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I'm not using AI.
Ever.
At all.
You will not make me.
GenAI has stolen so much from me.
@Em0nM4stodonEm 
Agree. What has been aggravating me lately is that coworkers have been recording meeting transcripts, running them through an AI tool to summarize, and then posting the summary to others within our company.
The AI summary often gets it wrong. It will also claim that people in the meetings said things that they didn't. It has caused issues when someone reads the summary and goes to accuse the person who supposedly said the thing. "But so-and-so said we need to do this!" 😖 I'm so frustrated having my name presented next to things I never said, and then having to go through that conversation.
만년필 고수는 그 카드 고수 같은 걸까
Kürzestgeschichte
Tim Cook Among Attendees of Last Night’s Black-Tie White House Dinner Honoring Journalist-Murdering Tyrant Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/11/19/cook-white-house-mbs
v1.110 is live! We’ve expanded post-reporting options from 5 → 39. This gives you more precise ways to flag issues and strengthens the signals our safety systems rely on. Clearer reports mean better moderation and higher-quality conversations across Bluesky. Learn more: bsky.social/about/blog/1...
More generally, I do think OKRs / measure-what-matters has cooked peoples' brains to the point that folks can claim things — with a straight face, even! — like that AI adoption proves that ordinary users demand AI.
Three critiques of OKRs / MWM:
1. The ease with which something is measured is not the same as the importance of measuring it.
2. Placing incentives on measurements ruins the empirical value of that measurement.
3. You will never have perfect data, and must reason in uncertainty.
Numbers are a kind of magic trick for our brains, they make things feel way more concrete and certain than they necessarily are. That doesn't make numbers or empiricism more generally useless, it means it's hard work to do empiricism *correctly*, and that bad empiricism can be as bad as not doing any empirical reasoning at all.
Now this. This is #solarpunk.
A true community-owned gardening project. So many stadiums and sports intitutes are just left to rot once they're no longer profitable, instead of being reused for the greater good. Remember, repurposing is always easier than recycling.
Image source: https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/solarpunk/comments/1oatw62/taipeis_old_stadium_turned_into_a_community_garden/
回復に充てた一日だった…
体調回復したし寝るンゴ
de toekomst is sprintercity
de toekomst is sprintercity
Simplicity is on Europe’s digital menu 🍪
Our new Digital Package could save businesses €5 billion by 2029 and boost AI-driven innovation.
Here’s how ↓
📘 Simplified rules on AI, cybersecurity and data
📈 Data Union Strategy to support AI leadership
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Going build-free with native JavaScript modules 🏖️ https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/nov/19/going-build-free-with-native-javascript-modules/ - how modern browser features make it possible to simplify front-end workflows ✨
More generally, I do think OKRs / measure-what-matters has cooked peoples' brains to the point that folks can claim things — with a straight face, even! — like that AI adoption proves that ordinary users demand AI.
Three critiques of OKRs / MWM:
1. The ease with which something is measured is not the same as the importance of measuring it.
2. Placing incentives on measurements ruins the empirical value of that measurement.
3. You will never have perfect data, and must reason in uncertainty.
Helpful tip for web server operators¹: if you want to know all of the network address space associated with a particular organization in a nice text form, find out their ASN (perhaps from https://bgp.tools/ with an IP address) and then:
whois -h whois.radb.net -- ' -i origin AS150436'
Dump that in a file, get all of the 'route:' entries, and feed them to your favorite CIDR/netblock calculator to minimize them and give you a nice list for your web server ACLs/etc.
상파울루는 19일 낮 1시 54분...
대한민국은 20일 밤 1시 54분... 
tons of people SUPER EXCITED for any negative thing as a result of using rust, because they've come up with an idea in their head that everyone who thinks rust is good is some zealot who thinks rust magically solves all problems so it's gotta be rust's fault
everybody is an armchair quarterback it seems
#Colchicine for the secondary prevention of cardiovascular events
A commonly used and affordable medication for gout may help lower the risk of heart attacks and strokes in people with cardiovascular disease, according to a new Cochrane review.
Hey is the NVDA earnings call today, I'm waiting to see if the economy collapses like you're supposed to wait for sports scores
as a friend said at dinner last night "oh yeah man, they should have just used expect, obviously", heh
I'm in the market for a weighted blanket. I've read it must be 10% of your weight but I don't know much about those. Does anyone have any experience with them, tips on how to choose one?
Tim Cook Among Attendees of Last Night’s Black-Tie White House Dinner Honoring Journalist-Murdering Tyrant Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/11/19/cook-white-house-mbs
My heroine this week is ABC’s White House Correspondent Mary Bruce who asked the Saudi-Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman what Saudi-Arabia was doing at The White House, after Saudi-Arabia’s involvement in both 9/11 and the killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
May her courage inspire us all.
Also, ultimately, the panic wasn't the root cause of the Cloudflare outage. I'd hate to see Rust over-rotate on one incident. You can make an argument that unwrap should have a better name, but imho, the churn is not worth it.
People want a technical solution to what is ultimately a judgement problem. People know that unwrap can cause a panic. That's the choice that's being made when you unwrap. Changing the name won't change that.
Specialized CSV readers for Rust leveraging hybrid SIMD techniques https://lobste.rs/s/liq0sa #rust
https://docs.rs/simd-csv
Programming the Commodore 64 with .NET
Link: https://retroc64.github.io/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45920490
Google Strives To Keep Data Center Water Use Secret After Judge Orders Records Released
A Roanoke judge has ordered the Western Virginia Water Authority to release information related to a potential Google data center.
