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Cake day: December 23rd, 2023

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  • If you pick a FOSS license then your project is FOSS. The number of developers doesn’t matter.

    I moved all my (meager bullshit) personal projects to Codeberg awhile ago. My stuff was already open source, but I did explicitly add some license files I neglected to add before just to make it clear. So far so good.

    Before you archive your Github repos make sure to update them with one last commit explaining that the repo has moved to somewhere else (and potentially why). Once you lock the repo you can’t make changes. If you straight-up delete them then this isn’t an issue.


  • I invite you to look beyond the machinery of misinformation—an integral part of this aggression—and instead speak with those who have visited Iran. Observe the many accomplished Iranian immigrants… Do these realities align with the distortions you are being told about Iran and its people?

    Sorry is there an Adrian Zenz-like figure I can ask instead?

    Seriously though I admire that, despite all we’ve done to them, he still responds with a dignity that we certainly don’t deserve. Of course we’re totally deaf to this as a people, but I respect the gesture.








  • I’ve actually been there. This is hilarious, but the serious side is that their county doesn’t have the money to spend on this kind of shit.

    When people say the USA doesn’t have “real poverty” I always think of the two barefoot kids I saw carrying buckets to the creek. Or the partially collapsed rat’s nest/lean-to “cabin” that I was sure had been abandoned for decades, but then had smoke coming from the chimney in winter. Half the walls were plastic tarp and scrap metal. That’s Adams County.

    The town of Portsmouth is right next door in Scioto County, and it was ground zero for the opioid epidemic in the USA. The first pill mill was right there. Last time I was there on any sheltered stretch of the river you could find addicts living in tents. The librarians carry Narcan.

    But they raid Afroman’s house looking for weed.






  • The big, thick roots on trees are mostly just structural. The interface where trees actually absorb stuff they need to live is a thin layer under the soil made up of billions of tiny “root hairs”. Even humongous, old-growth trees are dependent on this layer of roots so small and ephemeral that they may only last a few days. Where these roots meet the soil there is such a complex mixture of bacteria, fungi, sloughed off tree cells and whatnot that it’s impossible to say where the soil ends and the tree begins. This region is called the “rhizosphere”.

    The exudates that trees secrete into this region produce an electrical gradient that pushes needed chemicals back into the roots. These secretions also support soil organisms. Over millions of years they’ve co-evolved to the point where trees release chemicals purely to feed them and, in return, they extend the tree’s “reach” into the soil and provide chemicals the tree can’t make, in some cases literally piercing and growing within the tree’s own cells. There’s some research now showing that trees (and other plants) can even communicate via chemicals in the rhizosphere. Kind of like how neurons communicate across a chemical synapse.

    I love this fact because it inverted the way I think about trees. In a way the forest we see is like a living protrusion of the rhizosphere, with trunks and leaves only serving to deliver sugar, carbon, and other stuff down to where all the action is. I hope it lightens your mood. If you can see a tree now there’s a good chance you are witnessing a fungal symbiosis that nobody has ever identified.