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

memento stultus, a guy who follows the powerful around reminding them that they too are fucking dumbasses

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

Yesterday, the temperature in Seyðisfjörður here on this subarctic island we called Iceland reached a balmy 19.8°C

https://www.ruv.is/frettir/innlent/2025-12-25-desemberhitamet-fell-a-seydisfirdi-thar-sem-maeldust-198-stig-462311

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

Tonight you will be visited by three spirits...
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2025/12-24.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #dnaloungeyulelog #sanfrancisco

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jwz wrote:

All I want for xmas is fiber on 11th Street.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
louie@pdx.social ("Louie Mantia, Jr.") wrote:

Big Day
🔗 https://lmnt.me/blog/big-day.html

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

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

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Boosted by jwz:
SecureOwl@infosec.exchange ("Mike Sheward") wrote:

UPDATE: As satellite incident eliminates joy for millions around the world from now until forever, SpaceX confirms no impact to network performance.

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SecureOwl@infosec.exchange ("Mike Sheward") wrote:

NORAD confirms Santa appears to have collided with an out of control Starlink Satellite

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

I read this every Christmas Eve. 🥰 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7256

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
year_progress@techhub.social ("Year Progress") wrote:

▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ 98%

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

✨ 🎄 Merry Christmas! 🎄 ✨

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
lcamtuf@infosec.exchange ("lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified:") wrote:

So if you use an electric eel to power a computer, is it called eelectronics?

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
eruonna@chaosfem.tw ("Juniper 🏳️‍⚧️🌲 (baking?)") wrote:

@pecet @ApostateEnglishman @alice @TheBreadmonkey I may have excessive free time

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TheBreadmonkey@beige.party ("Hans GruBen") wrote:

Actually its pronounced 'jaslight' you've just been saying it wrong

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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:

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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.