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Ich mein, man kann sich über Bahnpreise echt beschweren, aber ich hab gerade für nen relativ rattigen Amtrak-Zug (ich war die Woche auch in besseren unterwegs) von Philly nach Newark 100EUR bezahlt. Und das war das günstigste Angebot, jeder andere Zug an dem Tag 180EUR. Das ist so grob Berlin<>Leipzig, da will die Bahn ohne Rabatt ca. 1/3 von und man fährt ICE.
HAHAHA I just saw Space Engineers 2's survival intro sequence, and it's fucking hilarious.
For those of you who don't know, SE2 went all-in on AI, they're a bunch of hopeless techbros that accidentally created a compelling game once.
But the AI voice acting is sooooo bad. It's literally on the level of the free AI voices some YouTubers paste in to pretend they have friends.
It's irrational and I shouldn't be doing it, but I'm still arranging the posts in my music thread as if they were being serialized for Cohost. When I used to repost on Cohost each week of the thread was like "here's a five-song mix tape, and then 2 bonus tracks after the 'read more' jump". So STILL I'll often have a kind of implied theme over the course of a week and the weekend tracks will in some way free-associative connect to a preceding weekday track. There is no reason for me to do this!!
EU politicians are still paying money to this guy, to use the social medium he controls, where his algorithm decides which voters they reach or do not reach.
Es heißt Homosapiens und nicht Heterosapiens. Es heißt Bibel und nicht Heterobel. Es heißt „straight to hell“ und nicht „gay to hell“.
Mein ja nur.
System design interview cheatsheet, by 
@jadi https://open.substack.com/pub/jadi/p/system-design-interview-cheatsheet?r=24524&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Ow ow ooowww #smolBSD can now build BIOS bootable images!... i.e. we're opening to non-virtual world https://github.com/NetBSDfr/smolBSD/tree/main/service/biosboot
Fuck "AI".
Over time, the public library system has developed a rigorous set of ethics and practices concerning patron privacy and confidentiality, because librarians have seen first hand what can be done with information about what a person reads and what information they seek out, and here's the digital reading community plugging their personal libraries directly into surveillance dragnet services.
There was no real market rationale for including AI in Calibre. It's not like people were going to switch to a competitor if it didn't have AI integration, because Calibre effectively has no competitors. It's the one name that always crops up when you ask how to do something even moderately complicated with ebooks. And now people are actively looking for alternatives.
Over time, the public library system has developed a rigorous set of ethics and practices concerning patron privacy and confidentiality, because librarians have seen first hand what can be done with information about what a person reads and what information they seek out, and here's the digital reading community plugging their personal libraries directly into surveillance dragnet services.
There was no real market rationale for including AI in Calibre. It's not like people were going to switch to a competitor if it didn't have AI integration, because Calibre effectively has no competitors. It's the one name that always crops up when you ask how to do something even moderately complicated with ebooks. And now people are actively looking for alternatives.
If you have fun Python project you've been tinkering with or even just an idea you'd like to try, consider submitting a proposal for the #PyConUS 2026 Poster Session! 🔥🐍
It's such a great way to share your work and get to meet others in the 🐍 community! https://us.pycon.org/2026/speaking/posters/
Listen to protons oscillating under Earth's magnetic field by building a proton-precession magnetometer for yourself for under $100. https://spectrum.ieee.org/listen-to-protons-diy-magnetometer?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Mastodon-Daily-Pipeline
Added a little badge to my blog at https://jan.wildeboer.net to indicate that I write everything myself without "AI" assistance. (and also: no cookies, no trackers, no google fonts, everything served straight from my server that doesn't even store log files for the web server) The badge is a 12.5KB SVG file that you can download and use for yourself. Based on https://www.aimeecozza.com/human-made/ by 
@aimeecozzaAimee Cozza Illustration but slightly rotated and as SVG.
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@mastodonmigration 
@randahlRandahl Fink 
@tofugolem Not sure how English part of Fedi acts like, but local (Czech) part is definitely moderated well
And here comes the biggest benefit - you do not like moderation of your instance? Do your own! 😀
@schmaker @mastodonmigration @randahlRandahl Fink @tofugolem
"If you don't like it, do your own!" is a very Mastodon statement, and is why people don't choose Mastodon or the Fediverse.🤷🏿♂️
If I go to buy a car, and I tell the salesman, "Hmm, I wish it had more trunk space." The salesman might say, "Sure! Hold on one minute!" and go to the back room, and come back with some sheet metal, some cans of paint, an airbrush, an arc welder, and a grinder. With a big grin he says, "If you don't like the trunk, you can build your own! Modify your car! It's allowed!"
No.
I'm not modifying my car. I don't want to be an automotive engineer. I just want to drive to work and back.
Rather than start welding, I will just go to another manufacturer, and buy a car that is similar but with more trunk space.
This post is about moderation and safety on Mastodon.
Kremlin hails Trump’s national security strategy as aligned with Russia’s vision.
Well of course it does, it wrote it.
One winter night in the Netherlands, 2025...
Temperature here in Utrecht, at 9 p.m.: +13.8°C (57F).
