Hi #WHY2025, I'm looking for queues on the camp! People queue up here at the showers, in front of food trucks, for the badges … and what else? I'll be providing a website later today where people can report how long the queues are, so that others know what to expect and maybe go somewhere else, or come back later. To do that, I need your input on where you've experienced significant queues. Just reply to this post: Where was the queue, and what was it for? Feel free to boost for reach! :)

I mostly do software hacks, sometimes hardware ones. Crafting hacks are very rare, but here we are. I present to you: Magnetic Paracord. It's simply magnetic rings lined up on paracord. Very useful for non-permanently attaching light-ish things to metal surfaces, in irregular shapes, and with easy attachment and detachment. When you're using many small magnets and can't be bothered to attach/detach each one individually. I'm using it to attach mosquito net to the entrance of my van.

"While there are a lot of caveats and limitations there, the fact that you can set up a speaker in your yard and conceivably store any amount of data in songbirds is fucking crazy" — Benn Jordan, "I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird" 31 min video about recording birds and bats with ultrasonic microphones, with some bonus content about #birdwatching / #birding apps, automated bird recording software, and acoustic cameras that can show you where a sound is coming from.

So, turns out #Mastodon no longer displaying alt texts on hover was a deliberate change. 😩

GitHub

Alt text no longer appears on mouseover · Issue #33799 · mastodon/mastodon

Steps to reproduce the problem Open https://mastodon.social/deck/getting-started Scroll to a post containing an image with alt text Mouse over the ...

Look, I don't want to go all xkcd 1172 here, but it'd be really great if I could do actual work instead of having to work around things broken by random updates.

#Tomorrowland partying with an improvised main stage, with the one that burned down just days ago right behind it, is such a 2025 aesthetic.

Sehe die ersten Freelance-Jobs, deren Arbeitsauftrag im Prinzip lautet "reparier mal das, was die KI fabriziert hat". Ich sag's euch, das wird die nächsten Jahre ein nicht zu vernachlässigendes Tätigkeitsfeld.

"This tram is configured using a filesystem containing DOS-style configuration files." "Ah, the famous initramfs."

"from another service". You fucking liars. #SoundCloud

Jetzt nur mal theoretisch gefragt, ich lote hier einfach meine Optionen aus: Wär hier jemand kurzentschlossen genug, mir mein Ticket zum #HOA25 abzukaufen? Womöglich sogar inklusive meines Camper-Tickets, also ner Wohnmobil-Erlaubnis? Edit: Aus der Theorie wird Realität, ich verkauf mein Ticket. Siehe auch mein Reply auf diesen Post. Schreibt mir gern ne DM oder so.

Particle physics is giving me a hadron.