@darius Has the Magic 8–Ball been queried?

@sillygwailo

@darius Right up there with "Ancient alien theorists say... maybe."

@darius

I should be able to have a third glass of wine every evening, ancient crystal suggests

@darius ring a ding ding, babey

@darius you have performed a great service to humankind.

@darius This is basically my mod stack, but this is a bit nicer. Awesome

@darius this made me smile

@darius I already have a bunch of staples in my gut, so why not add some more?

@darius Also if they used their favorite one already what are the rest of us supposed to do?

@darius And there I was hoping that we wouldn't lose another historically important figure in hip hop culture this year.... RIP Thee 45 King

@darius have you ever been? You'd be welcome!

@darius @judell I will always boost and upvote love for the Olson database. Date and time math was once very important to me, and tz was a gift from the time gods themselves.

@darius
Neat - by reducing it to *just* the lore and legend, the writer makes the whole fascinating nightmare more broadly accessible.
@judell

@darius The part about Gaza is especially poignant right now.

@darius oh I thought you mean Javascript shims

@darius up there with the awl

@darius What are we thinking in terms of material? Love me a classic wood shim but sometimes they’re too rigid for the task (unstable chair, wobbling ceiling fan, etc). Are there softer “formal” shims, or is the ol’ folded paper towel still best in class?

@darius Mute?

@darius This is why I never follow hashtags in my Home feed and just pin them as a separate column in the Mastodon interface instead. Easy browsing, no confusion.

Though I have accidentally followed tags a few times by pressing on the + icon (since removed in 4.2) next to the column settings button.

@darius and this is the exact problem with following hashtags. There has to be a quality filter.

@darius Same, and same.

@darius I’m still blogging. Dropping a blog post about our latest project… as soon as it’s done

@darius I like preprints and blog posts and the boundaries are blurry. And I started https://rogue-scholar.org to make it easier to find science blog posts, archive them, and give them a DOI. Making the boundaries even blurrier.

@darius classic

@darius pretty sure it's "whips"

@darius I miss WinRar

@darius I've always had a hard time figuring this out as you know. I don't stand firmly on either side.

Is it the case that professional organizations can't coexist with unions? Is that something we conclusively see in other industries? To me they have very different functions, but I do think your argument is valid.

Honestly the sort of "middle privilege" of programming is the biggest hurdle I've seen. And the libertarian roots of that field.

@darius This URL may take you right there: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/grand-theft-auto-5-and-rockstars-post-apocalypse-now-10-years-ago-this-month#:~:text=Kazemi

@darius What an interesting feature that publication does, looking back a decade from whatever month it happens to be. 🤔 It’s definitely a more compelling cadence than “on this day” as well as always being 10 years ago.

@darius and sadly the down side: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-09-18/a-black-bear-was-euthanized-in-colorado-a-necropsy-showed-its-intestines-were-plugged-with-human-garbage

@darius They went for the chocolate. I can only hope they tucked the sprinkles into their bear pockets for when hibernation is enough already and they chuck them at their mates. No solid bear enjoys sprinkles. Thanks.

@darius Nature is healing.

@darius thanks!!

For #Hometown servers on our Mastodon v3.5-compatible branch, this is the new security release:

https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/releases/tag/v3.5.14%2Bhometown-1.0.8

(v4 release coming next)

@darius just want to say - your forks existence makes me like Mastodon (the ecosystem) as a whole even more. Even if I never get to try it.

@darius Sculpted physique, chiseled abs, and strong as an oak

@darius Some of my best friends are made of wood!

@darius Pinoh no you didn't.

@darius paging @zrail for his email setup expertise...

@darius Try looking at https://mxtoolbox.com/emailhealth/brighteradhd.com/

@darius

Critical question: is she actually sending these emails from within the Gmail UI (app or website)?

If she's sending mail appearing to come from her Google-hosted domain, but actually sending them through another route (mail app going to ISP's mail relay, firewall at work/public routing SMTP to its own relay, etc), then the mail she is sending will be violating her own SPF and DMARC policies (if they're anything but wide-open).

And that means they're invalid, and go to spam.

@darius Pink pearl.

@darius Not listed there, but.

Kaneliomena ("cinnamon apple"): https://peda.net/hankkeet/geenivaraoppi/yl%C3%A4koulu/biologia_ylakoulu/ljll/omena-luonnos/ll/kl

@darius me, running into the room breathless three days later: I LOVE SWEETANGO

@darius now I'm imagining society if useradd and adduser were related in a way you could discern from their names

@darius I love little legacy bits of code like this that show the history and culture of the tools we use =)

@darius just use the mac address

@darius Two days later the website starts showing a popup saying "Our mobile website is very old"

@darius I read "pop over" as "po power" at first and was trying to figure that out. "Is that a marketing term for radio signal?"

@darius 😢️ The end of an era.