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Hi all, this is a cool place! Thinking of spinning up a Gopher server myself soon :)
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@movq Yeah I'm worried about this too. What's the systemic problem at paay here? Capitalism at it's extreme? 🤔
Its like TV. Very few good channels and many bad channels. Or like books. Very few good books and many bad books. Look for spezialized channels and educate your children. Read the bible.com . But only Jesus is reliable. Forget Moses and the punishing God.
> To combat malware and financial scams, Google announced today that only apps from developers that have undergone verification can be installed on certified Android devices starting in 2026.
>
> This requirement applies to “certified Android devices” that have Play Protect and are preloaded with Google apps. The Play Store implemented similar requirements in 2023, but Google is now mandating this for all install methods, including third-party app stores and sideloading where you download an APK file from a third-party source.
@movq TL;DR? 🤔
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I think social media ruined the Web. Think about how much happier and social people would be without those sites feeding themm inflammatory posts and articles.
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#Pyxel is a retro inspired #GameEngine for #Python, it's very impressive!

It's not hard to generate a static HTML page that loads your game to run on the browser with #pyodide (WASM). And it comes with an assets editor and a #chiptune making tool.

https://github.com/kitao/pyxel
#BolhaPreguiçosa Qual o equivalente brasileiro do Fourthwall / redbubble que permite fazer uma lojinha com camisetas, cacarecos, adesivos, etc. customizados com os seus desenhos?
Ben c'est pas dommage! Je regrette que de telles infos aient été conservée, naïf que je suis (note pour ce que ça vaut vu ce que j'ai pu entendre: je ne suis pas militant pro-homo, je suis hétéro, et en fait osef, chacun fait ce qu'il lui plaît tant que ça ne force personne). Don du sang : l’EFS supprime ses archives mentionnant les relations homosexuelles après une pétition
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https://www.jetset.nl/archive/john-paul-ringo-george #TheBeatles #tshirt
Sometimes it's a small thing, it's a bit jarring when orgs that want to pose as international/global publish some copy/event based on US school terms/seasons. That's a reminder of how other people are at the periphery and will be probably ignored most of the time. Isn't it obvious we have different school year arrangements & seasons around the world? I guess @melissawm@melissawm will share my sentiments about this.
I used to be able to sell my music anywhere in the world - and I have managed to send CDs to quite remote places, or kingdoms with nefarious regimes... but now, well, there is one country where I can not ship cassettes or CDs to: the USA 🇺🇸.

It's not like I'm expecting any loss: I rarely sell music, and when I do it is rarely to the states (I don't know why, I think my stuff ought to be way more popular! 😁). But still, it is disheartening to see there is now an effective wall, a country where I won't be able to (directly) reach. Congratulations to everyone involved.

[PS: if you're puzzled about what is this all about - a number of European countries, including Portugal, won't be shipping stuff to the US due to legal uncertainty regarding Trump's tariffs.]
I only learned about the .envelope object/propriety in #shapely yesterday, before that I used .bounds (a min/max of points tuple), but envelope is good to know because it provides an easy way of getting the centroid and the area of the bounding box, which can be very useful.
Interactive demo of #shapely's centroid for the triangle :)

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import py5
from shapely import Polygon, Point

def setup():
    py5.size(400, 400)
    py5.stroke_join(py5.ROUND)
    
def draw():
    py5.background(200)
    pts = ((100, 100), (300, 100),
           (py5.mouse_x, py5.mouse_y))
    xs, ys = zip(*pts)
    cx = sum(xs) / len(xs)
    cy = sum(ys) / len(ys)
    tri = Polygon(pts)
    py5.no_fill()
    py5.stroke_weight(1)
    py5.stroke(0, 200, 0)
    py5.shape(Point(cx, cy).buffer(5))
    py5.stroke(0, 0, 200)
    py5.shape(tri.envelope.buffer(2))
    py5.shape(tri.envelope.centroid.buffer(5))
    py5.stroke_weight(3)
    py5.stroke(0)
    py5.shape(tri)
    py5.fill(0)
    py5.shape(tri.centroid.buffer(2))

py5.run_sketch(block=False)

#py5 #python #creativeCoding
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James Gleick: "The lie of AI"
https://around.com/the-lie-of-ai/
Long read, it starts with Claude Shannon and Markov chains...
@movq Yeah I just got a bit curious after watching your video and reading your OP 😅
@movq Haha yeah rightio, and yeah inches suck 🤣
Tiens, cool ça, pour se prêter des trucs entre voisins: https://lesecolohumanistes.fr/lecologie-au-quotidien/pret-entre-voisins/
@movq What do you define as "expensive"? 🤔 (I've always thought of modern-day painters as a "rip", and the ink my god 🤯)
@movq Is there like a TL;DR of this standard? I can't say I remember this tbh 🤔
@movq Got a link to this

> ESC/P standard.
@movq Are you sure?

