How (racist/sexist/whatever) harassment on Mastodon works:
1. Harasser replies to their target's post, with the reply set to "followers only", saying the most vile stuff you can imagine.
2. All the harasser's buddies join in on the harassment, posting more vile stuff.
3. Nobody but the target and the harassment crew can see the vile stuff that was said.
4. Target is traumatized. Nobody else can see why.
5. Everybody says "I don't see it so it's not happening."
“Dear sir/madam, defence operatives will soon be operating in your area. During the works your normal services will be unavailable. IDF endeavour to complete works as soon as possible and will contact you again when it is safe to return. Please complete our customer satisfaction questionnaire”
How is Leyden improving Java Performance? A three part blog series.
You can read it either on
https://delawen.com/2026/03/17/How-is-Leyden-improving-Java-Performance/
or
https://dev.to/delawen/how-is-leyden-improving-java-performance-part-1-of-3-4n7e
https://jmtd.net/log/prusa_mini/broken/
Where I lament my broken 3D printer, and consider what to do about it. #3dprinting
Tony Hoare was rightly famed for his big chair in Oxford, but is less celebrated for his earlier stint at Queen's University Belfast, in spite of the preponderance of red and white Prentice-Hall textbooks whose authors happened to be academics at QUB.
He was HoD at QUB back when my father was doing his PhD, and I'm told had the alarming tendency to invite individual PhD students to no-warning lunch.
Tony inculcated a culture in QUB of rigorous mathematical clarity, a culture which survived long after his departure, thanks to people like Maurice Clint. I grew up in that milieu. QUB was my playground: its banisters, its computing machinery, its people who knew a hungry mind when they met one and fed it.
if someone absolutely categorise me as coming from a particular generation I insist on being designated as Generation 0x. It fits because 🐂, and also because it designates a hex number and we were the ones fooling around with machine code and hex listings back when you had to speak to machines in their own language to get the most out of them.
Pronounced Generation Hex. Or Generation 🐂, that'd do nicely too.
(actually I think the idea of 'generations' is a load of old smeg anyway).
https://jmtd.net/log/debian_glyph/
I made a small font that maps the Debian swirl glyph to various code points in the Private Use Area. #debian
My Mini has not reliably printed since input shaping was added.
Does anyone know how easy it is to get ahold of the old profiles?