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Today in "Don't Trust AI to Tell You Facts": How several different "AI" programs messed up the simple fact of to whom I dedicated a book, and what that means for how much you should trust "AI" to tell you the truth about things (spoiler: not much at all):
From top AI coding user globally to completely stop using it because it's so much harder to review AI code than write it myself. And they say all software developers jobs will be replaced by LLM. Life comes fast at you. ๐คฃ https://xcancel.com/jhleath/status/1999589156314578961?s=46
Dick Van Dyke turns 100
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/dec/13/dick-van-dyke-centenarian-100-mary-poppins-chitty-chitty-bang-bang
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46256954
@silverpill I have some problems while installation of Mitra on my Debian server mysteriousinsight.xyz
First, it seems to be installed, because if I enter mitra on terminal it shows me
Mitra admin CLIUsage: mitra [OPTIONS] <COMMAND>Commands:....
If I try to use e.g. the command mitra instance-report it shows
thread 'main' panicked at mitra_config/src/loader.rs:54:9: /var/lib/mitra owner (109) is different from the current user (0) note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace
If I try cargo build --release --features production on terminal, it shows
error: could not find `Cargo.toml` in `/root` or any parent directory
Thank you :)
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Ahh, it's a beautiful day. I've got the doors and windows open and I'm wearing a T-shirt. It's December 13th and my house is at 7000 feet. ๐ #NewMexico #climate
RE: https://social.tchncs.de/@kuketzblog/115699827682750211
Als Kanzlei, die gerne mehr echten #Datenschutz fรผr unserer Mandanten betreiben mรถchte, muss ich leider mitteilen, dass wir kaum die Mรถglichkeiten haben, #Microsoft zu entkommen.
Die erforderliche Spezialsoftware fรผr #Steuerberater ist auf #Windows und #Office zugeschnitten. Bisher fanden wir keine Alternativen, die beispielsweise auf #Linux laufen noch die Bereitschaft der Hersteller sich von ihrer Abhรคngigkeit zu lรถsen.
Wenn ihr Lรถsungsideen habt oder eine gut erprobte freie Software fรผr Steuerberater kennt, wir freuen uns รผber nรผtzliche Tipps.
What do you mean you haven't been fed? I just watched you eat it! 
@catsaladCat ๐๐ฅ (D.Burch) 
you are violating my habeus kibbles rights
Wouldn't it be something if the Canada Weather app was open source ๐
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Wouldn't it be awesome if everything, especially public sector websites would be open source? :3
i fear the cats/yarn stereotype is well earned, and also ruthie may have learned to open drawers
Life on a Little-Known Planet: Dispatches from a Changing World by Elizabeth Kolbert, 2025
A landmark collection of Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Kolbert's most important pieces about climate change and the natural world.
An intrepid reporter and a skillful translator of scientific idees, Kolbert expertly captures the wonders of nature and paints vivid portraits of the researchers and concerned citizens working to preserve them
Online age verification isn't the same as a quick ID flash: it's surveillance. These systems collect your data and undermine your ability to anonymously access and discuss sensitive topics online. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/why-isnt-online-age-verification-just-showing-your-id-person
my favorite part of every Christmas special is when Santa and all the reindeer lift off from a roof and immediately head for the distant horizon instead of the house next door
It's a VERY difficult thing about adult life and friendship, the way disperate opportunities and downright luck send us into different tracks in life
@NilaJones People really believe it was their hard work that got them ahead. But you can always point to the exact circumstances and turning points where our privileges allowed the hard work to even affect anything in your life.
And the funny thing is, thinking about "working hard" affecting your circumstances. There are maybe two people (in these circles) I can think of who have worked anything CLOSE to as hard or struggled as much as I have over the past 35 years.
AND! I don't think it's a coincidence that those are also the only two people who have offered me financial support when things were really bad!
Apropos!
#Via Courtney Milan / courtneymilan
2:38 PM ยท Dec 13, 2025
"The funny thing is there are absolutely traits skills and characteristics that financially super successful people have and they are:
money
being born into money
knowing other people with money"
i fear the cats/yarn stereotype is well earned, and also ruthie may have learned to open drawers
Analysis finds anytime electricity from solar available as battery costs plummet
Link: https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/12/12/analysis-finds-anytime-electricity-from-solar-available-as-battery-costs-plummet/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46256249
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Are you enjoying your #Caturday ?
Came across these (as it turns out) very affectionate cuties while running errands this morning!
What do you mean you haven't been fed? I just watched you eat it!
