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#OpenSource #Regulation incoming! The 
@EUCommissionEuropean Commission is about to ask for feedback for:
* a strategic approach to the open source sector in the EU that addresses the importance of open source as a crucial contribution to EU technological sovereignty, security and competitiveness
* a strategic and operational framework to strengthen the use, development and reuse of open digital assets within the Commission.
the numpad was the most brilliant invention for the keyboard
what if you had a way to enter numbers, that sometimes randomly wouldn't work, and would move your cursor around instead? brilliant!
StackOverflow’s fall is a sign of something more troubling.
Sure, if your main metric is the round trip time it takes to solve a technical question then it may not look that bad.
After all, instead of asking questions to human experts who may take days or weeks to answer, beginners can directly submit them to an LLM trained on that very knowledge and get answers within seconds - perhaps not perfect, perhaps with a bit of refinement required amid model hallucinations, but in most of the cases enough to get them started.
What many seem to ignore though is that the training set that went into the LLM was harvested through tens of thousands of curated answers manually submitted by human experts over years to the StackExchange platforms.
We know a lot about all the most obscure use-cases of collections and itertools in Python, or the best composition patterns in SpringBoot, because thousands of human experts put together thoughtful answers and articles on those topics, and they are all publicly available.
But technology is never static. Programming languages and frameworks come and go. Where will the knowledge about such future craft live? In a world where humans no longer willingly and freely post such knowledge on StackOverflow or Reddit, how can such knowledge be fed to increasingly hallucinating stochastic parrots?
Or do we accept that human craft is only required to feed AI models that haven’t yet caught up with it, and then it can be nicely packaged and provided through chatbots owned by trillion-dollar companies?
As if the only added value of developing problem solving skills in science and engineering was just to feed that knowledge to our AI overlords, and then be tossed away like hollow carcasses afterwards?
いーじゃん
Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%
Link: https://brave.com/privacy-updates/36-adblock-memory-reduction/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46501894
The surprising truth of why chickens are ideal
what if google balls had personalities
Now that's style. https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/05/hacktivist-deletes-white-supremacist-websites-live-on-stage-during-hacker-conference/
Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live onstage during hacker conference | TechCrunch
A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacist websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.
techcrunch.com · TechCrunch
Link author: 
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai@lorenzofb@infosec.exchange
unfortunately, your note did not find me well
There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout
Link: https://loworbitsecurity.com/radar/radar16/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46504963
Healthcare and related research need open spaces to collaborate now more than ever before.
That's why I'm glad to see 
@nodebb building a community that caters to this need. A federated forum is the perfect template for this kind of discussion.
#NursePractitioners #PhysicianAssistant #Nurse #Physician #Medical #MedicalResearch #Healthcare #Doctors
ohayo
お正月を写そう♪
Lumix GH1 + Samyang 35mm F1.4 Aspherical IF #Misskey写真部
『蜘蛛ですが、なにか？』10周年オンラインくじ、本日16:59で受付締め切りです。よろしくお願いいたします…！（イラスト、作品発売当時に全部描きました
https://kujibikido.com/lp/kumo/
특: 미국은 ICC 회원국이 아님과 더불어, 미국에는 ICC에 구금, 구속된 군인 및 고위 공직자를 "필요한 모든 수단을 동원"해 구출할 수 있는, 이른바 "헤이그 침공법"이 2002년부터 발효됨.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:l2hxm7jansx4uoalu4tklnyi/post/3mbnrj2k2c22a
I wonder how much of the Venezuelian IT infrastructure relies on Google Workspaces/Microsoft Sharepoint.
But what we will never know is how many documents/email/info stored there were directly studied by US intelligence to prepare their attack.
Because, at the very least, we know it could have been done.
LOGOS/DV_PIZZA.GIF
This is unexpected. Yes I got the vaccines, and I did wear masks (although was not able to all the time), and avoided crowds a bit. But my immune system is f cked up, I have long covid, did not sleep enough, and generally went a bit beyond my bodies limits - and still I did not get the #39c3 #congresseuche ?! Hooowww?! I think I was bitten by a radioactive blahaj or something, idk where those superpowers came from suddenly... 
top risks 2026 is officially out
after 28 years of analyzing geopolitical risks
this year is the tipping point:
https://www.eurasiagroup.net/issues/Top-Risks-2026
the number one risk this year is the us political revolution.
