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Am Dienstag wird in #Freiburg erneut gegen die ausgrenzende #Bezahlkarte protestiert. Und zwar vor dem Regierungspräsidium, das die Stadt 
@freiburgStadt Freiburg gegen ihren Willen massiv unter Druck setzt, die Karte für alle Geflüchtete schnell einzuführen. Vorher gehts im Gemeinderat um den aktuellen Stand der Dinge. Freitags zwischen 16 Uhr und 18 Uhr gibt es im Kyosk (Adlerstr.) die Chance sich solidarisch mit den betroffenen am Gutscheintausch zu beteiligen. Auf unserer Webseite findet ihr unter dem Stichwort Bezahlkarte zahlreiche Beiträge. https://rdl.de/tag/bezahlkarte
monday, monday #photography #art #mastoart #fediart #photomonday #fotomontag #moodymonday #reflection #rain #city #street
Deep dive on Nvidia circular funding
Link: https://philippeoger.com/pages/deep-dive-into-nvidias-virtuous-cycle
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46196076
It's really awkward the person you have to sue is the government for censoring your software through Apple and not Apple for creating a situation where the government can censor your software. Apple is more powerful, and less accountable, than a government. https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/115684595581297105
🎉 New episode of Changelog News!
Why AI needs hard rules (not vibe checks), what Anthropic's acquisition of Bun's creators tells us about the AI takeover, Jonah Glover couldn't get Claude to recreate Space Jam's 1996 website, Google finally unkills something, and Bazzite is a distro for the next generation of Linux gaming.
unstable dot systems update: turns out that puma wasn’t starting as many worker processes as it was supposed to, so now that I’ve fixed that, we may be more responsive immediately following interactions from large accounts on large servers
Really wish Mastodon web-interface filters had booleans, for so many reasons, but today's thing I wish I could accomplish but cannot: "Hide posts by [REDACTED] that are boosts of other people mentioning [REDACTED]."
A series of tricks and techniques I learned doing tiny GLSL demos
Link: https://blog.pkh.me/p/48-a-series-of-tricks-and-techniques-i-learned-doing-tiny-glsl-demos.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46194477
"(똥 될 확률 높음)"이라니, 제미나이야, 너 어디서 그런 말 배웠니... 🤣😭😇
ich möchte Teil einer Erwachsenenbewegung sein
It's really awkward the person you have to sue is the government for censoring your software through Apple and not Apple for creating a situation where the government can censor your software. Apple is more powerful, and less accountable, than a government. https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/115684595581297105
Guess what % of plastics have been #recycled? No prizes :(
Natürlich wäre es Musk lieber, sich mit kleinen Nationalstaaten, statt mit der EU-Kommission herumzuschlagen. Weil die EU als gemeinsamer Wirtschaftsraum ganz anders verhandeln &/ Regeln durchsetzen kann. Mit einem derart gigantischen Markt legen sich selbst die ganz Großen nicht so gerne an.🤷🏻♀️
Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros
Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/paramount-skydance-hostile-bid-wbd-netflix.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192459
I'm continuing to rip all my old DVDs, and now I can watch House M.D. as background noise. So, obviously, I am doing that.
It lands really differently than it did in 2004 (2004!? wtf!). And not in the ways you might expect. House's misogyny is a touch more grating than than it used to be, sure. But on the other hand, it's strangely utopian to imagine this world where people can just get healthcare. Everyone gets the tests, scans, medication, and surgeries they need. They get these things promptly, and without having to beg and plead with insurance companies.
This was obviously fantasy in 2004, but it would be entirely beyond belief, today.
Also, I've forgotten half the medical mysteries, so that's fun
@duncan__british_columbia@ca.fedimeteo.comDuncan - British Columbia - FediMeteo@duncan__british_columbia@ca.fedimeteo.comDuncan - British Columbia - FediMeteoViðtalið við Brynhildi Jenný sem Penninn gerði í tilefni nýju bókarinnar.
