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Any thoughts about not having System Settings as a default dock item? You can get there both from Quick Settings and from secondary-clicking the wallpaper these days.
See the reply here for a poll
Santokumesser、日本語とドイツ語とくっついてドイツ語の単語になるのすき
三徳包丁、multipleみたいな名前にならなくてしっかりsantokuと呼ばれてるのめっちゃすき
オイラはしゅいろさんの影響もあって、重い毛布をポチった！
今日の午前中に届く！
もっとも、いきなりハグラビのブランケットはちと重たそうだったので、もうちょっと軽いニトリの製品ですが（苦笑）
RE: https://misskey.io/notes/ahahqvx7ce4d0549
Oooh... my Retrowave OPL3 finally shipped. 👀
One of the ways I'm dealing with AI slop at work is that when I'm giving feedback on the work I'm making sure to never assign the responsibility of the bad code to the AI. I'm directly saying that "this change that YOU made needs to be corrected". I'm always assigning the output of the AI to the person who put me in the position of reviewing the work. It is their responsibility to read the code that they're trying to review, they are responsible for 100% of the code, so they also get 100% of the blame when it's bad. If a change is confusing or nonsensical I'll ask "why did YOU make this change?". I'll never ask why an AI made a change, that we cannot know. All we can know is why someone thought it was acceptable to ship garbage, and we can assign them the responsibility for the garbage that they're willing to ship
My web publishing mindset is so strong that when I'm designing and writing something to be printed out, I struggle with not being able to link to things.
One of the ways I'm dealing with AI slop at work is that when I'm giving feedback on the work I'm making sure to never assign the responsibility of the bad code to the AI. I'm directly saying that "this change that YOU made needs to be corrected". I'm always assigning the output of the AI to the person who put me in the position of reviewing the work. It is their responsibility to read the code that they're trying to review, they are responsible for 100% of the code, so they also get 100% of the blame when it's bad. If a change is confusing or nonsensical I'll ask "why did YOU make this change?". I'll never ask why an AI made a change, that we cannot know. All we can know is why someone thought it was acceptable to ship garbage, and we can assign them the responsibility for the garbage that they're willing to ship
OMG, this from 
@naomikritzer, yes
(Original source: https://bsky.app/profile/naomikritzer.bsky.social/post/3mbv3ratzvc2m)
RE: https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/115865363292467208
this by Leah McElrath:
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gvda6fem6r7selm4gzjjww4a/post/3mbz26fcjz22u
confirmed my #auntifa tingly senses:
beautiful women smoking cigarettes became THE THING in 1920s #movies, especially after 1927 when talkies were invented. the technology was patented. talkies needed to be subsidized, so they became defacto ads for the gringolarchy; producing “the white gaze”.
these pics from #Iran scream white gaze.
REMEMBER: the #petromafia want #Venezuela and #Iran. images like these are grooming y’all for an invasion.
BREAKING NEWS: My growly grumps are *sharing* a blanket 🙀‼️
That's right: Ser Bites-a-lot and Miss Hiss.
(They *never* do this without competitive growling)
May the wonders never cease.
(Unfortunately I fear this is a temporary situation - a truce prompted by cold room and snow outside. Normal hissing duties to commence shortly)
At no point was I prepared for where this sentence was going
👀 We don't have a REPL in Unison, so what do we use instead?
Watch expressions!
https://youtu.be/xfKO_tGpBxM?si=YVVR035W0Nuw3QV9&utm_source=mastodon
ICE’s budget now rivals the militaries of nations around the world and that money is building an enormous domestic surveillance machine. Learn about the surveillance tactics they’re using and how you can protect yourself and your community. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/ice-going-surveillance-shopping-spree
ビル・アトキンソン氏が死去 AppleのUIを確立した伝説的エンジニア - ITmedia NEWS https://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/2506/08/news022.html
MacPaintで現代のAppStoreのアイコン描いてるスクショが突然登場して、フイルムエストTV見てる気分になった
The folks from the University of Utah were on Utah regional TV talking about the UNIX V4 find. It was good to put some faces and voices to the names involved.
