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RE: https://tech.lgbt/@jyn/115855768757595310

When I was in college, I accidentally bought the a printed copy of the C# language *reference* instead of a book about how to learn C#. The bookstore didn't take refunds, and I didn't have enough money to go back and buy the right book, so I taught myself C# from the EBNF.

I don't recommend this approach, it is not a good approach.

Tailscale state file encryption no longer enabled by default

Link: https://tailscale.com/changelog
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46531925

"Secret police" is often misunderstood to mean a force that operates covertly, with all their operations secret. But a secret police force's actions are often public. The secret part is hiding their identities, because they're breaking laws to hurt politically disfavored people, and fear reprisals.

I am sitting out on my back deck and a delivery drone flew over the neighbor behind me, landed, and took off again. It was quite large and clearly left without the payload it was carrying. What was most surprising is that it was basically a vtol - it had wings and flew like a plane till it started hovering. That was a first for me.

Graphing Calculator Gets USB-C Upgrade

https://hackaday.com/2026/01/07/graphing-calculator-gets-usb-c-upgrade/

Heartbreaking update from #tailwindcss. They had to lay off 75% of their staff yesterday due to #AI driven losses.

I really don't see how the #OpenSource industry survives this. The days of making your source and your docs open to the public is quickly disappearing.

https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com/pull/2388#issuecomment-3717222957

#CSS #PHP #WebDev #HTML #coding #programming #LLM

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I have that Studio Display flickering issue in Tahoe that people reported. I'm somewhat sure this is solely due to @dlxrobb crazy HDR profile icon.

One of the hardest things about being an immigrant is I don’t know what to do with ‘rugged individualism’.

I am considered one of the most ‘westernized’ and ‘independent’ people in the society I come from (people think it’s too much.. moving to a whole other country? Too independent) but

Even I really struggle with some of the daily manifestations of hyper individualism that surrounds me.

A friend had just visited a developed Asian country and wondered why it wasn’t full of homeless people. I said well it’s probably that East Asian homelessness looks different, but there’s probably an element of.. you don’t want to be the person who people say let your second cousin die and starve on the streets. The social shame, I tried to explain. Also, if it’s a warm or religious place, they have food.

I felt it was very similar to what I saw my parents grasping with when they visited me. On BART, kids were making loud sounds. My parents glared at them. Nothing happened. They were confused. I had to explain to them that.. there is just no social shame. Glaring at them doesn’t mean anything, they just think you’re weirdos. It isn’t anyone’s business that they’re making loud sounds.

So while I think there are pros to some community consciousness, I also think the people who want to sell a vision of ‘collectivist societies are better’ are also failing to account for the patriarchal bs that comes with it. We take care of our elderly because we are shamed by it, but it is largely the mothers and grandmothers doing the work.

But what I’ll never, ever get used to is this: the idea that in some places, poor people, sick people, elderly people, deserve to be cast aside and deserve no help. That’s a level of cruelty I do not wish to understand.

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why do people twitter

Recently, the application of AI tools to Erdos problems passed a milestone: an Erdos problem (#728 https://www.erdosproblems.com/728) was solved more or less autonomously by AI (after some feedback from an initial attempt), in the spirit of the problem (as reconstructed by the Erdos problem website community), with the result (to the best of our knowledge) not replicated in existing literature (although similar results proven by similar methods were located).

This is a demonstration of the genuine increase in capability of these tools in recent months, and is largely consistent with other recent demonstrations of AI using existing methods to resolve Erdos problems, although in most previous cases a solution to these problems was later located in the literature, as discussed in https://mathstodon.xyz/deck/@tao/115788262274999408 . This particular case was unusual in that the problem as stated by Erdos was misformulated, with a reconstruction of the problem in the intended spirit only obtained in the last few months, which helps explain the lack of prior literature on the problem. However, I would like to talk here about another aspect of the story which I find more interesting than the solution itself, which is the emerging AI-powered capability to rapidly write and rewrite expositions of the solution. (1/5)

Obsidian 1.11.4 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile.

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Struggling with political news and tensions today. Share something wholesome please.

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Holy crap Tailwind CSS had to layoff 75% of its engineers because of AI? When users use LLMs instead of documentation sites, you can't push your paid add-ons any more. Result: ✨poof✨ your revenues are gone.

This is a blow for sustainable OSS library and tools. What to do instead?

https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com/pull/2388#issuecomment-3717222957

(I still dislike TW and still hope to remove from at least some projects in 2026.)

#FOSS #sustainability

Just FYI: this is part of the damage being done by extractive AI companies. Their scraper bots routinely DDOS us, and they multiply to take up as much bandwidth as is available. We are having to put a huge percentage of our developers’ time into just keeping the site alive rather than building its future. They are actively destroying everything worthwhile about the internet. @helloKnowledge Commons https://hcommons.social/@hello/115854618561953712

Health care data breach affects over 600k patients, Illinois agency says

Link: https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2026-01-06/health-care-data-breach-affects-600-000-patients-illinois-agency-says
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46528353

🔥 New Changelog interview!

