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

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com ("Ethan Marcotte") wrote:

It is that time of year, so I thought I’d mention that my book YOU DESERVE A TECH UNION is very much a thing you can buy for any tech workers in your life. Or yourself!

You can buy it just about anywhere books are sold, or ask your library to grab a copy! https://ethanmarcotte.com/books/you-deserve-a-tech-union/

#books #bookstodon #1u #YDATUbook

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/115670019714026622

Today!

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

Advent of Code day 8 status: done ★★

https://dbushell.com/notes/2025-12-08T12:48Z/

— performance is starting to matter 😬 refactored 20 mins down to 300ms today

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

You can invoke Jesus for anything.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/08/jesus-would-have-bombed-those-boats/

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

A 730-kilogram metal pensioner drifting toward the universe's kill-screen at a speed best described as "slightly faster than boredom". A tiny blip moving closer to a flickering line that wasn't supposed to exist.

The final prediction was released.
Voyager would cross the line in 12 hours.

In the end, humanity discovered the profound meaning of existence:

We were always doomed...
but at least it wasn't our fault for once.

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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Researchers tried explaining the math, the quantum tearing, the jitter in cosmic background rendering.
But belief had never cared about math.

People protested against the simulation narrative. Others marched for acceptance of the inevitable. Street fights broke out between Render-deniers and Boundary realists.

Some people panicked. Others partied.
Most kept going to work because apparently even the end of reality isn't enough to skip Monday meetings.

And Voyager?
It simply kept going.

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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Scientists held a global press conference.
They explained the boundary.
Interception? Impossible.
Redirection? Impossible.
Shutting down its systems? Useless.
Humanity's fate now depended on a spacecraft older than disco.

But not everyone believed it.

"Boundary hoax", they called it.
"Voyager's too small to break the universe!"
A cult formed insisting Voyager didn't even exist.

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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

In the year 2030, the simulations team published their paper: the universe showed unmistakable signs of artificial rendering, and a second anomaly, the "outer boundary", pulsed like a firewall in deep space.

Voyager 1 was headed straight for it. Once its physical coordinates crossed that boundary, the simulation would crash.

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Boosted by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
freexian@hachyderm.io ("Freexian :debian:") wrote:

We have published a blog post about the completion of /usr-move transition in Debian.

It covers why it was needed after /usr-merge transition and the work done to resolve the issues during the #trixie release cycle.

Read more at https://www.freexian.com/blog/usr%5Fmove/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

#freexian #debian #usrmerge #usrmove

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

Last year, I started going on walks during noon, the time when there's most daylight, and that worked quite well at tackling Seasonal-Affective-Disorder (the short days here in Iceland in winter can get rough)

This year I've also added basically 80 watts worth of daylight-balanced LEDs as a desk light and that seems to have helped a bit more

It's almost shocking how every time I turn it off, I realise that up until the moment the light hit my eyes, I hadn't actually fully woken up

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jcsteh@aus.social ("Jamie Teh") wrote:

Of all the questionable things about AI, I'm starting to think its biggest crime is simply the staggering amount of resources it has pointlessly drawn away from other, more important work and the way it has corrupted even organisations that were previously doing great work in some misguided, race-to-the-bottom belief that this is actually the most important thing for humankind.

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

📝 I'm a curmudgeon for doing menu items without icons (unless you can give a good reason to include them).

And apparently Apple used to recommend the opposite of what they now do in Tahoe.

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/icons-in-menus/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io ("Jenniferplusplus") wrote:

So, tariffs make consumer electronics incredibly expensive in the US, if they can be found at all.

MS, Google, etc subsidize new devices, in part, by making them thin clients to cloud services. I mean, even moreso than they already are.

Those cloud services all have AI deeply embedded to them.

And that's it. Americans can't talk, read, or write anything, except what gets filtered through those neo feudal corporate LLMs. Propaganda doesn't even cover it. The digital paper will just refuse to carry the words, unless they're framed in a way the paper maker approves of.

