2025-12-27 01:19:05
my definition of "an UI bug" is basically "any design or implementation choice that makes users miserable". i do not think many in open source hardware|software share this definition and i won't be satisfied until it's a new norm
my definition of "an UI bug" is basically "any design or implementation choice that makes users miserable". i do not think many in open source hardware|software share this definition and i won't be satisfied until it's a new norm
Wikimedia data puts iOS 26 adoption at ~50% in January vs. iOS 18's 72% in 2025 as Apple slows auto-updates; Statcounter showed 15% after missing Safari changes (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
https://daringfireball.net/2026/01/ios_26_adoption_rate_is_not_bizar…
"2025 was third-warmest year on record, research shows"
#Climate #ClimateChange
https:/…
Overall Higher Education enrollment in the US trended slightly up for 2025; international down.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/2026/01/15/fall-enrollment-increased-1-international-students-declined<…
Niederländisch ist doch eine wundervolle Sprache.
Bei @… gab es in der Vergangenheit auch schöne Beispiele.
https://speld.nl/2025/03/06/wie-is-j-d
Ende Dezember 2025 lieferten #Windräder in Österreich Spitzenwerte von über 80 GWh pro Tag.
Am 31. Dezember deckte #Windenergie 46 Prozent des Strombedarfs. Der Oktober 2025 war mit über 1.000 GWh der bisher stärkste Monat. Zwei Drittel der
Unsung heroes of 2025 NFL season: One overlooked/surprise contributor from each AFC team https://www.nfl.com/news/unsung-heroes-of-2025-nfl-season-one-overlooked-surprise-contributor-from-each-afc-team
🛰️ Satellite data reveals new insights into sustainable groundwater usage in the Hollywood Basin
https://phys.org/news/2025-12-satellite-reveals-insights-sustainable-groundwater.html
Las Vegas Raiders reinforce Commitment to Excellence with 2025 Impact Playbook https://www.raiders.com/news/las-vegas-raiders-reinforce-commitment-to-excellence-with-2025-impact-playbook
The just published timelapse #aurora as it was seen from Germany: note the green splotches appearing briefly all over the place, the nature of which - most likely RAGDA - is discussed in https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/01/25/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-25-januar-2025/#Jan25 ("Das war das Polarlicht vom 19. Januar ...") with links to several relevant papers.
Here is my round up of the best #PositiveNews that I shared in 2025 about the #Environment and #Climate
Martin Stransky highlights some recent major achievements for #Firefox on Linux: ""HDR video playback support, reworked rendering for fractionally scaled displays, and asynchronous rendering implementation. All this progress was enabled by advances in the Wayland compositor ecosystem, with new features implemented by Mutter and KWin.
[…]
And there are even more challenge…
Cactus Flower in the Desert Garden. Huntington Library, San Marino, California, USA. December, 2025. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko90mm F3.5 #huntingtonlibrary #cactus #cactusflower <…
Ahnenforschung nimmt deutlich zu
#HannMünden. Bilanz des Mündener Stadtarchivs für das Jahr 2025.
https://www.hna.de/lokales/hann-muenden/ha
150 GW in a year: record new wind power capacity installed globally in 2025! Not really evenly spread over the world ;)
China 100 GW (that country where Trump couldn't find a single wind turbine :)
Europe 17 GW
US 7 GW
India 6 GW
Rest of the World 20 GW
<…
Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator - Capping-Credit-Card-Rates.pdf https://cdn.vanderbilt.edu/vu-URL/wp-content/uploads/sites/412/2025/09/03183755/Capping-Credit-Card-Rates.pdf
"European residential heat pump sales increased in 2025"
#Europe #HeatPumps #Energy
Study: local broadcast TV supported 1.5M US jobs in 2025 and had a $748B annual GDP impact, with advertising accounting for the largest share at $628B (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/01/broadcast-tv-economic-contributions-2025/
It’s hard to believe, but Ukrainian activists have had to write explainers for a global audience,
reminding them who the true dictator is,
that it was not Ukrainethat started the war with Russia
and that we are actually just trying to defend what is ours.
And, you know, to survive a little bit.
