@blinkygal for years I've thought "we need another WHA" (an innovative league to give the NHL a kick in the pants) and the PWHL might be it!

@Crell @cstross yesssssss

the most exciting play in hockey is when a goal is called back 3 minutes later because it's determined that the team went into the zone 1cm offside #nhl #exciting

@distractal I'm not sure if this is the reason, but "copilot" is not a "real" github user. I have run in to this while investigating why Jenkins multi-branch plugin was failing to scan my repository. It was bailing out after getting a "user not found" error from the github API when looking up details of a PR authored by "copilot".

@ste5e totally. you even have to reboot.

microsoft windows is fucking ridiculous https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/2124923/is-there-any-way-to-stop-applications-from-stealin

f(x,y) = -((-(-y)) - ((x & 10) ^ (y & x)))

Extent: 256x256 (scaled x2)

"Gradient" colouring scheme.

clearly this is in the budget purely to secure the vote of Don Davies. Absolutely transparent pandering!!1

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no one replied witih any reasons

turns out it's not actually possible to do this but I found another acceptible way to do what I needed to do.

"Amidst an onslaught of fiscal forecasts, the [Canadian] federal government’s new budget featured an unexpected commitment to the cultural sector — Canada will explore participating in the popular Eurovision song contest."

https://www.ipolitics.ca/2025/11/04/budget-2025-canada-in-eurovision-mark-carney-wants-to-make-it-happen/

#eurovision

me: chooses “restart” from the start menu
windows: here is a list of applications that are running that are preventing restart. Do want to [restart anyway] or [cancel]
me: clicks [cancel]
windows: restarts

should I enable this?

Sloan - Based on the Best Seller #NewMusicFriday

https://sloanmusic.bandcamp.com/album/based-on-the-best-seller

just imagined a malicious piece of software that caused your zoom/teams/whatever "mute" button to appear to be working but your mic is not actually muted.

@auzzy in my family if someone is looking for something we often say "it's in that place where I put that thing that time"

@rockmastermike yeah, naked spinning blades in my kitchen seem like quite a minor problem in 2025

the safety interlock mechanism of my little food processor broke, but I figured out how to override it so that it is essentially "always interlocked". the good news is that I can use it again; the bad news is that I can spin the blades even when the lid is off.

would it be bad to run an rpm command in an RPM scriptlet?

@schratze it's undeniable