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The days are shorter and are darker, but the #floof persists

OpenAI stopped letting ChatGPT generate text that humans would perceive as legal or medical advice.

I may eat my words but I strongly feel like this single decision will be looked back at the moment the "AI" hype collapsed. The hype is over. Now comes the time of collapse and downfall.

The price will - as in 2008/2009 - be paid by the collective. And the same grifters that cheered for "AI" will be back soon with new speculative FOMO tech.

RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/115485868652596157

https://fediverse.stefanbohacek.com

#fediverse #typography

./gradleW assembleRelease

#loops

Made in Canada.

@evanEvan Prodromou I'm honestly speechless seeing you launch https://photos.cosocial.ca

Your StatusNet software changed everything for me. I ran it until 2016, and it led me to Mastodon, which eventually inspired Pixelfed in 2018.

You've been my hero since day one. To see you now using Pixelfed... this moment feels impossibly full circle.

Thank you for everything you've built and for inspiring generations of federated software builders.

The future is federated. ❤️

#fediverse #statusNet

Libraries matter. Access matters.

After years of legal battles, the Internet Archive is still here—and still fighting for a world where everyone can read, learn, and remember.

@arstechnica tells the story: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/the-internet-archive-survived-major-copyright-losses-whats-next/

@carnage4lifeDare Obasanjo This is the root cause of almost all technical conflicts I need to mediate. People wasting their time arguing, instead of understanding.

The eng leads at YouTube had a great way of addressing this. One of the ground rules for any VP-level Eng Review was that each side needed to be able to articulate the other sides perspective, including pros/cons and top concerns. If you failed to demonstrate this during the review (either explicitly or implicitly), then the meeting was stopped and rescheduled for later. Both sides were told to go back, understand each other's points, rework the deck, and come back when they could articulate each other's side.

SVPs shouldn't waste their time mediating catfights. They need to focus on making hard technical decisions that will determine the success or failure of the company. Putting this ground rule in place (and living by it) quickly got the message across -- don't bring us fights, bring us hard problems with difficult tradeoffs.

Worked wonders.

Two things that have tickled me today

- seeing that the wonder that is the emotional support chicken has made it to national tv, thanks to the new Game of Wool series on Channel 4. Myfanwy is very proud of her knitted cousin.
- a giant emotional support chicken that I found while searching for pictures of Holger and his chicken.

FAVOR to ASK: I'm working on a new version of TV-B-Gone kit. Please let me know which TVs your TV-B-Gone (any type) does not turn off ! I'll fix that. :)

Was reading a Hacker News discussion today where one person brought up one of the most hilarious, simple and effective mass law enforcement actions ever: Operation Flagship.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Flagship

"Operation Flagship was a sting operation jointly organized by the United States Marshals Service and the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C. that resulted in the arrest of 101 wanted fugitives on December 15, 1985."

"The fugitives voluntarily went to the Washington Convention Center, responding to an invitation sent by the fictitious television company Flagship International Sports Television, (which had the same initials, F.I.S.T., as Fugitive Investigative Strike Team) to claim two free tickets to watch the Washington Redskins American football home game against the Cincinnati Bengals and for a chance to win tickets to Super Bowl XX. A total of 166 marshals and police officers were involved in the operation, with undercover personnel posing as tuxedo-wearing ushers, cheerleaders, emcees, caterers, mascots, and maintenance staff."

They could do this all day long, and probably could create something similar to ensnare a whole bunch of English-speaking cybercriminals. Like tell them all there's a fancy watch convention that is giving away a whole crate of Trezor wallets made of gold.

CHERIoT 1.0 Released via @rkrk: it’s hyphen-minus actually https://lobste.rs/s/l6q8rj #hardware #security
https://cheriot.org/sail/specification/release/2025/11/03/cheriot-1.0.html

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45800465

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Was reading a Hacker News discussion today where one person brought up one of the most hilarious, simple and effective mass law enforcement actions ever: Operation Flagship.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Flagship

"Operation Flagship was a sting operation jointly organized by the United States Marshals Service and the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C. that resulted in the arrest of 101 wanted fugitives on December 15, 1985."

"The fugitives voluntarily went to the Washington Convention Center, responding to an invitation sent by the fictitious television company Flagship International Sports Television, (which had the same initials, F.I.S.T., as Fugitive Investigative Strike Team) to claim two free tickets to watch the Washington Redskins American football home game against the Cincinnati Bengals and for a chance to win tickets to Super Bowl XX. A total of 166 marshals and police officers were involved in the operation, with undercover personnel posing as tuxedo-wearing ushers, cheerleaders, emcees, caterers, mascots, and maintenance staff."

They could do this all day long, and probably could create something similar to ensnare a whole bunch of English-speaking cybercriminals. Like tell them all there's a fancy watch convention that is giving away a whole crate of Trezor wallets made of gold.

Have you wanted to sing the praises of #FreeSoftware but didn't have a tune? Learn the Free Software Song performed by Devin Ulibarri and Rubén Rodríguez: https://u.fsf.org/497

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I wonder if @atomicpoetChris Trottier remembers me asking him to help QA my new Loops project during #FediCon.

