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Drop a comment in the GitHub discussion linked in the blog.
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This is what our cats do when they want their dinner now. Both of them come down to my cabin where I work, sit on the decking outside and stare at me until I feed them.
Hustlers. The pair of them.
This Is Amazing Art By David Zinn! (11 Photos): https://streetartutopia.com/2025/10/30/street-art-david-zinn/
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David Zinn: Laurence lets himself worry for the duration of one cup of coffee.
Echoes of Us (8 Photos): https://streetartutopia.com/2025/10/12/echoes-of-us/
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Thirst for nature – Mural by Artez in Belgrade, Serbia.
The U.S. State Dept. font story is pretty silly, but I do like that it gives the broader public a chance to learn more about a craft they encounter every day. Here’s the designer of Calibri, Luc(as) de Groot, on CNN talking parameters, spindly serifs, and the origin of Times! https://video.snapstream.net/Play/2UPcOhfTcPtRvtb84Mfqmn?accessToken=dlk0bu2dwzjxj
(Thanks to Volker Rosenfelder, my FontShop colleague, for sending this along.)
Meanwhile, CNN continues to embarrass itself with squashed all-caps Helvetica, as if it’s 1995.
Love Them All (8 Photos): https://streetartutopia.com/2025/11/16/love-them-all/
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"CHURU" by Javier Barriga t 107 Av. de Nice in Antibes, France for Festival Coul'Heures D'Automne 2025. Curated by La sChOOL.
Deno 2.6 is here:
🛠️ `dx` is the new `npx`
⚡ faster typechecking with tsgo
🔒 improved security with `deno audit --socket`
🦺 safer deps with `deno approve-scripts`
🚘 source phase import support
and more!
Do you remember NFTs? I remember NFTs. They exploded onto the scene in 2020 and were *everywhere* in the public discourse. At their peak in 2021, there were something like $25 billion in NFT sales globally. There were NFT Super Bowl ads. Jimmy Fallon had Paris Hilton on his show to awkwardly shill for NFTs.
And then, by 2022, 2023 at the latest, the bubble had burst and NFT market had lost up to 99% of its value.
Blessedly, I never have to think about those fucking Bored Apes ever again.
I remember thinking, when NFTs first appeared, that they were so obviously a scam, but also a vague sense of surprise that such an obvious scam was proliferating while we were still living through the previous blockchain-related scam, cryptocurrency. And since the NFT bubble burst, we moved on absurdly quickly to the next tech scam-bubble, AI.
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This one was taken 3 years ago today. One of my faves, as it was mostly lit by the moon.
Ep191 Django 6.0 with Natalia Bidart is live!
Natalia is a Django Fellow and the release manager for the just-released 6.0 version. We talk about the new release, major features including template partials that Carlton helped usher in, queues, CSP support, modern email API, and the current work on Django 6.1.
https://djangochat.com/episodes/django-60-natalia-bidart
Natalia's photo is by Bartek Pawlik - bartpawlik.format.com
The new Mastodon app icon is a choice. 😬
Ep191 Django 6.0 with Natalia Bidart is live!
Natalia is a Django Fellow and the release manager for the just-released 6.0 version. We talk about the new release, major features including template partials that Carlton helped usher in, queues, CSP support, modern email API, and the current work on Django 6.1.
https://djangochat.com/episodes/django-60-natalia-bidart
Natalia's photo is by Bartek Pawlik - bartpawlik.format.com
Things I want to say to my boss
Link: https://www.ithoughtaboutthatalot.com/2025/the-things-i-want-to-say-to-my-boss
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46233570
Ep191 Django 6.0 with Natalia Bidart is live!
Natalia is a Django Fellow and the release manager for the just-released 6.0 version. We talk about the new release, major features including template partials that Carlton helped usher in, queues, CSP support, modern email API, and the current work on Django 6.1.
https://djangochat.com/episodes/django-60-natalia-bidart
Natalia's photo is by Bartek Pawlik - bartpawlik.format.com
This is what our cats do when they want their dinner now. Both of them come down to my cabin where I work, sit on the decking outside and stare at me until I feed them.
Hustlers. The pair of them.
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber ever think about how 80% of blehp is just bleh?
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Le calendrier de l'Avent de SadServers.
