We report: late afternoon, we have repeatedly spotted a squirrel running down the garden fences around here. We come here at this time specifically because we think we might spot it again. Coincidentally, it is lovely that the sunset happens at the same time (and the rain, too).

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

@rolle I must admit when I saw it for the first time I was like "What the hell is this?" But now I don't think it is horrible. I have a bit hard time to find new post -button but in general it feels pretty good. It always takes a bit time to get used to new things but in general I don't feel the update is horrible.

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@ariadne/117579594140229264

If free software is not about ethics, then what the fuck is its point.

I've started trying netbsd recently.

I was curious how well the linux compatibility layer works, so I compiled os-test on a musl-based linux machine, and ran the tests on netbsd.

What I immediately found was that there's apparently no sure fire way to distinguish the OS a given ELF binary targets. There is an "OS/ABI" field in the header, but it's typically set to "System V" even on Linux.

So netbsd relies on some heuristics. One of which is to look at the program interpreter. But netbsd only knows the name of the glibc dynamic loader, not the musl one.

So I've now landed my first contribution to netbsd, to teach it about the musl dynamic loader!

#netbsd #musl

It is possible to construct several narratives about how we got from then to now; the corporatisation of sponsorship, the wider reactionary movements against feminism, the normalization of authoritarianism, the centralization and fracturing of online spaces, and most recently those preaching the doctrine of claude et al.

They are all equally true, and just as equally entangled with each other.

Working together to destroy the illusion that there was a space with enough shared ground to work.

Dont forget the instance operators who actually keep the servers running. Donations keep instances up.

And if you can, send some money their way. This place runs on donations.

"Volpeon, what's wrong?" Nothing, I need no reason to scream.

Any laptop made within the last ... 15 years is probably capable enough to run a modern linux distribution (this is not the place to complain about linux) and a video editor like kdenlive and, having done so, it becomes as capable or more capable than basically any television studio prior to the proliferation of NLE.

A single decade old laptop (one that can still be reliably picked up on the used market for $100 or so) can reliably be used to produce *and distribute* film and television, as long as you have access to a decent camera (and you probably do!)

also there are domains within which the "it's not art/creative" arguments become very silly. look at generative art through the decades. look at shadertoy. it's all just a wide fuzzy spectrum between that and a compiler. checkmate! under Woke 3 you will be issued a beret and are required to wear it while programming.

• Lemmy, Piefed, PyLova, Mbin
• All the apps (and there are quite a few)
• All the alternatives UIs (Photon, Blorp, old, etc.)

Thank you everyone

Scriptable GeoDNS: leaving AWS for Bunny

https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2026-bunny-geodns

For someone that seemingly understands how western media has lied about their much less controversial enemies, one has to wonder why you’re supporting the same people that lied about WMDs in Iraq, with an equally ridiculous line of logic that isn’t supported by pretty much any part of the world outside the west.

They’re already here. If someone tries to fight with you unreasonably, leave a clarifying comment and let it go. They’re not as prolific here, but if you spend any time in news or politics communities, you’ve seen them.

Thanks, Lemmy folks! I have been, and intend to continue to be, intending to put up a server.

I’m sorry, in advance, for what is going to happen to all your hard work, as Reddit craters and all the oligarch bots start coming here to manipulate the populace / control the narrative.

As I’ve been saying since Usenet and Slashdot; it was good while it lasted.

I will continue to make very bad music*, maybe I can put AI out of business?
*(antimusic)

The next noise I am working on will be really horrible*
* I mean it in a good way.

unfortunately, by accident I made one track that almost sounds like music, my bad