All over the world, Google tries to keep secret its water use
Tehran is very nearly out of water. The city of 10 million will start being evacuated in December if there aren't rains or the instituted rationing isn't effective enough.
https://www.waterdiplomat.org/story/2025/11/threat-day-zero-tehran-water-reserves-drop-below-5
Hey is the NVDA earnings call today, I'm waiting to see if the economy collapses like you're supposed to wait for sports scores
Beaming a good and kind and positive International Men's Day to all. I've spoken about this before but there is so much untapped potential in men - so much wasted due to fear and toxicity. Trumps and Putins weren't born that way - it took a lifetime of poor parenting, fear and unkindness, all being constantly negatively reinforced. No young man is a monster. But they do need positive role models, love, guidance and support. And without us all making an active decision to do this it creates a vacuum filled by opportunists or lazy media stereotypes. We ask ourselves 'what are we meant to be' and draw from what is available. Which is invariably not the sort of man who focuses on community, compassion and empathy. We're all superhero rockstar antiheroes. Swashbuckling rogues. Given the choice between Luke and Han we are all Han. Whilst great, Han is a cool uncle. You don't want Han raising a new generation of young men. Look at what happened to Kylo. Although I'm not sure Luke is a good example either. They're fictional anyway why are we even talking about this? I've lost my point.
Be the change you want to see in the world. Small actions have big results. Show kindness. Correct lazy unkindness. Normalise saying 'that's not ok' or 'I don't agree with that', and 'well done' or 'that was great' or 'you've got this'. People will respect you more for having the mettle to stand up for yourself and others in small ways. And then you can lead them all... to victory!
I love you. You're great. Love yourself too (not like that) and remember how important it was to receive guidance from male role models in your life. You are that person now. Wield it wisely and we all win. X
I assumed this goes without saying, but it occurs to me it may not.....
I of course include all in International Men's Day - particularly during Trans Awareness Week - brothers old and new. Whenever you arrived - welcome to the party, pal. X
完食，好看。
kmt還存活在台灣真的是超級弔詭 
よくわからずに無生物を生物化する絵チャに入ってしまったので
即興でいろいろ描いたのだった
@tangled.orgTangled is such a great role model for projects in this moment
- actually does the thing: useful, accessible
- innovates/differentiates at *product* level: stacked review
- hybrid at proto layer (git and AT), pulls in bsky profile data
- built in europe by small amitious team
#eurosky
Mr. Bin and his tree friends.
現在看到DVD的畫質（480p）會覺得畫質有點低，但藍光的播放器又不這麼普及，想當年Cyberlink訊連的PowerDVD播放器還不便宜，AC3音訊的解碼器還要再另外付費 https://youtu.be/n9LGz3sxx4E
I declare that today, Nov. 19, 2025 is the 50th anniversary of BitBLT, a routine so fundamental to computer graphics that we don't even think about it having an origin. A working (later optimized) implementation was devised on the Xerox Alto by members of the Smalltalk team. It made it easy to arbitrarily copy and move arbitrary rectangles of bits in a graphical bitmap. It was this routine that made Smalltalk's graphical interface possible. Below is part of a PARC-internal memo detailing it:
A (horrible) alternate reality, inspired by yesterday.
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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
텍스트를 읽다가 졸리면 자고 싶은데 꼭 이렇게 생각할 땐 잠이 안온단말이지
【BUILT-IN PRO 電器專門店特約】柬埔寨柴楨省初級法院外周二（18日）早上發生罕見的持槍劫犯事件。一名黑衣女子在囚車抵達時突然遞槍予囚犯，對方即場向警員開火，並與另外5名越南籍囚犯成功逃離現場。事件過程被閉路電視拍下，在社交平台瘋傳。
事發於早上近9時，一名戴鴨舌帽、背着袋的女子在法院範圍內等候，期間囚車駛至。警方打開車門後，多名身穿橙色囚衣、以手銬成對鎖上的囚犯陸續落車。當中一名囚犯落地後迅即解開與同伴的手銬，黑衣女子則同時掏出槍械遞給他。
該囚犯接過槍後立即向警員開火，隨即牽着女子，並聯同其他5名囚犯直奔大門逃走。警員一度避開其攻擊，其後折返並以AK步槍還擊，但逃犯已登車逃離。
柬埔寨監獄總局表示，是次事件無人受傷，6名逃犯均為越南籍，涉及毒品及網絡詐騙等案件被捕。警方其後已成功拘捕其中一名主犯，並尋獲涉案車輛，正全力追緝其餘在逃人士。
RN: 잘은 모르겠지만 뭔가 낭만을 실현하는 일인가보네요..
✨ The new Cryptomator Desktop Update 1.18.0 is here!
Want all highlights? Check out our blog post for the full release details.
#Cryptomator #SoftwareUpdate #Encryption #Cybersecurity #opensource #DataProtection #PrivacyTools #macOS #Windows #Linux #Infosec #SecureYourData #SecurityUpdate
Joining the resistance. 💪
Glyph
Fullmetal Alejandro
mcc
Chao-c'
青少納言🎨🐏 
Dr. Anna Latour
earthling
Jeff Atwood
MJ+
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