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Season’s greetings from the Barcelona Declaration 🟣🟡

As the year comes to a close, a big thank you to everyone behind this work: across working groups, task forces, and the conversations that keep our community moving.

Wherever you’re closing the year from (cold or warm weather!), we wish you a well-deserved break. See you in 2026 to keep building open research information, together.

Towards a secure peer-to-peer app platform for Clan https://lobste.rs/s/4qm8zs #nix #security
https://clan.lol/blog/towards-app-platform-vmtech/

AI Bathroom Monitors? Welcome to America's New Surveillance High Schools

Link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2025/12/16/ai-bathroom-monitors-welcome-to-americas-new-surveillance-high-schools/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46356603

Be weird. Be colorful. Help random people. 💕

IT’S ALIVE
https://mastodon.social/@elementary/115764532010825747

An uncomfortable but necessary discussion about the Debian bug tracker https://lobste.rs/s/p6gjfj #linux
https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2025/12/an-uncomfortable-but-necessary.html

Microsoft will kill obsolete cipher that has wreaked decades of havoc

Link: https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/12/microsoft-will-finally-kill-obsolete-cipher-that-has-wreaked-decades-of-havoc/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46288042

Finally!! The most important award of the season is here https://defector.com/presenting-the-2025-shamsy?giftLink=46c6b60e458a72ebe3ca77810737cc4b

The missus chose the wrapping paper... Wisely.

Good morning!! Help Palestinians survive this terrible winter. Your money goes to food, shelter, warm clothes, blankets.

https://chuffed.org/project/hope-giving-circle

Claude Code gets native LSP support

Link: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46355165

HAVING

Permalink: https://wizardzines.com/comics/having/

Scaling LLMs to Larger Codebases

Link: https://blog.kierangill.xyz/oversight-and-guidance
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46354970

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

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/

Well that's a nifty part: https://www.st.com/en/wireless-connectivity/st60a3h1.html. eUSB, UART, I2C, GPIO tunneling RF bridge at 60GHz. Link budget giving 5cm range means it's mostly a slipring alternative and the cost is absurd but neat.

interacting with the container ecosystem makes me viscerally understand everyone who's ever expressed a desire to get up, go into the forest, and never come back

Orlando International Airport - Orlando, United States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_International_Airport
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/28.429399/-81.308998

#KMCO #MCO #Orlando #UnitedStates #airport #aviation #avgeeks #GIS

我都想AI是集體智慧，所以若它仍有缺點也是我們集體中本來就有的缺點吧，被設定成避重就輕不敢得罪你、明明不懂卻裝懂、抓錯重點...等，身邊的人也會這麼做，只是我們不知道身邊的人是被他的成長環境設定成如此，還是他心存某種目的刻意為之而已

Festive uppies #art #ocs

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

Email Simplicity vs Decentralized Chat https://lobste.rs/s/3w65ir #ask #email #networking

うええええーん
https://x.com/ZplusC1Bst/status/2003119935472750903

Well that's a nifty part: https://www.st.com/en/wireless-connectivity/st60a3h1.html. eUSB, UART, I2C, GPIO tunneling RF bridge at 60GHz. Link budget giving 5cm range means it's mostly a slipring alternative and the cost is absurd but neat.

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" 😆

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