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I backed up the #HardenedBSD 15-STABLE installer/update build VM. I plan to sell some assets and buy new enterprise drives for the server in the new year.
We need to get away from using cheap consumer SSDs for our servers. We don't have the budget for enterprise drives, but I'll try to make it happen regardless.
Your periodic reminder that donations to the HardenedBSD Foundation are eligible for tax deduction in the US. All donations go directly in supporting our infrastructure.
I think people who self host should try not to see ‘family members not wanting to use your service’ as ‘stupid’ and more
Switching costs are hard
It’s really hard to change consumer behavior
Even if your solution is better
This is the no 1 thing that people who have never worked on the consumer side of tech need to learn.
Start by not thinking people are stupid.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/1q0ey6s/are_people_sometimes_totally_allergic_to_using/
@venite nativity with lighthouse!
Escaping the Linux Networking Stack at Cloudflare
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/31/escaping-the-linux-networking-stack-at-cloudflare/
I have a feeling that homotopy type theory might be a better foundation for music theory. For instance, two pitches an octave apart are often described as equal, but it's a non-trivial equality. One might say that there is a "path" between them. Different chord inversions are also "equal" in this sense. A thirteenth chord can be identified with an added sixth, and so on. Then there are chords that are missing the third or the fifth. Such chords can be idenitified using more than one path, so you may have higher homotopies.
France targets Australia-style social media ban for children next year
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/31/france-plans-social-media-ban-for-under-15s-from-september-2026
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46444743
ah yes if you set peertube concurrency to 16 it will download the same 4K@25 7.6GB source file 16 times to encode all the different variants.
makes sense. maybe that's why they shipped and my platform stayed vaporware.
今年もよろしくおねがいします
Seaweed dryad
あけおめタイシン
あけましておめでとうございます！
🐀 A reminder why we are going through the drain.. thank you, #SteveCutts, as always. You don't let us down. 💙 💚 🧡
Don't be in the rat race, and don't be in disneyland either. #OpenYourMind instead. Think out of the box. You can do it, and so can I. 💪
@germnetwork.com I thought I'd try Bluesky pairing. I know it's a work in progress, but adding a very long, unclickable link into my bio is a hard no. I would have to get rid of most of what I've written for humans – for a machine to read. how about writing a custom record to my pds instead?
I’ve never once gotten scammed as an adult, and that’s not because I’m clever or anything.
It’s because I got scammed a million times as a child on RuneScape and none of the tricks work on me now.
I was trained on the battlefield
하씨발 이달소완전체보고십어... 혜주야살아는잇니...?ㅠ
so much happened this year but remember when 404 Media found out the DOGE(.)gov website that was spun up to track Elon Musk’s cuts to the federal government could be edited by anyone?
one of our top stories of 2025:
https://www.404media.co/anyone-can-push-updates-to-the-doge-gov-website-2/
2025 was a disaster for Windows 11
Link: https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/2025-has-been-an-awful-year-for-windows-11-with-infuriating-bugs-and-constant-unwanted-features
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46445491
Court report detailing ChatGPT's involvement with a recent murder suicide [pdf]
Link: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.461878/gov.uscourts.cand.461878.1.0.pdf
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46446800
How AI labs are solving the power problem
Link: https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/how-ai-labs-are-solving-the-power
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46444020
And to close of the year, one of my first photos of 2025.
I wish you all a Happy New Year and a great start into 2026!
I didn't want to feel left out, so here's my contribution 😄
Year in Review 2025
🗣AM ENDING 2025 WITH A BOOST & FAVE
look who just arrived in time to welcome the new year: my THING1 & THING2 in #plushtodon form, #Boost & #Fave.
it was hard to get a good pic of us together by myself, so i hope you don’t mind the potato quality of my tablet’s pics.
i haven’t stopped smiling since i opened the package.
🗣HAPPY NEW #FEDIVERSE YEAR TO YOU ALL
Stewart Cheifet, creator of The Computer Chronicles, has died
Link: https://obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com/stewart-cheifet
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46446359
Heyyy I read a handful of books this year!
New Year Special
[News] DjangoCon Europe - Call for Proposals
The Call for Proposals (CFP) for DjangoCon Europe 2026 is officially open! This event will be in Athens, Greece, from April 15–19, 2026. Submission deadline: Sunday, February 8, 2026 (end of day) #djangonews
🗣AM ENDING 2025 WITH A BOOST & FAVE
look who just arrived in time to welcome the new year: my THING1 & THING2 in #plushtodon form, #Boost & #Fave.
it was hard to get a good pic of us together by myself, so i hope you don’t mind the potato quality of my tablet’s pics.
i haven’t stopped smiling since i opened the package.
🗣HAPPY NEW #FEDIVERSE YEAR TO YOU ALL
ねれね
Happy New Year, everyone!
💬 "Ukrainians have only one wish."
Source United 24 Media
who has two thumbs and database backups running every 6 minutes instead of every 6 hours because Go CRON has a subtly different 6-field format instead of the traditional 5-field format?
it's m*sobs*
K여돌 뮤비 인트로가 어떻게 델타룬 이냐고
Der Körper rächt sich.
Yummyバイト (レストランのサクラ)
DP alt-mode working on my asahi machine :3
Remember the old #html , #css and #javascript badges?
These came out around around 15 years ago....
I'm getting old
Noch schnell die Vorsätze vom letzten Jahr umsetzen.
This article from 
@pluralisticCory Doctorow was a really great read. I like this flavour of "elbows up" a lot - ending anticircumvention laws and maybe even loosening copyright laws. It would definitely be better than counter-tariffs. https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/16/k-shaped-recovery/
闇バイトなんて使い捨てにしかされないんじゃないかな… #しらんけど
Meta created 'playbook' to fend off pressure to crack down on scammers
Link: https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-created-playbook-fend-off-pressure-crack-down-scammers-documents-show-2025-12-31/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46446838
아름답다 + 기괴하다 = 신성하다
ほどほど
無責任にもほどがあるよなあw
I will never understand how it's more secure to:
- prompt me for my password to approve downloading an OS update/upgrade
- prompt me for my password to approve the installation of said update/upgrade
- prompt me for my password immediately after watching the progress bar for 20 minutes
- prompt me for my password again for the hell of it
- prompt me for my password to login (I'm fine with this one)
- prompt me for my password again for whatever else was related to the update/upgrade
FUUUU
nulta
些々細📯
Paolo Melchiorre
Eugen Rochko
Kagami is they/them 🏳️⚧️
