윤석열 쿠팡보다 로비력 없으면서 내란 일으킨 건가 …

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:a6qvfkbrohedqy3dt6k5mdv6/post/3madjn75dik2e

An article about how "immortal" MS Word is and other MSFT praise turned up in my feed, so I found the need to reprise (and liberate) my 2013 rant "Compatibility Is Hard: CHARTEST.DOC Is From 1989, Was Not Readable By 2003" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/compatibility_is_hard.html #msword #winword #compatibility #documentformats #informationprotection which links to other (probably better) pieces by myself and @cstrossCharlie Stross

한컴 한글은... 크래시가 너무 잘 난다. 2022 기준 개요/스타일 같이 구조적 글쓰기 기능들 좀 빡세게 정리하면서 쓰면 잘 죽는데, 웃긴 건 한국인들이 그런 기능 잘 안 써서 죽는지도 잘 모름. 🤣

Happy Friday #FreeBSD

I don't think I'll stop using Firefox anytime soon.
Yes, their management are fucking idiots and it's annoying that I'll have to disable new AI features whenever they release them..

But the alternative is to use something Chromium-based, which would make Google's domination of web technology absolute - and Google is 100x more evil than Mozilla ever could be.

I hope this fucking bubble pops before Mozilla fucks up Firefox so badly that it becomes completely unusable

‘안면인증’ 거부시 휴대폰 개통 불가… 내년 의무화

https://n.news.naver.com/article/005/0001821396?ntype=RANKING

대포폰과 보이스피싱을 막겠다는 의도는 이해하지만 좀 그렇다?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jonafato/115736534849678389

TODAY IS THE LAST DAY!

Fellow procrastinators, this is your time to shine! And if you needed a sign that PyCon US would be better with you and your ideas, this is it:)

The FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Project

Link: https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/proj-laptop
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46326519

AMD officially confirms fresh next-gen Zen 6 CPU details

Link: https://overclock3d.net/news/cpu_mainboard/amd-officially-confirms-fresh-next-gen-zen-6-cpu-details/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46326472

This week, we discuss history repeating itself, a phone wipe scandal, Meta's relationship with links and more.

https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-resisting-demoralization/

Good morning, all. Almost the weekend. #asstodon

There are wind gusts of over 20 mph today, going into the snow week. The power lines here are all above ground and there are a lot of old trees. I’m gonna be so annoyed if we lose power during the first week of my vacation 😑

Brent Mckean captured this amazing moonlit scene with three combined exposures on an icy winter morning in Manitoba, Canada.

The colorful rings are a corona caused by diffraction by ice crystals near the direction of the Moon.

Outside those rings, a 22-degree halo was created by moonlight refracting through ice crystals shaped like hexagonal prisms.

On the left and right are 'moon dogs', caused by light refracting through thin, flat, 6-sided ice crystals.

At the top and bottom of the 22-degree halo are 'upper and lower tangent arcs', created by moonlight refracting through nearly horizontal hexagonal ice prisms.

A few minutes later the halo and arcs disappeared and the sky returned to normal -- with the exception of a single faint moon dog.

Image source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200224.html

For more on tangent arcs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangent_arc

What really bothers me is that most of the crises and difficulties people suffer from are entirely artificial and preventable. We literally have enough food, water, building materials, energy, and other essential goods in the world that everyone would be able to live a life of dignity.

But like, by sheer political choice that is just not the case. And that like, actually makes me quite upset.

VRを楽しむアオサドリ

TikTok Deal Is the Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse

Link: https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/19/tiktok-deal-done-and-its-somehow-the-shittiest-possible-outcome-making-everything-worse/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46327406

Wait, there's beads and there's beans?

#Mozilla choosing to kill embeddable Gecko (make it a #Firefox only engine, essentially) over a decade ago was such a tragic mistake.

Alternative browsers & desktop apps had no choice but to go with WebKit or Blink/Electron.

