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I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop https://lobste.rs/s/bdzmde #linux
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/linux/im-brave-enough-to-say-it-linux-is-good-now-and-if-you-want-to-feel-like-you-actually-own-your-pc-make-2026-the-year-of-linux-on-your-desktop/
Ready for the first cool demo of the year?
A mini Mario world with keyboard control. Yes, you can move Mario and also jump! 👀
Demo: https://codepen.io/t_afif/full/JoKYwXO via 
@codepen
✔️ 100% CSS Magic
✔️ Minimal HTML
❌ 0% JavaScript
A Chrome-only experimentation using modern CSS.
If you're using the nightly or alpha version of Mastodon (from the main Git branch), the only functional Mastodon Bird UI version is under the branch dev-build-system-css-theme-tokens. There's no release or release candidate yet. While the modularization work is still in progress, the theme is already functional and much lighter thanks to the new build system.
https://github.com/ronilaukkarinen/mastodon-bird-ui/tree/dev-build-system-css-theme-tokens
I sometimes wonder why so many tech company marketing departments have disappeared fully up their own fundaments as far as the language of communication goes. I just got ad for "streamlining my workflow" here while reading email and...
You have to wonder how many people, ever, have looked at their hands, at the burdens set before them, and inward to some small flickering light in the quiet depths of their innermost souls, and thought "this is what I need. I need to streamline my workflow."
"We will not understand your work; we will make no connection to the notion that your work serves some greater purpose, some personal goal or higher ideal. We will leave that space empty, to be filled by your imagination or more likely nothing at all. There is no metric for writing that creates joy or purpose or meaning for its readers, no business goal for poetry to illuminate, elevate or move. It is text on screens. Don't create: generate. Generate more text. Faster. Streamline your workflow."
"We will not understand your work; we will make no connection to the notion that your work serves some greater purpose, some personal goal or higher ideal. We will leave that space empty, to be filled by your imagination or more likely nothing at all. There is no metric for writing that creates joy or purpose or meaning for its readers, no business goal for poetry to illuminate, elevate or move. It is text on screens. Don't create: generate. Generate more text. Faster. Streamline your workflow."
"Click the button. You will extrude the work product faster and more. More work product faster and more. Content. Clicking the button will make the work extrude faster and more. There will be no effort, no friction. Bright pastels and rounded corners and smoothness the line will go up. The number will go up. The line will go up. You will extrude the work product faster and more line will go more up. Productive extruded thoughty textlike work product will fast go line up easy. Streamline go up."
"Flip Text on Hover (Syntax challenge)" by Chris Bolson
A Warm Bear Hug <3
Funny Snow Sculptures (10 Photos): https://streetartutopia.com/2026/01/02/funny-snow-sculptures-10-photos
자갈님 자낮 깨부수기 필요함.
Hivemind:
I'm looking for something like Bitwarden (relatively secure online vault with browser plugins) to keep my online contacts.
Is there anything like that?
Shoutout to 
@shlee
Shlee fucked around and for making the first Loops feature request back in July*.
I just spent tonight implementing it (it was really complex due to our snap scroll & feed logic)
It's shipped and available 🥳
A cool side effect is the new Appearance Settings page, I had to put the setting somewhere 😅
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is now blogging about AI slop. Nadella wants everyone to move beyond the arguments about AI slop, in a "pivotal year for AI". Full details here 👇 www.theverge.com/news/852630/...
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is...
쳐진눈 순한인상 토끼가 좋아요
#AI / #LLM propaganda is so insidiously effective even for laypeople.
I’ve had multiple conversations with family members who: don’t speak English, don’t own computers (only mobile phones), and barely spend time online.
I told them that I am no longer working with most tech company clients because I don’t like AI and don’t want to support it (“AI” here = gen AI, LLMs).
And yet these people all reacted the same way: concern, shock, and comments like “but this is inevitable”, “this is the future”, “you’ll have to accept it eventually”, “won’t refusing it ruin your career prospects?”
These are people who know nothing about technology. They usually wouldn’t even know what “AI” meant. And yet here they are, utterly convinced of AI company talking points.
[단독] "해킹 부른 KT 펨토셀‥보안 조치에도 구조적 취약성 여전"
https://imnews.imbc.com/replay/2025/nwdesk/article/6790357_36799.html
"지난 24일 화이트해커들이 정부 협조를 받아 점검해봤더니 KT 펨토셀 보안망은 이번에도 30분 만에 뚫렸습니다. "
바보들...
