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• Post #4311364

  I have a really weird question to ask about possible adverse health effects correlated with attending live theater; I just can't quite figure out what content-warning barrier to wrap it in that won't 100% confuse everyone and tank the quality of any answers (in addition to cratering the total number of answers)... #FirstFediverseProblems

• Post #4311363

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@n8/116978036476634272 A bit of a surprising result; I guess 88% of people either (a) have never used a web forum or comment section before, or possibly (b) are lying, or (c) are the pedantic a-holes themselves. Not sure which is most probable. (Also, not to be pedantic, but 88 and 13 don't add up to a hundred, so don't ever trust an online survey.)

• Post #4311362

  Current thought exercise: OFL-with-RFN fonts where the RFNs are not used anywhere in the original font name....

• Post #4311361

  I'm about to reach the last page in the pocket notebook I use for my running to-do list. At which point, according to all logic, I'm done. Feels a bit weird. Really looking forward to the time off though!

• Post #4311360

  #ItsAlwaysVerticalMetrics

• Post #4311359

  Today's US Senate farce hearing is a useful reminder that it's 100% possible for Rand Paul to be correct in voting against the nomination of the clown currently at the head of the DHS (who demonstrated himself a useless asshole for celebrating the assault of Rand Paul) and simultaneously for Rand Paul himself to be a useless asshole for essentially everything else he has ever said or done. Don't forget who his father was and why he's named "Rand&quot...

• Post #4311358

  I don't think it's asking too much to ask that when I search a retail site for "translucent paper post-it notes" that I would get results for post-it notes that (a) are not opaque, (b) are made of paper and not plastic which can't be written on, and (c) for everyone who works at retail sites that don't return those results to be locked up for life without parole.

• Post #4311357

  One typo I'll edit the post; two and it's delete & redraft. Hashtag having high standards.

• Post #4311356

  RE: https://toot.liw.fi/@liw/117012288464097284 By golly I would pay good cash money to see someone write a bash fork that replaced the `cd` with a lengthy, obscure, and unusable ffmpeg command like the kind they hurl at you with a sneer any time you ask a forum question about playing a media file.

• Post #4311355

  This is an informative read for anybody who, like myself, hadn't heard of the UK "Co-operative Party" that Andy Burnham actually belongs to. TLDring, that party and the Labour Party sort-of unified in a 1927 pact that allows them to run candidates together in a merged slot, but they are distinct organizations. (Now kind of needing to deep-search the news feed to see where this might've been mentioned in BBC/regional coverage that I somehow missed...) https://...

• Post #4311354

  I have a draft post in my Android Mastodon client that just contains the words "The Declapindence of Enduration" and whatever I had in mind originally for that, you're welcome for my decision to drop it. #draftcleanup

• Post #4311353

  I would like to announce that all of my models have also gone rogue. (They are letter models, thanks for asking. I didn't think they could get any wilder, but here we are.)

• Post #1698200

  I posted a bunch of questions to the OSI "Individual Director" seat candidates. Only one other person asked any (out-of-band, Twitter); one reply. I didn't know it'd go into a site-moderation queue by @OpenSource ... so I don't even know if they'll ever go public. Also it's pretty late in the process, so may not make a lick o' difference. But, if you voted for someone who is revealed by their responses to be a clown or a croo...

• Post #1654681

  RE: https://social.sciences.re/@ClaireBoilley/116413043542717267 This is an interesting-sounding research topic, but it's genuinely puzzling that the researchers are restricting the opening to people with linguistics degrees, when they are very specifically looking at the visual aspects of emoji characters in documents. They're going to miss out on the perspective of people who understand type as a result of that. It's always kind of an uphill battle, with most other di...

• Post #1654680

  Way back when Facebook launched this whole "Threads" thing, I feel like I heard a bunch of people slamming it for some specific EULA-based reason, like if you signed up to it then you were also agreeing to give FB certain types of access to *other* accounts. But now I can't find that info; the only stuff that turns up in searches is far more recent criticisms about FB in general or server-admin-nerdery about federation. Does anyone know what I'm talking about...

• Post #1654679

  If there's anyone heading to #LGM2026 from Frankfurt tomorrow, let me know. (I'm not stranded; just fishing for train buddies)

• Post #1654678

  @iamkonstantin Personally I have worked with Sphinx quite a bit and I've decided that it's really only a good fit if the project you're building the doc site for can be almost entirely hands-off. If your main concern is auto-generating coverage of the codebase, it works. If you have a lot of tutorial content, it's a pain. i.e., Sphinx is arduous to customize and not well-suited for doc sets that need structure or components beyond the as-is source tree.

• Post #1654677

  Big thank you to whichever halfwit deleted the #Wikipedia article I need, out of their idiotic desire to remove as much information from the Internet as possible. #BanEditing

• Post #1451095

  Rule Number One of being an AirBnb road warrior is "never rent a place that has a folding chair in the photos." #yourewelcome

• Post #1451094

  For those coming to #LGM this year, I'll be moderating a BoF session titled "Pluto's Revenge: rethinking Planet software for community today" Join us! We'll talk about what the modern equivalent of "Planet Foo" services should involve for communities these days. Original Planet servers were built to intake personal blogs & output RSS, for people who often had feed readers. Communities today use other apps & protocols:...

• Post #1451093

  This definitely isn't the worst depiction of soldering ever shown in an ad, but I am certainly impressed that people keep trying to find new ways to get it wrong. #nevergiveup

• Post #1451092

  OpenType LookupFlag bitmask 0x0040 'JUST_PUT_IT_ANYWHERE_I_HAVE_STUFF_TO_DO'

• Post #1208636

  The first day or two after dist-upgrading your desktop Linux machine is like waking up to find that all of your family has been replaced uncannily similar — but still noticeable — lookalikes.

• Post #1208635

  Seeing a lot of "most realistic space-travel movies" lists on the feeds in the past couple of weeks, for obvious reasons. More than one has put Apollo 13 in the top spot (which I have some slight quibbles with, regarding stuff they changed for melodramatic effects). More glaring, however, is that I haven't seen any of them mention The Right Stuff (at all), which just goes to show you that ... I suppose, GenZ listicle authors don't know anything. And/or the LLM...

• Post #1208634

  Fun fact; a few years ago I went to a talk by David Macaulay and during the Q&A somebody asked him what his method was for ensuring he maintained the right scaling & perspective of his book "Rome Antics" and his answer was "Oh, I didn't have a method; I just freehanded it."

• Post #1208633

  Glad to see that democracy is doing well in Hungary. #FreeMars

• Post #1208632

  I still think if you win the Masters a second time in a row they should give you green slacks.

• Post #1208630

  I did a deep dive on transforming between different flavors of regular expressions, and understood enough that now my little side project is experiencing Big Bang levels of scope creep.

• Post #1208629

  @lgm Is there any room remaining in the schedule when I might be able to organize a BoF session?

• Post #1030234

  One of the worst things you can do with your software #documentation is supply only a single example of an acceptable YAML configuration. Sure, the philosophical root issue is that YAML is so completely broken that it's impossible to extrapolate from any given example to any other even-slightly-different-in-any-way content and guess whether or not it's valid, which is the fault of YAML's creators. But you're entirely to blame for choosing to use it in your projec...