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Every time someone from a bigger food city says ‘what’s the big deal about food in SF’ and people get so defensive. I think it’s worth articulating that the severe gentrification has led to changing tastes, yet the cost of living and lack of housing also impacts everything. If service people can’t live here and can’t get home after a shift, why do we expect places to stay open? ‘SF is a major food city’ is a concept that is stuck in the past.

The seafood isn’t as good as in Oregon (or even east coast).

The Chinese food is fine. But lacking in modern diversity.

The bread is.. I don’t care for it.

Exciting things in food in the Bay Area, as with elsewhere in the country, is happening in places where immigrants live and work. A city that has no place for economic and social diversity is just going to become boring food for people with expense accounts.

There are still a handful of great spots, but I find myself increasing traveling to Oakland, South SF, Millbrae, Fremont, San Jose for the food that I love.

#Food #SanFrancisco

No Graphics API https://lobste.rs/s/wopu8o #graphics
https://www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-graphics-api

ACM is now showing an AI “summary” of a recent paper of mine on the DL instead of the abstract. As an author, I have not granted ACM the right to process my papers in this way, and will not. They should either roll back this (mis)feature or remove my papers from the DL.

I guess the thing now is to cancel Spotify. I don't know if Spotify feeds you music to listen to or you listen to your own purchased music. But if it's the latter you can set that up for yourself for free using a media server like plex or jellyfin. I use plex, it has a nice little music app.

水の中に夕焼け
Lumix GH1 + Ai Nikkor 28mm F3.5 #Misskey写真部

The #FOSDEM FOSS on Mobile devroom schedule is out!

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/track/foss-on-mobile/

It's going to be a great day of talks on AOSP, Mobile Linux and more; covering the full stack from SoCs to app ecosystems.

14 full length talks, 7 lightning talks, 23 speakers.

#fosdem26 #FossOnMobile #AOSP #Android #CalyxOS #OpenHarmony #postmarketOS #Phosh #SailfishOS #Gnomeonmobile #LinuxOnMoble #MobileLinux

Ich brauche jemanden der mich vom Binge-Watchen von Detektiv Conan aufhält​​

Working on a #web page that will have a table with five columns and 100 rows. It will have controls in each column header cell to sort the table ascending/descending by the value of that column.

Question: should I do it all in #JavaScript or should I use #HTMX and do the sorting on the server side?
[edit: add hashtags]

Mozilla gets a new CEO: Anthony Enzor-DeMeo

https://lwn.net/Articles/1050826/ #LWN

IP.THC.ORG - Reverse-DNS, Subdomain and CNAME Lookups via @cyplo https://lobste.rs/s/d25czz #networking #security
https://ip.thc.org/

GPT Image 1.5

Link: https://openai.com/index/new-chatgpt-images-is-here/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46291941

I came across this old pic and thought I'd share. I aim to generate more original tech content in 2026:

Booting CP/M on my Z80 computer from a 4GB Hitachi Microdrive! Slower than compact flash, but the same power consumption. Worked first time. Fascinating old tech. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microdrive

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/115720161014479157

Important thread. A dose of reality AND a glimmer of hope.

Thank you for this, @inthehandsPaul Cantrell.

Annual New Year's Resolution advice from your local internet auntie who successfully turned around a lot of problems:

That list of fourteen resolutions you have? To stop forgetting to brush your teeth, to lose weight, to stay atop your homework? Which ONE SINGLE CHANGE would have the most immediate, day-to-day effect on your mental well-being? What would give you more spoons to tackle the rest?

ONE RESOLUTION AT A TIME. If you try to change fourteen things about your life at once, you'll get overwhelmed and give up within a matter of days and convince yourself you're not strong enough to change. But you are; the trick is to change ONE THING AT A TIME and focus on it until it's become easy.

If you have something sleep-related on the list... you should probably start there. Sabotaging yourself by staying up late is an extremely common problem among the type of person likely to be reading this post. Learning to Stop Doing That will make sorting out the rest of your life magically so much easier.

@daliasCassandrich @inthehandsPaul Cantrell

Could you imagine how berserk the police would go if activists tried a quarter of what ICE has done? Even a tenth?

@inthehandsPaul Cantrell relevant, if you had not already seen it: https://aphyr.com/posts/397-i-want-you-to-understand-chicago

I'm so sorry this is happening to your community.

RE: https://bluetoot.hardill.me.uk/@ben/115730547474752497

me last week, half-sarcastically: "wow we've seen an uptick in donations, let's hope that they'll get more CEOs and COOs to say silly things in public so that they keep growing exponentially next year or so"

github less than 2 weeks before the end of 2025:

My platform for when I reboot the Mozilla brand:

1. It supports www, as well as Gopher, ftp, and the good Gemini
2. Using udm14 instead of Google, which will no longer be the default
3. Fully funding MDN and Gecko via taxes on web sales and kickass branded swag
4. so-called "AI" will not be shipped

Vote for me to be the next Mozilla CEO!

RE: https://eupolicy.social/@je5perl/115696467286859905

Some good news from Denmark! The government has withdrawn the #VPN proposal after just five days, claiming that the proposal was misunderstood and that banning VPN use was never the intention. In that case, the drafting was exceptionally bad, and withdrawing the proposal is clearly the right thing to do.

