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頭痛がひどい 水分不足か
RE: https://mastodon.social/@djrrb/115820877367792020
really lovely presentation for a font designers website
PDP-10 & Microcomputers
https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/pdp-10-and-microcomputers#footnote-anchor-5-174658034
Some key early software for microcomputers was developed on DEC mainframes
<- Nemanja Trifunovic explains why CP/M, DOS, WinNT, OS/2 & more all are influenced by TOPS-10 on the DECsystem-10
hypothetically, would it be illegal to train a cat to steal from a grocery store and deliver the loot to me
The last three weeks were exhausting!
My time was split between my family and friends.
Finally, my Top 50 of 2025 is here
The Microsoft 365 Copilot OS (formerly Windows)
Gmail preparing to drop POP3 mail fetching
https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/05/gmail_dropping_pop3/
It's January 2026, and Google is finding innovative new ways to make one of its services worse
<- by me on 
@theregister
We are looking for an experienced Android UI developer for https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-android. Native Java, close to the system, with minimal deps and fluff.
Networking/encryption/persistence is not part of the job as it happens in https://github.com/chatmail/core
Remote collab is fine and the default. We meet in person every few months in the black forest or other occasions/places. We can do 20-30 hours per week contracts with 4-5K EUR pay per month.
EDIT: position is filled. thanks all!
Reminder to periodically go compare your bastille.conf with the upstream sample for new entries and updates.
I'm willing to bet more than one of you are missing updates in the bastille.conf.
> cd /usr/local/etc/bastille
> diff -u bastille.conf bastille.conf.sample
Merge new entries into your config to make use of the latest fixes and features (including the new `monitor` command).
my 46th semester of teaching at a university started today.
honestly starting to feel as if whatever it was I showed up here to do, it's mostly done at this point.
The most soothing sounds are mothers heartbeat, ocean waves, and cats purr
RE: https://chaos.social/@delta/115842446685941927
Encrypted content / headers / transport / etc. are great harm reduction, but by no means is it metadata avoidance (in the strict academic sense of what those words mean when applied to communications systems).
Third party actors (e.g. relay servers / network actors) can build correlative models using the *metadata* inherent in the communication protocol (source, destination, timing, frequency).
We have decades of research demonstrating the power of such models - let's not minimize them.
People have been telling me for years that Mastodon is dead. Oh no! Anyway...
Novo Nordisk launches Wegovy weight-loss pill in US, triggering price war
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/05/novo-nordisk-launches-wegovy-weight-loss-pill-us-price-war
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46503554
So, you want to chunk really fast?
Link: https://minha.sh/posts/so,-you-want-to-chunk-really-fast
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46501665
RE: https://mastodon.social/@eunews/115842737580067593
This is all very concerning I know - I just need some levity and this flashback brought me a smile I thought I would share:
To me that phrase said by Tusk belongs not to Dumas' Three Musketeers books, but to the anthropomorphic dog version, Dogtanian:
"One for all and all for one,
Muskehounds are always ready.
One for all and all for one,
Helping everybody."
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_QGcqw1GW_UWBGJXNAhon8khXpB4Sjqi
Anyone using Cloudflare as a domain name registrar?
I went to try them. It seems impossible to transfer in a domain without hosting your DNS with Cloudflare.
I have my own name servers. I don't need theirs.
pilfered from around the web
Microsoft's CEO is really sad we keep using the word "slop":
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-satya-nadella-ai-slop
So, which one is it going to be?
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
@BardBard 
@yassie_j@labyrinth.zone:baba_yaseen: :agenderFlag: :transgenderFlag: this is revenge for my cucumber post isn't it
London tonight - 2,000 people outside Downing Street tell prime minister Starmer to condemn Trump's war crimes in Venezuela.
Thread: 1
🤘 New episode of Changelog News!
Brian Guthrie lists his seven rules for moving faster in software, Continuous-Claude-v2 is a context management system for Claude Code, Gas Town is Steve Yegge's multi-agent orchestrator for Claude Code, Paul Dix sees a great engineering divergence in 2026, and Mattias Geniar thinks web development is fun again.
@inthehandsPaul Cantrell Oh, that makes sense. I figured it was because they were worried that their employees would wind up deported and they'd have trouble getting new ones, and was surprised that a large corporation would have that much foresight
@Canageek @inthehandsPaul Cantrell
This is also true. ICE has to book under false pretenses for exactly that reason. Most hotels don't want them, at the very least for practical reasons. They absolutely do abduct hotel staff.
