1,500 Paintings & Drawings by Vincent van Gogh Have Been Digitized & Put Online.

https://www.openculture.com/2023/06/1500-paintings-drawings-by-vincent-van-gogh-have-been-digitized-put-online.html

I finally saw a Capybara in real life!

Visited the San Diego Zoo, and of course it was snoozing in the shade, next to his buddy, a Tapir!

Life dream realized!

#capybara #dream #zoo #artist

Today I was reminded that old online chats offered context awareness for the people online: you knew you won't be a bother to a friend who has a smiley flower as a status; and you knew you might not be getting a quick reply from someone who's Away.

Today I don't even know if my friends are online or not. The messenger apps make the assumption that everyone is online, and if not, they will receive a push notification, and will reply to you as soon as possible. But this assumption is barely true. I bet it makes lives harder, especially for ND people

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I don't think there's a high enough concentration of #ttrpg players or yinzers here for this to work, but let's give it a shot:

I'm looking for a D&D (or other scifi or fantasy tabletop game) group in #Pittsburgh to join. I currently DM a biweekly game, but I deeply deeply miss just getting to play.

I'm down to play with literally anyone except MAGA types, though I'd prefer a group with mostly experienced players, and I'm willing to play any class. Hit me up!

#LookingForGroup #LFG #DND #PGH

18 Rules of Software Engineering.

#dev #developer #programmer #software #engineering

here's the final version of the "redirects cheat sheet" draft I posted a while back!

("The Secret Rules of the Terminal" is finished! 95 beta readers have read it! the copy editor is done! technical review is done! the illustrator has made the cover! It's going to be out on *****Tuesday June 24*****")

"#Meta’s tracking pixel was secretly communicating with Meta’s apps on #Android devices. This violates a fundamental security feature (“sandboxing”) of mobile operating systems that prevents apps from communicating with each other. Meta got around this restriction by exploiting localhost, a feature meant for developer testing. This allowed Meta to create a hidden channel between mobile browser apps and its own apps."

#Privacy #Facebook #Instagram #WhatsApp #Threads

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/protect-yourself-metas-latest-attack-privacy

What's the leading cause of dry skin?

Towels.

#dadJoke

Apologies if I saw that here on Mastodon some time so. Short term memory is the second thing to go. I don't recall the first.