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오늘 강의 4개 들었다
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!
카테고리 기본서 언제나 들고다니면서 항상 다시 읽으며 기초다지기 하는편인데 엄청나게 강한 수학적 능력을 갖게되는것 같아서 좋음
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
#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.
#FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE has landed!
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.0R/announce/
I’m proud of so many things in this release, but one most of all :-
The collaboration and contributions for hundreds of people from so many countries and continents around the world.
We may not agree about pineapple on pizza, but we’re all part of building a terrific community-lead freely-licensed open source OS, used in everything from massive storage appliances and internet-scale routers, down to gaming consoles, and embedded systems.
Thank-you everybody!
I’m organizing the Federated Video Co-op (working name), a Canadian-hosted, member-owned co-operative focused on federated video services. By request, I’m publishing two documents that outline where the project is headed and what needs to be done next.
Roadmap:
This document lays out the full sequence of steps needed to move from foundational principles to incorporation, democratic governance, and eventually a public launch.
Bylaw Drafting: Task Plan:
This is a comprehensive task list detailing everything required to produce a legally review-ready set of bylaws, including decisions about the name, domains, and communications channels.
Both documents are being shared publicly so anyone following the project can see the structure, expectations, and decision points involved. Transparency is essential to how this co-op is being built, and having a shared reference helps ensure that contributors, supporters, and future members all understand how the process unfolds.
If you’re interested in federated video infrastructure, co-operative digital governance, or community-owned alternatives to corporate platforms, you’re welcome to read along and ask questions as the work continues.
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
Il web che amo.
Quello dei piccoli blog indipendenti, magari ospitati su qualche VPS dove si offrono anche servizi open source e privacy oriented, istanze del #fediverso, e tanto altro.
Si può parlare di #indieweb?
In ogni caso, impegniamoci per alimentare un WWW più sano.
Per non creare un'accozzaglia di url, mi limiterò a taggare alcuni profili (in ordine sparso), da cui poi ricavare i link:
@stefanoStefano Marinelli 
@lorenzo
@dadodado 
@denial403
@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
Why use #React? "This isn’t a rhetorical question. I genuinely want to know why devs choose to build using React. There are many reasons. Alas, none of them relate directly to user experience, other than productive devs will make better websites. (Citation needed.)" https://adactio.com/journal/22265
Today is #GivingTuesday, and we are also around the one-year mark of @snarfed.org and 
@quillmatiqAnuj Ahooja teaming up to build 
@anewsocial.
We've accomplished more than we could've imagined and have incredible momentum going into 2026!
Here's to another year of building A New Social for people, not platforms 🌐
From launching Bounce, to a new settings page, DM notifications, moderation features, and so much more. What a year it's been 🚀
If you believe in our mission and want us to continue this work, please support us on Patreon!
Today is #GivingTuesday, and we are also around the one-year mark of @snarfed.org and @quillmatiqAnuj Ahooja teaming up to build @anewsocial.
We've accomplished more than we could've imagined and have incredible momentum going into 2026!
Here's to another year of building A New Social for people, not platforms 🌐
Holy smokes I now share a film credit with HIDEO KOJIMA. This is so cool.
Anthropic acquires Bun
Link: https://bun.com/blog/bun-joins-anthropic
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46124267
Short PSA for all the Minecraft admins on here: Please consider setting "hide-online-players" in your "server.properties" to true. Doing so will do no harm and instead help protect the privacy of your players.
https://blog.eps-dev.de/admins-protect-the-privacy-of-your-players/
Admins, protect the privacy of your players!
By default, Minecraft servers publish a sample of their currently online players through their Status Response which is shown by the client when hovering over the player count field in the multiplayer menu. Since this Status is given out to everyone who requests it, without prior authentication or authorization, server
blog.eps-dev.de · Lillychans Blog
Link author: 
Lilly 
@lilly@mstd.ink
Do you want to follow a weather account for your town or city?
There is a Fediverse weather service called FediMeteo which has weather accounts for thousands of locations around the world:
To follow a weather account:
1. Go to https://fedimeteo.com
2. Go to the page for the town/city you want
3. Copy-paste the page's address into the search box in Mastodon etc
4. Click "Follow"
You can also follow updates about the FediMeteo project itself at 
@adminFediMeteo
p.s. If your town or city is missing, you can ask if it can added to FediMeteo by contacting @adminFediMeteo or @stefanoStefano Marinelli
p.p.s. If an account looks blank or old, don't worry! Just follow it anyway and the weather posts will start showing up within 6 hours. (This happens if you are the first person to follow an account from your server, more info at https://fedi.tips/why-does-someones-account-page-look-completely-blank-is-it-really-blank)
do a kittys wag they tail
Holy smokes I now share a film credit with HIDEO KOJIMA. This is so cool.
저는 일반 연합유저가 아닌 사실상 연합매거진 계정이다
You can delete a range of ZFS snapshots (a-z) in multiple ways.
The following will delete d and all earlier snapshots:
zfs destroy mypool/data@%d
To delete d and all later snapshots:
zfs destroy mypool/data@d%
To delete all dataset snapshots:
zfs destroy mypool/data@%
Make sure to let ZFS perform a dry run (-n option) first and display (-v) what
it would do to confirm that the delete operation is removing exactly what you
intended.
-- Benedict Reuschling <bcr@FreeBSD.org>
Can we build WeChat Mini Apps using open web standards? https://lobste.rs/s/yvb1ve #android #ios #mobile
https://dmathewwws.com/antler-an-irl-browser
100k TPS over a billion rows: the unreasonable effectiveness of SQLite
Link: https://andersmurphy.com/2025/12/02/100000-tps-over-a-billion-rows-the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-sqlite.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46124205
Thank you for sharing this, Tara.
Your post reflects several qualities that continue to define FreeBSD, including clarity, stability, and long-term design. It’s valuable to hear how newer contributors experience the Project.
Read the full letter: https://lnkd.in/dtcQebh2
New vatnik spam mail domains detected: speakerion.com, nembors.com and allfreemail.net
Do you know good hashtag? Like #fedimailblock or so?
Do you want to follow a weather account for your town or city?
There is a Fediverse weather service called FediMeteo which has weather accounts for thousands of locations around the world:
To follow a weather account:
1. Go to https://fedimeteo.com
2. Go to the page for the town/city you want
3. Copy-paste the page's address into the search box in Mastodon etc
4. Click "Follow"
You can also follow updates about the FediMeteo project itself at @adminFediMeteo
Zig's new plan for asynchronous programs
Link: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1046084/4c048ee008e1c70e/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46121539
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