With that said, Marriott has a history of collaborating with ICE. There's this article for an example, plus when I see activists banging pots outside a hotel where ICE is staying, more often than not it's a Marriott brand.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/19/ice-marriott-hotel-detentions
@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) @BardBard @yassie_j:baba_yaseen: :agenderFlag: :transgenderFlag: 
@puppygirlhornypost2Amber "This meme is from the future, you don't get it yet" ass image
@Viss 
@juJu 
@badsamuraiB'ad Samurai 🐐 Exactly. "We now support Wireguard. Kind of."
Okay #MedMastodon folks - The instance is now back up and running I'm pleased to share. Things might take a moment to catch-up and I have sent out an announcement so hopefully anyone that had accounts that doesn't see this will get the e-mail ping letting them know everything is currently back online.
I will post a bit more about the plan in the near future but the long story short is nothing is planned to change that folks will see, the main goal for me is to get the site up and running, catch up on the activities that look to be outstanding and get a plan together for migrating everything onto new infrastructure.
Also a huge shoutout to 
@mastohost who have been excellent at keeping the server "Paused" effectively without deleting data even when there was no confirmed migration path and a real big thanks to Nick for being willing to transfer the server and keep the community running!
Did you do it? Did you hack the Ubiquiti shit? Good. Here's more.
Something that's been bugging me for the past couple of years was that the #PyPI search bar wasn't returning the "most accurate" result first.
Not being an #OpenSearch expert, I got the query syntax tweaked to boost a better match on explicit name.
Search for `psycopg`, `boto3`, and more!
See the goodies here: https://github.com/pypi/warehouse/pull/19224
X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced
Link: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/x-blames-users-for-grok-generated-csam-no-fixes-announced/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46503199
I caught up on some podcasts during a long walk today. 
@joshbressers chatting with 
@cadeyXe 
is my favorite of the day. I already understood anubis, but thinking about as a sort of WAF is a very interesting idea that hadn't occurred to me. It was also just a tremendously fun listen and touched some important ideas about FOSS sustainability. Josh does an amazing job of keeping every podcast he makes short and focused, even when you can tell he could've happily make the interview 3x as long and covered 4x as many topics.
Gute-Nacht-Kater #fedicats #catsoffediverse
안녕하세요, 플래닛 등의 연합우주 SNS를 사용한 적 있는 모든 사람을 대상으로, 동인을 위한 더 나은 SNS 및 서비스 개발을 위한 설문조사를 1월 11일(일)까지 진행 중입니다.
혹시 설문조사에 대한 질문이나 개선점 등이 필요하다 생각하시다면 편히 멘션이나 DM으로 이야기해주세요. 감사합니다.
I love the Mac but recent changes, idiotic Liquid Glass and a company that has lost it's way has made me never want to upgrade to Tahoe. So, I think 2026 is the year of Linux for me. In a few months I will be "in between" projects so this might be a good time to change. The big issue is a C++ IDE. I'll give JetBrains a good try. I hear mixed things.
This time for sure!
Non-privacy advocates say "I haven't got anything to hide. Have you?"
That's the wrong end of the stick. It isn't *what* is known which is the problem, so much as *who* knows it, and whether they have goodwill towards you.
Governments are supposed to have goodwill towards you, but at best, they have indifference. Corporations declare that they have goodwill towards you, but they are lying; they have the same amount of goodwill towards you as a fox has to a chicken.
>systemd v256 automatically runs sshd listening on a vsock interface in the global network namespace
>The official way to disable this behavior requires appending "systemd.ssh_auto=no" to the kernel boot line.
??? on the *kernel* command line? who thought this was acceptable??????
@nuintariThe Psychotic Network Ferret It was 2006, I think (or 2007 at the latest), and I went with a colleague to a company - the same one that, incidentally, gave us some decommissioned Digital AlphaStations. They showed me a machine (not connected to the network, obviously) that they were still using for payroll. I couldn't quite tell what it was exactly, but it was some kind of Unix system and it had been rebooted for the last time... in 1986.
I believe it’s the longest uptime I’ve ever seen.
January in Montreal is a time that people can ask you things like "Would it kill you to leave the house and go pick up groceries?" or "Would it kill you to step out and take the recycling to the curb?" and you can honestly answer "YES PROBABLY"
It's time to push this over the finish line https://github.com/kean/Nuke/pull/802. I'm going to do a final pass and see how "approachable concurrency" affects it.
실례지만 왜 여권을 2개 이상씩이나 갖고 계시는 거죠...?
It's hard to justify webpage snowflakes. 🤪
지금 이시간 가내 털공주
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Stefano Marinelli
Sven Peter
Jenniferplusplus
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