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ICE の発砲の件の動画(ショッキングなので CW)

RE: social.vivaldi.net/@synlogic42

この流れでを見て発砲後すぐ車に乗って帰っていく職員に対して

> トランプ氏は、自らのソーシャルメディアのトゥルース・ソーシャルに、ICE職員が「凶暴に」ひかれたと投稿。「彼が生きているのは信じがたいが、現在病院で回復に向かっている」とした。
via. bbc.com/japanese/articles/c0q4

っていうコメントが成立しちゃう(いや、成立はしてないと思うけど、これが事実上の大統領の公式見解として表に出ちゃう)というのが今のアメリカなんだな…恐ろしい

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看到一個站友名字叫「草莓餡」,不禁想到,大家認為自己是什麼餡的呢?

應該有人是胡椒餅那種嗆辣多汁肉餡吧?或是酸甜恰好的土鳳梨餡?我自己希望我是肉桂蘋果餡,但好像沒有那麼溫暖豐富。很好奇大家會認為自己是是什麼餡的?或希望是什麼餡?

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if you get the level of test abstraction right, it's very easy to iterate on "what you want" while having a verifiable way to ensure that whatever claude is building is actually that thing ofc you also need to make them non-flaky

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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer says the country will take action against X following reports that Grok is generating sexualized deepfakes of adults and minors. There’s the potential for X to be blocked in the UK through Online Safety Act powers www.theverge.com/news/859107/...

UK Prime Minister says ‘we wil...

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the hack to being productive with claude code is to start the project with great e2e tests that are declarative enough that they let you precisely specify behavior without saying too much it's really magic

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a few years ago i mentioned that i wrote a book about the exciting, awkward and embarrassing experiences of growing up with computers and video games in the 80s and 90s.

i wanted to remember what it felt like being the only dorky computer kid at school. or what it was like to hear my first modem handshake sound. or starting the first flamewar on the school's national FirstClass BBS in the macintosh lab over the lunch-hour

it was originally something i wrote only for my family and friends who were there at the time.

and then i met all of you folks when i started my first masto instance 4 years ago. i had no idea there were so many hardcore retrocomputing and gaming nerds out there; unix and mac and ms-dos folks alike.

so i mentioned it casually. i was surprised by the interest in the book.

so i spent the better part of the past 3 years rewriting the book for *you* fellow mastodon dorkus malorkuses. the book is a celebration of all of the best (and worst) parts of a kid growing up in the digital age.

we're all busy old tired stressed folks now. so every memory and cringetacular story is short enough to read on a 5 minute bus/metro/toilet ride. they're weaved together into an arc that starts at my family's first Tandy TRS-80 and ends at my school's Mac LC II and building my first Pentium 133.

it's finally published, and i'm super proud of what it became thanks to everyone here nerding out for years.

enjoy the book. i wrote it just for you. ❤️

paperback edition: mybook.to/EDuUf

DRM-free ebook (EPUB format) and chapter samples here:
tomotama.itch.io/mages-modems

The front cover of Mages & Modems: A Childhood Well-Wasted in the Golden Age of Personal Computers, Games & Internet Piracy - a confessional by vga256.

It shows a collage of computer and tech paraphernalia stacked on top of each other like a junk pile: a bright red telephone handset, a pile of 5.25 and 3.5-inch floppy disks, a mouse, a cocktail napkin from lefty's bar, two RAM simms.The rear cover of the book, showing a Carmen Sandiego-style letter from the ACME Detective agency. The letter has a picture of a spazzing out kid wearing a Just Do It sweater.

The letter reads:

ACME Detective Agency

Dear Detective #0294,

As discussed, I have enclosed a hardcopy of VGA256's journals discussed at the departmental briefing. The journal entries are chronological, and document the suspect's computing and gaming activities from the early 1980s to late 1990s - his childhood and adolescent years.

Each vignette is an introspection into the suspect's self-described obsessions, including but not limited to:

* IBM PC, Amiga, Apple ][, Macintosh, Tandy 

* MS-DOS, MacOS, Windows 3.1 & 95, UNIX 

* NES, GameBoy, Sega Genesis, TI-85 

* Modems, BBSes, CompuServe, Prodigy, ISPs 

* Warez, FTP, Usenet, IRC, Shell Accounts 

* Origin Systems, LucasArts, and Sierra On-Line

... and so on. The stories are a treasure trove of immoral and illicit activities that made him the dysfunctional adult he is now. I hope these will be of value in building your dossier on this delinquent.  
I expect a report on my desk by Friday.