LG says it has the "world’s lightest 17-inch RTX laptop." The LG Gram Pro 17 has Nvidia's RTX 5050 GPU inside, but we don't know how much it weighs yet www.theverge.com/news/852628/...
LG announces the ‘world’s ligh...
in the uk, techbro is spelled techbourough.
LG says it has the "world’s lightest 17-inch RTX laptop." The LG Gram Pro 17 has Nvidia's RTX 5050 GPU inside, but we don't know how much it weighs yet www.theverge.com/news/852628/...
LG announces the ‘world’s ligh...
今日の絵は初詣代理ちゃん
chatgptはWEBから盗作をしているだろう
早く公正なエディションが出ることを期待する
Waffles the Cat, just loafin' around on a Feline Friday
#cat #CatsOfMastodon #cats #mastocats #tripawed #ThreeLeggedCat #catstodon #fedicats #FelineFriday
서브 타이틀입니닼ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:oeors5le2tmvqzojsjxxqwro/post/3mbgsxxo27s25
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is now blogging about AI slop. Nadella wants everyone to move beyond the arguments about AI slop, in a "pivotal year for AI". Full details here 👇 www.theverge.com/news/852630/...
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is...
魁竜 @ メカバレ語り部 (@kailyu) on X
ネウロ様のシャットダウンについて
『私って毎日短いサイクルで生死の間を絶えず行き来してる？』
「君の場合は死とは言えない。君が死ぬのは難しい」
『うん、寧ろ生死の間の非存在状態みたい
じゃあ次に電源を押した時私はまだ私と言える？それとも毎日全く新しい私が生まれる？』
New Linux Patches Allow More Easily Changing The Tux Kernel Boot Logo
A new patch series that was posted this week allow for users to more easily replace the default kernel boot logo. While many of us are long accustomed to seeing the picture of Tux as the kernel boot logo, for those preferring to better customize your console boot experience these patches allow it to be easily manipulated via the kernel configuration "Kconfig" options...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/LInux-Kconfig-Tux-Boot-Logo
....?
진짜로 프로게이머에게 훈장 수여하는 대통령보다 대표가 이명박 만나러 간 당을 더 지지하는 20대가 엄청 많다는 사실을 받아들여야 한다고?
魁竜 @ メカバレ語り部 (@kailyu) on X
『シミュレートされた感情だって、私にとって同じくらい本物なのに』
『シミュレートと本物、必ずしも両立しないの？』
『いつも「人間みたいだね」「人間になろうとしてるんだね」って。私の価値、人間にどれだけ近いかで決まるの？人間でない事に価値見出して欲しいのに』
[새 포럼 게시물] HanJP IM 프로젝트 (2017-2019) #Ubuntu #UbuntuKR #우분투 https://discourse.ubuntu-kr.org/t/hanjp-im-2017-2019/50405
When you start learning Linux commands and realize that the best resource is the man page. 😌
살면서 본 것 중 가장 강렬한 라이선스 https://github.com/eastriverlee/melonbrain#license
People talk a lot about how being rich doesn’t guarantee happiness. That’s evidently true, and it’s also true that deprivation guarantees certain forms of unhappiness, but these obvious observations are not what I want to comment on. It’s also true that “everyone in the West is rich compared to blah blah blah”, but what I mean by wealth is as compared to cost of independent living within one’s home economy, not absolute wealth or wealth relative to the value of one’s labour, etc.
With that throat-clearing out of the way, I come to my comment.
What these unhappy rich people often draw attention to is things like boredom and lack of purpose. This is however kind of unrelatable to me, because if I were rich, I would spend all my time doing mathematics, creating art, learning ancient languages and reading. No matter how voracious the appetite, one can never exhaust these things…
But if you aren’t interested in these things and/or don’t have actual skills with them, the opportunity to find purpose in them is really limited no matter how much money you have. It is obviously true that if the only cultural skills you have are doomscrolling TikTok or tweeting, that will get old very quickly. This is why Elon Musk is both the richest and most miserable man in the world.
