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

One of our quaint local customs is a parade in the dark in freezing cold weather just before Thanksgiving.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/11/20/i-was-only-there-for-santa/

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

I'm off to sleep but some of the responses to this make me think the whole "reading comprehension has collapsed because anglophone countries have been teaching reading the wrong way since the 90s" discourse may have been onto something.

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oracle@phantomthieves.net ("digital stars 💾⭐") wrote:

you’re trying to run VRChat on Linux. I’m running Linux in VRChat. we are not the same.

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EshuMarneedi ("Eshu Marneedi") wrote:

I wrote this one fast because I have things to do that do not involve analyzing two companies fighting with each other.

This Android AirDrop thing isn’t going to last, but I thought about how it will end. Will it turn into a PR battle? Legal? Or will Google and Apple’s interdependence force them to fess up?

https://eshumarneedi.com/2025/11/20/google-somehow-reverseengineers-airdrop-and.html

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

fooking idjits… idjits in charge, and idjit contractors.

apparently, that video is of Mexican troops who are *removing* the signs the idjit “contractors” emplaced:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-petes-war-goons-accidentally-invade-mexico/

Whiskey Pet’s goon squad can’t even read a damned map

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

Watching British guys eat soul food really scratches a part of my brain. These guys make good content.

https://youtu.be/ppRzJYgG3xc

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catsalad@infosec.exchange ("Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:") wrote:

Jupiter has 97 moons and an outrageous werewolf problem

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westbrook wrote:

Did you know that @chromium recently did some work to ensure that `document.importNode` and `Node.cloneNode` delivered a similar performance profile? They did!

That means that #frameworks built to be compatible with the web can leverage `document.importNode()` for templated content with custom elements which will get optimistically updated. Win, win.

Seems like something that @mdn would benefit in sharing with the world, right?

https://github.com/mdn/content/pull/41441

#webDev #performance #webComponents

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
gamingonlinux ("Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮") wrote:

Zork I, Zork II and Zork III are now officially open source https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/zork-i-zork-ii-and-zork-iii-are-now-officially-open-source/

#Zork #Microsoft #Retro #OpenSource #RetroGaming

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

Tempted to give the gemini protocol another shot.

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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

@rl_dane @darkuncle @cthos @gamingonlinux As a Gemini protocol fan, this is hilariously cursed. I love it.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz ("DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄)") wrote:

Preserving code that shaped generations: Zork I, II, and III go Open Source
"Today, we’re preserving a cornerstone of gaming history that is near and dear to our hearts. Together, Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office (OSPO), Team Xbox, and Activision are making Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III available under the MIT License. Our goal is simple: to place historically important code in the hands of students, teachers, and developers so they can study it, learn from it, and, perhaps most importantly, play it.
"...The games remain commercially available via The Zork Anthology on Good Old Games."
https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11/20/preserving-code-that-shaped-generations-zork-i-ii-and-iii-go-open-source
https://github.com/historicalsource/zork1
And an Ars Technica article about that:
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/11/microsoft-makes-zork-i-ii-and-iii-open-source-under-mit-license/

I originally beat Zork in the original PDP-10 version, arpanet-ing in to MIT to play it.

The original Zork written in the MDL dialect of Lisp was already available:

"This version of ZORK has been (slightly) changed from the original in order to run on the Confusion MDL Interpreter.
https://github.com/whitten/MDL-Zork

There's also this:
'This directory contains files related to Confusion, an MDL interpreter which, to quote its author, "Works just well enough to play the original Zork all the way through."'
http://www.ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archive/programming/mdl/interpreters/confusion/

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briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:

I have quite a few projects I'm super excited to publish in the coming weeks. But honestly, the main thing that's consuming my brain cycles story-wise is a year-end piece about just how badly this administration has fscked our cybers in so many ways.

This won't be a polemical soliloquy. I intend to document all of the specific actions this administration has taken that appear to weaken, redirect, or fully castrate our cyber capabilities. Your assistance would be appreciated (and possibly noted).

