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結局寝れなかったンゴ
A little known fact about the Power Mac G5 is that it's actually a space heater masquerading as a computer. 
#Apple #Mac #PowerMacG5 #PowerMac #PowerPC #RetroComputing #Retro #Silly
It's a brand new year and loads of y'all are looking for work, so here's a thread of tech jobs I've seen in my online wandering that have tech for good (or at least minimally evil) vibes:
La Linea
Helping my elderly mother-in-law with her bookkeeping.
Her bank is in a different country that uses date format DD-MM-YYYY.
I downloaded the csv from her bank and tried importing it to a spreadsheet.
The spreadsheet app does not understand that date format and doesn't treat it as a "date" column so it doesn't know how to sort the column by date.
I could adjust the data using Python csv module before importing to spreadsheet, but feels like it doesn't need to be this hard. 😩
I'm opening up a public beta for Best-o-Masto, my Mastodon app that tries to let you catch up on your feed in a minute or less.
It's exactly the same as the App Store version for now, but you'll get to trial stuff early and give feedback in the future.
#quickshell added initial support for FreeBSD today... https://github.com/quickshell-mirror/quickshell/commit/6742148cf4a8415a9c51fdeb11d8c3ea716c2e14
I get the feeling a lot of people will be happy about this ;)
i love the beginning of the year because everyone starts blogging. and if you (yes you) were thinking about starting, this is your sign
Cheese is not very pumped about having to wear a cone :(
experimenting with writing a mastodon-based comments section for my blog today (just whatever Mastodon replies there are on the post)
📄 New on the blog: The secret life of custom elements
A look at the data about non-standard elements in the wild so far...
@zkatkat we have several open source organizations in France around the idea of the Commons. Would that fit your idea of another vision of open source ?
時間見つけて、年末に開催されたRTA JAPAN少しずつ見てる。知らないゲームでも見てるの面白いの本当に凄いな
Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy (2016)
Link: https://techcrunch.com/2016/01/18/why-big-companies-keep-failing-the-stack-fallacy/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46514816
The modern notion of a website with user accounts stems from like 2000 and many of those websites are still in use. Over the course of 25 years, some number of people die. That is a thing that occurs. Websites do not understand death. Websites are a four year old child and they believe this user just hasn't signed on in awhile, and will someday come back. Websites are constantly attempting to involve dead people in activities. At a certain point, four-year-old behavior stops feeling cute.
@mcc
One of my Facebook friends (a distant cousin) died. His family renamed his account to "Memorial Page (for) <name>" in his native language.
Every year this account is flooded with posts from real people featuring some variation of "Happy birthday Memorialpage!"
I'm at the dentist and the patient tracking software has a big RSS logo
Do my teeth have an RSS feed?!
おはよ 
朝散歩行こうとしたらしとしとしてたので切り替えて布団でぬくぬくしてる #fedibird
Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far
Link: https://burkeholland.github.io/posts/opus-4-5-change-everything/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46515696
High-Performance DBMSs with io_uring: When and How to use it
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04859
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46517319
RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115848576290992814
Really love this elegant and pointed description of #SoftwareEngineering from 
@pluralisticCory Doctorow which immediately enters my personal hall of fame:
“Writing code is about making code that runs well. Software engineering is about making code that fails well.”
This pairs really well with Douglas Adams who once talked about the same topic (more or less) in his own, very funny way:
“The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.”
Fictional sadistic interrogation
Pretty sure this was my favorite bit of Heinlein. Not sure if the description of her as a “bloodthirsty bitch” was intended to be read as positively as I did
But hey, let women be absolutely terrifying sometimes!
Has anyone else found that Windows Media Player is no longer finding album information when loading CDs?
It looks like this change may be intentional. I'd be interested in hearing if anyone else has run into the same issue.
I mainly use it for ripping to FLAC. There are other options available but MP was one click. #WindowsMediaPlayer https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5690345/all-new-cds-i-try-to-rip-show-up-as-unkown
Following up on this issue, for those running Linux, I found a user-friendly program that rips CDs into various formats (including FLAC), and will pull album information from an online database.
I just used it to rip and label audio tracks from 2 CDs, and it worked smoothly. #FreAC https://www.freac.org/
Fictional sadistic interrogation
Pretty sure this was my favorite bit of Heinlein. Not sure if the description of her as a “bloodthirsty bitch” was intended to be read as positively as I did
But hey, let women be absolutely terrifying sometimes!
Mouse made herself a cave of warm laundry. #CatsOfMastodon
Happy New Year!
Here's the world's easiest resolution: Switch to Vivaldi. Takes 30 seconds. Done. You're welcome.
I didn't get the job. We are completely fucked.
I need employment, *urgently*. I am not picky. My family needs to eat, and that overrides everything else. Please, does anybody out there work at a company that has machine learning or Python programming positions? Would you be willing to recommend me? I can demonstrate my abilities to you, first, if you need convincing, or I can share git repos.
Got an email from our local vet today announcing that she was retiring, and selling the practice to another independent veterinarian, having turned down several much higher offers from private equity rollup funds.
I am so grateful to Burbank/Toluca Pet Hospital's Dr Skaar for this. Having watched PE-backed rollups destroy so many veterinary practices, killing pets and ruining workers' lives, it's such a relief to know that our vet put her patients first.
The Pink Ranger hacker deleted the servers of WhiteDate, WhiteChild, and WhiteDeal in real time at the end of a talk at the #39c3 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
The SVG logo on the curl.se front page shrunk from 8658 to 2787 bytes with 
@vsz's magic, with no visual difference!
campsnapの写真。やはり普通のコンデジといった雰囲気。
https://note.com/kuonhitugi/n/nc524c55bdff8
寝た気がしない
RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/115850233260885949
Denmark says that if the US attacks Greenland, it will be the end of NATO. Of course, to Trump, that's a feature. Better yet, to him, his BFF Vladimir would love it.
Firefox should really strip down the browser to the core, make that performant and secure. Maybe even improve extension interfaces and then deliver whatever "AI" nonsense they want through extensions. Would make it so easy to stop having to talk about kill switches and how "hard" those are. Offer people all the slop extensions in the world and see who will download them.
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RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/115850233260885949
Denmark says that if the US attacks Greenland, it will be the end of NATO. Of course, to Trump, that's a feature. Better yet, to him, his BFF Vladimir would love it.
My new year's resolution is to continue ignoring all technologies that I am told ignoring will result in me being left behind. I embrace the being left behind. I will become a forest witch, speaking to myself in invented programming languages. In the dark I will twist little bits of wire together to make flickering lights that amuse squirrels. I will let the 8-bit soil from which I came reclaim my body.
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Fullmetal Alejandro
Stefano Marinelli
@reiver ⊼ (Charles) 
Jeff Atwood
silverpill
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Chris Siebenmann
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Paul Cantrell
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