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Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? [video]
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fZTOjd_bOQ
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46256834
24/7 solar power is becoming cheap enough to be a thing thanks to plummeting battery prices
I will give my life savings to anyone who saws off that beam
VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits
Link: https://ipinfo.io/blog/vpn-location-mismatch-report
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46257339
I like the USCSB accident videos. But they all start with a standard introduction using a bald eagle making a "bald eagle" call. Once upon a time I didn't think twice of it, but thanks to the Fediverse, I now can hear that the actual call being used is a red-tailed hawk's call, as is almost always the case outside of nature documentaries (bald eagles have unimpressive, not particularly majestic calls). Sorry, USCSB, it's not you but it is you and all your sister agencies who have to do that.
Difficult families
You can’t change your family but you also aren’t stuck with them. I hope you can spend this Christmas with people who love you and give you every kindness.
https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-bury-your-father/
Sometimes, to raise our children we have to bury our fathers multiple times. And here I will finally begin to answer your question: How do you lovingly care for an aging parent who treated you like shit? And look, I’ll be straight up and tell you that I had no idea where this was going when I started, but it revealed itself. You loving care for an aging parent by protecting his grandchildren from his sins. You lovingly care for an aging parent by making sure that the way they treated you stops with you. You lovingly care for an aging parent by learning how to love others, and by letting them love you. You lovingly care for an aging parent by digging multiple graves, the first one for their sins, and the second one for their body.
Medicinal Plants and Their Nanoparticles: A Double Blade Sword Against Human Diseases by Kamil Kuca et al, 2025
Green nanotechnology involves the development of smaller and more efficient materials while prioritizing the reduction of harm to the environment and the improvement of human well-being.
#books
#nonfiction
#MedicinalPlants
#nanotechnology
#nanoparticles
#Springer
Take 10 minutes out of the doom and watch any video here: https://youtube.com/@achickcalledalbert
The political theory of "everyone is twelve now" really is undefeated. None of this propaganda makes any sense until you realize the target audience never intellectually or emotionally developed past middle school. Just picture a bunch of giddy kids clapping along like "haha the turtle has an RPG, and they've photoshop Santa hats onto the secret police". That's their voters.
What your Books.app looks like when you only use it debug the #Python EPUB...
Just started watching "Mr. Scorsese Reviews" on Apple TV and it's like getting inside the head that came up with all those movies, with scenes from the movies in there too. What a gift. https://www.metacritic.com/tv/mr-scorsese/
// Bonfire
void main(){float i,t,d,a,v,n,w;vec3 p,q,k,o,K=vec3(9,3,1);for(d++;i++<5e1&&d>.001;o+=d>n?d=abs(n)*.4+.05,K/d:K*exp(-length(k)*.6)*20.,t+=d*.5)for(k=normalize(vec3(P+P-R,R.y))*t+vec3(0,6,-15),d=k.y,w=.0025,a-=a,n=.96*length(k.xz)+.27*k.y-5.34;a++<9.;w+=w)p=k,p.zx*=mat2(cos(a*2.4+vec4(0,33,11,0))),q=p,q.y-=a*T,n+=abs(dot(sin(q*.7/w),q-q+w)),p.z-=5.,p.yz*=mat2(1,v=a*.18,-v,1)/sqrt(v*v+1.),d=min(d,max(abs(p.z+5.)-5.,max(abs(p.x)*.9+p.y*.5,-p.y)-.3));O=vec4(tanh(o/5e2),1);}
Broken thoughts and fixed ideas
You know that thing in a fantasy movie where something evil bites you and then you turn evil too. I always think “no way that could happen to me! I’d be strong enough to resist.” … Then I remember the last time I got hangry.
🎄 Advent of Donations - Day 12 🎄
On day 12 I'm sponsoring an Android app I use every day to communicate with my family and friends: Molly for Android. It's a fork of the original Signal app that doesn't rely on Google Play services and can be side-loaded from the F-Droid store. If you're using Signal on Android, you should give it a try!
