What is Hackers' Pub?

ちょっと厳しい感じだなー午後から出社にするか

the original BDSM was obsoleted in the 1990s; these days there are multiple continuations of it, including NetBDSM, FreeBDSM, OpenBDSM, and several others,,

Happy to see so many successfully upgraded #BastilleBSD installations. For those still pending, here are some general steps.

> bastille bootstrap 15.0-RELEASE
> bastille etcupdate bootstrap 15.0-RELEASE
> bastille upgrade TARGET 15.0-RELEASE
> bastille etcupdate TARGET [diff|resolve|update] 15.0-RELEASE

Happy upgrading!

#FreeBSD

Early morning with lots of white and black but also pink over the mountain.

🦊 🌎

New blogpost: "Calibre, AI, and one size not fitting all"

I have found the various reactions to Calibre's introduction of “AI” most interesting; these are just some initial reflections, but I wanted to note them down anyway.

https://neilzone.co.uk/2025/12/calibre-ai-and-one-size-not-fitting-all/

#blog #calibre #AI

I think I'm addicted to assembling uniforms for nuns... it's habit forming

My age: I get this joke 🤣
#humor #phones

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Folks still using Audible, here’s my semi-regular plug that Libro.fm continues to be awesome for me after many years! I had a question late last night and this morning they answered and solved it with their fast and friendly customer support.

Also - they let you download your audio files! You can take them and put them in any other audio device or app you might want to use.

#Audiobooks #Librofm

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ヽ( ・∀・)ﾉ ｳﾝｺｰ

i've set up a #faircamp for #pastagang https://pasta.salat.dev so cool how easy this was to set up!! i still haven't used any of the configuration options, but it's enough to listen

"宇宙を持続可能にしようとする取り組みには地上に存在しない課題が伴うとドッジ氏は述べた。とりわけ宇宙に関する法律と政治が大きな複雑性をもたらす。"

宇宙望遠鏡に衝突するなど影響をもたらす宇宙ごみの増大、対処法を研究者らが発表 - CNN.co.jp https://www.cnn.co.jp/fringe/35241418.html

@JoBlakelyArtJo Does Art thank you so much for joining me! :-)

Just to let you know btfree.org and tubefree.org are the current websites. Not much there yet, but hoping in the future to build out more for supporting folks wanting to move to the fediverse.

来年もまた、いけますように

立山黒部アルペンルートが2026年で55周年！ライチョウロゴが示す「自然との共存」 | YAMA HACK[ヤマハック] https://yamahack.com/7241

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"Why don't you just Amazon it?" asks my mum.

Because I walked up to the local shopping centre and I bought Christmas cards and actual gifts from a little gift shop. I get to handwrite the cards and wrap the gifts myself and it feels personal. I touched these soft toys and wrapped them and wrote the little card.

Then I went to the post office and bought the box and packaging I'd need to post them tomorrow. There was an old lady with a frame delivering mince pies to the staff. At the checkout counter I saw some gift label stickers and I'd just run out, so I bought them too.

Then I went via the local cafe for a takeaway tea and laughed at a small boy (2ish) determined to pay for his ice cream by himself, thereby holding up the whole queue in an adorable way.

As I walked home I smiled at the random guy walking past me and he smiled back.

Sure, this way of gift-giving is much longer and takes much more effort. But I've given my friend the gift of time and energy and that makes it much more special.

And I got to feel like part of a community for a moment.

Amazon’s Ring rolls out controversial, AI-powered facial recognition feature to video doorbells https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/09/amazons-ring-rolls-out-controversial-ai-powered-facial-recognition-feature-to-video-doorbells/

#Octothorpe

おはようございあそばせ。

#decemberAdventure day 9: back to #gopher

A number of years ago I setup my own search tool for the gopherspace. I've not re-done a full crawl since getting it working, and due to some design issues, it eventually stopped working reliably enough to keep running. Due to RSI issues, I have prioritized other projects in the intervening years, but have slowly made a list of notes and plans for fixing it. Today's adventure is the first part in implementing my plan and getting it back to a useable state.

I've rewritten the crawler. The new one is a lot less buggy than the original, and has a number of improvement including a correctly working filter (supporting robots.txt and a defined list of servers not to index), better discovery of servers from the gopher maps, tracking when servers were last scanned, request rate limiting, and facilities for avoiding recording duplicate entries.

My initial tests have been on my main gopher server (forthworks.com:70) and a number of my private ones. This totals 32k selectors across 3 servers. I'm going to start a broader scan of the public gopherspace soon, so will update once I get through the initial scan of a few servers.

My full logs are at https://charles.childe.rs/DA2025

Going a bit off the beaten path for #FreeSoftwareAdvent, today I get to appreciate HaikuOS¹. While it has some issues (mostly keyboard-mapping) that prevent me from using it as the main OS on my writerdeck netbook, it is AMAZING in how well it uses resources. That little underpowered Atom processor with its 2G of RAM just flies. It boots in a fraction of the time of anything else (other than DOS) that I've installed on the hardware. The GUI and all the applications are delightfully snappy.

