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https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@lightweight/105117057014051487 by Dave LaneDave Lane (mastodon.nzoss.nz)
Ok , after months of not having commenting on my blog (having decided that using Disqus was not compatible with my #FOSS values), I've finally decided to use native Drupal commenting, including reply notification and moderation. Seems to work quite well! Only downside: I can't easily import the hist...

@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz Huh, wow. I haven’t seen a blog with in a long time so I got curious if it supports Webmentions (my favourite way for comments next to comments via social media backfeed). Turns out there is a plugin by @swentel@realize.be (who is also the author of Indigenous for Android).

This means [probably] whopping awesome support in Drupal ( included) which I was not aware of:

https://www.drupal.org/project/indieweb

I’m intrigued. Mebbe I should give Drupal a try.

Project Pink by an author (IN FULL FLOW)
I haven't shared it here before, but in February Daughter's best friend thought it to be a good idea to redecorate Daughter's bedroom. Daughter went along with her friend. They covered a lot before I went into the room and caught the two of them. Obviously I was disappointed with Daughter

Mine wants a black wallpaper with stars for her new room. So be it. We finished removing the old wallpaper some days ago. It was probably 40 years old and from the previous owner 😅

Oldenburg: Staatsanwalt rechtfertigt Schlagen von Kindern (ndr.de)
In einem Prozess vor dem Landgericht Oldenburg hat ein Staatsanwalt das Schlagen von Kindern als vertretbar relativiert. Dabei berief er sich auf die Bibel und den Papst.

CW, Rant, Violence

This makes me whopping mad.

https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/niedersachsen/oldenburg_ostfriesland/Oldenburg-Staatsanwalt-rechtfertigt-Schlagen-von-Kindern,staatsanwalt178.html

As parent myself I know how hard it is to keep it together sometimes. Using a belt to “educate” is a NO GO.

This is what divides good from bad.

https://stream.jeremycherfas.net/2020/ok-so-you-want-to-move-to by Jeremy CherfasJeremy Cherfas (stream.jeremycherfas.net)
OK, so you want to move to Medium because it'll be more rewarding. I get that. But as someone who follows via RSS from your own site, I don't understand why you would not also post there. I don't care whether you POSSE or PESOS, I do consider myself dumped.

Wow. This will so backfire when Medium changes it’s course _again_. And it is already well known for being a pain in the neck.

I mean it’s okay to do this to find more readers but making Medium the source of truth for your stuff? Na. Never.

Should I Kill My Newsletter? - Kev Quirk (Kev Quirk)
So I’ve been running my newsletter for around 5 months now, but I’m thinking about killing it off. Let’s look at why
 My newsletter, Craving Coffee, has been a thing for close to 5 months at this point. In that time I’ve accumulated a little over 100 subscribers and have sent 4 editions. Sounds ok, [
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I know nobody interested in newsletters (for real) at all. is fine (and this is what I’m using to read kevq too 😅).

But I’m like a fish out of water, down here on the farm by ShawshankShawshank (voidifremoved.net)
So first things first. I’m about 8.5 hours late on this post, but I’ll get to that. Yesterday we drove into SlightlyBiggerTown so I could take my written test to start the process to get my drivers license Long story short, with a quick transaction to my local (USA local DMV), I got my license t...

Shawshank is doing manly things, I see 😜

https://twitter.com/jonk1969/status/1290097304515440640 by Jon KnolesJon Knoles (twitter.com)
And the final render (again by Ron Lussier) of the TIE Fighter cover art, without logo. I think I did more Photoshop tweaking to it for the final box art, but Ron made my sketch come to life.

@jonk1969 Thank you for your awesome work. This game (and others in that line) are a huge part of my childhood memories and there is something satisfying to have this still sitting on my shelf that modern virtual only copies will never provide.

Challenging turn-based RPG 'Stoneshard' has a huge overhaul update out, price rising by Liam DaweLiam Dawe (gamingonlinux.com)
Ink Stains Games have released a major upgrade to the challenging turn-based RPG Stoneshard, one they've been working on for some time now and it's quite the overhaul. Sounds like it's almost a different game too, all the big main parts of the game have been changed in some way. Here's the highlight...

Absolute lovely. Looks like someone made the homework on mediaeval buildings and stuff and mixed everything in a nice looking fantasy RPG. Getting Death or Glory: Das Erbe von Morgan vibes from this. Stoneshard goes totally on my wishlist.

How can I get consistent sizes with physically different monitors on Linux? by @edent (shkspr.mobi)
I can’t think of a concise way of wording this. I have three monitors. Each has the same resolution – 1920x1080px. But each one has a different physical size – 61 cm monitor, 39 cm laptop, and 48 cm monitor. Three monitors. Here’s my problem. When I move a window from one screen to another, ...

Sounds like you want to go back to tweaking an Xorg config file 🙂 A Monitor section has an option for a DisplaySize (in mm) that may be used (overriden by dpi from DDC file so may have to be disabled) but since the dimensions seem to be detected fine already I’d fiddle with xrand and if you’re happy with the results put that in ~/.xprofile or whatever. Here you can set anything without restrictions from the GUI. Example:

xrandr --output DisplayPort-0 --scale 0.8x0.8

Sadly this doesn’t seem to work with Wayland (I tried it even with XWayland for you). There was a project to rewrite xrandr but looks like it never flew. Latest solution to this seems to be wlr-randr that has according to source a --scale parameter but this requires wlr-output-management-unstable-v1 and while this may be in wlroots by now it’s not shipped (for me!) yet. Your mileage may vary.