Read more about Advent of Donations and Molly in my latest blog update: https://britter.dev/blog/2025/12/01/advent-of-donations#day-12---molly
🎄 Advent of Donations - Day 13 🎄
Today we have another content creator. I'm sponsoring Vimjoyer, a YouTuber dedicated to creating videos about NixOS with nice visuals. His videos played an important role in my NixOS journey.
Learn more about Advent of Donations and Vimjoyer in my latest blog update: https://britter.dev/blog/2025/12/01/advent-of-donations#day-13---vimjoyer
Making Kin With Trees: A Cultural Poetics of Interspecies Care by Solvejg Nitzke, 2025
This book analyzes how trees act as mediators of interspecies relationships in popular science writing and creative nonfiction. Making Kin with Trees argues that trees emerge as agents of “arboreal poetics” shaping not only fictional but also material interactions.
On the first day of Nixmas ❄️🎄 DetSys gave to thee 🎁: Determinate Nix 3.0, a downstream distribution of Nix for enterprise users, with stable flakes, SOC 2 Type II compliance, and more!
You know that thing in a fantasy movie where something evil bites you and then you turn evil too. I always think “no way that could happen to me! I’d be strong enough to resist.” … Then I remember the last time I got hangry.
Broken thoughts and fixed ideas
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/115713071946346627
I saw a story similar to this one a few years ago, but about someone who was locked out of their Google account due to a nearly identical flag. It's what inspired me to start ditching major platforms in the first place and start focusing on services that use end-to-end encryption and allow for full proper data exports and backups.
This sucks.
// Bonfire
void main(){float i,t,d,a,v,n,w;vec3 p,q,k,o,K=vec3(9,3,1);for(d++;i++<5e1&&d>.001;o+=d>n?d=abs(n)*.4+.05,K/d:K*exp(-length(k)*.6)*20.,t+=d*.5)for(k=normalize(vec3(P+P-R,R.y))*t+vec3(0,6,-15),d=k.y,w=.0025,a-=a,n=.96*length(k.xz)+.27*k.y-5.34;a++<9.;w+=w)p=k,p.zx*=mat2(cos(a*2.4+vec4(0,33,11,0))),q=p,q.y-=a*T,n+=abs(dot(sin(q*.7/w),q-q+w)),p.z-=5.,p.yz*=mat2(1,v=a*.18,-v,1)/sqrt(v*v+1.),d=min(d,max(abs(p.z+5.)-5.,max(abs(p.x)*.9+p.y*.5,-p.y)-.3));O=vec4(tanh(o/5e2),1);}
Local Greens Cities and Twenty-first Century Environmental Problems by Katrina M. Wyman & Danielle Spiegel-Feld, 2025
As the federal government failed to take ambitious action to limit climate change in the early 21st century, many cities in the US pledged to step into the void. Networks of city governments and philanthropists offered support and cities invested their own resources in sustainability offices.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/115713071946346627
I saw a story similar to this one a few years ago, but about someone who was locked out of their Google account due to a nearly identical flag. It's what inspired me to start ditching major platforms in the first place and start focusing on services that use end-to-end encryption and allow for full proper data exports and backups.
This sucks.
Today for #ArtAdventCalendar, one of my most popular prints which also happens to be one of my first. #CompostTheRich
VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits
Link: https://ipinfo.io/blog/vpn-location-mismatch-report
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46257339
Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Federal Wallet Inspectors; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/13/uncle-sucker/
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Liturgies for Resisting Empire by Kat Armas, 2025
"A thought-provoking look at the intertwining of religion and social control."—Publishers Weekly
● Explains what "empire" is in our modern day
● Gives practical spiritual guidance for resisting empire's daily influence
● Explores how early Christians navigated imperial pressures
● Unpacks how empire influences how we see ourselves and others
#books
#nonfiction
#Christianity
#religion
#empire
#resistance
#theology
Will West Coast Jazz Get Some Respect?
