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New episode: Factorio!

Ben's new TCP backpressure explanation: conveyor belts full. Matt zooms out and mistakes his factory for a Pentium 2. Ben plans to switch to Linux gaming; Matt's start bar keeps popping up and he's had it.

Listen at: https://twoscomplement.org/#podcast/factorio

Plax - Woody Sabran

Kids who ran away to 1960s San Francisco

Link: https://www.fieldnotes.nautilus.quest/p/the-kids-who-ran-away-to-1960s-san
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46123720

New episode: Factorio!

Ben's new TCP backpressure explanation: conveyor belts full. Matt zooms out and mistakes his factory for a Pentium 2. Ben plans to switch to Linux gaming; Matt's start bar keeps popping up and he's had it.

Listen at: https://twoscomplement.org/#podcast/factorio

I’m pleased to announce that Mona 7 is now available for pre-order on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and will launch on December 16. https://getmona.app

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Overheard my 7 year old telling her mates how annoyed she gets that the council switch off all internet at 7pm every night. They looked at her confused but didn't correct her. Not sure how much longer I can sustain this lie.

There was a golden period of OS X roughly between 10.5 and 10.9.

Up to 10.4, windows were too textured: stripes, brushed metal.

In 10.5 till 10.9 we got to enjoy the beauty of Aqua paired with calm, tasteful gray window frames and controls that had visible depth.

From 10.10 till 10.15 was okay-ish: the flat took over, but we still had contrast and shapes.

Starting from 11, everything became rounded, low contrast and lost visual cohesiveness.

10.5 till 10.9. We didn’t know how good we had it

今日を始めるかー

How UI degrades over time.

Top (Windows 95): great contrast, obvious shapes. Instantly readable.

Middle (Windows 11): shapes are still self-explanatory, but contrast is gone.

Bottom (Windows 11 Insiders): what am I even looking at? The only shape I can understand here is the Run button. Barely visible, though.

Then, on the left, there’s another something that says Run and has an icon. What is it? A window title? Another button? Why does it have to say Run twice?
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a billionaire who sees undermining political sovereignty as an alternative to paying a relatively minor fine is a problem that will have to be dealt with eventually

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:r56tewdetlqjcxcmktcp4m2w/post/3m7dgnqe2rs2y

Un blogue; le blogage

Hey dear Fedi friends. A quick follow-up on that post about shortage of medication that saves kids suffering from #West_Syndrome. I managed to find a very kind person from Finland who has defended a PhD on drug shortages. We had a video call and he wants to help understand what happened with Synacthene retard and how to get it back to pharmacies. He will help contact the lab that used to produce the drug and also contact other labs across Europe to see which one still manufactures this drug. We have a plan! But we still need a journalist who can make this story known and visible to a bigger audience. Do not hesitate if you know someone who could help us write an article. This case has everything a good story should have: real voices of a marginalized group, first-hand expériences, background corruption schemes, big pharma wicked games and so on. I think we have high chances to win!

Is this message supposed to be comforting?

Throwback to when my dad built their 18 year old cat a little ramp so he could keep sleeping in his favorite spot on top of the dryer 🥺🥺 #CatsOfMastodon #Caturday

Inside the Life Size Pop Up World Crafted by Mark Oliver https://theinspirationgrid.com/inside-the-life-size-pop-up-world-crafted-by-mark-oliver/ #art #illustration #sculpture #ArtInspiration #ArtInspo #inspiration #InspirationGrid

So often used to be told that "people make pictures" and how true is that remark.
One man and his doggy friend, early doors, on Roker Pier, Sunderland in NE England doing a spot of 'dawn watching'.
I would have been happy had I had the pier to myself but my two subjects helped add another dimension to the composition (especially the dog!).
Mesmerising colour contrasts with the sun just a few degrees below the horizon.
#england #sunderland #dawn #coast #lighthouse

今日はドールイベントあるんで少し手伝いに行きます

Atmospheric refraction, due to the different temperature/altitude profile in the atmosphere at different times of day...makes distant mountains appear taller or shorter.

The attached photo is a comparison of what I shot yesterday afternoon and this morning. The camera was set up within inches of the same location for both shots, and those mountains are between 50 and 120 miles away...so I'm saying that any parallax effect from camera location is essentially zero.