> because there is virtually no market for these devices anymore, meaning new ones are very, very expensive.

I think dot matrix printers are still pretty common in many Point of Sales (POS) registers right? At least here in AU they're very common. I had a quick look myself today, there seems to be quite a solid market for these types of printers. In fact even EPSON still sell Dot Matrix printers themselves 🤣
@movq Kind of curious now... Is there a (to buy new) dot matrix printer you'd recommend if someone wanted to get into this sort of thing (sending plain 'ol bytes to a printer port)? 🤔 (I remember this back in the ye 'old days!)
[47°09′05″S, 126°43′31″W] Saalmi, retransmit, please
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[47°09′19″S, 126°43′53″W] Dosimeter fixed
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#Python is for artists too @ #SescAvPaulista
(Oficina do Clubinho Gráfico aos domingos) "#Python for artists" button
Oh, j'ignorais ça à propos des messages sur l'acceptation des cookies trop chiants. ublock peut les désactiver. Merci fredg! https://galusik.fr/log/2025-08-24-ublock-petit-setup-ameliore.html
[47°09′56″S, 126°43′32″W] Dosimeter overflow
[47°09′49″S, 126°43′46″W] Dosimeter still failing
#Diátaxis and #Python #documentation

https://discuss.python.org/t/diataxis-and-python-documentation/41836
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[47°09′00″S, 126°43′33″W] Storm recedes -- back to normal work
[47°09′17″S, 126°43′57″W] Automatic systems disengaged due to blizzard
Your welcome a413f
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Sinfonias de Aço (de Manuel Melo)
(aos Sábados das 12h às 15h, na Rádio Barcelos)
Emissão de 23 Agosto 2025

39 músicas de bandas portuguesas, incluindo 7 que integram o catálogo da ANTI-DEMOS-CRACIA:

. The Dreams Never End - Perdido
. Marciano - John Said
. Ameeba - Lizard Face
. Sci Fi Industries - TriVial
. Kokori – Time Traveler (sedation mix)
. Turning Point – Espelho
. Zero à Esquerda - Porque Tens Tanto Poder

https://www.sinfonias.org/playlists/1961-playlist-podcast-23-agosto-2025

#kokori
Sinfonias de Aço (de Manuel Melo)
(aos Sábados das 12h às 15h, na Rádio Barcelos)
Emissão de 23 Agosto 2025

39 músicas de bandas portuguesas, incluindo 7 que integram o catálogo da ANTI-DEMOS-CRACIA:

. The Dreams Never End - Perdido
. Marciano - John Said
. Ameeba - Lizard Face
. Sci Fi Industries - TriVial
. Kokori – Time Traveler (sedation mix)
. Turning Point – Espelho
. Zero à Esquerda - Porque Tens Tanto Poder

https://www.sinfonias.org/playlists/1961-playlist-podcast-23-agosto-2025

#kokori
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De la lecture pour écrire du C moderne: https://github.com/jetm/Modern-C-Guidelines
w3m rocks: https://w3m.rocks/howto/
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Who knows some dialup accounts for old computers before 1992?
bluedwarf.top is a very nice social media adress. Thanks!
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internet is dead
O segundo dia de #Extramuralhas 2025 foi assim. Pink Opake Darkways LA BOUM BRUTE esteve bem boum Suicide Commando
O segundo dia de #Extramuralhas 2025 foi assim. Pink Opake Darkways LA BOUM BRUTE esteve bem boum Suicide Commando
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J'ai fait du tri dans /log aujourd'hui. Des choses qui ne sont plus d'actualité, d'autres que je préfère oublier
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I’ve been doing this for so lang that I’ve unlearned how to do this.
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Um exemplo do conceito de #PublicMoneyPublicCode posto em prática, desta vez em #Lisboa. Precisamos mais disto!

