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In defense of lock poisoning in Rust https://lobste.rs/s/vkyrtf #rust
https://sunshowers.io/posts/on-poisoning/
App: Click to update!
Me: Uh, I dunno. I'm nervous.
App: Click to update!
Me: Why? You haven't given me a good reason.
App: Click to update!
Me: But what if you change something that I like the way it is? Can't I just not?
App: Click to update!
Me: OK, OK. Fine. *click*
App: Sucker!!!
Huge thank you to 
@dchdch 
for helping me downgrade my laptop from 15.0-STABLE to 15.0-RELEASE this morning!
A new org in the UK
‘TOGETHER AGAINST THE FAR RIGHT’. Love, hope and unity.
March in London in unity and against the far right on March 28
Today it's awk(1)
I use it almost daily—from simple column-extraction (specifying column separators and mashing together various columns feels easier with awk than with sort(1)), to summing and running totals, to aggregating counts of data, to reformatting text, etc…so many little uses pop up.
It's available on every POSIX platform making it easy to write cross-platform utilities without having to install additional run-times like Python/Ruby/Node and the heavy dependencies that come with them.
I've even written cgi-bin/ scripts in awk, allowing dynamic data processing on my stock OpenBSD systems with httpd+SlowCGI without non-stock software in the chroot.
― Alice Sowerby, Ed Maste, Isaac Freund, Mark Phillips and others at the FreeBSD Foundation
― Baptiste Daroussin
― Colin Percival
― Dave Cottlehuber
― Gordon Tetlow
― Warner Losh
@emasteEd Maste 
@ifreundIsaac Freund 
@thismarkpMark Phillips 
@FreeBSDFoundation 
@_bapt_ @cpercivaColin Percival @dchdch @bsdimp
if your employer is giving you money to send to charity, then know that Benevity knows about FreeBSD Foundation
#FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE
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become unenshittifiable
If you're a woman in your 40s or 50s who suddenly feels like everything got harder, you're not imagining it. I wrote about the intersection of ADHD and perimenopause—why this transition can feel so overwhelming, and what actually helps.
I chose this as my first blog post ever because this topic deserves more attention. Women navigating this deserve validation and informed care, not dismissal.
#ADHD #Perimenopause #Menopause #WomensHealth #MidlifeADHD #ADHDWomen
#decemberAdventure day 2: I've implemented most of an ilo vm in Ada. There's two remaining things to do to finish this, but I'm holding off until tomorrow for those. Adventure log @ https://charles.childe.rs/DA2025/
I might do an Oberon version next.
Do you know how to rebuild packages (not ports I do not have any ports) during upgrade to freebsd 15 process, please?
if I do not do this, after reboot packages as doas, pkg and so on prompt missing .so file..
The Legal Case Against Ring’s #FaceRecognition Feature | 
@effElectronic Frontier Foundation
#Amazon Ring’s upcoming face recognition tool has the potential to violate the privacy rights of millions of people and could result in Amazon breaking state #biometric #privacy laws.
#Ring plans to introduce a feature to its home #surveillance cameras called “Familiar Faces,” to identify specific people who come into view of the #camera.
#familiarfaces #biometrics
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/legal-case-against-rings-face-recognition-feature
Tech workers of mastodon, are you formally evaluated based on your genai use? Please boost
i can tell u a secret: setting up first time buying for the production of a new laptop model is a huge undertaking
Is this "agentic modernization of custom code" in the room with us right now?
AWS Transform now supports agentic modernization of custom code
https://www.cio.com/article/4099616/aws-transform-now-supports-agentic-modernization-of-custom-code-2.html
EU Push to Make Message Scanning Permanent Despite Evidence of Failure and Privacy Risks.
https://reclaimthenet.org/eu-chat-control-law-permanent-privacy-risks-error-rates-lack-evidence
This reminds me of that brief moment in 2016 when brands would call out Trump for gross stuff involving their products. For instance, Tic Tacs responding to the Access Hollywood tape or Skittles pushing back on Don Jr. comparing refugees to poisoned Skittles
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xy5kxsm3mllicxckb3i7uabr/post/3m6xku5t2cs2j
@inthehandsPaul Cantrell 
@CelloMomOnCars My concern is that city governments send it directly to the landfill. My wife and I have and will continue to make concerted efforts not to use plastic
@Robo105Robin Barton But that is something that one can make a ruckus about, and which has nothing to do with the *concept* of recycling of stuff, regardless of material.
Yes: to avoid is probably better than to reuse; to reuse beats recycling; to recycle beats burning; and even burning (in a controlled process) beats just tossing in the environment. Avoiding plastics completely in today's western world is very difficult, but we can still make a choice about how to handle it after first use.
