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お酒が余ってたんで飲む
Are you ready for the 2026 Nix/NixOS sprint season?
Ocean Sprint will happen in April on Lanzarote, registration is open until 20th January:
https://oceansprint.org/
A great opportunity to meet people from the community, hack and swim with great weather!
Already in February, the first Aurora Sprint will be happening in Reykjavik, Island:
https://aurorasprint.com/
The sprint focuses on Nix for embedded linux systems.
The schedule for the Nix and NixOS devroom at FOSDEM 2026 is out!
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/track/nix-and-nixos/
There will be 18 talks from 20 speakers, including 10 lightning talks. We’re particularly glad to give a platform to so many smaller community projects and experience reports, and we’re looking forward to a great community get-together!
Paint me like one of your French girls ☺️ I s'pose. #Moosie #mondog #dogsofmastodon #mastodog
Brighten up your holidays with these games for Linux! 🎄🐧
https://itsfoss.com/news/linux-games-steam-winter-sale-2025/
“You didn't give me the cheat codes to 100% manipulate women into liking me, therefore I became a misogynist bigot who hates women and it's YOUR fault.”
Congratulations all. 🎆 Together we can reach some thing ..
Interested in free software, but not sure where to get started? Check out our #FreedomLadder for some ideas: u.fsf.org/3f1 #FreeSoftware #FSF
It's been, uh, a while, but I have a new newsletter out, based on some conversations here, about the irreconcilable experiences of LLMs that different groups have had and how that all boils down to afordances and how 'AI' is a terrible name and an even worse UX metaphor.
"AI" is bad UX
If your body goes stiff when you think about gifts, you might be suffering from present tense.
not sure how to make subcatregories. do not see any option in the acp/ manage category
do you want to do more tarot readings but struggle with how bulky and inconvenient it is to travel with tarot cards? want to live in the born mobile generation? look forward to the only tarot deck published on the original mobile device, the ninbendo game girl - hold on, i just did some searching and apparently i'm not the first person to do this?? that's wild. well, mine fuckin slaps. watch this space for it!! #LiquidCrystalDreamsTarot #gameboy
朋友問我遊英後感想。
第一感想係啲嘢難食到我震驚，第二先係啲博物館好好行😂
Getting together with family is a GREAT time to talk about familects — the words and phrases you use just with your family that nobody else would understand.
Ask your elders! Why does our family say "we're on Edgar" when the gas tank is low? Why do we say something is "blondie hot" when it's extra hot?
I share these stories on each Grammar Girl podcast and people love them.
Record yours for me to share here: https://www.speakpipe.com/grammargirl
예술가 친구한테 돈 주고 집에 소장함 자개니까 플래시 터트리며 찍어봄
점점 자세가 편해진다?
Not gonna lie, it’s pretty annoying that every time I download Threads I see a half dozen new interesting meticulously-executed features that are distinct from what any similar app is doing
I would love to understand why seemingly all LACNIC members use gmail/hotmail email addresses as their whois contacts. No other region seems to be this concentrated with "personal" email providers for what are almost always businesses, it seems to also extend all the way down to the actual company filings as well!
Corporate emails don't really seem to be that much of a thing in the LATAM region
If a government can refuse interviews and a major network pulls the story… that’s a problem. “60 Minutes” delayed its CECOT segment on Trump-era deportees to El Salvador. CBS says “additional reporting” is needed.
How I protect my Forgejo instance from AI web crawlers
Link: https://her.esy.fun/posts/0031-how-i-protect-my-forgejo-instance-from-ai-web-crawlers/index.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46345205
[속보] 철도 파업 유보…모든 열차 정상 운행
송고2025-12-23 00:17
www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR2025...
[속보] 철도 파업 유보…모든 열차 정상 운행 | 연합...
The Music of the Sea
You did it—AGAIN! Thanks to you, we hit our second fundraiser goal of $400k 🤯 everyone at the PSF is feeling heaps of astonishment & gratitude for our community’s generosity.
