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Reached this year's goal of 6000 km bicycling just in time before we get the first snow here in Stockholm, Sweden. Counting down the last 30 km in the cold was kind of tough and sweet at the same time. For some reason, my toes got cold, but I did not want to give up before reaching the goal. At the same time, I was super content to keep the level of bicycling for many years now. I wonder how much longer it will last.
Witch: "A truly vile potion you have there, perhaps vile enough to quench the thirst of a depraved hag such as I"
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber
dad used to sometimes say, on tasting something he REALLY liked: "This is not fit for human consumption. I'll have to eat it all."
you know what really sucks? the compressification of pre-online footage.
there is so much footage being shared these days of video, like advertisements and old tv shows that is horribly, horribly compressed, probably because it's ripped from YouTube uploads. video essays will show a 90s commercial and it'll be a 480p mess of garbled compression blocks. i honestly believe we are training people who weren't from that era to believe that tv looked like this in those days. there's a difference between high quality low resolution footage, and the mess we see on YouTube.
i really hope that there is a movement to archive low resolution footage with less compression before it is lost forever. it feels like a pretty big archival problem--I've seen that even archive.org suffers from compressed footage sometimes.
meanwhile we are about to enter an era of proliferation of ai upscaled versions of these videos. so the videos that are shitty versions will become high resolution shitty versions that are harder to differentiate between the real version... it's very worrying.
CDN의 시대는 갔다
이제는 DDN Downtime Delivery Service이 인터넷을 지배할것
you know what really sucks? the compressification of pre-online footage.
there is so much footage being shared these days of video, like advertisements and old tv shows that is horribly, horribly compressed, probably because it's ripped from YouTube uploads. video essays will show a 90s commercial and it'll be a 480p mess of garbled compression blocks. i honestly believe we are training people who weren't from that era to believe that tv looked like this in those days. there's a difference between high quality low resolution footage, and the mess we see on YouTube.
i really hope that there is a movement to archive low resolution footage with less compression before it is lost forever. it feels like a pretty big archival problem--I've seen that even archive.org suffers from compressed footage sometimes.
meanwhile we are about to enter an era of proliferation of ai upscaled versions of these videos. so the videos that are shitty versions will become high resolution shitty versions that are harder to differentiate between the real version... it's very worrying.
그만 살고 싶다
I'm not using AI.
Ever.
At all.
You will not make me.
GenAI has stolen so much from me.
@Em0nM4stodonEm 
It's hard to avoid. Someone sent me a document to review a couple of weeks ago.
By page 4, I was thinking 'this person knows this stuff, why is he writing this weirdly structured nonsense?' I got a bit further and it was in the 'not even wrong' category. Individual sentences were mostly kind-of true, but they didn't hang together in any kind of useful narrative or add up to a sensible set of things.
I ignored the last 3/4 of the document and said 'it reads weirdly like AI'. It turns out, it was 100% slop.
I wasted more time writing feedback than it would have taken me to write the thing from scratch correctly.
Even if you ignore the ethical aspects, you're still left with the problem that these things are just crap. They make you look productive (look, I wrote a 20 page report!) but suck that productivity out of everyone else who has to deal with the fact that the thing you've written is of negative value.
They're even worse for code, where it's easy to sneak in subtle bugs that pass review and then spend weeks trying to fix them.
@EdentTerence Eden I didn't finish the first paragraph
@EdentTerence Eden however, you didn't make a note on the very unique part of this change, which is that Gargron basically got back wages for his years of work on Mastodon. That's extremely unusual; Open Source developers often only have a chance to maybe someday get a submarket full-time job supporting their project (and usually to add Enterprise features). I hope it represents a change in that direction too.
The Peaceful Transfer of Power in Open Source Projects
Link: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/the-peaceful-transfer-of-power-in-open-source-projects/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45979232
Mojo-V: Secret Computation for RISC-V
Link: https://github.com/toddmaustin/mojo-v
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45899074
Improve media modal swipe animation (#36916) by ChaosExAnima has been merged! https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/commit/ea616ac4a4981323a567f2f4e28d893ce4cad81c
Which one are you ?
1/4 🚨 The Digital Omnibus proposals are here - and our rights and protections online are officially under threat 🚨
The proposals published today endanger the very core of EU's digital protections for people - the #GDPR, #ePrivacy and the #AIAct.
Weakening these safeguards would entrench #surveillance, profiling and algorithmic #discrimination in every aspect of society 🙅🏾
Read our press release for more details: https://edri.org/our-work/commissions-digital-omnibus-is-a-major-rollback-of-eu-digital-protections/
I'm not saying this means C and C++ suck. I'm saying that pretending that they have legendary backwards compatibility, unmatched by others, just isn't true. and that should be expected!
i can think of like, one time in years that updating my rustc version caused problems (the time thing) and it was like, a small patch like this, in the sense of it took me about five minutes to upgrade the dependency
The jump.. 😊
all these people go on about how stable C and C++ are, and how Rust changes too much.... but then they also talk about how their work codebase is stuck on C89 or C++17.
gcc's "codebase isn't fully C++20 ready" gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gc...
