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#decemberAdventure day 16
I started writing a very compact little monitor rom for my ilo vm. This isn't quite done yet, but is about halfway finished.
Just for fun, and as a non-directly computer thing, I also sketched off a set of handwritten single stroke glyphs for the ilo instruction set, and started writing out some words using them.
Full logs at http://charles.childe.rs/DA2025/
Go hack more Ubiquiti shit.
Okay, this one isn't that bad. But hack that shit anyway.
Never do I feel more like an open source maintainer than when people tell me my research is bad because I didn't interact with them as promptly and cheerfully as they wanted on social media
Cataract surgery tomorrow, so I have a lot of running around to do. I did a small sketch for a larger painting later.
Moonlight in the forest.
#Watercolour on paper, 5x7 inches. #Watercolor #YukonArt
Painting of the day 2120.
a font that shrinks the more you scale it up
We've been struggling with a JSR publishing issue for nearly two months now—@fedify/cli and @fedify/testing packages hang indefinitely during the server-side processing stage, blocking our releases. Strangely, the problem doesn't reproduce on a local JSR server at all.
We've opened a GitHub issue to track this: https://github.com/jsr-io/jsr/issues/1238.
Fedify has been a Deno-first, JSR-first project from the start, and we really want to keep it that way. If you've experienced similar issues or have any insights, we'd appreciate your input on the issue.
mastodon.social has just handled it's 250,000th report! While we acknowledge that mastodon.social's size is too large a percentage of the fediverse (and have plans to address it), one benefit of being the fediverse's front door is that bad actors come to us first.
“I think I know how to use passwords securely, so passkeys are annoying and nobody should use them.” is tech-speak for, “I don’t care about the online account security of other people.”, or more succinctly, “I don’t care about other people.”
People overestimate their competence and underestimate the cost of phishing and credential stuffing. Individuals having to learn to use password management software and be vigilant against phishing is an industry failure, not a personal success.
Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo
Link: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/mozillas-next-chapter-anthony-enzor-demeo-new-ceo/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46288491
That song "We're Not Gonna Take It" came out almost 40 years ago but I feel like we have, in fact, continued to take it.
Put a ring on it: a lock-free MPMC ring buffer
Link: https://h4x0r.org/ring/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46288286
It's time for my annual tradition of buying eggnog and immediately remembering that I don’t like eggnog.
ラクガキ重音テト #イラスト
Ran into a problem in prod?
Just generate a fake cloudflare error page and blame it on them - gives you time to fix.
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RE: https://toot.community/@jorijn/115525473674096153
Big swathes of the #Fediverse are being remorselessly crawled by mindless brute-force bots. If your instance is slow this morning, that’s why. Probably more AI vandalism.
Self-service updates have arrived! Oxide system v17 adds support for installing complete system updates without Oxide involvement, further enabling organizations to own your cloud.
Here's a look at what's new in v17:
よし…！それでは寝るのだ～！
いつもみんなありがとうね…！
RE: https://toot.community/@jorijn/115525473674096153
Big swathes of the #Fediverse are being remorselessly crawled by mindless brute-force bots. If your instance is slow this morning, that’s why. Probably more AI vandalism.
I'm convinced that it's only a historical accident that we teach people classical logic before intuitionistic logic. CL is terrible.
Everyone is baffled by the CL claim that (A implies B) is equivalent to (A is false or B is true). And they should be, it makes no sense at all. Logic is supposed to be an abstraction of ordinary plausible reasoning, and the equivalence of A→B and ¬A∨B is neither ordinary nor plausible.
Instead IL asks: what do we want A→B to *do*? The answer is simple: If we want to prove B, then knowing A→B should mean that it suffices to prove A instead. That's simply modus ponens, most ordinary and plausible of all logical principles.
And that's exactly what A→B *does* mean in IL, nothing more. How do we prove A→B? By showing that A is false or B is true? No, ridiculous. We do it by demonstrating that we can take a proof of A and convert it into a proof of B—which is precisely what we wanted it for: if we want to prove B it now suffices to prove A instead and then convert the proof.
More generally, CL claims to be concerned with “truth”, whatever that is. Truth is super-complicated, something philosophy has struggled with for thousands of years, and is mixed up with the actual state of the world. But logic shouldn't be concerned with the actual state of the world. It's only trying to formalize ordinary plausible reasoning, not whether snow is white.
IL is much less ambitious. IL judgments are only about provability, which is a much more circumscribed notion than truth. Teaching CL to beginners is like trying to tackle proof theory and model theory at the same time.
