Random link from the archives: "Talkin' 'Bout tiny Games - YouTube" https://web.archive.org/web/20190505135935/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFvsZOMFig4 originally retrieved Sun May 5 13:59:35 EDT 2019

🎵 What doesn't kill you makes you paranoid 🎶

Pumpkin Head Pixel Art Brings Halloween to the Commodore Amiga
#PumpkinHead #ColinThomson #CommodoreAmiga #AmigaPixelArt #PixelArt #Amiga #Halloween #RetroComputing
https://theoasisbbs.com/pumpkin-head-pixel-art-brings-halloween-to-the-commodore-amiga/?fsp_sid=15985

@passthejoe

I'd expect the soft-hyphen to look weird in certain conditions because it shows up conditionally, allowing a word to break at a given location and show the hyphen, or if it doesn't need to break there the hyphen gets hidden/collapsed.

Each has their usage rules, and I try to stick to using the Right™ one in each situation (though rarely use the soft-hyphen).

It feels like there's either something funky about @rl_dane's configuration, or things aren't getting entered properly.

I just tested multiple machines here with a mix of (fairly stock) FreeBSD & OpenBSD and

«compose»«minus»«minus»«minus» gives an em-dash: —

«compose»«minus»«minus»«period» gives an en-dash: –

and

«compose»«minus»«minus»«space» gives an soft-hyphen (here between "water" and "melon" which should appear if the wrapping forces a break there: water­melon

@covercash @khaost @macrumors I do love my videos and web pages.

@stux forget taxing them. Forced expropriation. Don't even wait until they're dead.

“In an embarrassing misstep…Flávio Bolsonaro was arrested by ICE agents just moments after he landed in Miami. …DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said that the agents mistook Bolsonaro for a Latino man they had chased earlier this week… ‘But once he offered proof that he was a fugitive money launderer, they let him go.’” (The Borowitz Report)
https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/bolsonaro-accidentally-arrested-by
#satire #flaviobolsonaro #bolsonaro

another (hopefully last) downtime for the forum's "login with Delta Chat" function...

Serval, which offers AI agents for enterprise IT operations like access management, raised $150M led by Sequoia at a $3B valuation, up from $1B in December 2025 (Harshita Mary Varghese/Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/business/serval-triples-valuation-3-billion-businesses-adopt-ai-workflow-automation-2026-10-29/
http://www.techmeme.com/261029/p29#a261029p29

@th Yeah, it's dumb. I mean, I totally understand why they do that kind of stuff. They don't want people to use the devices as a beachhead into their cloud service(s). It makes sense. I just wish they provided a program that would unlock the chip, erase the flash, and reset the chip. At least then it could be reprogrammed and used for something.

/1

Can Democrats fix the U.S. economy?
Polls show that Americans rank economic issues as the most important, including affordability and inflation. With the Republicans controlling the White House and Congress, this should benefit Democrats. But what could a Democratic Congress actually do?

A curated collection from @ElectionCentral: https://flip.it/nMKEMi

#Midterms #Economy #Politics

Fastmail now supports Dynamic DNS for domains whose DNS we host.

It speaks dyndns2 for many routers and ddclient, plus a one-line API for your crontab. Tokens only write to records you've opted in to, never A/AAAA, MX or DKIM.

For some, this blocked hosting DNS with us. Remove it, and we can handle MX, SPF and DKIM. The post walks through exactly how it works.

It's opt-in. Nothing changes unless you set it up.

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/keep-your-home-server-reachable-with-dynamic-dns/

#Fastmail #DynamicDNS #selfhosted

@hotdogsladies Yeah, it’s Lenny Bruce.

(…or maybe Lester Bangs.)

This illustration is quite old, but i still think I did a great job at capturing the essence of black cats!

Mini prints are available 👀 https://evanskyarts.com/products/black-cat-mini-print

#art #illustration #cat #cats #catsOfMastodon #blackCat #cute #artist #DigitalArt #SmallBusiness #GiftIdeas

I sat near Proby, Baron, and Creed at the Merchant Strangers’ table; where ten good dishes to a messe, with plenty of wine, of which I drunk none; but it was very unpleasing that we had no napkins nor change of trenchers, and drunk out of earthen pitchers and wooden dishes.

(Alas, a bit click-baity, the train bandits were not wearing lingerie on their train heists 🤪 )

LA Times: Investigators find Victoria’s Secret wear, guns, cash and 9 suspected train bandits with cartel ties

(paywall)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-10-28/san-bernardino-alleged-cargo-train-theft-ring

I used to be a fierce advocate of low-contrast themes (to the extent that I ported Zenburn to the console) but eventually I realized that was because I was keeping my monitor way too bright. Nowadays my biggest problem is monitors that don't get dim enough.

GOG and Retrovibe team up for indie game publishing https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/gog-and-retrovibe-team-up-for-indie-game-publishing/

#GOG #Retrovibe #PCGaming #Gaming

@rl_dane @gumnos

I'm not sure if this adds to the discussion, but Unicode 2014 (em dash, seen on line 1) and 2013 (en dash, seen on line 2) look the same in the gVim I'm using right now in Windows on my #dayjob laptop:

Do you know why programmers always mix up Halloween and Christmas? Because Oct 31 = Dec 25

https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-26-44/