[PATCH] GCC, meet C++20
How to Stay Sane in a World That Rewards Insanity
Link: https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/how-to-stay-sane-in-a-world-that-rewards-insanity
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45980106
LibreOffice communities around the world help to improve the software, do local marketing, and advocate for open standards. Today we're announcing a new project, to build up the LibreOffice community in the US: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/11/19/announcing-the-libreoffice-us-community/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware
🛏 
三 寝！
（忍者の「散！」みたいな掛け声で寝る表現）
ほんじゃ寝ますかの〜 土曜日はおやすみなので、明日と明後日のおしごとに備えなきゃ…
"We should just let it fail/break/go bang/explode/..." is something a lot of projects in the IT "space" would desperately need.
Unfortunately, this happens all to seldom, due to a unusually high concentration of people "with a very strong sense of duty" in the IT community.
Week 7 updates ⭐
📝 In #djangoCMS, Mar simplified the requirements file for testing, and Vanessa fixed a language menu bug.
📚 In #Django, Annabelle is documenting a specific behavior of RelatedManager.
🐦 In #Wagtail, Lupyana is working on a new documentation section.
윤석열 “김용현이 민주당사에 군 출동시켜…나는 안된다고 말렸다”
v.daum.net/v/2025111920...
대통령 지시도 없이 김 전 장관이 혼자서 결정했느냐는 재판부 질문엔 “출동한 뒤에 재가받으려고 했고, 내가 ‘절대 안 된다’고 하니 올스톱 시켰다”고 했다. 그는 김 전 장관의 말에 자신이 “펄쩍 뛰었다”고도 설명했다.
尹 “김용현이 민주당사에 군 출동시켜…나는 안된다고 말...
"There is a space between features, should we choose to perceive it." --
@kentbeck
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顔周りの線が整っていればある程度良い感じに見えることをお前に教える(シャンクス構文)
顔周りの線が整っていればある程度良い感じに見えることをお前に教える(シャンクス構文)
GStreamer Conference 2025 video recordings now available
시험 끝나면 건강검진 풀세트로 해야지…
I made a downdetector for downdetector's downdetector's downdetector
Link: https://downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45977629
This is fantastic. Free hosting for people that want a place on the internet that is their own as a throwback to the 90s.
![Rolls to alarm your players:
1d12 - Roll 1d10 and say "oof"
2d12 - Roll 2d6, 1d8, and 3d12
3d12 - Roll 1d6, 4d8, and 1d12
4d12 - Roll 14d20
5d12 - Roll 3d6 and silently shake your head
6d12 - Roll 3d12 and 2d20
7d12 - Roll 1d4, 1d6, and 2d10
8d12 - Roll 7d10
9d12 - Roll 4d10, look alarmed, and then quickly try to cover it up
10d12 - Roll 3d10
11d12 - Roll 1d10 and 2d12
12d12 - Roll 3d20, look at one of your players for a second, and then silently roll another d20
[photo of a 30-sided die] or... just roll this, get up and quietly leave the room for 10 minutes](https://media.wetdry.world/media_attachments/files/115/560/039/359/814/620/original/196b24b7517fb9e0.jpeg)
NEW VIDEO - FreeBSD Apache MySQL and PHP in a FreeBSD Jail!
https://youtu.be/WVX4SwwrwZI?si=rgRjrn6TOcHL6JxZ via @YouTube
아니 19454번에 6분 전에 제출했는데 시간제한이 테케당 13초라서 아직도 채점이 안끝났네 진짜웃기다
Sun Java was released closer to the time of Cleopatra than the pyramids were to the neolithic era. really makes you think
Witch: "A truly vile potion you have there, perhaps vile enough to quench the thirst of a depraved hag such as I"
tkymchan......
Sun Java was released closer to the time of Cleopatra than the pyramids were to the neolithic era. really makes you think
So, I see that brilliant 
@cubicgardenIan Forrester | @cubicgarden person was a guest on 
@firesidefedi ... I need to catch up!
Had some pretty extensive implementation ideas in my head for a Tapestry feature for months now. Was excited to finally get started on it.
Woke up feeling like all the ideas are sus and will be a disaster.
My brain isn't playing fair here.
Nothing OS4.0が21日に来るらしいんだけど、日本版はいつになるかしら…！
https://x.com/nothing/status/1991144432154857595
そうそう。TL の時空が歪んでポストが時系列に並ばない現象、これって普通に発生することでして。 大抵の fediverse の……まぁ ActivityPub を喋るサーバーは……少なくとも mastodon は、自分とこの投稿が、届けるべき相手のサーバーに届かないと、それを再送するんですね。最初は 5 秒後に、次は 10 秒後に、1 分後に、10 分後に、みたいにだんだんと間隔を伸ばしながら。
なので、たとえばフォレスドンがメンテで落ちてると、その間にフォレスドンに配送されるべきものは全て投稿があったサーバー側でプールして定期的に送信リトライしてくれるんです。ほんでフォレスドンが復活すると、フォレスドンに届けるべき投稿をプールしてくれてたサーバーが各自勝手なタイミングで再送してくれるので、タイムラインの時空が歪むんですｗ
これは今回の Cloudflare の障害だと「その影響で周辺サーバーが届けられなかった投稿を各サーバーがそれぞれのタイミングで次々配信してくるからタイムラインの時空が歪む」っておはなしであって、Cloudflare 噛ましてるかどうかは関係ないおはなしですね。
破滅と存在の狭間
Inside Fediverse
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Andy Piper