We're joined by Sid Sijbrandij, founder of GitLab who led the all-in-one coding platform all the way to IPO. In late 2022, Sid discovered that he had bone cancer. That started a journey he's been on ever since... a journey that he shares with us in great detail. Along the way, Sid continued founding companies including Kilo Code, an all-in-one agentic engineering platform, which he also tells us all about.

👉 https://changelog.fm/672 #podcast

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Just FYI: this is part of the damage being done by extractive AI companies. Their scraper bots routinely DDOS us, and they multiply to take up as much bandwidth as is available. We are having to put a huge percentage of our developers’ time into just keeping the site alive rather than building its future. They are actively destroying everything worthwhile about the internet. @helloKnowledge Commons https://hcommons.social/@hello/115854618561953712

blocked a botlicker elsewhere arguing that I was forbidden from critiquing LLM code generators because "you're obviously using software that uses claude, everyone is using claude" without providing evidence, as if one's participation in a system is de-facto proof that they cannot critique it

these people have a religious fervor

Practical Collision Attack Against Long Key IDs in PGP https://lobste.rs/s/9uesig #cryptography
https://soatok.blog/2026/01/07/practical-collision-attack-against-long-key-ids-in-pgp/

Black Python Devs on Reasonable Doubt TV show (S3E1) 🤩
I just had to take picture of the scene.
But what do they mean by "regular ones?" 😇

@blackpythondevs @kjaymillerJay Miller
#BlackPythonDevs

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gedeonm/115855107116257465

This should go without saying, but I'm saying it anyway. Either Greenland is unequivocally worth risking the destruction of NATO to defend, or NATO must be destroyed.

i’m seeing Build version: 1.113.0.1263; Bundle info: e627d37 (tf); Bundle date: 26010709;

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Techbros are handing out chainsaws, talking about how they are going to revolutionize woodworking. Developers are being barraged with chainsaws, chainsaw tips, chainsaw demos, and demands to make use of chainsaws to be more efficient. Chainsaws can cut faster, bigger, and tougher! They can get more done with less! Dev bloggers are writing about how to maintain a woodworking career in a world of chainsaws, how to prevent chainsaws from ruining a project, & how to do detail work with chainsaws.

whats the difference between shampoo and conditioner anyways

@samuel.fmSamuel is that expected? i see topic names etc in feeds, i also have an “assign context” sheet button in discover

I had someone ask me if reading rust-lang/rust is the right way to learn rust and I had to decide if I hated them or not before I answered

Building voice agents with Nvidia open models

Link: https://www.daily.co/blog/building-voice-agents-with-nvidia-open-models/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46528045

#nvidia

Samsung 5k and 6k high refresh dual mode monitors. Doesn't seem like it has their “Smart OS" which is good, but does seem to have a matte coating (which I think in their current 5k monitor is overly aggressive).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-ivQHibIKs

RE: https://mastodon.social/@wakest/100160904388110265

my prediction back in 2018 is now only 4 years away, and twitter.com is now only used for redirects to x.com. Since its owned by Elon and his X empire, and he is a cold hearted capitalist, I could see him happily selling it to an insurance company if an offer was made for the right amount

In Q4, CC continued our work in international fora that shape cultural rights and copyright, as well as our advocacy for AI policies that serve the public interest.

Read the full policy review:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/creative-commons-q4-policy-review-creative-commons-fqvtc

Image: "Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building," Carol M Highsmith, 2007, CC0, Flickr.

Has anyone heard anything from Apple regarding the safety of X, given that it is a porn generator on demand?

They seemed to be very concerned about it a year ago:

Denmark colonized Greenland and subjugated the native people in 1721.

In our modern time most Danes feel this was wrong, and for decades there has been a strong political backing for initiatives helping the 57,000 Greenlanders, who receive $673 million per year from Denmark.

Should the people of Greenland choose full independence, the Danish parliament would support their decision.

What we will not support is Trump exploiting a proud native people whom we consider our friends.

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@lexfriLex Friedman @Tarnport

Minneapolis resident here. You really don’t want him for president: he’s an absolute nincompoop, terrible at running things, and has repeatedly caved to local money whenever money comes calling. His record is mostly one of floundering and in action; he’s only narrowly won reelection by convincing white people that his opponents would abolish the police overnight. But he is at least generally pretty good at saying the right things and defensive immigrants, and was in especially good form today. It’s the first time in quite a while I can remember being happy that he was my mayor.

Relax for the same result via @andreynering https://lobste.rs/s/6gsmoh #person #practices #science
https://sive.rs/relax

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I posted on the Django Forum about the impact of LLMs on web traffic and related sponsorship options. Seems the appropriate place for a convo but linking here: https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/are-llms-decimating-web-traffic-and-sponsorship-options/43868