@xChaosChao-c' ahoj chaosu, přeji vše nejlepší k narozeninám ;-)
Estimates are difficult for developers and product owners
Link: https://thorsell.io/2025/12/07/estimates.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46184229
the logical conclusion of CISC is a CPU which has the entirety of chromium implemented in a single instruction
Es heißt Homosapiens und nicht Heterosapiens. Es heißt Bibel und nicht Heterobel. Es heißt „straight to hell“ und nicht „gay to hell“.
Mein ja nur.
"I've asked the AI to ..." = "I've made myself dependent on an environment-destroying opaque technology, based on theft, handed down as a poisoned gift by the worst of men"
A 400ml bottle of dishwasher rinse aid costs £3.50 in my local ASDA. I buy a 5ltr bottle off the internet for £10.50, saving myself £33.25. I am 50 years old and this represents the culmination of my long term financial investment strategy.
my boys. #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #husbandsofmastodon
さて起きねば
So we’ve just had a rumor that Tim Cook might be leaving Apple soon, hastily corrected to “but he’ll stay on as board chair,” followed soon after by reports that no, everyone relax, he‘s not going anywhere, and now lots of folks right below him on the org chart are heading for the door instead.
Tim, I’m begging you. Read the rapidly emptying room.
RFK Jr.'s claim that COVID vaccines are deadly? Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. In this new extraordinarily large study, vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and a 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality compared to those who were unvaccinated. RFK Jr. is. liar and a fraud, as are Vinay Prasad and Tracy Hoeg at FDA who have made similar false claims about these vaccines. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2842305#note-ZOI251269-1
The AI wildfire is coming. it's going to be painful and healthy
Link: https://ceodinner.substack.com/p/the-ai-wildfire-is-coming-its-going
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46183011
The programmers who live in Flatland
Link: https://blog.redplanetlabs.com/2025/11/24/the-programmers-who-live-in-flatland/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46070298
Dollar-stores overcharge cash-strapped customers while promising low prices
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/03/customers-pay-more-rising-dollar-store-costs
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46181962
For anyone going to #39C3:
While you’re looking at your order page: If you’re part of an Assembly, then you can help the Assemblies Team work out a fair distribution of seating space by selecting your Assembly on your order page. To do so, please click “Change details” at the top of your order page.
So go and get more seats for your assembly!
ヽ( ・∀・)ﾉ ｳﾝｺｰ
Django-bolt 0.3.12 Update
Django-bolt now has websockets support. 🎉
uv add django-bolt
// Fastest Python web framework powered by Rust and Django
Why do the wise guys over at the orange site keep feeling the need to say that #Perl is dead and that Raku killed it? Sometimes there's also a mocking jibe at Raku as well.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45977900
"Live, and let live" people!🤦🏽♂️
My motto for 2026 is going to be:
"Use things that people love to dunk on".
This includes things like Raku, Common Lisp, Emacs, Perl, C, OpenBSD...
Django-bolt 0.3.12 Update
Django-bolt now has websockets support. 🎉
uv add django-bolt
// Fastest Python web framework powered by Rust and Django
0.6.1 of django-new has been released. 🚀
- Lots of UI tweaks.
- `--data` flag for data-specific applications.
- Generate `summary.html` for a user-friendly explanation of the newly created application (h/t 
@ehmatthesEric Matthes).
- BETA: `--install` to install packages (only `whitenoise` currently supported).
🛠️ https://github.com/adamghill/django-new
📦 https://pypi.org/project/django-new/
Me after reading the news on any given day
Ow ow ooowww #smolBSD can now build BIOS bootable images!... i.e. we're opening to non-virtual world https://github.com/NetBSDfr/smolBSD/tree/main/service/biosboot
Reading this absolutely wild article on the relationship between breathing and memory, vaguely hearing 
@grimalkinaCat Hicks in the distance saying "I'm sorry to have to tell you this again but your brain is part of your body and your body is part of the world."
@molly0xfffMolly White wheb does your shop open back up?
As a queer person, I sometimes think about cis straight people I know back home (Singapore) who truly think I had no reason to leave home. Even though my country doesn't recognize my marriage, even though there are no immigration benefits that accrue to my foreign same sex spouse, even though there are no anti-discrimination laws that exist to protect me, they think, I can still have a pretty good life as an out queer person. I can have money, and no one is actively wanting to beat me up or hurt me.
That's the problem.
The problem isn't the bigots (because at least I know what to expect), it's the people who think they are not bigots, who believe that I should be thankful and grateful because 'at least nobody is going to beat me up'.
Nobody will beat me up because I have middle class Chinese and cis privilege in that society. It's not the same for other people. It's not because I am accepted or tolerated. Also, that is a tremendously low bar. I expect more of my life. I expect to thrive, not just be grateful to survive.
BRB=be right back
IDK=I don't know
ILY=i love you
LOL=laugh out loud
EDITOR=/bin/ed
USER=ed1conf
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/home/ed1conf/bin
Django-bolt 0.3.12 Update
Django-bolt now has websockets support. 🎉
uv add django-bolt
// Fastest Python web framework powered by Rust and Django
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