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Saw this must-have hair accessory that should be on most of our santa lists. 🤞
Dear OSS community on Mastodon,
Every day I scroll through my feed and I see proud announcements like:
“First Alpha Relase of HyperTurboWidget available"
or
“Version 2.7.1 now with improved glorb handlers!”
or
“Flux Capacitor version 4.5 is out”
… and I sit there wondering if I should be excited, terrified, or calling a licensed electrician.
Don’t get me wrong, I love open source. I just have no idea what three quarters of these projects actually do. Are we talking about a web server? A file system? A middleware thingy that keeps the flux from overflowing into the space–time continuum?
So, dear OSS developers of the world: When you announce a new release, please give us (your adoring but slightly confused audience) just a tiny bit of context.
Example:
We are proud to announce Flux Capacitor version 4.5 is now avalaible. While it creates a nice wormhole to 1955, it requires an underlying gigawatt stack 1.21 to work reliably.
Because nobody wants to cheer enthusiastically for “v2.7.1” while secretly Googling “what is a glorb and why does it need handling”.
Yours truly,
Someone who wants to celebrate your achievements
Přátelé Fediverse,
na mamutovo.cz nově zavádíme schvalování registrací.
Důvodem je zvýšená aktivita botů, které se v posledních dnech snaží hromadně zakládat účty.
Pro běžné uživatele se nic nemění – noví členové jsou vítáni, jen jejich registraci ručně potvrdíme.
Opatření je dočasné a zrušíme ho, jakmile se situace uklidní.
Díky za pochopení. ❤️
Přátelé Fediverse,
na mamutovo.cz nově zavádíme schvalování registrací.
Důvodem je zvýšená aktivita botů, které se v posledních dnech snaží hromadně zakládat účty.
Pro běžné uživatele se nic nemění – noví členové jsou vítáni, jen jejich registraci ručně potvrdíme.
Opatření je dočasné a zrušíme ho, jakmile se situace uklidní.
Díky za pochopení. ❤️
Since the Wagtail people are thinking about a StreamField based forms builder it might be a good time for the reminder that feincms3-forms exists already. https://github.com/feincms/feincms3-forms #django
普通に通知遡りながら寝落ちしてたンゴ…
再開して終わらせた…
Saw this must-have hair accessory that should be on most of our santa lists. 🤞
This week's video wound up being more fun to film than I thought it would... I've spent the last couple weeks shooting footage while riding escalators. 😁👍🏙️
昔のMacBook Airではケーキとか手のひらとかよく切っていたものじゃよ #いいえ
@mattiemMatt Massicotte I'm trying to port swift hugging face over to Linux. I've made already some progress, but I'm hitting a roadblock with swift concurrency. I guess the code may be compiling fine without strict concurrency, but I'm getting a lot of (understandable) errors.
The class is a test helper implementing a MockURLProcotol. The code I can't get to compile is here: https://github.com/thinkpractice/swift-huggingface/blob/1c12f94f8598d14574a3be18996d80c8b27d5b42/Tests/HuggingFaceTests/Helpers/MockURLProtocol.swift#L68
Would you be able to have a look at it?
What button do I press to make all the AI slop disappear?
@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
The big one on the top.
This week's video wound up being more fun to film than I thought it would... I've spent the last couple weeks shooting footage while riding escalators. 😁👍🏙️
最近のMacBook Airさんたち、手前の縁が薄くなってなくてAir味が薄れてるみたいなんだよね
Recent advancements in Cloudflare Python Workers means fast cold starts, comprehensive package support, and a great developer experience. We explain how they were achieved and show how Python can be used to build serverless applications on Cloudflare. https://blog.cloudflare.com/python-workers-advancements/
Sometimes I see people talking about CircleCI and I get really excited because I think they're talking about Circle C++ but they're not they're talking about CircleCI
🥁 About a month ago I asked how is everyone managing their sound effect archive...
🎺 And today I'm sharing SLAMY with the world!
It's a super-simple sound library manager with a built-in mixer for quick edits. It's a great help to me, and maybe to you too?
https://yurisizov.itch.io/slamy
Available for all desktop platforms (macOS builds are coming up shortly!), made with Godot, and fully FOSS itself:
https://codeberg.org/YuriSizov/slamy
PS. If yellow is not your color, I'm truly sorry!
What button do I press to make all the AI slop disappear?
[$] Disagreements over post-quantum encryption for TLS
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is the standards body responsible for the TLS encryption standard — which your browser is using right now to allow you to read LWN.net. [...]
bash builtins
Permalink: https://wizardzines.com/comics/builtins/
🎬 Creators! The Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Day Remix Contest is open!
🎥 Celebrate Public Domain Day in January 2026 by creating a 2–3 minute short film using at least 1 piece of public domain media from 1930. 🎼🎶🎭📚
📆 Entry Deadline: January 7, 2026
💰 First prize: $1,500
ℹ️ Details 👉 https://blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2026-public-domain-day-remix-contest
Google Confirms Android Attacks-No Fix for Most Samsung Users
Link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/12/08/google-confirms-android-attacks-no-fix-for-most-samsung-users/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46194315
RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/115685323975148848
this is what quote posts were added for
It's the final day to score Black Friday savings 
@drivethrurpg
Save on some of our newest #ttrpg releases, including the Stewpot and the Hunter's Journal/Slayer's Survival Kit for Monster of the Week.
