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RE: https://fosstodon.org/@alextheuxguy/115685703010719673
Ohmygoodness, this is such a delightful article from 
@alextheuxguyAlex White, full of so much Palm Pilot nostalgia.
I remember my father used his for years, and I even purchased a copy of the "Palm OS Programming Bible" in the hopes that I'd be able to write software for it when he bequeathed it to me (it died before I had a chance).
The personal digital assistant for a more civilized age.
my new static site generator has a TUI that lets you:
- flip between listening on localhost/LAN
- adjust tracing's filter level on the fly
oh also everything is querified (using salsa) + 19 other cool features, of course it's too early to post about it
..way too early! https://github.com/bearcove/dodeca
The UK's age verification rollout has been chaotic. “What we are really doing is building surveillance infrastructure around accessing information online,” EFF’s Paige Collings told Tech Policy Press. https://www.techpolicy.press/age-verification-is-locking-trans-people-out-of-the-internet/
Sticker of the Day!
This is my sticker based on my painting, "Disappoint"!
I wonder how 
@bagderdaniel:// stenberg:// feels about Microsoft mentioning curl at https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/powershell-5-1-preventing-script-execution-from-web-content-7cb95559-655e-43fd-a8bd-ceef2406b705
This isn't really very spicy, and I'm not suggesting that Microsoft are trying to blame curl for Microsoft's previously-insufficient security controls. I knew curl shipped with Windows for quite a few years now, but I guess I hadn't realized (or had never considered) that Invoke-WebRequest is more or less a curl wrapper.
I am weeping. This essay broke my heart but also gave me real hope.
Keep being human. Keep loving human things. That's where the joy & delight is.
"The Colonization of Confidence" by Robert Kingett
https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence/
TIME지 선정 2025 올해의 브레이크스루: 케데헌. time.com/7338690/brea...
Made a silver ring with a hammered design
#larp: the only context where i say "yay cops"
added a now page to my blog to replace the weeknotes I got bored with, and made some general blog updates too :)
added a now page to my blog to replace the weeknotes I got bored with, and made some general blog updates too :)
@Em0nM4stodonEm 
You’ll love this then! https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Foundation-Agentic-AI
@bconBrandon @Em0nM4stodonEm Frightening corporate capture and utter disregard for the community that has no place in free software. Makes me feel ill.
Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46206457
10 Years of Let's Encrypt
Link: https://letsencrypt.org/2025/12/09/10-years
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46208962
AS206345 (Ayandeh Afzayeh Karaneh Co PJS) has signed ASPA objects for the first time!
This means 420 unique ASNs have signed ASPA objects at some point
Hello! I post when networks make ASPA objects for the first time!
🇳🇬 Exciting news! The Government of Nigeria has officially joined the Digital Public Goods Alliance 🎉
As a new member, Nigeria will embed #DPGs into public services and strengthen its #DPI, championing openness, inclusion, and innovation.
The announcement came from Minister Dr. ‘Bosun Tijani of the Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation & Digital Economy.
👉 Read more about #Nigeria’s commitment to DPGs : https://www.digitalpublicgoods.net/blog/nigeria-joins-the-dpga
What causes this texture?
finding deeper meaning in my posts and retconning the lore behind them to match
Great news!
The 
@dpgallianceDigital Public Goods Alliance has reviewed and approved #PeerTube as a #DigitalPublicGood! 🥳
As a digital public good, PeerTube is recognized as software that helps build an equitable and inclusive world.
Visit the #DGPRegistry to learn more: https://www.digitalpublicgoods.net/r/peertube
RE: https://fantastic.earth/@s3thi/115685224526670027
thanks for writing this, ankur. love it. ❤️
everyone else: what's your "beginning of my internet" story?
i owe my story almost exclusively to 
@calmudgeonCal Deobald ... in 1987, i spoke to "santa" (him and my mom) through the school computers on a lan using `talk` when i was 6.
then shareware games tossed between dad and my uncle, using pre-internet tools that were magic to me. 286 days.
then came the internet of the early 90s, which was slow and awful and i didn't quite get it. as a 10-year-old, i never understood why the win3.1 archie and veronica icons didn't open digital comic books. i wrote some c and basic on the 386 but the network didn't grab me yet.
then dad took a notion to start a "community network" — a local isp for our village, supported by the canadian government. my first exposure to free software was apache on windows nt 3.51 running in the school library, where all the modems were. when we got our first pentium 120, i started making websites.
the early web was raw and clumsy and magical and i miss it dearly.
why are people talking about the linux foundation like it's not a corporate interests group but a charity. yes of course they invest in whatever corpos want, they are the corpos
I fixed the display glitch in the healthier HP35. Turns out I was browning it out! Longer numbers on the LED display require a lot more current. It's happy at 135 mA. It's difficult to capture in photos just how good these old displays look. Super crisp. The digits get a little blurred in photos, likely due to the high frequency PWM.
This first HP calculator has no built in self test, but manual tests suggest it's fully working. 🎉
The water damaged one, not so much.
