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Trollsplit #unsinn

@dansup

Pressure makes diamonds
but also
Dough rises when left to rest

#DuelingProverbs

the ambiguous figure of the seagull, a coastal apparition both ridiculous and divine, foolish and sacred, graceful in flight yet uneasy on land, something that knows more than it shows, carrying both wonder and threat in its gaze

The virtual AmigaOS runtime (a.k.a. Wine for Amiga:)

Link: https://github.com/cnvogelg/amitools/blob/main/docs/vamos.md
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46535515

hivemind, does `'DatabaseWrapper' object has no attribute '_test_serialized_contents'` ring any bells in the context of running parallel tests in Django 6.0.x (edit: and possibly python 3.14)? #django

New blog post:

I'm a wanted criminal in Italy. Well, maybe. Probably not
http://82mhz.net/posts/2026/01/i-m-a-wanted-criminal-in-italy-well-maybe-probably-not/

#blogging #blog

Das Jahr startet mit einer Welle von Antifa-Prozessen – in DE, AT & HU.
Von Graz bis Düsseldorf, von Berlin bis Budapest: Die Repression eskaliert.
Doch unsere Solidarität kennt keine Grenzen.
Wir stehen zusammen. Wir sind alle Antifa.

I tip my hat to #Bose for giving owners of soon-to-be End of Life/support speakers the garantuee that the devices will continue to function and giving them the information needed to collectively build new tools to do even more with them. Thank you, Bose!

https://www.bose.com/soundtouch-end-of-life

Und hier kommen unsere ersten #Job-Schätze von 2026 - Happy New Year! 🥳

Teufel sucht ein:en Android Developer, in Berlin:
https://lautsprecherteufel.jobs.personio.de/job/2477855?language=en&display=en

@wikimediaDE sucht ein:e Director of Engineering, in Berlin:
https://wikimedia-deutschland.career.softgarden.de/jobs/61646562/Director-of-Engineering-all-genders-/

Die uib gmbh sucht eine IT-Systemtechniker:in, in Mainz:
https://opsi.org/files/job_posting_it_system_engineer_2025.pdf

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the ambiguous figure of the seagull, a coastal apparition both ridiculous and divine, foolish and sacred, graceful in flight yet uneasy on land, something that knows more than it shows, carrying both wonder and threat in its gaze

I've been saying for a while that our inability to measure or value these models' lack of a viewpoint/theory-of-own-mind/rich internal goal and value structure will be the shoals a lot of the more "creative" outputs break on.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:565ebob5f6hw33hjdkxty6qj/post/3mbwem6vjbs2u

The value-destroying potential...

due to ongoing ddos-like slowness (?), I've got multiple mastodon tabs open, probably adding to the problem 🤔

@mcc satellite startup called Kessler

今日もリアクションありがとう
お返しする余裕ないから​​
ごめんね、おやすみ

Trollsplit #unsinn

가슴꼭지켜줄거같아서로 봄

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ailv6negsywkwi4hk3enox3f/post/3mbwecfwtkk2b

Here they are!
A full view at the 6 designs I’ve been working on for the past couple of months, and they will finally be available on my website this Saturday at 6pm CEST!

Who do you like best? 🪡

#handmade #SmallBusiness #ShopSmall #Art #Artist #Cute #sewing #embroidery #giftIdeas #FediArt #FediGiftShop

Cursorless: Voice coding at the speed of thought https://lobste.rs/s/g9qqxm #video #a11y #editors
https://www.cursorless.org/

there's a need for slop-free software dependency chains

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@swift I sometimes end up talking to them about it, and they seem to be aware AI is sometimes wrong... But yet they keep using it for literally everything.

It's almost like an addict who knows the addiction might be hurting them, but can't stop using.

I can see the damage it's doing to the long term maintainability of our environment and platform too :(

I would be pretty offended if the #US gov does not recognize me as ‘radical left scum’

Thanks everyone for the amazing time I had at #39C3!

See y'all next year!!!

mreow~

Is anyone else experience this thing where your fellow senior engineers seem to be lobotomised by AI?

I've had 4 different senior engineers in the last week come up with absolutely insane changes or code, that they were instructed to do by AI. Things that if you used your brain for a few minutes you should realise just don't work.

They also rarely can explain why they make these changes or what the code actually does.

I feel like I'm absolutely going insane, and it also makes me not able to trust anyones answers or analysis' because I /know/ there is a high chance they should asked AI and wrote it off as their own.

I think the effect AI has had on our industry's knowledge is really significant, and it's honestly very scary.

寒すぎて足がしびれてきた​​

ICE has recently bought the capability of monitoring the location histories of entire neighborhoods worth of phones. The data is likely harvested from apps that sell your data, which filters up through data brokers and eventually to companies that sell to ICE:

https://www.404media.co/inside-ices-tool-to-monitor-phones-in-entire-neighborhoods/

@quincyQuincy ⁂ Hat das noch eine andere Bedeutung als Schleichwerbung für XMPP zu sein?

What if pressurization, but also water?

Stadtplaner·innen aufgepasst:

Gehen Sie morgen einfach mal durch ihre Stadt und schauen Sie sich an, welche Stellflächen und Straßenbereiche dauerhaft entsiegelt werden können..

(ProTipp: Die entsprechenden Flächen sind weiß markiert.)

시크해 보인단 이야길 많이 듣는 우리집 냥. 사실 시크한건 아니고 오냐오냐 자란 제멋대로 부잣집 아들내미 같다.

Letting "AI" write your essays is like taking a forklift to a gym *and* a chainsaw to a forest.

Aquarium 20260108

#AquariumSensor

Das Sozialamt Altona zog einem Rentner 58 Euro gesammeltes Pfand von der Grundsicherung ab. Dabei dürfte er selbst nach strenger Auslegung etwas behalten.
https://taz.de/!6143537

Dialogue Between a Developer and a Kid https://lobste.rs/s/g3boya #philosophy #programming
https://riggraz.dev/dialogue-developer.html

The important part of this is not that AI can be good at craft—but that, as Hollis says, no amount of craft will make us feel a model has written a “great” poem. AI keeps revealing that we care about human action, not about the abstractions (intelligence, creativity) we invented to describe it. +

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2swfvxtdfegcwxc6tnyczjo3/post/3mbvvfiso3s2p

Child reading a funny questions book: What is one special power you wish you had?

Me: Executive function.

Child: …

Me: …

Child: …

Me: Flying

Child: Okay that’s better than whatever you said.

최고귀여운 고양이 골골송

New blog post:

I'm a wanted criminal in Italy. Well, maybe. Probably not
http://82mhz.net/posts/2026/01/i-m-a-wanted-criminal-in-italy-well-maybe-probably-not/

#blogging #blog

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RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ailv6negsywkwi4hk3enox3f/post/3mbwecfwtkk2b

結婚したいなぁ…結婚

Gentoo looks back on 2025

https://lwn.net/Articles/1053289/ #LWN

Bernd has to do 'hybrid' teaching.

#photography #teaching

@zkat@toot.catkat While I understand the sentiment (and support it) calling the repo "tainted" might be a bit too intense, no?

죄송합니다. 오늘 제가 너무 열심히 복실복실한 속내를 드러내버렸죠. 최근 새로운 블친님들, 님들은 속으셨습니다. 내가 도트만 찍는줄 알았겠지, 님들에게 털먹일거예요. 쿠헤헤헤헤헤헤헤헤

a man with a microphone on his...

Hold a moment's thought for me, for I believe within this hour I shall have reason to deploy a memory debugger against C# code

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