These past three years of our lives have been referred to in many ways:
Putin’s war,
the Russo-Ukrainian war,
the full-scale invasion,
the conflic…
One of those news days that will confuse some people: China's coal "output" (mining) grew 1.2% y/y to a record high in 2025, but "output at coal plants" (burning it in power plants) fell 1%, so stockpiles grew and prices fell.
Inside the turmoil at Thinking Machines; sources say Meta discussed buying TML, and CTO Barret Zoph had been in talks since October 2025 about an OpenAI return (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/technology/thinking-machines-ai-startup-o…
Windkraft-Rekord: Die Branche liefert, doch das Netz wird zum Flaschenhals
Mit einem historischen Genehmigungsplus und starkem Zubau hat die Onshore-Windenergie 2025 die Erwartungen übertroffen. Es drohen mehr Infrastrukturlücken.
Cowboys PFF Grades Highlight Dak Prescott's Superhero Effort in 2025 https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-pff-grades-highlight-dak-prescott-superhero-effort-2025
UK Government Plans to Ban Small Hen Cages and All Pig Crates in England by 2030 https://veganfta.com/articles/2025/12/26/uk-government-plans-to-ban-small-hen-cages-and-all-pig-crates-in-england-by-2030/…
« En 2025, 243 termes recommandés par la Commission d'enrichissement de la langue française sont parus au Journal officiel. Nous en avons présélectionné dix mais, maintenant, c'est Š vous de choisir votre terme préféré ! »
https://www.culture.fr/franceterme/Actuali
Four fast, weird songs on this EP from 2025 via Buffalo's synth punk freaks HAVANA SYNDROME. Love the guy's voice, he sounds totally unhinged. I love singers that sound unhinged. 😂
https://swimmingfaithrecords.bandcamp.com/album/kill-your-brain
Apropos Ryan Gosling/Der Astronaut - meine Kurzbesprechung zum zugrundeliegenden Buch ‚Project Hail Mary‘ von Andy Weir findet sich hier: https://blog.till-westermayer.de/2026/01/science-fiction-und-fantasy-winter-edition-2025-26/
Bin …
Jetzt haben wir schon drei sehr ereignisreiche Wochen 2026 hinter uns und ich bin immer noch nicht dazu gekommen, meine Nerdkram-Highlights für 2025 zu schreiben – also, jetzt frisch ans Werk und mal schauen, wann ich zwischendurch dazu komme, diesen Text zu vervollständigen. Wie immer gibt es Bücher, Brett- und Computerspiele, Musik und diesmal nur sehr wenige Filme und Serien:
Europa Erlesen Marchfeld wurde für das WeinviertelBücher-Blog von Helga Dieberger rezensiert, was für eine schöne Conclusio: "Ein wunderbares und uneingeschränkt empfehlenswertes Buch für Marchfelder*innen, Marchfeldinteressierte und alle, denen das Marchfeld bisher egal war." https://
China's economy grows 5% in 2025, buoyed by strong exports despite Trump's tariffs (Chan Ho-him/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/china-economy-exports-trump-tariffs-6b3f53af8f22692bcd4d276c0695b1fc
http://www.memeorandum.com/260118/p94#a260118p94
Amid this news madness, I've thoroughly enjoyed being subscribed to the daily #CarbonBrief. Instead of compulsing the news, I try [and often fail] to focus on the most insightful items in my news feeds. This analysis of the latest UK auction for #WindPower was excellent:
There is a #Trump proclamation (few months old) that imposes an additional fine ($100k) for applying to a new H1-B visa (the type that is used a lot by researchers).
Does anyone know for sure (with a source please) if this applies to those who are already in the US (for any reason, e.g. you were on a different visa or you are in the grace period of a visa)?
