Thomas Woolford

Don't turn that perfectly functional old laptop into e-waste, install a Linux distro! - even old laptops are perfectly capable of serving downloading and serving some video files. - built-in UPS! - emergency screen and keyboard included. - avoid insane ram prices! - external HDDs cheap as chips.

Legitimately such a good language for experimentation. I can easily see this being a language I transition my personal projects to. Congrats on the milestone Unison Team!

Turns out that ai is really bad at making maps based on data... and at history... who would have thought! Asked Gemini & chatgpt to make a map showing the mortality rate of cities during the 14th century Black Death pandemic... can you spot the errors?

You can now spin up Unison Cloud clusters on your own infrastructure! ✅ Build elastic distributed systems and services in vastly less code ✅ Fast, typed RPC ✅ Deployments in seconds ✅ Free to get started youtu.be/0sZqI1XoGLY

Unreal, and so beautiful.

While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI: At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.

There’s a lot that’s wrong with Cville (a lot wrong with the world) but this is the only town where people, and of all walks of life, tell me that they like my shirt.

In one of the latest episodes of the Behavioral Science for Brands Podcast, Rory Sutherland discusses how Kagi stands out by prioritizing user interests over advertisers - highlighting what happens when search engines put advertisers first. Full interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngQe...

Solidarity from Aus. Would be great to have no kings here also.

You may not like it, but this is what peak desktop design looks like.

Hi Bluesky, could really use your help 🙏🙏 We just launched our latest game Starless Abyss - the exact week that Oblivion was shadow-dropped. Which has been *not fantastic* for our launch If anyone can spare a RT, that would be so, so helpful ❤️❤️ Find it here: store.steampowered.com/app/3167970/...

BREAKING: Scientists have warned record high ocean temperatures have spread like an underwater wildfire over corals across the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans, with 84% of the planet's reefs hit by the worst global bleaching event on record.

Vimjoyer got me good: youtu.be/wWgxmchHSEw Can we get flakes stabilised already? #nix #flakes

"Rethinking the Container layer with #Nix" at #Scale22x, rethinking the linear layered approach of Dockerfiles vs the graph of dependencies of most build systems

Do any of my #nixos peeps use Azure Entra? I've a pull-request open on himmelblau-idm to add a NixOS module and I'd appreciate some testers with time to give it a go. github.com/himmelblau-i...

House House's new game looks lovely, looking forward to playing it with my eldest on a rainy winter afternoon. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyQP...

Surveillance Capitalism does not have your interests at heart, rarely even has them in mind. Vote with your feet and leave Facebook behind.

I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...