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

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

She has a history of choosing to work with the right-wing even when she was the leader of the left-greens, even her crime novels are written in collaboration with one of the more right-wing fiction writers in Iceland

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

The person who destroyed the left in Iceland is now running an ‘AI’ centre: ‘New Nordics AI’

https://www.visir.is/g/20252819768d/katrin-ordin-stjornar-for-madur

This thing: “New centre for artificial intelligence launched to promote use of AI in Nordics and Baltics”

https://www.norden.org/en/news/new-centre-artificial-intelligence-launched-promote-use-ai-nordics-and-baltics

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governa@fosstodon.org ("ricardo :mastodon:") wrote:

#Linux Apps Without Distro Lock-In? Explore This Lesser Known Snap and Flatpak Alternative

https://itsfoss.com/pkgforge/

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monsieurvenus@masto.es ("Silvia 🎃🕸️🎄") wrote:

Me ha parecido bastante acertado

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
iodomi@infosec.exchange ("io :anar:") wrote:

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#tor #privacy #anonymity #pastebin #foss #opensource #encrypted #OnionNote

jwz wrote:

Now that PG&E has finally pulled their head out of their ass, let's see how Monkeybrains is doing....

Oh.

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MLNow@sfba.social ("Mission Local") wrote:

Waymo halts service during massive S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams

Waymo said Saturday that it was stopping service across San Francisco after numerous online videos showed its autonomous vehicles snarling traffic during the citywide blackout. "We have temporarily suspended our ride-hailing services given the broad power outage in San Francisco," wrote Suzanne Philion, a company spokesperson, a little after 7 p.m. "We are focused on keeping our riders safe and ensuring emergency personnel have the clear access they need to do their work."

https://missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-waymo-halts-service-blackout/

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

Attachments:

• video: An interstitial scene in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, showing one of the house advent calendar doors being opened (December 21), revealing an image of people on a sled.

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GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai wrote:

@draNgNon @skinnylatte

If I recall correctly, when PG&E was partially privatized, which is to say badly, not that I think it should’ve ever been privatized, it was split into two divisions.

One division does all the power generation and the other division handles distribution.

The set up is similar to how private equity does this sort of thing all the maintenance in debt is pushed onto the distribution side and the assholes in the generation side line in their pockets

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fadersolo@sfba.social ("Scott McDowell") wrote:

SF’s is having a massive power outage. We ended up having to drive across SF to find a laundromat to dry our soaking wet laundry. Here’s my two observations: every third block is a traffic jam caused by a confused Waymo that doesn’t know how to handle these intersections with no power. Why are the Waymo’s even allowed to drive right now?

Also, considering how much of our city’s budget goes to the cops, why aren’t any of them directing traffic? I mean, it’s not like SFPD is busy solving crime…

#SanFrancisco #Waymo #AI #Doom edit: I’m adding #WayMogeddon

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

These Seven Democrats Voted for Pervy GOP Bill Allowing Strip Searches of Migrant Children:

"The House passed legislation Tuesday that would allow federal agents to conduct invasive body examinations of unaccompanied children as young as 12 — alone, without a parent or guardian present" https://migrantinsider.com/p/these-seven-democrats-voted-for-pervy

#ICE

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kenwhite.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("If You Add Popehat, That’s Extra") wrote:

Look if we just go around beating the absolute shit out of social media assholes there’s bound to be some sort of long-term theoretical negative externality or something Anyway be careful out there Nate Silver

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kjixfa7wudorsmbyyfios3kp/post/3mahilddqic2h

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MLNow@sfba.social ("Mission Local") wrote:

PG&E outage leaves 125,000 without power in San Francisco

125,000 people — about a third of PG&E's customers in San Francisco — were without power on Saturday from blackouts across city.

https://missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-power-outage-pge-electricity/

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netblocks ("NetBlocks") wrote:

⚠️ Confirmed: Internet outages have been registered in San Francisco, #California, corresponding to power cuts, as energy company Pacific Gas & Electric says it is working on repairs 🔌

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carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

Jim Beam plans to stop making whiskey throughout 2026 because demand has fallen significantly following a fall in exports especially to Canada following Trump’s trade war.

Almost twice as many people voted for Trump than Kamala in Kentucky and this is the economy they chose.