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

Well Advent of Code day 8 is done... but it took my M4 ~20 minutes to grind out an answer :sweat_blob:

I can't leave that unoptimised, can I?

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

Down with icons!

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/icons-in-menus/

I wonder if it's possible to write a macOS app that can remove/hide icons from system UI? 🤔

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
juliusgoat.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("A.R. Moxon") wrote:

"Say I tell you 'My father is choking my brother.' What do you say to that? "How does a culture of abuse end? "What is our part in ending it?"www.the-reframe.com/cult-ure-of-...

Cult(ure) of Abuse

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
greenpeace ("Greenpeace International") wrote:

Recycling is a toxic lie.

Big brands and petrochemical corporations keep selling the public a convenient and comforting story to hide the hard truth: they simply have to STOP PRODUCING SO MUCH PLASTIC.

#PlasticsTreaty #plasticpollution
#recycling

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
noam@libranet.de ("Noam writes") wrote:

@MicroSFF
"Swords" you say. Hmmm...

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
MicroSFF@mastodon.art ("Micro SF/F by O. Westin") wrote:

The heated rivalry between the two students finally came to a head, and the swordmaster reluctantly agreed to let them duel, to first blood.

It did not end as expected.

"Next time," the swordmaster said at last, "I want you to wipe your swords and sheathe them before you start kissing."

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Boosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

Originally, anti-housing activism was about racism. These days it's about 98% not wanting to lose free on-street parking.

If half the people who drive single-occupant cars switched to e-bikes, there would suddenly be twice as many car parking spaces available. We like to point out how e-bikes are great for the rider, letting you park anywhere. E-bikes are also great for city planners, solving a lot of the problems cars cause.

Cities should give away free e-bikes!

Boosted by jwz:
rtyler@hacky.town ("R Tyler Croy 🦀") wrote:

Building a website in 2005: "here are a list of tips to help crawlers index your website"

2025: 'here are a list of tips to help avoid crawlers indexing your website"

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
Lazarou ("Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈") wrote:

Repposted with Alt Text (because Women need Alt Text too)

#Misogyny #Patriarchy #Feminism #Incels #Manosphere

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
interfluidity@zirk.us ("Steve Randy Waldman") wrote:

AI “alignment is not about imposing universal norms; it is about translation, pluralism, and respect for epistemic diversity. Machines must become fluent in multiple moral languages…to serve more than a single civilization’s idea of what it means to be human.” #PranatiModumudi https://pranmod01.github.io/posts/2025/11/anthro-ai/

ht @glenweyl

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
2legged@mastodon.ie ("Claire McNab") wrote:

BREAKING: Liz Truss wins #FIFA Prize for Economics.

#Satire

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
gglockner@social.seattle.wa.us ("Greg Glockner") wrote:

I was saying something like this a few days ago: XKCD: “Website Task Flowchart”. https://xkcd.com/3175/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
evan@cosocial.ca ("Evan Prodromou") wrote:

In which period was the music you listen to recorded and/or released? Choose all that apply.

#EvanPoll #poll

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
evacide@hachyderm.io wrote:

There is no sound sadder than the meow of my little monsters when they have been told that the two pounds of halibut I am cooking is not for them.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
calcifer@masto.hackers.town ("calcifer :nes_fire:") wrote:

I see the “EVs are worse than gasoline cars because extra tire wear is more microplastics” folks are out again.

Never mind that around 90% of tire wear is commercial trucking, or that the worst case wear (which is over triple what you’d get using the *recommended* tires) means leas than one extra set of tires on average over the entire life of the car.

The willingness people have to parrot petrol propaganda is frustrating.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AJ_andrew69 ("Andrew J Spaulding") wrote:

Russian Aircraft Accidentally Bombs Own Power Station in Belgorod—Causes Black Out
Source: Altitude Post
Russian Aircraft Accidentally Bombs Own Power Station in Belgorod—Causes Black Out
Source: Altitude Post
https://share.newsbreak.com/g893ojw4