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Authoritarian Babyism

Phil

If you're lucky to be under the age of 16, congratulations! You will still be allowed to access this site from April next year. But if you want to watch more or less identical content on YouTube or TikTok, or the Prime Minister announcing decisions about your future, tough. If you're 16 or 17, you...

politics labour the internets

v0.7.10 Crash fix

Simon Dalvai

I hopefully found the bug that showed about 10% crash rate on Google Play Console. It was a bug with the new team view tab change buttons. When the last or first tab was open and then the arrows where clicked, the game crashed. A simple out of bounds error, but I added some asserts now, so that...

Here’s The Rub: We Don’t Believe You

rands

Welcome, new leader. We’re glad that you are here. Your arrival fills a critical vacancy in our team, and we can’t wait to see what you can do at this company. We’re going to say that we’re not in a hurry and you should take your time, but we’re in a hurry. Before you arrive, we’re going to...

management

You're a copy editor? Uh ...

John McIntyre

It took many conversations, but my wife, Kathleen Capcara, finally perfected a response. "Kathleen, what does your husband do?""He's a copy editor for The Cincinnati Enquirer [or] The Baltimore Sun.""Copy editor? What's that?""He's kind of an English teacher for the newsroom."Thus she summed up...

Shooting Game Kari | Easy 1CC | PC

bcengine

Freeware shmup, possibly a remaster/remake? Inventive laser use near end. Cleared on first try. The game uses a life bar, which was a first for me. Kind of surprising/strange mechanic. Not usual. Not sure if I'll go back and play it on harder difficulties. Steam link:...

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Nobody clicks your share buttons

Ankur Sethi

(Via rendezvous with cassidoo.)I've always wondered if anyone actually used the social sharing buttons embedded on news sites and (some) WordPress blogs.Derek Hanson digs into the numbers: The UK government ran one of the most thorough studies on this. When GOV.UK added social sharing buttons,...

Linkage

David Eppstein

Biomedical papers with fabricated references blew up by more than a factor of ten from 2023 to 2026 (\(\mathbb{M}\), via). Relatedly, arXiv has added a new policy banning author of papers with hallucinated citations or other artifacts of unchecked LLM use for a year (and after that permanently...

Our Three-Part Vacation Strategy

Allen Cheung

I've been sneaking vacation photos into my Year in Review posts, as we've had the opportunity to go farther away in recent years. The travel switch flipped when the kids got old enough to remember their adventures, so that during these trips, we can emphasize differences in culture and lifestyles...

photography design places

Pacts

Doug Muder

guy has a trillion dollars, 0 friends, and has never landed a joke. I know a pact with the devil when I see one. - Amy (@lolennui.bsky.social) This week's featured post is "What to make of Graham Platner". Ongoing stories Trump's assault on American democracy. Our rapidly declining...

Being autistic helped me as a teacher aide

autisticteacher

When I found out I have autism as an adult, I was unsure of the pathways that would accommodate my disability. Since I had already dropped out of university, I had more opportunities to try out my pathways as a newly graduated high school student. My best friend told me I can attend TAFE...

Surprising Cutaway Views of Human Heads

Adam Rowe

Brains. We all have them, technically speaking. What this post presupposes is... maybe we don't. Or at least, maybe science fiction illustration has a rich history of replacing brains with something else entirely.I realized this accidentally last year, when I was trying to put together a look at...

Farm Log #9

Andrew Spittle

Prior to this year I could not have told you what a broccoli plant looks like. It turns out it’s mostly dark, abundant leaves. They first rivaled and have now surpassed the kale for the crown of our leafiest plant. The challenge, as we’ve learned, is that it’s all ready at...

farm

COMPOID cracks

info

Two cool things appeared in the Amiga BBS-world: * 100 download codes for COMPOID was released by Bandcamp Bandits, available at least on The Northern Place, DiGiTAL HiGHWAY, Fastline and METAL iMPACT. * A telerip of Telephone Radio Hotline with the crunchy phone audio provided in 24-bit 48khz....

ramblings

Raven RF Mostly Works

Belghast

Good Morning, Folks! I am still mostly playing Path of Exile II with brief flurries of Spirit Crossing. This weekend brought a bunch of changes in my build, and I will catalog them shortly. On the personal side, Sunday is generally the low point in my recovery, and from this point forward,...

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The First Mrs. Bennett

Undine

William Bell Scott, Woman Startled by the Ghost of a Girl by a MirrorSecond marriages can be awkward, especially when the ex-spouse has issues with their former partner entering into a new union.  If said ex-spouse happens to be dead, you know your domestic life has well and truly entered Strange...

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antechei

i wish i could be brave enough to die. or else stop feeling like its the only way out of this. living in between these two states for so long is a unique and awful kind of hell. im so tired.

The Answers Are Already In The Building

john garrett

There's a consulting industry worth hundreds of billions of dollars built on a surprisingly simple arbitrage: companies pay outsiders enormous fees to tell them what their own employees already know.It's one of the great ironies of organisational life. The person in the corner office, armed with...

I don’t believe in karmic balance.

Joe Crawford

But maybe I do. When last I posted, I mentioned that I lost a fin in the big surf. That was on June 9, Tuesday. I've lost stuff before. A fin in 2025, which I got back. And 2021, which I didn't. And gotten them back before. So when I left early to take see if the fin might have turned up on the...

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The New Bus Departure Displays Nobody Asked For

Mert Bulan

Some things become the symbol of a city. Think of London, and the red bus, the black cab, or the red telephone box comes to mind. When I think of Hamburg, the first things I picture are the red bins with their cheeky slogans, the red StadtRAD bikes, the white-on-blue street signs, and the LED bus...

public transportation

Building a Custom Drone Controller from Scratch — Part 3: Firmware Architecture (HAL Pattern, Non-Blocking Loop, and the Flight State Machine)

@popolony2k

In Part 1 we talked about why this project exists and what hardware it runs on, and in Part 2 we reverse-engineered the UDP protocol that lets an M5Stack AtomS3 talk to a cheap WiFi toy drone. Before going further into flight control and gamepad support, it’s worth stopping to look at how the...

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Moviedrome: Welcome to the Cult

ian holloway

'Moviedrome' ran, intermittently, on BBC2 from May 1988 to June 2000.  The format was simple, hosts Alex Cox (series 1-7) and Mark Cousins (series 8-12) introduced a 'cult movie', or two, of the sort that were almost never shown on British TV and, in those halcyon years, long before the arrival of...

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How I Got a Job in Compilers

abm-77

IntroI won't sugarcoat it: getting a job in compilers was kinda rough. SWE jobs have already been getting more and more competitive with the advent of AI, but compiler engineering specifically has always been a bit elusive, especially for junior folks. Most of the already-few postings for such...

career compilers

The Moyle Mines

Jack Shear

We had to skip a week due to gallery stuff and internet issues, but we were finally able to conclude the Krevborna group's delve in the Moyle Mines. CharactersDario Diego Durant, swashbuckling swordsmanDoctor Anastasia Nadya Strahov, a gun-priest who says strange thing about bloodJohanna Albrecht,...

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