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https://fokus.cool/2025/11/25/i-dont-care-how-well-your-ai-works.html

AI systems being egregiously resource intensive is not a side effect — it’s the point.

And someone commented on that with:

I’m fascinated by the take about the resource usage being an advantage to the AI bros.

They’ve created software that cannot (practically) be replicated as open source software / free software, because there is no community of people with sufficient hardware / data sets. It will inherently always be a centralized technology.

Fascinating and scary.

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** Sticker party, November **
Some random thoughts including how the band Imagine Dragons is kinda like Metal for kids; distributing apps, even without involving Apple at all, is deeply annoying on macOS; Pokemon ZA is fun, but I think that I’m a turn-based girlie at heart; my partner has been playing a lot of Tears of the Kingdom lately, it has been a lot of fun for me to watch, and hair-pullingly frustrating for our nearly 10 year old who has strong opinions about the correct order of operations in that game; I wrote, but am cu … ⌘ Read more

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I had no meetings this arvo, so I made an appointment with the woods in my extended lunch break. The 6°C warm sun was out all day long and there was only a very light breeze. So, a very nice autumn day.

When I stopped to take a photo in the forest, a deer behind me took off into the woodland. I didn’t see it before. Also, I came across one or the other clearing. Sadly, it’s all commercial timberland here. Luckily, in a year or so, when nature slowly took over and reclaimed some spots, the apocalyptic sites are then looking a bit more decent again.

Cleaning of the ruin walls on my backyard mountain slowly takes shape. They made some progress and moved on to the other section. The flag on top is halfway disintegrated again, all the yellow half is completely gone. I’m wondering if they just stop replacing it at some point in time. But probably not.

Enjoy! https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2025-11-19/

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To everyone previously asking, what my (and other developers) endless complaining about Google, to both every EU body, with a form on their website and every relevant team at Google accomplished…
WE FUCKING WON!!!
“While security is crucial, we’ve also heard from developers and power users who have a higher risk tolerance and want the ability to download unverified apps.”
-source

I was also able to work with my new webhost, to bring back “🐕.fr.to” - everyones favorite vanity redirect domain, for my site, Googles changes to SSL warnings in Chrome, killed at the beginning of this year.

The lesson: I NEED TO COMPLAIN MORE

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ProcessOne: On Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets

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Signal improved its protocol to prepare encrypted messaging for the quantum era.

They call the improvement “Triple Ratchet” (or SPQR = Signal Post-Quantum Ratchet).

[Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets\
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We are excited to announce a significant advancement in the security … ⌘ Read more

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Thank you for https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2025-11-09/0/POSTING-en.html, @movq@www.uninformativ.de! I never configured systemd timers, but I would have gotten it wrong, too. Good to know when I eventually stumble across that in the future. I’m still using cron. Yeah, its field order sucks and I always have to look it up (because I don’t deal with that all that often). Indeed, systemd’s order sounds more reasonable.

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In-reply-to » @bender Thanks for this illustration, it completely “misunderstood” everything I wrote and confidently spat out garbage. 👌

@movq@www.uninformativ.de this I find more worrisome, and saw no mention of it on your text: Right-Wing Chatbots Turbocharge America’s Political and Cultural Wars (gift article).

Enoch, one of the newer chatbots powered by artificial intelligence, promises “to ‘mind wipe’ the pro-pharma bias” from its answers. Another, Arya, produces content based on instructions that tell it to be an “unapologetic right-wing nationalist Christian A.I. model.”

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Design trends I think will take off in 2026
but tierlist

S - move from flat design to more detailed, 3D, more complex logos.

A - glass, not just liquid, Windows Vista, 7, 11,… accessibility concerns, but I like to see it.

B-/C+ - black and white icons, favicons. I did it before it was cool, but it’s getting overused.

E - gradientslop, barely started, already all blends together.

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The XMPP Standards Foundation: XMPP Summit 28
The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) is exited to announce the 28th XMPP Summit taking place in Brussels, Belgium next year - just before FOSDEM 2026.
The XSF invites everyone interested in development of the XMPP protocol to attend, and discuss all things XMPP - both in person and remotely!