Reading about these displays, it's remarkable how much better LEDs have gotten since 1970. If I put 400 mW into modern LEDs of this size, it'd be blinding.
Whereas these little fellers are just doing their darnedest to be visible in normal indoor lighting.
They still look great though.
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Die EU-Staaten fordern ein neues Gesetz zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung, das weit über die alten Gesetze hinausgeht. Das geht aus einem EU-Dokument hervor, das wir veröffentlichen. Praktisch alle Internet-Dienste sollen Daten ihrer Nutzer anlasslos speichern, auch Messenger wie WhatsApp und 
@signalappSignal. https://netzpolitik.org/2025/internes-dokument-eu-staaten-fordern-ein-jahr-vorratsdatenspeicherung-fuer-internet-dienste-wie-messenger/
A Deep Drive Deep Dive Into a Twin-Rotor Motor
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/09/a-deep-drive-deep-dive-into-a-twin-rotor-motor/
Poland to launch construction of first #nuclear plant after EU approves €14bn in state aid
Construction of Poland’s first nuclear power plant is now set to begin after the European Commission approved Warsaw’s request to allocate 60 billion zloty (€14.2 billion) in state aid for the project.
The decision, which had been widely expected, was welcomed by Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who told a cabinet meeting that it means “construction will be able to start immediately”, as early as this month.
Greece: A movement against data centers is on the rise. In Spata, #Athens, residents are taking a stand against the three data centers currently under construction.
How private equity is changing housing
Link: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/12/private-equity-housing-changes/685138/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46207727
For decades, RSS has been a workhorse that connects systems on the timely web and ensures that publishers can syndicate and grow their reach. Here's why it matters more than ever. https://werd.io/why-rss-matters/
1/2 In which I cover a couple of the weird/scary aspects of the #genAI bubble and try to get a feel what the post-bubble hangover will feel like. Tl;dr: Not like the dot-com bust. https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/12/07/Thin-Spots-In-the-AI-Bubble
函館行きをさくっと検索したらUnitedで予約して往復でかめのカメにのる旅程があってむっちゃ魅力的なんだけど成田から羽田に電車での移動が必要で微妙ね…
Yow. After doing almost pure Swift for the last year and having to go back to some Objective-C work, having switch statements limited to Integer is horrifying.
I need to hurry up and finish my Swift rewrite of this project.
Ahoy peeps… let’s try this again:
I’m mainly a programmer and looking for work in Linz (or remote anywhere else, duh)
so far the traditional job market has rejected me - not just as programmer, but also as train driver, supermarket shelf stacker (yes really), data management and more. god only knows why (points at transgender flag) I simply have no idea (keeps pointing)
I’m part of a “startup” where I get some money from, but starting january I can easily work full-time somewhere else at the same time.
Current CV: https://riedler.wien/!/Bewerbung/20251129_fedi/
Does anyone know of a good spot to buy pieces of wall art that hasn't been flooded by AI art?
I can't believe Ashley and I are literally both writing pieces about gender barriers and beliefs about programming ability right now. Really cool. At the same time sort of sad and maddening how continuously necessary it all is. But also really cool. You can have two completely different PhDs and research areas and the world somewhat inevitably pushes you toward the same issues if you're a person who decides to care and pay attention over your career.
I am so stubborn about not using AI.
You have no idea.
I will even go as far as writing my own texts, drawing my own images, writing my own code, and reading the whole article or email just by myself. Crazy stuff.
In 1980, Intel announced the 8087 Math Coprocessor, a chip that made floating-point 100 times faster. I opened up the chip, took photos of the silicon structures, and analyzed its circuitry. It's a very complex chip for its time. Let's take a look inside...
my guess is that there are a nonzero number of shitposters working at AWS OR I have so deeply offended them by my recent cloud training shitposts, they've hunt me down.
is the perfect emoji because it's fuckin' shoes up in here.
I can't believe Ashley and I are literally both writing pieces about gender barriers and beliefs about programming ability right now. Really cool. At the same time sort of sad and maddening how continuously necessary it all is. But also really cool. You can have two completely different PhDs and research areas and the world somewhat inevitably pushes you toward the same issues if you're a person who decides to care and pay attention over your career.
Today is the 57th anniversary of the Mother of All Demos.
“It's December 9, 1968, and Douglas Engelbart is about to showcase the world’s first personal, networked, computer — as a live demo. It’s the computing equivalent of a high-wire trapeze act with no net.”
1968: The Mother of All Demos
It's December 9, 1968, and Douglas Engelbart is about to showcase the world’s first personal, networked, computer — as a live demo. It’s the computing equivalent of a high-wire trapeze act with no net.
cybercultural.com · Cybercultural
Link author: 
Richard MacManus@ricmac@mastodon.social
Finally responded to an email someone sent 2.5 months ago about a project I did 10 years ago. Please clap.
(It was a good question, and I genuinely appreciate hearing from people who find my stuff! It just took some spoons is all. Props to all you maintainers who actually stay on top of this stuff.)
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