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The Olivetti Company – By Bradford Morgan White
Link: https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-olivetti-company
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46576581
Apparently I got bored of writing software in Rust, so I'm now writing software in Rust that writes software in Rust.
It's much harder.
Fediverse Report – #149 – On Protocol Governance – Connected Places:
"There are only two organisations that are active in the fediverse that are a paid member of the W3C: Meta and the Social Web Foundation. With the Social Web Foundation also receiving funding from Meta, the company that built Threads now has more institutional standing in ActivityPub governance than any of the organisations actually ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2026/01/17/fediverse-report-on-protocol-governance.html
めずらしく計量カップに米がくっついてる。手元の湿度計で55%。
Show HN: What if your menu bar was a keyboard-controlled command center?
Link: https://extrabar.app/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46659943
Last night I went to see a play about the Labour movement here in Toronto – specifically about the 1872 printers’ strike. It was called “NINE HOURS NOW! The Battle for a Shorter Working Day”. The play was put on by the Toronto Worker’s Theatre Group, and we watched it at a Steelworkers Union building. I found out about the play because it was written by my friend, retired history professor Craig Herron. While the performances were, well, amateur, the content of the play was really interesting.
In 1872 the industrial revolution was coming to Toronto, with big machines displacing skilled workers and suppressing salaries in the clothing and metal-working industries. Men worked 10 hour days, 6 days a week. Women who worked were paid less and had home duties on top of that. Employer/employee relations were governed by Master & Servant Laws, which included the possibility of criminal prosecution if an employee disobeyed their boss. And yes, the bosses were referred to as “Masters” commonly.
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Now that some cat walk trails have been cleared, #lordpercival is content to go out on a birdwatching expedition to the backyard, pausing for a porch sit before doing some major tail swishing and bird listening. #caturday #cats #catsofMastodon #catsofFediverse #tuxedocat #snow
No doom. Only dog.
Canada's deal with China signals it is serious about shift from US
Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm24k6kk1rko
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46661217
早起き
A Catholic racist refused the Eucharist from an Indian woman, then bragged about it online: "I’m not gonna receive it from anyone who’s non-white. Sorry."
A reminder that Republicans literally think Jesus is white, loves money and guns, and hates the poor.
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/a-catholic-racist-refused-the-eucharist
Canada's deal with China signals it is serious about shift from US
Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm24k6kk1rko
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46661217
Malware Peddlers Are Now Hijacking Snap Publisher Domains
#linux #ubuntu #snapcraft
https://blog.popey.com/2026/01/malware-purveyors-taking-over-published-snap-email-domains/
Why is it such a pain in the ass to use Text in #FreeCAD? "Use draft" well, duh, text in draft simply doesn't scale, like, at all. Also I cannot choose a font. I really hate that I have to switch over to Blender do do anything text related.
Three weeks of not feeding the surveillance machine. You're basically a rebel hero now.
If you love tiny CLI tools, Eget might become your new best friend.
okay I’m morbidly curious about the correlation between transness and unemployment. are you…
@jbrainsJ. B. Rainsberger (he) Absolute gold. These are exactly the conversations I am trying to have right now - stop relying on slow outside-in integrated tests and sort out the unit level testing (and the design). Unfortunately the corporate inertia is strong, so it's good to know I am not going mad.
@jbrainsJ. B. Rainsberger (he) One of our foster kittens agrees too, and is fascinated 😸
Finally, comments on a recipe that are actually good advice.
This is important. "The writers you let go were the supply chain for the intelligence you're now betting on."
"…documentation […] is not a byproduct of development: it's the glue that ties the product together."
The Journey of Finding the Right Press Brake
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/17/the-journey-of-finding-the-right-press-brake/
おはようみすきーー！！
ログボー！！
Groups to follow on the Fediverse:
More info about how to use groups at https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-groups-on-the-fediverse
3D PRINTING
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@3dprinting
ACADEMIC
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@nursingNursing academics and research
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@violencestudies
ANIMALS
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@aquariumAquarium keeping hobby
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@catsCats of the Fediverse
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@dogs
ART
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@drawingDrawings and Paintings
AUDIO
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@audiofiction
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@AudioProProfessional, inspiring audio
BOARD GAMES & TABLETOP GAMING
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@18xx18xx Boardgames
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@brettspieleBrettspiele aller Art (in German)
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@nerdlingsMiniatures Hobby Painting
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@warhammercommunityWarhammer-related Hobby Fun
BOOKS & WRITING
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@bookstodonBookstodon Group
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@LibrariesEverything library related
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@poetryPoems
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@queerromanceclub
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@writingbooks
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@writingcommunity
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いつ見ても急角度
Mein Blog über Reise- und Bootsthemen ist politikfrei. Trotzdem habe ich dort nun Haltung gezeigt und mache meine Leser auf Digitale Souveränität und #DIDit aufmerksam:
https://booteblog.net/2026/01/17/konsequenzen-ziehen-umzuege-und-eine-neue-social-media-heimat/
Jeder Schritt zählt.
