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I just read The Colonization of Confidence by 
@WeirdWriterRobert Kingett and you should too.
I've talked about hating the tools that subvert cognition and creativity. This piece puts into words those concepts by telling you a story. It's raw. It's messy and emotional. It's human. It's something LLMs could never do and it's beautiful. https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence/
There are many things I hate about the Internet now but one of them is that you register a domain at one price and then once you're doing something with the domain and so depending on continued access the price goes up and up and up every single year
@mcc I remember domain names being something cheap enough that I could buy them on a whim as a high schooler and as broke college student, and now... now I don't want to think about how much they cost. I just sort of gently disassociate when I hit that renew button.
I wonder if having domain names for your websites is getting to be an old people thing now.
아니 무료일 것까지도 없음 판매자 다르다고 배송비 다 따로 계산만 안 하면 됨
I can't believe I found it, this is exactly what I was hoping for!
You can have garlic, as a treat
Strand #meermittwoch #ostsee #balticsea
Ketzeleh says the stairs are off limits
소비자가 당장 필요하지 않더라도 새벽배송을 이용하는 이유에는 빨리 물건을 받고 싶은 소비심리 영향이 있습니다. 그러나 전문가와 시민·소비자 단체는 쿠팡의 시스템도 한몫했다고 말합니다. 공급자인 쿠팡 쪽이 만들어내는 새벽배송 수요라는 것입니다.
‘로켓’ 옵션 꺼도 검색 상위… 공급이 만들어낸 ‘새벽...
아주 오타쿠적 미디어에서 그런 리얼충적(...) 함의를 발견하는 한편;; 스스로는 좀 아오 리얼충 도가 지나치다 하면서 손사래도 치는데, 사람 정신에 그런 retreat/recluse가 없으면 그건 그거대로 별로여서; 아니 뭐 세상에 접해야만 나라는 주체가 성립하는 거라곤 생각하지 않기도 하고.... 정확히는 생각하고 싶지 않아서, 인가? 아무튼.
Gecko: Intent to unship: asm.js optimizations
Gecko: Intent to unship: asm....
うー
There are many things I hate about the Internet now but one of them is that you register a domain at one price and then once you're doing something with the domain and so depending on continued access the price goes up and up and up every single year
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Interesting. Could X lose the Twitter trademark?
"A Virginia startup calling itself “Operation Bluebird” announced this week that it has filed a formal petition with the US Patent and Trademark Office, asking the federal agency to cancel X Corporation’s trademarks of the words “Twitter” and “tweet” since X has allegedly abandoned them."
Why LLMs are Less Intelligent than Crows
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/10/why-llms-are-less-intelligent-than-crows/
If you give a mouse a cookie...
Secret Panel HERE 🍪 https://tapas.io/episode/3749362
In order to support national characters for European languages in tools like
less without creating other nationalisation aspects, set the environment
variable LC_ALL to 'en_US.UTF-8'.
Germany covers nearly 56 percent of 2025 electricity use with renewables
https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/germany-covers-nearly-56-percent-2025-electricity-use-renewables #cleanenergy #energytransition #solar #PV #windpower
DeepSeek uses banned Nvidia chips for AI model, report says
Link: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-deepseek-uses-banned-nvidia-131207746.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46219853
내부로 침잠하는 식으로 가혹한 세계로부터 ‘나’를 격리하려는 시도’ 가 현실의 누구의 모습을 타겟으로 한 비춤인지는 딱히 따져도 별 수 없는 것 같고 (당대의 오타쿠를 타겟으로 봤다는 해석이 주류이긴 했지만 지금에 와선 이 문제는 그냥 보편적인 무언가라고 느끼게 됐음)... 그렇게 고개를 파묻기보단 살갗이 쓸려도 이승?을 사는 걸 ‘결국 가게 되고 가야 하는 길’ 이라고 그리는 것 하나를 일관된 기둥으로 받아들였다.
#Mastodon mentioned 🎉 🍾
Current Toronto weather status: this is some bullshit for December 10th. Our roads aren't supposed to be full of slush and snow until Christmas, or better yet January.
I suppose it is kind of scenic on places other than the roads, but still. #dlws
(Making an extra stocking up stop at Fiesta Farms on Monday suddenly seems like a good choice instead of unnecessary caution. I only go by on bike and I'm certainly not bike commuting in this cold mess.)
Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban
Link: https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/australia-social-media-ban-takes-effect-world-first-2025-12-09/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46208348
Well, it would be a great way to promote the #Fediverse.
👉🏾 Tourists to US would have to reveal five years of social media activity under new #Trump plan https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/10/tourists-social-media-trump
Immigration Agent (IA): What is this‽
Darnell Clayton (DC): These are my #ActivityPub handles.
IA: Huh‽
DC: This is my #Mastodon account, & as you can see I can follow people from #Pixelfed, 
@zuckMark Zuckerberg from #Threads, my #WordPress news sites & even this random #Peertube comedian.
IA: Wait, what‽ A federal verse‽
DC: 😂
I just ran an experiment about web page rendering.
I have a status page that includes a table of 200 items pulled from the database
Option A: streaming HTML that is generated on the fly
Option B: Load the shell and leverage #DataStar and Server-Sent Events to populate the table and related data.
Lighthouse reports that the SSE version renders in half the time as the streamed HTML.
주한미군이 (미국에서) 개인정보 유출 관련 미국에서 집단소송한다고 해서 놀랐는데, 한국 언론의 침소봉대고 주한미군과 가족 몇 명이 집단 소송에 동참한다 그런 이야기네요. 주한미군이 오피셜하게 쿠팡에 소송건다 그런 뉴스 아닙니다.
one forum has taken to calling it "the panslopticon" and...it's accurate
...쿠팡에서 직원들 수갑 채워 연행시켰다는 더 보고 집단소송에 참여하기로 했다
Foggy today #DailyVenice #Venice #venezia
Inter 175A Berline 1956.
