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#lightadvent2025 day 8
...Time for some more artificial light, and even one of our projects. This was happening in my early days as a lighting designer, but aside from taking photos and some focusing assistance, I wasn't particularly involved with this design, myself.
It's the Twin Sails Bridge, in Poole. When opening at night, red light floods along the the pedestrian walkways, and highlights the leading edge of each of the opening 'sails'.
More here, if you like: https://dave-morris.net/Twin-Sails-Bridge
My neighborhood has no HOA, which means I could install this on my roof if I wanted to
#NowPlaying
Track: snowfall
Album: snowfall
Artist: Øneheart
Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle
Link: https://tailscale.com/blog/tailscale-jailbroken-kindle
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46194337
How the Creator Economy Destroyed the Internet
Link: https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/810002/influencers-creator-economy-special-series
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46194302
#NowPlaying
Track: Comfort Chain
Album: Comfort Chain
Artist: Instupendo
I hate this so much that I kind of like it. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DFBQT1HC
2025 was one of the most difficult years for press freedom in the U.S. Journalists faced escalating harassment, censorship, legal threats, and violence — and FPF was there every step of the way to do something about it.
Read what we accomplished in 2025.
http://freedom.press/about/announcements/2025-by-the-numbers/
Nova Programming Language
Link: https://nova-lang.net
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192997
The companies whose whole job is understanding the Real Cost Of The Finding Out Part do not want to play this game at all.
2025 was one of the most difficult years for press freedom in the U.S. Journalists faced escalating harassment, censorship, legal threats, and violence — and FPF was there every step of the way to do something about it.
Read what we accomplished in 2025.
http://freedom.press/about/announcements/2025-by-the-numbers/
おんぷれみすー
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송고2025-12-08 19:14
'반사이익' 지마켓·11번가·네이버는 증가세
www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR2025...
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Chat am I an influencer
I generally don't think of myself as an influencer, but folks online and IRL label me as one pretty often (usually NOT as an insult???)
Then every other time I pop onto Fedi, I see some post like, “Praise be that we have no influencers here! No foul creatures who do X, Y, and Z!”, and I'm reading those lists like... I've never done any of that in my life
...and you're wasting even more of your life posting about your regrets at the Nazi bar. Still, they probably need to hear it most. Points for partial awakening. Hey, at least you made good money doing it, right?
"I wasted 8 years of my life in crypto"
"Over time however, I felt like I have lost my purpose in crypto. The initial siren songs of crypto’s transformative powers waned after working in the space full-time. I was disillusioned by my target customers and who I was really building for. I completely misunderstood what the actual users of crypto are v.s. just propaganda. Crypto purports that it helps decentralize the financial system, which I completely bought into, but in reality, it’s just a speculation and a gambling hyper-system that’s really just a mirror of what the economy is now."
"The reality hit me like a fucking truck. I am NOT building a new financial system. I built a casino. A casino that does not call itself a casino, but it is the biggest, online, multi-player 24/7 casino our generation has ever concocted. Some part of me wants me to feel proud that I contributed at least my 20s building this casino out. Another part of me literally feels like I wasted my entire 20s in this space. I wasted my life on this, but at least I made good money from it."
せんたくものほしたよ 
607449336d (upstream/main) Merge commit from fork
85bf5be604 New Crowdin Translations (automated) (#37146)
cf23f0414f Add `id` to collection serializers (#37157)
55becaa1b5 Preload tag to prevent n+1 (#37154)
8625721805 Draft API to get all collections by an account (#37139)
#블친과_입맛궁합_알아보기 육회: 😋 마라탕: 😌 간장게장: 😉 (먹기 귀찮다는 점만 빼면...) 초밥: 😋 민초: 민트는 🔮신성한 허브🌿이고 카카오는 신의🧞♂️ 열매🥥이기 때문에 민트초코🌿🍫는 신성함🔮이 두배✌🏻입니다 사악한 자👿들의 입 안👄에 민트초코🌿🍫를 넣으면 뒤집어지는🤪 이유입니다‼️ 녹차: 😉 치킨: 😋 닭발: 😋 연어: 😋 산낙지: 😌 훠궈: 🤔 (안먹어봄) 국밥: ☘️<( 크어어 뻑예 하와이안 피자: 😋 카레: 😉 떡볶이: 😉
RE: https://mastodon.social/@onelson/115685319103741450
Mastodon is where you find the Good Posts
jazz-jackrabbit-freeze-vaporwave.mp3
date modified: December 8 2012
If you're recommending Mastodon and the wider Fediverse to organisations, friends, family or colleagues, don't worry if they say no. You have done something really important simply by making them aware of it as an option.
