🐙 Histoire naturelle
Paris: F. Dufart, 1799-1808 ;
NBC Los Angeles: 22 dogs, including 8 puppies, rescued from Oxnard river bottom
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/dogs-rescued-oxnard-river-bottom-ventura-county/3964686/
Ventura County Animal Services
Rejected halloween costume idea 🛸
One thing I thought of and explained as contrast to all the vibey stuff going on is the demoscene. Pushing the limits of old computers as art. There's no reason to do it except craft and joy.
But of course, this weekend I saw an article where someone tried to do just that. Even on HN people were saying, why? You're missing the point of the demoscene. There's nothing to "gain" from the demoscene other than community and craft.
If you're using an LLM to try to understand and explain to you how a technique works, I suppose that's one thing. But if you're using it to build a demo, why? Exploring the limits is only there for community joy. There's no other reason to do it.
But every community, the joy and artistry is torn out of it. Intellectual strip mining.
White cishet techbros leaving Fedi because we don't make them feel special is a feature, not a bug.
Sam Altman says he's gonna need your keyboard and mouse too.
Take 6d8 vibe damage
Hi, if you have not done the KDE desktop icon system survey yet, please do so <3 I will be writing blogpost this friday about all the data, and then I will start planning to get rid of these bugs for once and for all!
In case you haven't heard, the 2026 COVID vaccines are out so go get on that!
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New maps with November 1 data are out!
New maps with OpenStreetMap data from November 1 are now out. Press “Check for Updates” to see them in-app!
Also: Did you know that the State of the Map Spain conference will be held upcoming weekend in Madrid? You might be able to catch some CoMaps folks!
also, this isn't gonna surprise anyone who's paying even a little attention, but #Wordpress has become more maintenance-intensive because there is a higher volume of bots, and the bots have a wider array of more up-to-date exploits to try.
hey itch.io what's the point in deleting terabytes of genAI slop if you're not willing to even say that people shouldn't upload it
♬️ DEATH GUILD: HALLOWEEN LEFTOVERS at DNA Lounge starting now!
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2026/11-02.html?utm_source=sp_ma
#dnalounge #deathguild #gothic #industrial #synthpop #sanfrancisco
WFLA: PALM BAY, Fla. (WFLA) — The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission completed over 60 rescues on Monday after part of Florida’s Atlantic Coast was inundated with torrential rain.
Parts of Palm Bay and Melbourne received roughly two feet of rain in less than 24 hours, which led to catastrophic flooding across the area.
@ai6yr 2 feet of rain in 24 hours—yikes!
15: After telling me she asked someone to remind her to take her ADHD meds at lunch, and it being discovered that she had, in fact, not done this and then being asked why she said she had:
“I forgot that I didn’t ask them.”
I couldn’t even get mad.
Alors que le ministre de la justice Gérald Darmanin a annoncé que la reconnaissance faciale serait utilisée pour identifier les participant·es au mouvement social en cours, nous republions un extrait de notre brochure parue en mars 2026.
Ce texte revient sur les arguments historiques et politiques qui ne laissent pas d'autre choix que d'interdire purement et simplement la reconnaissance faciale.
https://www.laquadrature.net/2026/11/02/pourquoi-nous-sommes-contre-la-reconnaissance-faciale/
My sleep-in this morning was interrupted by a phone call from $dayjob in another state, with an emergency that (a) isn’t, and (b) couldn’t be solved today anyway because our support provider is in Melbourne, and presumably _is_ able to take public holidays off.
On this “public holiday”, I have now done work for every $dayjob site, including Melbourne where the “public holiday” is allegedly observed.
Get AI agents the fuck off Fedi!
They're an existential threat to small instances, and they're a primary contributor to moderator burnout.