I have annotated with arrows where it's easy to make a comparison of how the near and far ridge lines overlap differently in the two photos.

This is a follow up to:
https://universeodon.com/@KrajciTom/115673789231444526

Imagine the care that was needed to conduct surveys before the GPS/GNSS era:
https://explorersweb.com/the-five-men-who-measured-mount-everest/

"The Great Theodolite built by Troughton & Simms in London stood nearly 1.5m high, had a horizontal circle one meter in diameter, and could read angles to a single second of arc. Moving it required 30 porters and sometimes elephants."

"The reduction of Nicolson’s observations was a colossal task. Each ray from each station had to be corrected for instrumental error, for temperature and pressure, and for the curvature of the Earth. Above all, they needed to correct for atmospheric refraction, which at those distances could amount to six or seven minutes of arc and change from hour to hour."

#Atmosphere #Refraction #Physics #Math #GIS #Datum #Survey #Geodetic #Map #Optics #Science #Parallax #Cool #NewMexico #Theodolite

1684: Leibniz “Novo methodus”
1687: Newton “Principia”

But can we solve the calculus discovery controversy with a cookie tiebreaker?

1891: Leibniz cookies invented https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz-Keks
1891: Fig Newtons invented https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newtons_(cookie)

Unbelievable. STILL TIED.

@silverpill@mitra.social said in Minutes from 4 December 2025 WG Meeting:

1. It assumes that a context always belongs to one group.

Yes that's correct. There was the potential for a context to belong to multiple audiences but social issues preclude further research.

Specifically, moderation gets very messy when contexts are cross posted to diametrically opposing audiences, and so that's not something I am equipped to work through right now.

Secondly, the assumption is already there that a context only belongs to one audience. We will not change that expectation.

야당의 계속된 경고에도 계엄을 괴담 취급했던 언론 n.news.naver.com/article/006/... 하지만 다수 언론은 계엄 가능성을 직접 취재해 검증하기보다 '민주당의 주장이 허무맹랑하다'며 평가절하하는 쉬운 길을 택했다.

야당의 계속된 경고에도 계엄을 괴담 취급했던 언론

And one more server (including jails) cleanly upgrade to FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE

All running nicely 🙂

#freebsd #freebsd15 #sysadmin

A science of aesthetics (second meaning)

New friends ?

#plushtodon #cats #猫 #chats #caturday #FediCats #MastoCats #CatsOfMastodon

A qualia of feeling exposed. Vulnerable

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FFS, how many times does it have to be said? DO NOT use Lithium Ion for static installations. They don't need the energy density and we don't need the fire risk.

LiFePO₄ is cheaper, inherently less risky and available in grid scale quantity.

Sodium is likely to be even better in some respect.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-25972-8

#ClimateCrisis #Energy #BatteryStorage #LithiumIon #LithiumIronPhosphate #GridScaleStorage

I just played around upgrading a FreeBSD 14.3p6 VM to 15.0-RELEASE via FreeBSD-base.
I still have not figured out how to do that with the official repos, but after building packages locally i was able to upgrade the boot environment and reboot in a working #freebsd15 installation!

Has anyone got this working with the official base repo?

If anyone is interested, here are my notes about upgrading locally (Notes in picture alt for copy paste).

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Just added easy-to-read logs to the ActivityPub Fuzzer! Here's a log of the fuzzer pretending to be Bookwyrm, along with an example of what the Create(Note) and the Article review look like in Hometown.

Note the "read article" link, which is a Hometown feature to be compatible with AP implementations that emit Article objects. You can also see at a glance that the "summary" field that Hometown is rendering here is actually coming from "object.name" (because "summary" is used for CWs lol)

솔직한 고민으로 이렇게 행복하지않고 힘들거면 대학원 왜 다니지... 싶다가도 꿈이라던지 좋아하는것이라던지 희망과 사랑 내 안을 채우는 무언가를 위해서 견디는게 아닐까 싶기도하네

Hi everyone,

I'd like to share and announce the release of llm.rb v2.1.0.
The source is available at https://github.com/llmrb/llm.rb

> What is llm.rb?

llm.rb is a zero-dependency Ruby toolkit for Large Language Models that
includes OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, xAI (Grok), zAI, DeepSeek, Ollama,
and LlamaCpp. The toolkit includes full support for chat, streaming,
tool calling, audio, images, files, and structured outputs.

