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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jasongorman@mastodon.cloud ("Jason Gorman") wrote:

As 2025 draws to a close, my hopes "AI" was going to force more teams to address the real bottlenecks in development fade into the distance.

95% will just ship less reliable software, and take longer and spend more £ doing it. And users will be coerced into eating the costs.

Business as usual.

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

A little holiday cheer in Pokémon Go! 🎄:prami_santa:

Boosted by jwz:
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

Microsoft and Apple are really putting in the effort to bring Windows and MacOS to the same level of fit and finish as Wayland

jwz wrote:

Christmas Throwback: EXERCISE VAGUE JOY.

It was ten years ago today that I decorated the Christmas tree in my building's heavily-surveilled lobby. Simpler times.

Happy Surveillmas!

https://jwz.org/b/yk07

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cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

My controversial take:

Linux desktops peaked with KDE 3.5.x. (Gnome is a ghastly abomination and KDE's been going downhill ever since.)

macOS desktops peaked with Snow Leopard (10.6). Everything since then has gone downhill in UX. (Honourable exception: filesystems and backup support. But those are below the desktop level ...)

Windows never had a peak to fall off and has been subterranean for decades. Put it out of its misery and start over from IBM's mid-80s CUI spec.

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nocontexttrek ("Star Trek Minus Context") wrote:

#StarTrek #MerryTrekmas

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

@FediTree hi!

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
ambiguous_yelp@veganism.social ("🌱🏴‍🅰️🏳️‍⚧️🐧📎 Ambiyelp") wrote:

@fromjason Maybe don't spend so much on candles? /s

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

Also, me:

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

I won’t include the link because I don’t want to broadly share this dude’s ideology. But I had to share this screenshot of the most dystopian AI-generated image in existence.

His whole deal is that we should centralize our digital identities and hand them over to corporations and governments. 🫠

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
hazelweakly@hachyderm.io ("Hazel Weakly") wrote:

The two hardest problems in Computer Science are

1. Human communication
2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

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

Clear and aesthetically pleasing?!?! Now this is just nonsense.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
kissane@mas.to ("Erin Kissane") wrote:

Happy holidays, fediverse!

I got you a megathrust earthquake, soil liquefaction, spine-tingling papers about the way our networks confound knowledge, and a PDF in a pear tree. It's my wrap on a year of trying to make sense of how we make sense of what's happening to us.

https://www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-ghost-story/

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
revjss@sfba.social ("Jeff Spencer") wrote:

Good news you might have missed: Researchers in South Korea have developed a new eco-friendly recycling process that recovers more than 95 percent of nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries with almost perfect purity. https://interestingengineering.com/energy/recycling-nickel-cobalt-ev-batteries

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

“There is no such thing as Too Much Garlic” sayeth the Lord

🧄

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

Oh no. What do you do when your stud spider develops into a girl?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/24/gawain-is-a-girl/

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
paulisci@mstdn.ca ("Paul Fairie") wrote:

The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees

🧵

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

Someone might have forgotten to get mailable Christmas cards this year, realized it was Christmas Eve and then in 20 minutes slapped together something in Photoshop with stock art BUT THIS DOES NOT MEAN that the holiday sentiments expressed here are not in fact genuine and sincere

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
404mediaco ("404 Media") wrote:

In the age of Spotify and AI slop, tapes remind us what we’re missing when we stop taking risks.

https://www.404media.co/why-i-quit-streaming-and-got-back-into-cassettes/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

@FediTree 🎄

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

I remember buying this desk—my dream desk—thinking I’d keep it pristine with nothing on it but my laptop and a cold brew. Oh how foolish I was.

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

EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO READ MY BOOKS PLEASE DO AND THANK YOU

Also, there is a reason that in more than one biography I say I am "your dad's favorite living science fiction author"

RE: https://www.threads.com/@hreneeford/post/DSpWlaDlq4i

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

Why I Quit Streaming And Got Back Into Cassettes:

"Thus the act of listening to music is transformed from a practice of discovery and communication to a hyper-personalized mood board of machine-optimized “vibes.”"

its-happening.gif https://www.404media.co/why-i-quit-streaming-and-got-back-into-cassettes/

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

TPUSA in general and Benny Johnson in particular are wretched hate-mongers who want to convince an audience of indoctrinated sheep to go out and kill people.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/24/benny-johnson-wants-to-kill-people/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1FeqYqICcE

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
Opfoss@c.im ("Onslow Poly") wrote:

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
memes@wetdry.world ("memes 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
bleuje@mathstodon.xyz ("Etienne Jacob") wrote:

Attachments:

• gifv: Looping animation rendered with blender. A line of cubes moving forward thanks to cubes from the line rolling over it.

jwz wrote:

Xmas movies.

Reminder that in 2022, the elves did their work in one night and gave us two perfect Christmas movies. In case you're looking for something to watch with mom.
https://jwz.org/b/yk05

jwz wrote:

Die Hard sucks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Al864X%5FicY

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iso7010@hacksrus.xyz ("ISO7010 pictogram of the day") wrote:

P043 – Not for people in the state of intoxication

Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ISO%5F7010%5FP043.svg
Author: Wikimedia Commons user Jonas Steinhöfel
Public domain