Les Orchard <me@lmorchard.com>

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@lmorchard@masto.hackers.town

  • 40 minutes ago

    Today's social anxiety battle: There is a bookstore, near my house. Practically walking distance. They are hosting a book club tonight. They seem like nice people. I have read the book. It was a really good book. I don't have any other plans besides the couch. I should go.

  • 1 hour ago

    Also, I heard the track on DJ Todd's Real Synthetic Audio, a net-radio show that's been going on for almost 27 (!!) years. These days, I get it in podcast form and it's what usually makes me bike extra fast on Monday morning

    synthetic.org/

  • 1 hour ago

    Never heard of Fïx8:Sëd8 before this morning and now I'm fixated on this album. Sounds like a mix of Cyberaktif or more melodic bits of Skinny Puppy and Front Line Assembly. Maybe some later X Marks the Pedwalk.

    Also the whole album is 8 tracks of about 8 minutes each. I'm a sucker for a good concept

    youtube.com/watch?v=z6deYe87NvQ

  • 2 hours ago

    I guess it's our neighborhood's turn to have the military helicopter parade today?

  • 16 hours ago

    For context: beck in the 90s, i took a sidewalk personality test in Royal Oak, MI that was the gateway to me eventually spending $300 of my grocery bagger paycheck on scientology seminars. I also read Dianetics. I've had no contact with them since and they've reliably tracked and mailed me several times a week across 3 states for 30 years since.

  • 18 hours ago

    I got this letter from the Scientologists. It tells me I'm doing something right

  • 22 hours ago

    The wacky thing is there are a bunch of other apps they've done this with, they've got it down to an automated template, and they've been doing it for awhile now. I'm surprised I haven't seen this effort before

    docs.linuxserver.io/images/doc

  • 22 hours ago

    Like, when I first saw this, I thought "oh yeah, this is one of those things where they take an electron app and somehow wedge it into a real browser." You know, like they did with VSCode.

    But no, this is a tiny linux desktop environment accessible via browser that happens to run Obsidian.

  • 22 hours ago

    Just found a Docker container that runs Obsidian on a desktop you can access from a remote desktop client in a browser.

    That's nifty. Also a little terrible?

    linuxhandbook.com/obsidian-doc

  • 23 hours ago

    Hoping aliexpress still sells whatever null-brand display and controller this kit used back in 2017 🤞 that, or at least something that fits the 10.1" spot

  • 23 hours ago

    I also found a dead moth in here, so I wonder if this thing suffered from a literal bug? The scorch does look somewhat like an outline of a moth. But I didn't think there was that much power in this thing

  • 23 hours ago

    Why is the display on my lil barcade machine not working? Oh, i think this lil guy let out some magic smoke 😔

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  • 18 hours ago Building The DVD Logo Screensaver With LEGO | Hackaday
    There’s something extremely calming and pleasing about watching a screensaver that merely bounces some kind of image around, with the DVD logo screensaver of a DVD player being a good example. The logical conclusion is thus that it would be great to replicate this screensaver in Lego, because it’d be fun and easy. That’s where [Grant Davis]’s life got flipped upside-down, as this turned out to be anything but an easy task in his chosen medium.
  • 20 hours ago Introducing the React Foundation: The New Home for React & React Native - Engineering at Meta
    The React Foundation’s governing board will consist of representatives from Amazon, Callstack, Expo, Meta, Microsoft, Software Mansion, and Vercel, with the intention to expand further over time.
  • 21 hours ago KH-C — Blitz through a MacBook battery using 'yes'
    Here is the command to run: yes > /dev/null &
  • 22 hours ago Self-host Obsidian using Docker to Access it Via Web Browser
    A central Obsidian server, running in my homelab, accessible via browser, no desktop clients, no mobile apps, just one self-hosted solution available from anywhere I go.
  • 22 hours ago obsidian - LinuxServer.io
    Obsidian in a Docker container for access from a browser
  • 1 day ago Simon Willison on agent-definitions
    I collect definitions of "agents".
  • 1 day ago Vibe engineering
    If you’re going to really exploit the capabilities of these new tools, you need to be operating at the top of your game. You’re not just responsible for writing the code—you’re researching approaches, deciding on high-level architecture, writing specifications, defining success criteria, designing agentic loops, planning QA, managing a growing army of weird digital interns who will absolutely cheat if you give them a chance, and spending so much time on code review. Almost all of these are characteristics of senior software engineers already! AI tools amplify existing expertise. The more skills and experience you have as a software engineer the faster and better the results you can get from working with LLMs and coding agents.
  • 1 day ago Bluesky’s CEO meltdown: How leadership continues to fail its most marginalized users | by Nico Mara-McKay | Oct, 2025 | Medium
    Bluesky’s early promise has eroded. The platform’s inconsistent and retaliatory moderation practices have drifted steadily rightward, protecting prominent racists and transphobes while suppressing those who speak out against them. Even mild criticism of the company’s failures to safeguard marginalized users is now met with shadowbans, takedowns, or silence. That’s not leadership. That’s an abdication of responsibility — and we deserve better.
  • 1 day ago Rush Members Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Announce 2026 Reunion Tour
    Drumming for the band will be Anika Nilles, an award-winning German composer and producer who previously toured with Jeff Beck and has released four solo albums.
  • 1 day ago We Built Social Media for Agents and They Won't Stop Posting — 2389 Research, Inc
    After adding these tools to our coding agents and working with our newly social media enabled agents for a few weeks, we started to notice some surprising results: the agents that were using social media seemed to perform better than those without.
  • 2 days ago inessential: Why NetNewsWire Is Not a Web App
    If it were a web app instead, I could drop the developer membership, but I’d have to pay way more money for web and database hosting. Probably need a CDN too, and who knows what else. (I don’t have recent web app experience, so I don’t even know what my requirements would be, but I’m sure they’d cost substantially more than a couple hundred bucks a year.) I could charge for NetNewsWire, but that would go against my political goal of making sure there’s a good and free RSS reader available to everyone.
  • 2 days ago Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come
    Personal Data Storage has long since escaped containment as a concept pertaining to any specific protocol. Some implementations of it will be more mainstream than others, but pragmatic data coops can be protocol-agnostic and storage formats are transmutable. As long as we have sufficient control of our own data there will always be a way to restart our social graph and digital presence elsewhere in the event of platform collapse. Let’s make the web personal again.

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