The Android app is almost ready, and I saw he is helping organize a Fediverse Video Co-op, it's a match made in heaven.

Timing is everything, hope he considers Loops 🤞

With Rust being a requirement for Firefox and soon for APT, we should really get a few smart people together to centralise Rust ports to weird architectures like PA-RISC, SPARC, and Alpha.

There's efforts here and there, but it's all scattered and disorganized.

안주녕 요무세히

@skinnylatteAdrianna Tan Pssst, Mila, just in case👇🏻

Mila would like you to know she has never, ever been fed

#Cats #CatsOfMastodon #Torties

Hey @alvinashcraftAlvin Ashcraft 🐿️ thanls for listing my little package but this is me not Kevin Logan (me, Scott Galloway)

The Call for Proposals for RustWeek 2026 is now open!

If you’d like to give a talk, please submit your proposal via https://sessionize.com/rustweek-2026/

The CFP closes Dec 31.

#rustweek2026 #rustlang

Excuse me, are you taking a picture of my belly?!

17​:37:​ i go upstairs to boot my server thats apparently still shut down
17​:38:​ [????????]
17​:39:​ i find myself back on the couch, the server still shut down

i love adhd

I analyzed 180M jobs to see what jobs AI is replacing today

Link: https://bloomberry.com/blog/i-analyzed-180m-jobs-to-see-what-jobs-ai-is-actually-replacing-today/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45798489

The Case Against PGVector

Link: https://alex-jacobs.com/posts/the-case-against-pgvector/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45798479

OpenAI Signs $38B Cloud Computing Deal with Amazon

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/technology/openai-amazon-cloud-computing.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45799211

#amazon

MCE Blaster Translates TTL For Modern(ish) Monitors

https://hackaday.com/2025/11/03/mce-blaster-translates-ttl-for-modernish-monitors/

@lcamtuflcamtuf

> does your moral responsibility for a free tool you created extend to protecting the customers of a business that profits off your work? Probably kinda yes,

Absolutely not.

The (L)GPL explicitly disclaims any warranty, while also listing "providing a warranty to your customers" as something someone making commercial use of the code might want to do.

B's choice to make commercial use of code from A confers no additional responsibility, moral or otherwise, on A.

warm take #1: if you're not actually in the geographic centre of a timezone; daylight saving is useful at the solstices and godawful at the equinoxes, and the pain for 3-5 days per year is probably worth it

(I would very much not enjoy the 8:25am sunrise in December if permanent DST were introduced; nor would I enjoy 4:48am sunrise in June with permanent standard time; the obvious fix is putting California on UTC-7:30,

as “industry” survey season rolls around again it’s important to remember that the results from these things reflect the biases of the most popular dev communities that promote them (and then we get to all pretend like the results are meritocratic)

I now believe it’s better to not participate at all

으 악 자려고 누워버려서 커모지는 내일 작업해야지

✨We invite you to join us at AlpCHI 2026 by submitting to two focused tracks:

🔹 Revisiting HCI Research
We welcome critical reflections on influential HCI work published in or before 2014 (of yourself or by somebody in the HCI community). This track encourages revisiting established ideas, examining their evolution, and discussing their relevance for current research.
➡️https://alpchi.org/call-for-revisiting-hci-research/

#AlpCHI2026 #HCI #CfP #RevisitingHCI
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@hotaru_kazurashno募集中
RPGのエンカって多分こんな感じだと思う

With Rust being a requirement for Firefox and soon for APT, we should really get a few smart people together to centralise Rust ports to weird architectures like PA-RISC, SPARC, and Alpha.

There's efforts here and there, but it's all scattered and disorganized.

Bring back BeOS style iconography

There is plenty going *wrong* in the world right now. And I feel like I hear about all of it, all the time.

If I may ask; if you're involved in Linux or FOSS communities, what do you see going *right* lately? What things are giving you optimism? Are there any new developments worth following that would encourage people?

안녕하세요 이사가 마무리가 되서 이제 호토모에 계정 위주로 굴릴것 같아요
여기도 살려는 둘거에요 죽을때까지 함께야(의미심장)

Mila would like you to know she has never, ever been fed

#Cats #CatsOfMastodon #Torties

I’ve been for a very soggy walk. It was definitely a good for my health walk, rather than an it’s a lovely afternoon walk. But still, #walking #Northumberland

大きめの靴

Libraries matter. Access matters.

After years of legal battles, the Internet Archive is still here—and still fighting for a world where everyone can read, learn, and remember.

@arstechnica tells the story: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/the-internet-archive-survived-major-copyright-losses-whats-next/

I'm thinking if we want to do a baseball game at #PyConUS this year it might need to be an Angels game. Dodgers would have to be ahead of the main conference but Angels could be in the evening after sprints. And Angel Stadium is closer than Dodger Stadium.

cc @davidismDavid Lord @elthenerdElaine Wong @kjaymillerJay Miller @mikethemanMike Fiedler, Code Gardener

@lifi@yodangang.express리피

안녕하세요 저는 신청합니다 호토모에 이모지 키위라피에서 만든것들