there is a lady that has taken to practicing the bagpipes right by the entrance to the cemetery and i wish her all the best with her new army of the risen dead
Yesterday, Ace the new puppy downstairs only barked at Odin a few times, and today, he didn’t bark at all. So we decided it was time to let Odin get within booping range, and it went great! Ace now understands that Odin is the Public Universal Friend and not the monster who lives upstairs
This is a neat bit of tech. It's an e-paper display, which can be updated wirelessly. And it has no battery!
During programming, it's powered by the same NFC signal from your phone that's programming it. And since it's e-paper, it doesn't need power after that.
If you’re in Canada or the US, you have just a few hours left to enter the draw to win one of three copies of my new novel. If you’re interested in #ecology, #ethics, #ecosystems or environmental solutions, this book is for you. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/255448359-rail #BookGiveaway #ScribesAndMakers #WritersCoffeeClub
I want to do more with less computer, not less with more computer.
I am so old that I remember that Dragon Dictate did an acceptable job at speech recognition without needing „AI“ on a 386 machine with 4 MB, not 4 GB of RAM.
To all the blind gamers out here, I have released a Mod to make Graveyard Keeper and its DLCs accessible for ScreenReader users. At the Moment only the Steam Version and the Gog Version are verified working. Its fully translated in German and English and should work on windows, Linux and MacOS, I have bundled prism libraries for all three, but the bepinex bundles only bundle windows, so for Macos and Linux you will have to download the mod only version. The Game is 64bit on steam but 32bit on Gog, so there are separate downloads for both. The Mods Basis is on a forked repo where issues were disabled, I have turned Issues on for my Repo. You can download the Mod at https://github.com/svenja001/graveyard-keeper-accessibility-mod/releases/latest #GraveyardKeeper #GyKAccess #gaming
In case anyone else uses #xfinity --
They send you spam and pretend it's account related to get around the rules about marketing emails and give you no way to unsubscribe.
However they do use different email addresses.
xfinity@account.xfinity.com is the actual sender for actual account stuff like bills and payments.
The marketing spam they pretend is account related comes from:
xfinity@updates.xfinity.com
and
online.communications@alerts.comcast.net
So possible at least to make a filter.
what the fuck chicken chicken jockey jockey
It's so wild how ten years can pass and many of your friends will be mostly the same. But during that same period of time, some of your friends with children have become friends with teens or even adult children.
Every few weeks people keep on re-spreading Frugit’s cute and funny cat-related music videos (“Knead Dem Biscuits” et al), unaware of the fact that it’s AI.
Learning to recognize AI music is more than just “is this stuff Bad,” because like, bad music existed well before AI did. The AI tells in Frugit’s music are subtle but they’re still there.
It may have been prompted with care but it was still prompted.
➡️Americans and Canadians: do YOU recognize this man?⬅️
He collapsed on the streets of Amsterdam in 2023 with a brain injury. He wasn’t carrying ID and he lost most of his ability to communicate. His identity still hasn’t been established.
Interviews near where he was found have turned up that he was a native English speaker with an American or Canadian accent, enjoyed shopping for art, was passionate about Buddhism and cultures like Nepal, and gave different names to different people (Chris and Lucky being the best known). He was probably living a hippyish, off-grid lifestyle with substantial personal savings from earlier in life.
One of the few words he can still say is “nonsense,” so he probably said this quite a lot.
The Dutch Cold Case Team has taken over trying to identify him after time has not healed his ability to communicate. If you think you might know who he is, please help reunite him with his loved ones and give them closure. Scroll down on this page to the button that says “Tip via het formulier”, and rest assured sending messages in English is 100% fine. Also, his family won’t get a surprise bill for his hospital stay. https://www.politie.nl/nieuws/2026/augustus/17/een-heel-leven-maar-geen-naam-wie-herkent-deze-man.html
What the heck happened here? How the fuck did the roof of the truck get damaged? Was it on its side and they've since pulled it back up right?
#introduction
Okay, lets' try to do this properly.
I'm Jess, an old Fedi hand setting up in a new neighborhood.
I write queer fiction, and when I'm healthy I talk about it a lot. Mostly SFF chosen family, some kink, lots of fucking-with-tropes.
On a personal, I'm nonbinary (ey/eir or they/them), Jewish, autistic, disabled, parent, polyamorous, radical.
I'll also post about threadcraft (tablet weaving), history, homeschooling, our cat Milo, and mental health.
Some hashtags you might see me use:
#AmWriting #CatsOfMastodon #Homeschool
Me: sweet new call sign!
Net operator: oh dang, you're not on QRZ yet
Me: well alright, *signs up for QRZ*
QRZ: that's not a real call sign in our database.
Me: ok, I will wait for your database to update
*Days pass*
QRZ: this is a real call sign, it has your name on it and it is attached to your username, but your username doesn't match any call signs in our database, so you can't edit this page.
Me: I think I need to file a bug report before I get my vanity call.
Day 5: Clotho decided she'd had enough of The Room and let herself dart out past my legs when I came in to do her morning chores. So I've been letting her wander and... she's been pretty good with the dog? Little bit of hissing and arching when he runs around excited, but he's been pretty good at not cornering her, and no Incidents so far...
Biggest next skills we're working on are Not On The Kitchen Bench and Jumping Baby Gates.
@mcc Remember when windows had clear titlebars that you could grab ahold of and not have to gingerly find an inactive space between toolbar icons and other active interface elements when all you want to do is move the window around?
Oh, also, I know this is a really strange squick to have, but I just frickin hate the idiom where input boxes "hover" apart from the edge of the screen. Why are you doing that. Why are you wasting space like that. It's a box. You can just draw a line around the box. I am sure you're very satisfied with whatever CSS thingy you're doing here but I'm not impressed by CSS. I already know CSS
I think this is the most niche bug I’ve ever reported. shoutout to my haptics homies lmao https://docs.vrchat.com/docs/vrchat-202632-open-beta
The City and County of San Francisco is hiring a senior role for Chief of Community Programs and Partnerships
Starting salary range: $161,382.00 - $205,972.00 (Range A)
"1. Possession of a Master’s degree in library science, public administration, or a related field from an accredited college or university. AND
2. Four (4) years of managerial experience in community engagement, programming, establishing partnerships, and leading a team, unit, or division, all of which must include supervisory experience."
#SanFrancisco #CityJobs #CivicTech #GetFediHired #PublicLibraries #Libraries