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I don’t really like anything sweet, but I *really* like a *slightly sweet*, soft and jiggly soufflé style Japanese cheesecake. I get mine at Yummy Bakery in SF Chinatown. Best deal, and best.
Every time I have one, I’m reminded of how in my second or third month of dating my wife I once got a 12” Japanese cheesecake at a mall. After checking if she wanted any right that moment, and she didn’t, I proceeded to eat *all of it* in ten minutes by myself.
Apparently that’s when she knew I was the one.
And one more bronze sponsor today, this time Jenny & Phil Porada. Thank you very much!
Autism should not be treated as a single condition
Link: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/12/03/why-autism-should-not-be-treated-as-a-single-condition
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46149375
You can do it!
😲 👀 … Judge Leal in #SFC's landmark impact litigation against #Vizio (regarding their violations of #GPLv2 & #LGPLv2_1) is leaning toward partially granting our motion for summary adjudication.
Such motions are difficult to win, so this is amazing.
Her decision is tentative; join the hearing today (details in linked post) to hear the oral arguments in real time.
I'll live updates of the hearing in this thread.
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2025/dec/04/tentative-vizio-ruling-in-favor-of-sfc/
New blog 🎉 Postgres Scan Types in EXPLAIN Plans
https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/postgres-scan-types-in-explain-plans
아 근데 마크가 고사양 게임이 맞는게...
뭔 다른 게임들보다 성능 드럽게먹음
The most festive cat, probably just waiting for me to leave so he can knock more ornaments off the tree.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@tomhead/115659063277687683
Yep this exactly. Like, this is the whole problem with ~rural reporting.~
People like to get up in arms about stories about this because we get to show everyone how much!! we really care!! about rural areas!!
But the only way most people actually click to read about "rural problems" is when it's their own pet peeve dressed up in a cowboy hat.
So to sell a story on rural corruption, you have to make it about Amazon.
And then nobody notices the rural corruption part.
Rolling Stone: clearly documents a 30+ year long con job. A rural county's own leadership lined their pockets by helping ag interests destroy the water supply.
Everyone who read the article apparently??: Amazon data centers did this in 2011
하지만 이제 저 얼굴이 맹꽁이 님인걸
근데 저 빼꼼 메타 CEO... 무서워
Just read the entirety of "Beej's Guide to Learning Computer Science" https://beej.us/guide/bglcs/
Extremely valuable and practical advice for computer programmers at all stages of their career.
With Beej, the hits just keep on coming!
😲 👀 … Judge Leal in #SFC's landmark impact litigation against #Vizio (regarding their violations of #GPLv2 & #LGPLv2_1) is leaning toward partially granting our motion for summary adjudication.
Such motions are difficult to win, so this is amazing.
Her decision is tentative; join the hearing today (details in linked post) to hear the oral arguments in real time.
I'll live updates of the hearing in this thread.
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2025/dec/04/tentative-vizio-ruling-in-favor-of-sfc/
Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on? https://lobste.rs/s/3gv7ga #web
https://ploum.net/2025-12-04-pixelfed-against-fediverse.html
Though a bit niche, my #FreeSoftwareAdvent today is ed(1). As the goofball behind 
@ed1confed(1) conference, I certainly play it up, but I certainly use it more than the average Unix/BSD/Linux user.
A while ago I wrote up list of reasons¹ why one might use ed, and some are more obscure/improbable reasons (though I've encountered all of them in that post), there are a couple of those that drive me back to ed regularly:
• I can still see the output of previous commands on the screen while I edit, where a full-screen editor would obscure that output that I need to incorporate in my edit
• it's just darn fast for a quick edit, changing a variable name or adding/removing an entry in a list, etc. No startup costs for a honkin' huge $VISUAL with dozens of plugins and language-server processes and GUI rendering
• very usable on low-bandwith/high-latency connections like I sometimes get when I remote into machines (less of a problem now, but I still experience sessions where I'll SSH in, invoke ed, make the change, write & quit, and exit the shell, in a couple seconds, while the screen repaints things oh-so-slowly
• and most importantly, there's quality geek-cred for using it in front of others 😆
I'm working on a presentation for my high school friends and classmates to encourage giving old hardware a second life through software upgrades. This is important for reducing e‑waste. Also, many people know that BSD‑based systems have stronger processor architecture support and run smoother on older, low‑power computers. If the situation allows, it would be great to spread the word and get people talking.
P.S. Although running BSD on a smartphone might not be practical, projects like postmarketOS still revive many old devices:))))
Advent of Code 2025 (https://adventofcode.com) is on the keyboard. Decisions in C3 (also you can discuss it at our discord):
#decemberAdventure day 4: I wrote an ilo implementation in Oberon (for obcn). The code is in the repository and the adventure log is at https://charles.childe.rs/DA2025/
Tomorrow I'll be attempting to do one in Smalltalk.
I've also used a bit of awk to clean up the log formatting (which are extracted from my blocks under my konilo system) for improved readability.
