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"Small" thanksgiving dinner at in-laws', turned into a large crowded one when five more people we weren't told were coming, showed up.
So this is fun /s
@dgar Social media is serious business!
Besides which, scores of high math ability do not in fact particularly associate with gating an eng/science major for men; the barrier to entry to these majors is quite low for men, achievement-wise.
you have to be willing to roll your sleeves up and truly pore over econ and assessment data at scale to really get this, which I am, and which approximately a billion thinkpieces on this apparently are not
East Bay/Bicoastal Blue Bottle Baristas Need Strike Support https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/11/25/18881807.php
粗挽きハンバーグとデミグラスのオムライス
Masterclass: “Colourspaces in D-cinema, ACES, and Streaming”
Vancouver, Sat Dec 13, 09:30–17:30.
Presented by Charles Poynton, PhD
Organized by VPA and VES Vancouver
Hosted by Elemental Post
We’ll explore the theoretical and practical aspects of colourspaces commonly used in production, VFX/CGI, post-production, and presentation of movies, broadcast, streaming video, and games.
VPA, VES Members: $315
Non-Members: $350
Info & registration: https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/charles-poynton-masterclass
You may be wondering why I haven't published any articles in a while.
Well, it's because I'm currently working hard at Privacy Guides, on something else 😏
Soon to be announced! Stay tuned! 
Pakistan says rooftop solar output to exceed grid demand in some hubs next year
Link: https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/pakistan-says-rooftop-solar-output-exceed-grid-demand-some-hubs-next-year-2025-11-22/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46070915
Reply with the following sentence filled with your answers:
The future should have less [blank] and more [blank].
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The future should have less bots and more humans.
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Somewhere, somehow
Somebody must have kicked you around some
Tell me, why you wanna lay there
And revel in your abandon?
World's smallest violin needed, again:
"OpenAI Loses Key Discovery Battle as It Cedes Ground to Authors in AI Lawsuits" —if found guilty of 'wilful" infringement OpenAI could be on the hook for up to $150,000 per work. (And circumstances don't look great for them—they appear to have destroyed lists of the copyrighted works they'd trained GPT on.)
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おちん○ん振り込まれた
Show HN: SyncKit – Offline-first sync engine (Rust/WASM and TypeScript)
Link: https://github.com/Dancode-188/synckit
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46069598
are you ready for tomorrow?
SPAM FRIDAY
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Who had the funny idea to turn tags to lowerCase on auto-completion in the Mastodon Web UI? That's kinda nasty. Especially if I select a tag like "AndroidAppRain" (spelled exactly like that in the suggestion) by typing "AndroidA" and let it auto-complete: "androidappRain" is *NOT* what I'd expect.
I've checked the preferences, but found nothing. Any hints on how to set this to sane defaults? Screenreaders have it easier with CamelCase…
@downeyMichael Downey 🧢 some setting on instance level maybe?
きまぐれに描いたらくがきです！
名付けてにゃいぐ＝げいおす！
ヽ( ・∀・)ﾉ ｳﾝｺｰ
Thanksgiving will always be associated with Mila. We got her right before our very first Thanksgiving when we first got here. Every Thanksgiving that she’s still with us (she was 11 / 12 when we got her; it’s been 7 years), is a surprise.
Reminder, this Friday all my open source code is available at a 50% discount!
What I'm listening to today: "the 3rd experience", Merr0w
Behold the unbelievable versatility of the Roland TB-303, released in 1981 as a bass accompaniment device for guitarists, failed rapidly as it doesn't actually work for this, postmortem birthed multiple genres of music and decades later there's a whole micro-industry of clone devices and folks are still creating fun unique-feeling music with them. Here's some acid trance (is this "goa"?). This is the sound. This
What I'm listening to today: "Live Ambient vermona perFOURma with Digitone and Blofeld.", Surgeons Girl
Pleasantly meandering ambient, like someone tried to freeze the idea of "distraction" into a song. All little fluttery subtractive analog synth bubbles.
Minimal, but on second listen it's more substantial than it felt at first.
A comic that I will think about every day for the rest of my life, probably.
(Sauce: https://analognowhere.com/_/ogmxha/ )
내일배움카드 받아둘까
we ordered delivery and the poor worker arrived very stressed and anxious about how she was late and how her Dutchglish skills weren't strong enough to make a good, customer-placating explanation for why she was late. I resolved this by asking if she likes dogs. Odin emergency therapy was successful
#smolBSD can now boot a root RAMdisk using QEMU's -initrd thanks to 
@khorbenPierre Pronchery <3
SMOL kernels updated accordingly, git pull https://github.com/NetBSDfr/smolBSD !
new record
If a phone still works fine, it’s not “device hoarding” to keep using it. It’s common sense.
My vector drawing of the IBM 5150 motherboard is complete!
Thanks to MTM scientific https://www.mtmscientific.com/pc-retro.html for releasing the gerber files for their reproduction motherboard. I wouldn't have had the patience to draw out all the traces myself...
I need to clean up and optimize the SVG but I'll eventually publish it for anyone to use.
정말 너무너무 사랑스러워
TIL about using pbpaste (on MacOS for example) to directly apply a git e-mail patch that is currently saved to your clipboard:
pbpaste | git apply
(Obviously doesn't carry over the submitters email/name etc, but for tiny changes it makes things easier than exporting mbox)
for #caturday here’s Cleopatra & Cloud being cute & pretty.
There are a lot of cursed computers things but this is the most cursed computers thing
Picked this up from mail today. Fourth edition of "Guide to LaTeX" (don't Google it, kids!) from 2004. It came from UK and, apparently, belonged to some D. Linton.
Also, as a pleasant surprise, it contained TexLive 2003 distribution for Windows, Linux and MacOS UNSEALED!
I love thrift books.
#Latex
Cats became our companions way later than you think
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq8dvdp9gn7o?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Science and Environment 
@science-and-environment-BBCNewsScience and Environment
RE: https://social.edu.nl/@Bibliothecaris/115622191356250599
Over the moon that we (finally) did this!
🎉 We're the first department at the 
@universityofgroningen to adopt #PeerTube, and I hope others will follow.
Next step: Exploring how we can embed PeerTube videos into our university's CMS.
NEW VIDEO - Can I Finish the Mailserver build?
https://youtu.be/YGjveotBIog?si=E1pr3A2s-SgtE4Kv via @YouTube
youtube video idea:
▶️ “4096 settings vs 8 #gnome developers”
i find claude to be an occasionally decent editor that tames my worst excesses but they’re all awful at writing from scratch ime
Input lag on GitHub is increasingly bad. :(
Would you use your main computer as a web server? It is dedicated machine the only way to go?
Reminder, this Friday all my open source code is available at a 50% discount!
@MigueldeicazaMiguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉 You can't fool me, I saw you raise the price by 200% yesterday
The #Fosdem2026 CFP ends next Monday, but you still have time
to share your love of BSD systems 
ZFS 💾 and bhyve 🐝
ねw
phildini
rob pike
mcc
Dr. Anna Latour
🌻 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽 
Foone🏳️⚧️
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