As a result, Mozilla have nobody to blame but themselves for their minuscule marketshare and nil developer mindshare today.

Further readings:
* https://lwn.net/Articles/436412/ (circa 2011)
* https://www.chrislord.net/2016/02/24/the-case-for-an-embeddable-gecko/ from @Cwiiis
* https://dutherenverseauborddelatable.wordpress.com/2016/03/07/the-gecko-monoculture/ from @YoricSpace·Time Will Tell

#OpenWeb

The war on privacy and encryption goes on. This time in the UK. Under the “Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill”, lawmakers now want client-side scanning on every phone and tablet.

The lawmakers write: “Any relevant device supplied for use in the UK must have installed tamper-proof system software which is highly effective at preventing the recording, transmitting (by any means, including livestreaming) and viewing of CSAM using that device.”

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아 ㅅㅂ개빡치네 ㅅㄷㄱㄷㅂㄷㄷㄸㅂㄷㄱㅈㄱㄴㅈㅂㄷㄱㅅㄱㄷㄱ 국사무쌍 리치걸고 론처맞고 뒤지는게 말이냐 ㅅㅂ 개같아서 못해먹겧ㅅ다

This is a really good question from @mathaetaes. The first thing I keep telling everyone in other cities who wonders how they can help, what they can do:

Get organized NOW. Meet your neighbors NOW. Get your neighbors set up with secure messaging NOW. Form multiple hyper-local neighborhood social groups NOW. Organize a block picnic or community craft night or repair workshop or whatever NOW. Get contact info for the human beings who physically show up for neighborhood events NOW.

Form all those local connections ASAP, so that they’re there when you need them. The hardest lines of communication to establish will be the ones with the people closest to you. If you get local lines open in advance, you’ll be in a far, far better place.

https://infosec.exchange/@mathaetaes/115731104851949153

Cursor Acquires Graphite

Link: https://graphite.com/blog/graphite-joins-cursor
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46327325

🏖️⌨️ You know how Shadow DOM can break accessibility? There’s a new proposal with experimental implementations (some by @igalia) to help fix that! I blogged about it: https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2025/12/19/targeting-by-reference-in-the-shadow-dom/

What really bothers me is that most of the crises and difficulties people suffer from are entirely artificial and preventable. We literally have enough food, water, building materials, energy, and other essential goods in the world that everyone would be able to live a life of dignity.

But like, by sheer political choice that is just not the case. And that like, actually makes me quite upset.

So my 40th (!) birthday is coming up in a few weeks. I want to celebrate with friends and family, what should I do?

🎉🙆🏼‍♀️🧁

Keep in mind it is very much winter here, so it needs to be inside.

I just donated to the Django Software Foundation (DSF) 💰

Donating to the DSF funds Django's development, security and community events 💚

You can learn more about DSF activities and funding from the 2024 annual report: https://www.djangoproject.com/foundation/reports/2024/

If you get value out of Django, please consider making a donation: https://www.djangoproject.com/fundraising/

#Django

Rightfully so! 😁
https://mastodon.social/@EricAlper/115747238813263374

Pátek: Putin otevřeně prohlásil, že cílem ruské invaze na Ukrajinu je „osvobodit historická území Ruska“. Tím de facto potvrdil, že všechny předchozí „důvody“, jako například rozšiřování NATO, údajní fašisté v čele Ukrajiny, nebo údajné utiskování ruskojazyčné menšiny, jsou jen lživá propaganda mající zakrýt skutečný důvod pro ruskou agresi: imperialismus. Ti chytřejší to ví posledních třicet, některým snad Putinovo přiznání konečně otevře oči. Členové páté kolony Ruska budou ale dát papouškovat každou lež, která Rusko vykresluje jako oběť, aby si nemusela přiznat, že jsou odporní lidé fandící odpornému režimu. A také se děje tohle https://www.facebook.com/dnesnaukrajine.cz/posts/pfbid02CVEe2fpkmSJrETF7iY8ZXjdywcjLWaozy8uyD73ut8VqTXsyShArvRgr9iSJTQnl:
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@lcamtuflcamtuf stay warm, sir