The XMPP Summit

The XMPP Summit is a two-day event for the people who write and implement XMPP extensions (XEPs).
The event is no … ⌘ Read more

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ProcessOne: Europe’s Decentralized Messaging Survives “Chat Control” Threat

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Good news for anyone building messaging infrastructure in Europe: Denmark&aposs Council presidency is abandoning mandatory detection orders in the Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) proposal for now. The proposal was nickna … ⌘ Read more

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** Autumnal week notes **
Someone I grew up with happened to go to the same college as me, and now we happen to live in the same relatively small city. We’ve been totally casual but pretty consistent mainstays of each others’ lives for going on 20 years at this point. She’s also one of the few people that I run into who knows that I can’t actually see well enough to reliably tell people apart from any further away than like 4 or 5 feet, and I always feel really appreciative whenever she waves that she also always says“hi” and who … ⌘ Read more

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Sam Whited: Coffeeneuring 2025
This year I haven’t blogged much at all, but it’s time for the 15th annual
Coffeeneuring and who-knows-how-many-annual Biketober challenges so here we go!
This post will be updated with each of my Coffeeneuring rides as the month goes
on, and may (or may not) contain a few fun C+1 rides that count towards
Biketober, but not for Coffeeneuring.
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US immigration enforcement using military hardware and tactics on civilians
George Chidi,  Politics and Democracy Reporter   -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: One of the tragedies that now defines the United States, as it is seen by the rest of the world, is that Trump has created a military combat uniformed and armed for war Gestapo that is now wandering the streets of major American cities, just as the world has seen happen in other fascist control … ⌘ Read more

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Private Equity Tightens Its Grip on Outpatient Surgery
Jennifer Henderson,  Enterprise and Investigative Writer  -  MedPage Today

_Stephan: Depending on which poll you look at, between 25% to 40% of the emergency rooms in hospitals are not actually part of the hospital. Instead, they are owned by private equity investment firms, and the physicians and nurses are employees of those firms. Private equity firms also own approximately 8.5% to 9% of all private hospitals in … ⌘ Read more

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Immigrants nationwide placed in solitary confinement for weeks, report says
Steph Solis ,  Staff Writer  -  msn | Axios

_Stephan: The United States is now running concentration camps. They don’t call them that, but as accurate information about their living conditions comes out, it is clear that is what they are. This is all part of the fascist coup, engineered by Trump, his vassals, the Republican Party, and the Supreme Court they have created toge … ⌘ Read more

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Republican Candidate in Virginia Caught in Tumblr Nazi Porn Scandal
Robert McCoy,  Staff Writer  -  The New Republic

_Stephan: What stands out about what has happened to democracy in the United States is the almost universal scum of the Republican Party. It’s not just that the party controls all the branches of government and yet is doing nothing to foster wellbeing for the people of America. Instead, we have the Bondis, the Patels, the Homans, and this cre … ⌘ Read more

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Zehntausende auf Weg Richtung Norden
Bereits kurz nach Verkündung der Waffenruhe im Gazastreifen durch die israelische Armee am Freitag um 11.00 Uhr haben sich Tausende Palästinenser und Palästinenserinnen auf den Weg Richtung Norden gemacht. Die Armee hatte eine wichtige Nord-Süd-Verbindung geöffnet, zugleich aber vor „äußerst gefährlichen“ Gebieten im Gazastreifen gewarnt. ⌘ Read more

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Waffenruhe in Gaza in Kraft
Nach der Zustimmung zur ersten Phase des Gaza-Abkommens durch beide Seiten haben sich die israelischen Soldaten hinter die erste vereinbarte Linie im Gazastreifen zurückgezogen. Das teilte das Militär am Freitag mit. Um 11.00 Uhr MESZ sei die Waffenruhe zwischen der Armee und der radikalislamischen Terrororganisation Hamas in Kraft getreten. Schon zuvor hatte die Hamas von einem Rückzug der Armee berichtet, der aber unter anhaltenden Angriffen auf Ziele im Gazastreifen erfolgt sei. ⌘ Read more

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‘Vertical Morality’ Might Describe Why MAGA Christians Seem So Unchristian
Caroline Bologna,    -  HuffPost

Stephan: Evangelical MAGAT Christianity is actually pseudo-Christianity, as I have been telling you for years. It has nothing to do with Jesus’ teachings. Here is a good explanation of what I mean, and why I mean it.