The original pro…
Hey, WILTY fans. After a year off they started a new season, #19, with a Christmas 2025 show. They’re up to S19E03 as of this past Friday. And Bob Mortimer was on E02. Does not disappoint. https://youtu.be/cHB1iSNAvG4?si=d-5nwiaaIhMslgor
From abandonment to adoption: advancing assistive technologies for blindness and low vision in the AI era https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/digital-health/articles/10.3389/fdgth.2025.1719746/full
Russia sold 2 million tons of Ukrainian grain as its own in 2025—intelligence - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/01/17/russia-sold-2-million-tons-of-ukrainian-grain-as-its-own-in-2025-intelligence/
Today’s eye candy, remarkable underwater photos: #photography
#konkurssit ja Orvon hiljaisuus
Sources: Apple expanded the job of hardware chief John Ternus to manage design teams at the end of 2025, solidifying his status as a leading CEO candidate (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
All my apes gone!
#nwsl
„It’s a path puzzle. You draw a path that enters the grid at the top and exits at the bottom. Along the way, there are 50 sections, each following a different ruleset. Consecutive sections overlap by a few rows, creating short hybrid sections in between.”
This is amazing! The printable PDF-version is 17 pages! 🤯
https://
Sensor Tower: Reels accounted for 50% of all Instagram ads in 2025, up from 35% in 2024; Reels accounted for 46% of time spent on Instagram in the US in 2025 (Zach Vallese/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/20/most-of-instagrams-ads-ran-on-reels-i…
#Magdeburg #GoodNews #GuteNachrichten
Ausgezeichnet als beliebteste Pflegeprofis: Team der Station 12 für Neurologische Rehabilitation der Median Klinik
Bills promote GM Brandon Beane despite turbulent 2025 season, checkered draft record https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6983482/2026/01/19/brandon-beane-promoted-bills-gm-draft-record/
Voittoja luonnon puolesta vuodelta 2025 #luonto
🦀 Discovery turns household plastic recycling into anti-cancer medication
#materials
Das ist nicht nur eine Frage der Moral, es ist vor allem eine rationale Herausforderung, ob Demokratien und die interantionale Staatengemeinschaft das dulden können.
Diese Milliardäre können Staaten kaufen, manipulieren, in Kriege verwickeln, kolonisieren ...
Niemand sollte so viel Reichtum anhäufen können.
Es ist höchst an der Zeit, diese Maschinerie aus Selbstbedienung, Machtakkumulation und Zerstörung zu unterbinden.
Der Konzernatlas 2026 von @… beleuchtet die Marktmacht der großen Konzerne vom Saatgut bis zum Supermarkt und zeigt auf, wie Politik und Bürger:innen diese Macht begrenzen können - für eine umweltverträgliche, sozial gerechte und nachhaltige Ernährung.
Hier kostenloser Donwload oder Print bestellen:
When Maria Corina Machado Wins the Nobel Peace Prize, “Peace” Has Lost Its Meaning. - Venezuela Solidarity Campaign
https://www.venezuelasolidarity.co.uk/2025/10/10/when-maria-corina-machado-wins-the-nobel-peace…
Point of View: A photo essay of the 2025 season https://www.raiders.com/news/point-of-view-a-photo-essay-of-the-2025-season-part-ii
As the government continues to pursue mass deportations, Section 111 of Title 18 of the U.S. Code has become a favored tool of the Justice Department for painting opposition to immigration enforcement as a corrosive, lawless force.
The Departments of Justice and Homeland Security often describe these cases in exaggerated language, even referring to defendants as “domestic terrorists,”
though the law has nothing to do with terrorism.
Across the country, prosecutors have ch…
Sources: Anthropic's revenue run rate hit $9B at the end of 2025, up from $4B in July 2025; Iconiq, Lightspeed, and Menlo are set to join its new funding round (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-21/an…
Von der Leyen 5 months ago.
