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same vibe
Canon EOS-1Dの写真。
https://note.com/cry8403/n/n9c363dd07f8b
#ProtocolsForPublishers @kevinmarks.com@bsky.brid.gyKevin Marks : I'm going to be live skeeting the Protocols for Publishers talks at Newspeak House tonight https://luma.com/2d2s26jg
What’s your laptop/desktop backup recommendation for general public, not-highly-technical people who don’t have extreme security needs and just want not to lose their family photos etc?
Maybe it’s just “use the cloud drive,” but…OneDrive seems to cause a lot of problems? or does it?
Reconstruction of Sollasina cthulhu
Claude Code for Infrastructure
Link: https://www.fluid.sh/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46889703
Die EU muss jetzt ins doing kommen
Die EU muss jetzt ins doing kommen
추구미 그림체 연습!
This makes me sad (been there). From Joe Menn at WaPo: "Most of the Washington Post’s tech reporters were laid off today, including me. I have loved my time at the paper, which is where I wanted to work from age 15. I take some consolation in not being among the survivors who will have to work harder with less for fewer readers. On to better things."
@briankrebs Meanwhile Lizzie Johnson has been laid off by WaPo in Kiev, in the middle of winter in a war zone, without electricity, running water, or heat: https://bsky.app/profile/alexip718.com/post/3me2enjr6ss2d
i spent years arguing about things like 80 vs 100 vs 120 cols. tabs vs spaces. i have never cared less about these things than i do in this moment.
lot of people are going to gain a lot of leverage by taking a very frank and honest look about what practices they're doing, and why, and discarding some that don't serve them anymore. some are gonna try this, discard the wrong ones, and crash and burn. the trick is, which are which?
I have been trying to think of ways of making the Fediverse more Friendly and Welcoming.
To people outside the Fediverse.
To people thinking of joining the Fediverse.
To people who recently joined the Fediverse.
And more.
...
What do YOU think could make the Fediverse more Friendly and Welcoming?
(Reply with your answers.)
#Fediverse #FriendlyFediverse #SpreadFediverse #WelcomingFediverse
The Maintainer Summit is returning to PyCon US 2026. And we have our CFP open!
Come share your talks, stories, ideas about the maintaining open source with us.
for a profession that talks endlessly about how cargo culting is bad, we sure do cargo cult a lot re-evaluating things is a big theme for 2026. what are we *actually* doing here? what practices can we verify are *actually* helping us write better software? what is "better software" anyway?
실은 별거 없고 그 분이 먼저 한국어로 'anti-capitalism'이 뭐냐고 물어봄
외국인들 발음 어려워서 한국어 발음 못한다는 거 다 개씹구라임 엊그제 영어밖에 모르던 미국인한테 5자나 되는 '반자본주의' 발음하게 시켰는데 한국인인 내가 듣기에도 꽤 정확하게 발음함 왜 말하게 시켰는지는 묻지 마세요
일단 씻느라 발톱이 불어서 최대한 안쪽까지 깎아내긴 했는데......... 으 상당히 깊은 곳 부터 꺾여있긴 하네. 내성발톱 스티커나 약국에서 찾아보던지 해야겠어..
im phrasing this in a silly way because my brain is terminally online of course, *some people* have been talking about stuff like supply chain security a ton i'm just trying to like, re-evaluate things and how i think abou them. i review prs before merging. how honest is that though?
How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post
Link: https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/how-jeff-bezos-brought-down-the-washington-post
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46890034
AI needs to augment rather than replace humans or the workplace is doomed
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/25/ai-augment-rather-than-replace-workplace-doomed
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46889282
Somebody should invent a socioeconomic system which is good at allocating resources
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*while npm install scrolls by on my terminal* incorporating code into my codebase? without reviewing it? that's irresponsible
"I recognize this and it's central to the reasons our ambitions fail," but very few leaders and orgs saw it. Everything was against this backdrop of the assumption that software dev as a learning and expertise issue was figured out
Now that's not feeling so assumed.
Every time I've worked on learning-shaped problems, it's been absolute agony trying to get tech people to care about it. Edtech, VP of a company that literally sold a product named "Skills," everyone is enormously dismissive of the power of learning even when you prove it over and over again
Ist Jointsdrehen im Fernverkehr erlaubt? Frage natürlich rein hypothetisch.