> Example

A simple chatbot that maintains a conversation and streams responses in
real-time:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require "llm"

llm = LLM.openai(key: ENV["KEY"])
bot = LLM::Bot.new(llm, stream: $stdout)
loop do
print "> "
bot.chat(gets)
print "\n"
end

#ruby

It's FOSS 様において、Floorp を含む Firefox 派生ブラウザーが紹介されています 👀

Looooooooong overdue but now that #immich is stable I feel confident enough in it as a long term solution that I am finally doing it. I am deleting everything in Google Photos today. Long overdue.

Also, the deleting process stinks. You have to do it manually from the webUI bit by bit. Anti-user behavior. I guess that shouldn't be a surprise. #selfhosting

I passed an orange tree that had dropped oranges all over the street so I picked one up and opened it and tasted the juice, at first it was deliciously citrusy and sweet and then the bitter aftertaste set in. I just got to a cafe and now I smelled my hands and wow what an intensely strage smell. It's sorta similar to earthworms in the rain mixed with the sweetness of citrus.

스불재다

아피곤해

Kind of wild that one person did this all by themselves. And we even know which person did it

https://namerology.com/baby-name-grapher/

Speaking in mitigation today Adelheid Russenberger, 34, a history PhD student from London said:

“I believe that I acted morally and according to my conscience [. …] There is no justice in climate breakdown and without a stable climate no-one can live, let alone thrive. I climbed onto the gantry to try and prevent the government’s disastrous plans to licence more North Sea Oil and gas extraction – oil and gas that would have pushed us closer to lethal irreversible tipping points. I climbed on a gantry because I refused to ignore that basic moral principle of acting to protect life.”

In mitigation, Jane Touil, 59, a visually impaired former crown servant from Rochdale said:

“We are in an unprecedented situation. Yet the law says our protest was not justified. Not necessary. Not reasonable or proportionate. Disruption from flooding, extreme heat, extreme weather and wildfires is not a public nuisance. I am.

“The law will not save us. I have always tried to live and act according to my conscience. I call on everyone in this courtroom and in this country to do the same. Politicians will not make the change we need, but we can”

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https://juststopoil.org/2025/12/05/four-just-stop-oil-supporters-jailed-for-up-to-30-months-for-m25-gantry-action-while-two-walk-free/

#climatecrisis #juststopoil #climateemergency #climatechange #protest

なんか見慣れてると思ったら！

Daniel K Inouye International Airport - Honolulu, Oahu, United States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_K._Inouye_International_Airport
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/21.320620/-157.924228

#PHNL #HNL #Honolulu #UnitedStates #airport #aviation #avgeeks #GIS

I've just set up a @hedgedocHedgeDoc 🦔 server for the @socialcgSocial Web Community Group community group to use for taking meeting notes.

Registration will only be open to taskforce leads or other notable people in the Social CG.

https://notes.socialcg.org/about

The weekly activity summary emails should also be back up and running tomorrow.

Best testimonial you can find in favor for the EU. 🇪🇺

whatever zoomer made this meme absolutely destroyed me. headshot from 500 yards.

PocketMage Is an E Ink PDA For the Modern Era https://lobste.rs/s/sy3ldq #hardware #retrocomputing
https://www.hackster.io/news/pocketmage-is-an-e-ink-pda-for-the-modern-era-3dac295619c0

You should definitely read about @nina_kali_nina 's project to reverse engineer #VisiOn and produce the first ever (published) 3rd party application for the platform. It's a massively impressive piece of work, even by the already high standards of the #retrocomputing community. Her notes are available at https://git.sr.ht/~nkali/vision-sdk/tree/main/note/index.md.

A few notes on why I think this is important. Firstly, I don't think you can really understand any field without understanding its history, and I think software engineering is especially bad at this. We tend to dismiss anything more than a couple of years old as irrelevant, which is why we're constantly reinventing the wheel and have people who don't realise that you can build a web page without using a JavaScript framework. One of the nice things about historical software is that you can actually use it, and take it apart and modify it, which leads to a much deeper understanding than you'd get from just reading about how it was used.

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pretty good day, hbu?