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ETA found the calendar, the website however keeps forcibly changing my address so I can't actually buy it! Yes starting my Saturday with inshitification. One of my chores for today is to find a braille calendar for 2026. I've been buying the Peanuts ones from National Braille Press but they don't have markings for full/new/quarter moons. I remember there was a company who made a calendar with those dates marked each month with a tactile symbol and I'd I'll like to buy that calendar. Now I just need to remember who makes them. If anyone knows I'd be grateful. I will probably do some googling once I exercise. ... thats after I drink this iced pumpkin spiced latte.
🎆Welcome to the Round of 16 of the 2025 Headline of the Year Contest!🎆
Voting will be open in 4 locations for each round for about a day.
16 headlines.
Only 1 winner.
A reminder of the nominees:
To avoid scope creep, start all projects with the largest possible scope.
DOOM in Django: testing the limits of LiveView at 600.000 divs/segundo
https://en.andros.dev/blog/7b1b607b/doom-in-django-testing-the-limits-of-liveview-at-600000-divssegundo/
#django #python #doom
Employee commits suicide after MongoDB fired her during mental health leave
Link: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gsurman_our-beloved-irreplaceable-daughter-annie-activity-7407842359826120704-kFaq
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46403128
웹툰 덕질을 너무 특이하게 하는 바람에 네이버 웹툰에서 입사추천서가 날라옴
당시 미필이라 인턴으로 강등되고 그마저도 준비를 못/안해서 면접광탈
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mk3k3q4ahz2coieim7s44ceb/post/3liu2elt6gc2z
FFmpeg project issued a DMCA takedown of a Rockhhip Linux repo, after 2 years of violation. They are defending opensource code as per LGPL-2.1-or-later and GPL-2.0-or-later etc.
Repo https://github.com/rockchip-linux/mpp
More on https://xcancel.com/FFmpeg/status/2004599109559496984
Rockchip copied lots of code from ffmpeg to its mpp video acceleration lib and applied another license over the code. They refused to give credit and remove that code etc. That is the gist of it.
In Scotland, the days between Christmas and hogmanay are known as "daft days."
Along with many others, I like to call these days "Betwixtmas."
HAPPY DAFT DAYS OF BETWIXTMAS, Y'ALL
"If you haven't got anything nice (scratch that), intelligent to say...".
Worth thinking about.
The most popular social media platform among US adults isn't Instagram or TikTok
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/the-most-popular-social-media-platform-among-us-adults-isnt-instagram-or-tiktok-195823871.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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All this negative talk about AI, yet I have been running ":set ai" in vim for years!!
How we lost communication to entertainment
Link: https://ploum.net/2025-12-15-communication-entertainment.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46404848
部屋辛うじて二度寝ちゃお
Important announcement: Costco has brought back The Good Dip (TM).
Life hack: use it with Dots pretzels
leroy jenkins maneuver
Picked up some light reading in the No Starch Press holiday sale!
The early access ebook programme is a brilliant idea - it's not yet published, but I already have access to pretty much the entire book except the index. #RunBSD
when i got my first tamagotchi, the stats screen reported its weight in "lb". i assumed the tamagotchi designers had invented some fanciful unit of mass called "lobes". my cousin tried to convince me that "lbs" are "pounds", but he was obviously lying -- how is "lb" supposed to stand for "pound"?
@lynnesbianLynnesbian 
it used to be a p, but it was so heavy it fell over
they tried bolting on an extra post for support, but to no avail
I'm dreaming of a white discourse
just like the ones I used to know
where posters are racist
and hide their faces
behind anime photos
you're a mean one
Reply Grinch
you're a problematic fool
you're a centrist lib apologist
an ableist discourse ghoul
Reply GriiiiINCH
I wouldn't @ you with
a ten-post thread spooooool
[closing jazz music]
Bought myself a drawing tablet for #christmas. Didn't even have to install any software for it
@kde already got all the required bells n whistles right in the system settings
I love linux.
The improvements in the Linux desktop line up perfectly with the adoption and maturation of systemd and Wayland.
¯\(◉‿◉)/¯
トップをねらえ！はいいぞおじさん「トップをねらえ！はいいぞ」
「古すぎて語れる人少ないけど、今こそ見てほしい」ってアニメ、あなたの一本は？→令和の今こそ語りたい懐かしの作品が続々と集まる - Togetter https://togetter.com/li/2643429
leroy jenkins maneuver
How long until Google/ABC will have to admit that AI slop in 4K causes YouTube storage costs to explode in ways that are tough to justify to their shareholders?
