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Kevin Bowen :xfce: @kevinbowen.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 7h

My #SQL skills are, quite honestly, barbaric. But I did finally manage to solve some backup quirks that have been bothering me for a couple of weeks with a 'NOT SIMILAR TO' clause. So... yay for me.🎉 #TinyVictory #BackToSchool

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Mario Munoz @pythonbynight.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 18h

A bunch of things are horrible lately, and I feel like I want to write about those things (it helps sometimes), but first, also wanted to point out that good things are still possible within a smaller sphere. For example, I went to a tofu-making class the other night and learned how to make […]

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tom jennings @tomjennings.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

THE PRICE OF FREEDOM: There are many reasons, mostly technical, why FidoNet uses a single list containing all member nodes. However the single most important reason is that it gives each and every FidoNet node the information and ability to contact any other FidoNet node directly, without […]

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Kevin Bowen :xfce: @kevinbowen.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

I really should try and make an effort to spend more time in downtown #Seattle than just passing through making transfers between the light rail and the bus on my way to West Seattle. Honestly, it just seems kinda sad nowadays after having lived down there for […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

A photograph of a large street mural on 3rd Ave between Pike and Pine. The background is painted a dark blue. The main image is a sprawling tiger done in perhaps a vaguely south-east asian style with red stripes across its body. The head is turned back looking over its shoulder at a large butterfly above its back.

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Kevin Bowen :xfce: @kevinbowen.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

[minor human flesh wounds. dried blood.] Had a pleasant field trip on the light rail over to West Seattle, today, to feed my daughter's menagerie of gecko, snake, and cat. Unexpectedly, her gaggle of friends were in the apartment when I walked in the door […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

A close up photograph of an Eastern-European mutt's outstretched left hand. There are several scratch marks with small amount of dried blood in the palm of the hand and the lower right base of the palm.

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Kevin Bowen :xfce: @kevinbowen.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Oh. Cool. #GoodReads after some 20 years has finally implemented "Half (and quarter!) stars: Give a book 4.5, 3.25, or a classic whole-star rating." That's definitely the feature that will get me back to using that crufty interface. 🤣 #Reading #UX

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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

"The people holding up the internet" A good-looking but somewhat depressing exposé about the people holding up current digital infrastructure as a hobby. sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-th…

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Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Vancouver Island’s marmots have clawed back from 22 animals in 2003 to 427 today, the highest count on record. The Marmot Recovery Foundation released 41 captive-bred marmots this year, with 40 more due in 2026, while an estimated 120 pups were born in the wild in 2024 alone. Cougars, helped by […]

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Kevin Bowen :xfce: @kevinbowen.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

While rat-holing on some history of man pages, I learned about Lorinda Cherry today. She was one of the members of the original Unix lab. Lots of influential work on text analysis & formatting. Created early spell-checker, typo, and calculator processor, bc. Cool stuff […]

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Kevin Bowen :xfce: @kevinbowen.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Bit too exciting start of the day for me here. Had to unexpectadly take the cat to the vet(waiting on bloodwork). Now there is a dude in a fentanyl slump in the middle of our back parking lot occasionally rousing from his nod to bounce upright and yell random shit at the clouds. Not even 9:30 […]

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John Altringham @johnaltringham.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Rubha Hunish, Skye. A mixed media project in the making? Progress: all nine wood blocks are engraved. Next - test print the blocks - any final changes? Then - a lot of faffing about to develop methods and workflows that minimise the effort and error involved […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

A walnut ink sketch of sea cliffs running towards the horizon, left and right. Above, nine engraved and aligned woodblocks, detailing the cliffs and ready for test printing.

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Kevin Bowen :xfce: @kevinbowen.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

I love the smell of delayed SMTP forwarding in the late evening. All of this hustle and bustle and demand for instant gratification these days. feh. There's nothing quite like receiving an old-timey email with a security confirmation code that expired two hours ago. As my good friend […]

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Kevin Bowen :xfce: @kevinbowen.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Late to the show, as always.... I'm not sure if it's to my horror, or delight, that I learned last night that the 28 days/weeks/years later series went full-on Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome with their most recent release. The Ralph Fiennes/Iron Maiden mash-up really...really made me feel […]

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Kevin Bowen :xfce: @kevinbowen.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Started the day with ~45 notifications hitting my phone regarding changes being made on our #Xfce wiki.👀 It turns out a recently returned volunteer has really dug in & committed themseves to doing some much needed cleanup on some obsolete documentation. So incredibly grateful to get some […]

