Amikke @Amikke@qoto.org

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Python slithers to the top of the programming language leaderboard

After helping five friends in the last two months transition from #windows to #linux here are my thoughts:

1. Show case both #kde and #gnome before you pick it form them. 2/5 Decided to try KDE because it reminded them of Windows and the rest wanted Gnome because they where tired of windows UI
2. Do not fill their head with distros, go with one where it is easy to get support. I went with @fedora as it is the one I know best and like the resource for. So far only one has swapped (to Ubuntu)

@dracula POV: You updated arch

thank goodness we haven't backslid on the quality of our graphical user interfaces by making everything a fucking webpage.

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I reverse engineered the firmware loading utility of a $17 beauty salon spectrophotometer to load the firmware of its "big boy" sibling:
https://adam.zeloof.xyz/2025/07/10/x-rite-pantone-spectrophotometer-unlock/

As I always see people sharing links to Spotify, Apple Music and other services directly, I want to mention Odesli for a second.

https://odesli.co/

It's also known as Songlink, as it generates links like this.

https://song.link/i/589038355

And also as Albumlink, as it generates links like this.

https://album.link/i/1528027446

It can also do links for albums and podcasts.

It only takes a few seconds to generate but saves everyone a lot of time.

Odesli will generate a page that links to all possible music services where the song, album or artist can be found. Including services that aren't that mainstream.

So maybe you can take the time the next time you want to share an album or song and generate a more accessible link for everyone. 😊

#Music

A great moment in classic interactive fiction:
#DOSGaming

I feel like I know at least one person for each of these options...

Do you even remember why we were making websites in the first place?

Thanks ethical_haquer for the picture

#StackOverflow #Popups #CookieBanner #SignIn

#PNG Returns with Major Spec Update After Two-Decade Hiatus https://medium.com/p/png-returns-with-major-spec-update-after-two-decade-hiatus-e98ef855cfa4

It's funny how history repeats itself just with some very minor changes @neal https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f44-change-proposal-drop-i686-support-system-wide/156324

New mastodon.social TOS are weird.

"You are prohibited to use, launch, develop, or distribute any automated system, including without limitation, any spider, robot, cheat utility, scraper, offline reader, or any data mining or similar data gathering extraction tools to access the Instance..."

Nice!

But then:

"You are prohibited to use or launch any unauthorized script or other software"

Uhm, this is problematic. Where is this list of "authorized" software to access this instance?

Finally, I tried attaching an additional keyboard and assigned them to a different "seat"!

That worked really well! In Weston, each "seat" has its own keyboard focus, so you can actually work side-by-side with two mice + two keyboards independently!

Also!!! The two seats have their own (independent) clipboards!!!! Whatttt! 🤯

I totally didn't expect this. But multi-seat as a concept seems deeply integrated into libinput + #Wayland! Now it's up to GUI toolkits and compositors to support it!