In addition to two fascists losing elections in Serbia and Brazil yesterday, Oxford Street in London was closed to vehicular traffic and transformed into a pedestrian zone. 🥳

While you were asleep, Oxford ...

Why do so many sites slap up the "Accept notifications?" prompt while you're reading an article, the first. and possibly only time you'll ever go there?
Ditto mailing list field that sometimes looks like the login?
Simple web design has degraded drastically since 1995.

Giveaway time!

Indulge in an nostalgic soundscape as the music of Wrath of the Lich King reminds you of frozen Northrend or Diablo 2 and the The Siege of Mount Arreat

These vinyl box sets could be yours for

$8.29/multiples thereof for the next 40 minutes

https://desertbus.org/donate

#db20 #db2026

Walter Koenig Dead: 'Star Trek's' Pavel Chekov Was 90

But was iconic as Bester in Babylon 5.

#StarTrek #Babylon5
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/walter-koenig-dead-chekov-star-trek-russian-1236740088/

My work mac had an emoji tooltip glitch and it won't go away and I can't be bothered to fix it cuz 1) I don't have time, and more importantly 2) seeing it overlaid on work stuff on the screen cracks me up 😭

i share a birthday with Bridget? Fuck I can't even threaten her like I normally do when ppl steal my birthday that anime girl would kick my ass

S-1: as of September 30, Anthropic had 11,900+ customers spending $100,000+ annually, 1,900+ customers spending $1M+, and ~250 customers spending $10M+ (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/26/anthropics-ipo-filing-reveals-its-strategy-for-keeping-enterprise-customers-hooked/
http://www.techmeme.com/261026/p36#a261026p36

@aral 🙏💔 Please help me save my daughter. She urgently needs an operation, and I cannot afford the cost alone. Any donation, no matter how small, could help save her. Please donate or share my campaign. 🙏❤️‍🩹

The next round of the "Feminist Linux Meetup" in Vienna for FLINTA* people is on Wednesday, the 4th of November.

The topic is "Intro to using the Command Line with Bash".

In this workshop, we'll explore the bash shell together. bash is the most common shell for the Linux command line interface. We will also learn about some core concepts of Linux/Unix systems. The goal is to learn how to find your way around the system using the shell, how to interact with files and processes in the shell and how to combine simple commands to solve a more complex task. After the workshop, you will be able to interpret shell snippets commonly found on the internet and words like 'pipe' and 'fork' will have an additional meaning to you.

Additionally, we will have a few of the wonderful Wizard Zines by Julia Evans @b0rk lying around on writing shell scripts with bash, if you want to dig deeper.

Please bring a device running Linux, or macOS, or BSD. There will be a few spare devices if you don't have your own.

More details here: https://feminist-linux.diebin.at/2026/10/14/0x1f-intro-to-using-the-command-line-with-bash-on-november-4th/

Find the Wizard Zines here: https://wizardzines.com/

Wednesday, 4th of November 2026, from 17:30, Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7, 1030 Vienna, University of Applied Arts, room Flux1 on the 3rd floor: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/176477793

#vienna #wien #flinta #linux #bash

RE: https://timeloop.cafe/@apLundell/117504561021421035

Thinking about last night's #Monsterdon film, I think it would be prudent to pre-plan the curses you're going to shout at the villagers as they burn you to death.

You're probably not going to be thinking straight in the moment, so you want to have your speech memorized.

@show It's odd isn't it? Mine have no chance of developing but there they are, no watering, no fertilizer, nothing, and growing new ones like mad

For now, I will no longer be uploading to the #Debian NEW queue.

And yes, I will now go outside and do something nice instead of trying to argue on mailing lists about #LLM use in #FOSS. Maybe do the same. The weather is great outside. :)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2026/10/msg00263.html

@georgetakei 🫂🕯️

"Wessels." 😢

#rip

BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG

RE: https://mastodon.social/@TCatInReality/117507018878433551

The Small Web will be ready when they are.

@liaizon cigarettes arent but vaping is??? this will not stand

@_elena
A sad indictment of poor parenting

I was in my hardressers last week running my mouth off chatting about the damage AI is doing to society when the apprentice hair dresser, a stunningly good looking and intelligent young woman, piped in.

Oh, you mean ai assistants, its OK. I use it all the time. I did all my college work with an ai assistant and I passed all my exams.

I went on to warn her of her brain atrophying through lack of use.

They thought I was mad old retired bloke!

🔵 Vláda trvá na zrušení poplatků za ČT a ČRo
🔵 Návrh na disciplinární řízení proti Ševčíkovi
🔵 Vláda podpořila zakotvení koruny v ústavě
#ČT24