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Your ultimate guide to mastering Obsidian plugins.

https://itsfoss.com/obsidian-use-plugin/

⚠️ PRINTER ERROR ⚠️

CODE: 5037
DESCRIPTION: Cat Detected
INSTRUCTION: A cat has been detected on top of the printer. Please remove cat and press START to resume printing.

重たい腰を上げて更新しました。

Because #libcurl in misc. devices and softwares credit/legal pages is way too way mainstream, here's another @bagderdaniel:// stenberg:// (Daniel Stenberg) old library, Trio, used in Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding video game

Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange Visualizer https://lobste.rs/s/rpbofn #visualization
https://sidney.sh/projects/diffie-visualizer/

@dariusDarius Kazemi definitely in the "obliterate this company and throw its leaders in prison" bin

積み小説が多い

Emulate ROMs at 12MHz With Pico2 PIO

https://hackaday.com/2025/12/06/emulate-roms-at-12mhz-with-pico2-pio/

Learning culture moderates how software organizations adopt tools and the implicit rules we're giving developers about what they can do, experiment with, push back on, and share.

And software has spent years dismissing it in favor of sloppy ad hoc velocity benchmarks

@dmbaturinDaniil Baturin @dramforeverdram🎀 things you can do in git-pages:
- deploy from git (incremental)
- deploy from tar/tar.gz/tar.zst/zip
- deploy from directory (incremental)
- deploy from archive or directory to a site subdirectory
- authorize via DNS challenge
- authorize by putting git repo into DNS
- authorize via Forgejo automatic token
- add redirects
- add headers (incl CORS)
- store data in filesystem or S3
- deploy in a cluster
- get metrics and traces
- write audit log
- scan for malware
& so on

Time to change your password? Type "passwd" and follow the prompts.
-- Dru <genesis@istar.ca>

Linux Instal Fest Belgrade

Link: https://dmz.rs/lif2025_en
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46172167

やった3時ちょうど

Z-Image: Powerful and highly efficient image generation model with 6B parameters

Link: https://github.com/Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46095817

I peek at Meta's Threads every now and then. Just saw an ad for an app that lets me bet on things like "what will Mr. Beast say in his next video?" though completely unclear what yes/no means in this context.

I looked it up and this is being considered A Very Serious Company by other very serious companies.

It's just lightly regulated betting, but they call it "direct investment hedging against unpredictable macroeconomic events". I hate our reality

https://www.businessinsider.com/kalshi-cnbc-deal-cnn-data-integration-partnership-2025-12

A struct sockaddr sequel https://lobste.rs/s/moo2wj #c #linux #security
https://lwn.net/Articles/1045453/

Perl's decline was cultural https://lobste.rs/s/m3a3la #perl
https://www.beatworm.co.uk/blog/computers/perls-decline-was-cultural-not-technical

Should you ever be looking for information on a weird old plug or socket, or are just interested in such things, the online "Museum of Plugs and Sockets" is one of those sites that makes the Internet seem like less of a terrible mistake than usual.

https://plugsocketmuseum.nl/

The page on old British "BS 546" is unmatched, in particular: https://plugsocketmuseum.nl/OldBritish1.html

#BestOfTheWeb #OldInternet #IndieWeb #Electronics #DIY

Because #libcurl in misc. devices and softwares credit/legal pages is way too way mainstream, here's another @bagderdaniel:// stenberg:// (Daniel Stenberg) old library, Trio, used in Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding video game

こんどこそねる

GitHub Actions Has a Package Manager, and It Might Be the Worst https://lobste.rs/s/zbqvyu #security
https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/06/github-actions-package-manager.html

GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches

Link: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/115647408229616018
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46173407

아쉬운대로 라뽂이 해먹었다

FreeBSD 15: Why You’ll Want It https://lobste.rs/s/r93uje #freebsd
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-15-why-youll-want-it/

FreeBSD 15: Why You’ll Want It https://lobste.rs/s/r93uje #freebsd
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-15-why-youll-want-it/

R5M2 RAW 파일을 구해서 좀 보는데, 대단하네... 캐논 쓰는 입장에서 보니 또 다르구만.;;

Presenting the Alt Text Health Check image accessibility report #3.

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/alt-text-health-check-image-accessibility-report-3/

#AltText #AltTextHealthCheck #accessibility #ImageDescription #fediverse

Thanks to Sean Duffy, the airport is turning into something of a slumber party.

https://crooksandliars.com/2025/12/pajamas-while-flying-now-anti-trump?utm_source=social&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_content=109923

RE: https://mastodon.social/@twostraws/115661996542729807

A number of folks asked for this article as an AGENTS.md file, so here you go! All contributions are welcome; please open a PR, so we can make it great for everyone. https://github.com/twostraws/SwiftAgents

研究、疲れた。
セッションしたい。私カホン叩きます。

Before all that fame and history-making, Danai Gurira was a high schooler in Harare, acting in the local theatre scene. Her return to those roots may well be her most impactful production. https://continent.substack.com/p/danai-guriras-zim-baby-comes-of-age

듀엣 나이트 어비스 라는 게임을 추천 받았었습니다
표절 논란이 있는 것 같다만 직접 해보고 욕하는게 나으므로 찍먹해보려고 했는데
최적화를 얼마나 망쳤으면 사양이 이리 높냐?? 관둬야겠다

The Absent Silence (2010)

Link: https://www.ursulakleguin.com/blog/3-the-absent-silence
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46120764

Jingle bells, C3 0.7.8 released.

https://c3-lang.org/blog/jingle-bells,-c3-0-7-8-/

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What is the word for the false hope we get from the news of naps during cabinet meetings, racist rants, double-tap hearings, Signal reports, medium women's FBI jackets? These things that seem like it's all about to fall apart under its own weight of incompetence and corruption, that everyone will finally realize how bad it is, any day now, just one more bad news cycle. I feel foolish for taking comfort in these moments, thousands of them, most of which have had no impact whatsoever.

#FotoVorschlag 'Pfade und Wege'
#PhotoSuggestion 'Paths and trails'

#landscape #landscapephotography

Our monthly community call is canceled for December, but we look forward to connecting again in January!

In the meantime, we invite you to:
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Wishing you a healthy and safe end of the year! 🍉

How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM https://lobste.rs/s/bj04hv #hardware
https://telefoncek.si/2025/02/2025-02-10-hidden-microphone-on-nanokvm/

Youtube playlist with maybe (I may change my mind) my 11 favourite albums of 2025. Unsurprisingly 9 of them are Japanese, 1 is Taiwanese, and 1 is French.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh_oNxv6dJ2s12MPyi52ER4iD6uvOxdPF

Restherbst an der Elbe

#nature #photography #leaves

I spend a bit of time dissecting the #sunpci driver in #ghidra. And I can now boot the SunPCi from my own code! Using the #solaris driver still.

Some terrifying conclusions:

The windowed output in the SunPCi userspace application comes from repeatedly read()ing the /dev/sunpcidrv0 node. That just returns some raw video data and mode information.

Userspace contains a VGA emulator itself. Whenever it doesn't understand something it just switches to the external VGA.

#retrocomputing

Öoo 엔딩봤다. 규칙은 정말 간단한데 여러 규칙들이 얽히면서 해답을 바로떠올리지 못할 신기한 조합들이 계속 나와서 신선했다. 이런 경험 해본 거 정말 오랫만인 듯.

이겼는데 버튼 안눌리다 몇분후 무효처리 됨 ㅋ

Anyone else just use the Python interactive shell (interpreter) when they need a calculator?

#python #nerd