Using AI Generated Code Will Make You a Bad Programmer

Link: https://unsolicited-opinions.rudism.com/bad-programmer/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46327124

When you donate to the #FSF, you support lots of great work, including the #Librephone project and research on freedom in machine learning applications: https://www.fsf.org/appeal/ #FSFTable

I am reading a book and within a paragraph, the author uses 3 words I don't know:

Admixture, adamantine and abnegating.

Aside from these words sounding a bit German, with their "ad" and "ab" prefixes, I have a question:

Does the need to look up words while reading distract you from the whole practice of reading?

I feel like it distracts and throws me off. I'd rather authors use simpler words that most people likely understand, than use fancy ones for the sake of trying to sound "academic".

@reiver@reiver ⊼ (Charles) para #Bluesky uso #Skywalker para mi el mejor cliente de terceros que he probado

400 GET errors · Issue #7968 · TriliumNext/Trilium github.com/TriliumNext/Trilium/issues/7968

Wishing for a Mastodon plushie this Christmas?🎄

We’re giving away two of the new ones for free to two random people who boost and favorite this post! Winners will be announced on December 25th, just like last year.

If you’d like to support our server and projects like these, donations are always welcome:

✊🎁 Support Here

Thank you all for turning this year into what it has been!

#Plushtodon #ChristmasGiveaway #GiveAway #Mastodon #FediLove

OH MY GOD STOP CHANGING THE UI OF THE CLOCK APP

IT IS A CLOCK, IT DOES NOT NEED A "UI REFRESH"

Garage – An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters

Link: https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46326984

이어 “제일 큰 반대 입장이 어디냐? 종교계냐? 국회의원들도 (그래서) 쉽게 입장을 못 정하는 거냐? 법률 개정 없이 행정적 조치를 하기 쉽지 않다는 거냐?”고 답답한 듯 질문을 이어갔다. www.hani.co.kr/arti/society...

이 대통령 “아이고… 고민”…임신중지약물 문제에 한숨

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1j7lo6xovY
What I Eat in a Day in the Coldest City on Earth −71°C (−95°F) - YouTube

When you realize that Mozilla was initially funded by Google to avoid a web browser monopoly by Microsoft and it is still funded by Google to avoid a web browser monopoly… by Google itself.

But still, making web browsing so complex that it requires Google money just to enter the game.

+100 points to Slytherin for the strategy!

in the library. straight up "proving it". and by "it". haha well. lets justr say. My theorems

well today's #FreeSoftwareAdvent is a bit bittersweet.

Back at the beginning of the month, I plotted all the projects on my remind(1) calendar, grouping various categories together. Two days ago, lynx¹, yesterday was Dillo², and today it was supposed to be #Firefox. Yet this week has been full of sad Firefox news, with them ignoring users' desires to keep AI rubbish out of the browser (or at least relegated to an optional plugin)

The browser that I started using as Netscape, grew to be Communicator, that kinda became Phoenix, then shed the non-browser functions off to Thunderbird (already got mentioned³) and became Firefox. Despite the rise of Chromium/Chrome, I still use Firefox as my daily driver web-browser for the modern web (rather than the *pleasant* web where lynx & Dillo serve me much better).

What used to be a "User Agent" has become something that no longer puts the *user* first. 😢

So in this time of wishes and gifts, I wish that the Firefox leadership team would take a strong look at what they're doing and change their course.

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¹ https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@gumnos/115735221496156078
² https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@gumnos/115740808963678498
³ https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@gumnos/115684337296307283

Good morning, all. Almost the weekend. #asstodon

そろそろ寝ましょうねー​​
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Surprise: I'm supportive of queer folks.

If you don't like it, hit the bricks.