The most popular unit testing framework for C++

String Theory Inspires a Brilliant, Baffling New Math Proof

Link: https://www.quantamagazine.org/string-theory-inspires-a-brilliant-baffling-new-math-proof-20251212/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46245622

TIL car tyre sizes (eg, 225/55R17) manage to combine metric (225mm width), a percentage for an aspect ratio (55%), and imperial (17 inch diameter). I think that’s just marvellous. Well done everyone.

I love the sound of this film "The Clock". it's just the clock, in all different kinds of places and contexts, synchronized to the local time of the location where it is shown. On 02.01. there will be a 24 hour showing in berlin, requiring the venue (an art museum) to be open for visitors 24 hours long. https://www.smb.museum/ausstellungen/detail/christian-marclay-the-clock/

Just pushed a new release of my LLM Python library and CLI tool for interacting with Large Language Models, adding support for GPT 5.1 and GPT 5.2 plus a few smaller bug fixes https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/changelog.html#v0-28

Return to Dusk
by @mattlyMatthew Lyon

A shimmering light track which develops from un understated mumble of organic percussion to a vibrant passage kaleidoscopic wonder in just under three minutes!

https://tripfm.bandcamp.com/track/matthew-lyon-return-to-dusk

I’ve prepared a pre-release of ScummVM 3.0.0 for iOS. You can join the TestFlight program and download it here. Please help us to test both the port but also the new supported games:

https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm/blob/master/NEWS.md

https://testflight.apple.com/join/PDsSY6a4

TIL car tyre sizes (eg, 225/55R17) manage to combine metric (225mm width), a percentage for an aspect ratio (55%), and imperial (17 inch diameter). I think that’s just marvellous. Well done everyone.

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/111625876917474111

So I've just realized that although the YouTube rip of this video I link is so incredibly compression crunched some bits are totally illegible, there's a much better version on, obviously that's exactly where Negativland belongs, archive.org

https://archive.org/details/dom-26775-aluminumorglass

What I'm listening to today: "Aluminum or Glass (The Memo)", Negativland

Negativland is most known for discursive sample collages with "Adbusters"-flavor politics. But in 1997 for once they just sat down and recorded a rock song (intercut with a dramatic reading, by the Weatherman, of what appears to be an internal memo from Pepsi's advertising department) and it is transcendent, it is everything. Video treatment by Tim Maloney as part of the "Our Favorite Things" DVD.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY0ASHW3604

[Stack Overflow] How Stack Overflow’s MCP Server is helping HP modernize the software development lifecycle

Part of me can’t help but wonder how much we can attribute to the realization in 2020, by many Americans, that the economy really could be structured otherwise and the collective power of the public really could be mobilized—even if just by the US government—to make lives better.

From direct stimulus payments to child tax credits to freezes on rental evictions and student debt, people were introduced to the idea that the federal government could just *shut off* so many of the extractive and impoverishing mechanisms of late stage capitalism.

And then, under Biden, in order to “get back to normal,” all of that went away.

https://www.cbpp.org/research/poverty-and-inequality/expiration-of-pandemic-relief-led-to-record-increases-in-poverty

So perhaps as everyone was being robbed via inflation, at least the inkling of an idea might have occurred to people that the state could have, but chose not to, help them.

10/

https://fedi-libs.github.io/apsig/

Humans are distinctly social animals. When humans are kept in isolation, we experience declining mental and physical health, irreversible cognitive changes, and, eventually, death.

We cannot separate the social from the material. Our social standing has a direct effect on our material well-being. This isn’t something we can casually dismiss by pointing to *relative* poverty, as if it’s ok to be poor compared to Elon Musk because we have access to YouTube. People who live in egalitarian communities, even ones that have so much less *stuff* than ours, seem to experience less of the stress that drives our high rates of self-harm:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303591186_Suicide_among_the_Mla_Bri_hunter-gatherers_of_Northern_Thailand

And so the rampant, growing, and obscene inequality in the US isn’t just turning the economy into a giant scam factory and encouraging people to check out from electoral politics. It is literally, physically, materially killing us.

8/

Federation isn’t just a feature, it’s how we reject oppression by design.

In the EU, Big Centralised Tech is facing fines for selling verification and hiding ads. At Mastodon, we’re building something different: a space where no one buys influence and there simply aren't any ads.

Checks and balances are our foundation, and kindness is our compass. 🌈

A better web is possible - and it's powered by the people. Donate #SupportMastodon

https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors#donate

消されてないレコードを探そうとして deleted_at IS NOT NULL しちゃうおじさん

Federation isn’t just a feature, it’s how we reject oppression by design.

In the EU, Big Centralised Tech is facing fines for selling verification and hiding ads. At Mastodon, we’re building something different: a space where no one buys influence and there simply aren't any ads.

Checks and balances are our foundation, and kindness is our compass. 🌈

A better web is possible - and it's powered by the people. Donate #SupportMastodon

https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors#donate

RE: https://vmst.io/@jalefkowit/115708278864036816

defending remote work against return to office executive mandates was cited as one of the major motivating factors :)

ディーゼル発電機でEV充電してるの、流石にギャグ過ぎる

I’ve prepared a pre-release of ScummVM 3.0.0 for iOS. You can join the TestFlight program and download it here. Please help us to test both the port but also the new supported games:

https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm/blob/master/NEWS.md

https://testflight.apple.com/join/PDsSY6a4

Lower Mainland communities like Surrey, White Rock, and Abbotsford, plus a few neighbours in Washington, are on a temporary island today as the Nooksack River backs up into Sumas Prairie. #BCstorm #WAwx #weather #flood

