@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org They’re seriously telling us at work: “Can it be AI’d? Do it, don’t waste time!” Shit like that is the result. (What’s this weird gray triangle in the bottom right corner?)

Just FTR, in case this wasn’t obvious, the “right to repair” (if there ever is one) needs to be more than just “you’re legally allowed to repair stuff”.

I just fixed this thing by replacing two capacitors. Great, but this was an absolute shitshow and it took several days. So many obstacles, everything’s tiny, connectors glued together, … It worked in the end, but I was so close to giving up.

Being legally allowed to do something is basically worthless if it’s not feasible to actually do it.

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Okay I think it’s working now

@bender@twtxt.net It used to work just fine™ - I wonder if it’s my WAF? Lemme turn the WAF off for this tie…

Oh, also, have you fixed https://meet.mills.io/call/Yarn.social already? It didn’t work the other day.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de My impression also is that good sysadmins are missing. No wonder if they all get laid off because they’re “not doing anything” and developers can just operate their shit themselves. Or so the bosses and plenty devs think. Sadly, that’s the general view.

Hell no, devops is bullshit in my opinion. Most developers (including myself) are rather bad at administrating. A good sysadmin offers other skills. Great admins appear to just sit around, but they’re much more proactively working than programmers who also operate the same stuff. The latter have a waaay more reactive work model in comparison. When things have already gone south. The sysadmin, on the other hand, would have noticed and thus prevented the vast majority very early on when it was far from becoming a problem in the future.

At least that’s my personal experience in all those years in different projects and what my mates tell me from their companies. Sure, skills can be learned, but it’s just not happening (enough). And obviously, there are people out there who excel in both disciplines, but they are rare. Most fall in one of the categories. Not to forget, plenty are just bad at everything. :-)

Advent of Code will be different this year:

https://old.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/1ocwh04/changes_to_advent_of_code_starting_this_december/

There will only be 12 puzzles, i.e. only December 1 to December 12. This might make it more interesting for some people, because it’s (probably) less work and a lower chance of people getting burned out. 🤔

Personally, I’ll probably stretch it out over 24 days. Giving myself more time to solve each puzzle and I really want this event to last the entire month. 😅

Maybe this makes it more interesting for some people around here as well?

F-Droid Says The Bible is Safe For Work… for Now
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Haha, beds “stopped working” due to that outage? 🤪

• https://agora.echelon.pl/notice/AzQlI7XeQFjsmlNK1w
  
• https://status.8slp.net/

That was a very non-fun day at work.

We’re not using AWS directly, but soooooooooooooooo much other stuff does.

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@prologic@twtxt.net So you love @bender@twtxt.net very much? 🤣 How does speech recognition work for you? 🤔

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Maya salt-making compound found preserved underwater in Belize
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Sniffer dogs tested in real-world scenarios reveal need for wider access to explosives
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It feels very good that the two issues I reported for #Processing recently have people working on them!

#FLOSS #CreativeCoding

A rare variety of wheat with three ovaries—gene discovery could triple production
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British social media star ‘Big John’ detained in Australia over visa
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100% Transparency and Five Pillars
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Chemists reveal new insights into protein linked to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
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Building multi-step login forms that work well with password managers
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It’s Sunday, and tomorrow I don’t have to work, as I have two weeks of vacation. The first time since May. My only breaks from work were when I hurt my hand and wasn’t able to type for a week, and two free days last week, but those also weren’t really relaxing for me. So I am very much looking forward to the next two weeks! I really feel the exhaustion from the last few months with work sometimes being stressful, the start of my fiancée’s teacher training, and some other topics. But this year again showed me that bi … ⌘ Read more

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How View Caching In Rails Works (2020)
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21. Tips for Staying Consistent and Avoiding Burnout

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It happened.

“Can you help me debug this program? I vibe coded it and I have no idea what’s going on. I had no choice – learning this new language and frameworks would have taken ages, and I have severe time constraints.”

Did I say “no”? Of course not, I’m a “nice guy”. So I’m at fault as well, because I endorsed this whole thing. The other guy is also guilty, because he didn’t communicate clearly to his boss what can be done and how much time it takes. And the boss and his bosses are guilty a lot, because they’re all pushing for “AI”.

The end result is garbage software.

This particular project is still relatively small, so it might be okay at the moment. But normalizing this will yield nothing but garbage. And actually, especially if this small project works out fine, this contributes to the shittiness because management will interpret this as “hey, AI works”, so they will keep asking for it in future projects.

How utterly frustrating. This is not what I want to do every day from now on.

