If you are fast and furious at using a terminal for word processing, you might be Vim Diesel.

Dear metalhead.club users,

Federation to gup.pe will be stopped, since the domain has been taken over by an unknown person - see https://github.com/immers-space/guppe/issues/118

You can use FediGroups instead: https://about.fedigroups.social/home

#metalheadclub #groups #fediverse

Two of my interests that I never thought I'd see together in a Venn diagram are fungi and kayaks. And yet!

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/07/mushroom-kayak-plastic-alternative

"But upon a closer look, Shoemaker’s kayak was no ordinary kayak. Brown-ish yellow and bumpy in texture, it had been made – or rather, grown – entirely from mushrooms."

#kayak #mushrooms #fungi

If you use Linux, this is your final boss.

Are you upset when small vendors selling 18+ content (games, comics etc) get shut out of platforms because of pressure from payment processors?

Are you Canadian?

Bardish Chagger, MP for Waterloo, is running a petition against "financial discrimination by payment platforms against legal goods and services". This is not a normal petition, if it passes it means she gets to force a debate in parliament. You'll have to give a phone# and confirm your email. Deadline Oct 25.

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-6695

This is a hilariously harmless “fucked around and found out” story.

"i asked grok this" "i asked copilot that"
well I asked my friends and they don't think you're cool, how about that

Q: Hey, we got two spare Vespa motors, a bunch of old tires, bamboo sticks, and a couple of monkeys. Whatchu wanna do with them?

Indonesians:

#indonesia #cars #creative

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

You asked, the Rust/TUI community delivered.

**desktop-tui** ~ A full desktop environment... without graphics.

src: https://github.com/Julien-cpsn/desktop-tui

#rustlang #terminal #desktop

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge?

It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

Source code and a downloadable app to try it yourself: https://github.com/samhenrigold/LidAngleSensor

Had a great time at #gaussfest today. Excellent work by @Extelec and the rest of the exhibitors.
I didn't take many photos, but I did get this one of a giant @shieladixon having a hair raising conversation with a tiny Tim!

If you're struggling with time management, learn about how others approach it. Here's some information that may help: https://socialwork.buffalo.edu/content/dam/socialwork/home/self-care-kit/exercises/time-management.pdf

I have started interviewing people to learn more about how they shut down scientific research projects and/or software projects (both open source and commercial). If you have done this, either deliberately (on your own timeline) or abruptly (looking at you, DOGE) and are willing to talk about your experience, please reach out: I'm gvwilson@third-bit.com.

Something that grizzles my noodle in tv and movies is when two people are passing info between them on the phone, in some dark espionage situation where lives are riding on everyone's tiniest decisions, and one person is like, "I've got a name for you, it's McFlarfentot," and the person at the other end just nods and writes it down. Isn't some clarification in order? What if it's MacFlarfentotte? What if you send your goons after the wrong McFlarfentot? Doesn't anyone care about goon efficiency?

Open source is a civic imperative, not just a tech choice. It hands power back to people — transparency that prevents surveillance and corruption, freedom from corporate gatekeepers, and the ability to fix what’s broken instead of waiting for permission. Societies that embrace open source cut costs, harden security through mass peer review, and ignite waves of local innovation and jobs. It levels the playing field so citizens everywhere can learn, build, and defend their digital rights. Losing open source is losing democratic control of our infrastructure. Defend it.🛡️
#OpenSource #DigitalFreedom #CivicTech #Privacy #TechForGood #Cybersecurity

Blogged: “Rethinking my backups”
https://strugglers.net/posts/2025/rethinking-my-backups/

#memes #dinosaurs

As long as we’re in the “September Surge” (that trend where there’s a noticeable uptick in job vacancies and hiring around September and October, when companies ramp up for year-end and the upcoming year), you might as well also ask “What DON’T I want in a new job?”

https://www.globalnerdy.com/2025/09/06/what-dont-you-want-in-your-next-job/