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Just released! 🚀
🎶 pylast 7.0.0
🎤 A #Python interface to 
@lastfm and Libre.fm
🗑️ Remove `SCROBBLE_SOURCE_*` and `SCROBBLE_MODE_*` constants. Last used in 2017, you probably weren't using them
📻 Add `chosen_by_user` parameter to `scrobble`. Set to false if you don't have "direct" control over the source, like radio or a stream.
🐍 Add support for Python 3.15
📼 Test against recorded API instead of live
🦀 Replace pre-commit with prek
Thanks to 
@scy!
https://github.com/pylast/pylast/releases/tag/7.0.0
#release #LastFM
Just released! 🚀🐍
Python 3.14.1
Waiting for the .1 to upgrade? This one's especially for you!
🥧 Deferred type annotation evaluation!
🥧 T-strings!
🥧 Zstandard!
🥧 Syntax highlighting in the REPL!
🥧 Colour in unittest, argparse, json and calendar CLIs!
🥧 UUID v6-8!
🥧 And much more!
https://discuss.python.org/t/python-3-14-1-is-now-available/105163
I knew trying to work with Oauth was a bad idea…
ASWebAuthenticationSession and at least one swift compiler setting can crash your app.
If Dynamic Actor Isolation(DAI) is on the app will crash when it tries to resolve the callback with your token.
Turn DAI off and it works fine. The default is off.
However in my large project it's on and even turning it off still results in the same crash from another cause I've yet to isolate.
Probably punting on this feature for now.
It's that day again: time to run https://github.com/glyph/mopup
[新機能] Amazon SageMaker Catalog がアセットメタデータを Apache Iceberg テーブルとしてエクスポート可能になりました
https://dev.classmethod.jp/articles/20251202-amazon-sagemaker-catalog-export-metadata/
ASUS って独特なラップトップ多いわよね。
見ていて面白い。
My kid, back in 3rd grade. So proud.
Recently, in a fit of annoyance about some big players in tech and particularly AI, I posted a slide about how AI needs more ethics across my usual social media channels, and it caught the attention of none other than Jeff Atwood (
@codinghorrorJeff Atwood).
He asked for a link to the slide deck, which I shared, after which he said that I should post in a more web-friendly format. I thought it was a good idea, and I told him I’d do just that.
And here it is!
I have a December gift for you all 🎁
I am finally able to open up a general call for ADVANCE READERS for my book: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SOFTWARE TEAMS (coming 2026). I cannot tell you how much it means to me to share this!
I am able to select a handful of folks to receive a free advance copy, and I would love to ensure this group represents a broad range of perspectives and experiences.
You can indicate your interest here. And you are welcome to share this form:
Tower defense game that teaches cloud architecture. Build infrastructure, survive traffic, learn scaling. Are you ready to play? 🤔
"All programmers, from hobbyists to those working at Microsoft or Google, use open-source software, which is present in between 70% and 90% of the computer applications we use today"
#FOSS #DigitalSovereignty
https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-11-30/adriana-groh-the-internet-works-thanks-to-a-shared-infrastructure-that-nobody-owns-but-that-we-must-take-care-of.html
For this #GivingTuesday I'm going to make the (biased) argument for why you might consider donating to 
@spritelyThe Spritely Institute, especially if you care about a healthier future for the internet! https://spritely.institute/donate/
Here's a little thread explaining more... 🧵
You’re absolutely right — you are Pagliacci. It would certainly be difficult for you to attend your own performance! I should not have given such paradoxical advice, and I apologize deeply for the error. There is no excuse for my failure.
Nevertheless, comedy is a powerful healing force. My recommendation is to seek out live entertainment. For example, great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up. 🔗 Sponsored Reply (Great Clown Productions, Ltd.)
停電の予定がわかっていたので、冷凍庫には何日かかけてつくった氷が、冷蔵庫には1ガロンのリンゴジュースが、熱浴として鎮座しています。複電まで間違って扉を開けないようにがんばる←
The Junior Hiring Crisis
Link: https://people-work.io/blog/junior-hiring-crisis/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46124063
Fun fact für die Schnittmenge der Terry Pratchett und Douglas Adams Fans: Der erste Discworld-Roman „The Colour of Magic“ wurde im November 1983 - also vor 42 Jahren - veröffentlicht! 🤓
#TerryPratchett #DouglasAdams #Scheibenwelt #Discworld #42ge42
It's a blessing and a curse.
I don't feel I understand some mathematics until I think I could have invented it myself and I often work hard to reach that stage. Well that's an illusion so I should qualify it a lot - I need to feel like if I was suitably "primed" I could have invented it. There's no way I could have explicitly invented monads, say, without lots of clues from all the papers I tried to read.
I feel like a good textbook or paper should lead you to a point where you can see what the main "trick" is going to be just before the big reveal. It allows you to develop pattern recognition for the type of problem.
But it does mean I waste a lot of time on stuff people may think is trivial. Machine learning papers are full of derivations like "log(A) = log(A/B) + log(B), now apply Jensen's equality" where B has magically appeared out of a hat. I can easily follow the argument but unless I know why this B was chosen I haven't learnt a reusable skill.
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.