And don't miss the great deals on our 
@roll20appRoll20 packages! We put a lot of work into making them functional, beautiful, and a full reference so you don't need to constantly flip tabs.
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/2152/evil-hat-productions?promo=44243&src=browse2152&page=1&sortBy=newest&affiliate_id=24139
遺族向けのパスワードは紙に書いて修正テープやマスキングテープで隠す。なるほどなあ。
第34回：万が一に備えて家族に残すパスワード、どう隠すのがベスト？ さまざまな紙や修正テープで比較した【天国へのプロトコル】 - INTERNET Watch
https://internet.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/column/tengoku/2067468.html
RE: https://mastodon.social/@onelson/115685319103741450
Mastodon is where you find the Good Posts
🎬 Creators! The Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Day Remix Contest is open!
🎥 Celebrate Public Domain Day in January 2026 by creating a 2–3 minute short film using at least 1 piece of public domain media from 1930. 🎼🎶🎭📚
📆 Entry Deadline: January 7, 2026
💰 First prize: $1,500
ℹ️ Details 👉 https://blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2026-public-domain-day-remix-contest
오늘의 블친비 고양이
#decemberAdventure days 6-8: I've been working on RetroForth, rewriting the extended vocabulary needed for the interactive repl in assembly for the nga vm to help simplify the build process and fix some longstanding design issues. This will be ongoing for a while. My full log is at https://charles.childe.rs/DA2025/
우울할 때 보면 그냥 웃긴 동영상 (1분 30초까지는 보셔야됨 믿어주세요) youtu.be/wt_L5eKFx20
Wii Sports Resort Golf - The P...
It's the final day to score Black Friday savings @drivethrurpg
Save on some of our newest #ttrpg releases, including the Stewpot and the Hunter's Journal/Slayer's Survival Kit for Monster of the Week.
And don't miss the great deals on our @roll20appRoll20 packages! We put a lot of work into making them functional, beautiful, and a full reference so you don't need to constantly flip tabs.
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/2152/evil-hat-productions?promo=44243&src=browse2152&page=1&sortBy=newest&affiliate_id=24139
What happens when a deeply technical introvert ends up leading hundreds of people? In this thoughtful and funny Monktoberfest talk, Joe explores how to manage and communicate effectively when “soft skills” don’t come naturally.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Lz8A6R5rbE
Alright, one more reason to love #FreeBSD:
I just upgraded one of my nuidns servers without issue. For those who don't know, nuidns is my rocinante+bastille based jail system for anycasted authoritative and recursive DNS. It has two commands, create and destroy. All I had to do was bootstrap 15.0-RELEASE with 
@BastilleBSDBastilleBSD 
- and update the rocinante scripts to use the newer release, then run a destroy, followed by a create. Done, no errors, no warnings.
My hard work on this system over the years is certainly part of why it works so well. But FreeBSD's dedication to the principle of least surprise is what makes it possible. If I had done this with Linux+Docker, I would likely have to retool it with every major distro release and often for the minor ones.
I love FreeBSD because it just works, and it does so consistently.
RE: https://hci.social/@bwaber/115664794929575377
So, so excited to share this with everyone :D
Over the last couple of days I visited my parents and used this opportunity to migrate my fathers PC from Windows 10 to Linux Mint (take that, Micro$oft), as this machine is only used for web browsing and light office use.
Instead of spending Money on a license, I upgraded the Fujitsu i5-4690 8G RAM PC to a Lenovo m720q i5-9400t 16G RAM PC, which ironically used to run Windows as well.
To migrate - and more importantly - back up all his files, I installed UrBackup, which now runs in a bastille jail on the local FreeBSD NAS. It's now automatically backing up all the files, backed by (the amazing) OpenZFS.
And to allow remote access for remote assistance, I also installed Rustdesk in another bastille Jail, but this time on the FreeBSD NAS at my place. This now allows easy access without having to rely on the benevolence of TeamViewer anymore.
Thanks to FOSS software, I only spent a little over €120 on the new hardware and a couple of hours of time, half of which was spent talking to family. It was all well spent, in my opinion. 😁🎅🎄
Want to run the same command again?
In many shells (e.g., tcsh, zsh, bash) you can type "!!".
Berkshire Hathaway Announces Leadership Appointments [pdf]
Link: https://berkshirehathaway.com/news/dec0825.pdf
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46193116
I've been sooper sick so here is a late #caturday #catsOfMastodon post. Special Agent Dale Cooper is REALLY MAD sick person is occupying his spot on the couch
It's time to update the list of #apps I use: https://abhinavsarkar.net/notes/2025-default-apps/
cc 
@robbRobb Knight
#blogging #appdefaults
This is good advice, and applies to any software, not just open source. I'm trying to be more aware of this when I post about my own apps, trying to assume whoever reads it has never even heard of my app before.
https://infosec.exchange/@masek/115683456728125923
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Chao-c'
青少納言🎨🐏 
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Stefan Bohacek
Abhinav 🌏
Stefano Marinelli