"Stability and predictability" 🤣
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/07/27/von-der-leyen-and-trump-strike-eu-us-trade-deal-to-avert-all-out-tariff-war
Elephant Seal resting on the beach. Piedras Blancas Elephant Seal Rookery, San Simeon, California, USA. October, 2025. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4.0 PRO MC14 #piedrasblancasrookery #sansimeon
Kshamenk, Argentina’s Last Captive Orca, Dies After Decades in Tiny Tank https://veganfta.com/articles/2025/12/18/kshamenk-argentinas-last-captive-orca-dies-after-decades-in-tiny-tank/?utm_source=Mastodon
So yeah, uhh, I guess I’ve been daily driving #Linux
"Uncertainties in the Archives" @…:
https://blog.sbb.berlin/uncertainties-in-the-archives/
"Over the course of …
Cowboys’ tight end room was one of its best in 2025 https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-tight-end-room-was-one-of-its-best-in-2025
Chris LaCivita, a Trump campaign manager in 2024, settles his libel lawsuit against The Daily Beast, filed in March 2025; The Beast says he received no payment (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/business/media…
Chinese smartphone shipments fell 1.6% YoY in Q4 2025 and 0.6% YoY for 2025 due to weak demand, rising prices, and memory shortages; iPhone shipments rose 28% (Counterpoint Research)
https://counterpointresearch.com/en/insights/China-Smartphone-Shipments-Q4-20…
💗 Do marathons damage your heart? Decade-long study shows no long-term cardiac harm
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12-marathons-heart-decade-term-cardiac.html
Human Rights groups warn an immigration detention camp at Fort Bliss has reached a “breaking point”
Human rights experts are sounding the alarm about living conditions at the immigration detention camp that houses hundreds of people.
“Fort Bliss is a human and civil rights disaster,”
said Eunice Cho Senior Counsel for the American Civil Liberty Union’s prison program.
The ACLU and other organizations allege physical abuse,
unsanitary conditions and medical negle…
"Wind and solar overtook fossil fuels for EU power generation in 2025, report finds"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Energy #Renewables
PV-Speicherbatterien: Gericht stärkt Herstellern bei Fernabschaltung den Rücken
Werden Photovoltaik-Speicher per Software gedrosselt, müssen Kunden das laut einem Landgericht trotz Leistungsversprechen als Sicherheitsmaßnahme akzeptieren.
Opinion: The events of 2025 exposed the enemy within our own borders - El Paso Matters https://elpasomatters.org/2025/12/29/opinion-2025-america-democracy-moral-collapse/
Tom Brady on Indiana QB Fernando Mendoza: 'He's Got a Bright Future' https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/tom-brady-indiana-fernando-mendoza
Dutch far-right leader Wilders is losing ground. After his failed government coalition, followed by an election defeat for his PVV (going from 37 seats in 2023 to 26 in 2025), 7 out of his 26 MPs are now jumping ship. That leaves 19, half the number of 2.5 years ago.
https://nos.nl…
Tracking NFL head coach changes: Bill fire Sean McDermott, Dolphins hiring Jeff Hafley https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46437226/2025-nfl-coaching-changes-latest-news-rumors-firings-hires
CoinGecko: over 53% of the 20.2M crypto tokens launched since 2021 are now inactive, with 7.7M tokens failing in Q4 2025, after Oct. 10 "liquidation cascade" (Helene Braun/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/01/1
"Wie lernt man eigentlich mit den Fingern zu lesen? Zum Weltbrailletag am 4. Januar"
https://blog.dzblesen.de/2025/12/19/wie-lernt-man-eigentlich-mit-den-fingern-zu-lesen/
Trump is addicted to military force.
Congress should act to curb him
Even before the raid to seize Nicolšs Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela, on Jan. 3,
Trump had already attacked as many countries (seven) in 2025 as he did during his entire first term.
After the Maduro operation, which Trump said he watched “like ... a television show,”
he has threatened to take military action in many more places,
including Iran, Colombia, Mexico, Cuba, Greenland — and no…
Backlit Cactus in the Desert Garden. Huntington Library, San Marino, California, USA. December, 2025. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 90mm F3.5. #huntingtonlibrary #desertgarden #cactus
IFPI: global recorded music revenues hit $31.7B in 2025, up 6.4% YoY, total streaming revenue surpassed $22B, and users of paid music subscriptions reached 837M (Murray Stassen/Music Business Worldwide)
https://www.musicbusin…
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
Cowboys found their 1-2 receiving tandem in 2025 https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-found-their-1-2-receiving-tandem-in-2025
Ubisoft cancels six games and delays others amid a restructuring into five genre-specific "creative houses"; it expects net bookings of ~€1.5B for FY 2025-2026 (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Netflix reports Q4 revenue up 18% YoY to $12B vs. $11.97B est., 325M paid subs, 2025 revenue up 16% to $45.2B, plans to increase content spend by 10% in 2026 (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…
NFL Power Rankings: Rams back in top three before Championship Sunday; Broncos fall with Bo Nix out https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-power-rankings-conference-championships-2025-nfl-season-playoffs
Ashton Jeanty named to 2025 PFWA All-Rookie Team https://www.raiders.com/news/ashton-jeanty-named-to-2025-pfwa-all-rookie-team
Nothing brings tech titans together like taxes.