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_Vertical morality has led … ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » @itsericwoodward @bender this is vaguely concerning...does yarn refresh feeds every minute or two? or is there some special "notify twtxt.net to refresh my feed" that i don't know about

@zvava@twtxt.net yarnd fetches the feeds roughly every ten minutes:

grep twtxt.net www/logs/twtxt.log | cut -d ' ' -f1 | tail -n 20
2025-10-04T07:00:45+02:00
2025-10-04T07:10:26+02:00
2025-10-04T07:22:43+02:00
2025-10-04T07:30:45+02:00
2025-10-04T07:40:48+02:00
2025-10-04T07:52:59+02:00
2025-10-04T08:00:07+02:00
2025-10-04T08:13:33+02:00
2025-10-04T08:23:13+02:00
2025-10-04T08:31:22+02:00
2025-10-04T08:41:29+02:00
2025-10-04T08:53:25+02:00
2025-10-04T09:03:31+02:00
2025-10-04T09:11:42+02:00
2025-10-04T09:23:11+02:00
2025-10-04T09:29:49+02:00
2025-10-04T09:36:17+02:00
2025-10-04T09:46:33+02:00
2025-10-04T09:58:40+02:00
2025-10-04T10:06:54+02:00

I suspect that the timing was just right. Or wrong, depending on how you’re looking at it. ;-)

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Deals: M3 iPad Air for $449, M4 MacBook Air for $799
Amazon is back again offering two of the absolute best deals on great new Apple gear: the M4 MacBook Air starting at $799 for the 13″ and $999 for the 15″ (both being offered at a $200 discount), and separately, the M3 iPad Air for $449 for the 11″ and $649 for the 13″ (both … Read MoreRead more

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Mathieu Pasquet: slixmpp v1.11
This new version includes a few new XEP plugins as well as fixes, notably
for some leftover issues in our rust JID code, as well as one for a bug that
caused issues in Home Assistant.

Thanks to everyone who contributed with code, issues, suggestions, and reviews!

CI and build

Nicoco put in a lot of work in order to get all possible wheels built in CI. We now have manylinux and musl builds of everything doable within codeberg,
published to the codeberg pypi repo, and published on pypi. … ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » The bots have begun to access my website way more often. I’m getting about 120k hits on https://www.uninformativ.de/git/ now in a couple of hours.

This probably means that I can no longer host my own website. I don’t want to deploy something like Anubis, because that ruins the whole thing: I want it to be accessible from ancient browsers, like OS/2 or Windows 3.11.

I’ll keep an eye on it for a while. Maybe try to block some IPs.

Sooner or later, I’ll take the website down and shift everything to Gopher.

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Tuve de ir ver ao estudo propriamente dito.
Parece que a PCGuia trocou as legendas de dois dos resultados e a coisa é ainda mais incrível que antes: só 3 em cada 10 trabalhadores em Portugal é que não usam IA no seu trabalho. Volto a perguntar: será credível?

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46 Mapas debaixo do sol!

“O #JornalMAPA 46 sai para as ruas já com um partido fascista como segunda força política no parlamento da democracia representativa e não podia deixar de olhar para esse fenómeno, assim como ao à vontade da extrema-direita grupuscular. Por outro lado, porque é quando se fecham portas que se abrem janelas, decidimos focar especialmente em lugares de dissidência. A luta queer é um dos exemplos da importância de reclamar a origem utópica e radical das resistências. E hoje, contra o pinkwashing dos EuroPrides, afirma-se a solidariedade com a Palestina, que nunca será esquecida.
Neste mundo e num país em que o autoritarismo ganha força, importa manter um olhar sobre quem procure activamente fazer a sua vida de outro modo cultivando a autonomia. Nesse ponto não podíamos deixar de destacar o recém-saído documentário «Agroecologia em movimento», de João Garrinhas, um retrato sobre o movimento português das Associações para a Manutenção da Agricultura de Proximidade (AMAP), sobre grupos auto-organizados de produtorxs e consumidorxs. Entrevistamos, ainda neste contexto, a nova revista Poucaterra, que pugna por acesso à terra, agroecologia e convivialidade (uma leitura a juntar à revista Flauta de Luz, com o nº 11 já nas livrarias).”

