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今日もあったかいねぇ

I know a few people on here as well as myself will FEEL this cartoon.

Why do people leave comments on OpenBenches?

Link: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/why-do-people-leave-comments-on-openbenches/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46337134

I have missed so many mentions and private mentions lately, and I have no spoons to reply at this time. My greatest apologies if this includes one of yours

"You good? You need a ride?”
Naw, I’m skating across the US.
"Holy shit!”

https://youtu.be/XFPZYeFmXCs

“I needed something that was more exciting than drinking. There's not many things more exciting than drinking, especially the way I used to do it.”

#skateboarding #crosscountry

Neo Nazi group attack the CBC. CBC counterattacks by not just countering the one silly claim, but by exposing the entire group & who hosts their hateful podcasts

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/second-sons-leaders-livestreams-9.7022853?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

#politics #spiffy #Canada

Women on the right are learning a hard truth. They are lionized when supporting the patriarch and obeying the party line.
But as soon as there’s any mold-breaking, the turn is incredibly rapid and vicious. There is no tolerance for disagreement.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/opinion/gop-women-misogyny-problem.html?context=audio&smid=nytcore-ios-share

The Unix V4 tape read was successful
https://discuss.systems/@ricci/115747843169814700

#bitsavers

One quick way to lose my respect is to say "we don't know whether AI is gaining consciousness"

WITH A STRAIGHT FACE.

Oh. My. God. Yes we do. Large language models are not intelligent. They are not conscious.

If this is difficult for you (or someone you know) to understand, please read the book AI Snake Oil by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor.

#ai #chatgpt #llm #artificialintelligence #openai #marketing #capitalism #gemini #technofeudalism

@Em0nM4stodonEm

What I have learned from people who have lived through dangerous times is that you believe you have nothing to hide, but as fascism creeps even the most innocuous thing can be used to harm you.

Cat?

This is how your email finds me..

(Darcy)

#caturday #CatsOfMastodon

I'm Irish. When you see Irish characters, or Ireland, written about by British people for a British audience, it's all just... wrong. They get so much wrong, at best. At worst, it's ridiculously offensive and racist.

I'm a trans woman. Same thing happens with cis people.

#trans #ireland #irish

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This might be the most perfect meme in Canadian politics right now.

#StephenHarper #Conservatives #CPC #LPC

@necedemalis.bsky.social I get a DM from bridgy! I don’t know if this will get to you or not though

아니 진짜, moduli space랑 실용 대수기하하는 쪽은 대체 왜 페이퍼에 그림만 넣거나 수학적 설명을 제대로 안하는거야?
지도교수가 어떻게 가르쳤길래 이렇게 페이퍼가 엉망이지

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOO https://www.limitedrungamessettlement.com/

After crunching over 100 contributions yesterday, Django HealthCheck is back under my maintainership. 🎷

Thank you @frankFrank Wiles and everyone over at REVSYS for your care, unrivaled community support, and for passing the torch. 💚
https://github.com/codingjoe/django-health-check
#Django #Python #Docker

И встретишь ты, когда не ждёшь,

И обретёшь, не там, где ищешь.

Ты просто так вперёд идёшь

И просто так ты дышишь.

И встретишь ты когда-нибудь

И обретёшь, уж не тоскуя,

Заканчиваешь длинный путь,

Ну, а сейчас… всё в холостую.

И встретишь ты, когда ни в чём

Тебе помочь никто не сможет,

И обретёшь, когда лучом

Солнце коснётся твоей кожи.

И встретишь, больше не беги

С извечным криком:"Я не верю!"

Ты обретёшь, когда шаги
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Автор: Алиса Мочалова

#poetry
#Russian

Happy #Caturday! Here’s the obligatory “how it started…” post for our new housemate, who is doing quite well as a now-inside cat. But it was a stormy Halloween when he came to the door.

The argument shouldn't be:
"I don't have anything to hide, so you can surveil me,"

Instead, it should be:
"I don't have anything to hide, so you shouldn't surveil me."

#Privacy #MassSurveillance #HumanRights

Happy Solstice y'all

The argument shouldn't be:
"I don't have anything to hide, so you can surveil me,"

Instead, it should be:
"I don't have anything to hide, so you shouldn't surveil me."

#Privacy #MassSurveillance #HumanRights

I lived thru the end of public smoking. Early in my career I presented to city councils who were smoking, in front of audiences who were smoking. Smoking in restaurants, airplanes, hospitals… All of that seems insane now, but it was very controversial when we DID change it. We CAN change things.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kvy3zcb6uitmemz2jss6kjil/post/3m7z2yhajps2q

I should probably note that I've been a Mozilla donor and product user for years. I use Vivaldi for my daily-drive browsing, because they support the Fediverse, and Mozilla does not. But I still use Mozilla's VPN (it's pretty good), and I think Mozilla holds an important place in the Web ecosystem.

