Mastodawn

This is the trans fairy.
Every time you retoot the trans fairy,
a trans person gets to start HRT.
And a transphobe dies.

Brick Duck Mar 16

Tim Schilling Mar 16

If you're new to contributing to Django and you're using an LLM, please consider reading this. We want to bring you into the community, but we can't do that only interacting with an LLM's output.

https://www.better-simple.com/django/2026/03/16/give-django-your-time-and-money/

#Django #Python #OpenSource

Give Django your time and money, not your tokens

The Django community wants to collaborate with you, not a facade of you.

Better Simple

Brick Duck Mar 14

Alice Harper Mar 7

GitHub stars are a measure of how many people would like someone else to maintain this project.

Brick Duck Mar 12

EndeavourOS Mar 12

What’s New in EndeavourOS Titan Release?

Earlier this month, the Linux kernel 6.19 was released, and that was a good excuse to refresh our ISO. And as you can read from the title, the changes for this one were big enough to turn it into a major release with a name that really covers this ISO. Named after the second-largest moon in our solar system, Titan. So, we borrowed Saturn's largest moon to orbit aro

https://endeavouros.com/news/whats-new-in-endeavouros-titan-release/

#News

Brick Duck Mar 10

Computer Facts Mar 10

butlerian jihad is the moderate position

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Brick Duck Mar 7

So I went back to the online Matrix client Element and this popped up. Thus concludes my matrix experiment.

Brick Duck Mar 7

Ahh, #matrix. I decided to try it again using nheko instead of neochat. I clicked on the profile of someone in a channel I was reading, and saw the "devices" section.

What am I supposed to do with this information? There were probably 50-60 entries for this person, only one of them (not shown in screenshot) was green.

Are these entries actionable? Interesting? I redacted the IDs because I don't know if it's sensitive info.

Brick Duck Mar 3

Amy Hughes Mar 3

Re: Engaging claims of End Times, rapture, Armageddon, etc

First, these claims backed by military might immediately endanger a lot of people. Anything we can do to diffuse this we must do.

Arguing eschatology is not helpful in these moments for two reasons:
1) People hate to be wrong and will go to great lengths to avoid it.
2) When afraid or feeling threatened (regardless of veracity) or faced with the opportunity to take what they think is heroic action (say, as a soldier in our military),
#TheologyThreads

Brick Duck Feb 25

Pavel A. Samsonov Feb 24

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus.

FOSS nerds: the Torment Nexus cannot be ethical until it is Open Source

Brick Duck Feb 22

Natasha

🇪🇺Feb 22

How far back in time can you understand English?

It’s a thousand years of the English language, compressed into a single blog post.

"... as his post goes on, his language gets older. A hundred years older with each jump. The spelling changes. The grammar changes. Words you know are replaced by unfamiliar words, and his attitude gets older too, as the blogger’s voice is replaced by that of a Georgian diarist, an Elizabethan pamphleteer, a medieval chronicler."

https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english

#english #language

How far back in time can you understand English?

An experiment in language change

Dead Language Society