it grotesquely ironic that the party that claims to adore the Founders and the nation's Founding Principles would have been summarily dismissed as traitors and assholes by the nation's actual founders.” - Mindy Fischer

This dog pretty much always sits in a sploot. One of his many adorable traits.

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My dog demonstrates the sploot. Dog or Cat laying with its back legs spread and feet pointed behind them. This is less common position.

"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.

Target keeps the $5 box of borax locked up in the priceless artifacts case, and now I'm wondering what the street value is. How much could you possibly fence this for that makes stealing it worthwhile?

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).

@motoridersd I stole your idea.

Does anyone have any recommendations for a personal budgeting app? I’ve been using a manual spreadsheet for a while but would appreciate something more connected/automatic with my accounts so I can track actual spend more easily.

Something like what Mint used to be before Intuit killed it. I tried YNAB a several years ago and hated it, so unless it’s changed dramatically, that’s probably not the one for me.

I need the world to know how fucking annoying it is to run the command vim --version and have to scroll up 200 lines to get the fucking version and patch number.

Always

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

Boy, I am going to need some translation services for this sewing pattern. Fabric descriptions do not match any of the stuff I snagged at the JoAnns going out of business sale, and I am totally unfamiliar with what they are. #sewing

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Sewing pattern with different descriptions of fabric

In Finland, charging fees for tuition is illegal, which means rich kids have to mix with normal kids, which means rich families had to make sure the schools the kid went to were good, which meant the rich were prompted to invest in public schools. Finland, take a bow.

#schools #finland #public #education #sticker

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In Finland, charging fees for tuition is illegal, which means rich kids have to mix with normal kids, which means rich families had to make sure the schools the kid went to were good, which meant the rich were prompted to invest in public schools. Finland, take a bow. @helloitsmaciej

are you using the new command? it's in unetconfd. it's literally on sysptkm. it's configurable via xchwnt. it's literally under /usr/share/pnetdx2. you can probably grep for the qvjconf. you can update it via bungpkg. update via bungpkg. fetch it with bungpkg. you can bungpkg it. bungpkg has it for you. bungpkg has it for you.

I had Brandon add my Costco Credit Card to his Apple Wallet and I did not know that iOS lets you use NFC to add it. You tap the card, and that's it. Unlike Android which requires taking a photo of the card to read the information.

What did surprise me is that Citi did not ask to confirm the addition with an SMS code... I did get an e-mail notification that the card was added.

So, easy and quick, but all it takes is physical access to a credit card (at least a Citi card) to have it added? That doesn't sound right

The not-so-glamorous side of having a hot tub and doing all the work yourself. The water gets nasty and this should ideally be done every 6-8 months depending on usage.

I also have to do this on a weekend when power is cheap so I can heat up all this water again for less.

We need a Pool Boy 😏

got dressed for a patio brunch

then I went outside

it was raining

no patio brunch for me ☹️

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.

The world is being held hostage by Scooby Doo villains.

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Shaggy sits forlorn under a streetlight. Every mystery we solve brings me closer to the realization that the only monsters in this world are pathetic old men trying to steal as much money as they can.

#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."