Advent of Sysadmin 2025, la version sysadmin de l'Advent of Code, avec des serveurs tristes. (P+Lu)
В 2023 у QEMU был забавный advent-календарь со странными виртуалками https://qemu-advent-calendar.org/2023
В этом году SadServers порадовал, устроив свой для сисадминов https://sadservers.com/advent (к стыду пока не смог решить первое задание -_-)
Профессиональные картографы в декабре отдыхают после ноябрьского #30DayMapChallenge Осмеры пока до своего адвента не дошли :(
Потратить что ли декабрь на OSM Wrapped™ 🤔 А то глядя на очередные разноцветные скриншоты итогов Яндекс.Музыки хочется сделать что-то ламповое
@sadservers 《 my god, it's full of stars... 》
First challenge of the SadServers advent event done
This is Monte Cristo. A fleeting but intense relationship. We met and sparks flew. Sadly it was not meant to be. If you love someone set them free.
@TheBreadmonkeyBennu 
@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
What most people refer to as Monte Cristo is actually the Cat of Monte Cristo.
#Linkspam: 601, ai, chatbots, reference
Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI https://gizmodo.com/librarians-arent-hiding-secret-books-from-you-that-only-ai-knows-about-2000698176
omg cute girls named mark zuckerberg are in my imessage
quicktipp #108: Creating an empty Docker container image and running it by bind-mounting essential paths from the host to the container.
Inspired as an alternative solution to Advent of Sysadmin, DAY 5 to get privileged access to the host root filesystem as an unprivileged user on an airgapped machine.
#linux #docker #adventofsysadmin #adventofcode @sadservers #containers #sysadmin
EU-Staaten fordern ein Jahr Vorratsdatenspeicherung für Internet-Dienste wie Messenger - https://netzpolitik.org/2025/internes-dokument-eu-staaten-fordern-ein-jahr-vorratsdatenspeicherung-fuer-internet-dienste-wie-messenger/
It's been my suspicion that trying to fight AI corporations on copyright grounds wouldn't be a good strategy, because ultimately what would happen is they'd end up in a situation that just entrenches them and media megacorps as monopolists. And, well... https://deadline.com/2025/12/disney-openai-deal-sora-1236645728/
Add on top of that how centralization of the web has lead to almost all art being published being under a ToS that can sell the data to OpenAI and ultimately indies get squeezed out of the fight.
EU-Staaten fordern ein Jahr Vorratsdatenspeicherung für Internet-Dienste wie Messenger - https://netzpolitik.org/2025/internes-dokument-eu-staaten-fordern-ein-jahr-vorratsdatenspeicherung-fuer-internet-dienste-wie-messenger/
With OpenAI investment, Disney will officially begin putting AI slop into its flagship streaming product.
https://www.404media.co/disney-invests-1-billion-in-the-ai-slopification-of-its-brand/
#decemberAdventure day 11
I tried to get a wayland+vnc or wayland+rdp setup working but failed in that, so instead I worked on the ilo+x11 code. I was able to implement double buffering and fix a bunch of issues, and the net result is a much faster and more responsive vm.
Full logs at https://charles.childe.rs/DA2025/
"The people, united, will never be defeated"
Happening now in Lisbon, and across Portugal, during the first national general strike for 12 years ✊ 🇵🇹
News outlets in Portugal are reporting that THREE MILLION people are on the streets today.
#GreveGeral #WorkersUnite #SolidarityIsBeautiful #GlobaliseTheIntifada
Нужно жить во что бы то ни стало,
Прорастать сквозь горечь понемногу,
Начинать всё с самого сначала,
В мелочах искать приметы Бога.
Если в чёрный цвет твой день окрашен,
Если утро злое и колючее,
Нужно жить, варить на завтрак кашу,
Поливать цветы и верить в лучшее.
В самых безнадёжных передрягах
Продолжай дышать — и станет легче.
Иногда достаточно лишь шага,
Чтобы снова выпрямились плечи.
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Алеся Синеглазая
cat walking downstairs 10 full seconds before the food dispenser triggers???
who needs cesium
Back when I was little, kids used to freak each other out about bad guys they saw or said they saw or heard somebody say they saw: Gang members. Kidnappers. Drug dealers.
Sometimes it was just attention-seeking or scaring each other for fun. Sometimes it was genuinely scary. Sometimes it was even based in reality. Regardless, these are the boogeymen of my childhood.
I’ve had the chance to talk to some little kids this week. You know who’s the playground boogeyman now? ICE.
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原来香港的洋紫荆因为是杂交种，所以是sterile，无法自然繁殖...啊啊啊这是什么魔鬼地狱现实隐喻啊
Scammers are poisoning AI search results, and #Google is falling right into their trap
https://www.zdnet.com/article/scammers-poison-ai-search-results-customer-support-scams/
not a collar
the story of my birth
How the Hell is GitHub still not back up? 
布団に
How much of the justification for SaaS really boils down to "We have no idea how to administer Linux systems and we can't be bothered to hire anyone who does?"
Eugen Rochko
Jim DeLaHunt
Chris Siebenmann
Carlton Gibson
Will Vincent
Glyph
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