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margot

i think one of the problems with modern apocalyptic thinking is that it's very informed by the christian concept, which is a hard end, rather than something where after the world ends life goes on afterwards. i feel like i had a major shift in how i felt about various world events once i remembered that no matter what happens, you have to keep going

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Text editor evolution milestones:

Fold:
Collapse text sections to get outline views.

Spindle:
Commit and track text file changes over time.

Mutilate:
Let the "AI" du jour's monkeys bang out Shakespeare for you.

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Paul Cantrell

I’m always excited to see people moving to vehicles that are (1) smaller and (2) more electric/human-powered. However, I probably agree with @jwildeboer on this one.

Questions for this and any such “Should it use bike infrastructure?” situation:

1. Does it have emissions while in operation?
2. Does it regularly •stop• in the bike line (in practice, not just in theory)?
3. Does it block the full width of a narrow-ish urban bike lane, and thus prevent passing where a cargo bike would allow it?
4. What’s the magnitude of its momentum (weight times speed) while in operation? social.wildeboer.net/@jwildebo

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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

Let's be clear. This is a car. Not an electric bike, as the manufacturer claims it is. This is a small car that occupies and blocks the bike lane. This shouldn't exist. Us cyclists already have to deal with bad infrastructure. I see this as a provocation, not as the positive change it pretends to be.

(Gift link, needs email) wapo.st/4nCgi10

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

I've been told this is only on the BSDs and the like. Are Linux terminals missing this feature and/or set up differently?

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Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🎃 💀

#retrocomputing #basic

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Riley S. Faelan

Once upon a time, it was customary to put sections like this early in manuals.

No, wait ... I meant to say: Once upon a time, it was customary to include manuals with software.

#retrocomputing

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

I've been using a unixlike system with either a terminal or terminal emulator every day for 24 years, and I only just now learned that pressing Ctrl-T in xterm sends the SIGINFO signal, allowing me to check the progress of a long-running dd command.

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Jess 🌺:itsfree: :eggbug: :therian:&

🐭wow what a coincidence I just thought of an eco-friendly tip right now, microsoft do you wanna hear it (make sure your ai doesn't hear)

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Jake in the desert

'Firefox is fine. The people running it are not'
theregister.com/2025/07/08/fir

#Firefox #Mozilla #browsers

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Thomas Fuglseth

Public service announcement.

(Created by bsky.app/profile/campfireharve )

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The Iconolog

MOUSE01C.ICO - System, Devices

....Joysticks, Keyboards, Monitors, Meeces, Trackballs

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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

gentle reminder to linux tryhards that the term "ricing" has racist origins and you don't need to use it to say "changing the colours of my terminal"

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Soatok Dreamseeker

Using Python for mathematics is actually part of a long tradition.

It began with Adder.

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Inspirational Skeletor💀
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Inspirational Skeletor💀
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Nora Reed :kiln:

just realized that as soon as tech companies made the shift from siri style "personal assistants" to "AI" that you were supposed to trust for actual answers about things, they stopped gendering them all as feminine. grok, chatgpt, claude, they're all either neutral or masculine

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Dr. Cat Hicks

In the 1960s/70s, as early software papers were talking about programmer "ability" (aided, I regret to say, by psychologists with terrible 1960s views of ability) there were already papers saying that measuring the time it takes to complete a task is neither a measure of ability nor productivity

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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

computers peaked when you could put linux in a pda and browse the web with konqueror embedded

neither desktops nor mobiles work as well as this anymore in 2025

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Sarah Taber

roses are red
tulips are white

WE FOUND A NEANDERTHAL INDUSTRIAL SITE

science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv

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