生活リズム崩壊中
仕方ないので、限界まで作業する。時間はいくらあっても足りないのだ
Periodic reminder that Newsom sucks.
Gavin Newsom comes out swinging against California billionaire tax:
In interviews with Politico and the New York Times, [Kimberly Guilfoyle's ex-husband] described his office's efforts to kill the proposed billionaire tax and told the Times he would "do what I have to do to protect [rich people's yacht money]". As a direct-to-voters ballot initiative, Newsom would not have the power to veto the tax if the proposal passed...
https://jwz.org/b/yk10
Hey look, here's Kimberly Guilfoyle's ex-husband sucking Ben Shapiro's dick: https://www.commondreams.org/gavin-newsom-shapiro-ice
"Newsom then boasted that there have been 'over 10,000' deportations he’s cooperated with since he became governor of California. 'California has cooperated with more ICE transfers, probably, than any other state in the country,' he continued. 'I vetoed multiple pieces of legislation that have come from my legislature to stop the ability for the state of California to do that.'"
I am a bit in love with vhs to record short videos of scripted terminal sessions.
https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs?tab=readme-ov-file#installation
We have published our Manifesto, a document that lays out the rationale for the existence of CSE, summarizes our vision for humanity's future in #space, and calls people, governments and private actors everywhere to take action to realize that future.
Read the document here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18283974
33°C, ideal time and temperature for pets on my tummy.
We have published our Manifesto, a document that lays out the rationale for the existence of CSE, summarizes our vision for humanity's future in #space, and calls people, governments and private actors everywhere to take action to realize that future.
Read the document here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18283974
There's no single best way to store information
Link: https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-theres-no-single-best-way-to-store-information-20260116/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46659219
OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions
Link: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/01/openai-to-test-ads-in-chatgpt-as-it-burns-through-billions/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46661231
Finally re-routed coax from our attic antenna to the basement rack for HDHomeRun to be there instead of the living room.
My 5 yo daughter proudly crimped her first coax F connector (with a little help ofc). She also popped on hearing protection and vacuumed up the floor lol.
最近いいことが多くてうれしい…！
本当にありがたいことです…！
それでは
A handful of police departments that use Flock have unwittingly leaked details of millions of surveillance targets and a large number of active police investigations around the country. Here's why: https://www.404media.co/police-unmask-millions-of-surveillance-targets-because-of-flock-redaction-error/
나는 내가 살았으면 좋겠어 가끔은
I think I might have missed a few, but I have something for todays #Caturday (since I visited the cats and associated can openers today).
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Viss/114071287858306250
friendly reminder: the nicer you are to people who arrive here from other platforms, the better chances that they will stick around, and not bail because they were shamed away for one reason or another.
@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
I once dwelt in a land whither people used 'spelt' and whence I came away from there I canst cease with this new truth I've been dealt.
Yesterday was one of those good days doing hard stuff, playing with Chebyshev polynomials, binary coefficients, factorials of half integers, and other fun. All in the interest of a pointless decision to (re)implement the general 𝚪 function using the Lanczos approximation, but totally worth it for the experience alone.
The internet, the good old internet, is a treasure trove for this kind of work, especially but not exclusively wikipedia@wikis.world.
ヽ( ・∀・)ﾉ ｳﾝｺｰ
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Viss/114071287858306250
friendly reminder: the nicer you are to people who arrive here from other platforms, the better chances that they will stick around, and not bail because they were shamed away for one reason or another.
Depth-first Unary Degree Sequence via 
@jevinskieJevin Sweval https://lobste.rs/s/kzijnz #compsci
https://bruceediger.com/posts/dfuds/
I've been musing on #OOP style. I have a question for the more experienced programmers out there.
How do you decide when a class's method doesn't actually need to be a method, but instead could just be a regular function?
I'm not talking about functions that need to be shared between classes. I'm talking about intentionally moving a method outside of a class, even though it will only ever be used by that class.
For example, if I've got a parser-related function that is only needed by the parser, I will normally just put it in the parser class as a method. It keeps things neat, I can make it private and lock down the class. But I've never before stopped to think whether this is the correct thing to do every time.
After all, #Pascal (my language of choice) has the concept of units. I could just have some functions just as functions, and only have methods for things that directly need to update the class's properties.
It would make things easier for testing, too. I wouldn't need to create an instance of a class just to test a specific function works as intended.
But I don't know if it's the "right" way to do things in OO, or #ObjectPascal for that matter.
Eugen Rochko
Misty
Sarah Rainsberger
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東京オフ主催 
Glyph
Frédéric Jacobs
