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  I'm adding hover cards for the meta data section in the @novelwriter@fosstodon.org editor panel. It shows the tag, display name, document (or section) title, and the summary description. I hope this will save me for having to open those files all the time just to check a few details! #OpenSource #Qt #Python #Coding

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  Checking my emails frequently now to see if my order has been shipped. 😁 I really want to watch the series now after having binged House of the Dragon. I watched the first season of Game of Thrones in HD, but I want to wait for the 4K boxset now. 🐉 #TV #Fantasy #GameOfThrones #HouseOfTheDragon

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  Lol at Trump claiming in his speech that the US is *entering* its 250th year. It's entering its 251st. 🙄 #US250 #USPol

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  I live close to an airport, and there's an airshow this weekend. I currently have three Spitfires flying circles overhead. 😀

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  In the season 5 episode "Whispers" of Stargate Atlantis, guest star Nicole de Boer as Dr. Porter (also Ezri Dax from Star Trek DS9) makes a little Star Trek reference in a scene with Paul McGillion (Dr. Beckett). Becket: What brings you here to the Pegasus Galaxy? Porter: Well, you can just chalk that up to my sense of adventure, a desire to visit strange, unexplored worlds, meet new and interesting people ... Nice one 😁 #Stargate #StarTrek #SciFi

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  @pzmyers@freethought.online Actually, I did, but she was at work and couldn't talk. Anyway, it was mother's day here in February, so it's all good either way!

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  I couldn't sleep, so I got up at 5 am this morning. To kill some time before work, I wrote a new Python-based proof of concept for Copy Fail based on the original, but one that is easier to read (I don't care about the byte size bragging rights) and which does not push a payload into the page cache of a setuid exec (which is bad). Instead it just overwrites text on a temp text file. It works great! I got the idea from the copy-fail-c implementation on GitHub. #CopyFail #Linux...

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  @knowprose@mastodon.social The worst part, after the vulnerability itself, is the unprofessional and reckless behaviour of Theori on how they disclosed this.

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  @twipped@twipped.social Yeah, me too. Our richest people here in Norway are for the most part greedy and selfish assholes who do what they can to avoid taxes, just like everywhere else. @The_Whore_of_Blahbylon@mastodon.social @Viss@mastodon.social

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  Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431) has just been patched on Debian 13, with kernel version 6.12.85-1 from trixie (security). https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-31431 #CopyFail #Debian #Linux #InfoSec #CVE

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  I recently posted this, but since it is #TerryPratchett Day, I'm reposting. If my text editor app @novelwriter@fosstodon.org crashes (Offler forbid), it will use one of the following Discworld error messages as the window title of the error dialog. 😁 🧙‍♀️

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  @jalefkowit Going for "ominously polite" I see? 😅

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  Context: I'm the apps owner and maintainer, so this happens (too) often.

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  The thing about my WIP is that the story is about a very personal journey of discovery for my character, so 1st person feels right. Telling it in 3rd person so far has felt a little too flat. But I would also like to tell parts of it from outside her perspective. It is a little risky to mix, and so far I haven't written any scenes from a different POV that I can't cut if I want to, or rewrite to her POV if I must. I may be trying to have my cake and eating it here. 🤔

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  I think Hegseth quoting fake bible passages from Pulp Fiction, presumably because he doesn't know they're made up, perfectly illustrates the role of religion in right wing extremist politics. It's a tool to control the masses. Nothing more. In that respect, I am in 100% agreement with the pope. I'm an atheist, but I grew up in a Christian community. US and Israeli violence is not in line with the core message. (Although there are people in my old community who s...

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  There has been an uptick in donations to my @novelwriter project lately. To the few of those who see this, I really appreciate it. 💖 While it doesn't cost a lot to run this project, I've more or less broken even so far. I was ahead a little in 2023, so I spent that on commissioning some artwork for the project. I spend about 500h a year on novelWriter, and I still haven't made any money for myself from it. That's not a problem though. I'm doing fine. 🙂 T...

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  The storm "Dave" is scheduled to hit here in Western Norway in about 8 hours, peaking at 22 m/s (43 knots) with 40 m/s (78 knots) gusts at around 2-3 PM tomorrow according to current forecasts. We have a red weather warning. We get a lot of storms in the 20 m/s range here, but not often with gusts that strong. I need to prepare a few things before it hits. I'm wondering if my neighbour's trampoline will survive. They're away it seems. 😬 #Storm #Dave #W...

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  Oh yeah, before it's too late (it's 11 PM here) ... Happy First Contact Day! #StarTrek #FirstContact

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  This is the best kind of good pull request! #Code #GitHub

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  This is incredibly depressing news. Scam Altman is now in control of the supply chain of a significant portion of the Python community. Fuck this shit. https://astral.sh/blog/openai #Python #Astral #Enshittification

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  I have never noticed Dracthyrs dancing in World of Warcraft until last night when I made my character dance in a group with two others while we were waiting for a mob to spawn. I like it a lot. 😆 I was playing Lady Gaga at the time too, and the dance fit the music really well. #WorldOfWarcraft #WoW #Dancing #Dragon #Dracthyr

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  Meanwhile in Norway ... (Photo by the insurance company If) #Meanwhile #Norway #Cold #Winter

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  A good piece on how GenAI is flooding the field. I too have worked with ML for a while and feel similarly. "Having done my PhD on AI language generation (long considered niche), I was thrilled we had come this far. But the awe I felt was rivaled by my growing rage at the flood of media takes and self-appointed experts insisting that generative AI could do things it simply can’t, and warning that anyone who didn’t adopt it would be left behind." https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/1...