High-Altitude Adventure with a DIY Pico Balloon
Link: https://spectrum.ieee.org/explore-stratosphere-diy-pico-balloon
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46842288
愛だなあ #なんもわからん
ラムネモンキー
第4話 タイマン上等！夜露死苦ビーバップ！
https://tver.jp/episodes/ep45ge4bsz
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/116004809011481588
Anyway the reason I roll my eyes at most of the discussion about "AI", "AGI", "the singularity", "intelligence self-improvement feedback loop" is that like, it happened, it's already happened, it's been happening, it's us. We're it.
Kurzweil talked about lusting for a machine that can make him smarter. I have that, it's a piece of paper. I can write math on a piece of paper and solve problems I can't solve in my head. I can upload all the information in the world directly into my brain (books).
What "singularity" fanatics actually want is to not have to put in the work
AI is killing B2B SaaS
Link: https://nmn.gl/blog/ai-killing-b2b-saas
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46888441
さて起きる
My new rice cooker beeps when it finished cooking. It was one of the features I've been wanting (to be notified that the rice is ready) but it beeps like 5 times and super loud, even louder than my own wake up alarm 😅 (and there is no way to adjust the volume).
Oh well maybe one day they'll make it play a song just like the laundry machines these days.
I just talked to a PhD student who had a scheduled faculty interview at a US R1 CS department two weeks from now, but not anymore: the position has been cancelled due to budget constraints. It's one thing to not be hiring this year -- but they actually opened a search, reviewed applications, invited folks for interviews, and *then* cancelled the position? A bunch of people's time just got wasted on both sides, to say nothing of the heartbreak of getting an interview and then having it cancelled.
How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post
Link: https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/how-jeff-bezos-brought-down-the-washington-post
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46890034
are there any non-terrible mdm vendors
Can someone on this side of the web plainsplain atproto, activitypub, etc to me? Not technically but like, ... Not politically, maybe like... Explain it like a recap of a reality TV show?
atproto = "distributed" like housewives stars; there's few of them and they're very expensive to maintain
activitypub = "distributed" like survivor stars; they're all completely psycho but they can built a functioning shelter from parts they found in the woods, and there's like 100 seasons
some ways to override the browser's security rules
Building a 24-bit Arcade CRT Display Adapter, From Scratch https://lobste.rs/s/dkjllb #graphics #hardware
https://www.scd31.com/posts/building-an-arcade-display-adapter
月に1度LinkedInおぬぬめの求人を眺める作業をしてるとむかあしの同僚が今こんな会社に!!って懐しくなるよね
this randomly popped up in a web search and (while not relevant to my original query) was indeed relevant to my interests!
> Containerization is a Swift package [from the mothership itself] for running Linux containers on macOS.
That’s the way I like it. 🤗 Is a pizza without olives and anchovies a pizza? 😎😉
something I don't think I've ever seen explained is whether there's any situation where it's safe to set "Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *" other than "if your site literally never serves any private data"
(I often hear "don't do it" which is fair I guess, but also like the Mastodon API intentionally sets Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * and that's extremely useful)
Ripple/XRP (a cryptocurrency company) just granted 200k USD to Social Web Foundation, "...to research sustainable revenue and operating models for digital publishers and community-run platforms":
This means they will be able to influence the development of the ActivityPub specification at W3C.
For those who don't know: Interledger, WebMonetization and OpenPayments are basically the same thing, these projects were created by Ripple ~10 years ago in order to insert their cryptocurrency and related payment services into web standards. These projects are sometimes presented as independent, but this is a lie, they are not (not in 2019, not in 2025).
Needless to say, Ripple itself is a borderline scam: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbloomberg/2019/03/01/is-ripple-a-scam/. It's not even a cryptocurrency really, their infrastructure is completely centralized and no one in cryptocurrency space takes them seriously. But they have a lot of money to bribe people, so I am sure that we will hear more about their adventures soon.
One of the milestones that must be achieved before releasing Hollo 1.0.0 is supporting the ActivityPub C2S API, which in turn depends on ActivityPub C2S support in Fedify—also a major milestone for that project.
this randomly popped up in a web search and (while not relevant to my original query) was indeed relevant to my interests!
> Containerization is a Swift package [from the mothership itself] for running Linux containers on macOS.
Evan Prodromou
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Ael Yokan
Hugo van Kemenade
Glyph
Stefano Marinelli
jnkrtech
Olivier Forget
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