https://www.jornalmapa.pt/

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Saw this on Mastodon:

https://racingbunny.com/@mookie/114718466149264471

18 rules of Software Engineering

  1. You will regret complexity when on-call
  2. Stop falling in love with your own code
  3. Everything is a trade-off. There’s no “best” 3. Every line of code you write is a liability 4. Document your decisions and designs
  4. Everyone hates code they didn’t write
  5. Don’t use unnecessary dependencies
  6. Coding standards prevent arguments
  7. Write meaningful commit messages
  8. Don’t ever stop learning new things
  9. Code reviews spread knowledge
  10. Always build for maintainability
  11. Ask for help when you’re stuck
  12. Fix root causes, not symptoms
  13. Software is never completed
  14. Estimates are not promises
  15. Ship early, iterate often
  16. Keep. It. Simple.

Solid list, even though 14 is up for debate in my opinion: Software can be completed. You have a use case / problem, you solve that problem, done. Your software is completed now. There might still be bugs and they should be fixed – but this doesn’t “add” to the program. Don’t use “software is never done” as an excuse to keep adding and adding stuff to your code.

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Breaking: Australia sanctions against two far-right Israeli ministers over Gaza comments
Foreign Minister Penny Wong says Australia will join the UK, Canada and New Zealand in sanctioning Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich over comments they have made about Gaza. ⌘ Read more

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MacOS Tahoe Announced with New Liquid Glass Interface
Apple has announced MacOS Tahoe, versioned as macOS 26, jumping 11 versions ahead from the current versioning of MacOS 15. This versioning number change is congruent with the new year-based versioning system that also arrives on iOS 26, iPadOS 26, watchOS 26, and the rest of the Apple operating system suite. MacOS Tahoe features an … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/06/09/macos-tahoe-announced-with-new-liquid-glass-interf … ⌘ Read more

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MacOS Tahoe Announced with New Liquid Glass Interface
Apple has announced MacOS Tahoe, versioned as macOS 26, jumping 11 versions ahead from the current versioning of MacOS 15. This versioning number change is congruent with the new year-based versioning system that also arrives on iOS 26, iPadOS 26, watchOS 26, and the rest of the Apple operating system suite. MacOS Tahoe features an … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/06/09/macos-tahoe-announced-with-new-liquid-glass-interf … ⌘ Read more

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** More stink **
I read A Court of Throne and Roses this weekend. Not my usual fare but what the heck it was there so I read it. I found it to be an unremarkable, relatively conservative romantasy.

What stood out to me, though, is that everyone is so stinky. The main character is always describing how folks smell, smelling them before they round a corner and stuff. Even if they don’t like smell bad, this setting seems overwhelming perfumed. ⌘ Read more

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Snake bite victims urged to seek help regardless of what type they think it is
A coroner this week has been looking into whether there should be more education about snake bites after 11-year-old Tristian Frahm died when he didn’t get medical assistance. ⌘ Read more

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Live: ASX to rise ahead of first-quarter GDP data release
A rally on Wall Street is likely to send Australian stocks higher, while the Australian Bureau of Statistics is set to release the GDP figures for the March quarter at 11:30am AEST. Follow the latest updates in our live blog. ⌘ Read more

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Family ‘haunted’ by questions after boy’s snakebite death
A coronial inquest has been told an 11-year-old Queensland boy would likely have survived a fatal snakebite if he had received medical treatment. ⌘ Read more

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Ex-crew member says Gaza-bound ship faces difficult journey
Climate campaigner Greta Thunberg and other 11 activists set sail on Sunday afternoon for Gaza on a ship aimed at “breaking Israel’s siege” of the territory. ⌘ Read more

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[$] Development statistics for the 6.15 kernel
The 6.14 kernel development cycle only brought in 11,003 non-merge
changesets, making it the slowest cycle since 4.0, which was released in
2015. The 6.15 kernel, instead, brought in 14,612 changesets, making it
the busiest release since 6.7, released at the beginning of 2024. The
kernel development process, in other words, is back up to full speed. The
6.15\
release happened on May 25, so the … ⌘ Read more

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