I love all you tech people very much but I have no idea what you're talking about most of the time.

باز هم اربعین و داستان پیدا نشدن اتوبوس

در عربی واژه‌ای هست که من معنای آن را دوست دارم: «بَثّ».

بَثّ اندوهی است که از شدت سنگینی دیگر در سینه نمی‌گنجد، لبریز می‌شود و خود را با اشک، آه، دردِ دل یا شکایت آشکار می‌کند.

#عربی #غم #رنج

Edit: there's no problem w/ Snac, i just don't wanna self host this anymore

Uncle Bob really likes to treat everything as if they were Java.
Writes Go like it's java
Writes Clojure like it's java
And go on, reminds me of "law of the hammer", since he sees everything as if it were a nail.

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

Bad news: it's not ketchup my finger is bleeding

The nice lady on Fillmore selling me pants today asked where I lived, and when I told her, she made a concerned face and asked "Is it safe there?" so I replied "I'm the most dangerous thing there," and this is the only answer I will be using from now on.

Along the years I have bought some ebooks from Amazon and they are in "my" Kindle library. The fact that I paid for books that are "mine" and yet I cannot have the file (PDF/EPUB/MOBI) on my own computer, and the fact that Amazon at any given time can cut my access to it are making me uneasy.

Since about 5 years ago I have exclusively bought DRM-free music, audiobook, and ebooks, but I don't know how I can get what I have previously paid for on Amazon out of that ecosystem.

شیرچای نوشیدنی خیلی خوبیه. هم می‌تونی گرم درست کنی و هم این که می‌تونی صرفاً روی لیوان چای شیر بریزی. واقعاً خوبه.

Codeberg is set to discourage vibe-coded projects: https://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-llms.html

That @Codeberg blog post gives a good run-down of the familiar ways AI coding is messing up open source, but also the "The development team of none" section is describing a problem more specific to code hosting:
"It seems ridiculous to see projects with a single developer and virtually no users consuming as much or even more resources than some of the largest community projects on Codeberg"

#firefox

On the weekend we discovered that the only English language DVD we own that we hadn't already seen was "Deja Vu".

We've had it for years, but we were both sure we'd already seen it.

#film

Amazon raised the $9.99 ceiling for full royalty on ebooks to $12.99.

If it had kept up with inflation since the Kindle's 2007 launch, that ceiling would be $16.16. They're still squeezing authors.

So no, my newer tech books still won't be on Amazon KDP.

You know a website is going to have the best content when they’ve never heard of css and the url is something dot edu /~someonesname

Unsplash’s Quietly Brilliant Stance on AI 🚫

"In an increasingly AI-dominated stock photography world, let’s take a moment to celebrate Unsplash.

Their strictly no AI policy demonstrates incredibly strong content values. They didn’t follow suit. Nor did they surrender to the bullshit. They stood by their vision and mission. There’s a lot to be said for that these days."

https://mikehindle.uk/words/unsplashs-quietly-brilliant-stance-on-ai/

#blog #writing #noai #photography #illustration

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