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Python3さんにコアを吐かせることに成功しました。 #もうだめだ
Notepad++ have released a new version to fix the auto update process being hijacked https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v889-released/
I reported the vulnerability, it is being hijacked by threat actors in China. https://doublepulsar.com/small-numbers-of-notepad-users-reporting-security-woes-371d7a3fd2d9
All I want for Christmas is your two front teeth 👊😼
@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
But then I can't be seductive anymore.
Medibubble: Angeblich sucht sich ja die Fachrichtung die Assistent:innen.
Mich findet irgendwie keine. Gibts da counseling für?
For all the haters: I still love Apple Music auto mixing
And free Palestine
G4 iMac Becomes a Monitor with a MagSafe Secret
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/09/g4-imac-becomes-a-monitor-with-a-magsafe-secret/
"약 구하다 숨넘어갈 판이었는데"…희귀난치병 치료 길 넓어진다
(서울=연합뉴스) 서한기 기자 = "해외에는 치료제가 있다는데, 국내에서는 희귀의약품으로 지정조차 안 돼 쓸 수가 없어요." "약이 떨어져 가는...
https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20251209069700530
Congratulate yourself for doing difficult things, even if they might not seem difficult to others.
Do you spell "doughnut" or "donut"?
Have you ever...
you know, just sometimes...
as the nights grow longer and the sky is clear on a cold evening when it seems like you can see more stars than ever...
doesn't it just make you think about stuff?
Yeah, me neither.
みっ……みっほみっほり〜〜んっ…！
Are you aware of #sociocracy? Using it? interested in it?
Join our sociocracy academy and get certified as a facilitator!
Are you aware of #sociocracy? Using it? interested in it?
Join our sociocracy academy and get certified as a facilitator!
"Remigration is a European far-right concept of ethnic cleansing via the mass deportation of non-white minority populations" - Wikipedia
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What I'm listening to today: "Empty" (YMF288 Cover), jaezu (original by 4-mat)
Yamaha FM was the sound of pop in the 80s, with the DX7 used in more hits than I can name, and then the sound of high-end computers in the 90s, with budget versions of the DX7's chip showing up in the Genesis, Neo Geo, Soundblaster etc.
This is a chiptune cover of another chiptune (originally a 512byte demo), remade on the Sharp PC-98 Yamaha chip as laid-back, vaporwavey electric-piano funk.
What I'm listening to today: "TD-3 // RD-6 + volca FM = f u n k", Ricardo Schnidrig
Here cheap Behringer reproductions of the Roland 303 and 606, both running at maybe half the tempo those machines are usually run at, combine with an entire garage workbench worth of guitar pedals to make some *unbelievably* laid back acid atop a foamy wall of phased FM. Cool and dreamy and a little bit hypnotic.
リモートなのでそれはやめておいてw
sync; sync; sync; halt もね
Modern machine learning research reminds me a lot of particle physics research though this is partly bias due to having only read one book on sociology of science. There is a lot of fitting of interpretation to empirical results (not to be confused with ML itself which is also the fitting of models) which is very different to other branches of CS.
It's interesting how many methods are used as a result of social forces as much as empirical results. Methods come in and out of vogue without much impact on quality. I've read a few papers doing ablation tests and there is a common pattern that much of common practice can be replaced with alternatives or even thrown out completely. I'm never sure how important things like dropout or batch norm or choice of activation function really are.
As a colleague just pointed out to me, some of practice may be shaped simply by the fact that researchers are in a hurry to get papers out and need to have a paragraph or two on interpretation of results. The paper gets accepted because the methods work but now the interpretation work is also published, a bit like a rider bill, even though it might not be justified.
What is a cool / punk / queer brand of shoes?
I'm already aware of Docs and Converse but it feels a bit yesterday. What's today a cool hip queer brand?
sync; sync; sync; halt もね
Ever wish HTTP status codes were easier to remember? 🖼️
Check out this MDN cheatsheet that pairs each status code with an emoji to help you visualize what each one means, from 200 OK ✅ to 418 I’m a teapot 🫖
Check it out 👇
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.
I like being a Power NonUser
make checkがひとつも通らなくなったのでまけです←
Earlier this year, the German BSI together with the Consumer Advice Centre NRW performed a review of 10 popular password managers. What can we say? We're happy to be one of only few to receive a very positive review without major security concerns. 🥳 We're also mentioned explicitly for being particularly privacy-friendly.
The full report (in German) can be found at https://www.bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/BSI/Publikationen/DVS-Berichte/passwortmanager_sicherheit_datenschutz.html and https://www.verbraucherzentrale.nrw/wissen/digitale-welt/apps-und-software/10-passwortmanager-im-vergleich-113439
I saw some cool pixel art trucks made by 
@nurapixelNuraPixel 
and decided to draw one myself.
泣くんじゃない。俺にはまだexitが残ってるんだ…
Encouraging lots of people to die by suicide.
Killing people in other ways, such as deadly medical advice, or being used as an excuse to fire humans or avoid hiring humans. With very little social safety net, many of us lacking families that can financially support us, and a job market that Gen AI has been used to kill... People are becoming unable to pay rent, buy food.
