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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops 15h ago

You don't have to repress the must-obtain-shinies crow in you. We LIKE accumulating stuff, obtaining nice things, it's in our nature. But you can vary the crow's diet. A bulging sack of lovely pretty new books from the library, a boot full of castoffs from the flea market and a factory-shiny new hunk of tat off Amazon will all taste the same to the crow, but at different levels of harm to the wallet and world. It's okay to give the crow a little treat

manu 6h ago

Joe Groff 14h ago

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manu 6h ago

@foone huh, how are Enter, Backspace and Tab not on the "Arrow" category, where they clearly belong? 🧐

manu 2d ago

A.Z. Device |3d ago

Luna fell asleep. #dogsofmastodon

manu 2d ago

Hailey 2d ago

“When developers are allowed to use AI tools, they take 19% longer to complete issues—a significant slowdown that goes against developer beliefs and expert forecasts. This gap between perception and reality is striking: developers expected AI to speed them up by 24%, and even after experiencing the slowdown, they still believed AI had sped them up by 20%.” https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/

Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity

https://shop.blinkyparts.com/de/Bleepbot-Der-Roboter-der-zu-dir-spricht/blink23142

Timo 4d ago

Beep Boop Bleep!

Der Bleepbot von @noisio ist endlich im Onlineshop ❤️

Fertig zusammengebaut unterhält sich der Roboter mit dir, natürlich in robot! Kannst du nicht? Lernst du!

#lötenVerbindet #löten #bausatz #diy #soldering

See https://sosm.ch/the-coolest-way-to-find-shady-paths-vampire-routing-on-routing-osm-ch/

Stefan F. Keller Jul 2

New blog post about "The coolest way to find shaded paths: Vampire routing on routing.osm.ch".

#OSMinside #OpenStreetMap #Routing #UrbanHeat #SOSM

bjo 4d ago

Da vor geraumer Zeit zum zweiten Mal ein iPad der Liebsten gestorben ist - welche Android Tablets eignen sich denn so zum Zeichnen? (Mit entsprechendem Pen)

This rules so hard ❤️
https://www.status.news/p/the-onion-ben-collins-interview

This rules so hard ❤️
https://www.status.news/p/the-onion-ben-collins-interview

S Bodzin, Real American 🇺🇸4d ago

@joshsutphin it does, and that's why i'd love to read the whole thing. link?

lp0 on fire

4d ago

@stevenbodzin @joshsutphin, looks like it's this: https://www.status.news/p/the-onion-ben-collins-interview

Peeling Back The Onion

Ben Collins explains how The Onion is thriving by saying what others won’t—and why human-created satire matters in a media landscape increasingly saturated by noise and A.I. slop.

Status

S Bodzin, Real American 🇺🇸4d ago

@lp0_on_fire @joshsutphin took me a while but i found it too

thank you

@stevenbodzin @lp0_on_fire Thanks for catching this. I edited the OP. Apologies for the omission!

S Bodzin, Real American 🇺🇸4d ago

@joshsutphin @lp0_on_fire all good, it's a good habit to be in. Alt text and links, every time (and yes sometimes I skip them, because I am not always in best behavior)

Thad 4d ago

@joshsutphin When the buyout was announced my reaction was "The Onion has been bought out by people who actually like and understand it."

It's a delight every month to see the big white envelope in my mailbox.

@Thad I somehow missed all of that. I'd been aware of The Onion of course, but never followed it closely, nor subscribed; that may be about to change though!

https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/the-onion-sold-global-tetrahedron-1235982383/

Thad 4d ago

@joshsutphin Here are a couple of good articles from last year:

https://www.theverge.com/24225592/the-onion-new-owners-print-newspaper-digital-media-gawker-ben-collins-decoder-interview

The Onion Sold to Global Tetrahedron, Owned by Twilio's Jeff Lawson

The Onion was sold to "Global Tetrahedron," owned by Twilio co-founder Jeff Lawson and led by CEO Ben Collins, former NBC News internet reporter.

Variety

@Thad Oh, this is like *recent*.

(I mean, okay, it's at least six major epochs in Internet Time, and even in meatspace time last year feels like a decade ago, but still.)

Getting them out from under private equity is real good. This news makes me happy.

Thad 4d ago

@joshsutphin AV Club seems to be doing okay too, though they got bought out by a different company and aren't part of the Onion anymore.

marmarta 4d ago

@joshsutphin what a lovely piece. I wish we-as-society normalized having companies that have as a goal "do a neat thing in a way that allows the people doing the thing to live normal, decent lives". Not accumulate more and more wealth, just: do a neat thing. Have a liveable wage.

@marmarta I also really appreciate his point about letting the people who do the thing, *do the thing*. Too many companies' upper leadership constantly interfere, instead of letting the experts they hired actually apply their expertise. Applying one's expertise gives joy and fulfillment and self-worth! All of this is (or can be) a virtuous cycle!

rf 4d ago

@joshsutphin something i greatly value is the many years my work ran as a small company as a reference point for how that way of doing things absolutely can work (and profitably!)

@rf My whole game dev career before 2020 was at small(ish) studios, and they were *so much better* than the big corporate studio I worked for afterward.

My wife and I are running a small press now to get back to this kind of vibe. The corporate world is a mess.

lemgandi 4d ago

@joshsutphin Aright, I am convinced. Just kicked $99 for a hard-copy subscription.

Robin Barton 4d ago

@joshsutphin Very perceptive stance and one I find I support

nantucketlit 4d ago

@joshsutphin My mom had a copy of an Onion omnibus at home when I was a kid. Looking back, I learned a lot about critical thinking and media literacy from reading The Onion. Same goes with Mad Magazine.

David Palk#RejoinEU 💖🇪🇺🤎🕊4d ago

@nantucketebooks @joshsutphin O the halcyon days of MAD . We were all so innocent back then. ✊ 😎

Hey Gus 4d ago

@joshsutphin we are approaching the farmer’s market era of tech and I ain’t sad about it.

Darren Meyer

4d ago

@joshsutphin this, louder for the folks in the back.

Make good stuff that people actually want and love. You can make money this way.

Patrick Hogenboom 4d ago

@joshsutphin Thanks so much for pointing this out! Subscribed :D

feld 4d ago

@joshsutphin my first good tech job was at a small ISP where my manager was previously a managing editor(?) at The Onion. Dude was great to work for, very funny too.

Hot Dog Water Moccasin 4d ago

@joshsutphin

Does everyone cry when they get hired? It would seem appropriate.

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/426/tough-room-2011/act-one-1

J. "Henry" Waugh 4d ago

@joshsutphin there was also a great podcast segment about The Onion and their process that I'll never forget:

Make 'em Laff - This American Life

Host Ira Glass spends time in perhaps the toughest room on earth, the editorial meeting at the satirical newspaper, The Onion, where there's one laugh for every 100 jokes.

This American Life