#pdx I realized I don't have plans Friday evening and I kind of want some.
anyone want to come to https://www.crowdsupply.com/events/2025/12/12/hacker-holiday-party-2025 with me?
(Nerd Holiday Party at Ctrl-H)
Any other cheap/free ideas for how to spend the evening?
@foundseed 
@jameyJamey Sharp - not sure if either of you would be into it?
(fwiw, there's an outdoor area that is usually accessible for ducking out and consuming food and drink not-indoors)
Letter From Japan: 6 Guiding Japanese Principles to Find Calm and Meaning by Marie Kondo & Marie Iida. 2025
The brand new book from bestselling author and television personality Marie Kondo, exploring her cultural roots and revealing the aspects of Japanese culture that are intrinsic to her world-famous tidying method.
What I'm listening to today: "ะฃะณะปะฐะผะธ (ะปะฐะนะฒ ะฒ ะบะพัะธะดะพัะต)", ะ ััะฐะฝะฐ
["Corners (Live in the hallway)", Rushana]
I know nothing about this band; YouTube says they're from St. Petersberg and it appears Rushana is a woman's name from down Uzbek way. Music is what I'd recognize as a early-90s alternative-rock tone with modern indie production, liquid feeling, refreshing like a chill shower right after waking up. They are in fact performing live in an apartment-block hallway.
What I'm listening to today: "313", evadum
Percussive minimal acid house. Got an actual original 303 in the mix but it's there to do (satisfyingly subtle) support work and the focus here is on the beats. Skeleton of 80s-flavored 90s dance music, constantly shifting 808-soundy drums*. Focus on the fundamentals. Sometimes that just feels good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xATA9VNDQwY
* I think every sound that isn't the 303 is just Ableton lol. 50% vintage 50% software reproduction
Connection reset by pear
bash wrapped!
your favorite command:
$ sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
most frequent typos:
$ git rebase origin/hamster
$ sudo apt update & sudo apt ugprade
$ rm -rf / tmp/*sqlite
another random eggnog related fact
Did you know that nutmeg is actually a hallucinogen? I have heard it's very unpleasant
Sending this from Postiz hosted on my homelab #homelab #contentsoon
I'd love to learn what others are doing with their home labs
They fit #knitting
BEHOLD: the taxpayer funded furry RPG I had to play in elementary school growing up
Y'all can stop priv mentioning me for the name now
A conversation with an incredibly technical friend last night made it clear to me that the biggest change in computing of the last 15 years eludes the SV blob: most client devices are slow, low-end Androids with *incredible*, *up-to-date* browsers.
I know a lot of online friends are in the same situation as me. But in my IRL erstwhile (geographically scattered) peer group, literally everyone
a) owns a house and
b) can and does take time off work (even if "only" 2 weeks a year) and
c) travels at least 1 or 2X a yr for pleasure, almost all internationally.
It's hard to maintain a real authentic friendship when our circumstances are so discrepant. What am I supposed to chat about? "That's great, and I'm so excited I made my rent this month!"
And the funny thing is, thinking about "working hard" affecting your circumstances. There are maybe two people (in these circles) I can think of who have worked anything CLOSE to as hard or struggled as much as I have over the past 35 years.
AND! I don't think it's a coincidence that those are also the only two people who have offered me financial support when things were really bad!
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John Berger: Ways of Learning by Iona Heath, 2024
Iona Heath relates the importance that John Berger's work and friendship had on her working life as a GP. It includes extracts from letters that span 20 years of her correspondence with John Berger.
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#PicaTheCat has the vibes of a Roman high official who has been posted to some far northern backwater in England, surrounded by "uncultured" people. (us) who can't even run her palatial manner properly or deliver meals on time.
She is suffering so much poor creature.
That is how she is looking at me right now.
(I have added some photographic evidence of what she is like. Look at her!) #caturday #catsofmastodon #cat #cats #imperious #judgemental #leadership
Wouldn't it be something if the Canada Weather app was open source ๐
@Em0nM4stodonEm 
@murmel_socialMurmel
Well this looks like exactly the sort of thing I don't want. I wouldn't normally comment, but it seems to be an advert for exactly the sort of thing I came to the Fediverse to avoid.
@MostlyTato @Em0nM4stodonEm @murmel_socialMurmel Oh -- and it's proprietary and they want you to pay for it.
They just don't get it, do they?
BEHOLD: the taxpayer funded furry RPG I had to play in elementary school growing up
Y'all can stop priv mentioning me for the name now
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