Purrtran – ᓚᘏᗢ – A Programming Language for Cat People
Link: https://github.com/cmontella/purrtran
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46256504
I don't have any energy to give to a new Mozilla CEO announcement so I'm just gonna point you here, which still holds true.
>> 바이어 말대로 만들어줬더니 20년째 잠수 중 << (한이 섞인) 아무 말인데 묘하게 웃긴게 재능인 것 같음
Go hack more Ubiquiti shit.
Okay, this one isn't that bad. But hack that shit anyway.
美羽ちゃんがセンパイと爛れたルートになったら(
@mameopyまめ )
To be clear, "it's there but you can turn it off" is not enough for me, I already stopped using SwiftKey, Microsoft Windows, Miro, etc on the basis of "we put AI in the software with an option to turn it off". If an org ships a "generative AI" product I want to boycott them and I want everyone to boycott them until they go out of business. I don't want a virus on my hard drive even if it's turned off. But Mozilla's ever-shifting checkbox scavenger hunt has never *resembled* "can easily turn off"
@mcc Once a project includes AI… no, once a project's leaders enthuse about AI, that's when I lose my trust in it. We know it's a monopolist eco disaster of a wrong answer machine. The only sensible move is not to touch it. If they can't see that, what other mistakes are they making and not telling me about?
おやすみWorld
4000명이 넘는 팔로워를 보유한 인스타 유저분이 스토리에 연합우주라는 단어를 공유했다
이건 몇 명이 보고 또 얼마나 퍼져나갈까?
먹고싶다
쥐덩이
Makima 🐦⬛ #art #chainsawman
We've been struggling with a JSR publishing issue for nearly two months now—@fedify/cli and @fedify/testing packages hang indefinitely during the server-side processing stage, blocking our releases. Strangely, the problem doesn't reproduce on a local JSR server at all.
We've opened a GitHub issue to track this: https://github.com/jsr-io/jsr/issues/1238.
Fedify has been a Deno-first, JSR-first project from the start, and we really want to keep it that way. If you've experienced similar issues or have any insights, we'd appreciate your input on the issue.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@sarahjamielewis/115730052589989499
It is super expensive but it really seems to be time to think about how to create and fund an entity that can fork Firefox while Mozilla does some weird AI pie in the sky shit.
Stupid John Mastodon Day trying to supplant my birthday. Well I won't have it! You hear me? Today belongs to me, not John Mastodon!!!
I don't have any energy to give to a new Mozilla CEO announcement so I'm just gonna point you here, which still holds true.
#아무말 브라운관은 진공관입니다.
To be clear, "it's there but you can turn it off" is not enough for me, I already stopped using SwiftKey, Microsoft Windows, Miro, etc on the basis of "we put AI in the software with an option to turn it off". If an org ships a "generative AI" product I want to boycott them and I want everyone to boycott them until they go out of business. I don't want a virus on my hard drive even if it's turned off. But Mozilla's ever-shifting checkbox scavenger hunt has never *resembled* "can easily turn off"
One of the albums that’s stuck with since I started listening to punk over 10 years ago.
A great live album where you get that live show energy and it sounds good too.
It’s also CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 which is pretty punk.
Kelly the Wonderdog by Jimmy Dvate in Major Plains, Australia.
These murals must make a lot of people smile (10 Photos): https://streetartutopia.com/2025/12/12/these-murals-must-make-a-lot-of-people-smile-10-photos/
Hey everyone, you can now follow 
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Important and positive news will continue to be shared on this account 😉
Ran into a problem in prod?
Just generate a fake cloudflare error page and blame it on them - gives you time to fix.
라면 뿌숴머글까... 
또다시 게임의 밤~ 
갑자기 든 생각인데 백발과 은발은 은근 비슷한 속성 같다.
Mozilla insist that people trust them. I assume they have insight and metrics that reinforce that view.
Perhaps I am getting old and this truly is the only path forward to maintain an independent browser.
I continue to feel that this is a terrible idea that has likely irrevocably jeopardized the future of firefox and, by extension, the open web.
The overhead of disabling every single AI-first change in Firefox is already starting to weigh on firefox-forks.
My view on this hasn't really shifted in the last few months: unless an existing organization, with strong principles, steps forwards and commits to a hard fork I don't really see a future for Firefox.
(I think there are probably only 1-2 orgs with the combination of experience / maturity to actually pull that off, and none of them seem to be even considering that kind of future)
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
jnkrtech
Andy Piper
Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉
Jan Lehnardt 
Em 
Ian Wagner
@reiver ⊼ (Charles) 
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