And that Kitteh, never flitting, still is sleeping, _still_ is sleeping
On the padded chair of Purring just past the chamber door;
And her paws have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming,
And my dinner o'er her steaming growing colder to its core;
And my soul tired of waiting, I'll just sit upon the floor
A comfy butt—nevermore!

Misspiggy’s decwriter is accepting logins to the decsystem-570 running #unix version 7. You can connect yourself at https://connect.sdf.org #vintagecomputer #retrocomputer

Ok this SNL skit is good and all too real for many women caring for their aging parents.

The brother says "you'll still get 50% of the house she's deep cleaning."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X9dxL17t1k

@thomholwerda @hackaday If it works, it’s ok. AI is just another tool to get it done. I used to write programs in 8080 Assembler in the 1970’s, using new tools to get things done is perfectly acceptable.

@mcc @Cdespinosa I knew it had to be true before confirming it (and I checked nobody just edited) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Computers

> Acorn was chosen because the microcomputer system was to be expandable and growth-oriented. It also had the attraction of appearing before "Apple Computer" in a telephone directory.

As I look at the acres of sports coverage on TV, I'm reminded of the old quote from Noam Chomsky:

'One of the functions that things like professional sports play, in our society and others, is to offer an area to deflect people's attention from things that matter, so that the people in power can do what matters without public interference'.

Yup, sounds about right; as our political class fiddle while Rome burns, they try to distract us with sports.

#politics #ClimateChange #inequality

@shoq @indivisibleteam Exactly. The filibuster was created to help the minority defuse the tyranny of the majority. It doesn't matter what your policies are, at some point they will be in the minority and you need tools to hold your ground to,the greatest extent possible.

@mekkaokereke
Thank you. I've never gotten involved in candidates' presidential campaigns before the primaries.
Buttigieg and Newsom both fit Mekka's description. I will help a candidate defeat them.

@mercurial I do, and I'm cis male, and I made https://mypronouns.fyi if it's of any interest or use
although I've just checked and pronoun island is back so I need to update the about page claiming it's defunct!

@ohmu @mekkaokereke the blue wave should’ve dispelled these notions and I see signs both ways. But @mekkaokereke is right, as usual, that they better learn or Nov 2028 will not be a day of celebration.

@mekkaokereke

This is one reason I always want more people, first timers, to vote in primaries.

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/54402994

@jk That's what people with money think. But they're wrong. The best things in life are free.

somebody told me that americans are well known for something called a "puritan work ethic" which is where you try to never have fun. unfortunately, some small parts of work actually can be fun, or at least interesting, which is why the americans have recently been trying to invent a machine that does all the fun and interesting parts for you

@darth_hideout happy I would be if kiosk were R2.

Megaspeed says Alice Huang left in 2025 as company conducts internal probe over Nvidia fallout
https://apnews.com/article/singapore-megaspeed-alice-huang-nvidia-probe-e9e2e18169dce0b30a34f39715bf35ed?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Top Stories in News @top-stories-in-news-thenewsdesk

cross-posted from: piefed.social/…/piefed-v1-9-is-released-shared-bl…

New features

• Shared blocklists - these are like feeds except instead of listing communities to join it lists people to block. To to Account -> Blocklists to find this feature. Changes by the blocklist author effect all the people who subscribe to the list, causing them to block the list members. They federate, so you can subscribe to blocklists on other instances.
• Edit comments inline, without loading a separate page - wjs018
• Fediverse statistics at piefed.social/statistics
• 2-factor authentication (TOTP) - can be added to your account in the ‘Security’ page in your settings.

For admins

• Auto-ban based on the bans that instances you choose, with keyword matching on the ban reason. Go to /admin/users/auto_ban. Try putting ‘piefed.social’ in as the instance and ‘spam’ as the keyword filter. It’ll cut down on the work involved in running your instance SO much.
• Voting pattern graph on user profiles to help spot automated voting.
• Reset the password of any user.
• Lots of inauthentic behaviour reports for finding bots and serial downvoters, see /admin/votes and PM me for an instructional video. It’s a lot to take in but the video will explain it all.

API

• edit matrix user id when saving user profile data.
• scheduled post endpoints - wjs018

Plus a lot more bits and pieces, browse the list of recent releases in the 1.8.x line at codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/releases for details.

To upgrade from 1.8.x or earlier

git pull
git checkout v1.9.x

Then,

./deploy.sh or ./deploy-docker2.sh

Donations

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