My wife and I drank a bottle of wine last night watching the latest Penguin and after it was over, we discovered there is the new (and final) season of My Brilliant Friend currently rolling out. Not sure how I missed this but it's already 7 episodes aired so we're binging until caught up.

Those 4 books are so damn good and the series is nearly as good. If you haven't read/seen it, I highly recommend doing so (both!)

Some shots of relaxing beach weekend in Popoyo, #Nicaragua.

Lou Dog always enjoys the views!

[$] A look at the aerc mail client

Email has become somewhat unfashionable as a collaboration tool for open-source projects, but there are still a number of projects—such as PostgreSQL and the Linux kernel—that expe [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/993498/ #LWN

I've never struggled so hard to figure how to do something so simple (ie, send a http request or spawn a process where I can read/write to it) than I have with #Lua. I know it has it's fans but jeez.

Most search results are from like 2007 and recommend using 3rd party gists or partial solutions.

We, the anonymous editors of the Stallman report, have published our investigation of Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation today to a general audience:

https://stallman-report.org

Our report exhaustively catalogues, analyzes, and offers a rebuttal of Richard Stallman's political program of sexual violence, catalogues credible allegations of misconduct, and documents the misconduct of the #FSF circa 2019 and 2021. Please read and share our work.

Boosts encouraged.

#freesoftware

Win or go home time. Let's go Dodgers!

#mlb #nlds

Discussion of sharing of nonconsensual nude imagery

Researchers uploaded 50 nude photos to X.

Then, it reported 25 of them for being nonconsensual. And the other as "copyright infringements."

X removed the copyright-reported nude images.
The nonconsensual nude photos stayed.

Please share.

Link to study: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.12138

#brandsafety

As Cat 4 Hurricane Milton prepares to wreck havoc on Florida, a reminder that Gov DeSantis rejected $11B in Federal aid meant to address climate & infrastructure, & banned the phrase "climate change" from Florida laws.

Republicans are proving "Don't Look Up" was a documentary.

#Milton

Dutch government announces that they'll make Mastodon available to all layers of the entire Dutch government, as a shared service of the government, starting in 2025!

The Mastodon pilot of the government celebrates their 1-year anniversary today, and as part of the evaluation they stated the Mastodon pilot "strengthens digital autonomy and [creates] a safe and reliable information supply".

Announcement (in Dutch): https://www.digitaleoverheid.nl/nieuws/1-jarig-mastodon-overheid-blikt-terug-en-vooruit/

In #Nicaragua, immigrants who just have residency (like myself) have to renew it every 6 months. It's an easy process but just usually very slow and very hot/uncomfortable/sweaty.

Today I had it done in record time. 2 hours and 10 minutes. Also wasn't terribly hot because we had both a tropical storm and a hurricane cover the country for the last week. So still a lot of residue cloud coverage. My own little silver lining.

Absentee ballot printed. Time to vote for a candidate who's not: 1) a convicted felon, 2) a grifter, and 3) orange.

This photo of the Bridge Fire in the hills behind Los Angeles speaks to the fact that we are in the midst of a cataclysm and the vast majority of people have no idea

Multiple analyses show that if Trump had simply invested his multi-million-dollar inheritance in an index fund and didn’t touch it, he’d be a lot richer than he is now.

Think about that. His entire life’s work has been less successful than if he’d done nothing.

Was on vacation last week. Did I miss anything good?

at a protocol level, the internet is only really capable of transmitting two types of data: TCP (True Crime Podcast) and UDP (Unlistenable D&D Podcast)

Lou Dog taking in the views... Happy weekend all.

#nicaragua #tropics

Wishing a happy birthday to my good friend @AndrewHacks! See you next week man!

9850 Americans or 0.0029% of Americans are worth $100M or more, and could be subject to Harris's 25% tax on unrealized gains.

265,200,000 Americans or 78% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.

The people who might 'only' be worth $75M want to lecture working Americans struggling to get by on how difficult life might become for them.

"We just sent you a temporary code by email. It will expire in 2 minutes"

Are you kidding me? These days with all the grey-listing and anti-spam measures it could take an email much longer than 2 minutes to arrive... Who in their right mind coded that?

I'm slowly becoming that old dude with random long ass ear hairs and I'm not sure how I feel about it.

