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it amuses me to hear a presenter say "RF engineering is pure wizardry" when this thing comes on a screen and it's _obviously_ a mm wave Doppler radar
Good morning and a very #asstodon Christmas to all who celebrate
damn, dating is rough. just got ghosted 3 times last night
Aek Ngadol, North Sumatra, #Indonesia
Villagers walk towards the Angkola Protestant Church in the aftermath of massive flooding and landslides in the area.
Photograph: AMROE/AFP/Getty Images
Je tady někdo z Břeclavi, Mikulova nebo Hodonína kdo by ubytoval zítra Japonce na kole? Jede směr Vídeň tak hledáme teď jak dojet a kde přespat.
VOICEPEAK宮舞モカ10％OFF
音声合成ソフトのクーポンがついて
さらにSynthesizerV2セット割引もやってます！
立ち絵様
https://seiga.nicovideo.jp/seiga/im11707584?rf=nvpc&rp=watch&ra=content_tree&rd=content_tree_parents
May your day be warm and bright!
I Sell Onions on the Internet
Link: https://www.deepsouthventures.com/i-sell-onions-on-the-internet/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46385308
emergency christmas tree
Did you know if you scan an A3 piece of paper at 1600 DPI you get a 316MB PNG that's roughly 18K by 26K pixels?
That's a lotta pixels.
Are there any English language news orgs who cover German flavored political stuff? I think the anglosphere needs to be in the know about what's going on with GLS and Sparkasse terminating anti-fascist bank accounts and it seems like this still hasn't gotten any English coverage.
emergency christmas tree
Merry Ficsmas! #satisfactory #SatisfactoryGame
しちゃので
Happy Holidays from the iFixit Family! Thank you for another great year!
フカさん音楽の人なんだ
すごい
こんな自分がこんな陳腐な言葉で言うのが憚られるくらい
misskeyも登録してみました！こちらも随時更新予定です！
MQTT Pager Build is Bringing Beepers Back
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/25/mqtt-pager-build-is-bringing-beepers-back/
Merry Ficsmas! #satisfactory #SatisfactoryGame
"man hier" will explain the way FreeBSD filesystems are normally laid out.
-- David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com>
Quite an interesting video detailing some bits of Motif history and writing a keygen for an Yggdrasil Motif using Motif in a Motif Window Manager.
Oh, and the hardware is an authentic 386DX 33 Mhz with a whopping 5MB of RAM (yes, megabytes).
Palestinian children take part in a protest calling for a safe and dignified educational environment, instead of the tents where they attend classes. The Israeli army destroyed most of the schools in the Gaza Strip over nearly two years of war.
Photograph: APAImages/Shutterstock
GLS-Bank und Sparkasse kündigen der Roten Hilfe die Konten. Dank Trump? Auf der Suche nach Sinn und Rechtsgrundlagen. https://freiheitsfoo.de/2025/12/25/gls-spaka-kuendigen-rotehilfe-konten/
"man hier" will explain the way FreeBSD filesystems are normally laid out.
-- David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com>
Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time
Link: https://joannabregan.substack.com/p/toys-with-the-highest-play-time-and
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46315583
Ask HN: How do I bridge the gap between PhD and SWE experiences?
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46315658
I'm never quite sure whether Advent should run 24 or 25 days, so if you're of the "24" persuasion, consider today's #FreeSoftwareAdvent a bonus 🙂
Today it's rss2email¹, which is I read my RSS feeds². I prefer to read my RSS via email for a number of reasons:
• I don't need to learn Yet Another Set of Keyboard Bindings because I already know my MUA's key-bindings
• I can use any standards-compliant MUA to read my RSS feeds, whether I have them delivered to my mbox file and read with mail(1), or delivered to my normal mail account and read them via mutt/neomutt/Claws/Thunderbird/whatever
• I have offline access via OfflineIMAP/mbsync and any changes (deleting entries, read-status, flagging, stars, tags, filing, etc) gets synced back up to my server, even across multiple machines
• I have all the filtering power of my MUA
• plenty of utilities also speak IMAP, so I can write scripts to (post-)process my RSS feed too
• sharing an interesting article with friends is as simple as forwarding an email
• my backup process for email also automatically backs up my RSS feeds too
• because it runs from cron(8) on a schedule I establish, I have more control of my distractions (I usually run it around 4am gathering feeds for me to read with breakfast). I found if it ran hourly or even multiple times per day, I'd get sucked into constantly checking to see if anything new/interesting had arrived
• control remains with me on my machine rather than handing my reading habits over to some 3rd party RSS reader-service
And I love RSS because it is a pull rather than a push. If I subscribe to your email newsletter, I have to trust that you'll respect my email address and not share it or lose control of it, and cutting off email subscriptions is sketchy. But with RSS? I just stop polling that feed if I'm done with it and it's gone.
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¹ https://github.com/wking/rss2email
² https://blog.thechases.com/posts/reading-rss-feeds-via-email-on-the-cli/
Can you imagine if the billionaire tech bros were spending all their energy developing solutions to clean the planet and distribute resources better instead of incessantly enshittifying our lives and trying to devaluate labour?
What a different world that would be.
I wish them all a Ghosts-of-Christmas experience.
oh also! it excels at gluing things together or giving one thing a shape of another thing. so you can get a ton done if you decompose tricky tasks into tasks of these shapes.
Happy Holidays from the iFixit Family! Thank you for another great year!
One thing I've been meaning to ask you, how did you react when you first heard of dogbolt?
Parenting hack: every now and then, tie a small sweetie to the string you use to keep your kid's gloves attached to their coat. They'll really look forward to it!
Truly, there's no force more powerful than an inter-mitten reward.
Quite an interesting video detailing some bits of Motif history and writing a keygen for an Yggdrasil Motif using Motif in a Motif Window Manager.
Oh, and the hardware is an authentic 386DX 33 Mhz with a whopping 5MB of RAM (yes, megabytes).
마법소녀의 마녀재판
을 시작할 때 '하 어떻게 스포 없이 이야기하지...' 라는 평가를 본 나:
"ㅋㅋ 호들갑은"
지금의 나:
"하 어떻게 스포 없이 이야기하지..."
Good, old friends
Permissive licensing affirmation…
It is self-defeating to proprietize open source software given that your team will always be smaller than the global community. Taking something that dozens, hundreds, or thousands of people have worked on and effectively saying you control it is at best naive, and at worse, a jerk move, event when you have the right to.
To violate a copyleft license is an even jerkier-move because you’re admitting you’re a jerk.
Also don’t forget that most permissive licenses require you to give credit where credit is due.
Some copyleft advocates call permissive licensing, “emotional copyleft”, and maybe they’re right, but show me the numbers on how it is any less emotional or less effective at spreading free software and the software freedom behind it.
Is there progress to be made? Absolutely, but nearly every non-Windows system and appliance now runs some form of Unix-derived system.
That said, we truly want software freedom, we all have to vote with our wallets AT SCALE. Governments and big businesses need to demand transparent systems.
After all… Only proprietary software vendors want proprietary software.
I Sell Onions on the Internet
Link: https://www.deepsouthventures.com/i-sell-onions-on-the-internet/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46385308
i had a rather niche shell question so i asked youtube. i am regretting that. but there is this guy who i'm getting a lot of results from called 'you suck at programming' and judging by the video titles, he sucks at programming.
it's so great that people can learn to program badly from so many terrible sources these days.
Eugen Rochko
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Stefano Marinelli
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