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Via Betsy Ladyzhets at The Sick Times, the CDC says there will be an interruption in the reporting for about 200 respiratory disease #wastewater testing sites as they change contracts for testing companies: thesicktimes.org/2026/09/29/nationa…. The note at […]

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Yann Büchau :nixos: @nobodyinperson.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

I really love :nixos: #NixOS for stuff like this: It has annoyed me for the longest time that :xfce: #XFCE's terminal doesn't make urls with unicode characters (i.e. German umlauts äöü) clickable properly. It also has a pretty small hard-coded list of allowed […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

$git diff showing an added nixpkgs overlay for xfce4-terminal applying a simple patch that allows hostanmes with unicode characters (\p{L} and \p{N}) instead of the upstream [[:ascii:]] and [[:graph:]] logic that does not seem to work.$

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Simon Phipps @meshed.cloud · 20/09/2026

"Nearly every #OpenSource license, from MIT to the GPL, is unambiguous about the obligation to keep the copyright notice and attribution intact. Developers offered their work to the world on those terms, and anyone who builds on that work, including companies building #AI tools, should honor […]

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Kevin Bowen :xfce: @kevinbowen.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

A beautiful, blustery day walking home from the pub. Getting soaked in the Autumn rains. #photography #CrowsOnAPhoneLine #LetsActive #BirdOnAWire

A grey photograph of a telephone pole with strands of wires running along the length of the bottom of the image. Two-thirds up the image are three more wires running horizontally across the image with the black outline of 36 crows sitting on the wires.

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Kevin Bowen :xfce: @kevinbowen.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

As much as I have been enjoying this gifted MacBook Air as an appliance, I''m genuinely crushed that the "o", "i", and "." on the keyboard seem to be dying on me. Really sucks.

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Kevin Bowen :xfce: @kevinbowen.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

I truly appreciate when posts appear on my timeline synchronistically, or thematically. Makes me smile.

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Kevin Bowen :xfce: @kevinbowen.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Apparently, our building management changed vendors for our front door garbage pick up. Dropped off, unannounced, a new re-branded, slightly smaller bin. Unless we walk the old bin over to the management office, we're going to be charged a $25 daily/weekly/whatever fee until we do so. We had […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Postmortem of a little community hobby wiki struggling to survive an extinction-event-tier DDOS purely because they banned one guy for using Claude on the wiki blog.xkeeper.net/the-cutting-room-f…

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Kevin Bowen :xfce: @kevinbowen.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Managed to update some factories, re-write a couple tests, gain a bit more coverage, and remove all the deprecation/warning messages. ...and all the tests passed! All completed before noon and finishing my first cup o'caffeine. Today's been a good day.🎉 Happy Autumnal Equinox!

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Kevin Bowen :xfce: @kevinbowen.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Next goal is to figure out what crimes I have committed with FactoryBoy and get resolve that DeprecationWarning 😆 Tomorrow. DeprecationWarning: UserFactory._after_postgeneration will stop saving the instance after postgeneration hooks in the next major release. #Django

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Kevin Bowen :xfce: @kevinbowen.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Finally figured out that nigglely bit of noise coming from my nox tests with coverage & django-coverage-plugin: "CoverageWarning: Plugin file tracers (django_coverage_plugin.DjangoTemplatePlugin) aren't supported with SysMonitor"🎉 Mildly irksome. #django

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Kevin Bowen :xfce: @kevinbowen.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

RIght on. Getting those test coverage percentages up tonight so I can really impress myself when I review those test reports tomorrow. 🤣 #FiguringShitOut

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Kevin Bowen :xfce: @kevinbowen.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

I'm not saying that Josef von Sternberg was a _great_ director.... He certainly lucked out with Marlene Dietrich for subject matter. #film #cinema

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Kevin Bowen :xfce: @kevinbowen.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

An account set to "request to follow" generally means that I won't be following it. Such is life.

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Kevin Bowen :xfce: @kevinbowen.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Nice to finally get myself unblocked on some writing that's been giving me some grief for three months. Onward! Getting a better handle on some #Sphinx basics, Markdown integration, and some ruthless re-shuffling of project docs is going help as well on a larger project I've been pondering for […]

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Kevin Bowen :xfce: @kevinbowen.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Admittedly, over the past few years, I've become "old man who feeds the birds". I've always been on good terms with my bird neighbors at our place. I've had a couple of crows over the years who I've regularly tossed crackers to in the late afternoon. I'm beginning to think that one of them has […]

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Jan Schaumann @jschauma.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

I wasn't even going to post it here, because it's just a rant that felt good to jot down, but since it's now been on the hackernews front page and shared elsewhere, it looks like it touched a nerve: (Read the comments at your own risk. There's brain worms there, too.) […]