クドナルドラフ
Fighting Food Poisoning With A Patch
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/09/fighting-food-poisoning-with-a-patch/
Le mot "Interopérabilité" génère, depuis plusieurs années, beaucoup d'intérêt parmi les acteurs de la transition et de la coopération. Cependant ce mot (et d'autres: SSO, passerelles, portabilité...) colporte toutes sortes d'illusions que nous mettrons en lumière lors d'un webinaire le 22 janvier à 18h. Ce sera bien sûr l'occasion de reparler du Réseau Social Universel, qui place l'interopérabilité au cœur de son architecture.
Inscription gratuite sur https://grist.reconnexion.coop/o/equipe-operationnelle/forms/rZ6i3z2eBZKHgU6RfFZtkd/4
When you've made modifications to a file in vi(1) and then find that
you can't write it, type ``<ESC>!rm -f %'' then ``:w!'' to force the
write
This won't work if you don't have write permissions to the directory
and probably won't be suitable if you're editing through a symbolic link.
If you have sudo(8) installed and permissions to use it, type
``<ESC>w ! sudo tee %'' to force a write.
I've been very unimpressed with 
@indivisibleteamIndivisible's local chapters.
For a start there's multiple groups overlapping my area, then they're facebook groups - which is just gross, then to join you have to answer a purity quiz, then no-one bothers to accept you (or you failed the test), so you do it again, and this time manage to join the group… then the group gets deleted.
I mean… i want to do something to help and stay aware of what's happening so i can protest.
But this is not the way surely
ICE’s budget now rivals the militaries of nations around the world and that money is building an enormous domestic surveillance machine. Learn about the surveillance tactics they’re using and how you can protect yourself and your community. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/ice-going-surveillance-shopping-spree
이 시간에 먹는 라면은 각별하구만
Ein Internetfreund hat immer „Viva Plüsch“ statt „Viva Plus“ gesagt und gerade finde ich das dann doch den besseren Namen für einen Musiksender, warum besitze ich eigentlich keinen Musiksender?
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ... says of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation products that "it is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all."
ChatGPT mostly reflects what's already out there, the internet, Reddit, different communities.
Which means chatting with it is a bit like chatting with what the world currently thinks, bias and vice, trolls included, but also real discussions.
So, I asked it about the Fediverse. I would say that it sounds not too "wrong".
What's your take?
This is the convo:
I've built something useable. Maybe you need that, too.
#OpenBSD Clients with moonlight-qt
#proxmox hypervisor with libegl and #radeon GPU
#debian VMS with #virgl GPU in proxmox and sunshine streaming server
Now you can play your games running only on linux on OpenBSD. This also works good over the internet/VPN.
The actual intention was building remote desktop capable vms, because 3d Desktops (GNOME), high Display resolution, modern browsers and spice protocol dont give a smooth experience these days. This also works now.
#unigineheaven is at 99% native performance. The GPU is shareable to many VMS.
Can't wait to see how amdgpu native driver context passthrough is coming out when it's available.
Across the country, Americans are honoring Renee Nicole Good and mourning all the lives ICE has taken and destroyed.
Hundreds of marches and vigils are planned this weekend. Please join us to say ICE Out For Good: https://www.mobilize.us/?tag_ids=29132&utm_source=indivisible
雅楽
日本語、漢字が生き残れたのは、歴史を学べば奇跡的な事だと解り得る
https://x.com/shibayan1954/status/2009443117485969762?s=46&t=x5lQDaMIjGQyZdhoieJ-bQ
https://x.com/shibayan1954/status/2009443558659702971?s=46&t=x5lQDaMIjGQyZdhoieJ-bQ
https://x.com/shibayan1954/status/2009444397293949328?s=46&t=x5lQDaMIjGQyZdhoieJ-bQ
https://x.com/shibayan1954/status/2009445240860766657?s=46&t=x5lQDaMIjGQyZdhoieJ-bQ
https://x.com/shibayan1954/status/2009445541374251336?s=46&t=x5lQDaMIjGQyZdhoieJ-bQ
https://x.com/k2bo5rrsaajadk5/status/2009492573866656170?s=46&t=x5lQDaMIjGQyZdhoieJ-bQ
https://x.com/shibayan1954/status/2009573736773734780?s=46&t=x5lQDaMIjGQyZdhoieJ-bQ
https://x.com/ftyedp9cgg9eler/status/2009544031492301265?s=46&t=x5lQDaMIjGQyZdhoieJ-bQ
https://x.com/sloth65472/status/2009556451954745699?s=46&t=x5lQDaMIjGQyZdhoieJ-bQ
https://x.com/fontane_di_roma/status/2009637534813552854?s=46&t=x5lQDaMIjGQyZdhoieJ-bQ
ChatGPT: The real risk
Not “the fediverse dies,” but:
It becomes permanently small and underfunded
Or captured by a few large hosts if communities stop caring.
