Fedizen · Fedizen

@computerchronicles@mastodon.social 2 hr. ago

In 1985, "Computer Chronicles" covered The WELL, an early online service founded by Stewart Brand and Larry Brilliant. In 1999, Salon.com acquired what remained of The WELL. Salon's founders were WELL members who developed their initial business plan in a private forum on the service.

Today, Salon shut down. But The WELL (well.com) endures. Salon sold the service to a group of longtime members in the 2010s.

https://www.salon.com/2026/11/05/goodbye-from-salon/

Salon.com

Goodbye from Salon - Salon.com

It has been an extraordinary privilege.

Mono IV

@mono@shitposter.world 38 sec. ago

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Ryan

@ryan@hachyderm.io 3 min. ago

Neil Brown

@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk 40 sec. ago

Dgar boosted

cubie

@rachael@mastodon.thewarrens.name 4 min. ago

@dgar shelters get a high rate of returned darleks in the new year
these darleks are often in horrible condition and take lots of time and money to be up for adoption again

Deviant Ollam

@deviantollam@defcon.social 10 min. ago

Occasionally I post on the internet looking to hire an artist for a commissioned work. Today is such a day.

1. This is an old ad (allegedly, anyway, it pops up all over the internet but I have an incredibly high res scan of it)

2. I would like to change the bottle seen in that ad to a bottle bearing this label (and add the fleur embellishment and so forth, etc)

This is more than a mere photoshop job, which is something that I could do myself. I'm looking to of course match the overall antique look and feel of the original ad. So whether that's some digital painting or someone who's WAY into filtering and processing, we shall see.

Hit me up with your rates and turnaround time if you're interested.

2 media files

vintage looking ad for Bourgeois Absinthe, showing a bottle and a pontarlier glass on a table. A black cat is sticking their face into the glass to lap some up.

Image of a bottle of Esprit Edouard absinthe by Jade Distilling. It is my favorite absinthe at present.

Jason844 🙃

@Jason844@mastodon.social 1 min. ago

@deviantollam Hope you can find a good artist. And methinks someone has gotten hooked on absinthe!

Dgar

@dgar@aus.social 1 min. ago

GOG Galaxy arrives on Linux.

https://youtu.be/LcjptSS0-e4

#gog #linuxgaming

Jari Vuorijoki

@jvuorijoki@mastodon.nu 2 hr. ago

@Mabande vad menar du? De hade väl skrivit att problemet är just det.

L'égrégore André ꕭꕬ

@Mabande@mastodon.social 2 min. ago

@jvuorijoki Måste erkänna att jag skrev innan jag läst hela artikeln och den blev ju lite bättre, men tyngdpunkten läggs ändå på att det är inte så mycket ändå och jämför med bilkörning och sen den ganska barocka jämförelsen mellan att skriva och prompta en helsida (barock p.g.a. att de ignorerar energin som krävs för att kolla/rätta det genererade utan kallar det bara "effektivisering").

Blurry Moon

@sun@shitposter.world 2 min. ago

@grey I liked a couple of the early ones like where homer buys her a saxophone

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Hadeel _Um Hamza & Jouri

@gaza_hope@mastodon.world 2 hr. ago

Tomorrow is Friday. My children asked me for chicken, just one simple meal
I have no money to make even this small wish come true. Their father lost his foot in the war, and I am struggling alone to feed them
Please, someone help me put a proper meal on my children's table tomorrow. Even a small donation could make them smile @delsaulnier @kathimmel @DailyGaza @SOOTHING_FLAMES @YellowTurtle @PhoenixSerenity @dacig @TheCentralScrutinizer @leftyknowitall @TheSwiv @simon_brooke @RFancio @hembrow

busy mouse

@algernon@come-from.mad-scientist.club 4 hr. ago

busy mouse

@algernon@come-from.mad-scientist.club 2 min. ago

I've been thinking.

In iocaine 4.x, I will not implement per-server initial-seed. I don't think anyone ever used it. I will also change the default seed to be time-based: when iocaine starts up, it'll set the seed based on the current time (chosen so that a new seed would be chosen every 67 hours or so). I might make that configurable too.

In practice, this means that iocaine will choose a time-based seed on startup, and if you restart it within 67 hours, that seed will remain the same. So if you restart it every week or so, it'll have a different seed, and will provide different garbage. That's a change from the iocaine 3 default, where the initial seed was always empty, and thus, the content never changed, unless the seed was also changed.

The syntax will be like:

initial-seed "string"
initial-seed file="/path"
initial-seed from-time="67h"

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Scary Austin

@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social 12 min. ago

UPDATE: We even got the Cheesecake Factory in the national divorce!

Matt Grossman via Courier News says "It's a golden age for immediate post-election AI data analysis. We get important stats like Dems won Cheesecake Factory counties by 29 points."

Ridiculous AI summary of election results shows Dems took roughly 2/3 majorities in counties that have a Cheesecake Factory. — Matt Grossman via Courier News says "It's a golden age for immediate post-election AI data analysis. We get important stats like Dems won Cheesecake Factory counties by 29 points." Ridiculous AI summary of election results shows Dems took roughly 2/3 majorities in counties that have a Cheesecake Factory.

Neil Brown

@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk 3 min. ago

Ryan

@ryan@hachyderm.io 3 min. ago

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Gerry McGovern

@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green 15 min. ago

Green colonialism and Indigenous erasure

To launder its international reputation, Israel greenwashes the damage it does to Palestinian land, life and water. It brands itself as an environmental steward by boasting of technological innovation, ecotourism and climate smart agriculture. The reality is much darker.

https://twn.my/title2/resurgence/2026/368/human1.htm