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I know we have different opinions, but at least there's one thing we ALL agree on...
@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
Hmm. Shouldn't it be more like:
🔲 Spaces
🔲 Tabs
The primary cultural impact of Avatar has been its apparent lack of cultural impact.
Honestly, I think everyone who complains about Avatar's lack of cultural significance is forgetting about SNL's Papyrus sketch. https://youtu.be/jVhlJNJopOQ?si=1D3UsPQ0RF7RrCDK
AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'
Link: https://www.finalroundai.com/blog/aws-ceo-ai-cannot-replace-junior-developers
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46302267
Mozilla hath forsaken us and Firefox shall be shunned.
My horribly-named Firefox fork of choice shall be...
ひな「……ゴロゴロしてたら、
いつの間にか夜になっちゃったね。このまま寝ちゃう？」
i am trying to get better at designing websites very slowly and unsurprisingly i think design is a "skill" where "spending time on it" makes me "better at it" and making a nice design "takes time"
Several of these new bike routes make new connections between existing routes, I love it 💖 Despite the obvious politicisation recently, Toronto's cycling network is slowly becoming more continuous and interconnected, which compounds its utility and appeal 🤩✨
https://mastodon.social/@GraphicMatt/115736828366975314
Building a Flying Blended Wing Body Aircraft Prototype
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/17/building-a-flying-blended-wing-body-aircraft-prototype/
Man sues cops who jailed him for 37 days for trolling a Charlie Kirk vigil
Cops may be fined for jailing a man over his Facebook posts.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/man-sues-cops-who-jailed-him-for-37-days-for-trolling-a-charlie-kirk-vigil/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
@disorderlyf 25 spaces per tab 
Doublespeed hacked, revealing what its AI-generated accounts are promoting
Link: https://www.404media.co/hack-reveals-the-a16z-backed-phone-farm-flooding-tiktok-with-ai-influencers/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46303291
• Vivaldi: 7.7.3851.66
• Chrome: 143.0.7499.146
• Chrome ESR: 142.0.7444.243
• Firefox: 146.0
• Firefox ESR: 140.6.0
• Safari: 26.2
• Edge: 143.0.3650.80
• Opera: 125.0.5729.21
• Brave: 1.85.117 🆕
• Gnome Web: 49.2
• WebKitGTK: 2.50.4
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/115735794291614037
Tell us how you really feel! :3 
> Rust is too constrained without [unsafe blocks] to get any useful work done.
Just saw this in the wild again.
@veloren has about 330,000 lines of Rust code today. It's a networked, multi-threaded, 3D, portable game and game engine played by thousands of people. Very much not a contrived example. Name any sort of code and you'll find it in there: GUI, packet parsing, physics, DSP, decision trees, database calls, ECS, procgen, audio. It's all in there.
It has 12 instances of `unsafe`:
(1/2)
The current link back log for the Dev Digest newsletter / live show:
Purdue University adds AI learning requirement for incoming students
Highlights in my words.
Consider replacing a person without a business degree with someone who has one (bachelor’s, MBA, whatever).
1. Workers’ wages decrease.
2. Sales or profits do not increase.
3. Windfall profits are not shared with workers (non-business managers do).
4. They’re doing what they were taught in school.
Caveats about hard-to-wrangle data apply.
(2/4)
…
In their words:
"This paper provides evidence from the US and Denmark that managers with a business degree (“business managers”) reduce their employees' wages.”
"Exploiting exogenous export demand shocks, we show that non-business managers share profits with their workers, whereas business managers do not.”
"these business managers show no greater ability to increase sales or profits in response to exporting opportunities.”
(3/4)
Seems Bill C-3 is a pretty bad disappointment compared to the temporary court-order rule from this summer it replaced. (IN FUTURE,) rather than offering Canadian citizenship to anyone with a citizen grandparent, it restricts and requires the noncitizen parent to have spent like 3 years in Canada(?) before the kid's birth.
Wording on the news articles seems(?) to imply it might also open cases where the Canadian citizen is a great grandparent, but otherwise frustrating.
トーン記号
Will people ever learn to not manipulate file: URIs with their own code, prefixing pathnames with "file://", looking for slashes and substringing etc, but instead use libraries that work correctly?
(Betteridge's Law of Headlines applies.)
とても
A lot of folks have asked me if I'm serious about relaunching Mozilla after their inevitable collapse.
What I can say with confidence is that if the brand assets become available, I would absolutely look into purchasing them, in the same manner Perifractic "resurrected" Commodore. I am no millionaire, so this would have to be a community-driven thing.
Imagine: everyday people like us banding together to resurrect our beloved browser. I'd absolutely do my part to spearhead that.
I don't use Claude's plan mode. I made some potentially uninformed statements today about plan mode, so I learned what it does by looking at the code. This might or might not be useful to you. https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/12/17/what-is-plan-mode/
Will people ever learn to not manipulate file: URIs with their own code, prefixing pathnames with "file://", looking for slashes and substringing etc, but instead use libraries that work correctly?
(Betteridge's Law of Headlines applies.)
tfw you see someone's name cross the tl and you are 80% sure they were very rude to one of your people 8 years ago. but only 80%
웬일로 낮에 일어난다 했다 다시 복귀군 ㅡㅡ
Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed
Link: https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-3-flash/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46301851
Software as a Scourge (#SaaS)
최근에 별자리도서관의 한 에피소드인 리라자리이야기를 완결냈어요.
퇴고는 아직이지만 소장본프로젝트팀의 진행상황에 맞춰서 천천히 할 예정이에요.
표지도 조금씩 그리고 있고요! 
별자리도서관은 여러 별자리를 지키는 별자리지기들의 단편 이야기로 계속해서 이어나갈거랍니다.
그런데 첫 프롤로그 이야기가 2019년이었고, 첫 단편 이야기가 2025년에 쓰여졌는데...
이 속도로라면 최종 완결까지 최소 30년은 걸리겠네요. 
별자리도서관 : 리라자리 이야기 > https://tobe.aladin.co.kr/s/27720
おはよーございます
FCC chair suggests agency isn't independent, word cut from mission statement
Link: https://www.axios.com/2025/12/17/brendan-carr-fcc-independent-senate-testimony-website
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46303260
マラソン失敗して沿道のみなさんにご迷惑かけたしパンケーキレンズ買っちゃおうかな #なにいってんだこいつ
RE: https://mastodon.social/@AwetTesfaiesus/115733900556298959
Wenn ich mich an die digitale #Polarisierung auf #X erinnere, dann fühlt sich das nach Enge an. Die #Reichweitenlüge antisozialer & algorithmischer #Konzernmedien befeuert die #Zerblasung unserer #Demokratie.
Hier auf #Mastodon freue ich mich über viel mehr gelungene #Dialoge & wertschätzende Erwähnungen wie hier durch #MdB 
@AwetTesfaiesusAwet Tesfaiesus, MdB 🙏
Ich glaube wirklich, dass das #Fediversum & unser #Grundgesetz viel bessere #Politik ermöglichen als bisher. https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/der-bundes-koalitionsvertrag-von-1961-als-abweg-vom-grundgesetz/
> Rust is too constrained without [unsafe blocks] to get any useful work done.
Just saw this in the wild again.
@veloren has about 330,000 lines of Rust code today. It's a networked, multi-threaded, 3D, portable game and game engine played by thousands of people. Very much not a contrived example. Name any sort of code and you'll find it in there: GUI, packet parsing, physics, DSP, decision trees, database calls, ECS, procgen, audio. It's all in there.
It has 12 instances of `unsafe`:
(1/2)
This too shall pass
わしゃ
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Chris Siebenmann
Quincy
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