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Super busy today, but just have to quickly share that this morning, I woke up at a friend's house, under a skylight, and was delighted to see stars above me for nearly the first time this whole BC trip (lots of clouds here)!

And literally 10 seconds later, I saw a fucking Starlink train! Through the skylight!!! AUGH.

[Articles] Jake versus 2025

Jake’s 2025 year-in-review reflects a whirlwind year of personal milestones and deep Django community impact, from buying a house and running a half marathon to shipping django.tasks, joining the Django security team, speaking at PyCon UK, and navigating how AI is reshaping the web and independent publishing. #djangonews

https://theorangeone.net/posts/jake-versus-2025/

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i've been playing arc raiders using keyboard and mouse. i don't usually play online shooters, and i mostly play games with a controller nowadays, but i'm having fun.

the game has a slide move. to perform it, you have to start holding W (to move forward), then start holding shift (to sprint), then start holding control (to crouch). you need to keep holding all three to slide.

i have no idea how to do this comfortably. this is how i've been doing it, which is ridiculous

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@dtmDavid Todd McCarty No problem!

@GrumpusNationJames Baker 🍁

まさに布団から出にくい寒さだけど起きよう

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Hele jako sorry, ale tohle je fakt hrozná divočina. @noelreportsNOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @MAKS23MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @kravietzkravietz 🦇 @Tendar a všichni další toho dneska večer postujou tolik, že to ani nejde usledovat.

#Ukrajina - stojí vlaky bez elektřiny, v Křivým Ryhu (neumim to přepsat správně) to schytal barák, jsou tam raněný a #Zelenskyj varoval, že hrozí velkej útok
#USA - politici lžou o tom, co se stalo v #Minneapolis, místní náckové trollí truchlící protestující proti #ICE
#Irán - obrovský protesty, střelba na protestující, pokus o zablokování internetu, aby to nemohlo ven...

Nejen, že se svět začal točit blbým směrem, ale on ještě zrychluje! To fakt všem úplně švihlo?

#politika

TIL that OneDrive does not allow you to include folders with the name _vti_cnf. (This is a FrontPage version control folder, which ended up in my OneDrive when I added my old McGill files to my professional archive.) #onedrive

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Fourier Transform

Link: https://joshuawise.com/resources/ofdm/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46544981

Fixing a Buffer Overflow in Unix v4 Like It's 1973

Link: https://sigma-star.at/blog/2025/12/unix-v4-buffer-overflow/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46544610

With xAI's Grok generating endless semi-nude images of women and girls without their contest, it follows a years-long legacy of rampant abuse on the platform.

https://www.404media.co/grok-ai-sexual-abuse-imagery-twitter/

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EU is calling for comments on open source strategies. MAKE YOURSELF HEARD!

Even non-EU citizens have a voice here.

NOW is a time to stand up and stand out! YOU want to help the Fediverse? Here's just one way today that YOU can REALLY make a difference:

The European Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy will set out:

• 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, building on the results achieved under the 2020-2023 Commission Open Source Software Strategy.

ec.europa.eu/info/law/better...

#EU #open #foss #openSource #source #linux #activitypub #AP #fedi #fediverse

@zkatkat looks like wishful thinking to me but good luck

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Claude keeps nagging about "Help improve Claude" inspite of previous decline

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46545056

I switched to firefox as an alternative to safari and then I switched to safari as an alternative to firefox

Daughter just came home to tell me the teachers at school tried to confiscate her vape but they couldn't because it's actually a kazoo.

"I made a kazoo noise at them and I could see them dying on the inside so I made a sad kazoo noise instead. I don't think it helped."

The grin on her face.

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@zkatkat yeah, it’s kind of place where I just lose trust that the software is well reviewed, and I want my vcs tools to be well reviewed!

With xAI's Grok generating endless semi-nude images of women and girls without their contest, it follows a years-long legacy of rampant abuse on the platform.

https://www.404media.co/grok-ai-sexual-abuse-imagery-twitter/

ちっちゃマイアとちっちゃヒヨリ

A Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University:

“The Government of Canada could easily decide that it was going to use LinkedIn or Instagram or wherever it posts, and journalists would switch to following them there because they want to access what they’re saying,” he continued. “There was zero audience for Truth Social when

Trump created and started using it, but the audience went to the politician. Carney and his government could take a principled position by leaving X and its horrible spawn, Grok, and his audience of journalists and politicos would go with them.”

“Apparently, our political leaders simply choose not to.”

YES!! #Fediverse #SocialWeb #Mastodon
As always a huge thank you for the Senator's @PaulaticsSenator Paula Simons🇨🇦 ongoing activism. It WILL happen. (and by it I mean, government going to the social web... Bluesky is just a temporary blip until it too goes fascist or we get some proper digital sovereignty laws in place.)
https://mstdn.ca/@Paulatics/115861469408403689

I would lay down my life for liberty. Why wouldn't you?

@zkatkat that would assume that all projects have the same ethics.

Seeing a bunch of projects that are run by actual fascists and other rather unpleasant characters I highly doubt that this will happen.

Electric Snowblower Clears the Way With Hobby Parts

https://hackaday.com/2026/01/08/electric-snowblower-clears-the-way-with-hobby-parts/

めっちゃ寒い

Still working on my little music player app from time to time. Finally got around today to adding a CoverFlow-like view to the iOS version for some retro vibes. And just like the original Apple version, it activates as soon as the device is rotated into landscape.

@zkatkat damn, jujutsu is a little heartbreaking, I was really getting into a nice flow with it

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A Major Mail Provider Demonstrate They Likely Do Not Understand Mail At All https://nxdomain.no/~peter/they_do_not_understand_mail_at_all.html (tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2026/01/a-major-mail-provider-demonstrate-they.html)

#greytrapping #spam, #antispam #greylisting #blocklist, #openbsd #freebsd #smtp #email #SMTP, #contentfiltering #SPF #DMARC #security #networking @nostarchNo Starch Press

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How to Code Claude Code in 200 Lines of Code

Link: https://www.mihaileric.com/The-Emperor-Has-No-Clothes/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46545620

A Major Mail Provider Demonstrate They Likely Do Not Understand Mail At All https://nxdomain.no/~peter/they_do_not_understand_mail_at_all.html (tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2026/01/a-major-mail-provider-demonstrate-they.html)

#greytrapping #spam, #antispam #greylisting #blocklist, #openbsd #freebsd #smtp #email #SMTP, #contentfiltering #SPF #DMARC #security #networking @nostarchNo Starch Press

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Microsoft is putting buy buttons directly inside Copilot. The new Copilot Checkout feature lets you make purchases without leaving Copilot chat www.theverge.com/news/858664/...

Microsoft will put buy buttons...

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By "confidently claiming that one blurry clip shows evidence of domestic terrorism, the Trump administration is asking the public to disbelieve their own eyes... Who needs AI manipulations when your preferred angle will do the job well enough?" — @miasato.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy www.theverge.com/tech/858710/...

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