No housing? No food? That's literally killing people.
7. And by not hiring young people new to the industry, companies are screwing themselves by ensuring that no one new learns how to produce their goods and services.
8. And by laying off experienced people, companies are screwing themselves by losing institutional knowledge. Remember that AWS outage from a few weeks ago? A reporter from The Register has good reason to suspect that it happened because Amazon laid off a ton of senior cloud technicians. Those techs knew how to manage their databases and DNS, and losing that knowhow triggered disaster. Now imagine those sorts of incidents happening to every big tech company, nonstop. Gen AI cannot replace human thinking work, and you will see most crucial online services becoming completely inoperable much of the time.
9. And shit like all the horrible Gen AI vomited code in new Windows 11 updates, breaking very critical functions.
10. And the power grid cannot support all the Gen AI datacenters the Sam Altmans of the world insist on having, even if Three Mile Island goes back in service, and even if a bunch of new nuclear power and coal power plants are added worldwide.
11. Massive technical debt and tons of very shitty code breaking everything.
12. And do you really want something like Copilot taking constant screenshots and keylogs? These assholes are ridding people of privacy. This is also a massive attack surface for cyber threat actors that aren't Microsoft and Google.
2/3 #GenAI
13. And the economy is collapsing with most people becoming unable to buy food and housing.
So what's the upside of Gen AI?
Well, it helps fascism and it also helps a handful of billionaires to take whatever we have left from us. Yay!
I see job postings for training Gen AI.
DO NOT apply to those jobs. Not only will you be a scab harming the rest of us, but you will be chewed up and spit out ASAP after doing that job for a few months.
Support humans! Fight the f**king clankers!
Why don't recommend to implement ActivityPub from scratch
https://amase.cc/articles/en/why-dont-recommend-implement-activitypub/
Why don't recommend to implement ActivityPub from scratch
https://amase.cc/articles/en/why-dont-recommend-implement-activitypub/
$ :q
bash: :q: command not found...
gitだと散らかしてあるはずのパン屑がみつかりません。やっぱりgit initしときゃよかった…
@bagderdaniel:// stenberg:// what's upki?
@arichtmanAriel (🐿 arc) @bagderdaniel:// stenberg:// Not much, what's upki with you?
Earlier this year, the German BSI together with the Consumer Advice Centre NRW performed a review of 10 popular password managers. What can we say? We're happy to be one of only few to receive a very positive review without major security concerns. 🥳 We're also mentioned explicitly for being particularly privacy-friendly.
The full report (in German) can be found at https://www.bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/BSI/Publikationen/DVS-Berichte/passwortmanager_sicherheit_datenschutz.html and https://www.verbraucherzentrale.nrw/wissen/digitale-welt/apps-und-software/10-passwortmanager-im-vergleich-113439
Mastodon roept overheid op om via open platforms met burger te communiceren
Het gedecentraliseerde socialmediaplatform Mastodon heeft overheden wereldwijd opgeroepen om via open platforms met hun burgers te communiceren, in plaats van de systemen van techbedrijven te gebruiken die vereisen dat mensen een account aanmaken en persoonlijke data delen. Onlangs stelde demissionair minister Karremans van Economische Zaken dat de Rijksoverheid wel op Facebook en Instagram actief moet zijn omdat daar miljoenen Nederlanders zitten en er geen geschikte alternatieve platforms beschikbaar zijn.
Volgens Hannah Aubry van Mastodon communiceren overheidsinstanties vaak via het "censuurfilter" van bedrijven die niet de belangen van mensen of de samenleving dienen. "Ze laten hun boodschap bepalen door de grillen van wereldvreemde en overbetaalde mensen die vinden dat ze ongecontroleerde macht zouden moeten hebben. Dit kunnen we niet toestaan", aldus Aubry. Ze voegt toe dat overheidsinstanties via Mastodon wel de controle over hun eigen communicatie hebben.
1/2
특이점이 온다..
i've set up a #faircamp for #pastagang https://pasta.salat.dev so cool how easy this was to set up!! i still haven't used any of the configuration options, but it's enough to listen
Medibubble: Angeblich sucht sich ja die Fachrichtung die Assistent:innen.
Mich findet irgendwie keine. Gibts da counseling für?
mh-
Hallo impostor syndrome, my old friend.
I wrote on Boing Boing about the physics professor who became Uruguay's energy secretary, and within five years had the country on 98% renewable energy.
NOT ONLY CAN IT BE DONE, IT WAS AN ECONOMIC BOON THE THE COUNTRY.
checking which clients support Mastodon's undocumented annual report (#Wrapstodon) notification and wow, #phanpy is elaborate
The December edition of the PSF Board Office Hour is about to begin 🐍 🗒️ 9 PM UTC. Join us to share how we can help your community, express your perspectives, and provide feedback for the PSF! #python
https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-new-psf-board-another-year-of-psf.html
So You Want to Speak at Software Conferences?
Link: https://dylanbeattie.net/2025/12/08/so-you-want-to-speak-at-software-conferences.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46208773
leyrer
Patrik Svensson
Evan Prodromou
jnkrtech
GNOME
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