Odd that piefed.social gets counted as a “Mastodon-ish” server instead of being counted with the Lemmy stats.

It’s Euler’s picture on Wikipedia, by Jakob Emanuel Handmann in 1753.

The second paragraph of that source states it was a helium balloon. Also, the BBC article only describes it as helium.

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Where that user is Claude? I think that’s the only username in my blocklist.

The Register started as the register.co.uk, so route and root would be homophones, but it seems that this author is American. Still, as a Brit I get to read it the fun(ner) way.

zirkonit explained on HN:

Necessary context for someone probably being more detached from US politics:

Former FBI Director James Comey — fired by Trump in 2017 and one of his most prominent critics ever since — was indicted this week by Trump’s Justice Department for allegedly threatening the president’s life through a May 2025 Instagram photo of seashells arranged to spell “8647” (a protest slogan where “86” is slang for “get rid of” and “47” refers to Trump as the 47th president), which Comey says he intended as political commentary, not a call to violence.

I’ve never used either so I looked them up; https://htmldecks.com/blog/slidev-vs-revealjs-2025.html says

Reveal.js is a JavaScript framework where you write HTML. It gives you maximum control, works without a build step (for simple decks), and has a decade of battle-testing. It’s the jQuery of presentation frameworks — not trendy, but reliable.

Slidev is a Vite-powered tool where you write Markdown. It gives you a modern developer experience with hot reload, Vue component support, and opinionated defaults that get you to a finished deck faster. It’s the Vite of presentation tools — fast, modern, delightful.

Anyone have any first-hand opinions?

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in Little Miss Sunshine, Alan Arkin plays a grandad who practices and preaches that heroin is only for the old.

Polymarket taking over from the War Thunder forums as the top source of leaks?

Its not all its cracked up to be; it attract’s pendant’s like you would’nt believe.

Great find, great write-up. Such a simple bug (and fix).

I wouldn’t be so sure - I can see someone accidentally stumbling over it doing something benign like TDD.

In a warming world, there’s more energy in the wind. Does that mean more useful wind, or does it just mean more extreme winds that can’t be used for generation?

The title here is just the one from the article. Lots of comms insist on that (too much faff to check if this one does since I’m on a phone).

Ah yes, the click of death. Given that, this but in the article made me laugh:

There was also the PocketZip format, initially called Clik!

I guess Iomega quickly changed the name on that one.

They do give a clue as to a reason/excuse why not in the article:

Each [AI security] platform surfaces different vulnerabilities, making it difficult to establish a single, reliable source of truth for what is actually secure.

Also, they come up with so many false positives that it’s a huge job to check over the reports for something usable.

Isn’t picts-rs just something that runs on one server and just handles converting and resizing images? The new remote media storage stuff could run that, but the point is to allow more centralised servers so not every instance needs to individually store, process and transmit media.

Not just media, things like searching the Fediverse can be handled by a dedicated server, shared (or not) by multiple servers. Also spam detection, link preview generation, etc.

Playing the harmonica.

Your mouth cavity forms part of the instrument (like the body of an acoustic guitar) so you need to precisely control your lips, tongue, jaw, etc on top of the usual embouchure skills that you need for a wind instrument, while also being sure to only use the hole/holes you want. You get different notes when you blow and draw (suck), so you must control your breath so the note doesn’t squeak - unless you’re doing that on purpose, which lets you play notes outside the key of that particular harmonica. You also need to balance your in and out breaths so you don’t get too full or empty of air (a few notes have both in and out options to help with this).

I’m very bad at the harmonica.