Microsoft won't let me pay a $24 bill, blocking thousands in Azure spending
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46124930
The Legal Case Against Ring’s #FaceRecognition Feature | @effElectronic Frontier Foundation
#Amazon Ring’s upcoming face recognition tool has the potential to violate the privacy rights of millions of people and could result in Amazon breaking state #biometric #privacy laws.
#Ring plans to introduce a feature to its home #surveillance cameras called “Familiar Faces,” to identify specific people who come into view of the #camera.
#familiarfaces #biometrics
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/legal-case-against-rings-face-recognition-feature
Merry Christmas!
@schwaJonathan Wight
It is possible for us not to communicate true things in ways that inadvertently help bad actors. Even the slightest awareness of the scams they’re running can help.
Merry Christmas!
I am once again begging, begging everyone to hold these 3 thoughts in their head at once:
1. Plastics recycling is not very effective. It’s far, far better to not use plastic at all in the first place, and that failing, far better to reuse.
2. Plastics recycling is not worthless or pointless. Don’t just throw it all away because “iT dOEsn’T matTeR.” A miserable 5% reclaimed is still better than 0% reclaimed.
3. Plastics recycling is nonetheless part of a petrochemical greenwashing campaign, per @CelloMomOnCars’s post below. https://mastodon.social/@CelloMomOnCars/115650231600448649
Also the microplastics will be worse than the asbestos.
You don't have to ditch all plastics in one go (you can't) but just take that first step. Then the next.
I actually can't listen to this song without cracking up
Do you think I'm secretly a furry?
#SouthKorea police say 120,000 home cameras #hacked for ' #sexploitation ‘ footage
Four people have been arrested in South Korea for allegedly #hacking more than 120,000 video #cameras in homes and businesses and using the footage to make sexually exploitative materials for an overseas website.
Locations of cameras hacked in the country reportedly included private homes, karaoke rooms, a pilates studio and a gynaecologist's clinic.
#privacy #surveillance
Unix - BSD developers : this code should run and be maintained as long as computers exist.
Linux - GNU dev : this code should run and be maintained as long as someone is willing to do the work
Consultant: this code should run until the end of my contract.
Enterprise grade B2B software : this code should run till the end of the demonstration to that big customer.
Vibe coding : You are perfectly right. The code doesn’t run. Try this one. You are right, it deleted your hard disk, I’m sorry.
OH: Any sufficiently advanced User Agent string is indistinguishable from a stroke.
Mistral 3 family of models released
Link: https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-3
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46121889
Claude 4.5 Opus' Soul Document
Link: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/2/claude-soul-document/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46125184
"Dear World: Now is a good time to get off social media that’s going downhill." excellent piece by 
@timbray https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/11/03/Time-to-Migrate
"Even Carrington would be impressed" 😬
https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=02&month=12&year=2025
Hopefully we just get "someone should check on our satellites" levels of auroras and not "A bunch of open questions in solar-terrestrial physics are about to be answered"
New post: a defense of lock poisoning in #rust.
Followup to recent discussion: decided to write about lock poisoning, looking at the arguments on each side, and informed by our experience at 
@oxidecomputerOxide Computer Company dealing with the parallel problem of unexpected async cancellations in critical sections.
Please give it a read!
this fall I worked with the core Git folks on writing an official data model for Git and it just got merged! I learned a few new things from writing it. https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/gitdatamodel.adoc
OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race
Link: https://www.theverge.com/news/836212/openai-code-red-chatgpt
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46121870
4.3M Browsers Infected: Inside ShadyPanda's 7-Year Malware Campaign
Link: https://www.koi.ai/blog/4-million-browsers-infected-inside-shadypanda-7-year-malware-campaign
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46122957
Anthropic Acquires Bun
Link: https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-acquires-bun-as-claude-code-reaches-usd1b-milestone
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46124258
LOL somehow Claude would quietly set up config file for WezTerm and break user configuration.
Why??
Retrotechtacular: Learning the Slide Rule the New Old Fashioned Way
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/02/retrotechtacular-learning-the-slide-rule-the-new-old-fashioned-way/
I see Anthropic has aquired Bun...
It will be interesting to see if this leads to anthropic investments upstream in JSC / WebKit. I hope so.
https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-acquires-bun-as-claude-code-reaches-usd1b-milestone
@mcc all aboard the 出去
Me: 出 and 去 are a slightly confusing distinction to me, it's subtle and the difference makes sense when I look in the dictionary but I struggle to keep it in my head.
Mandarin: 出去
Me: What
Mandarin: 出去 is also a word you need to know
Stefano Marinelli
Em 
+ 
Bozhidar Batsov (a.k.a. Bug)
