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MacCruiskeen @maccruiskeen.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

@mwyman @ablaze @glennf That's why I still buy cookbooks, though not as much as I used to, as the cookbook bookcase is full.

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Ali @ali.river.geek.nz.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Brendan Larsen from Ngāmotu in Aotearoa and a member of the New Plymouth Astronomical Society took this stack over a couple of hours and estimates 14000 satellite trails. This is how bad it is now, it's set to get much much much worse - and then we lose Low […] [Original post on river.geek.nz]

Stacked series of long exposure astro landscape images depicting thousands and thousands of trails from satellites over the conical volcano Taranaki Maunga in Aotearoa New Zealand.

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MacCruiskeen @maccruiskeen.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

@ObsidianUrbex The last new novel I read was The Book of Love, by Kelly Link. Kinda horror? Not in the usual sense. I just finished rereading Little, Big, by John Crowley, which I'd first read in 1981. Currently I'm in the middle of A Grammar of Typography: Classical Book Design in the Digital […]

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MacCruiskeen @maccruiskeen.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

@markhburton @tante NetBSD and Redox have taken stands to resist slop code, but they aren't exactly drop-in replacements.

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MacCruiskeen @maccruiskeen.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

@dilmandila There's not a good FOSS alternative to InDesign either. There's Affinity, which is 'free', but owned by Canva, so not really. And no Linux version. Sure, there's LaTex and its cousins, but good luck getting the designers to work with that. I don't even really want to work with that […]

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MacCruiskeen @maccruiskeen.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

@0xabad1dea Heh, for work reasons I may start typesetting again, and have pulled all my old type/design books off the shelf. But all my old muscle memory is for FrameMaker.

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MacCruiskeen @maccruiskeen.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

@jernej__s @zzt I've been using Gram and it's pretty nice. I don't have really intensive demands for a text editor, I just need it to edit, you know, text. And not be too much of a pain. Not too surprising about Linus being all-in for AI, given his whole history of Not Playing Well with Others.

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MacCruiskeen @maccruiskeen.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

@aram Installment #12452 in never-ending series of 'why the fuck does that need a cpu?'

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MacCruiskeen @maccruiskeen.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

@nationalsecuritylaw.org So definitely not the episode where the octopus escapes from the tank and makes a break for it.

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MacCruiskeen @maccruiskeen.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

@ianbetteridge The top part is the part they want to put people in, so that's not really important.

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MacCruiskeen @maccruiskeen.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

@VeroniqueB99 World leaders who are honest, reliable, and trustworthy is a short, manageable list.

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MacCruiskeen @maccruiskeen.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

@nationalsecuritylaw.org I just finished rereading this! I have the new anniversary edition.

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MacCruiskeen @maccruiskeen.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

@jasonsantamaria The single quote should go inside the double quote, unless you're in the UK, where they do it wrong.

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MacCruiskeen @maccruiskeen.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

It's the lost P.D. Eastman--X-Files crossover.

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Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Same here vending machine. You got this. #monday #mondayvibe #humor #humour #darkhumor

food vending machine that has a sign on it that says: the light inside is broken but i still work

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MacCruiskeen @maccruiskeen.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

@mawhrin This may be slightly tangential to your complaint, but I oversee ebook production for a uni press. Our conversion vendors are all-in on developing AI-based systems for providing alt-text. We've tried it for some of our backlist (where we can't go back to the author), and as you might […]

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

It's nowhere near the worst or most consequential thing he's done, but I think Trump's threat to demolish the Kennedy Center if he isn't allowed to name it after himself is the clearest demonstration yet that he's gone mad with the imagined power of his office. It doesn't advance any policy […]

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MacCruiskeen @maccruiskeen.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

@slothrop let the state that is without sin cast the first stone.

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MacCruiskeen @maccruiskeen.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

@davidgerard We've already been through this: we built nuclear weapons. We spent enormous sums to build an infrastructure for their mass production and testing. Many suffered and died in the process. There's environmental damage. And also a lot of profit, labs and contractors getting skim from […]

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MacCruiskeen @maccruiskeen.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

@Unixbigot This happened to my dad back in the 1980s--airline broke his electric mobility chair. My aunt, who was a lawyer, sued the airline, but unfortunately she was not a good lawyer, and the case dragged on until after both my dad and the airline were deceased.

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

If ai is so good at coding why is every piece of commercial software i use getting noticeably slower and worse

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MacCruiskeen @maccruiskeen.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

@tante This also seems inconsistent with the notion that LLM output can't be copyrighted, because the machine intrinsincally has no rights. If the output is outside of the copyright regime, how can the input not be?

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MacCruiskeen @maccruiskeen.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

@0xabad1dea clearly we need to throw more sand in the machine.

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MacCruiskeen @maccruiskeen.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

But it doesn't have a stand mixer functio, so you need that anyway. And the attachments are generally not as good as free-standing items.

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MacCruiskeen @maccruiskeen.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

@lowqualityfacts You couldn't get a fresher donut than when they fried it right on the counter in front of you.

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MacCruiskeen @maccruiskeen.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

@tante Even before clicking, I thought, it's HBS, isn't it? It's HBS. That's not really education, anyway. It's an MBA. They're all about the extraction, why not just apply it directly to the students?

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MacCruiskeen @maccruiskeen.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

My iphone is still on ios 18 and it will stay there as long as it continues to function. My ipad is old enough that it can't be upgraded past that.

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MacCruiskeen @maccruiskeen.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

@isotopp Claude in the witness box: I was just following orders!

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MacCruiskeen @maccruiskeen.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

@lowqualityfacts Yes, but in those days the average Frenchman was nine feet tall.

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MacCruiskeen @maccruiskeen.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

@tante Libraries also try to avoid destroying books. If they have more of a title than they need, they may try to sell off the extra copies. If they're destroying a book, it's probably because that copy has gotten trashed in use.

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MacCruiskeen @maccruiskeen.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

@leanderlindahl Maybe government ministries should have Onlyfans accounts.

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MacCruiskeen @maccruiskeen.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

@sundogplanets Can you just call a press conference and do them all at once?

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