@dzombak this is a really cool pattern for self-aggregation. Plus your local feed is all your stuff!

@linc sorry, best I can do is 5 hero images in a carousel

Here's a project for someone else to create: Rescue Flow Wiki

"Rescue Flows" are the offers you get before you cancel. You go to cancel your subscription and suddenly they can offer it to you for half the price for the next year.

Rescue Flow Wiki would be a site where people could share the deals they are getting by going through the cancel processes, and what steps they needed to follow.

Someone with more time and energy than me needs to make this so I can go in and lower my bills.

Proof has been found that the actor Patrick Stewart canonically exists in the Star Trek universe
https://ironicsans.ghost.io/proof-that-patrick-stewart-exists-in-the-star-trek-universe/

USB-B is definitely living up to the stereotype of the forgotten middle child

Let my pain be a lesson: I have purged many of my old, unneed cords from the Dreaded Cord Box of Doom. And now, I have an older external drive that needs a mini usb (not micro!) and I have no cord to access it. Cord hoarder... this is your affirmation you are not wrong!

I’m going to eat a year’s worth of Gummy Nerd Vitamins before the movie even starts and I’ll be the healthiest person in the entire cineplex.

I'm going to crush up some Flintstone vitamins, roll gummy vitamins in the rubble, and sell my new Gummy Nerd Vitamins for a billion dollars.

Generally: What other apps/social media platforms do y'all use for event invites?

I'm not exactly sure why I've been feeling shy about sharing the link to the recording of my #PyConUS talk, but I have been.

But I did thing! I gave the talk! And if you weren't able to hear it in person, well, gulp, um, here it is to view at your leisure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2bMpiztBxQ

#PyCon2025 #PyConUS2025

@MegaMichelle it’s an analog wiki and the yarn lines are hyperlinks.

@timsaucer whoa, great job!

@Nickiquote
Normally, they say Mastodon is humorless. But this is untrue. The average Mastodon user has, in fact, been heavily involved in reverting inaccurate edits to the Wikipedia article on 'humour'.

The demo is back! On the new fancy smooth engine (which means the platforming doesn't feel awful any more), AND any achievements you get in the demo carry over to the full game :)

Go play the game that's been described as "a pixelated manifesto for rebellion" by actual journalists, not just my mum!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3100650/Quantum_Witch/

@samfirke I was literally thinking about your project this morning, mentally going through some PS4 and 5 games that I wanted to lend out to local folks

30% is the standard platform fee, right Apple?

https://mastodon.social/@jimray/114558878256618141

welcome to the future, now your error-prone software can call the cops

(this is an Anthropic employee talking about Claude Opus 4)

#ai

@csalzman IIRC Jenny’s old colleagues used to go to Von Maur. I’d probably start there and be prepared to get it tailored (Sophia’s on Stadium is the tailor I see recommended)

@nelson Something like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ2bQkx9P6Q seems like the legit way to do this

@Erich that's whole-house-battery territory. I wouldn't want to cycle an EV battery every day like that, so I wouldn't get the nightly self-consumption savings I'd get with a battery.

When I priced my PV system, the payback for batteries was about 10 years, which is also roughly the expected lifespan of the cells.

I like the idea of an EV as an emergency house battery, but at $10k I don't think I lose power enough to justify that.