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[$] Gccrs after libcore
Despite its increasing popularity, the Rust programming language is still
supported by a single compiler, the LLVM-based rustc. At the 2025 GNU Tools\
Cauldron, Pierre-Emmanuel Patry said that a lot of people are waiting
for a GCC-based Rust compiler before jumping into the language. Patry, who
is working on just that compiler (known as “gccrs”), provided an update on
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@prologic@twtxt.net is iMessages iCloud synchronization disabled? Applications might stop working, and functionality rendered worthless the more you block.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org In my case it was a silver necklace, a hummingbird with a wing connected with the cold welding I mentioned using thin brass wires.

It made it in a goldsmithing class (I went to a private craftmanship high-school) so no phones allowed (no photos of it) and no “take home” of the works.

Here’s a rough sketch of it drawn by memory, the dots in the wing is where it connects to the body.

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The technique is basically the same as i described, but the scale is much smaller, the whole piece was about 5-6 cm on the largest side.

The rivet was made by drilling a hole through the parts, than with a short and thicker drill you widen the hole on the surface to let the rivet settle flatter on the piece, then with a rubber hammer you hit it to flatten the head until it’s snug on the hole, lock them together by doing the same on the other side.

Note that widening the hole with a thicker drill head won’t make a difference with bigger holes, mine had holes of about 1-2 mm of diameter maximum.

Here’s a sketch of what is going on for clarity.

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‘No playbook’: eSafety boss backs social media ban despite expert warnings
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King Charles hopes nature film will ‘inspire’ viewers
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Client ID Metadata Document Adopted by the OAuth Working Group
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[$] Upcoming Rust language features for kernel development
The
Rust for Linux project has been good for Rust, Tyler Mandry, one of the
co-leads of Rust’s language-design team, said. He
gave a talk at
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the Rust for Linux developers for helping drive them forward. Afterward, Benno Lossin and Xiangfei Ding
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Chemistry Nobel awarded to three scientists for their work on metal organic frameworks
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asPipes: working pipelines today in pure JavaScript
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Hundreds of Victorian sex crime cases being re-examined by police
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de how do you set your clock to use a specific time signal radio station? I have one wall clock in my office, it works great, but no way to set that.

Draper hires Murray’s former coach Delgado
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Physics Nobel awarded to three scientists for work on quantum computing
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Boosting work engagement through a simple smartphone diary
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My open letter, to the European Commission digital markets act team:

Hello,

I am joining other developers, concerned about Googles new plan, to approve every app and effectively destroy most of the competing 3rd party stores this way. The biggest one of these alternative stores, most known for their focus on user and developer privacy, already states, this would make it impossible for them to operate: https://f-droid.org/cs/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html
Even communities like the XDA forum, where new developers are often introduced to the world of Android development, would likely be strongly impacted, as making, publishing and installing Android apps is made less accessible.

I am not just writing on their behalf, I run a small website myself (https://thecanine.ueuo.com/), that both provides legal modifications, for some android apps - for example adding an amoled dark theme, to the most popular XMPP chat client for Android, or increasing one of Androids keyboard apps height. This all comes after Googles previous changes to the Android operating system, that prevent users from installing old apps (old to Google, can mean only a couple of months, without an update - https://developer.android.com/google/play/requirements/target-sdk and the target version gets increased every year). I rely on apps developed by a single developer, even for things like making the pixel art presented on my website and sideloading as a way to make these apps work, before developers can catch up to Google’s new requirements - if Google is allowed to slowly kill these options, us digital artists will soon lose the tools we need to create digital art.

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Hikers feared being buried by snow in Mount Everest blizzard
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[$] 6.18 merge window, part 1
At the time of writing, there have been 9,099 commits in the 6.18 merge window,
8,475 non-merges and 624 merges. The
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There are no big surprises, but several items that were discussed at this year’s
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[$] Next steps for BPF support in the GNU toolchain
Support for BPF in the kernel has been tied to the LLVM toolchain since the
advent of extended BPF. There has been a growing effort to add BPF support
to the GNU toolchain as well, though. At the 2025 GNU Tools Cauldron, the
developers involved got together with representatives of the kernel
community to talk about the state of that work and what needs to happen
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Nobel Prize for how immune system stops destructive rampage
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Breaking: Trio of scientists win Nobel Prize in Medicine for work on immune system
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Trump is reviving large sales of coal from public lands. Will anyone want it?
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_Stephan: The Trump Republican coup is not only putting Democrat controlled cities under military occupation, and dismantling the country’s efforts to convert to renewable energy, it is literally working to take the country back to the early 20th century when coal was a main source of power. This is why I predi … ⌘ Read more

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iPad Mini 8 on the Way: Expected Features and Release Timeline
A new iPad mini is “absolutely” on the way, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. So what should we expect from the successor to the iPad mini 7 that Apple released a year ago?

