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Ghost v6.30.0 is here. If you are running your own newsletter platform, now is the time to update your instance and check out what is new. #selfhosted #homelab

https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/releases/tag/v6.30.0

I love measuring out spices for things

Trying something new today - a spin on jollof rice (#veggie)
#cooking #homeChef #food #vegan

@renata social media could incorporate drawing (together), making music (together), etc. #fediverse #indieweb

We opened the open beta access for the waitlist! Join us and try it out! #socialmedia #opensource #mastodon #fediverse

Ein paar #Unternehmen unterschiedlicher Branchen und Größen haben ja Accounts im #Fediverse und dazu hätte ich gerne ein Meinungsbild.

Explizit ausgenommen sind Accounts die angelegt aber nie oder seit längerer Zeit nicht bespielt werden.

Bei Option 3 (Kommt drauf an) bitte mit Details auf den Toot antworten.
Bzw. würde mich bei allen Optionen eine ausführlichere Meinung freuen :)

#askfedi :BoostOK:

Was ist eure Meinung zu Unternehmen im Fediverse?

This is the current place for the BC250. The additional heatsink on top with fan shaved almost 10°C from the total GPU temp.

Oh, I was so pumped up that I could finally try modern PC gaming in... 20 years?
Pity the most graphic intensive game I own is Legend of Grimrock 2.

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-14-26

https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/pook-emu-bee-links-for-04-14-26/

My afternoon office.

Did you know you can just go to the library, grab a desk, and work there? It's like a co-working space but with more books and less shitty coffee. Same desks, WiFi, and bathrooms. And free!

Use your local library! It's good!

Folks that do software and analog electronics: (and please boost for visibility)

Is there an OSS tool that simulates analog circuits for signals? In particular, I want something that I can script and write expectations of the output signals for given inputs. And ideally that scripting would include programmatically adding/removing/changing components in the simulated circuit and then testing the outputs.

Thanks!

#electronics #analogElectronics #simulations #programming

we’ve been grappling with Stack Overflow issues with our language rankings for some time now, but this run we got to add some GitHub data weirdness as well.

anyway, the Q1 language rankings are now live. enjoy.
https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2026/04/14/language-rankings-1-26/

Penguin Random House: Still Kicking Ourselves For Not Calling It "Random Penguin House"

#RuinABrandOrSlogan
#HashtagGames

Just me going about my day as a recruiter.

#TrumpMeme

I've tried to like copious live recordings coming out from the Nine Inch Nails' Peel It Back tour. It just seemed... fine. Kinda straightforward and predictable recreations of classic Nails tracks.

That is maybe why the Nine Inch Noize Coachella performance seems so electric, by comparison. Joining forces with Boys Noize, and featuring Mariqueen Maandig (from How to Destroy Angels), with creepy stage dancers (!?) THIS is an exciting stage show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3cLOE6Phms

#music #streaming

Even more impressive than Trump pissing off America's allies has been Bibi managing to turn even Republican Americans against Israel. The change is staggering.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBuKWSdq_js

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Finally completed the KiCAD transcription of the IOU sheets.
Next is a cleanup and identifying all the external signals so I can turn them into hierarchical labels.
And then I need to start with the MMU. It'll be a project comprising both.

@chris so easy to drive and charge an EV on the island and anywhere in BC now really. Thankfully the investment in charging infrastructure has stayed the course over the last 10 years. We are ready for the continued electrification in the face of escalating oil wars time and time again.

1/X The discussion about algorithmic feeds for #Mastodon has been going on for years.

Back in November 2022, @randomwalker nailed the core issue: “Algorithms aren't the enemy. Chronological feeds don't scale …“

🤔 Yet three years later, we still don't have an effective, content distribution system.

I don’t know what’s going on.

My current way to interest people to join us: The Fediverse is more like local politics, with small communities discussing things. Centralised networks like Twitter, TikTok, instagram etc are more like national politics, with loud mouthpieces shouting over everyone else.

