Julian ToddThe "Great Books animator" was a totally nutty invention in this 1964 Philip K Dick novel The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch that just so happens now to be true
Nigel Bray
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Aaron@beka_valentine IMO everything *interesting* you can do with a computer has to be programmed yourself. I use computers daily, but haven't bought a program in a decade or two.
Avian Hang GlidersI've been modifying the hang glider frame to make it easier to turn (more on that in future), but also I want it to be easier to fly straight. For that, the winglets really work. I'm not an experienced aerotow pilot, I've only every towed a few times and not since 2022 so I was pretty nervous. It turned out to be really easy with these winglets though!
For more information about the design process behind them, please check out this article:
Aerotowing on easy mode!
Jim ReaThis is the best piece I’ve ever read about the systemic problem with app stores. I wish I had written it myself.
https://infrequently.org/2025/10/the-app-store-was-always-authoritarian/
The App Store Was Always Authoritarian
Apple bent the knee for months, leaving many commentators to ask why. But the reasons are not mysterious: Apple wants things that only the government can provide, things that will defend and extend its power to extract rents, rather than innovate. Namely, selective exemption from tarrifs and an end to the spectre of pro-competition regulation and the threat of real browsers in the US, the EU, and around the world.
David Kocher 
„Instead of questioning why Apple's OS is so fundamentally insecure that an App Store is necessary, they accept the ever-false idea that iOS has been relatively secure because of the App Store.“
https://techhub.social/@provuejim/115363332694457617
https://techhub.social/@provuejim/115363332694457617
Jim Rea (@[email protected])
This is the best piece I’ve ever read about the systemic problem with app stores. I wish I had written it myself. https://infrequently.org/2025/10/the-app-store-was-always-authoritarian/
Tobias Bieniek🦀 seems unlikely that anyone here aside from me needs this, but if you do: I created a small library to read and write CUB files containing airspace data
https://crates.io/crates/seeyou-cub
after three iterations I'm finally somewhat happy with the API design... 😄
Eugen RochkoGot a new run around! Carver S+, electric tricycle, it banks into corners, it's really good fun to drive, feels like flying a sailplane! Gets to and from work using half a charge (works out 3p/mile) including some sizable hills. It would be nice if it had a little more power, but usually I'm stuck behind other other vehicles so slowing on the uphills isn't a problem. Also it fits through gaps in city traffic and is allowed in bus lanes so overall my commute is quicker than a normal car.
Hadewychvliegavonturen: Naar Calaf aerodrome
http://hadewych.blogspot.com/2025/07/naar-calaf-aerodrome.html?m=1
http://hadewych.blogspot.com/2025/07/naar-calaf-aerodrome.html?m=1
Ivan ReeseHey Germans, please come up with a word that means "the fear of typing `return` vs `shift-return` because you don't know which inserts newline and which sends the message"