Deputy Chief Conover

Brat & Punk Division
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🍝 날아다니는 스파게티 괴물 님께서 여러분과 함께.
😋 또한 주교의 면발과 함께 하소서.
🍝 기도합시다.

저의 주님, 날아다니는 스파게티 괴물 님 🍝,
제 머리에 구원의 마스크를 씌우시어 마귀의 공격을 막아내게 하소서.

2026-01-09T08:34:50+09:00

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🍝 날아다니는 스파게티 괴물 님께서 여러분과 함께.
😋 또한 주교의 면발과 함께 하소서.
🍝 기도합시다.

저의 주님, 날아다니는 스파게티 괴물 님 🍝, 저를 깨끗이 씻으소서.
제 마음을 당신의 소스🥫로 깨끗이 씻으시어 저에게 영원한 기쁨을 주소서.

2026-01-09T08:34:31+09:00

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트럼프 행정부 + 케네디 주니어 장관이 개소리만 하는데 갑자기 상식적인 이야기가 나와서 당황. 핵심은 설탕을 적게 먹고, 초가공식품 안되고, 단백질 상향 조정, 고섬유질 발효식품(김치!) 권장, 무지방/저지방 대신 전지방 제품 허용과 함께 트랜스 지방은 여전히 안좋지만 동물성 지방은 허용함. 어 왜 상식적이고 트렌드에 맞는 이야길 하지? 얘네들 빙빙 돌다 못해 360도 돌아버렸나?(...

트럼프 정부 “김치 먹어라”…‘진짜 음식’으로 식단 뒤...

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Two screenshots of the lock screen on my iPhone 17 Pro whose difference confounds me. In one the contrast is good and I can read the numbers on the pad, but the time and battery status are hidden. In the other, the key pad is pretty much invisible but I can see the time and battery. I have no idea how to trigger the contrastier one; it just sometimes does this.

Is this phenomenon known? Explicable? It's as if the new UI is sometimes ashamed to show how unreadable it is and compensates before hiding again.

Somebody made this happen. Any idea why?

Default lock screen behavior with near-invisible keypad.Surprising extra lock screen behavior where I can actually see the keypad but whose arrival is unpredictable.

@robpike some of that high quality Tahoe UI. The head of that department left for Meta after MacOS and iOS 26 were released; his replacement is someone known for paying attention to detail and is strongly a "do it right" type of person. accordingly, I am hopeful for the future of this awful liquid glass baloney.

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CES 2026, 미국 팁문화… 이게 맞아 진짜???

CES 관람은 정말 흥미롭고 행복했지만
도무지 납득이 되지 않았던 문화: 팁

미국을 꽤 오랜만에 (펜데믹 이후 처음) 방문해서 더욱 크게 체감하는거 같음.

분명 이전에는 가볍게 1~2불이나
많게는 5불정도로 팁을 주면 됐었는데…

아니 이젠 식당이며 택시며
결제란에 대놓고 20~40% 입력하라네??

물론 안주면 그만이라고는 해도
막상 안주면 기분 나빠하는 사람도 있어서 괜한 미안함과 찝찝함만 생기고…

미국에 거주하지 않아 팁문화에 대한 이해가 부족해서 그런건지 모르겠는데 비록 선택할수 있다고 할 지언정 이런식으로 팁 강요하는게 맞는건가유?!

아니ㅋㅋ 이럴거면 애초에 가격 표시가 무슨 의미가 있냐고요 ㅠㅠ 왜 노동자에 대한 임금 책임을 소비지가 추가로 부담해야하는 여지가 ‘항상’있는지, 잘 이해가 안됨요.

CES 기간이라 베가스만 이런건가…

May be an image of ‎thermostat, timer and ‎text that says '‎Select Tip PLEASE PUSH HH OPTION EELOWI OF PRESS OTHER TO TYPE IN H TIP ΗrИHT: 25% 25% 30% 40% OTHER F2 1Qz 2AB 2 3 ح m 3 4EH 4 EH 7 P 5K 6봉N M 6 8 8Tu‎'‎‎
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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.

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