[アップデート] メモリを大量に消費するワークロード向けに Amazon EC2 x8aedz インスタンスが発表されました #AWSreInvent
https://dev.classmethod.jp/articles/202512-amazon-ec2-x8aedz-awsreinvent/
In defense of lock poisoning in Rust https://lobste.rs/s/vkyrtf #rust
https://sunshowers.io/posts/on-poisoning/
App: Click to update!
Me: Uh, I dunno. I'm nervous.
App: Click to update!
Me: Why? You haven't given me a good reason.
App: Click to update!
Me: But what if you change something that I like the way it is? Can't I just not?
App: Click to update!
Me: OK, OK. Fine. *click*
App: Sucker!!!
Huge thank you to 
@dchdch 
for helping me downgrade my laptop from 15.0-STABLE to 15.0-RELEASE this morning!
A new org in the UK
‘TOGETHER AGAINST THE FAR RIGHT’. Love, hope and unity.
March in London in unity and against the far right on March 28
Today it's awk(1)
I use it almost daily—from simple column-extraction (specifying column separators and mashing together various columns feels easier with awk than with sort(1)), to summing and running totals, to aggregating counts of data, to reformatting text, etc…so many little uses pop up.
It's available on every POSIX platform making it easy to write cross-platform utilities without having to install additional run-times like Python/Ruby/Node and the heavy dependencies that come with them.
I've even written cgi-bin/ scripts in awk, allowing dynamic data processing on my stock OpenBSD systems with httpd+SlowCGI without non-stock software in the chroot.
― Alice Sowerby, Ed Maste, Isaac Freund, Mark Phillips and others at the FreeBSD Foundation
― Baptiste Daroussin
― Colin Percival
― Dave Cottlehuber
― Gordon Tetlow
― Warner Losh
@emasteEd Maste 
@ifreundIsaac Freund 
@thismarkpMark Phillips 
@FreeBSDFoundation 
@_bapt_ @cpercivaColin Percival @dchdch @bsdimp
if your employer is giving you money to send to charity, then know that Benevity knows about FreeBSD Foundation
さーて起きますか
#FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE
If you’re already supporting GNOME—whether as a long-time donor or a brand new friend—share a post this week with #FriendsOfGNOME to tell the world why! We love to hear, respond to, and boost your stories.
If you’re not supporting GNOME yet, now is your chance: head to https://donate.gnome.org to join, and help us reach 1,500 Friends of GNOME by the end of the year.
become unenshittifiable
If you're a woman in your 40s or 50s who suddenly feels like everything got harder, you're not imagining it. I wrote about the intersection of ADHD and perimenopause—why this transition can feel so overwhelming, and what actually helps.
I chose this as my first blog post ever because this topic deserves more attention. Women navigating this deserve validation and informed care, not dismissal.
#ADHD #Perimenopause #Menopause #WomensHealth #MidlifeADHD #ADHDWomen
#decemberAdventure day 2: I've implemented most of an ilo vm in Ada. There's two remaining things to do to finish this, but I'm holding off until tomorrow for those. Adventure log @ https://charles.childe.rs/DA2025/
I might do an Oberon version next.
Do you know how to rebuild packages (not ports I do not have any ports) during upgrade to freebsd 15 process, please?
if I do not do this, after reboot packages as doas, pkg and so on prompt missing .so file..
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
Tech workers of mastodon, are you formally evaluated based on your genai use? Please boost
i can tell u a secret: setting up first time buying for the production of a new laptop model is a huge undertaking
Is this "agentic modernization of custom code" in the room with us right now?
AWS Transform now supports agentic modernization of custom code
https://www.cio.com/article/4099616/aws-transform-now-supports-agentic-modernization-of-custom-code-2.html
EU Push to Make Message Scanning Permanent Despite Evidence of Failure and Privacy Risks.
https://reclaimthenet.org/eu-chat-control-law-permanent-privacy-risks-error-rates-lack-evidence
太陽熱温水器のポンプも冷蔵庫も止まってるの静かで悪くないな
This reminds me of that brief moment in 2016 when brands would call out Trump for gross stuff involving their products. For instance, Tic Tacs responding to the Access Hollywood tape or Skittles pushing back on Don Jr. comparing refugees to poisoned Skittles
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xy5kxsm3mllicxckb3i7uabr/post/3m6xku5t2cs2j
@inthehandsPaul Cantrell 
@CelloMomOnCars My concern is that city governments send it directly to the landfill. My wife and I have and will continue to make concerted efforts not to use plastic
@Robo105Robin Barton But that is something that one can make a ruckus about, and which has nothing to do with the *concept* of recycling of stuff, regardless of material.
Yes: to avoid is probably better than to reuse; to reuse beats recycling; to recycle beats burning; and even burning (in a controlled process) beats just tossing in the environment. Avoiding plastics completely in today's western world is very difficult, but we can still make a choice about how to handle it after first use.
今日は家のブレーカーの交換で停電なので仕事もできないしテレビも見られないからKindle Scribeで事前に買っておいたマンガを読むぞってアンロックしたらダウンロードが終わってなくてさ、
Microsoft won't let me pay a $24 bill, blocking thousands in Azure spending
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46124930
역시 내가 집중을 못한건 나약해서가 아니었나
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