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Lol, we're all upvoting but not commenting until we reach the new quest... I'm on the 14th floor in yesterday's daily, what about you?

Getting used to the new runes and scrolls designs might take a while.

Thanks Evan & community!

severineon Juan Tamariz dies at 83, magician who turned card magic into popular phenomenon

RIP. The best.

severineon Toot.community is shutting down

"So, a Mastodon alternative has to be selfhosted by default, and infinitely easy to set up for selfhost."

You might be interested in Holos: "Holos turns your phone or computer into a full ActivityPub server. No big-tech hosting, no middleman reading your posts. A relay keeps your identity online 24/7 while your device stays in your pocket."

https://holos.social/

severineon Better and Cheaper Than IPTV

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48325624

severineon All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes

I love it too, bookmarked and hopefully adopted! Did you write about it somewhere?

severineon Magnifica Humanitas

Appreciate the answer, but then I have some questions:

So, according to that theory, god could substantiate again, this time into an "imago dei computer", giving the computer "machinity"?

A computer that is god, makes divine stuff and is, for example, at one point unplugged, but comes online miraculously three days after, etc?

That would be Jesus-like, but we could posit an Eve/Adam-like computer, would that be imago dei too?

Has god become only human, or has it become other animals, plants, or things?

Not trying to be facetious, just unable to follow some thinking when it would involve observable miracles on earth.

severineon The Zulip Foundation

Seems logical.

severineon The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born

Agreed.

severineon The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born

Might be a very very uncharitable reference to this, for example: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2021/the-oss-bubble-and-the-...

severineon W – The European social network for verified humans

Some points raised here seem worth pointing out: https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-uncovered-the-reality...

severineon Introduction to Obsidian

In the last paragraph, OP mentions using Logseq "for short daily notes/journaling", which suggests both Obsidian and Logseq fall short in some ways.

As I'm currently contemplating using one of these tools, I'd love if you elaborated on that.

Great article, thanks.

severineon IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report

https://gaza-verified.org/

severineon Don't Download Apps

Try Phanpy for the fediverse: https://phanpy.social/

Maybe the best web app I've used.

severineon I have left Branch and am no longer involved with Nova Launcher

KISS: https://help.kisslauncher.com/advanced/gestures/

severineon Bring Back RSS Feeds to Browsers

Live bookmarks was how I started, and what I've come back to after all, using this extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/livemarks/

When I'm familiar with the source, the headlines are enough for me to know if I want to read, navigating the folders is super quick, and the feed indicator makes adding new ones very easy too.

severineon Framework's first desktop is a strange–but unique–mini ITX gaming PC

Thanks a lot for that link! I know nothing of Apple stuff and a friend has got an old iMac that he thought was unupdatable but it seems there's a way. Cheers!

severineon Breaking Up with Long Tasks or: how I learned to group loops and wield the yield

But you did, and Firefox flies these days, thanks!

severineon Llama.cpp guide – Running LLMs locally on any hardware, from scratch

You can use Kiwix: https://kiwix.org/en/

severineon NHL '94: 2024 Edition

I'm amazed by this, never occurred to me that these kind of updated ROMs could exist!

What are more examples of community updated classics?

severineon XFCE 4.20 aims to bring preliminary Wayland support

No, not anymore:

Xfce is pronounced “ecks-eff-see-ee”. The name Xfce originally stood for “XForms Common Environment”, but since then Xfce has been rewritten twice and doesn't use the XForms toolkit anymore. The name survived, but it is no longer capitalized as “XFCE” and is no longer an abbreviation for anything (although suggestions have been made, such as “X Freakin' Cool Environment”).

severineon I won't be renewing my Pinboard subscription

Yours look great, you should have a demo though.

severineon Show HN: I built TikTok but for studying with quizzes from your own notes

Oh yes, completely agree, I don't even use TT, I was just thinking aloud. Locality of data matters a lot.

severineon Show HN: I built TikTok but for studying with quizzes from your own notes

Come to think of it, TikTok is like Anki for social cues.

severineon Tech firms were fighting a war for talent. Now they are waging war on talent

IBM lobbied Congress and got a law pass making that illegal just for programmers. That law is still on the books.

It's the first time I hear that, do you have a link?

severineon KDE Asking for Donations

Will I get a certificate of donation for tax purposes? Do you fill the corresponding forms?

severineon COSMIC Alpha Released

Xue the Xfce mouse LAUGHS at the notion of a duopoly!

severineon Exhibit B (previously filed as Dkt. 660-2) [pdf]

"An amazing 325 page google strategy document quietly unsealed buried in google antitrust docket. It's gonna take a long thread but I have pulled out the gems. It's from 2017 planning, no doubt Google will just say these were only ideas but many will look very familiar."

See this extensive thread by Jason King for context: https://nitter.poast.org/jason_kint/status/18215548417866835...

severineon The joy of reading books you don't understand

Maybe this? https://salmagundi.skidmore.edu/articles/477-thirteen-ways-o...

severineon The EU regulates that by 2027, all phones be equipped with replaceable batteries

What about laptops?