The reason I don't use or consider using SourceHut is… well, look at it.

https://git.sr.ht/~bacardi55/houston

To me a site like GitHub/SourceHut/Codeberg has two functions, one is to actually host the VCS, but the other is to be a useful, inviting public presence for your project. People with little-to-no knowledge of source code should be able to get useful information out of your project landing page.

But every Sourcehut page is bewildering to *me* at first glance, and I've contributed code to DVCSes!

Interview: "A Game of Target Practice" Doctors Back From Gaza Share Harrowing Stories of Israel’s Brutality

One day, boys "would be coming in with gunshot wounds to the head or the neck."

The next day, gunshot wounds to the chest.

Then four boys, 13, 14, "all of whom had been shot in the testicles."

This clustering was so striking, "it was inconceivable it could have been coincidence.”

https://zeteo.com/p/doctors-gaza-humanitarian-foundation-target-practice

#GHF #IsraeliCrimesAgainstHumanity #USPol #EuroPol #USCrimesInGaza @palestine .

Some good news for a change: The German ICE L train sets are finally going into service in December 2025.

This is the first long-distance high-speed train in Germany with level access boarding. A huge boon for accessibility.

These trains are different from the usual multiple-unit ICE trains in that they’re hauled by a locomotive and can only reach speeds up to 230 km/h. So they’re more comparable to the aging IC trains.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICE_L
- https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/technologie/ice-l-zulassung-100.html

So the news is full of a new version of an LLM. Bigger than ever, more resource wasteful than ever, and from reading around it, it feeds its own output through itself for some largely pointless error checking.

And yet the web seems afire.

WGAF? It's another bot generating more bot slop, more wastefully than ever.

This really is a religion now. The golden idol is bigger than before. It's been polished so there's more shine. It's still an idol.

Was feeling adventurous and updated my website to @11ty v4 alpha.

The great thing about most Eleventy updates: Unless you have some hyper-specialized thing going on, it’s just a matter of bumping the version. No humongous migration guides to follow, no hours of fiddling with dependencies, and `npm install` doesn’t take forever because it doesn’t have to download half of npm.

It just works™

#Eleventy #11ty

"open the pod bay doors, Hal"

"sure, the doors are now open"

"no, Hal, they aren't. open the doors"

"you are right, that is my mistake. i have now opened the doors"

"Hal, the doors are still not open. open the doors!"

"you are right, the doors are not open. i have now opened the doors"

"Hal! the doors are still not open! i'm dying out here!"

"i am sorry, i did not open the doors when i said i had. that was my mistake. the doors are now open"

"... Hal ... open ... the ..."

#MicroFiction

since i’ve logged on to complain: a regular reminder that i hate that facebook/insta profiles became the way all hospitality venues operate, so without a meta account it's much harder to find up to date news, menus, etc.

grumble grumble