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anyone gonna be at gamescom this year? Me n friends are thinking about going to check out the FFXIV thing

we don't need llms traditional algorithms can already lie to us

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I love delivery tracking when it says "your order is almost there! :)" and the courier is halfway across town

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it's the little details that matter. The new "Sweet 4x4" macropad has a specific board shape in the corner allowing you to perfectly bend all the diodes you need to solder. excellent idea by @dries
This will make the hand assembly in our workshop at @fri3d a lot easier.

there's a Japanese designer giving away a ton of really fun fonts for free, including a commercial license if you leave a follow (needs a pixiv account) twitter.com/yuta_ptv/status/18

download at yutaone.booth.pm/items/2890872 (the 0 yen button)

oh wow, Challengers is actually really good

love that English wikipedia uses the nice new theme with dark mode while German wikipedia has opted to stick to the old one so it's maximally jarring

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I've noticed recently that the English language uses a lot of French words recently such as hors d'oeuvres, and that's just for starters

I had to mute bc I'm at work and also not a crafter

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tfw the group chat is all marketboard screenshots

I like the new Porter Robinson album a lot but god every single song gets stuck in my head

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Hi! I'm looking for a new remote job in the EU (Germany specifically; being able to move to Poland would be a plus)

I have 11 years of experience writing software, 4 years professionally. Prefer Rust, not generally super picky tho.

I have experience running software infrastructure as well.

For my full CV, contact me here or at work@julialuna.dev

If you're hiring or know a place that might be a good fit, please dm/reply on here, or send a mail to the same address :3

#GetFediHired

lmao I was wondering why my contacts' birthdays stopped showing up in google calendar and it turns out that's affected by the "allow google services to share user data" setting. turning it on just for calendar fixed it

in my defense, comic sans prints way nicer than fonts with sharp corners

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Next Generation Internet is an important funding initiative of the European Commission. Its future however looks bleak or at least uncertain.

We join other organizations in signing the open-letter calling for preservation of the #NGI programme. It is important an important piece in a sustainable future for open-source software.

See our blog post for more, including the open-letter and projects important to us that have received NGI funding:
ccc.ac/post/2024-07-27-ngi-ope

#preservengi

I never had one but looking at that tiny retina screen with friends was just the best

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