—Source Amazing Classic Cars.
@TheOneSwit 
@clarablackink 
@NiwlCraftHonora NiwlCraft
#Solarpunk is about building communities that distribute tasks on a eye-to-eye level.
#Solarpunk communities don't need to be self-sufficient, medieval, agricultural, backwater villages. But one of the main questions in solarpunk is: What can a community achieve without the need for a highly specialized, expert driven economy?
Cars and advanced electronics are a gray area. The hyperscaler computer infrastructure needed for #AI is definitely out of bounds.
@alexanderondu I absolutely love the vibes of solarpunk, but there is no such thing as any sort of electronics (or even much in the way of metal forging!) if the criteria is “tasks distributed on an eye-to-eye level”. The most basic village blacksmith of 1,000 years ago relied on a network of supply sourcing from hundreds of miles away, and even the most basic electronics of the early 1900s relied on continent-spanning supply chains.
뭐... 그런 노골적 제스처와 별개로 당대에 (... 그리고 신극장판의 시대에도) 에반게리온이라는 직품이 오타쿠 界隈에서 소비되는 방식은 다분히 기호에의 천착인 것도 비교적 분명한 궤적이고;;; 마지막 극장판에서 보여진 안노의 ”이 작품과의 결별“을 향한 욕망의 노골적 표출은 아마 저런 리셉션 양상에서 기인하는 지분이 많을 것으로 짐작한다. 겐도우라는 인물에 자신의 ... ”창작자로서의 긴 유년기(?)” 라는 정념을 담아 내버리듯 정리해버린 모습은 메타적으로 좀 코믹하다고까지 느꼈는데, 비슷한 감상을 공유할 사람이 있을지는 몰겠.
This piece by @WeirdWriterRobert Kingett is *really* good. Set aside 30 minutes and dive in when you can.
LLM ubiquity is ushering us into a sort of warped inverse renaissance, to the detriment of those of us who still value real words written by real people.
https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence/
일견 ’신지같지 않아‘ 보이는 모든 극중 인물들이 세계와 타자로 인한 울굴을 갖고 있다는 것을 폭로하며 그것이 세계에서 존재함(살아감)의 방식임(배제하거나 회피할 수 없음)을, 신지의 ’웅크림’이라는 도피에 대한 규탄과 반론이라는 형태를 빌어 표현하고 있다. 꽤 노골적인 메세징의 폼이리고 생각하는데... TVA 마지막의 ‘오메데토‘ 박수 씬은 지금 기준으론 제법 억척스럽고 기괴하긴 하지만, 좀 더 “닳은” 표현이 된 신극장판의 그것과 견주어도 일관성은 있는 무언가로 느껴진다.
슬쩍 에바 이야기 본 김에. 이카리 신지 주변의 ‘타인‘ 들을 보면 - 그리고 이 청소년;; 에게 주어진 세계 그 자체는 학대 그 자체인게 맞긴 한데, (그렇기에 신지의 세계를 향한 ’거절’은 강인하게 합리화됨) TVA 최후반에서 노골적으로 시그널링되는 메세지는 그것이 ’신지(만)의‘ 것이 아니라는 것이다.
Who knew a font could be woke? U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has asked diplomats to ditch Calibri and return to using Times New Roman in official communications. The State Department adopted Calibri in 2023 because it's considered a more accessible font for people with disabilities. A cable sent to diplomats yesterday read: “To restore decorum and professionalism to the Department’s written work products and abolish yet another wasteful DEIA program, the Department is returning to Times New Roman as its standard typeface." Here's more from 
@huffingtonpostHuffPost.
#Design #Fonts #Typefaces #Calibri #TimesNewRoman #MarcoRubio #StateDepartment #DEI
들라는 사람, 들었다는 사람 죄다 파딱임 파딱이 이렇게 많은가 싶을 정도로 ㅡㅡ
주한미군이 (미국에서) 개인정보 유출 관련 미국에서 집단소송한다고 해서 놀랐는데, 한국 언론의 침소봉대고 주한미군과 가족 몇 명이 집단 소송에 동참한다 그런 이야기네요. 주한미군이 오피셜하게 쿠팡에 소송건다 그런 뉴스 아닙니다.
Qwen3-Omni-Flash-2025-12-01：a next-generation native multimodal large model
Link: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3-omni-flash-20251201
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46219538
i mean ultimately it's available on pdsls..
The Danish government is using the upcoming Christmas break to slip through a public consultation for a draft law that would make it an OFFENCE to use a #VPN to access content that would otherwise not be available in Denmark, or to circumvent the blocking of "illegal" websites. https://hoeringsportalen.dk/Hearing/Details/70858
This is done under the guise of ensuring a technologically neutral implementation of Directive 98/84 on pay-TV decoders (hint: the IP address is NOT a conditional access device).
![English translation of the highlighted part:
The term ‘other technical solution’ should be understood broadly. The broad wording is intended to ensure that the proposed amendment covers any technical solution used to provide unauthorised access to media content.
[..]
For example, it will also be prohibited to use VPN connections to access media content that would otherwise not be available in Denmark, or to circumvent the blocking of illegal websites.](https://eupolicy.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/696/437/650/440/333/original/a685982e9595c734.png)
maybe i'm conflating concepts and in practice people do want to preview and bail much more often, and walking should be more intentional. i'm not sure. it's not out of question
Evan Prodromou
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
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