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朝に診察だから早く寝ないと…
帰ってくるのはまた夜になりそう…
💦
それでは
This is really interesting. The prevalent thinking is you put #solar panels on set-aside land not being used for anything else (or rooftops, of course). But actually creating a partial canopy of solar panels over crops can *improve* yields without losing farmland, the same sort of win win situation as you have with covering car parks:
Simple tcsh prompt: set prompt = '%# '
I agree with the storyteller: the experience of having a slave is abhorrent, simulated or not, and this story is a window into something •deep• about the present moment. Even without having slaves, we are all in danger of having a •slaver mindset•. It’s a disease that’s running rampant now in billionaire-shaped techno-utopian circles.
I wrote this thread on the topic earlier:
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/113295613785073188
…and even having written that, it’s still shocking — not surprising, exactly, but shocking — to hear those thoughts expressed so baldly by the colleague in the story above.
@inthehandsPaul Cantrell Great stuff. For a long time I've thought that business has shifted toward thinking of customers as livestock. Monopolists and oligopolists don't have to treat customers like respected peers, so it's easy to drift to treating them like an exploitable resource.
I think that has laid the groundwork for the slaver mentality, one where disregard turns into a sick glee.
A lost Amazon world just reappeared in Bolivia
Link: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/11/251130205421.htm
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46104539
we have reached the point where under the right circumstances, your fridge can send you to a mental health facility. because it can show you ads.
The only reason selective colleges and universities are anywhere *close* to parity is because of affirmative action for young men, defended not as a matter of remedial justice but as a matter of maintaining a particular campus atmosphere. Abolish that, you get 60-40 right away, 65-35 soon.
Sometimes I just get the urge to install Windows 2000 on an i7, for no reason at all. 😂
디지털 노마드 커뮤니티 몇 곳이 갑자기 추천 링크가 떠서 간만에 살펴보니 요즘 주제가 되는 디지털 노마드의 도시들은 전부 동북아시아였다.
정확히는 🇰🇷 vs 🇯🇵
가끔 🇹🇼이나 🇲🇾가 나온다.
2-3개월 체류 기준으로는 🇯🇵오사카, 🇹🇼의 가오슝, 🇲🇾쿠알라룸푸르,페낭이 주로 거론되는데
12개월 정도 긴 체류 기준으로는 가장 높은 총점을 받은 곳은 🇰🇷부산이다.
제일 큰 장점은 3가지는 급여, 교통비, 월세, 여름에도 괜찮고, 겨울에도 그렇게 힘들지 않다
단점은 비교 지역에 대비 비싼 생활 물가, 글로벌 모바일 요금제 단가가 비싸다, 슬럼가와 영어 응대였다.급여가 장점이라니 이게 무슨 말이야?
Lots of talk in this article about being in hiding and in the dark on the Internet nowadays because it is overrun by bots and slop and algorithms.
https://www.ystrickler.com/dftrevisited/
It just so happens I am working on making https://dropserver.org "go dark" as well. I want it to be possible* to set up an instance with no public access, and use it solely through private networking (specifically Tailscale for now). I think this is the path forward. The Internet is changing and how we use the protocols that enable it will be changing too.
*It's possible now, but I want to make it more straightforward.
Article found via 
@yaxuAlex McLean
ビデオ雲台用の
で:katai:3脚がほしい
通知遡りながら寝落ちしてた…
주무세요!
뭔가 이상하고 불길하다는 생각을 계속 했는데
대기업, 빅테크, 일부 자본/기술엘리트들이 컴퓨터 연산 자원, 컴퓨터 저장 자원(램, 스토리지), 지식과 그 아카이브&인터페이스(AI챗봇)를 독점하는 사이버펑크적 디스토피아였다.
공각기동대, 낙원추방, 사이버펑크 2077, 뭐 그런 종류.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:a6qvfkbrohedqy3dt6k5mdv6/post/3m74n4ho6e22z
Brilliant video about "Land of the free" (is it?) from a guy that migrated to the UK:
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
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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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