Week in Fediverse 2025-12-12

Servers

- Wafrn v2025.11.02
- Gush! v0.0.27
- stegodon v1.4.0
- Akkoma v2025.12
- Mastodon v4.5.3
- PeerTube v8.0
- Lemmy v0.19.14
- Ktistec v3.2.3
- Misskey v2025.12.0
- NeoDB v0.12.5
- Vernissage Server v1.26.0
- flohmarkt v0.14.0
- shops v0.1.8
- Trunk & Tidbits, November 2025 (Mastodon)

Clients

- Pachli v3.2.4
- Mastodon for iOS v2025.09
- Interstellar v0.11.0
- Chihu v1.16.0

Tools and Plugins

- PeerTube livechat plugin v14.0.2
- FediFetcher v7.1.17
- Poduptime v5.6.2

For developers

- Library progress report #3 (GoActivityPub)

Articles

- Why don't recommend to implement ActivityPub from scratch
- Fediverse Report – #146

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019af042-e877-53d8-b10f-999a2fe9147d

to sincere post a bit: the ability to receive important timely updates like this one, from regional govt and institutions like this over an open protocol (vs closed/proprietary platforms) is a huge part of why I work on AT

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:p4egkk5sntqju5do7mdbapsy/post/3m7qartdxks2f

I am IN LOVE

while i'm talking about gamer shit: i do think it is insane that we keep getting "neon sci-fantasy" looking games and I don't think any of them have actually been well-received or huge sellers. what is up with this aesthetic

It sure is wild seeing all these AI companies still hiring like the bubble is never ever going to burst

Home Depot GitHub token exposed for a year, granted access to internal systems

Link: https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/12/home-depot-exposed-access-to-internal-systems-for-a-year-says-researcher/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46247000

#github

entry-level positions should also pay livable wages!

or else you’ll only hire people who are desperate or privileged

all workers deserve fair pay, even if they’re new to the field

Be aware: if anybody contacts you, it is a scam.

Life Laugh Llama

Today I learned about an extremely Bay Area thing: Slutcon, a conference where incels pay thousands of dollars to attend lectures by evo psych professors and sessions with sex workers who the conference organizers stress are totally not there to have sex with them

https://slate.com/life/2025/12/women-sex-men-dating-california-trip.html

I've been thinking about moving my blog off of Wordpress and onto a static site generator - reversing the move from Movable Type to WP almost 12 years ago. This report that WP intends to go all-in on AI strongly reinforces that desire. (via @haverholmAllan Haverholm, via @davidgerard)

https://www.therepository.email/wordpress-ai-team-outlines-vision-for-ai-as-a-fundamental-part-of-wordpress

見回りの人に見つかったから病室に戻る（おい

The most popular unit testing framework for C++

미 연준이 내년 경제성장률과 물가상승률을 비슷하게 예측하던데 미국인들에게도 빡빡한 한 해가 되겠구나 싶다. 관세와 AI 붐이라는, 전례 없는 요인들을 다루는 연준도 골치가 아플 것.

Got a feeling this upcoming Video Game History Foundation video's going to be a good one. Premieres Monday. https://youtu.be/CWCUmTTVjMY

🎉 It's Changelog & Friends!

Alex Kretzshmar joins @adamAdam Stacoviak for a trip down the Linux rabbit hole -- Docker vs Podman, building a Kubernetes cluster, ZFS backups with zfs.rent, bootc, favorite Linux distros, new homelab tools built with AI, self-hosting Immich, content creation, Plex and Jellyfin, the future of piracy and more.

✨ https://changelog.am/121 #podcast

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4号車前から3番目だけど今日混んでるわ

Three new stable kernels

https://lwn.net/Articles/1050270/ #LWN

Why did I say this? https://twitter.runhello.com/mcclure111/status/985908565226405889/

A7V에서 매력적으로 느끼는 부분은 (저감도 DR 제외하면) 4앵글 스크린과 배터리 효율. 야외 촬영에서 틸트는 활용도가 매우 높고, 캐논의 신형 배터리들이 무척 비싸지고 있어서 소니가 기존 배터리 유지하면서 효율이 높아진 부분은 부러움.

캐논도 4앵글 스크린이랑 배터리 개선은 해줬으면 하는데, 흠. 캐논은 R1/R5급에서 최신 기술을 탑재하고 중급기로 내려오니까 2~3년은 더 봐야 할 듯. 소니는 일단 볼륨 모델에 최신 기술을 투입하고 듀얼화 등 강화해서 플래그쉽으로 올리는 정책이고.

It always makes me sad to see a Steam game that is windows-only but runs on the Steam Deck.

If you get it that close to cross-platform, please take the extra bit of time and make it work on macOS!

Had one of those days where I wanted to share a short DJ mix, only to realize it's from a since-deleted Soundcloud where I downloaded it over a decade ago and now it's nowhere on the public web.

The Beast is taking me home to bid farewell to my mom (Grandma), the woman who would sit with me around the fire, telling me stories about her childhood. She would take me to the field to look after our livestock, and she taught me how to hunt alongside my grandfather. I could talk about her day and night. Mama will be laid to rest in Warmquelle (Otjiwarongo tja Hamuheke), our ancestral land. Suva mohange mama 🕊️

今日はシノゴ持っておでけけ​​

@mcc
Electric coli

This holiday season, make a donation to a privacy organization ❄️ @torprojectThe Tor Project @effElectronic Frontier Foundation @privacyintPrivacy International @noybeu @edri @EngageMedia @fightFight for the Future @openrightsgroup @calyxinstituteThe Calyx Institute

https://theprivacycloud.substack.com/p/support-privacy-this-holiday-season

#privacy #donate

I played what I think was the first half of Alan Wake 2 but then I dropped because I had this strong conviction that Alan Wake 2 is a game you can only play at night during winter. And after awhile it was no longer winter. Anyway what I guess I'm saying is I should go back and finish Alan Wake 2 now