Ah, the joke’s part of a quote - my first thought was you highlighting it might cause a po-faced editor to remove it.

I had a quick look, and all I could see is this post Taleya made where no-one made those claims.

I have a love-hate relationship with Logseq. I fantasise about rewriting it to better suit my needs, but it’s definitely a lot of work to do this for both desktop and Android.

My first thought was that Benn Jordan did a great bit of video journalism on this, but it’s already linked from the article, although without any other mention of it.

I wonder if you could write a valid program in two different languages using this technique.

Odd that piefed.social gets counted as a “Mastodon-ish” server instead of being counted with the Lemmy stats.

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Where that user is Claude? I think that’s the only username in my blocklist.

The Register started as the register.co.uk, so route and root would be homophones, but it seems that this author is American. Still, as a Brit I get to read it the fun(ner) way.

I’ve never used either so I looked them up; https://htmldecks.com/blog/slidev-vs-revealjs-2025.html says

Reveal.js is a JavaScript framework where you write HTML. It gives you maximum control, works without a build step (for simple decks), and has a decade of battle-testing. It’s the jQuery of presentation frameworks — not trendy, but reliable.

Slidev is a Vite-powered tool where you write Markdown. It gives you a modern developer experience with hot reload, Vue component support, and opinionated defaults that get you to a finished deck faster. It’s the Vite of presentation tools — fast, modern, delightful.

Anyone have any first-hand opinions?

in Little Miss Sunshine, Alan Arkin plays a grandad who practices and preaches that heroin is only for the old.

Isn’t picts-rs just something that runs on one server and just handles converting and resizing images? The new remote media storage stuff could run that, but the point is to allow more centralised servers so not every instance needs to individually store, process and transmit media.

Not just media, things like searching the Fediverse can be handled by a dedicated server, shared (or not) by multiple servers. Also spam detection, link preview generation, etc.

Playing the harmonica.

Your mouth cavity forms part of the instrument (like the body of an acoustic guitar) so you need to precisely control your lips, tongue, jaw, etc on top of the usual embouchure skills that you need for a wind instrument, while also being sure to only use the hole/holes you want. You get different notes when you blow and draw (suck), so you must control your breath so the note doesn’t squeak - unless you’re doing that on purpose, which lets you play notes outside the key of that particular harmonica. You also need to balance your in and out breaths so you don’t get too full or empty of air (a few notes have both in and out options to help with this).

I’m very bad at the harmonica.

We will implement a new Fediverse Auxiliary Service Provider (FASP) that will allow sharing storage and media processing between servers.

This is pretty big too, as the cost and legal risks of hosting this user content is high. They’ve clearly thought about the media moderation problems too:

We will build a reference implementation of a Automated Content Detection service, again as a new Fediverse Auxiliary Service Provider with an open protocol.

This will allow server owners to opt-in to use external tools to scan content for spam, illegal materials, etc in order to help them fight bad actors; they could self-host these tools if they choose to do so, or share the infrastructure with other servers for better efficiency.

I had to look it up too. You might want to stop reading after the Kangaroo paragraph.

Kangaroos are born after less than a month, and then climb into the pouch, attach to a teat and stay there for half a year before being ready to face the outside world.

Spotted Hyenas gestate for about 110 days and then have to make it though the mother’s pseudo penis, which can tear with first-time mothers (fatal to her) and can suffocate the cub (fatal to them) with cubs of first-time mums only having a 40% chance of surviving birth.

When Shakespeare mentioned it in Romeo and Juliet it was already old. The proverb “a cat has nine lives, for three he plays, for three he strays, and for three he stays” is older than the USA. Nine is often seen as an magic/auspicious number in Anglo-Saxon culture, which the US is very influenced by.

The multiple lives thing goes back to the ancient Egyptians, who believed cats were divine creatures and were incarnations of the goddess Bastet (who had the power to reincarnate herself nine times). The Bastet link makes me think that nine is the “right” number of lives.

https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/116335209525412306

Pure water has a pH of 7.0, which is neutral, although it will draw in C0₂ from the air and form carbonic acid so I guess you’re technically right. Sea water is slightly alkaline.

I don’t think you can now. I really dislike the new three-dots menu, now it’s hidden a bunch of functionality behind the “More” submenu solely to give an overly large amount of space to other options.

btw for others, If you don’t see the “Secret Settings” section, you can enable it by tapping on the Firefox logo a few times (it’s in About Firefox).

I would like to see more finely-grained feedback than just “no”. Particularly as it forces the voter to justify why they’re downvoting.

Some posts/contents are bad because they’re spam, abusive, or against the rules, or in the wrong place - downvoting these is useful crowd-sourced moderation, particularly for things that don’t warrant a mod report.

Some are just indisputably wrong and it’s a useful signal that the poster is talking rubbish. Then there’s the grey area.

Sometimes it’s just that the poster’s opinion is unpopular, and people are downvoting to suppress views they disagree with - I think that’s not a good thing for a discussion and encourages echo chambers. I like the idea of one of the downvote options being “I disagree” and that basically not doing anything.