UPDATE: "Kapwing’s new research shows that 21-33% of YouTube’s feed may consist of AI slop or brainrot videos." https://www.kapwing.com/blog/ai-slop-report-the-global-rise-of-low-quality-ai-videos/
懐かしい。私が子供の頃でもあったな
「こんなの解けるわけない！」話題の〝アーモンド型〟面積問題、母も思わず検索した難問に共感殺到「大人でも無理」｜まいどなニュース https://maidonanews.jp/article/16220522
The most popular social media platform among US adults isn't Instagram or TikTok
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/the-most-popular-social-media-platform-among-us-adults-isnt-instagram-or-tiktok-195823871.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into SOCIAL MEDIA FOR BRANDS EDU @social-media-for-brands-edu-JanetteSpeyerSOCIAL MEDIA FOR BRANDS EDU
Got Jen’s dad a new telephoto lens for Christmas and today this dude showed up in their yard.
A reminder to my fellow NYC dog owners that snow does not somehow dissolve or evaporate dogshit, and you still have to pick up. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
"horseshoe theory" and other bullshit
also fyi this is now the second time ive heard "horshoe theory" and like the first; it was said by some fash licking neoliberal shithead and then you look inside and its like trying to claim how "eat the rich" is genuinely an endorsement of cannibalism or something
Stresstesting the printer that prints the fediverse my friend set up at #39c3
関西はまだ真っ暗やな
musing on the em-dash, the Hottest Typographical Instrument of 2025
i've picked up a weird typing quirk (no, not the homestuck thing).
so LLMs have brought the em-dash into the public consciousness since they love to use it so much. i've read so many articles discussing what an em-dash even is because of this.
now that i've actually (sort of) learned what an em-dash is and how it works, i've ended up using it when i write. i have a weird aversion to non-ascii typography such as smart quotes, so i use two dash characters instead of the actual em-dash character. this means i write (e.g.) code comments like id has no parent -- its parent is therefore the root node. i also use less semicolons than i used to.
so, weirdly enough, LLMs have influenced my typing -- not through my (infrequent) use of them, but by the articles written about the way they write. thankfully, the pseudo-em-dash is the only thing i've picked so far.
tests are showing cheesiness levels at 100%
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The term "friendslop" still brings a very specific mental image to me and it's obscenely sexual
出勤！しゅっきーーん！！
"Today, mathematics is regarded as a supremely abstract science. On forums such as Stack Exchange, trained mathematicians regularly sneer at newcomers who ask for intuitive explanations of mathematical constructs. Indeed, persistently trying to relate the foundations of math to reality has become the calling card of online cranks."
-- 
@lcamtuflcamtuf 
https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/how-has-mathematics-gotten-so-abstract
how the fuck does one write a good README.md
does anyone know projects with excellent practices in that regard?
specifically, i want to describe what is going on in my 10k LoC nixos flake that i use as an entrypoint to deploy all my servers and import my other projects. assume i have no clue about documentation practices whatsoever.
친척 결혼식에 가요. 아직도 어둡네
tests are showing cheesiness levels at 100%
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There's only one right answer here.
How long until Google/ABC will have to admit that AI slop in 4K causes YouTube storage costs to explode in ways that are tough to justify to their shareholders?
UPDATE: "Kapwing’s new research shows that 21-33% of YouTube’s feed may consist of AI slop or brainrot videos." https://www.kapwing.com/blog/ai-slop-report-the-global-rise-of-low-quality-ai-videos/
지금 독일에서 논의되고 있는 실명제는 인터넷상의 게시글에 실명을 의무적으로 표기하고자 하는 방안이며 한국과 같은 본인확인제는 없지만 필명의 사용이 허용되었던 한국의 이전 법률보다 어떻게 보면 더욱 심한 조치입니다.
일단 당장은 바이에른과 베를린 주정부 수준에서 논의되고 있고 다른 주와 연방법무부장관은 안하겠단 입장입니다.
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Has there been any attempts at integrating Fedi stuff with open databases, such as those for movies and games?
Edit:
Found NeoDB!
#fediverse #activitypub #db #databases #movies #games #music
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