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I like to think about the time immediately after January 6 2021, when Trump accepted that Biden would be inaugurated, was impeached, was denounced by his GOP colleagues, and left office.
Since ChatGPT came out in late 2022, over *half a million* tech workers have been laid off. That fact, and their voices, aren't really shaping the conversation about AI, and what "AI" really means in culture. So I started to get into it: https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/06/500k-tech-workers-laid-off/
@whitequark✧✦Catherine✦✧ 
@joepie91Sven Slootweg ("still kinky and horny anyway") I mean I literally know of like, A Certain Company that's part of the MIC using one of my libraries, which is what even sparked this whole conversation in the first place. I'm not going for 100% certainty/enforcement here. I'm going for Do Fucking Something Anything At All Besides Bend Over Backwards For Them
@zkatkat @joepie91Sven Slootweg ("still kinky and horny anyway") I mean same, my position is "you will not receive support, you will not be accepted in the community, and your PRs will not be merged" (which turns out[1] to be incredibly controversial even though it's like the lowest bar imaginable)
I think the really important change here is cultural: to kick these people out of our shared communities. licenses are a distraction from that.
I Carry A Torch For You*
Caveat Frog
6,000 #curl stickers: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/01/06/6000-curl-stickers/
…イヒッ♡
@zkatkat I've been thinking a lot about how to revive copyleft, without the poisoned entanglement of FSF. It's a difficult balance, especially whether to have freedom-zero or not, but I think it's important to put it in the context of today's power dynamic: commercial interests are 10 orders of magnitude richer and more powerful than us.
When the copyleft "community" makes a large body of useful software, the license restrictions are an equalizer. This worked up until TiVo, basically.
Calling All Hackers: How money works (2024)
Link: https://phrack.org/issues/71/17
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46518129
おはよう世界
What I'm listening to today: "Playing with live ideas", Fluxus MT
here is something very very loud
What I'm listening to today: "Ambient textures with Serge Modular Medusa", Laurent Hilairet
Beautiful, peaceful little "west coast" electronic piece. Makes me think of like early 20th century piano compositions.
Gently floating on a bed of clouds made of supersaws, the structure of a dream, coming on slow, evaporating like mist
On January 21st, we are hosting the Nix Bern Meetup in our hacker space!
https://www.meetup.com/de-de/nix-bern/events/312068410/?eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events
Damn, shots fired at Financial Times. "Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter"
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says robots are 'AI immigrants' that can address labor shortages — can 'do the type of work that maybe we decided not to do anymore'
Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, said that a wave of robots will serve as "AI immigrants" to drive the economy and do the jobs others don't want to do.
#hardware
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-says-robots-are-ai-immigrants-that-can-address-labor-shortages-can-do-the-type-of-work-that-maybe-we-decided-not-to-do-anymore
@zkatkat I have also had a lot of similar thoughts of late. The intellectual commons is under attack and it ought not to be surprising that people that contribute to it also act to preserve it for future generations. Defensive licensing seems like a good first step on this road.
새해 시작한지 며칠이나 됐다고 벌써 짐에 사람이 읍어 떼이이이잉
Jasper is giving me “the look”. Cats develop routines. Sometimes they develop these on their own, other times we influence these routines. In this case, Jasper is accustomed to getting a second breakfast because if we gave him all of his breakfast at once, he would throw it up. We’ve since found a new food that he is able to keep down but he still thinks he is owed his second breakfast. 🙄
RSA実装したいなぁ
Did… did you just give me the time in London, Ontario
@zkatkat i am opposed to getting rid of freedom zero enough to personally commit to reimplementing anything i see under such a license under my usual choice of 0BSD.
i do not think you can build a functioning labor movement on top of Cop Stuff. and licenses are Cop Stuff. these are the tools of the enemy.
Loongarch Improvements with Box64
Link: https://box86.org/2026/01/new-box64-v0-4-0-released/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46514807
ICE has been harassing residents and lawful observers unusually aggressively yesterday and today. They walk up to random cars with window-smashing tools in hand and say threatening things. They slow-drive by people’s houses in a “we know where you live” kind of way. They detain people — completely illegally, completely unconstitutionally, of course — but that will mater later and their big photo op matters •now•.
2/
What is it like to live here now?
A message comes through from a neighbor about a swarm of ICE agents in a home just a few blocks away — gone by the time I was there to check it out. Nobody knows whether ICE abducted anyone there.
A message comes through from another neighbor trying to find support for a pregnant woman whose husband was just abducted. She cannot even figure out what she wants to ask for; she is in shock. I have no way to verify this story.
Group of vehicles at this restaurant, at that library, in this suburb. On and on.
3/
Do yourself a favor and don't use Zed.
The license term agreements are predatory. I encourage you to read them before clicking "Accept".
@zkatkat I agree that there is a problem of exploitation that's bad for the health of the FOSS ecosystem, but I'm not sure getting rid of freedom zero is the way to do it.
A worrying recent example from open source hardware is that Prusa proposed a new license that basically doesn't allow commercial use. Their target is to prevent companies in Shenzhen from undercutting them, but in doing so, they would also prevent people from selling parts for repair or selling improvements to existing designs, which is a hugely important part of what got 3D printing to where it is today. IMO, if this license catches on, the 3D printing community is going to collapse and it'll just be corporations in the space.
