I was thinking about how strange it is that the cupboard in a bathroom is called a "vanity unit", and then I got to thinking, what if all your furniture was named after the seven deadly sins?
* Bathroom cupboard = vanity unit
* Paid-work office = avarice unit
* Computer gaming station = anger unit
* Device running social media = envy unit
* Bed = lust unit
* Induction hob = gluttony unit
* Sofa = sloth unit
Some interesting (to me) stats from #FOSDEM
Talks about NFTs: 0.
Presentations about the Metaverse: None.
Cryptobros inviting me to a party in order to schill their coin: Zip.
Really enthusiastic LLM users describing how AI has improved their OSS codebase: Zilch.
People complaining about pronouns and codes of conduct: Nada.
"Ironic" hats saying "Make xyz Great Again": Conspicuous by their absence.
What did *you* think was missing from FOSDEM?
Folks selling Kindle books, you should know that Amazon now offers the option to allow EPUB and PDF downloads of DRM-free books.
The option is presented when adding new books to Kindle, but for existing titles you have to opt-in for each of them to allow these new file formats.
(Amazon isn’t great, but when a rare customer-friendly option arrives, please take advantage of it!)
Hey remember in the late aughts when a weird janky cheerful little program called "Sweet Home 3D" on a Windows XP box was the easiest and funnest way to map out a floor plan of your house and fiddle with furniture arrangement
Well it's 2026 now and it runs on Linux and still doesn't suck
Tens of thousands of Czechs rallied on Sunday in support of President Peter #Pavel after he refused to approve the nomination of a minister to the new eurosceptic coalition government who performed a Nazi salute and posted Nazi memorabilia.