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Kevin Bowen :xfce: @kevinbowen.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

It's that time of year. When the geese do their welcome, low-level flyby of the house at dusk. Heading eastward off the nearby lake. Retiring for the night to destinations beyond. #Autumn

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Kevin Bowen :xfce: @kevinbowen.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

*vaguely wondering how much of docs.xfce.org I've "Ship of Theseus'd(?)* since I started editing & re-writing going back to 2013. #Xfce #documentation #ShowerThoughts

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Kevin Bowen :xfce: @kevinbowen.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Would've preffered to have sent that out via the official Xfce account; but, I forgot there's still a 500 char limit on floss.social. 😔 Bummer.

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Kevin Bowen :xfce: @kevinbowen.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

One more time with some additional links: Xfce is pleased to announce a new Matrix channel to support translators, communication between language teams, and the onboarding of new translators. matrix.to/#/#xfce-translation:matri… If you haven't previously signed in to a Matrix […]

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Kevin Bowen :xfce: @kevinbowen.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

I'll have a more official "official" announcement for #xfce-translation tomorrow with additional links and information. I just needed to pull the trigger tonight and get this off of my plate. Otherwise, I would just be endlessly re-editing & shuffling content around. *phew*🎉 #Xfce #documentation

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Kevin Bowen :xfce: @kevinbowen.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Xfce now has a new Matrix channel to support translators, communication between language teams, and the onboarding of new translators. If you are an existing translator, or would like to become one, join matrix.to/#/#xfce-translation:matri… Please see […]

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Snagged a book printed in bernard shaw’s weird little phonetic alphabet

The shaw alphabet version of androcles and the lion with included key card

The first page with both traditional latin alphabet and shaw’s goofy one

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

I cleaned up my lunar eclipse image from a few weeks ago. I gave it a tighter crop and tweaked the curves a bit to bring out some of the stars in the background and the looming cloud bank below. But, fair warning, it's going to be pretty hard to see the […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

A mostly-eclipsed moon. The upper slice of the moon is very bright, while the rest is in enough of Earth's shadow that surface details are discernable and bathed in red. There are a few small specks of light coming from stars in the background. There is a barely-discernable cloud-like thing along the bottom, which is in fact a cloud.

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Kevin Bowen :xfce: @kevinbowen.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Trawling some extremely sketchy blogspot sites to download obscure Japanese psych-noise mp3s like it's 2010. Fuck yeah!!!! #music #SaturdayNight

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Kevin Bowen :xfce: @kevinbowen.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

In the late '60s, there was a huge market for re-interpreting Beatles songs. The market was flooded with opportunistic, accessible albums designed to capitalize on the sudden popularity of a pop culture, Mop-top phenomena. The great gypsy-jazz guitarist Gabor Szabo was no exception. He gave […]

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Picturavis @picturavis.vernissage.photos.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

I wanted to see what happens if you treat a simple image of the sky with similar post-processing as an astrophoto. So I took an image of the sky, developed it with Darktable, and then ran it through denoising, stretching, etc. in Siril. This is the result […] [Original post on vernissage.photos]

A black and white image of the sky with high-altitude clouds. Many fine details strands can be seen of the wispy cirrus clouds.

A color image of the blue sky with high-altitude clouds. The strands of the wispy cirrus clouds are visible, but fine details and fainter clouds are not visible.

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

U.S. cities: we can’t have mixed zoning China: let’s have a convenience store on a cliff newatlas.com/outdoors/worlds-most-t… #China

A photo of convenience store on the side of a cliff in China with people climbing alongside it

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Kevin Bowen :xfce: @kevinbowen.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Got back inside the house from running errands exactly in time to enjoy the rain as a spectator.🎉 Wouldn't mind a torrential downpour right about now. #TinyVictories #wawx

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Kevin Bowen :xfce: @kevinbowen.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Dinosaur Jr. delivers once again with their new album "There Near". Solid. Consistent. Will be playing on the overhead, piped-in music system for the Gen-X folks when they're wheeled into the retirement home(that's a good thing!). An ongoing James Taylor Two Lane Blacktop soundtrack for the […]

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Ryan Aw @ryanaw.photos · 11/09/2026

You ever seen 3+ glaciers in one image? You have now!! Left: Vigne glacier Middle: Baltoro glacier Right: Godwin-Austen glacier Oh yea, that’s K2 and Broad Peak over there on the right (two of the tallest mountains on Earth) #pakistan #concordia #photography #glacier #karakoram #mountains

An aerial panorama from Concordia - the confluence of three glaciers in the Karakoram

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