Firefox should really strip down the browser to the core, make that performant and secure. Maybe even improve extension interfaces and then deliver whatever "AI" nonsense they want through extensions. Would make it so easy to stop having to talk about kill switches and how "hard" those are […]

#aurora visible from Lake County, #southdakota

just added the MEGA TERMINAL CHEAT SHEET from "The Secret Rules of the Terminal" to our list of posters at https://wizardzines.com/#posters

Whenever I see "GenAI basically can do the work of a junior dev", I assume that those people are using junior devs very differently from me. To me, the value of a junior developer is maybe like 20% the code they write, and 80% is a down payment to a future where they no longer are a junior. I […]

Just realized I forgot to post my annual advice to college students before the school year started – but well, it's never too late to start:

- GOING THE FUCK TO CLASS

- GOING THE FUCK TO BED

- DOING YOUR FUCKING HOMEWORK

THIS IS THE MAGICAL TRINITY OF NOT HATING YOURSELF OR FEELING YOU'VE […]

OMFG, I own a piece of history.

Bob Kuttner checks in from Norway, where there's a Museum of the National Resistance depicting the ways the Quisling government during WWII was undermined. He wonders what the museum depicting today's resistance would look like.
prospect.org/politics/202...

Twisted's coding standard for our #restructuredtext files is to use what we have termed "semantic newlines". That is to say: every sentence is on its own line. In principle, I like this. It means smaller, more readable diffs, and less pointless churn. In practice, with my #emacs fill-paragraph […]

Is there some idiomatic way to edit files like this? I am really close to writing a bunch more elisp and I am so tired

I have an idea for a program to promote businesses that are good for the environment because they help people repair things. Places like tailors, cobblers, electronics repair are all at risk of vanishing along with the skills required to do these things.

Right at a moment when we should be […]

There needs to be:

* incentives to manufacture things that can be repaired
* a general shift to see repairability as a sign of quality, luxury and responsibility
* training a new generation to do the work
* support for these trades so it's a viable way of life

Having a job fixing things is one […]

WTAF?????

#newark Mayor #rasbaraka #arrested for alleged trespass at #newjersey #ice detention facility

Mayor #baraka was arrested for allegedly trespassing inside a US #immigration & Customs Enforcement #detention center in his city.

"He has been taken into custody," #alinahabba, a fmr […]

Way to go Greyhound!

Do you all deserve another Benny Beagle picture?

Of course you all deserve another Benny Beagle picture!

April 6, 2025. Kensington Metropark, Milford, Michigan.

#beagle #beagles #dog #dogs #michigan #dogsofmastodon #photography

Happy National Library Week!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Library_Week

Some things you can do this week to celebrate:

- Get yourself a library card, if you haven't already, or help someone else sign up!
- Check out your library's free […]

[Original post on stefanbohacek.online]