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social media is anything but and mastodon has not ever been and will not ever be better than twitter or any similar contrived microblogging platform for as long as it retains the favourite button

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anyone got a cool list of webcams that are of the streaming on a webpage kind and not of the hardware to plug in your computer kind. where's the next xcoffee

i've published my first widget:

chumby.com/guide/C78EE13C-CE96

it's a weather widget that's inspired by WeatherSTAR 4000-era The Weather Channel, currently it's limited to guessing your location but the next step will be making a way to choose an exact location to report about

seeing someone arguing that you need to be at <5nmol/L testosterone to compete in women's sports

my last test came at 0.7nmol/L, where do i sign up?

**you** don't own any of this software that you "built", Anthropic does, and once you're hooked, they can charge you whatever they want. have fun!!

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another successful guy in his 50s has been one-shotted by Claude. F in the chat for Mike Masnick, may his brain RIP. techdirt.com/2026/03/25/ai-mig

i guess it's pretty exciting to build your first piece of software, but i wish these people would write a follow-up on what it's like to maintain a piece of software that you don't know how it works.

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yes some countries geoip location is more accurate than others, but unless your ISP is actively doxxing you, the notion that an IP address can pinpoint to your house number is ridiculous

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i love how much FUD has been generated around what is and isn't possible to do with a public IP address alone

i have tried 5 different geoip locator apis and none of them have identified me being remotely in the correct corner of the country

flubber (1997) 

rewatched it tonight, had to walk out of the room during the scene where weebo gets damaged. still makes us cry

RIP to a real one.

The Soul of a New Machine may be the best technology book written, but House was a beautifully-crafted and deeply humanist book. Funny too!

nytimes.com/2026/03/25/books/t

The Trojan Room Coffee Pot, which the X11 application xcoffee showed a live picture of, to save your long trip for a refill of joe from being a fruitless one:

cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/coffee.htm

anyone got a cool list of webcams that are of the streaming on a webpage kind and not of the hardware to plug in your computer kind. where's the next xcoffee

i just think it's funny that people despised when Microsoft did this in the 90s with internet explorer but now that Google is doing it it's Firefox that's "lagging behind on standards"

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the solution is not for firefox to support web usb api the solution is for people to stop using web usb api

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i just don't think that web browsers should be the same program you access USB ports with or write local programs in

this has been a message against Google's lobbying for "web standards" that have actively made software worse in the past decade

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