So please join me in sending a little praise toward the @haiku project for all the wonderful work they do!

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¹ https://www.haiku-os.org/

お父さんが捨て台詞を吐いたその気持ち、少しわかる気がする笑

【追記あり】「今日で生まれてから2万日」と家族LINEに投稿したお父さんが誰からもリアクションがないことに拗ねてグループから退会、どうすればいい - Togetter https://togetter.com/li/2636938

@Em0nM4stodonEm

It will always be funny.

Fewer people will get it.

A t-shirt that would be a great filter would be "I write my own emails."

People who smile when they see it are the fun ones.

今のうちにバファリンでも飲んどくべきか迷う

@Em0nM4stodonEm PS: Here is a small tortoiseshell butterfly. Artisanally crafted organic pixels. Yes, I screwed up its abdomen.

Would be happy to hear about someone's experience of selfhosting private Synapse instance, preferrably with containers.

@Em0nM4stodonEm One of the reasons I lost motivation to keep doing pixel art was that I hated when people would post AI imitations of the things I'd made. Or telling me that I'm dumb for not having AI draw for me. I've been too depressed to write code outside of work for a couple of years now, for similar reasons. I still don't use AI myself - I've just stopped doing creative things on the computer because I get depressed.

I've taken up drawing with pencil and paper. But I will not be posting any of that publicly; that is only for family and close friends. I'm not very good at it, but at least it is my own expression.

I think I'm addicted to assembling uniforms for nuns... it's habit forming

#Octothorpe

@Em0nM4stodonEm children are saying "that's AI" to fake or nonsensical things. If your product is synonymous with bullshit, it's probably not going to last very long.
I'm personally more concerned about the infrastructure we're putting in place for it. With so much higher education focusing on that, I don't think it will go away any time soon. I learned about "underwater datacenters" yesterday, and it honestly just makes me so angry.

The post is now live on my blog: https://thatalexguy.dev/posts/writing-post-palm-pilot/

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@alextheuxguy/115685703010719673

Ohmygoodness, this is such a delightful article from @alextheuxguyAlex White, full of so much Palm Pilot nostalgia.

I remember my father used his for years, and I even purchased a copy of the "Palm OS Programming Bible" in the hopes that I'd be able to write software for it when he bequeathed it to me (it died before I had a chance).

The personal digital assistant for a more civilized age.

サービス開始と同時に死亡…まれによくあるやつだ…T_T

Amazon’s Ring rolls out controversial, AI-powered facial recognition feature to video doorbells https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/09/amazons-ring-rolls-out-controversial-ai-powered-facial-recognition-feature-to-video-doorbells/

"The Matilda Effect": Pioneering Women Scientists Written Out of Science History

Link: https://www.openculture.com/2025/12/matilda-effect.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46208160

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えい

$ git init

I am so stubborn about not using AI.
You have no idea.

I will even go as far as writing my own texts, drawing my own images, writing my own code, and reading the whole article or email just by myself. Crazy stuff.

#NoAI

おはようございます

Rokland just kicked off their new Makers Market, a venture showcasing members of the Meshtastic community and the high-quality gear they design.

Their first featured maker is Matt Donley of ATLAVOX — showcasing the ATLAVOX Beacon, a Meshtastic-compatible solar node built on RAKwireless WisBlock hardware.
Each device is crafted and tested in the USA, pairing thoughtful design with durable construction.

🌞 Learn more about the ATLAVOX Beacon: https://msh.to/rokland-atlavox-makers-market

Rokland just kicked off their new Makers Market, a venture showcasing members of the Meshtastic community and the high-quality gear they design.

Their first featured maker is Matt Donley of ATLAVOX — showcasing the ATLAVOX Beacon, a Meshtastic-compatible solar node built on RAKwireless WisBlock hardware.
Each device is crafted and tested in the USA, pairing thoughtful design with durable construction.

🌞 Learn more about the ATLAVOX Beacon: https://msh.to/rokland-atlavox-makers-market

Life in the #UK question: Any good free-cycling / donation services in the UK that don't require facebook?

I've got some linens, some clothes, a few older electronics / lights and some bulky bits of furniture I don't need after my move.

I will use freecycle.org unless anyone has other suggestions. NextDoor is like a shocking racist nightmare zone.

Students at Burnsville HS in MN just walked out chanting “No more ICE! No more ICE!”

Young people are DONE watching injustice in silence. They’re not waiting for permission — they’re demanding change. ✊#press

"약 구하다 숨넘어갈 판이었는데"…희귀난치병 치료 길 넓어진다
(서울=연합뉴스) 서한기 기자 = "해외에는 치료제가 있다는데, 국내에서는 희귀의약품으로 지정조차 안 돼 쓸 수가 없어요." "약이 떨어져 가는...
https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20251209069700530

#news #뉴스

🚀 Excited to share—our C++ SDK (Beta) for Fastly Compute is live!
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Ruby 1のC拡張ライブラリをRuby 3に移植するノリでPython 2のC拡張モジュールをPython 3に移植する作業を安請け合いしちゃったんだよね←

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