@EsquerdaNet@EsquerdaNet https://masto.pt/@EsquerdaNet/115071753190472828
Um exemplo do conceito de #PublicMoneyPublicCode posto em prática, desta vez em #Lisboa. Precisamos mais disto!

@EsquerdaNet@EsquerdaNet https://masto.pt/@EsquerdaNet/115071753190472828
Um exemplo do conceito de #PublicMoneyPublicCode posto em prática, desta vez em #Lisboa. Precisamos mais disto!

@EsquerdaNet@EsquerdaNet https://masto.pt/@EsquerdaNet/115071753190472828
guys try Bluedwarf.top its so good and it works on every single browser even ones from 1990 its the best social media youll find
im 2929b
Un nouveal article où je parle du nouveau markup orienté plaintext que je me suis amusé à bricoler: https://si3t.ch/log/2025-08-22-amore-a-more-readable-plaintext-markup.txt
@lyse Aww, yeah. 😍 (Reminds me, I haven’t paid attention to the sunset in quite a while …)
@lyse When/if I can pull it off, there _will_ be videos! 😅

I never used hardcopy terminals, either. We did have a dotmatrix printer, but that was just used as a regular printer.

Inkjets, I don’t know. They were pretty fascinating and cool when they came out. A lot faster than dotmatrix and obviously quiter. They never gave me much trouble, actually. But I switched to a laser printer long before crap like DRM’ed ink cartridges became a thing.
Here’s an interesting thought/angle on this topic:

gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2025/08/21.1

> A further check showed that all the network blocks are owned by one organization—Tencent [4]. I'm seriously thinking that the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) encourage this with maybe the hope of externalizing the cost of the Great Firewall [5] to the rest of the world.
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Muh minimalism: https://intr.cx/blog/muh-minimalism
We are considering a service that allows linking user handles to make cross-posting between networks like Mastodon and Bluesky easier.https://maurice-renck.de/en/blog/2025/user-handle-mapping
...God bless USA and mr. Trump
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Hello guys
@twtxtory it is designed that way on purpose 🤣
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:)
<(^^;)/
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Sooooooooo, things happened, and I now have a dot matrix printer again. 😍😂

(One of the end goals is to simulate a hardcopy terminal on my old box. I’m waiting for another cable to arrive, I don’t have USB there. And then use ed(1) like it was meant to be used! 😅)

https://movq.de/v/850e04ba36/VID_20250821_180801.mp4.mp4

https://movq.de/v/850e04ba36/closeup.jpg
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That's why I like my #getkirby setup so much: I wanted to add the recent five episodes of our podcast and the recent five posts of our Sociabli blog to my homepage. And all I had to do was add this to the controller:https://maurice-renck.de/en/notes/2025/that-s-why-i-like-me-kirby-setup
@clima@clima São Paulo
Sabem o que é uma #rapidinha ? Não é isso, pá!, na #musiquinta é uma música com menos de 3 minutos. E como hoje começa o #Extramuralhas 2025, a música que escolho é uma rapidinha da Meredith Monk:

https://thehousefoundation.bandcamp.com/track/nota
Sabem o que é uma #rapidinha ? Não é isso, pá!, na #musiquinta é uma música com menos de 3 minutos. E como hoje começa o #Extramuralhas 2025, a música que escolho é uma rapidinha da Meredith Monk:

https://thehousefoundation.bandcamp.com/track/nota
Sabem o que é uma #rapidinha ? Não é isso, pá!, na #musiquinta é uma música com menos de 3 minutos. E como hoje começa o #Extramuralhas 2025, a música que escolho é uma rapidinha da Meredith Monk:

https://thehousefoundation.bandcamp.com/track/nota
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Yesterday I published a short post about #mastodon instances. It's a simple description for new users, because this concept might still be a bit confusing:https://sociab.li/blog/2025/mastodon-what-are-instances-and-why-should-i-care/
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"Cave of the Hands"

https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/936/
A very good one:
"Whatever AI Looks Like, It’s Not"

(notice the photo by Thomas Schmitt that illustrates the article)

https://archive.ph/I4nRA
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yet another monologue about how to computer | https://nilfm.cc/new_flow.html
Uma irritação cada vez mais frequente:
Gente fumando no ponto de ônibus!
Poxa, vá fumar no seu canto e não incomode quem precisa esperar o ônibus.