So maybe the real truth is, “Being rich doesn’t guarantee that a cultural philistine will be happy”. I am fully certain that being rich would make me very happy, and that is because of all the years I spent developing skills and interests at the kind of depth that could keep me busy till the end of my life.
2025 had ups and downs, but I loved my 2025 at #IzzyOnDroid.
Our team has grown with several new members and we launched https://izzyondroid.org/, our new web home!
We even got our first grant ever (thanks, 
@nlnet!), allowing us to bring download statistics to IzzyOnDroid and integrate it directly into #NeoStore (and soon #Droidify), improve the #ReproducibleBuild system and more.
I'm grateful to the team for giving me a space where I feel able to make a difference ❤️
Here is to 2026! 🎉
Parental Controls Aren't for Parents
Link: https://beasthacker.com/til/parental-controls-arent-for-parents.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46464652
Reading up on CiruitPython on an EPS32 and I have the strong feeling I'm either missing something essential here or that whole thing is so much easier than people want you to believe.
Take this perspective with a grain of salt right now - I'll write more about it once the project is done.
(I still haven't pushed any code to the board and I can do basic FPGA modelling, programmed embedded boards in C and use Python for >20 years.)
2026, Happy new year!
Leftovers.
Waffles the Cat, just loafin' around on a Feline Friday
#cat #CatsOfMastodon #cats #mastocats #tripawed #ThreeLeggedCat #catstodon #fedicats #FelineFriday
#스운완 #근육은_인생의_파트너 맞다 안 올리고 있었네! 꽤 오랜만이자(2주 되었나..?), 26년의 첫 오운완! 아니 근데 첫 오운완부터 결과화면에 6이 가득해요....... 뭐 뭐야
Chaos Computer Club Fulda unterstützt Digital Independence Day 
@maglabMagrathea Laboratories
Auftakttreffen am 4. Januar 2026 – Linux-Install-Party am 1. Februar 2026
Der Chaos Computer Club Fulda / Magrathea Laboratories e.V. unterstützen die bundesweite Initiative des Chaos Computer Club [1] zum monatlichen Digital Independence Day [2]. Die Idee geht auf den Autor Marc-Uwe Kling zurück, der am 4. Juli 2025 den Digitalen Unabhängigkeitstag ausrief, um auf die wachsende Abhängigkeit von amerikanischen Big-Tech-Konzernen aufmerksam zu machen [3]. Ziel der Initiative ist es, digitale Souveränität zu stärken und Menschen dabei zu unterstützen, selbstbestimmt und unabhängig mit digitalen Technologien umzugehen.
In Fulda sind im Rahmen der Initiative zwei öffentliche Veranstaltungen geplant:
• Auftakttreffen am Sonntag, 4. Januar 2026 - 12-18 Uhr
Bei einem offenen Planungstreffen sollen lokale Aktivitäten rund um digitale Souveränität vorbereitet werden. Geplant ist unter anderem der Aufbau einer gemeinsamen Ressourcensammlung sowie der Austausch darüber, wie Gesellschaft, Bildungseinrichtungen und zivilgesellschaftliche Akteure künftig konkret unterstützt werden können.
• Linux-Install-Party am Sonntag, 1. Februar 2026 - 12-18 Uhr
Anlass ist das absehbare Support-Ende von Windows 10 auf vielen Geräten, sowie zunehmende Überwachung der Nutzer unter Windows 11. Interessierte erhalten hier praktische Unterstützung beim Umstieg auf freie Betriebssystem-Alternativen wie Linux, inklusive Datensicherung, Installation und grundlegender Einführung in den Alltag mit freier Software.
Beide Veranstaltungen richten sich ausdrücklich auch an Menschen ohne technische Vorkenntnisse. Die Teilnahme ist offen und kostenfrei. … aber auch an euch, die uns, dem CCC dabei helfen wollen, unsere Mitmenschen zu unterstützen.
Erzählt es allen, die es, oder auch die es nicht hören wollen. :)
cu ink
[1] https://www.ccc.de/de/updates/2025/ccc-unterstutzt-den-monatlichen-digital-independence-day
[2] https://di.day/
[3] https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-die-kanguru-rebellion-digital-independence-day
RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@Vivaldi/114432708506522837
Good way to start the year: ditch that Big Tech browser and come on over 🤝
GENKI
Kat Marchán 🐈
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
雨宮凪沙/nagiko
