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Americans!
The Senate Judiciary Committee, in tandem with the House's Energy and Commerce Committee, is also looking to run a shock and awe campaign during a "child safety" hearing tomorrow in order to push various fascist nanny state bills (KOSA, STOP CSAM, Age Verification, etc.).
Do not buy their framing. It's nothing but moral panic nonsense.
Call your Senators and Representatives ASAP!
#Privacy #FreeSpeech #Censorship #DigitalRights #Internet #SocialMedia #US #UnitedStates
so the good news is the amount of LLVM IR went down
the bad news is the compile time went up
If Scrivener ever goes AI, I'm cooked.
📷 Ever wonder what’s really happening behind your web images?
From pixels to formats to compression, you should use:
- JPEG for details
- PNG for transparency
- WebP & AVIF for web-performance
- SVG for resolution-independent graphics
Read more 👇
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/image-formats-pixels-graphics/
📷 Ever wonder what’s really happening behind your web images?
From pixels to formats to compression, you should use:
- JPEG for details
- PNG for transparency
- WebP & AVIF for web-performance
- SVG for resolution-independent graphics
Read more 👇
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/image-formats-pixels-graphics/
A new study has found that Chattanooga, Tennessee's decision to build their own affordable community-owned fiber broadband network has driven $5.3 billion in economic benefits back to the community.
From my colleague and friend @seangon.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy:
Chattanooga’s Municipal Fiber ...
おはよう！地震あったの！？
Qiita 怪文書の魔境過ぎて archive.today を BAN してるのか、to.co などを噛ませないとアーカイブされないっぽい。
✍️ New post on HTTP basic authentication
Following my previous post on bearer authentication, this one covers HTTP basic auth, a simple mechanism that browsers natively support.
It’s great for quick-and-dirty password protection, and it doesn’t take much code.
https://adamj.eu/tech/2025/12/08/django-basic-authentication/
Django: implement HTTP basic authentication - Adam Johnson
Previously, we covered bearer authentication within HTTP’s general authentication framework. In this post, we’ll implement basic authentication, where the client provides a username and password.
adamj.eu
Link author: 
Adam Johnson 
@adamchainz@fosstodon.org
오늘은 햇빛들어오는날
AI should only run as fast as we can catch up
Link: https://higashi.blog/2025/12/07/ai-verification/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46195198
고도주를 끼고 잠을 청하다
(사실 진작에 잤어야 했지만)
目が覚めて寝れんくなった
I wish people would stop saying "JavaScript was written in 10 days" with the subtle implication that this is somehow shoddy or half-arsed. GvR wrote the first version of Python in a month in December 1989; the first bit of C was made out of B and NB in a month or two in ~1970. Every single bit of software you've ever used that isn't some enterprise nightmare was first a proof of concept hacked together in a couple of weeks by whoever first did it. This is entirely normal; it's not a bad thing!
まあ禁止したい辞書があったとしてクライアント側で実装したら回避されますからねぇ・・
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 👍
We hope everyone had a great time at the #EmacsConf this weekend! If you missed a presentation or two, the videos are available: https://emacsconf.org/2025/ #FreeSoftware #FSF
i would simply reign in heaven. skill issue
ok - i thought i will never find out what my last name means because it’s hella obscure and regional.
BUT HERE I AM - having done a small search for the word “Muxel” in Google Books i found this in the “German Provincional Dictionary” from 1792.
Supposedly Muxel is some old-bavarian Term for a “devil” or “rascal”.
🎉 And we're live! 🎉
We just launched CSS Wrapped 2025: our annual recap of all things CSS & web UI that landed in Chrome over the course of the year. 🚀
This is a big one! We highlighted 22 new features to help you build better on the web.
Check it out:
おっはよ～
んぐんくす
i would simply reign in heaven. skill issue
In 2021, the FTC issued a ban on stalkerware-maker Spyfone and its CEO, Scott Zuckerman. Earlier this year, Zuckerman requested that the ban be vacated because it's inconvenient for him. The FTC has voted 2-0 to deny his request. Good. https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/12/ftc-denies-petition-spyfone-app-ceo-vacate-2021-order
Some people are lawful good; others neutral evil.
I say screw your dang chart. I'm chaotic chaotic.
Wikipedia has a new page on how to spot AI slop and give it the Ellen Ripley treatment. Inter alia "the LLM tends to omit specific, unusual, nuanced facts (which are statistically rare) and replace them with more generic, positive descriptions (which are statistically common). Thus the highly specific 'inventor of the first train-coupling device” might become “a revolutionary titan of industry.'" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing
I finally got around to reading this and boy is it good:
“If we use 200kW as a baseline and assume all of that power will be fed to GPUs, we'd need a system 12.5 times bigger, i.e., roughly 531 square metres, or about 2.6 times the size of the relevant solar array. This is now going to be a very large satellite, dwarfing the ISS in area, all for the equivalent of three standard server racks on Earth.”
Why training AI in orbit is a non-starter (orbital compute is NOT going to look like the same kinds of use cases we are currently obsessed with on the ground): https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea/ #space #orbitalcompute #LEO
Microsoft Download Center Archive
Link: https://legacyupdate.net/download-center/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46166178
There was a time when nobody knew where the beef was and it was always time to make the donuts. The phone cord in the kitchen was long enough to strangle ten men at once and hose water was so nutritious you could survive on it for days.
Who will I meet at #FOSSBack26? Last day to claim your early bird ticket! https://26.foss-backstage.de/ #FOSSBack 
@FOSSBackstage
If you self host anything, double check your servers, there was a CVE in react/nextjs that opened full server compromise to random attackers. many servers were hit and installed crypto miners or malware to be a part of a botnet
@ruby0x1ruby0x1 
@mcc Especially if you are running umami analytics. Seems like a lot of people do
They have released 3.0.2 and 2.20.0; earlier versions are affected
スイッチングハブが落ちてるなら一カ所で飲めばいいじゃない #なにいってんだこいつ
In the Fediverse track at SFSCon, Jaz-Michael King spoke about:
Hiraeth and Hashtags: Building a Bilingual Community on the Fediverse
@peter 
@cstrossCharlie Stross I feel like every kid these days deserves at least a Sofirn SP10Pro flashlight, and when they're responsible enough to not blow out their night vision or start a lithium fire they can graduate from an AA cell to a LiIon 14500 cell (which about triples or quadruples its output).
@gnomonBen Zanin @peter @cstrossCharlie Stross Oh my god, flashlights have firmware now. Can’t wait until I have to reboot my flashlight.
Here's someone absolutely killing it on a piano / keyboard rendition of the NES Ducktales Moon Theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09G25bxf1Bk
How is that keyboard even still standing during this performance? How are their hands still attached to their arms
RE: https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/115685483678590908
I originally wrote this article for government agencies, but resharing it in the context of the quoted post, in case someone finds it helpful for sharing with their organizations.
Particularly the case studies and a list of scheduling tools might be relevant.
https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/fediverse-an-overview-for-government-agencies/
VLC stands for Very Large Cone
A New Way to Watch Your Linux System Work https://lobste.rs/s/uaswiw #linux
https://www.both.org/?p=12706
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