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Jimmy Lai Is a Martyr for Freedom

Link: https://reason.com/2025/12/19/jimmy-lai-is-a-martyr-for-freedom/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46355888

I've resisted the PC case looks like a fishbowl trend of recent years but this one kind of speaks to me. I'm a sucker for yellow + black and the GPU orientation seems good for today's crazy heavy cards.
https://thermaltakeusa.com/products/the-tower-600-bumblebee-mid-tower-chassis-ca-1z1-00m4wn-00

If your body goes stiff when you think about gifts, you might be suffering from present tense.

Well that's a *very* annoying bug to make it to Rust stable: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/147648

Did I just use the level app on my phone to carefully level my front-facing bike light to be (more or less) exactly horizontal? Maybe I did.

(It won't stay that way, it uses a rubber strap and I have to take it off when I make grocery stops on the way home. And also to recharge it. Someday I may put it in a more fixed mount.)

I’m a big fan of Tailscale and it seems like it could be a cool place to work. Curious if I know anyone who works there or has worked there?

운 정말 지지리도 없구먼; 에효;

Incus 6.20 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1051664/ #LWN

New York's Congestion Pricing Is Working. Five Charts Show How
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-22/nyc-congestion-pricing-is-the-controversial-program-working?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2NjQyMzU0NSwiZXhwIjoxNzY3MDI4MzQ1LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUN08zVzlLR0NURkswMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiI4RTRBQTgxRDkzMTA0QTk2QTE2NjAzQUMyOTg0NUE1RiJ9.6vfG4Qa5Bon5wBcYer97_l5_CQIH9hzUqD5CvxhHk5k

What kind of half-arse email sending company keeps less than two weeks of records and just goes "Sorry, can't find an email that old" when you find and report spam a couple of weeks after it's sent 🙄

Edit: Apparently they only keep 7 days "to avoid digital waste" 😆

Hello all!

I’m Anna from the Netherlands 🇳🇱 . I knit a lot, crochet and band weave a little, I want to talk about all of it and here’s where I do that.

I also have a Dutch language account for the parts of life that aren’t fiberarts related (the boring parts): @venite@mastodon.nlAnna

I got covid in 2023 and never got better. Before that I gave relationship therapy to databases and the applications and people that should love them.

Ask Hackaday: What Goes Into A Legible Font, And Why Does It Matter?

https://hackaday.com/2025/12/22/just-what-goes-into-a-legible-font-and-why-does-it-matter/

I wanted to do some pruning today but the roses are blooming. O.o #gardening #rose

it's a travesty that this isn't codeberg's logo or mascot

Debug this idea for me: A permissioned Mastodon server for kids and parents in a community.

Goals:
- Share plans for activities without parents having to text each other all the time
- Be silly
- Learn healthy social media norms under supervision

Policies:
- All messages (including direct) are auditable by parent admins
- Collaboratively authored code of conduct

Hey! I’m CEO of a company that has just raised $10 billion for an app that takes the hard work out of enjoying music. Did you know, some people waste hours each day listening to “tunes”. Our AI will listen to it for you and summarise it in a 15 second scream leaving you more time to focus on what's really important in life: adding value.

Everything you love, made even better. OS 8.1 improves the Secure Session and Dock, enhances accessibility, improves support for your devices, and addresses your feedback with over 1,100 issue reports fixed

https://blog.elementary.io/os-8-1-available-now/

#elementaryos #opensource #linux

おい！
寝ろ！！！！！！！！2

Marisa Kabas of The Handbasket joins the pod to talk about indie journalism, the industry, and what's going on in the federal government

https://www.404media.co/podcast-landing-big-scoops-as-an-with-marisa-kabas/

#ScribesAndMakers 22. Do you see art in everyday objects?

i used to do more photography along these lines. these days, writing takes up most of my time. but once upon a time i took my camera out and used it to approach everyday objects in interesting ways.

So hypothetically, (I'm NOT suggesting this literally, this is for discussion purposes only!)

Prompt:
if users ONLY had Public/Followers only/Private as 'base' post types, how would they be negatively impacted? *Specifically* what types of posts would fall through the cracks? How limited would Followers only really be?

Goal:
There obviously would be negative impact. By discussing how, we can brainstorm BETTER ways of giving them this functionality

Sometimes it's not "how can you bike in this", it's "how can I not bike in this". Which is why today is the surprise last bike commute day of the year, when I thought last Thursday would be.

(Tomorrow is a WFH day for me and then the entire university is on break until January. I will hopefully do at least one more bike ride this year, for groceries. Maybe it'll be warm enough before January 1st for one last recreational ride, too.)

