This is brilliant. And tragic.
https://www.takahe.org.nz/heat-death-of-the-internet/

This excellent article by @molly0xfff reminded me of the sci-fi trope where everyone in the future lives in a domed bunker & gets told not to go outside because it's a wasteland filled with Bad People.

Of course the protagonists leave the dome & find that the reality is a bit different: outside can be scary, but it's not the hellscape they were told.

Big Tech walled gardens are the dome; outside them is a risky wonderland that’s ours for the taking.

Leave the dome.

https://www.citationneeded.news/we-can-have-a-different-web/

@simon I use GitHub Actions for this, largely since it’s the most legible for my purposes - source-backed, documented, there’s a built-in UI, easily manually triggered (both locally and through the system itself).

And because this question always comes up from my EU friends: No, the $11B number is not hyperbole. Yes, that really is the police budget. Not the US police budget, or even the New York State police budget. New York City alone, will spend $11B this year on its police force.

It has cancelled school music programs, reduced the number of days public libraries are open, reduced public swimming pool hours, to make budget room to increase the police budget, in ways they admit don't reduce crime🤡

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Okay this is really impressive work: laying out music with CSS

https://cruncher.ch/blog/printing-music-with-css-grid/

@garyowen Hopefully! 🤞

I’m not even into tarot, but this is sweet: https://organical-mechanical.itch.io/iso-tarot

Last week's statements by the #GOP of #Washington State:

"We are devolving into a democracy, because congressmen and senators are elected by the same pool.... We do not want to be a democracy.....

"We encourage Republicans to substitute the words ‘republic’ and ‘republicanism’ where previously they have used the word ‘democracy'.... Every time the word ‘democracy’ is used favorably it serves to promote the principles of the Democratic Party, the principles of which we ardently oppose....

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Please enjoy my local water company's chosen method to tell us all about water use this summer... a surprisingly good Backstreet Boys parody.

https://youtu.be/yeRQF79mb_o

@robdaemon I liked it more when it was just JSX + reactive-style rendering on the client-side. Now it’s exploded in complexity.

It always amuses me whenever something like this happens.

I still think Bagel Oasis is really underrated in Seattle (or maybe just rated, depending on who you ask, but it’s not one of the newer, more foodie-esque bagel places in the city), but nevertheless, I am still excited to have more bagel options nearby!

https://seattle.eater.com/2024/4/29/24143687/andrew-rubenstein-new-shop-hey-bagel-university-village-seattle

Let me explain this real slow.

1. I borrow $100 from you today.
2. I pay you $10 every day for a year.
3. I have paid you back $3,650
4. I still owe you $90 somehow.
5. You then "forgive" the $90 debt.

In this scenario, absolutely nobody is paying anybody $90. Nobody is being stiffed $90. Nobody is being forced to pay someone else's $90 debt. Absolutely nobody is "getting a $90 handout for free".

What's happening is you have been paid back your original $100 and then profited a mere $3,550 on top of that and we're saying that's enough profit.

This post is about student loan forgiveness.

@tahnok Luckily it wasn’t too bad!

@drbrain Though also I got bit since it never occurred to me to actually update the database. A thing I was vaguely aware of in theory, but have not done dba things in a very long time and totally forgot this was a thing.

@drbrain Fortunately, it wasn’t too bad - I don’t know if it’s Postgres or Debian or what, but the versions were all separated within the appropriate directories, whew.

But same, I’m trying pretty hard to keep all new services in containers - Pleroma at the time didn’t have an image that I trusted and I am too unfamiliar w/the tech stack to want to roll my own there.

Self-hosting is great, but every now and then you update something (Akkoma) and all of a sudden realize that you also need to pg_upgrade the original Pleroma database from Postgres 11 to 15.

“How do you accidentally run for President of Iceland? | by Anna Andersen”

Glad somebody wrote about this because it’s an objectively hilarious UX case study

(And they just announced that eleven people managed to get the requisite number of endorsements in time) https://uxdesign.cc/how-do-you-accidentally-run-for-president-of-iceland-0d71a4785a1e

@jima @robdaemon It rips through cardboard, and L appreciates that it’s not sharp in the same way a box cutter is, as she’s pretty clumsy with blades.