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cargo-subspace: Make rust-analyzer work better with very large cargo workspaces
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Repetitive negative thinking mediates relationship between self-esteem and burnout in students, study finds
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@alexonit@twtxt.alessandrocutolo.it Thanks mate! Ah cool, now I’m curious, what did you make? :-)

You used the rubber hammer to fold the metal, not to set the rivets, right? :-? I glued cork on my wooden mallet some time ago. This worked quite good for bending. But rubber might be even better as it is a tad softer. I will try this next time, I think I have one deep down in a drawer somewhere.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Great job!

I suggested it because I did it in the past, but never used it on bigger works.

In my case I did it exclusively on really small projects and used a thin rubber head hammer to prevent deforming the metal.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Xfce is nice, but it’s also mostly GTK. I don’t really know the answer yet. For now, I’ll just avoid anything that uses GTK4.

For my own programs, I might have a closer look at Tkinter. I was complaining recently that I couldn’t find a good file manager, so it might be an interesting excercise to write one in Python+Tkinter. 🤔 (Or maybe that’s too much work, I don’t know yet.)

Got a ubuntu vm installed, with tailscale, and it works with a public url, so next is to migrate a service and point my domain to it

It’s time to say goodbye to the GTK world.

GTK2 was nice to work with, relatively lightweight, and there were many cool themes back then. GTK3 was already a bit clunky, but tolerable. GTK4 now pulls in all kinds of stuff that I’m not interested in, it has become quite heavy.

Farewell. 👋

@bender@twtxt.net I don’t think so, but I might give it a shot when the “official” drivers no longer work at all.

Upcoming Apple Vision Pro Could Get More Comfortable ‘Dual Knit Band’
Apple is working on a next-generation version of the Vision Pro with an updated chip, and it could include a new Dual Knit Band that provides a more comfortable fit.

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Neolithic Chinese culture artifacts show systematic human bone modification
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de can’t you use generic drivers? I did that for an enterprise copier/printer/scanner we used to have at work, and it worked just fine!

Making yogurt with ants revives a creative fermentation process
Researchers recreated a nearly forgotten yogurt recipe that once was common across the Balkans and Turkey—using ants. Reporting in iScience on October 3, the team shows that bacteria, acids, and enzymes in ants can kickstart the fermentation process that turns milk into yogurt. The work highlights how traditional practices can inspire new approaches to food science and even add creativity to the dinner table. ⌘ Read more

I know good people who work at Microsoft (like Guido van Rossum and Pamela Fox) but I don’t trust MS a iota. Making Processing work on VS Code… I don’t know if I like it. It leads people to a tool too much under MS control. I guess VS Code is too big to fail now?
I know about VS Codium… also, I’m struggling to move my stuff out of GitHub.

All good things come to an end, I guess.

I have an Epson printer (AcuLaser C1100) and an Epson scanner (Perfection V10), both of which I bought about 20 years ago. The hardware still works perfectly fine.

Until recently, Epson still provided Linux drivers for them. That is pretty cool! I noticed today that they have relaunched their driver website – and now I can’t find any Linux drivers for that hardware anymore. Just doesn’t list it (it does list some drivers for Windows 7, for example).

I mean, okay, we’re talking about 20 years here. That is a very long time, much more than I expected. But if it still works, why not keep using it?

Some years ago, I started archiving these drivers locally, because I anticipated that they might vanish at some point. So I can still use my hardware for now (even if I had to reinstall my PC for some reason). It might get hacky at some point in the future, though.

This once more underlines the importance of FOSS drivers for your hardware. I sadly didn’t pay attention to that 20 years ago.

10 of the Weirdest Ways the Universe Works
The cosmos is full of mysteries that stump even the smartest thinkers—Einstein himself once fudged his equations to make sense of the universe’s expansion. For every elegant law of physics that we uncover, a dozen baffling questions still lurk in the dark. But that’s what makes astronomy so exciting. Telescopes are constantly pulling back the […]

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Ian Kelling is the new FSF president
The Free Software Foundation has announced
the selection of Ian Kelling as the organization’s president.

Kelling, age forty-three, has held the role of a board member and a
voting member since March 2021. The board said of Kelling’s
confirmation: “His hands-on technical experience resulting from his
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Sieht ganz so aus, als hätte die gute @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz ihre Büchse mit in den Kurort Bad Gateway genommen.

Sorry, this pun only works in German, where “Bad” means spa and is used as prefix for spa towns.

Okay, they are also offering 2.8x25mm copper nails. Which I actually do have a single one here. :-)

My hardware collection also includes a few brass-like looking screws that I could repurpose into rivets. But I reckon I have to upgrade my burner first. I’m not a metal worker by any means, so I could be totally wrong, but I imagine that some heat is necessary to loosen the work-hardening effect when beating on them. I will do some experiments on Saturday and report back.