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FPTP sucks, for sure. We need some form of ranked choice voting, also for sure.
But claiming people like me who do not register with a political party because we’re not politicians are “too insignificant” is misguided.
Quirkafleeg 48K, a chess bot for the ZX Spectrum 48K, "hand-written in Z80 assembler — and quite possibly the strongest chess program the machine has ever run". 😎
Download it or play online here:
https://frontpoint-sport.com/quirkafleeg/#lichess
Find it also in Lichess.com
Based on https://bsky.app/profile/yupdown.net/post/3ktko43dvnq2t, now with your favourite clueless fops. Available in stickerpacks near you soon!
@hyc Ah, yes! This is where community comes in.
Do you know any writers? Do you want to know writers? I dunno where you are, but thankfully for Scripts at least it doesn't really matter.
@ajroach42 @hyc Can confirm, I am a writer! We’re out here! We like to write things!
Had the best birthday weekend 😊 I mean how can you not when you get to sing Sweet Transvestite at drag queen karaoke at the awesome The George LGBTQ nightclub in Dublin?
Vimeo
I fear we might lose you to the stage 😂
"The creative process is made of the choices you make" @baldur
This is another introspective and insightful long read from Bjarnason that touches on a lot of things I've wrestled with, but he unpacks it all better than I could (and in my preferred medium).
He also riffs on "seminal" — a word I rarely use in any context, but I will never be able to see or hear it without smelling it again! 😅😵
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/automation-and-self-censorship/
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Fediverse
can we shout out to the fediverse developers, for making the fediverse possible
shout out to the lemmy developers for not making us be stuck on the other site
shout out to mastodon devs for making us have a better life than on Twitter
shout out to the pixelfed devs for allowing a actual photography platform to exist
shout out to the peertube devs for helping us not be stuck on youtube until the end of time
ETA: Shout out to the server operators who make the stuff be done
RE: https://mister.computer/@kyle/117582218820507208
Idiotic and myopic opinion, for a number of reasons, but the biggest is calling open source maintainers "gatekeepers" while somehow thinking that spending money on tokens from basically two multi-billion dollar losing companies is somehow liberating. Those are the gatekeepers. And they will come for their toll.
If you think this is liberating you're a fool, at best.
Je viens de lancer un de mes jeux préférés, que je n'avais pas touché depuis longtemps (The long dark). Dès le premier écran, je tombe là dessus :
"Nous pensons que le combat contre les LLM est une lutte existentielle pour l'âme de l'humanité."
Hinterland, je vous adore, merci d'être comme vous êtes.
The thread had fun with it. One commenter said "i'm open to the idea that its the NYTimes that needs a HN inspired version." Another asked, "What about the ads, the tracking, the pop-ups and the limited-time special offers?" And one said the layout "breaks the links up in a useful way," which is the part I'd actually miss if it went away.
It's not the first try at this, either. An older project on GitHub, paper-hn, calls itself a "Hacker News front page in the style of a print newspaper."
The idea keeps coming back because it works.
If you read Hacker News every morning anyway, I'd give this a week as your homepage. The biggest story gets the biggest headline, and a newspaper page shows you everything at once, which a list never quite does.
Coffee not included.
The lead is the story with the "highest total points on the current first Hacker News page," and the "other stories come from a bounded sample of the past 30 days," so a good thread from last week gets a second shot at page one. The masthead is "set in Manufacturing Consent," a font name that's a joke all by itself.
The person who built it, polpenn, explained it on Hacker News: "I thought it would be fun to browse HN as if it were a newspaper. The site updates once an hour."
The thread had fun with it. One commenter said "i'm open to the idea that its the NYTimes that needs a HN inspired version." Another asked, "What about the ads, the tracking, the pop-ups and the limited-time special offers?" And one said the layout "breaks the links up in a useful way," which is the part I'd actually miss if it went away.
It's not the first try at this, either. An older project on GitHub, paper-hn, calls itself a "Hacker News front page in the style of a print newspaper."
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Fediverse
Don’t just say how much you love them. Donate to your instances monthly and make it easier for them to be sustainable.
1996 me: ugh, my modem won't work on Linux.
2006 me: ugh, my wifi won't work on Linux.
2016 me: ugh, my bluetooth won't work on Linux.
2026 me: my daughter's drawing tablet works seamlessly on Linux on day 1.
Damn that's a good feeling.
Big thanks to the @gnome folks for making the setup such a breeze in @fedora - and to the @Krita folks for producing such an awesome tool for artists. And finally @davidrevoy that guided her through the basics of Krita. She's so happy.
Shouldn’t the stories say Jensen Huang and Alice Huang, no relation, …?
LOL
@scy Gen X: Worked hard, never trusted we’d actually be rewarded.
Pourquoi as-tu mis en rouge cette proposition ?
Cela semble aller dans la lignée de la Loi Lemaire non ?
@Bristow_69 @clement_la_baleine @Framatophe
Vous êtes nombreux à me poser la question donc j'ai répondu sous mon message : https://colter.social/@nicolasvivant/117583214196375267
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