Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

Scheme man pages? Yes!

https://github.com/schemedoc/manpages

The abundance of man pages is one of the reasons Perl is great. All the packages also serve as man pages!

I miss this aspect in all other programming languages.

When you post things on Instagram, Facebook, and X, this is what they look like to people who don’t use those platforms.

#iran #us #israel #iranwar #ukraine #religion #war #usa

@cwebber just to throw a fun little counterpoint as devil's advocate: humans are also story machines.

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Yeah, OK, we're more than just that, but it's an interesting thought. See also Zombies (philosophy).

@cwebber

At long last! We have created Skynet from classic sci-fi movie franchise Don't Create Skynet

@NicksWorld @Sarahw

If it were me I'd rather have a planet with oxygen and water to live on but hey you do you, sparky.

Caroline Crampton on what it is like to manage and read almost 2,000 RSS feeds.

Somehow, still using RSS, which is a beautifully simple bit of tech from the early days of the web, makes you part of a community of like-minded strangers.

https://www.carolinecrampton.com/the-view-from-rss

#rss #blogs

Putting lots of swear words into my code so that LLMs refuse to interact with it.

security by obscenity

today in "draw the rest of the fucking owl"

I'd like to propose here that we stop to say "America" when we mean the US.
#America is a great #continent, rich and manifold with excellent people of diverse cultures and a history that proceeds the #US for millennia. We should not confuse this with a terrifying #empire which is spreading #fascism and plunging the whole #planet into a nightmare horror scenario.
#StopSayingAmericaForUS #USempire

@jenniferplusplus @zeank There will not be a tourism benefit for far future generations wanting to see data centers.

That's part of what makes a capital strike non-obvious, if you don't already know what it looks like. It's not just sitting on the money and refusing to spend it. Because that's the one thing you literally can't do with capital. If you leave those resources idle, especially labor, it just goes and does its own thing. You lose control over it. If you just fire everyone, they eventually start working for themselves.

So, to conduct a capital strike, you have to direct the capital toward useless things. Or actually destructive things, if you can manage it.

And thus, AI had "basically zero" effect on the GDP. Because it's economically worthless activity for the purpose of keeping all the resources occupied so they can't be put to any other use.

@jeridansky @sophiekaz Also worth mentioning https://delta.chat which is decentralized.

@adbenitez It's just the systemd crowd reinventing the wheel, as usual.

@adbenitez Debian is stable. But KDE isn't. And no, that didn't change much after Plasma 6...

Haiku has been accepted in the GSoC projects, read all about it at the following links!

https://www.haiku-os.org/community/gsoc

https://www.haiku-os.org/community/gsoc/2026

https://www.haiku-os.org/community/gsoc/2026/contributors

https://www.haiku-os.org/community/gsoc/2026/ideas

Grab your gears students and head up there, for questions there is our IRC channel at #oftc #haiku, or the forum at:

https://discuss.haiku-os.org/

#HaikuOS #GSoC #development #opensource #FOSS #ilovefs