trump is systematically dismantling checks on his power and weaponizing government against his enemies. (as he and his supporters believe they have weaponized it against him)
whether this revolution succeeds or fails, there's no going back to before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z6I9XQ6rKo
내 짐작은 ... 아마 미국이 온다 정도 감지는 하긴했을것 같은데 부정부패(?)가 너무 심했거나 혹은 셋업이 제대로 안된 상태로 운용되던것 아닐까 싶긴함
First D-Link of 2026 
There Were BGP Anomalies During the Venezuela Blackout
Link: https://loworbitsecurity.com/radar/radar16/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46504963
고무 gomme, 프랑스 갑빠 capa, 포르투갈 뺑끼 pek, 네덜란드 놈팽이 Lumpen, 독일 쿠우쿠우 食う食う, 일본 고구마 孝行芋, 일본 가브리살 被り살, 일본 케첩 kôechiap, 중국 건달 gaṃdharva, 산스크리트 나락 naraka, 산스크리트 뚝스딱스 tuxtax, 라틴 순대 senggiduha, 만주 엉터리 Ongtori, 만주 키오스크 (köşk; 튀르키예) 슬로건 (slaugh-gharim; 아일랜드) 샴푸 (चाँपो; 힌디) 파자마 (पाजामा; 힌디) 업진살 (ebči'ün+살; 몽골) "와" ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAgR... 아 그러네 베네주엘라가 무기나 방어체계가 없던건 아닌데 중국러시아에서 이것저것 엄청 받아서 설치해놨지만 완전히 무력화된거구나 미국이 꽤나 이를 갈고 준비했구만 싶고... 중국이 그래서 그냥 입다물고 있는것이구만;; 베네수엘라에 계신분들에겐 안된일이지만... (대만침공) 전쟁이 미뤄진것 같으면서도 앞당겨진것 같기도하고 허허
my .space domain renewal price will be going up by 50% after january 15th :(
『蜘蛛ですが、なにか？』10周年オンラインくじ、本日16:59で受付締め切りです。よろしくお願いいたします…！（イラスト、作品発売当時に全部描きました
https://kujibikido.com/lp/kumo/
In #Dörverden ist ein senkrechter #Solarpark in Betrieb gegangen, der gleichzeitig #Strom und #Ackerfrüchte erzeugt.
Die bifacialen Module stehen in Reihen mit großem Abstand und lassen genug Platz für landwirtschaftliche Maschinen. Durch die Ost-West-Ausrichtung wird vor allem morgens und abends Strom erzeugt.
Das Pilotprojekt untersucht, wie sich Beschattung auf Erträge und #Wasserverbrauch auswirkt.
#agriPV #photovoltaik #landwirtschaft #erneuerbareenergien #energy
Happy New Year! We’re pleased to support Code & Compliance 2026 as a Promotional Partner.
The event brings together developers, maintainers, industry representatives, and policymakers on 29 January in Brussels to discuss the Cyber Resilience Act and explore practical approaches to open-source governance, compliance, and security.
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I don’t know if you’re a masochist^Wfan of a 19,000-word Ed Zitron rant, but if you are, this is a good read.
Ed’s framing of the present-day stock hype cycle as “enshittification of shareholders” is pretty apt. Analysts are incentivized to *sell stock*, not provide a reporting of things as they are. As a result, they become complicit in risk-laundering, causing stock prices to go ever higher, and putting shareholders (that’s you and me) at higher risk than we realize.
Although this seems to be a market-wide problem, nowhere is it worse than in the AI industry. The article claims that the valuations of AI companies are based on future promises of revenue in a way that is *way* beyond the norm; the odds that all of these promises come to pass is basically zero, and the odds that many, MANY dominos fall when only a few of those promises fail to deliver is quite high; and the time of reckoning for those promises is nigh: probably starting in 2026.
今日はお昼から予定あるけど、まだ昨日分のノルマが終わっていないお。がんばれ私！！！
Happy New Year! We’re pleased to support Code & Compliance 2026 as a Promotional Partner.
The event brings together developers, maintainers, industry representatives, and policymakers on 29 January in Brussels to discuss the Cyber Resilience Act and explore practical approaches to open-source governance, compliance, and security.
Learn more and register: https://www.eclipse-foundation.events/event/code-compliance-2026/summary
Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live onstage during hacker conference | TechCrunch
A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacist websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.
techcrunch.com · TechCrunch
Link author: Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai@lorenzofb@infosec.exchange
I got an email from "payment declined" saying that they're about to delete all my images and videos, from my account on "Cloud"
oh no! not Cloud!
Ever wanted a PicoGUS or PicoMEM but for PCMCIA? yyzkevin's PicoPCMCIA adds modern WiFi networking, Sound Blaster, GUS, CD-ROM, and storage to any computer with a PCMCIA slot. He's getting closer to launch and is now taking deposits for the first run of cards. https://www.yyzkevin.com/picopcmcia/
Both the Sound Blaster and CD-ROM emulation on the PicoGUS originally came from this ambitious project so it's awesome seeing it get close to done!
@ricciRob Ricci 
@ErickaSimone 
@stefanStefan Bohacek
These are just classic Bluesky features. It seems to me that Mastodon's solution of restricting the visibility of posts makes more sense than just restricting the reply function, because people can quote and comment on the post. The Bluesky quote function has already been copied by Mastodon, and I don't think Mastodon should become a second Bluesky, especially since everyone thinks Bluesky is so bad.
"restricting the visibility of posts makes more sense than just restricting the reply function"
I've said this in another thread, but will repeat it here: As a straight white dude I never have to choose between reaching a wider audience and staying safe. I can always post publicly without ever thinking about this.
how big of a deal are these solid state batteries? seems kind of huge for electrification
World's First All-Solid-State ...
Healthcare and related research need open spaces to collaborate now more than ever before.
That's why I'm glad to see @nodebb building a community that caters to this need. A federated forum is the perfect template for this kind of discussion.
#NursePractitioners #PhysicianAssistant #Nurse #Physician #Medical #MedicalResearch #Healthcare #Doctors
@glyph on a totally different note, thanks for sharing that video about kratom addiction. It was good, and I can’t help but think that if my friend had seen it last year it could have helped push him down a different path.
트위터에서 남의 사진 AI로 가공한걸 아동포르노 관련으로 신고했다가, 가해자가 아닌 피해자 계정이 '소재 제공'으로 터지는 사건이 있었다고.
Misty
@reiver ⊼ (Charles) 
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