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From @avani :
"Who here do I know that hosts their own webpages or blogs? A postdoc colleague and I would like to ask a few fast questions about your traffic patterns over the last 5 years.
(please reshare for reach thank you!)
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What we need is, broadly, historical request logs. I want to know how the request landscape is changing, particularly repeat requests to otherwise cold content."
https://bsky.app/profile/avani.bsky.social/post/3lxzlwogl4c2m
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Today marks 30 years since the premiere of 'Xena: Warrior Princess' back in 1995. A show that was never ashamed of its campiness, but at the same time managed to be groundbreaking on multiple levels. Setting new standards for female action heroines, featuring a main character that was messy and flawed, physically strong and athletic, who started as a villain seeking redemption.
Xena, despite its cheesiness and often ridiculous premise, succeeded in pushing the boundaries of queer representation, challenged stereotypes, defied several of the sexist tropes of '90s media, explored LGBTQIA+ themes, even themes of gender identity, and made a clear statement against the stigma surrounding HIV/AIDS at the time.
It may not be a flawless masterpiece, but it's a beloved cult classic for good reason.
🔗 https://www.fringemagnet.net/2025/09/30-years-of-xena-warrior-princess.html
#XenaWarriorPrincess #OTD #OnThisDay #Xena #90s #TV #Television #Entertainment #PopCulture #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
The software engineering career ladder by question:
Jr: how?
Mid: what?
Sr: why?
Staff+: really?
Begging everyone not to spread fascist propaganda, even in indirect and implicit ways
That includes naming your ostensibly non-fascist thing "Make X Y again"
Your unfunny joke name only makes sense when people understand it in the context of MAGA, which means that you are spreading fascist propaganda by doing so
Stop
Stop it
wink posted Aug 21, 2025
Calling vibe coders "AI pilots" is even worse than calling script kiddies "software engineers".
As humans get older, their hair slowly loses pigmentation, becoming grey and then finally white.
This behavior is shared by common printers, which suggests it evolved before the last common ancestors of humans and printers diverged. However, humans do not possess replaceable pigment cartridges, indicating this trait evolved after the split. In this paper I will...
There is a new short domain name for #PuTTY!
At present, this is just a "landing page": a nice short name to remember, which will redirect you to the full PuTTY website at the same longer URL where it's always been.
But unlike putty.org or other third-party landing pages, this one is run by us, the actual PuTTY team, and it doesn't have a weird separate agenda of its own.
I intend to move the main PuTTY site over to that domain in the future, and leave just a redirector at the old location. But first I want to get the word out, so that people know which site to trust.
If anyone is still linking to putty.org, here's a place to link to instead. Please spread the word!
Little known fact: Before the crowbar was invented.
Crows simply drank at home.