This week, as the specter of a California “#billionaire #tax” ballot initiative gained momentum,
the moguls grew furious.
The outrage reached a fever pitch on X,
where the following scenarios were predicted, should the initiative be approved in Nov…
Sources: internal Google data shows Gemini API calls surged from 35B in March 2025 to 85B in August 2025; Google says Gemini Enterprise hit 8M subscribers (Erin Woo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/googles-gemini-sees-skyrocketi…
mein bruder war etwas irritiert, als er in meinem weihnachtswunschzettel was von "4711" gelesen hat. aber: es ging mir nicht ums original, sondern da gibt es jetzt ein parfum mit gänseblümchen! 💮🙃
ich weiß nicht, wie die in echt riechen (dem müsste ich mal nachgehen!), aber das parfum riecht sehr angenehm. #2025 #2026
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Ashton Jeanty named to 2025 PFWA All-Rookie Team https://www.raiders.com/news/ashton-jeanty-named-to-2025-pfwa-all-rookie-team
Call your reps! https://5calls.org/issue/dhs-budget-ice-defund/
Demand that they block any DHS appropriations bill or Continuing Resolution (CR) that maintains funding for ICE.
This lawless and violent agency must be defunded and dissolved for good.
My first bet: Back Kayshon Boutte, Seahawks for NFL conference championship weekend https://www.espn.com/espn/betting/story/_/id/47653949/2025-nfl-playoffs-afc-nfc-championship-odds-first-bets
Netflix reports Q4 revenue up 18% YoY to $12B vs. $11.97B est., 325M paid subs, 2025 revenue up 16% to $45.2B, plans to increase content spend by 10% in 2026 (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…
Luminate 2025 report: the global music industry hit 5.1T streams, up 9.6% YoY and a single-year record; AI artist Xania Monet had 125M on-demand audio streams (Maria Sherman/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/music-listen…
First look at the AFC conference championship: Our early preview of Patriots-Broncos https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47614203/2025-nfl-playoffs-bracket-reset-conference-championships-schedule-afc-nfc
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says the company's compute grew from 0.2 GW in 2023 to ~1.9 GW in 2025 and annualized revenue grew from $2B in 2023 to $20B in 2025 (Sarah Friar/OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/a-business-that-scales-with-the-value-of-intelligence
Raiders RB Ashton Jeanty named to PFWA All Rookie team https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/01/20/raiders-rb-ashton-jeanty-pfwa-all-rookie-team/88268503007/
Anthropic's Claude Cowork launch has revived fears about disruption that weighed on SaaS stocks in 2025; Morgan Stanley SaaS index is down 15% so far in 2026 (Ryan Vlastelica/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Social network Bluesky is gearing up for big changes with today’s news that
the company raised $100 million in Series B funding.
The round, led by Bain Capital Crypto, was closed in April 2025 but had not been disclosed until now
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/19/blue…
Waymo says its fleet hit 170M miles as of December 2025, and its Waymo Driver system was involved in 92% fewer serious-injury crashes than human drivers (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/transportation/896837/waymo-170-mill…
Similarweb: Claude's web audience more than doubled in December 2025 compared with December 2024, as many coders spent their holiday breaks on a "Claude bender" (Bradley Olson/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-claude-code-ai-7a46…
Global smartphone shipments rose 2% YoY in 2025, with Apple capturing the top position at a 20% share and 10% YoY growth, ahead of Samsung's 19% market share (Counterpoint Research)
https://counterpointresearch.com/en/insights/global-sm…