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andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:") wrote:

I'm not much of a Christmas person, which is why when I thought "maybe I should get a good docking station for my new laptop", I wasn't expecting every good option to be sold out...

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

I understand tonight someone let a clown chew on a whoopie cushion and call it a national address

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codepo8@toot.cafe ("Chris Heilmann") wrote:

Python expert

Attachments:

• gifv: 3d92720d0511b2b0.mp4

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monkeyborg@triangletoot.party ("monkϵyborg 🦾🐵") wrote:

The Long Kiss Goodnight isnʼt just a Christmas movie. Insofar as it depicts a woman leaving behind her successful professional career in the city to adopt a simple life in the country with a small-town guy, itʼs a *Hallmark* Christmas movie.

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parismarx@mastodon.online ("Paris Marx") wrote:

🚨 THE FINAL EIGHT 🚨

We’ve made it to the quarter finals — only two days away from crowning a winner for Worst Person in Tech 2025.

Don’t miss your chance to vote!

🗳️ Cast your ballot: https://twsu.forms.app/wpit2025-qf

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Democrat wins election by 47-point landslide in Kentucky - Newsweek

"Clemons, president of United Steelworkers Local 1693, campaigned on bolstering support for working families, lowering costs for essentials, creating jobs, and representing blue-collar interests in the state legislature."

A working class champion who made his campaign about the issues and not MAGA won by a larger margin than normal in Kentucky? ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2025/12/17/democrat-wins-election-by-point.html

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I've finally switched to the @Vivaldi browser. I've been using Firefox for as long as I've been on the internet, but the focus on AI means it's no longer the browser for me. Thankfully unlike Chrome, Vivaldi supports the uBlock Origin extension which is the most important extension for being able to browse the web nowadays.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

Quite a few broken windows.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #landscape #nature #naturephotography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #trees #architecture

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lusrangifer@blimps.xyz ("Lady Lus, Inflate-a-Bou") wrote:

Have you seen the new browser to replace Firefox? It's called IceCat. It's literally called Zen. It's a customized Librewolf install. It's a gecko fork called Pale Moon. You can probably use SeaMonkey. It's called K-Meleon. We're all using Floorp. Install Floorp right now. We're all using Floorp. Install Floorp right now. Everyone is using Floorp now. Install Floorp right now.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Nine.

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claytoncubitt.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Clayton Cubitt") wrote:

Have you tried Apple's "Clean Up" ai function in Photos? It's advertised as being able to remove blemishes, distracting details, entire objects. But if you use it in any photo that contains nudity it switches to a censored pixelation mode. One step closer to my tweeted predictions.

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jamescheese@monads.online ("the sloop james c") wrote:

in china you can operate an llm for far fewer resources by virtue of the room already being chinese

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

We have a bunch of great writers here. All just hangin around spinning yarn, preaching to the converted. Seems like a waste.

100 Fediverse writers on Substack* or Threads would have a measurable impact on perceptions.

(*I know why you're not on Substack I've considered that before I wrote this no need to comment about it)

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

What the hell, since things largely seem to suck a bit these days, why not hold an otherwise completely unplanned sale?

So, for the holidays, a €10 EUR discount on my books, and you can choose between reading about how "AI" doesn't work or about how to fix the shit storm that is modern software development

The Intelligence Illusion, for €25: https://payhip.baldurbjarnason.com/b/34qSg

Out of the Software Crisis, for €25: https://payhip.baldurbjarnason.com/b/skbMv

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Seven times now.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
celesteh@hachyderm.io ("Charles ☭ :trans: is a Green") wrote:

This EP is really obscure.

Your less online friends will be impressed when you tell them about it.
https://charleshutchins.bandcamp.com/album/basic-waveforms

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

The Sillicon Valley digerati are winning the propaganda war on the web. It may not look like it where we hang out. But over on Substack, Threads, X, and Bluesky, there are prolific writers pushing big tech talking points that go largely unchallenged.

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

whoever is responsible at "alibaba cloud" for the bot that's crawling one app I host with ~40req/s from an entire ipv4 /18 network: fuck you, and I hope you'll be unable to wash your hands without your sleeve getting we for the next 10 years

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

In my backyard are so many different types of birds. Crows, sparrows, hawks, blue jays, cardinals, sandhill cranes, and at least 20 other species that I don’t know the names of but love.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

What do you mean "let it snow"? Motherfucker, the snow didn't ASK for your permission, now, did it

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Madness rules at the upper levels of everything. Avi Loeb is the pinnacle of academia in that sense.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/17/avi-loeb-is-nuts/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnSJXcUGD1o

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

OH HELL YES

RE: https://www.threads.com/@sethrogen/post/DSXyCWQFF-C

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Reported the exact same gambling site ad on YouTube five times today, each time the ad seems to come from a different advertiser in a different country. Odds are that at least half of these reports will come back saying they weren’t violating YouTube’s terms

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
kingcons@tiny.tilde.website ("Brit") wrote:

New post: Make me CEO of Mozilla.

Lol.

https://blog.kingcons.io/posts/make-me-ceo-of-mozilla.html

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

You can't win, Apple.

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skeletor@mas.to ("Inspirational Skeletor💀") wrote:

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

The idea that there is a double-backshot root harm that cannot be defeated ("regulatory capture") is almost always in service of a permission structure for irresponsibility. A way to avoid the hard work of the obvious fixes to justify chasing self-serving goals that cannot make sense unless an abstraction is put in place to obscure direct causal relationships.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Programmers are familiar with the idea of abstraction taxes, but underestimate magnitudes. 10-100x improvements are generally ripe for the taking. Why? Fairy tales about option value for comfortable devs.

We need a similar understanding about the dangers of ethical abstraction. Examples: efforts to destroy geopolitical alliances and diplomacy, "effective altruism", anti-vaccine nonsense, opposition to wealth taxes, etc. All justified on theoretical harms, ignoring practical effects.

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MrLovenstein ("J. L. Westover") wrote:

Secret Panel HERE 🔺 https://tapas.io/episode/3658850

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anatudor ("Ana Tudor 🐯") wrote:

Single element, minimal #CSS (20 declarations and only that many to even out browser inconsistencies), minimal #JS (just updates a custom property value), comparison slider (original image vs. desaturated one) on @codepen https://codepen.io/thebabydino/pen/MWMvxxX

#code #coding #frontend #blending
#web #dev #webDev #webDevelopment
#blendMode