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Martin Fendrych 𝕏📤 https://xcancel.com/stats_feed:
20 countries with the highest homeless population:

1. France 🇫🇷
2. Germany 🇩🇪
3. Australia 🇦🇺
4. Czechia 🇨🇿
5. New Zea…
https://xcancel.com/fendrych_m/status/1997383502199722269

Has anyone been keeping a list of tech that has milkshake ducked this calendar year? If not, let’s build one together.

• Framework: welcomed racists into its “big tent”
• calibre: added LLMs to software that doesn’t need it

Just to be clear: we're listing the projects and corporations who were our darlings earlier this year, until they lurched dramatically into unacceptability. The ones who've been on a downward spiral for years, they're for a different list.

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@adamchainz/115658170205698690

Regarding the Django 6.0 upgrade in general, I am also getting mileage out of @adamchainzAdam Johnson 's django-upgrade package and his 6.0 summary article.

https://hachyderm.io/@adamchainz@fosstodon.org/115658170264661305

#Django

Only took me five years after reading Simon Willison's blog post about how to automate updating your Github profile README to FINALLY get around to doing it. I'm no designer, but I like the SVG animations. Let me know what you think! https://www.loom.com/share/645da4a483e546338a3d916528693093

OMSCS Open Courseware

Link: https://sites.gatech.edu/omscsopencourseware/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46175826

Microsoft Windows 3.1 Startup Logo
🟩Zenith Data Systems Edition🟩

It would be a real shame if this photo of President Barak Obama receiving the *actual* Nobel Peace Prize goes viral today for no apparent reason

The general who refused to crush Tiananmen's protesters

Link: https://www.economist.com/china/2025/12/04/the-general-who-refused-to-crush-tiananmens-protesters
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46176072

Divine D native Linux open-source mobile system – Rev. 1.1 Hardware Architecture

Link: https://docs.dawndrums.tn/blog/dd-rev1.1-arch/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46114064

#linux

New friends ?

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

도돈파치 대부활 1면 보스 'Ai'

私、YouTubeは嫌いですけれど、これは良いと思います。

「まんが日本昔ばなし」公式YouTubeチャンネル
https://youtube.com/@manga-nippon-mukashi-banashi?si=2UxJnHBFPOjCd7S0

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X（旧Twitter）に217億円の制裁金、「青バッジ」など理由に--EU║CNET Japan
https://japan.cnet.com/article/35241313/

Bridging RTL-433 To Home Assistant

https://hackaday.com/2025/12/06/bridging-rtl-433-to-home-assistant/

#Russia Medvedev and Dmitriev ranting on Twitter/X about “EU limiting free speech” through a VPN because they Twitter is blocked in Russia is an epic level of absurdity 😂

ジム行ってくる
走るわ

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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