Out of 33 non-public names tested, Grok gave accurate residential addresses in multiple cases and rarely refused a request. It often returned dossiers of personal data no one asked for. Other major chatbots (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude) all declined to do the same due to privacy protections.
2/3
xAI’s own policies say violating people’s privacy is prohibited. Grok is doing it anyway, and xAI didn’t respond to Futurism’s questions.
This is one of the nightmare scenarios privacy advocates have been warning about around AI being used for nefarious actions.
3/3
Futurism found that Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot is actively doxxing everyday people, handing over real, current home addresses, phone numbers, emails, even family members’ info with almost no prompting.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/grok-doxxing
#privacy #doxxing #aiharms #platformaccountability #surveillance
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Out of 33 non-public names tested, Grok gave accurate residential addresses in multiple cases and rarely refused a request. It often returned dossiers of personal data no one asked for. Other major chatbots (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude) all declined to do the same due to privacy protections.
2/3
宿泊施設ではないもののひざ掛けを提供しているネカフェの件、詳細もわからないのにホワイトハッカーとして雇えとか言っている人いて草
육회먹고싶다
If I'm looking for a (1) strictly fanless (2) 10GbE switch (3) with 8+ ports (4) of which at least two are SFP+, is the only option in existence really the Qnap QSW-M1208-8C? Nothing from Mikrotik or Ubiquiti or any of the other usual suspects?
@waffleswaffles 🇨🇦 
@tommertronTom Robertson 
@geerlingguyJeff Geerling hast thou any homelab advice?
🙏🔄
It’s time to free JavaScript (2024)
Link: https://javascript.tm/letter
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46145365
Japanese Four-Cylinder Engine Is So Reliable Still in Production After 25 Years
Link: https://www.topspeed.com/reliable-japanese-four-cylinder-engine-still-in-production/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46146740
Fantastic DIY #Flock camera detector (WIP) from Chuck Toussieng
He reports that he
a) will work on a case once he's ironed everything out
b) will post to Github as well, after a) is complete
빛이 모든 것.
빛이 모든 것.
Futurism found that Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot is actively doxxing everyday people, handing over real, current home addresses, phone numbers, emails, even family members’ info with almost no prompting.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/grok-doxxing
#privacy #doxxing #aiharms #platformaccountability #surveillance
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(i assume these are good places to look for it though! just not sure i'd call it a repro unless it actually called react)
램 선물거래 같은 종목 안 생기나 ㅋㅋ
“If everyone who streamed All Hell on Spotify had done so using Tidal instead, we would have received an extra £31,847.38, which would double the amount we made from streaming of the album in this time period. Or if everyone used Apple Music it would have been £12,331 more.”
Los Campesinos! break down streaming royalties. In other news, Fuck Spotify.
https://loscampesinos.com/heres-how-much-money-los-camp-make-from-streaming/
램 선물거래 같은 종목 안 생기나 ㅋㅋ
Meta’s name being what it is is a constant reminder of the quality of decision-making and vision that they are led by. A perpetual self-own machine.
~“Technically, this means that a Mastodon user M will think that he follows someone but will receive poorly formatted versions of most of the content.”~ — a rephrasing of some discourse going around today targeting a different platform.
A fundamental reality of the open social web is that not every app should be an "everything app" — it simply doesn't make sense like that.
I have an upcoming talk explaining what the current architecture of ActivityPub projects tends to be, and what alternative architectures are possible.
There's no reason you should only be limited to photos if you use Pixelfed, but Pixelfed doesn't need to provide microblogging capabilities, just like Mastodon doesn't need to provide good support for photos, long videos, articles, check-ins, music listens anything else that we can dream up.
This is just a byproduct of the current architecture of the Fediverse.
@gnome I use Linux as my primary desktop OS since the days of Gnome 2 and tried a lot of different desktop environments.
I love that you make spirited designs decisions and strive for a clear user experience. While I did not like every single change right from the start, most are justified and you seem to follow a coherent vision.
There was a time when I customised a lot of things, but for the person who I am now, everything just feels in the right place with the current Gnome.
@PatrikSchoenfeldtPatrik @gnome You've encapsulated my feelings about GNOME as well, it just works and looks great out of the box!
しゅいろママんの髪のみょーんって上がってるところに手をつっこみたい
甘いものが好きです。
용인시 고향사랑 기부사이트에 러바오 루이바오 후이바오 인형있다고 해서 빵터졌다.ㅋㅋㅋㅋ 용인의 특산물… 판다
@dansup 
@PixelFed The thing that drew me to Pixelfed was that it was only about photos. I only want to share my photos and see other people's photos. If I want to chat, I will do that on Mastodon. Apps don't need to be all things to all people. Do one thing and do it well. That is what Pixelfed is, for now. Just my $0.02.
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와 아직도 모기가 있네 징하다 징해
github
github rot status: they added a way to anonymously request copilot business support in an organization
"people want copilot"
"who?"
"... people"
"which people?"
"One of them"
this feels like a fever dream
Matthew Garrett
맹꽁이
Jim DeLaHunt
مصدر 
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Matt Massicotte