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a small and pretty fast constant time base64 codec in javascript https://github.com/escodb/buffer/blob/main/lib/codec/base64.js

Another busy day

I'm doing my part for @dotmeow.meow ∙ We'll be at #39C3 ^-^'
:3

The ‘Hidden’ Microphone inside the Sipeed NanoKVM

https://hackaday.com/2025/12/20/the-hidden-microphone-inside-the-sipeed-nanokvm/

Dare to be inconvenienced.

We have been trained to prioritize "seamless" experiences over ethical ones. But every convenience has a hidden cost, whether it is labor rights, environmental impact, or the erosion of privacy.

Efficiency is a metric for machines, not for a meaningful life. When we stop choosing products solely for their convenience, we reclaim our agency. We choose local over global, human over algorithm, and sustainable over instant.

What would happen if we stopped using services that do very little good for society, even if it means taking the long way around?

#EthicalLiving #Intentionality #SlowWeb #noai #DigitalSovereignty #deGoogle #privacy #privacymatters #humanscale #degrowth #EthicalConsumerism #SupportLocal #AntiConsumption #LaborRights #SimpleLiving #Mindfulness #LowTech

"Bootstrapping Fuzzers for Compilers of Low-Resource Language Dialects Using Language Models"

cool work!

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.05887

And then Sisyphus was like "hey, at least I don't have to go to that many meetings."

RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@SnowyCA/115749111701870271

Now the MOST critical piece of Canada's climate policy...so let's just open it up for comment while most people are away on vacation or taking time off to spend with family, etc.

Opened on December 19, 2025 and will close to new input on January 30, 2026.

SMH. Are they hoping this flies under the radar?

#cdnpoli #CanPoli #ableg #abpoli

Share widely please!

ビール Advent Calendar 2025 20日目の記事ありがとうございました！

2025年の美味しかったクラフトビールたち｜こいで https://note.com/_feu_/n/n3dede8e644c3

좋은 아침이에요.
저희에게 강복하소서. 아멘.

Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN

Link: https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com?year=2025
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46336104

tomorrow i'm going to do my annual Christmas Chaos Stream over on my Twitch channel where i play a random pile of christmas themed games, along with other stuff - starting around 5pm ET. stay tuned! https://www.twitch.tv/ellaguro

@subm3rgesͧb̴ͫƸ̴gͬᵉ @Em0nM4stodonEm I know. It is a little soul crushing. I'm doing my best to resist dehumanization while still working in tech. The fight is constant.

Twitter（現†X†）の「クリエイタースタジオ」と称する画面、プレミアム加入してなければ「不適格」と出てくるの、何というかちょっとこういやな気持ちになる #Twitter #X

@subm3rgesͧb̴ͫƸ̴gͬᵉ @Em0nM4stodonEm Only a fantasy when profit is the only motive. Capitalism is not inevitable. Other systems of living are possible.

I also think it's catastrophically bad to think that only computer manufacturers, mobile phone makers, domain registrars, hosting providers, and terrestrial and mobile ISPs should be allowed to get paid for providing Internet services. Many people who spend hundreds or thousands of dollars a year to get access to the Web are reluctant to chip in $20 for their Mastodon server.

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@paulox/115753846698044046

I really enjoyed my visit to Bologna this year.

So if you want a reason to check out this lovely city, i encourage you to pitch!

Neo Nazi group attack the CBC. CBC counterattacks by not just countering the one silly claim, but by exposing the entire group & who hosts their hateful podcasts

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/second-sons-leaders-livestreams-9.7022853?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

#politics #spiffy #Canada

칼 빼든 정부 '쿠팡 영업정지 검토'…"가용 수단 모두 동원" 입력 2025.12.20 18:57 news.jtbc.co.kr/article/NB12...

칼 빼든 정부 ‘쿠팡 영업정지 검토’…"가용 수단 모두...

Anna's Archive backed up Spotify. They got 99.9% of metadata, and 300TB of music representing 86 million tracks - original 160kbps OGG for tracks with popularity>0, and re-encoded 75kbps for popularity=0. absolutely wild project.

the metadata in particular is a hugely useful data source. MusicBrainz catalogues 5 million unique ISRCs (like ISBNs but for music releases), whereas this archive has a whopping 186 million.

https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.html

I herd a good sheep joke the other day - really makes ewe laugh