MacBalance

He/him. Not that interesting. I’m trying enjoy people being passionate even if it’s not my thing as a way of self improvement.
I don’t run very well.

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2026-02-09

@keyboards @Eggfreckles Back in the mists of time my mom worked for a small business that bought this as their computer.

The thought of that miserable display and the horrible angle makes my eyes and back hurt just thinking about it.

(Edit: I can’t type.)

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2026-02-09
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2026-02-09

Since it's #SuperbOwl Sunday, here's my favourite owl clip of all time.

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2026-02-08

i heard you were looking for an illustration of Olive Oyl using her nintendo famicom, with the tv-net modem peripheral plugged into it, so she can use "daiwa my trade", and make trades on the japanese stock market, with the help of popeye.

well here you go

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2026-02-08

Need a closeup of that @matthewskiles icon, though. Just look at that thing 🤤

Large picture of Coppice icon in editor. Several pages on a wooden board with linking arrows between them. Wood-wrapped stylus tool with green leafy branches
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2026-02-08

i'm glad someone noticed this in rose.systems/animalist

Screenshot: "This was a fun game. I got to 41 until I realized something and got incredibly distracted and ran out of time. I only got one that was specific enough to be a particular species.  I also love that it tells you if you failed to mention a common animal (I did not list horse).  What I realized Listing different dog breeds does not give you extra animals but does give you increasingly funny and irate messages about how dogs are all the same."
2026-02-08

I’ve currently got several #Hugo sites and looking to make them more friendly for less techncial contributors.

I’m looking at “Sveltia CMS” which seems to be adjacent to my needs but my ideal would be a separate service I could run on an independent server somehow. Like a smallish app that provides a custom interface to the relevant backe nds. I as admin have access to sites A, B, C, and D. User #1 has access to jsut A, while User #2 has access to C & D.

Anything similar to this? Sveltia *might* do the job, at elastic to an extent, but I defintiely think I’ll need to deploy it per-site.

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2026-02-08

Her dad, The Man In Black, would definitely approve.
#USpol

A photo of singer Roseanne Cash with a social media post she made. 


“If there are any Trump supporters who still follow me, I would ask that you unfollow me and do it now. I don't want anyone who supports this malignant, racist, corrupt man and his sycophants to lurk in my feed. I'm so sick of being sickened by them and if you can twist your humanity into a knot to defend them, I don't want to find 'common ground. There is none.”
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2026-02-08

OK, you knew this was gonna happen… 🦉

#superbowl

A rustic, weathered, metal owl sculpture sitting outdoors in a black plastic garden container among other containers, which are bare of any plants in February, just some soil and dried twigs. This superb owl has big, black and gold eyes and colorful strips of metal for feathers. What a hoot!
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2026-02-08

Here I was scrolling my camera in vain for some superb owl, while this coin set in my piggy bank all along.

This is the back side of the Greek 1 Euro coin and it's my all time favourite.

Yes I collect the different 1 Euro coins and that is perfectly normal 😁

#SuperbOwl #SuperbOwlSunday

Close up of the Greek 1 Euro coin in a table. The stylised owl is sitting on a tree. Its eyes make a third of the body.
2026-02-08
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2026-02-08
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2026-02-08

It’s that time of year again, the day when we celebrate strigiformes of all kinds but more specifically the glorious owl. So on the #SuperbowlSunday I’m sure we can all agree that, indeed, this is a #Superbowl

An owl, I don’t know what kind , staring at the camera.
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2026-02-08

Today seems like a good day to for the Nth time share the only Bloom County strip I ever clipped out of a newspaper's Sunday comics section. It ran February 26, 1989, and oh, how I wish it didn't still seem so relevant all these years later.

A surreal seven-panel strip depicting a conversation between Bill the Cat (during the period his brain has been replaced by Donald Trump’s), and Ronald-Ann Smith, a young, African-American girl whose best friend is her headless doll Reynalda.

Bill/Trump: “My God … this is such a quality country.”

Ronald-Ann: “Whaddya mean, Mr. Trump.”

Bill/Trump: “My Palm Beach cottage has 118 rooms … how many rooms does your cottage have?”

Ronald-Ann: “One. But we have nine beds! Reynelda here sleeps in a soup box.”

Bill/Trump: “I have a $100 million boat. Do you have a boat?”

Ronald-Ann: “When the plumbing breaks our sofa floats!”

Bill/Trump: “I have a dream … a dream that one day I might get six points on margin for the Eiffel Tower deal … What do you dream about?"

Ronald-Ann: “Dinner.”

Bill/Trump: “And imagine … in this great quality nation, folks like you haven’t strung folks like me up by their intestines.”

Reynelda: “ … yet.”

Ronald-Ann: “Hush."
2026-02-08

@zoharlee @cstross I’m reading *The Regicide Report* and trying to decide if I should pause to watch two movies that have been rather directly referenced (albeit with slightly different titles) before continuing. Although the in-book review of the movies, albeit in the continuity of the Laundry books, is not exactly positive.

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2026-02-08

@MacBalance @Migueldeicaza you can use caching and stuff to speed up stuff.
But the main problem I think is that Actions is no working tool and maybe never was intended as such. It is a gatekeeper. You work locally, you test locally until you are satisfied. Then you push and trigger the action (hopefully) once.
Only if you introduced a regression, you might iterate with GH Actions in the loop. This is the gatekeeper that stops you from shooting in your foot.
My 50ct

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2026-02-08

@pluralistic This thread reminds me of a sign I saw on a road trip when I was growing up. It was placed at the intersection of a road and a driveway, and I immediately started laughing as we passed it. I originally interpreted it to mean it was an entrance reserved for, I dunno, houseplants, and there must be a different entrance for people somewhere else.

Yellow diamond-shaped sign with black border and black lettering that reads "PLANT ENTRANCE"
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2026-02-08

Mac Pro 2008, or Stainless steel kitchen remodel?

A picture of the inside of a Mac Pro 2008 looking just like a kitchen remodel, with the memory cage to bottom right, cpu cover in the middle and fan intake on the left. the upper drive caddies look like cabinets.A picture of a stainless steel kitchen with stainless cabinets above, a stainless induction cooktop, stainless/grey fridge and a bue tile splashback
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Ron Gilbert (100% AI free)grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place
2026-02-08

Pretty happy with my crappy water shader. Don't judge, it's the first shader I've ever written.

#raylib

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2026-02-08

Happy Birthday to Xactoboy, sculptor of the Chibi Gears!
#HeavyGear #ChibiGear #Xactoboy

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