Most people and organisations don't immediately try stuff they hear about. Usually they need to hear it mentioned by a few different sources before they actually try it.
By being one of those sources, you're nudging them closer to actually trying it 👍
In the Fediverse track at SFSCon, Jaz-Michael King spoke about:
Hiraeth and Hashtags: Building a Bilingual Community on the Fediverse
🎉 Some important #CrossBorderRail news! 🎉
After thinking about the idea for more than a decade (yeah, this is later than a DB train!) I am finally starting to plan building a railway organisation for lobbying work, and 
@patrickPatrick Dersjant RCX 
@partimMartin Hoffmann & 
@redjivesJ—dV are in from the start. We're sort of soft launching today
Details 👇
https://jonworth.eu/european-rail-passengers-union-lobbying-for-passengers-cross-border/
European Rail Passengers Union: lobbying for passengers, cross border
It has been something in the back of my mind for more than a decade: how could railway passengers be better represented to campaign for improvements in international rail? Here's a piece I wrote in 2014 about the topic. And the issue very much came to a head in 2021 [...]
jonworth.eu · Jon Worth
Link author: 
Jon Worth@jon@gruene.social
If you're recommending Mastodon and the wider Fediverse to organisations, friends, family or colleagues, don't worry if they say no. You have done something really important simply by making them aware of it as an option.
Most people and organisations don't immediately try stuff they hear about. Usually they need to hear it mentioned by a few different sources before they actually try it.
By being one of those sources, you're nudging them closer to actually trying it 👍
blurry pictured: the fish catnip toy he fucked up earlier
victor frankenstein disappointedly leaving a monster truck show
@hotdogitsclaireClaire I was wondering what the big news you were hinting at on 
@podsothoth with 
@todbTod Beardsley 🤘 this weekend! Will this make you the first Lovecraft podcaster in Congress?
@evanEvan Prodromou Yes indeedy! Well, unless you count some of the more shambling of the horrors currently stalking the US House of Representatives.
@hotdogitsclaireClaire has a brand new campaign account, over at 
@YeeHawClaireClaire Reynolds just FYI!
...and you're wasting even more of your life posting about your regrets at the Nazi bar. Still, they probably need to hear it most. Points for partial awakening. Hey, at least you made good money doing it, right?
"I wasted 8 years of my life in crypto"
"Over time however, I felt like I have lost my purpose in crypto. The initial siren songs of crypto’s transformative powers waned after working in the space full-time. I was disillusioned by my target customers and who I was really building for. I completely misunderstood what the actual users of crypto are v.s. just propaganda. Crypto purports that it helps decentralize the financial system, which I completely bought into, but in reality, it’s just a speculation and a gambling hyper-system that’s really just a mirror of what the economy is now."
"The reality hit me like a fucking truck. I am NOT building a new financial system. I built a casino. A casino that does not call itself a casino, but it is the biggest, online, multi-player 24/7 casino our generation has ever concocted. Some part of me wants me to feel proud that I contributed at least my 20s building this casino out. Another part of me literally feels like I wasted my entire 20s in this space. I wasted my life on this, but at least I made good money from it."
The #illumosCafe #Mastodon instance has been upgraded to v4.5.3
The #illumosCafe #Mastodon instance has been upgraded to v4.5.3
RE: https://hci.social/@bwaber/115664794929575377
So, so excited to share this with everyone :D
Who will I meet at #FOSSBack26? Last day to claim your early bird ticket! https://26.foss-backstage.de/ #FOSSBack 
@FOSSBackstage
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
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. 🤞
Chris Siebenmann
Em 
Jenniferplusplus
Stefan Bohacek
Inside Fediverse
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
Stefano Marinelli
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