When even the fence post looks tired of holding it all together. 😅

PHP

long ago the three nations lived together in harmony

I just got a phone call and now my phone wants me to rate it. I love this.

The beauty of moss close up

#nature #naturephotography #moss #mosstodon

when dwarf fortress had money for a very brief period (this was before I started playing it and back when you couldn't dig down at all), players ran into a problem: a functioning society does not require 100% of its members to be productive.

so you would end up with dwarves for whom there was no work available, but because there was no work available, they could not afford any of the abundant high quality food and clothing and other goods.

and from this starting scenario and essentially physics-mandated capitalism comes a logical solution found by players.

if dwarves must complete jobs in order to earn money that they can use to purchase comfort, but comfort is extremely abundant, the solution is to create jobs that don't produce anything

and because of how Dwarf Fortress works, "pull the lever" is a job.

so players found they could build a room full of levers, not attached to anything, and assign the task of pulling each lever on repeat to whoever was available.

dwarves who could not find work otherwise would walk into the room and flip their lever from side to side, accomplishing literally nothing, until they got bored or hungry or tired and left to use the money they had "earned" to rectify that.

Tarn Adams found it was a better solution to simply delete capitalism.

and that's the story of why Dwarf Fortress no longer has an economy.

This week's business blog post explains why I make most of my resources (writing, open source software etc.) available for free. There are lots of reasons, but it boils down to low value payments across countries being a faff and I'm more likely to generate income from referrals / marketing (more people use my resources if they're free).

Of course, there is the risk that free resources aren't considered to have a value...

https://www.phpdeveloper.org.uk/why-i-make-my-resources-available-for-free/

#business #freelance #freelancing

every time

TIL, BASIC stands for "Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code"

In case you have not done so yet, surf the Wave of the fossify organization, check which of these applications are good for you, since they have no ads, they are free and open source and they are Good at One thing, just like a proper Unix program

https://www.fossify.org/apps/

#FOSS #fossify #free #OpenSource #POSIX #Android #Unix

No, I do not want to install your app.

No, I do not want that app to run on startup.

No, I do not want that app shortcut on my desktop.

No, I do not want to subscribe to your newsletter.

No, I do not want your site to send me notifications.

No, I do not want to tell you about my recent experience.

No, I do not want to sign up for an account.

No, I do not want to sign up using a different service and let the two of you know about each other.

No, I do not want to sign in for a more personalized experience.

No, I do not want to allow you to read my contacts.

No, I do not want you to scan my content.

No, I do not want you to track me.

No, I do not want to click "Later" or "Not now" when what I mean is NO.

Finally solved the #Degoogling debate. Anyone who finds fault with this list = Skill issue.

"Amazon argued, that the class was too large to be manageable"

This is my favorite defense to a class action suit.

"We cheated so many people, we can't possibly be expected to make it up to everyone"

From: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/amazon-must-face-us-nationwide-class-action-over-third-party-sales-2025-09-02/

We updated our #akkoma integration page with an easy way to link your account to a Prosody #xmpp server: https://joinjabber.org/tutorials/integration/akkoma/

Thanks to @nigel for testing it.

@akkoma maybe something to add to the official docu as well?

I've just published version 2.82 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:

The language in which a post is written can now be set from the UI; you must configure the list of languages you usually post in in the User Settings.

Added support for bullet points in posts (lines starting with an asterisk or a hyphen, plus a space).

Added Dutch (nl_NL) translation (contributed by martijndeb).

Added Western Frisian (fy_NL) translation (contributed by martijndeb).

Mastodon API: Fixed repeated entries in timelines.

Added nodeinfo 2.1 support.

Fixed boosts from the command line not showing in the public timeline (contributed by xvello).

Updated several language files (contributed by zen and daltux).

Retrieving a post's replies is now possible via ActivityPub.

https://comam.es/what-is-snac

If you find #snac useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee or contributing via LiberaPay.

#snacAnnounces #FrugalFediverse

This 1955 Ford Prefect was covered in 2 cent coins, including a scooter on the back also covered in coins. I live for this level of eccentricity.

"Wow, the year 2025. Computers and the internet must be mindblowingly fast now!"

"Plain text has a loading screen."

@ewen @BobHorowitz Indeed. I was hanging out with some young friends the other day and they said people they know are choosing tangible products over virtual. They want to own their music, books, movies, &c.