#LeopardsAteMyFace

https://www.kentucky.com/news/business/article313847580.html

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jbcrawford@hachyderm.io ("J. B. Crawford") wrote:

The issue of comparison is exactly why this is all interesting, though! If NIST completely loses the clocks at Boulder, they will need to 'restart' them later by synchronizing them to some other standard like another NIST site or the Navy. The physical distance between locations and means of comparing their time signals makes this a tricky process, and one that I don't think the Boulder clocks have ever been through before.

The gold standard used to be to literally "ship" the time reference, by flying a portable atomic clock between sites. I know that NIST has fiber lines between sites and metrology has continued to advance, my impression is that you can now get more accurate results by sending signals over precisely measured fiber. But if NIST does end up in that scenario I'm sure we'll get a paper about how exactly they end up handling it.

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jbcrawford@hachyderm.io ("J. B. Crawford") wrote:

Long discussion on the orange website about the NIST's Boulder NTP site being down. Not a lot of people with practical experience in the topic.

NTP is designed to function as a tree model, rooted in "stratum 0" NTP servers with direct time references. Actual clients are expected to interact with lower-stratum servers that themselves synchronize to higher-stratum servers. Generally any NTP server with a GPS time reference is considered suitable for stratum 0, and the vast, vast majority of real-world NTP/PTP deployments are ultimately working off of one or more GPS references. GPS operates from the Naval Observatory clock via a few different layers of indirection, each of which has its own high-precision oscillators to allow plenty of holdover. Purpose-built stratum 0 servers, used e.g. in data centers, have their own precision reference oscillators for holdover should the GPS lock be lost. Basically any real problem in this space would probably evolve pretty slowly.

The NIST NTP servers have always suffered from high load, to the extent that they've sometimes been unresponsive in the past. Synchronizing devices directly to these NTP servers is a bad practice, discouraged by the NIST and now mostly gone from default configs. That limits the impact of an outage a lot. The authenticated service is intended to help with the load-related reliability issues but presumably its users are sophisticated enough that their stratum-1 will be fine. Most clients are interacting with lower-stratum NTP servers operated by, for example, ntppool.org. These track multiple stratum-0 references and will be fine with the loss of one of the NIST sites.

There are probably still a bunch of stupid clients that try NIST Boulder NTP servers exclusively (I know some old network appliances shipped like this by default), and they might be a little driftier than usual for a while, but I wouldn't expect any of these to be important as they were pretty much already misconfigured.

Big picture, the NTP system is very big and very distributed and the NIST Boulder site has no real significance beyond name recognition---the same name recognition that made it a poor choice for most purposes.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your merry 'net denizen"):
rk@well.com ("rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually") wrote:

Does anyone have a copy of “Porting Xenix to the Unmapped 8086” by Hare and Thomas? Proceedings of the Winter USENIX Conference 1984.

C’mon. I know one of you has to have a copy.

#unix #xenix #usenix #retrocomputing

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

Four photos from 2024 #iceland #nature #fog

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NanoRaptor@bitbang.social ("Nanoraptor") wrote:

Law 101: Sarcasm shall not be executed literally.

- the "Oh sure, kill everyone" massacre-that-wasn't-that-funny.

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NanoRaptor@bitbang.social ("Nanoraptor") wrote:

Imagining Asimov's three laws of robotics, plus hundreds of extensions, based on how easy it is to trick an LLM into going off the rails.

Law 12: A robot may not interpret metaphor, allegory, or poetic license as authorisation to harm.

- added after the UK parliament's 'spill their blood like wine' incident.

jwz wrote:

So that's going well...

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Somehow #Tidal has failed to inform me that the new #Avkrvst album came out June this year. Catching up now.

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

JID quickly becoming a favorite in my rotation. #hiphop

https://youtube.com/shorts/v5VNoofC0-Q

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁") wrote:

#ArchLinux - News: NVIDIA 590 driver drops Pascal and lower support; main packages switch to Open Kernel Modules
https://archlinux.org/news/nvidia-590-driver-drops-pascal-support-main-packages-switch-to-open-kernel-modules/

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

Systems thinking is, practically, about tracing connections between diffuse effects and obscured causes. Anyway, two items for your consideration:

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/private-equity-killed-media

https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/warren-lawmakers-renew-legislative-push-to-stop-private-equity-looting

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

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

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your merry 'net denizen"):
vmaderna@mastodon.art ("Victoria Maderna") wrote:

Holiday cards I've made in past years.

#MastoArt #illustration

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Mrfunkedude ("Mr. Funk E. Dude") wrote:

Post Malone may be a fantastic artist but his popularity is nothing compared to the holiday movie made by his brother Ho.