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danmcquillan@kolektiva.social wrote:

TFW your publisher sends you an email encouraging you to opt-in to licensing your work to AI developers, and when the book in question is titled 'Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence'🤦‍♂️

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jeffjarvis ("Jeff Jarvis") wrote:

This is doom-marketing ('we're so powerful that...') and regulatory capture ('let me say how to regulate me') and media are journalists are swallowing it without journalism. AGI is BS.
Anthropic C.E.O.: Don’t Let A.I. Companies off the Hook https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/opinion/anthropic-ceo-regulate-transparency.html?smid=tw-share

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gregeganSF@mathstodon.xyz ("Greg Egan") wrote:

Who could have guessed that the end product of a fearless, intellectually rigorous research program whose sole aim was to produce an LLM with the most reliable, objective and trustworthy responses possible would sound so much like a sycophantic courtier flattering a demented, narcissistic monarch?

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

Latest Freebooters podcast: Our new self-hosting podcast site, our latest adventures with bash scripting, and Chris gets caught using AI

https://freebooters.uk/media/20251111-self-hosting-bash-scripting-and-chris-gets-caught-with-ai.mp3

In this episode, Chris and Drew share their latest exploits with bash scripting, talk about KeePassXC allowing AI assisted contributions, and the chaps show off the new self-hosted website....

#Freebooters

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kenwhite.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Insubordinate Piggy Hat") wrote:

President Trump has called for Democrats to be executed for sedition. The voters expect Democrats to come to the table with a real counter-proposal and negotiate a mutually acceptable compromise. That’s doing politics the right way. -Ezra Klein, New York TImes

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sophieschmieg@infosec.exchange ("Sophie Schmieg") wrote:

I guess it's time to congratulate preventable infectious diseases on their victory in the war against preventable infectious diseases.

The use of brain worms as a propaganda tool was especially effective.

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inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

If going along with the fascists stops seeming like the easiest path, then the fascists are done for.

What good does it do to just incessantly annoy the crap out of CBP and ICE and their ilk? My friends, it changes the whole landscape.

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inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

Remember that authoritarian movements of all kinds, but especially fascist movements, do not initially have the power to force an entire nation state to bend to their will. They need — not just benefit from, but absolutely •need• — the passive acquiescence of large numbers of people.

Loud, annoying, visible resistance punctures the lie that it’s inevitable, that people who keep their heads down will be rewarded in the end.

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inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

What @KimPerales is quoting here is a testament to the waste and the cruelty and the uselessness of this regime.

It is also a testament to the effectiveness of ubiquitous, sustained, pervasive resistance. “What good does it do,” you ask, “to have crowds of random people just yelling and honking and filming?” The answer is that it makes these harassment campaigns unsustainable.
https://toad.social/@KimPerales/115583290500226180

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trixter@retro.pizza ("Trixter of the Moon Council") wrote:

I love how I have to explain to the less terminally-online people in my life that AI is getting shoved into everything because Peter Thiel literally believes it will slow the coming of the Antichrist, very cool and fun world we live in, I love sounding like an unhinged person

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Today I'm making a deluxe variant of my mushroom and spinach quiche. It's not just button mushrooms, but dried porcini. Plus a dash of red chili, which I don't usually add. And it's not just mozzarella in the middle, but I also added some gorgonzola. It's just now out of the oven! #cooking

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zeldman@front-end.social wrote:

Nothing to see here, just the U.S. President demanding death for U.S. lawmakers who remind members of the U.S. military of their right under U.S. law to refuse illegal orders.

adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:") wrote:

RE: https://social.lol/@neatnik/115583602649573022

“omg.lol: ethical vicarious self-hosting”

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

I have been chasing a bug in my server code for months now, and think it may be fixed at last. a few hours of stable operations & the log files will tell the story true.

if I did actually fix it, then I may need to bang my head on the desk for a while to understand why.

adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:") wrote:

New on omg.lol: https://omglol.news/2025/11/20/say-hello-to-sourcetube-the-omg-lol-community-code-forge :prami_happy:

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

2025 is exhuming irony's corpse, reanimating it as a shambolic zombie, and murdering it all over again:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/live/2025/nov/20/cop30-live-news-updates-belem-brazil-president-lula?CMP=share%5Fbtn%5Furl

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

"Scientific" justifications for sexism always make the author sound incredibly stupid.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/11/20/fascinatingly-bad-genetics/