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Wayback 0.3 released
Wayback, the tool that will allow you to run a legacy X11 desktop environment on top of Wayland, released a new version just before the Christmas. Wayback 0.3 overhauls its custom command line option parser to allow for more X.org options to be supported, and its manual pages have been cleaned up. Other fixes merely include fixing some small typos and similar small changes. Wayback is now also
An excellent in-depth on the dangerous, unlawful U.S. attack on Venezuela. https://www.justsecurity.org/127981/international-law-venezuela-maduro/ 1/
“[S]triking Venezuela and abducting its president, is clearly a violation of the prohibition on the use of force in Article 2(4) of the UN Charter. That prohibition is the bedrock rule of the international system that separates the rule of law from anarchy, safeguards small States from their more powerful neighbors, and protects civilians from the devastation of war.”
Me and my beer.
Given everything happening right now, I updated this article with options for weather apps, web forms, and translation services — along with some tweaks to existing categories.
I hope it helps your transition off US tech!
The biggest change in my lifetime which I have seen and experienced was going from a society where most people had a base level of trust. We have gone from that to *everything* being a scam by default and nothing you see or read is real.
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CheriBSD: FreeBSD that takes advantage of CHERI via 
@RunxiYu https://lobste.rs/s/amhez5 #freebsd #osdev #security
https://www.cheribsd.org/
Linear Address Spaces: Unsafe at any speed
Link: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3534854
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46442282
Beans! 😉
Why is so much news focused on the ‘operation’ and the ‘logistics’ of the Venezuela invasion?
More is needed on the illegality, casualties, reasons for absent and lukewarm political reactions, precedent setting, and implications.
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祝え！
がまた一つ老いた瞬間である！
おはよーございます
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In my professional opinion.... nyaaa
i just wrote a song that is getting very happy feedback, then my mom asked me if I used AI.
sigh.
(i didn’t, human creativity still exists).
平和な年末、青葉区、仙台市
Nikon D4s + Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 #Misskey写真部
#Wikipedia accounts to follow:
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@wikipedia - Official account for Wikipedia
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@mediawiki - Free open software that powers Wikipedia
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@kiwix - Free open app to browse & search Wikipedia offline
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@WikiSignpostThe Signpost - Independent news site covering Wikipedia & Wikimedia
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@wikiresearch - Latest academic research about Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia
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@wmlgbtWikimedia LGBT+ - Improving LGBTQIA+ history articles on Wikipedia
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@WikimediaIEWikimedia Community Ireland - Irish Wikipedia user group
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@inthehandsPaul Cantrell I live in Denmark. Last year, after Trump started talking about taking over Greenland, JD Vance said that Denmark was "not a good ally" - and I actually agree with him. Because we're a vassal state, not an ally.
Not only is there a US military presence in Greenland, an agreement to permanently establish three US military bases in mainland Denmark, where the US troops stationed there *cannot be prosecuted under Danish law for any crime they may commit in Denmark* was finalized *after* Trump started threatening with using military force to seize Greenland. Our leaders have chosen to buy extremely expensive US fighter planes (which require permanent ongoing US support to maintain) rather than the much cheaper Swedish interceptors we'd be able to maintain ourselves - and the latter are at least as good for the specific purpose of air defense. Nearly our entire public sector runs on US-owned IT. Some critical systems that were developed locally have subsequently been sold to US firms.
I've gone to protests, I've talked to people, I've advised avoiding procuring US tech when alternatives exist, and nobody of any importance really seems to care. (Because *I'm* nobody of any importance, obviously.)
@datarama
Please keep doing what you are doing!! This is exactly the kind of pressure-building we need. And yes, it will feel like it has no effect; changing popular political sentiment •always• feels like blowing into the wind for a very long time, even while, quietly and out of sight, minds are changing and attention is shifting.
It won’t ever work…until it does. Keep it up!
It's a bit funny to me that non deterministic black boxes and even seed optimisation are just accepted as normal in FPGA design...
I think a key difference compared to software is that acceptance criteria are a lot clearer (some of it due to nature of the substrate, but others because the culture seems to more readily accept performance trade-offs upfront).
Anyone else use Gandi.net (the domain registrar)?
WTF happened to their pricing recently?
Most of my domains there are renewing at 2X+ what they last charged me a few years ago.
(.FMs are especially egregious… $200/year now, while Hover is $100 and Cloudflare is $80)
"Hey I heard you use Linux, what distro should I-
"Debian"
"But what if I wan-
"Debian"
"But I don't want-
"Debian"
"But what if-
"DEBIAN."
@th3f4ultIRanOverAGuyIn2019 Each Linux distro has its particular focus. Debian focuses on actually working.
Of course women aren’t treated equally.
There are so many ways women are not treated equally throughout society and this occurs from personal to large scale structural domains A great deal of this appears to be mostly invisible to men unless they are wired/socialized to be interested in how other folks experience the world and paid attention.
I’m curious about the thinking and perspectives of the 6% of men that answered YES.
@stephenebStephen Bannasch (316 ppm) 
@Em0nM4stodonEm 
as a 'man in tech' i'm baffled that 80% of 'men in tech' would say women are treated equally...I'd expect the number to be bad but not *that bad*.
I could belive 80% would say *they* treat women equally (which is obviously also false) but my head is actually spinning at that figure.
Lessons from 14 Years at Google
Link: https://addyosmani.com/blog/21-lessons/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46488819
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🇧🇪🇩🇪🇮🇹 All booked for Brussels, Berlin and Bologna!
Anyone else off to 
@fosdem, 
@FOSSBackstage or 
@pyconPyCon Italia Italia?
(Also going to skip PyCon US this year, already decided before the latest.)
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@vkcvkc (Veronica Explains) I oscillate - wildly and unhealthily - between this, and "everything I've ever cared about is pointless now".
@datarama it's never pointless if you enjoy it.
Treating the US like a rogue state would be a seismic shift in international relations — a shift that slow-moving world will resist. But the US •is• a rogue state at this point, and other nations need to start treating it as such. Like…yesterday.
It's amazing to me that European countries continue to host US troops under the mistaken assumption that they ensure rather than threaten their security.
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#北海道
If you are a man in tech,
read this please 👇
@Em0nM4stodonEm not surprising sadly. I DON’T work in tech anymore for this reason. My experience inside these companies was why I became an organizer.
I love reading. I love writing. I love coding. I love drawing. I love creating.
Go ahead and make the slop machines faster, you can't take away what I love.
If you are a man in tech,
read this please 👇
Of course women aren’t treated equally.
There are so many ways women are not treated equally throughout society and this occurs from personal to large scale structural domains A great deal of this appears to be mostly invisible to men unless they are wired/socialized to be interested in how other folks experience the world and paid attention.
I’m curious about the thinking and perspectives of the 6% of men that answered YES.
Learning about, “Santa Claus”
![Originating in 1937,[3] Santa Claus lies approximately 14 miles (23 km) northwest of Kingman, Arizona, along U.S. Route 93 between mile markers 57 and 58](https://digipres.club/system/media_attachments/files/115/838/632/359/067/987/original/32878bd7e3f73ce1.png)
spicy take
<- she took your spices
I love reading. I love writing. I love coding. I love drawing. I love creating.
Go ahead and make the slop machines faster, you can't take away what I love.
Given everything happening right now, I updated this article with options for weather apps, web forms, and translation services — along with some tweaks to existing categories.
I hope it helps your transition off US tech!
By framing this brazen act of aggression in euphemistic terms, the media is falling in line with Trump. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/04/trump-maduro-venezuela-war-media
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