Notices by     n8   Doesn't follow you 🇺🇦 (n8@mastodon.social), page 2

If any of you weirdos out there are subscribers to NPR's subscription service, NPR+, does it give you custom feed URLs that you can listen to through your podcast app of choice? Or is it bound to the NPR app?

@djrrb maxiscules, naturally.

It also doesn't know what Central America is. Which is myopia pretty much on par for people who think this sort of nonsense is important.

https://mastodon.social/@ryanprior/113686996420527222

World map of paper sizes

(creator: unknown)

@joncruz Not enough teeth!

You know, I _want_ to like this, but the AI-generated images they use in all their mock-ups take me off the page completely. Makes me think the entire proposal was half-baked.

https://mastodon.social/@protectdemocracy@threads.net/113669970908640885

Check out the "coworking spaces" section for the worst of it, but it's all slop: https://wherewilltheyallsit.org/?shpath=%2Fthe-capitol-campus-of-tomorrow%2F#section-solution4-kWNaIiNqpx

Pro tip: boost the content of this but do it without the artificial "the news won't tell you this" BS, which is demonstrably untrue. It's not simply inaccurate, it's lizard-brain targeting telling you that you can't trust journalism. Which is no less-horseshit when folks on the left do it than when on the right wing.

Want proof? Three seconds of news feed searching attached, hot off the screenshot. There's more if you scroll.

https://progressivecafe.social/@TonyStark/113670850403246099

I live on the edge, by which I mean that I'm replacing a laptop battery 12 hours before the laptop and I head to the airport.

Royal Mail could save a fortune in hosting costs and massively reduce its carbon footprint by replacing its package-tracking web service with a static HTML site that reads "Sorry there was a problem, please try again". No change in functionality at all.

If you have to ask, you're streets behind.

Morning coffee thoughts: font file formats are like 75% technical debt plus 75% corner cases.

Why yes, I am indeed waiting for a big build to complete. Silence will resume shortly.

Screaming "you can't trust the news!" is a BS tactic when right-wing conspiracy nuts use it to pry people away from informing themselves about the issues, and it's equally a BS tactic when you retweet somebody complaining about something you think sounds reasonable to your ears in light of some topic you've got opinions about. Don't be like them, and don't spread their tactics either.

https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/113598119503667118

Actually, don't bulk-delete your old content. That just makes the Internet worse for other normal people, which is a shitty thing for you to do, and it also has jack-all zero impact on the vendor/CEO/villain you tell yourself you're stickin' it to.
https://infosec.exchange/@cyd/113600987726560606

Instead, self-archive your stuff, and be a good example of preserving the Internet for everybody — https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/gb/2024/MiniDebConfCambridge/Willis

It's #humpday; find a relaxing read to take your mind off of things, because #selfcare is important

@mattl I tried a few hoping for the best and quickly regretted it.

@mattl The spam here is delivered through hashtags. If you follow any of the spamprone varieties (e.g., looking-for-work ones), you see it.

I'm going to fork Android just to restore the one-touch "Toggle Bluetooth On/Off" button on the little pull-down top menu.

Crazy person making a rose-engine lathe, in his shed, by hand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5QI5Ou7DlM

Which I say only as a means of broad topical orientation. There's so much else going on in this video that a single sentence can't contain it. Watch it if you think people diving headfirst into any niche oddball obsessions is relatable.

#yourthingisnottooweird

Oh, great. ReadTheDocs suddenly dumped in a transient-overlay "search results" floating box feature, replacing the existence of an actual, usable HTML results page.

And by "great" I of course mean "colossally stupid." This modal-disappears-on-mouse-click junk is completely unusable. Don't blame me when all FOSS software development dies off a month from now as a result.

#IToldYouSo