Link: https://www.honest-broker.com/p/will-west-coast-jazz-finally-get
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46176592
The problem is that the alternatives are completely inaccessible to most people, I struggle to get my head round what's trapped to self-host my own email server. How would you even begin to help someone who's only ever used phone apps? For the vast majority, there is no alternative to big cloud
@MigueldeicazaMiguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉 https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/115713071946346627
New mini display
@Jasperthecat@mastodon.sdf.orgJasperJust started watching "Mr. Scorsese Reviews" on Apple TV and it's like getting inside the head that came up with all those movies, with scenes from the movies in there too. What a gift. https://www.metacritic.com/tv/mr-scorsese/
Israel hails joining US-led AI initiative, Pax Silica
Netanyahu’s office says joining the Trump administration’s AI initiative is “a badge of honor for the State of Israel and the Israeli high-tech industry”.
Dubbed Pax Silica, the initiative aims to bolster “cooperation on AI and supply chain security” between the US and its allies, the State Department said in a factsheet this week.
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I keep trying to paint cats but they just won't sit still long enough to get a good coat on them
What I meant to toot before I realised I could make that joke was I keep trying to paint cats but they always end up looking like squirrels???
Meanwhile, Christmas in the Australian Outback 🎄
a small gift for a cat 🐈⬛
Palestinians struggle with flooding after heavy rain hits the Bureij refugee camp in Gaza City. Malnutrition continues to take a toll on Gaza’s young despite a ceasefire declared two months ago, with more than 9,000 children hospitalised for acute malnutrition in October alone, according to the latest UN figures.
Photograph: Moiz Salhi/Anadolu/Getty Images
"We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones."
This might be one of the stupidest headlines I've ever seen
Ideas are not a commodity you stockpile. They are not an existing resource. They don't run out. Being human means you make new ones ad infinitum.
And AI is a regurgitation machine, not a creative thinking machine.
Tents of Palestinian families pitched at the damaged al-Azhar University in Gaza City. About 1.9 million people in Gaza, nearly 90% of the population, have been displaced.
Photograph: Mohammed Saber/EPA
A man on crutches walks past murals on the sides of a destroyed building in the Maghazi refugee camp outside Deir al-Balah.
Photograph: Eyad Baba/AFP/Getty Images
San Diego, #California, #US
A surfer walks by as #starfish cling to a pillar of the Ellen Browning Scripps memorial pier during the king tides which are the year’s most extreme high and low tides.
Photograph: Kevin Carter/Getty Images
Looking from the main path on Ben Nevis with Fort William, Loch Eil and Lochaber in the distance.
Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian
Cosmic Symphony Unveiled: Herbig-Haro 49/50 Captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope - This stunning image showcases the reddish-orange outflow of Herbig-Haro 49/50, a jet from a forming star, colliding with surrounding gas and dust. A distant spiral galaxy aligns perfectly in the background, offering a breathtaking view of star formation in action. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.
Rebellion in the Middle Ages Fight Against the Crown by Matthew Lewis;, 2022
Matthew Lewis seeks to examine the causes behind the insurrections and how they influenced the development of England from the Norman Conquest until the Tudor period. Each rebellion’s importance and impact is assessed both individually and as part of a larger movement to examine how rebellions helped to build England.
#books
#nonfiction
#history
#medieval
#England
#rebellions
#MiddleAges
Condensing Diesel Heater Hack Is Dripping With Efficiency
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/13/condensing-diesel-heater-hack-is-dripping-with-efficiency/
Creativity in Teaching and Learning
“The Little Boy” by Helen E. Buckley
Once a little boy went to school.
He was quite a little boy.
And it was quite a big school.
But when the little boy found that he could go to his classroom
By walking right in from the door outside,
He was happy.
And the school did not seem
Quite so big anymore.
One morning,
When the little boy had been in school a while,
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Dolmengi
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
