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

HEY AUTHORS: It's the last weekend before Christmas and/or the end of Hanukkah, so people are going to be looking for last minute holiday gifts, which books are perfect for, so use this thread to tell everyone here at Threads about your book so they can go find it at their local bookseller. GO!

(Indie/audio authors with books only available online, pile on in here too, we're all authors together!)

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
eevee wrote:

"i'm mad at firefox, so instead i'm going to give google incrementally more power over the web"

ok. consider: not doing that

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

The problem with this is that there is a limited number of times Kid Rock can play the venue, and no other artist will be seen dead inside of it until 2029 at the earliest

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/19/politics/kennedy-center-trump-sign

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your merry 'net denizen"):
Aleums@timeloop.cafe ("manic pixie donkey kong") wrote:

fantasy worldbuilding where dragon riders are called DJs and have roughly the same personality

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

“This may be the first time an ICE agent is incarcerated in his own ICE jail.” https://www.citybeat.com/news/update-cincinnati-ice-leader-charged-federally-booked-into-butler-county-jail/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
randahl ("Randahl Fink") wrote:

Before this year ends, 1.2 million Russians will have fallen in Ukraine. That is 200,000 more fallen since June, and by June 2026, another 200,000 will perish.

232 years ago the people of France forced the body of Louis the XVI into the guillotine, to rid themselves of the cruel dictatorship.

It appears the Russians have not yet found the courage… But maybe after 2 million fallen? Or 3 million perhaps?

The day will come.

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

got the "location graph" for use by my next project going at least partially:

LocationGraph test:
Can move bridge -> corridor? true
Can move bridge -> turbolift directly? false
Move crew bridge -> corridor: true newLoc=deck1.corridorA.1
Path bridge -> turbolift.1 (3 steps):
- bridge
- deck1.corridorA.1
- turbolift.1
LocationGraph JSON:
[
{
"deck": "deck1",
"dynamicState": {},
"id": "bridge",
"kind": "room",
"name": "Main Bridge",
[snip]

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

I mean, I want to fool an "AI" into giving me a free PlayStation, too, how do I get in on this

https://youtu.be/SpPhm7S9vsQ

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
otaviocc@social.lol ("Otávio :prami:") wrote:

I started my omg.lol app for macOS almost three years ago, on January 1st, 2023.

Although the high-level architecture is pretty much the same since the beginning (multilayered features and components), and some patterns, like MVVM, have been there since day one, implementation details have changed significantly.

In the beginning, I used Core Data for persistence and Combine everywhere. Nowadays, it's Swift Data for persistence, async/await for lower layers and components, and Observation for UI.

Most of the types were either structs or classes. Now, I use actors for services and repositories, and main actor classes for view models.

My original private repository (called OMG; the main reason the app is still called OMG.app) has 760 commits!

Three years and liters of coffee later, I'm glad the app is out there now. I built it for myself, and I use it all the time. I hope it's useful for more people as well.

https://github.com/otaviocc/Triton

#macOSDev #omglol

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

Not thrilled to be paying to check bags, but now that Southwest has shifted to the bold business strategy of being just like all the other airlines, there’s no point in flying them over anyone else. Sigh.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
DD3AH@social.darc.de ("DD3AH 📡📶 🏳️‍🌈🌐 :DARC: ") wrote:

@jsonstein
And maybe sometimes it is a good idea to give a new perspective a try. I hope the universal translator is good enough here. 😉

https://dd3ah-de.translate.goog/widerstand-und-leistung/?%5Fx%5Ftr%5Fsl=auto&%5Fx%5Ftr%5Ftl=en&%5Fx%5Ftr%5Fhl=de

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ferrous@social.ferrous-systems.com ("Ferrous Systems") wrote:

🧑‍💻 #FediHire #Werkstudent:in
We’re looking for a #student in Germany to work on #rust-analyzer – the LSP backend powering #RustLang support in editors like VS Code, Emacs and Vim.

