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@fesshole Necromancy is never a good idea

@futzle Oh, you’re in luck.

@Gargron You can have a 33⅓ rd birthday party in 4 months

Doris
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In Norway, they’re building a new stave church, using only Viking-age tools and techniques. 1,000 people are involved, and it is expected to be complete by 2030.

https://www.visitnorway.com/typically-norwegian/how-to-build-a-stave-church/

@fesshole I wonder if this goes for most of the nocturnal wildlife noises people remember hearing as children

@alice It’s even worse in Sweden. We have the Scandinavian Model here (buying sexual services is a crime, and sex work is automatically considered exploitation), and because of the consensus-seeking nature of Jante Law society, everybody agrees that this is right, including leftists, liberals and sex workers. (There’s a similar, though perhaps slightly weaker, consensus on Nixonian zero-tolerance drug laws.)

@ansuz @jwz Is Mozilla fashtech yet?

@bruces I have stayed in capsule hotels which use the same brand of pods. It was the cheapest place to stay in Berlin/Vienna with some modicum of privacy/quiet

Borland TurboVision (the PC text mode windowing UI used in Turbo Pascal/C++) has been open-sourced and updated to work seamlessly on Linux and with Unicode:

https://github.com/magiblot/tvision

It’s all in C++, though if someone hasn’t wrapped it in bindings for Python/Rust/&c. yet, surely they will

@davidgerard The iPhone has had decent quality mics (i.e. suitable for live music recording) for many years now.

@emenel @jimbob @inthehands So labour-saving devices like dishwashers and washing machines are morally reprehensible, and the only ethical alternative is to do the work manually or pay someone a fair price for their time and labour? That’s quite a take…

@fesshole *pushes the “open sunroof” button * “I’m warning you…”

@publicdomainrev Listing Savonarola, the fanatic who destroyed much priceless art and literature including most of the works of Sappho, as a victim of intolerance is certainly a choice.

Hacker gets annoyed at Amazon’s Kindle apps, reverse-engineers the Kindle web reader’s protocol (which basically sends each page as a set of glyphs in a deliberately broken variant of SVG). Such obscurity, much security.

https://blog.pixelmelt.dev/kindle-web-drm/

@publicdomainrev The lady is checking the latest engagement figures for her daguerreotypes, and the gentleman his crypto portfolio

@larstransportworld Is the “railway station” a former railway station, or a pub/cafe/cultural space with a cute name?

Happy #Caturday!

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Memes didn’t exist before Twitter/Facebook. OK, maybe they did, but they certainly didn’t before the interne…

All modern digital infrastructure in 2025 (seen elsewhere):