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Hunting for North Korean Fiber Optic Cables
Link: https://nkinternet.com/2025/12/08/hunting-for-north-korean-fiber-optic-cables/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46194384
Hunting For North Korean Fiber Optic Cables
Before we go any further, one thing that I want to make clear is that the word assume is going to be doing some heavy lifting throughout this post. This was a rabbit hole that I recently went down …
nkinternet.com · North Korean Internet
Link author: 
North Korean Internet@nkinternet.com@nkinternet.com
RE: https://mastodon.social/@onelson/115685319103741450
Mastodon is where you find the Good Posts
RE: https://mastodon.social/@onelson/115685319103741450
Mastodon is where you find the Good Posts
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#misskey写真部
Dear Fediverse, thank you for being a safe haven from AI slop.
This morning, I checked out Pinterest for the first time in forever and saw an image purporting to be a LEGO set that was obviously AI generated - yuck!
Then on Reddit's popular page there was a video compilation of people saving children from terrible falls = AI slop.
YouTube's homepage: a short video showing a child and her dog covered in mud = AI slop.
What was I thinking? I should visit #Lemmy and #PeerTube instead...
Follow-up to this morning's post about #AIslop.
@bookstardustradioactivestardust 
@lefteristrip23Λευτέρης Τ. suggested I could turn off AI-gen image recommendations on #Pinterest. I did - thank you!
No more LEGO AI slop... but now my feed is 100% illustrations with the same style... and I don't know what to trust anymore.
I found an illustration of NYC really odd (Statue of Liberty in the middle of the city?!?), zoomed in and boom: complete gibberish on a store sign (aka surest sign of AI slop).
No more Pinterest for me 😭
Therapist: Sorry, our space heater died
Me ⁽ᵗʳʸⁱⁿᵍ ⁿᵒᵗ ᵗᵒ ᵖᵃⁿⁱᶜ⁾: The... the sun?
(I'm writing WebGPU code)
Me: I cannot BELIEVE that Apple is forcing me to use WGSL. This is an OUTRAGE and I will NEVER FORGIVE THEM
(I'm writing SDL3 or literally any other that is not WebGPU)
Me: Hey can I use WGSL with this
(I am a cat?)
A new #Jepsen report: we demonstrate data loss and persistent split-brain in the NATS streaming system, in response to simulated power failures/OS crashes.
You’re telling me this heater is from space?
#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/
If there is a sign, there is a story.
jazz-jackrabbit-freeze-vaporwave.mp3
date modified: December 8 2012
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
Saw this must-have hair accessory that should be on most of our santa lists. 🤞
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/
After not leaving her for a few months, I left her for 4 days. She ignored me when I got home. I’m not sure I’m out of the woods yet, but she is back to being cute (instead of murderous).
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
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