(source: press release yesterday from the Ministry of Culture https://kum.dk/aktuelt/nyheder/kulturministeren-justerer-lovforslag-og-fjerner-afsnit-om-vpn).

#Copyright

In other depressing IoT news, iRobot, the maker of the popular Roomba vacuums, files for bankruptcy and sells itself to Chinese company. Hello cameras and mics in bajillions of homes.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/irobot-bankruptcy-irbt-roomba-app-continue-to-operate/

ACM is now showing an AI “summary” of a recent paper of mine on the DL instead of the abstract. As an author, I have not granted ACM the right to process my papers in this way, and will not. They should either roll back this (mis)feature or remove my papers from the DL.

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Annual New Year's Resolution advice from your local internet auntie who successfully turned around a lot of problems:

That list of fourteen resolutions you have? To stop forgetting to brush your teeth, to lose weight, to stay atop your homework? Which ONE SINGLE CHANGE would have the most immediate, day-to-day effect on your mental well-being? What would give you more spoons to tackle the rest?

ONE RESOLUTION AT A TIME. If you try to change fourteen things about your life at once, you'll get overwhelmed and give up within a matter of days and convince yourself you're not strong enough to change. But you are; the trick is to change ONE THING AT A TIME and focus on it until it's become easy.

If you have something sleep-related on the list... you should probably start there. Sabotaging yourself by staying up late is an extremely common problem among the type of person likely to be reading this post. Learning to Stop Doing That will make sorting out the rest of your life magically so much easier.

グエー起きるか

Shout out to that time Ludwig van Beethoven tried to start going by Ludwig von Beethoven so it would sound like he was from the aristocracy…

…and the aristocracy was like “Absolutely not! ‘Van’ you are and ‘van’ you will remain.”

Anyway, we *totally* remember those people’s names now

Servo-based Firefox alternative from Igalia when? They could call it Zorro. I would totally run Zorro. I can't wait. Do it, y'all

Nvidia Nemotron 3 Family of Models

Link: https://research.nvidia.com/labs/nemotron/Nemotron-3/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46275111

#nvidia

No Graphics API

Link: https://www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-graphics-api
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46293062

So you print a scientific paper at home. A van with HP markings suddenly parks in front of your house. You start reading the paper. You take notes. You finish reading the paper. A person emerges from the van parked in front of your house, knocks on your door and tells you: "It took you 3 hours to read the paper. That'll be $0,36. Cash or card?"

That's more or less what #Github is now doing with self-hosted runners for GitHub Actions.

https://resources.github.com/actions/2026-pricing-changes-for-github-actions/

#SarcasmButOnlyHalf

In other depressing IoT news, iRobot, the maker of the popular Roomba vacuums, files for bankruptcy and sells itself to Chinese company. Hello cameras and mics in bajillions of homes.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/irobot-bankruptcy-irbt-roomba-app-continue-to-operate/

So this is definitely pure 90s kid nostalgia, but - growing up I desperately wanted Sega Channel but my parents wouldn't pay for it, so I never got to try it while it was alive. Getting to try out the actual Sega Channel menus and digital magazine programming on my real Genesis now feels like I'm finally getting to do what I wanted way back in the day. Grateful for this Video Game History Foundation release.

Mozilla has a new CEO and he just announced that Firefox will evolve into a modern AI browser. This is a good example of how management doesn’t understand its own user base and why they go out of their way to install Firefox on Windows, Android, iOS and other devices.

Full blog post https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/mozillas-next-chapter-anthony-enzor-demeo-new-ceo/

Just to make it abundantly clear: don’t post people’s home addresses to the internet what is wrong with you

I'll be giving two talks at #fosdem2026 !

On Saturday on the main stage I will be giving a talk about developing a Microsoft Bob application, and what we can learn from it today.

On Sunday I'll be talking about the history of MCI mail, the MEP2 protocol, and showing how it all worked at the time using my own reverse engineered server with contemporary email clients.

Come see me yap about #retrocomputing #history and rover the dog.

I'm just going to leave this here. Login works with your Bluesky/ATProto handle. You can host your code with git on a self hosted server called a "knot". All the knots work together on tangled.org for a unified social view like you would see on other providers. blog.tangled.org/intro

incredible, github is going to start charging for self-hosted actions runners (in private repositories)

We are introducing a $0.002 per-minute Actions cloud platform charge for all Actions workflows across GitHub-hosted and self-hosted runners.

https://resources.github.com/actions/2026-pricing-changes-for-github-actions/

We are about to get a "post-American internet," because we are entering a post-American *era* and a post-American *world*. Some of that is Trump's doing, and some of that is down to his predecessors.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/16/k-shaped-recovery/#disenshittification-nations

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Between Deploys https://lobste.rs/s/yjeunx #satire
https://murex971.substack.com/p/between-deploys

I'm just going to leave this here. Login works with your Bluesky/ATProto handle. You can host your code with git on a self hosted server called a "knot". All the knots work together on tangled.org for a unified social view like you would see on other providers. blog.tangled.org/intro

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What if.. what if we kissed by the digital calipers? 🥺⁠👉⁠👈

LLMなんてバブル弾けたら誰も電気代を払えなくなっておしまいじゃないのやだもー #しらんけど

John Mastodon doesn't use AI

#JohnMastodonDay