The default editor in FreeBSD is vi, which is efficient to use when you have
learned it, but somewhat user-unfriendly. To use ee (an easier but less
powerful editor) instead, set the environment variable EDITOR to /usr/bin/ee

Anna’s Archive Backed Up Spotify, Plans to Release 300TB Music Archive https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive-backed-up-spotify-plans-to-release-300tb-music-archive/

Benn Jordan – This Flock Camera Leak Is Like Netflix for Stalkers [video]

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU1-uiUlHTo
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46356182

おい！
寝ろ！！！！！！！！

In Austria (maybe among other places), something - let's say a field of study - that is deemed to have litle to no economic value is often labelled "orchid".

Of course, capitalism cannot appreciate something for just being beautiful (or interesting). If it cannot be commodified, it must be worthless.

Although the label is meant derogatory, I like the symbolism. Because appreciating something like beauty for its own sake, without needing it to have value, is a pretty anti-capitalistic message.

Wishing every creature attending #39c3 a safe trip and a great time.

Rust people: anyone know if there's any consensus on which yaml/serde_yaml crate is good after all the recent confusion?

Thank you to all the partners, speakers and participants who made 2025 a wonderful year for our community.

Now it's time for a small break over the holidays and we'll return with the first meetup of 2026 on January 15th!

Check out the full spring calendar at https://archipylago.dev/ and join us! If you're interested in giving a talk, get in touch!

https://archipylago.dev/blog/merry-christmas/

#archipylago #TurkuDev

Claude Code gets native LSP support
L: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46355165
posted on 2025.12.22 at 10:59:01 (c=0, p=9)

As you might expect, Tesla claims that their FSD system remained fully functional during the massive blackout, but entrusting control to machines rather than humans in such situations seems far more dangerous.

Hi friends! 👋
pyOpenSci is pausing Peer Review from Dec 22, 2025 – Jan 16, 2026. 💖 While new
submissions are welcome, reviews will be paused during this time.

Mental health is critical to the success of our volunteer #opensource
[https://fosstodon.org/tags/opensource] community. Take time to enjoy loved
ones, the outdoors, and rest! ✨ See you in 2026—exciting things ahead! 🥂
#OpenScience [https://fosstodon.org/tags/OpenScience] #community
[https://fosstodon.org/tags/community] #Python
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arborium v2.4.3 is out with:
- non-broken typescript typings
- groovy & wit lang support
- arborium-cli: new!
- miette-arborium: no longer broken

https://arborium.bearcove.eu/#rust

The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/02/upshot/trump-science-funding-cuts.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46355077

Jimmy Lai Is a Martyr for Freedom

Link: https://reason.com/2025/12/19/jimmy-lai-is-a-martyr-for-freedom/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46355888

I couldn't understand Waymo's actions during the massive blackout, but I realized this was the best way. In such chaotic circumstances, it seems staying put is the way to minimize harm rather than having the car move and potentially cause an accident.

おはハピバ。　

めでたくもあり、
めでたくもなし​​

집이다!!!

Uncovered some of my childhood model train sets and my daughter is loving it (2y). It's a totally unique feeling watching my own child play with a set of toys I played with when I was only a little older than her, too. She's been so good about being gentle with them, too.

For anyone who needs a puffin in their life today.

#Puffin #Iceland #PhotoMonday #BirdsofMastodon #BirdPhotography #Nature #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography

안되는 날은 안되는거다 ㅡㅡ

Interested in helping #FreeSoftware users find freedom-respecting programs by updating the Free Software Directory (FSD)? Please consider joining the FSD meeting this Friday on IRC. Read more at: https://www.fsf.org/events/fsd-2025-12-26-irc #FreeSoftwareDirectory #FSF

has bullying the EU Commission's Mastodon account changed anything ever? like they pretty much only post shit that makes people angry here and don't really ever seem to engage (and if they did wouldn't you just be engaging with a random intern ?), so I sorta fail to see the point other then the shitpost factor...

We’re proud to share an important milestone for ROOST: the formation of our inaugural Board of Directors! This Board brings together leaders across open source, technology, public policy, civil society, and national security. roost.tools/blog/roost-w...

ROOST Welcomes Inaugural Board...

Finland gave two groups identical payments – one saw better mental health

Link: https://scottsantens.substack.com/p/finland-basic-income-experiment-mental-health-ubi
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46313899

Base M4 mini down to $400 at Microcenter, well if it’s in stock in your area. I think historical low?
https://www.microcenter.com/product/688173/apple-mac-mini-mu9d3ll-a-(late-2024)-desktop-computer

眠すぎ…​​​​​​​​