While there's definitely a need to change the structures and tools we use to defend against corporate capture, I worry your proposed solution could backfire, especially if the solution entails disallowing specific uses in the license, since that's one area where corporate trends move too quickly (notably, how short-lived the NFT trend was, and how quickly AI became the "next big thing").
My other concern is enforceability, i.e. writing an actually valid legal document and setting precedent in courts, but that seems like a solvable problem.
쟈… 오늘 낮 최고기온 43도 준비됐나~!
#멜번 생활
ぢゃんぼー！
Passing of Joe Mancuso author of Masonite (Python web framework)
Link: https://github.com/MasoniteFramework/masonite/discussions/853
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46516137
マジかよ雪降ってきた
@zkatkat i used to like the term "public good" but i think most definitions of it (eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good ) still have a lot of propertarian (thus exploitable) baggage. software isn't just information obviously, it performs functions, and very different consequences flow from who is able to access those functions. so "common" is still probably a better fit and i appreciate your ideas and reasoning here.
Wow, #Gentoo moving from GitHub to Codeberg is cool. Haven't run Gentoo for years now but still have a soft spot for it (I learned so much running it as main driver).
I also use Codeberg für my code (and joined the association) but we can't just "move everything to Codeberg". That's neither sustainable nor a good model. We should have more associations like Codeberg to offer those kinds of services. Create a whole web of forges for collaboration while we can watch GitHub go to hell.
Never let a single goddamned person on the Right ever claim again that they’re the party of law and order without laughing in their lying face.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:j53tav4pdcpfxyx2gcfr5fhb/post/3mbrxjvp2i22g
Names for avid readers 📚 by language (more and more, in the replies👇)
English/Dutch: Bookworm / Boekenwurm
Danish: Reading horse (Lesehest)
French: Ink drinker (Buveur d'encre)
German: Read-rat (Leseratte)
Indonesian: Book flea (Kutu buku)
Romanian: Library mouse (Șoarece de bibliotecă)
Norwegian: Reading horse (Lesehest)
Serbian/Polish: Book moth (Knjiški moljac / Mól książkowy)
Greek: Bookeater (βιβλιοφάγος)
Finnish: Reading maggot (Lukutoukka)
Swedish: Read-louse (Läslus)
Vietnamese: Bookwormweevil (Mọt sách)
Linux desktop voice control has a gap. Talon costs money. Other tools are X11-only or cloud-dependent.
So I built EasySpeak.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl5m2Zo1oIE
https://github.com/ctsdownloads/easyspeak/tree/dev?tab=readme-ov-file#easyspeak
- Free and open source (GPL-3.0)
- Fully local — no cloud, no accounts
- Wayland-native
- "Hey Jarvis, open downloads"
Built for RSI, accessibility, or anyone who wants to talk to their computer.
#Linux #OpenSource #Accessibility #VoiceControl #GNOME #Wayland #a11y
今から寝るが？対戦よろしくお願いします
Street Art Utopia shared the below article:
STREET ART UTOPIA @streetartutopia@streetartutopia.com
When the urban landscape breathes and the elements become the brush, street art transforms into something living. While most see a cracked wall or a wild bush, these artists see a canvas waiting to bloom. In this collection, we explore moments where the boundary between human creativity and the natural world completely vanishes. From giants grazing on apartment blocks to delicate stone spirits waiting for the tide, these 10 photos prove that the best canvas isn't always a flat wall—it’s […]
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STREET ART UTOPIA @streetartutopia@streetartutopia.com
When the urban landscape breathes and the elements become the brush, street art transforms into something living. While most see a cracked wall or a wild bush, these artists see a canvas waiting to bloom. In this collection, we explore moments where the boundary between human creativity and the natural world completely vanishes. From giants grazing on apartment blocks to delicate stone spirits waiting for the tide, these 10 photos prove that the best canvas isn't always a flat wall—it’s […]
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「昨年は最高の年だった。しかし、今年は分裂含みの最悪の１年になるかもしれない」――新年早々、不安を口にしたのは昨年の参院選で躍進した参政党の国会議員Ｘ氏だ。どういうことか？ ◇ ◇ ◇ 昨年12月、参政党の衆議院 […]
It is amazing how much warmer -25°C seems compared to -30°.
ClojureDart: Still Alive, Kicking Harder - Grand & Dupuch https://lobste.rs/s/rmfosk #video #android #clojure #ios #mobile #web
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLYnOTCRBbg
有給たくさん残しておいて良かったンゴねえ
“One of the most striking aspects of this case is the extent to which stalkerware companies like pcTattletale operate out in the open,” EFF’s 
@evacide told 
@TechCrunch. “I hope that this case changes the risk calculus for makers of stalkerware.”
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/06/founder-of-spyware-maker-pctattletale-pleads-guilty-to-hacking-and-advertising-surveillance-software/
Founder of spyware maker pcTattletale pleads guilty to hacking and advertising surveillance software | TechCrunch
Bryan Fleming, the founder of hacked stalkerware company pcTattletale, pleaded guilty to federal charges linked to the running of his now-defunct Michigan-based spyware company.
techcrunch.com · TechCrunch
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Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker@mastodon.social
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