The interview with Brynhildur Jenný that the store Penninn did on the launch of her new book (which I published). I attempted to add English soft-subtitles, but I don't know if it took.
Original here: https://www.tiktok.com/@penninneymundsson/video/7576666782488857874?_r=1&_t=ZN-91hEf390yRi
Here's a version with quick and dirty English language hardsubs.
Launch HN: Nia (YC S25) – Give better context to coding agents
Link: https://www.trynia.ai/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46194828
Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1
Link: https://jepsen.io/analyses/nats-2.12.1
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46196105
My cat hogs the space heater.
LB One of my favourite meme themes is cats being interviewed. Hilarious
途中おきだよ！全員集合！
My neighborhood has no HOA, which means I could install this on my roof if I wanted to
ヽ( ・∀・)ﾉ ｳﾝｺｰ
昨日地震あったのね。全然気がつかなかったわ 
Deep dive on Nvidia circular funding
Link: https://philippeoger.com/pages/deep-dive-into-nvidias-virtuous-cycle
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46196076
A tech podcast that until now hasn’t put out an episode in years suddenly appeared in my Up Next list. Within minutes I heard “I know there’s a lot of ethical concerns about AI, but it helps me produce work faster, so…”.
Trace Line Clock Does It With Magnets
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/08/trace-line-clock-does-it-with-magnets/
HETERO WARNING!!!
GIRL X BOY ACTION!!!
DONT LIKE DONT WATCH
the issue is full of social commentary, especially given that it came out in 2017 when #metoo was happening, Ninja-G has to deal with both racism and sexism. She starts off in the Honeytrap program but refuses to be sexually touched by men and is moved to the Ninja program because she keeps stabbing dudes.
There's a mention that the only reason MI6 expanded the Ninja program to include women was because the Soviets were including women. The men of the program harass her and accuse her of sleeping her way to the top.
She refuses to kill IRA cells that aren't targeting civilians which makes MI6 mad.
And her handler is a white woman using her (a black woman) skills to get past the glass ceiling. And MI6 considers her handler expendable too despite that.
(cw: blood, death)
they weren't being subtle at all, and good on them
It really annoys me that we have "display names" and "handles" on social media that are displayed totally inconsistently. There should be a squircle / losenge presentation that includes handle, display name, and maybe profile pic in a few different sizes so that when a person is referenced, it always looks relatively similar
Quanta to publish popular math and physics books by Terence Tao and David Tong
Link: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/12/08/quanta-books-to-publish-popular-math-and-physics-titles-by-terence-tao-and-david-tong/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46195225
津波が大変なことになっているのですね……
I got that Big Nerd Energy
Craigslist founder signs the Giving Pledge, and his fortune will go to military families, fighting cyberattacks—and a pigeon rescue
https://fortune.com/2025/12/08/craigslist-founder-craig-newmark-signs-giving-pledge-pigeon-rescue-donation/
...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."
Went to open the car door, pull the handle and it flies right off. Not something they warn you about when you become a car owner. In other news I learned tonight how to reattach a car door handle.
Corollary to my previous post:
The more you know about a type system, the more errors you recognize as type errors. Null references, misshapen objects, non-exhaustive conditional logic, subtly incompatible schemas… they’re all common, and they all can be prevented by a type system (as long as you’re holding it right.)
I see JS devs object to TS with arguments like “TS will prevent you from converting a number to a string by accident, but that basically never happens in practice”. And they’re right, but they’re also showing a serious lack of understanding of a type system’s functionality.
Talking about languages is hard, because criticizing something you don’t understand well can easily turn into flaunting one’s ignorance. On the other hand, learning a language well is a huge investment and engineers can’t afford to lear every language which they choose not to use. We constantly have to make technology choices from a place of partial ignorance.
https://social.treehouse.systems/@jnkrtech/115684500999332883
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