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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
exocomics@mastodon.world ("Li Chen") wrote:

merry christmas

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
emma@orbital.horse ("Emma needs ☕️ and paying work") wrote:

The power failures in San Francisco left people without power and cost business millions in lost sales and spoiled goods, but I'm sure the executives and shareholders of PG&E will make out fine.

https://sfba.social/@MLNow/115776201571574472

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
MLNow@sfba.social ("Mission Local") wrote:

Richmond Buzz: An ‘absolutely brutal’ blackout weekend

“Richmond Buzz” will be a recurring column on the neighborhood. This edition: Businesses are devastated after the weekend blackout.

https://missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-richmond-district-business-blackout-pge/

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

Why I Disappeared - Ken Klippenstein:

"During the brief, intermittent moments that I had time to check the news (rather than living through it moment by moment), I realized how utterly forgettable and meaningless most of it was."

Ken has done some incredible work, so nothing against him. But, he right.

There is a thin line between news and soap opera, both in how it’s delivered and how it’s consumed.

We are ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2025/12/24/why-i-disappeared-ken-klippenstein.html

Boosted by jwz:
ingrid@everything.happens.horse ("Ingrid Burrington") wrote:

just remembered this year started with the image of a cyber truck in flames in front of a Trump hotel

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
spaf@mstdn.social wrote:

Twas the night before Christmas
And all through the house
Not a creature was stirring
Not even a mouse

You can prevent this -- give carbon monoxide detectors as gifts this year.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
smallcircles@social.coop ("just small circles 🕊") wrote:

"Mastodon better than expected.." on HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46376652

#fediverse #ActivityPub

Boosted by jwz:
dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

♬️ DNA LOUNGE YULE LOG: 24 HOURS OF FIRE AND MUSIC at DNA Lounge tonight: Wed Dec 24, 9pm!
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2025/12-24.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #dnaloungeyulelog #sanfrancisco

Attachments:

• gifv: ab92a1e5ac4f6502.mp4

jwz wrote:

And I definitely need to be 5 pages deep before you show me the "shipping is the same as billing" checkbox. Everybody knows that more clicks means more retention, right?

jwz wrote:

What asshat decided that user name and password should now always be on separate pages? How does this make anything better? Fuck you.

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

happy "almost alone in this BR412" day to all of you.

happy holidays, too, I guess?

#traincontent

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

Boosted by jwz:
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.

Boosted by jwz:
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/