This mental image helps me in understanding why the influencers fail here and they of course think that means that the fediverse must be a lost cause while we commoners happily chug along and enjoy our little street parties ;)

Been wondering why this array has had lower production...

Personally I think alt-text is valuable for everyone, not for just people with visual impairments. I read alt-text all the time. I'm curious if my theory that a wide swath of people read alt-text is true.
#AltTxt #AltText

Hello, middle-aged, neurodivergent, dog servant looking for his 'Internet People', my bio tells you a bit more about me, and as I've given up the idea of a blog in favour of conversation, it's probably best if you just ask me 'stuff'. Meanwhile, here's some tags to prompt interest:

#Introduction #Music #Books #Jazz #Swimming #Health #Diet #Metabolism #Science #Allotment #Yardening #FiftyPlus #MentalHealth #Neurodivergent #Fediverse #Linux #HomeBird #HomeBody #PotteringAbout #Cornwall #Kernow

Lovely Peeps! Your cool #history for the day! 🚀

(You might want to watch with sound off. The music has words & I found it difficult to hear the music, read the text, AND focus on the signing.)

If you want to just enjoy the signing, the full text is within this post. 😊

"Everyone’s talking about Artemis II. The first humans to travel to the moon in 50 years. Historic mission.

But nobody’s talking about the #Deaf men who made it possible.

In the late 1950s, #NASA had a problem. They needed to understand what weightlessness does to the human body. But every test subject kept getting violently motion sick.

So they came to #Gallaudet.

Eleven Deaf men. Most of them had lost their hearing to spinal meningitis as children, which also damaged their vestibular system. Their inner ears couldn’t be overwhelmed. They were immune to motion sickness.

NASA put them in centrifuges. Zero-gravity flights. A rotating room for twelve straight days. One experiment on a ferry in choppy Nova Scotia waters. The researchers got so seasick they had to cancel it. The Gallaudet Eleven? They were playing cards.

Their bodies gave NASA the data it needed to send humans into space.

No #Gallaudet_Eleven — no Mercury. No Mercury — no Apollo. No Apollo — no Artemis II.

Sixty years later, four astronauts just flew 252,000 miles from Earth & came home safely.

They stood on the shoulders of eleven Deaf men most people have never heard of.

Now you know!"

#Artemis2 #ASL #History #TIL #Nyle_di_Marco

We publish a major Citizen Lab report on Webloc, an ad-based mass surveillance system that monitors the movements and personal characteristics of hundreds of millions people globally based on data obtained from mobile apps and digital advertising.

Customers include ICE, El Salvador and Hungary.

Our research shows that ad-based surveillance is now used by military, intelligence and law enforcement agencies down to local police in several countries.

Full report here:
https://citizenlab.ca/research/analysis-of-penlinks-ad-based-geolocation-surveillance-tech/

Wenn ich sehe, wie sehr die Regierung so aus den Fehlern der Vergangenheit gelernt hat.... Da kommt bestimmt bald eine Tankstellen-App von Smudo.

gonna tell my grandkids this was microsoft copilot

Oh, it's PortfolioDay! How nice! My name is Vendy. I'm a traditional artist, and I like to draw cute things, creepy things, and everything in between
Would love to illustrate kids' books, covers, and TTRPGs, TCG,s or any other cool stuff

#MastoArt #fediverse #PortfolioDay #illustration #ink #watercolor #mastodon #fantasy #ttrpg #tcg

Microsoft exec suggests AI agents will need to buy software licenses, just like employees https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-executive-suggests-ai-agents-buy-software-licenses-seats-2026-4

*deep breath in*

HAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA of fucking course lmao

Hi #PortfolioDay

I'm Igor, and I like to draw characters with a hint of mythology/folklore in them. I'm open for comms/contract/full-time work:

📧 email: igordoodles@gmail.com
💼 portfolio: https://artstation.com/igordoodles
💸 commissions: https://vgen.co/igordoodles
🪙 tips/patrons: https://ko-fi.com/igordoodles

i spent far too much time on this