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forgot to announce the stream here today, but we got to 39 out of 1,447 on day 3! 🥳
to keep me accountable and make sure I don't make any sneaky progress offline, here's the Figma file: https://www.figma.com/design/EZt7Rt0KKdzXVtga8pB2in/Pidgin-Emoji
I want to do this on a regular basis, you can follow me on #Twitch: https://twitch.tv/planet_peanut_studio
@hbons the hearts are so cute with the rounding
Petersburg, Alaska is not exactly off the next highway ramp. It's a rural island with 3,000 people, but the FBI showed up there and knocked on doors.
I won't wax lyrical about a sky blue M5 MacBook Air because I'm capable of reading the room on a social network that disproportionately favours Linux and libre software, but the "new shiny" phase has passed and I still think that was a good purchase. 🙂
The main trade-off for home users is probably any gaming outside of Apple Arcade. There is no Steam Proton, and Apple frequently deprecates technologies that its own legacy game ports rely on, so to play old Windows games you pretty much have to buy licenses for Parallels Desktop & Windows 11. Although UTM does look like it's becoming a promising libre alternative.
I also suspect that people who want to get into Xcode development, perform demanding power user tasks, or work their day jobs on this thing would feel frustrated that it's not a more powerful & better ventilated MacBook Pro. Those are much more expensive though and frankly more than I need for casual web browsing, updating personal budget spreadsheets, and coding up a blog.
@trechnex I do fine gaming on my MBA, but it's: Luanti, World of Warcraft Forever, a lot of indie games from itch.io. Some stuff from Steam, tho macos is bitching about Intel going away,
Safari 27.3 Beta Adds Vertical Tabs and Adaptive Dark Mode
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/11/03/safari-27-3-vertical-tabs
@daringfireball iPad and Mac Safari already has vertical tabs. I use them for years. How could that be news, has everybody missed the sidebar in Safari?
Dark Mode for websites is great news. I hope for Compatibilty Mode, which disables all extensions and modifications.
“The Mad Gasser of Mattoon (also known as the Phantom Anesthetist) was the name given to an event of alleged mass hysteria in which a person or people allegedly committed a series of apparent gas attacks in Mattoon, Illinois, during the mid-1940s. More than two dozen separate cases of gassings were reported to police over the span of two weeks. The gasser's supposed victims reported smelling strange odors in their homes which were soon followed by symptoms such as paralysis of the legs, coughing, nausea and vomiting. No one died or had serious medical consequences as a result of the gas attacks.
“Although the explanation that the reports were only a case of mass hysteria is widely accepted, others maintain that a Mad Gasser actually existed.”
@jalefkowit can’t decide if “Mad Gasser” is a Laugh-In sketch or a treatment for Timecop 2: Fentanyl Rising
ORGANIC REDUCTION #BarbaraHolzer #JennyKreuger
Like to make things with strange constraints? of course you do.. Who can resist an inside out windows message pump and a tight x86 asm loop..
https://github.com/lardratboy/tiny-framework
Vous savez ce projet de taxe débile au giga-octet du Parti Socialiste ?
Les internautes ont déjà trouvé comment ruiner le Parti Socialiste... en téléchargeant un boucle un PDF sur leur site. 😄
https://lehollandaisvolant.net/?id=20261102170456
@octothorpe Human Disc Priest (I like being popular on dungeon runs)
@scottjenson Nice! I’m still undecided, but considering undead warlock, or sky elf rogue. I tend to not have a regular schedule, so I mostly solo, and like to level painlessly.
After a device reaches EOL status, the manufacturer should be compelled to unlock and make available for alternative operating systems.
Message from Europe,
To our American friends:
Needing to desperately scratch an anime itch, I've returned to #Funimation (#Crunchyroll) to try to find something in English that's well done and not entirely misogynistic to watch. What I've found is middle-aged shopper in another world Isakai and it's basically "Hey, what if we turned the home shopping network into an anime?"
I know it's something to do with contracts, but what the fuck did Funimation do to lose all the English dubs when they bought Crunchyroll?
Alberta is proposing a new law that would restrict post-secondary schools from being able to weigh in on social and political issues.
#Alberta #Abpili #Cdnpoli
#Education
https://globalnews.ca/news/12135014/alberta-advanced-education-statues-amendment-act/
My arsehole neighbours went to Spain for a week so I buried a child-sized plastic, Halloween skeleton from Tesco in a shallow grave in their garden.
Wow I was able to stick it out for another two years. However, it’s that time again!
Mastodon! I am looking for work!
I'm an electronics engineer with over five years of experience, I'm based in the Midlands (UK), however I am more than willing to move.
If anyone knows of anything - let me know!
I really like this takeout menu-style voter guide that the DSA of #SanFrancisco put out this year.
It links to this https://dsasf.org/dsa-sf-november-2026-voter-guide/
@docpop This is great design. One could probably move a box of these and barely even get arrested for it.
sharing pics of my daughters’ Halloween costumes to cleanse the timeline before tonight’s election results come in
Google cuts off search if schools block AI
Monopoly abuse? No such thing (for us)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v45znvgsXQ&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20261103-google-cuts-off-search-if-schools-block-ai - podcast
time: 4 min 13 sec
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/11/03/google-cuts-off-search-if-schools-block-ai/ - blog post
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