An SQL injection bug that lets you bypass airport security and even JUMP SEAT. Sure. This is great. I’m not having a heart attack or anything. TSA response is definitely also chef’s-kiss. *breathes into a paper bag* https://ian.sh/tsa

Oh dealing with AWS support is such a joy.

Shit you see on the streets of Managua, #Nicaragua.

Tesla: Other than showing off, there is no reason to have one of these in Nicaragua (currently anyway, no real infrastructure or replacement parts here for this)

Motorcycle: You see people carrying all sorts of crap on their motorcycles here. I've seen a mid sized fridge once. But this one, takes the cake.

Mike Masnick on Zuckerberg’s cowardly letter to Jim Jordan:

"The only actual “news” out of all this is (1) Zuckerberg has no spine and simply cannot stand up to bad faith government pressure to change his moderation practices when it comes from Republicans (he was fine doing so when it came from Democrats) and (2) Donald Trump has accused himself of rigging his own election against himself.”

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/08/28/trumps-accidental-admission-and-zuckerbergs-surrender-the-real-takeaways-from-metas-letter/

Three days ago my #github account was apparently “flagged” (whatever that means).

I wasn’t notified about it. No email. No banner in my account. I only discovered it when a workflow I was testing wasn’t working and my signed commits were “unverified” because “no email address is associated with the committer”. A friend at work then told me my profile page 404’d.

8 hours later GitHub also deleted the codespace powering my GitHub pages-hosted website, taking it offline.

🧐

1/n

How come we never hear media report that in the year prior to 10/7—Hamas killed 250 Israeli civilians, kidnapped 800 Israeli kids, took 8000 Israelis hostage, & built more than 12,000 homes on Israeli land?

You know why?

Because Hamas did none of those things. In reality, in the year prior to 10/7, the Israeli Govt killed 250 Palestinian civilians, kidnapped 800 Palestinian kids, took 8000 Palestinians hostage, & built 12,000+ homes on Palestinian land.

But go on—pretend this all began 10/7.

Switzerland goes all-in on open source!

Switzerland pioneers a decision mandating all government software be released as open source: enhancing transparency and security.w

Public money, public code 🚀

#OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty #GovernmentTech @fsfe

https://www.zdnet.com/article/switzerland-now-requires-all-government-software-to-be-open-source/

@petersanchez That's good to hear.

I don't love wires but I like batteries less. 😂

Sunset and sunrise views from the hills in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua.

That's your wife?

https://www.reddit.com/r/curb/s/h6yYr1XtWw

Curb Your Enthusiasm is the funniest show ever. Fight me.

New coffee mug just dropped.

What a time to be alive.
https://botsin.space/@iss_whizz/112992553463503444

Randomly remembering the time I was walking down Venice Beach with my daughters and my buddy and his kids were with us. Enjoying the amazing SoCal weather when all of a sudden, a seagull drops a giant turd right on his eyeball.

Myself, and the kids, couldn't stop laughing even though he was in obvious pain. I haven't laughed that hard in a very long time. He had to get antibiotics and everything. Good times were had by all... well except my friend and his eyeball but the rest of us had a great day.

Hey #vegan fediverse folk. What's your go to breakfast for after a gym session that is NOT a smoothie? Preferably high in protein and carbs (I like power lifting).

Just looking for ideas to switch things up a bit. Decades of smoothies is starting to turn me off.

Please help me with a boost (bonk) so I can get all the gains. Thanks!

#fitness #nutrition #sumoischeating

“Go 1.23 is released” by @dmitshur — https://go.dev/blog/go1.23

#golang

Realizing I never honk'd about the movie Long Legs. Go watch it! It's one of the best of that genre that I've seen in a while. Nick Cage was actually amazing. Such a creepy performance.

I rarely go to the cinema to re-watch a movie but I think I'll do that once it arrives here in Nicaragua next week.

Olympic Australian break dancing has provided some of the best meme material I've seen in a while. Well done to my peeps down under.

It is now Wikipedia official, after a long and painful debate.

It is a genocide.

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

Sidebar: and it is so, because the US has ensured that it will continue to be funded and will do everything in its power to let it continue.

I'm so annoyed (I know I shouldn't be) that Phillip Pullman has yet to finish his Book of Dust trilogy. I've been waiting for the 3rd book for 5 years now.

I think I'll re-read the His Dark Materials trilogy again because it's been quite a while since I last read those and maybe it'll help shut me up about the current delay.