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tom jennings @tomjennings.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

I had forgotten just how great, how amazing this record was in 1987, and it's still that great today. 4AD was an amazing label for a long while. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap98EFwEzlA Lonely is as lonely does, lonely is an eyesore. LONELY EYESORE compilation […]

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Kevin Bowen :xfce: @kevinbowen.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

@tomjennings Nice! This was a hugely influential compilation at the time for my little clique. We had been big fans of the Cocteau Twins & Dead Can Dance for a few years and the whole 23 envelope/Vaughn aesthetic really sucked us in. The one song I continue to skip to this day is that damned […]

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John Kristoff @jtk.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

If you have ever had thoughts about how well or important a core infrastructure tech enhancement has been going, consider joining the conversation. I (and collaborators though not named) are cited in this lengthy, sure to be evocative article.

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katch wreck @katchwreck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

`Critics praised it not just as a film score but as a work of art in its own right. In France, it reinforced Miles’ status as the embodiment of modern cool. In the United States, it caught the attention of musicians interested in new harmonic ideas.` […]

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Kevin Bowen :xfce: @kevinbowen.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

@katchwreck A wonderful film and my most listened to album by Davis. Thanks for the article.

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Kevin Bowen :xfce: @kevinbowen.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

One of the fringe benefits of my partner's annual mandatory, time-suck, on-site company meetings: I get to be the guinea pig for those kind co-workers sucking up to the boss-lady with new baking recipes. #Baking #TheCakeIsNotALie

A photograph of a spiral swirl-formed chocolate Bundt cake covered in chocolate icing.

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Kevin Bowen :xfce: @kevinbowen.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

The local murder swung by for some afternoon crackers. Outside the twenty-five crows in the pic, there were another forty directly below on the ground and another twenty on the roof next to me. Quite the glorious racket. Too bad Anu was taking her afternoon nap […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

A color photograph of a shot looking up at the bright blue and partially clouded sky through a pine tree. On the branches throughout are about 25 crows.

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Tom Lyon ✅ @aka-pugs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Arrived just in time for Ada Lovelace day! buddybindery.com/products/ada-lovel…

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Kevin Bowen :xfce: @kevinbowen.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Now, on to watching Vampyr[1932] which I don't recall ever seeing before. #horror #film

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Kevin Bowen :xfce: @kevinbowen.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Watching Murnau's Nosferatu with the Jan Garbarek Group's "It's OK to Listen to the Grey Voice" and it seems to work pretty well as a soundtrack. Or, at least, as a change of pace. #film #cinema #soundtrack #jazz #music

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Mark Ingalls 🎃👻🧙‍♂️ @ingalls.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Tonight I was reminded of my trip to Cabo Verde in April/May. My favorite part of that trip actually occurred in Casablanca. I had a 12 hour layover so rode the light rail into the city. On the way back to the airport two women and a two year old sat next to me. In my (very) broken French we […]

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

So bummed to hear this. Helen Branswell was a standout health journalist. Such a loss.

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's important to remember that the AI doom scenario assumes not only that intelligence is a single well-defined thing, but also that intelligence solves literally every single problem, and that in every conflict overwhelming intelligence always wins. This is just not how anything works.

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Glyph @glyph.im · 06/10/2026

done correctly, open source is a gratitude practice which may occasionally produce software

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Kevin Bowen :xfce: @kevinbowen.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

A couple of pics taken while making a quick pass through downtown yesterday. #photography #Seattle #Architecture #3rdAndPike

A photograph of two skyscrapers filling up the left 2/3rds of the image with clear blue sky filling up the rest. At the bottom of the picture are the tops of trees. In the foreground are several strands of overhead wires and lights diagonally crossing the image.

A color photograph of the old Woolworth Building looking south-east towards 3rd & Pike. About a dozen people are crossing a mostly empty street with a bus in the distance. A tangle of overhead wires criss-cross the street scene

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

I suppose I should ask a question to hopefully learn more. Is there a better way to do this: "SELECT datname FROM pg_database WHERE datistemplate = false AND datname != 'postgres' AND datname NOT SIMILAR TO '%test_%' ORDER BY datname;") #SQL #PostgreSQL

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

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 · 09/10/2026

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

Relieved to get Anu's blood results back from the vet. Nothing terminal, catastrophic, or otherwise requiring immediate attention.🎉 Just need to get her back in for her rabies shot soon. Happy Friday everyone!

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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

For what I'm running, adding the following to my pyproject.toml did the trick without changing the results of the coverage reports: [tool.coverage.run] core = "ctrace" #django #coverage

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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

Tomorrow I'll think about building a GitHub action to publish the documentation to github.io pages. One more piece of the puzzle.

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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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