Words can’t fully capture how grateful we are, but we’ll try:
Thank you 💝
Thank YOU 💙💛
THANK YOU 🥰🐍🥰
And, again, we aren't quitting yet! We have until December 31st to keep raising funds to support #PythonForEveryone. Our third goal is ✨ $512k ✨
Can you help us reach our newest goal? Your donations, memberships, stories, and advocacy make ALL the difference 💝💝
Festive Typography & Holiday Craft: Christmas Projects by Russ Gray https://theinspirationgrid.com/festive-typography-holiday-craft-christmas-projects-by-russ-gray/
The Trump Administration Protects U.S. National Security by Pausing Offshore Wind Leases (U.S. Department of the Interior)
https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/trump-administration-protects-us-national-security-pausing-offshore-wind-leases
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p52#a251222p52
곧 크리스마스네요 🎄
마작 개안되네
The hidden history of 'White Christmas'
Nearly every pop music holiday song written in the past 80 years owes at least some of its DNA to one Christmas tune in particular: "White Christmas," written by Irving Berlin and sung by Bing Crosby, which he first recorded in 1942.
by Anastasia Tsioulcas
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/15/nx-s1-5628363/white-christmas-bing-crosby-history
I just found out that miri now supports ffi at all, and it's like x-mas came early!
https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2025/12/22/miri.html#invoking-native-code-from-miri
@lcamtuflcamtuf 
now we can finally tell what comes first. is there a chicken around?
The hidden history of 'White Christmas'
Nearly every pop music holiday song written in the past 80 years owes at least some of its DNA to one Christmas tune in particular: "White Christmas," written by Irving Berlin and sung by Bing Crosby, which he first recorded in 1942.
by Anastasia Tsioulcas
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/15/nx-s1-5628363/white-christmas-bing-crosby-history
In 2025 I attended eight conferences and did presentations - in five countries.
Wind storms last week set in motion disaster recovery plans at NIST, and almost took out a primary time reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRB7pjRVVkI
I'm sure the folks at NIST running the Internet's time clocks were feeling the pressure, and they handled it well.
[속보] 철도 파업 유보…모든 열차 정상 운행
송고2025-12-23 00:17
www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR2025...
[속보] 철도 파업 유보…모든 열차 정상 운행 | 연합...
New from 404 Media: Flock exposed some of its AI-powered cameras to the internet. We know because we tracked ourselves with them. These cameras zoom in on passersby, sometimes so close we could read a random person's phone screen. Required no login to view cameras
https://www.404media.co/flock-exposed-its-ai-powered-cameras-to-the-internet-we-tracked-ourselves/
There's a lot of focus on how the dripping antisemitism on the right has created a useful rupture in various parts of Trump's support, and that's true.
But I really worry that EVEN those on the less hateful side of that split are ignoring how dangerous some of these terrorists are.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nyjm4ylfid2a7mjm6varxuiq/post/3malmbvvxoc2a
Why you don't put Christmas lights on palm trees
Some of us at NLnet will be going to #39c3 \o/. We hope to see you there! Together with 
@PrototypeFund and 
@sovtechfundSovereign Tech Agency will be doing a self-organized session, just like previous years. Join us on Day 3 for the Meet the Funders session where you can ask anything about Free and Open Source funding
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/hub/en/event/detail/meet-the-funders-sovereign-tech-agency-nlnet-proto
Hope to see you at Congress!
I am proud and ridiculously excited to introduce you to The Computer Upcycle Project! Welcome to Episode 60 of Linux For Everyone, featuring the inspirational 
@codemonkeymikeMike 
!
https://linuxforeveryone.net/episode-60-the-computer-upcycle-project-with-mike-kelly/
👋
AI / LLM plague
I hate that one of the things I need to do with new comments on my techblog is squint at them and ask myself "is this extruded AI slop blather that's intended to attract visitors to the commentator's site that's also mostly extruded AI slop blather, or is this someone who is just not good at writing and maybe not using English as their first language?"
It’s that time again! 🎄✨ All my music on Bandcamp is FREE to download for a limited time 🎁 If you like retro vibes, grab my albums & singles in .WAV .FLAC .MP3 .SID and enjoy some tunes 👾🎶 (And if you know someone who’d dig it, just pass it on!)
👉 https://lukhash.bandcamp.com/
Thanks for all the support this year and have a great festive season! 🎅❤️
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