My blunt verdict
❌ Not a mainstream social network
✅ A long-term, boring, necessary piece of the internet
✅ Already past the point of “experiment”
⚠️ Success will look underwhelming if you expect hype
If you’re building for values, resilience, public good, or decades-long timelines — it’s worth it.
If you’re chasing growth charts or creator riches — wrong tool.
„Schmunzeln“ – #KomischesWort
webbigdata (@webbigdata) on X
https://x.com/i/status/2009121201768272253
雅楽
日本語、漢字が生き残れたのは、歴史を学べば奇跡的な事だと解り得る
https://x.com/shibayan1954/status/2009443117485969762?s=46&t=x5lQDaMIjGQyZdhoieJ-bQ
https://x.com/shibayan1954/status/2009443558659702971?s=46&t=x5lQDaMIjGQyZdhoieJ-bQ
https://x.com/shibayan1954/status/2009444397293949328?s=46&t=x5lQDaMIjGQyZdhoieJ-bQ
https://x.com/shibayan1954/status/2009445240860766657?s=46&t=x5lQDaMIjGQyZdhoieJ-bQ
https://x.com/shibayan1954/status/2009445541374251336?s=46&t=x5lQDaMIjGQyZdhoieJ-bQ
https://x.com/k2bo5rrsaajadk5/status/2009492573866656170?s=46&t=x5lQDaMIjGQyZdhoieJ-bQ
https://x.com/shibayan1954/status/2009573736773734780?s=46&t=x5lQDaMIjGQyZdhoieJ-bQ
https://x.com/ftyedp9cgg9eler/status/2009544031492301265?s=46&t=x5lQDaMIjGQyZdhoieJ-bQ
https://x.com/sloth65472/status/2009556451954745699?s=46&t=x5lQDaMIjGQyZdhoieJ-bQ
https://x.com/fontane_di_roma/status/2009637534813552854?s=46&t=x5lQDaMIjGQyZdhoieJ-bQ
NASA chief reviews Orion heat shield, expresses ‘full confidence’ in it for Artemis II
"That level of openness and transparency is exactly what should be expected of NASA."
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/01/nasa-chief-reviews-orion-heat-shield-expresses-full-confidence-in-it-for-artemis-ii/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
ChatGPT mostly reflects what's already out there, the internet, Reddit, different communities.
Which means chatting with it is a bit like chatting with what the world currently thinks, bias and vice, trolls included, but also real discussions.
So, I asked it about the Fediverse. I would say that it sounds not too "wrong".
What's your take?
This is the convo:
The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app
Link: https://xdaforums.com/t/discussion-the-root-and-mod-hiding-fingerprint-spoofing-keybox-stealing-cat-and-mouse-game.4425939/page-118
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46555963
와 큰일났다 과제가 벌써부터 불쾌해버리네...
자세히 쓰려니까 20페이지 넘게 나오잖ㅇ
today's unsolicited business opportunity: "we're blending real-life interactions with Web3 by minting NFTs from real meetings."
You have innovated an entirely new way to make meetings miserable, may the gods have no mercy on your soul
Remember, when your electricity bill goes up it’s because Elon Musk is generating so much CSAM and noncon porn.
Winslow Stewart McCreedy has a thing for sleeping face down. None of my parents’ many cats did this.
Is this a cat thing other cats do?
Anil wrote an incredible and exhaustive history of Markdown, and even though I watched it unfold with my own eyes from day 1, I *still* learned a couple things from this post I never noticed back then. https://anildash.com/2026/01/09/how-markdown-took-over-the-world/
落書きﾌﾟﾘ
Across the country, Americans are honoring Renee Nicole Good and mourning all the lives ICE has taken and destroyed.
Hundreds of marches and vigils are planned this weekend. Please join us to say ICE Out For Good: https://www.mobilize.us/?tag_ids=29132&utm_source=indivisible
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