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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
gardiner_bryant@mastodon.online ("Gardiner Bryant") wrote:

Mastodon. I've searched and come up empty. I ran `lspci` and found the ID of a device (c8:00.1). How to I find where it's mounted in `/dev`? I'm trying to pass the device through to an LXC container.

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

Meanwhile in Iceland, showering naked is mandatory.

https://www.icelandair.com/blog/iceland-pool-etiquette/#:~:text=No%20matter%20which%20type%20of%20pool%20you%20visit%2C%20it%E2%80%99s%20mandatory%20that%20you%20shower%20without%20your%20bathing%20suit%20before%20diving%20in%2E

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
corbet@social.kernel.org ("Jonathan Corbet") wrote:

In 2017 Randall Munroe posted a strip called "Seven Years" about being the caregiver for a loved one dealing with cancer:

https://xkcd.com/1928/

That strip literally made me cry, it was such a clear telling of what that experience is like; much of it could have been about my own life.

Except that my own experience had a different ending.

Today he put out "Fifteen Years":

https://xkcd.com/3172/

This one made me want to cheer. What a joy to see a story that has played out so differently, so much better. I have never crossed paths with Mr. Munroe, but I rejoice in his and his family's good fortune as if he were a good friend.

Here's to many more years.

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

@operand i'm disconcerted how often "always suspect the headline you love" turns out correct

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
dgerard@awful.systems ("David Gerard") wrote:

Don’t cite the Adversarial Poetry vs AI paper — it’s chatbot-made marketing ‘science’

https://awful.systems/post/6382888

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

“The End of Naked Locker Rooms - The Atlantic”

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/2025/11/naked-locker-room-end/684907/?gift=j9r7avb6p-KY8zdjhsiSZ9ML-%5FmPLSAPfjbjWj9oDng

Iceland is in many ways a bit of a stereotypical Nordic society, but man are the Americans messed up

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

“Don’t cite the Adversarial Poetry vs AI paper — it’s chatbot-made marketing ‘science’ – Pivot to AI”

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/24/dont-cite-the-adversarial-poetry-vs-ai-paper-its-chatbot-made-marketing-science/

> They wrote a good headline, and then they faked the scientific process bit.

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊") wrote:

I don't know if anyone's emailed you, but apparently there's something called 'Black Friday' coming up. FYI.

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jwz wrote:

Just overheard some sad-ass 50yo goths at tonight's under-attended Death Guild complaining about all the "normies".

Can you see these "normies"? Are these "normies" in the room with you right now?

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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

My Twitter follower count keeps rising more ever since I stopped posting anything over there.

Either I'm mysteriously fascinating... or that place is 50% fake accounts chasing abandoned timelines.

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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
mcc wrote:

This feels like a metaphor

"The future is here" (small white button below) "Out of Stock"

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Boosted by jwz:
LilahTovMoon@tech.lgbt ("Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

My "Not Enron" memo is raising a lot of questions already answered by my memo

Headline from Barron's that reads "Nvidia Says It's Not Enron in Private Memo Refuting Accounting Questions" it's by Tae Kim and published November 24, 2025 2:04 pm EST

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz FINAL.DOCX") wrote:

The current state of X is a good metaphor for the current state of America, in that the only actual people left on X are Very Important People and awful monsters who are seeking to manipulate Very Important People, but the Very Important People would rather share space with awful monsters than go somewhere else where they might be perceived as fractionally less important

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/11/x-about-this-account/685042/?gift=nwn-guseqS6cY1kVeEKZAcCrBXkH5imrvoYRXquoAEY&utm%5Fsource=copy-link&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fcampaign=share

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
InternetEh@dads.cool ("Sid 🇵🇸") wrote:

DOGE didn't even survive long enough for the next Democratic president to keep it going

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chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

I have never had an issue with Migration Assistant until now. No idea what bug is up its butt. Perhaps it is the magic of Liquid Glass.

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chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

After two failed attempts with a Thunderbolt cable running between the two Macs, I am trying next time with the Time Machine SSD plugged in. Will it be slower? Yes. Will it work? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Next step is manual migration, which will suck a whole lot.

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chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

Well, the new laptop is off to an inspiring start: running Migration Assistant migrated, as far as I can tell, 0% of my documents and applications.

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

@fugueish Full article is now out:

https://infrequently.org/2025/11/performance-inequality-gap-2026/

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

The more I understand #AIDoomerism the more I get this icky feeling that this is just a reskinned version of white supremacy.

Oh, all these white dudes who sell a modern mechanical Turk think they invented god? You don't say.

And it's so funny that defenders of the ideology are like, oh you don't believe me? What if I told you *these* people agree with me?

And it's just a list of the largest white guy IT circle jerk in all of history

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
uoou@mas.to wrote:

@sinvega When my last 15+ year old PC could no longer be coaxed into working I made a conscious break with that mindset and got a mini PC that costs less than most gamer GPUs.

The vast majority of what I play is not very demanding at all.

It's tiny, silent and plays 99% of what I want to play. It's a relief to not be concerned with any of that *bullshit*.

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

@joeri_s Some attribution is possible from HTTP Archive data (which tries to tag constituent libraries), but this is all confounded now because many 3p libraries and widgets pull in full copies, e.g., of React. It's *bad* out there.

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

The best cruise ever. You should totally be on it.

(Source: Me, who is on it every year and DJs a nerd prom)

RE: https://www.threads.com/@jococruise/post/DRc600LEgqa

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

An entertaining day at the backyard. First, a very busy and dedicated squirrel was gathering nuts from around the area and storing them in a hole right outside my window. It's been at it for several hours! And then a raccoon came dug out the hole and ate all the nuts. All in ~10 minutes. A great show and a lesson to not apply the notion of humanity and fairness to wild nature.

(Being a weak, emotional human, I did throw some more nuts for the squirrel after the raccoon went away.)

A raccoon shuffling in the dirt behind a bonsai tree, against a wooden fence.

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

Inspired by perfnow.nl, I've dusted off drafts of my network and device situation analysis. Good news/bad news: devices and networks are improving, but web page payloads are swelling.

The result is predictable: the web is usable for the wealthy, but less so for everyone else. This is an ethical crisis for frontend:

https://infrequently.org/2025/11/performance-inequality-gap-2026/

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Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
11ty@neighborhood.11ty.dev ("Eleventy 🎈 v4.0.0-alpha.4") wrote:

There is an active npm security event: https://socket.dev/blog/shai-hulud-strikes-again-v2

At time of writing, Eleventy core and our official suite of plugins are unaffected.

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

https://www.patreon.com/posts/hungry-144308133

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

Winter Sun and Cat in Chair

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

Reposting for the writers who, sensibly, were nowhere near the Internet this last weekend

RE: https://www.threads.com/@jscalzi/post/DRXdJgeAN-V

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

dismissed “without prejudice”, so DoJ can indeed try again

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11/24/us/trump-news

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

Incompetence strikes again

Judge dismisses James Comey and Letitia James cases, finding prosecutor's appointment invalid - CBS News https://share.google/VR7Zc7fG6RxNFYXiU