🦀 Paid role · Rust · Open Source
👉 Details & apply: https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/student-assistant-rust-analyzer/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MissingThePt ("Missing The Point") wrote:

The White House announces that the Epstein files will be renamed the Trump Epstein files.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
catsalad@infosec.exchange ("Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:") wrote:

This tree ornament sure is hard to photograph

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

sometimes it is good to think and read about the basics again #HamRadio #electricity

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

The starlings have taken over.#Iceland #video #nature #abandoned #decay #birds #starling

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:w27jf74rgozykuyl63ji7wbv/post/3ma7mhmdb2c2z

Attachments:

• video: A starling singing on top of an abandoned building.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Times I dropped my phone without a case: 0

Times I dropped my phone while installing a case: 1

Boosted by jwz:
lo@framapiaf.org ("Laurent Malys") wrote:

Reaction diffusion sweater, ready for assembly 🧶

#creativecoding #knitting #knittingmachine #crafts

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

RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/115745770152711683

This post is about how my feed reader gave me a front-row seat to the "AI" Bubble's takeover of tech.

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

Challenging fate with goodwill (and a holiday sale): https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/challenging-fate/

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

So, what are the odds that at least one reason why big tech is pushing for “AI” is that they think it’s a hedge against a repeal of section 230?

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

RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/115735893674730460

So far the reports are coming back as I expected. Reported the exact same ad nine times (two with different animation but same voiceover, the rest identical), routed through a different advertiser each time, and half the reports are coming back “this ad doesn’t violate our policies” and the other half says it is in violation

Exact same ad.

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

RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/115734682928783505

My books are on sale for the duration of the holidays, on account of everything being awful for pretty much everybody these days.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/115737483111161917

I'll elaborate. I believe we're in an AI bubble. AI companies are pushing the overton window on AI discourse. They want the most extreme anti-AI sentiment to be "Sure, it's an overhyped technology right now but there will be reasonable applications down the road". I want to see pushback on this. It doesn't matter if I can disable some AI feature in the settings. The fact that Mozilla is jumping on this bandwagon is deeply disappointing to me.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mpt@mastodon.nz ("Matthew Thomas") wrote:

@slightlyoff Zeynep’s Law: “Until there is substantial and repeated evidence otherwise, assume counterintuitive findings to be false, and second-order effects to be dwarfed by first-order ones in magnitude.”

Examples: “vaccine injuries”, regulatory capture, wealth-tax-driven emigration lowering the tax take, seatbelts encouraging risky behaviour, heavier Web pages being faster than lighter ones … They’re all possible, just presumptively less likely than the opposite.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
NS0D@mastodon.hams.social ("Pete NS0D") wrote:

ATTENTION All Hams who work FT8 and use ATT Fiber:

ATT Fiber blocks the Network Time Protocol port!!!

If you don't want to be WAY off timing wise, you need to run something like NetTime to externally synch your clock.

That is all - go forth and multiply (or add repeatedly, depending on your chip instruction set)

#Hamradio #FT8

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

I have not built and fielded a production server since before SSL evolved into TLS.

having to use nginx as a reverse proxy "screen" to deal with low level TLS attacks against my service frosts me. the alternative, forking low level connection request handling code in someone else's library (ick, OPP aka Other Peoples' Code) to deal with ppl *deliberately trying* to crash my service, well that *really* frosts me.

so I hate everybody tonight. f*ck script kiddies, f*ck them with a pitchfork

Attachments:

• gifv: mob of muppets with pitchforks

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
br00t4c wrote:

Trump Announces New 'Dodger Dividend' For Anyone Who Avoided Military Service

#MilitaryService #Cowardice #Satire #AvoidWar #DodgerDividend

https://theonion.com/trump-announces-new-dodger-dividend-for-anyone-who-avoided-military-service/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
br00t4c wrote:

'An electoral liability' | Majority of young Republicans oppose aid to Israel, poll finds

#USIsraelRelations #AntisemitismDebate #ElectoralLiability #NetanyahuFavorability #YoungRepublicans

https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025-12-18/ty-article-magazine/.premium/an-electoral-liability-majority-of-young-republicans-oppose-aid-to-israel-poll-finds/0000019b-2783-d5c5-a3df-bfe7e7320000