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Judge Orders Google to Limit Default Search Deals to One Year - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/judge-orders-google-limit-default-search-deals-to-one-year-2025-12

A US judge rules Google must renegotiate annually any contract that makes its search engine or AI app the default on smartphones and other devices (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-05/google-must-limit-d…

Rapid plasticity of default-mode local network architectures following adult-onset blindness https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124725014925 "adult-onset blindness rapidly and selectively modifies the stable default-mode local network archite…

The default install of Jellyfin is not that impressive.

You Want Microservices, But Do You Really Need Them?
https://www.docker.com/blog/do-you-really-need-microservices/

Here's another new #hosting provider experience I wasn't expecting to see. Forky installed by default. I selected Debian 10, because that was the latest version in config form. Maybe they thought they were doing me a favor? The hardware isn't that new. If I wanted Ubuntu I would have chosen that.
Trixie aka Debian 13 just came out in August, Forky is the current"testin…

If you set limits for a scale (e.g. x-axis) in ggplot, how would you like data outside of that range be handled? There is the oob parameter for that and a set of functions to use with it: https://scales.r-lib.org/reference/oob.html

@… FYI
285957 – lang/python312 as default python — <https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=285957>
292105 – lang…

#Applied #cryptography cannot solve a #security problem. It can only convert a security problem into a key-management problem.
Corollary: If you aren’t actually solving the key-management problem, yo…

@… I was 15 and using my first ever non-Windows operating system. But I hear you, I’ve since learned how to quit, and configure nano as the default editor ;)
@… @…

Ach, ich hab immer via Shell geguckt, ob bei mail was bei username@localhost angekommen ist (für privaten Rechner brauch ich kein Forwarding an richtige Mail).
Gerade der Gedanke, ich kann die einfach in Thunderbird als lokalen Ordner anzeigen. Mit Flatpak grob so
1. Bei Flatpak Zugriff auf Ordner /var/mail erlauben
3. `ln -s /var/mail/USERNAME "/home/USERNAME/.var/app/org.mozilla.Thunderbird/.thunderbird/CHECKMICH.default-release/Mail/Local Folders/System-Mail"

This is particularly bad in #Italy, where #WhatsApp is the default means of communication. In other countries I've lived in at least they consider alternatives. In Italy people don't even ask you if you have an account before adding you in school parent groups or contacting you for work over WhatsApp.

Why people don’t demand data privacy – even as governments and corporations collect more personal information
How people talk about data privacy can overcome – or reinforce – their skepticism that things can change.

Made a change, the clone I’ve been working on is now at https://left-wordle.com. The old url should redirect.
There are some changes - please report any bugs.
check out the prefs - you can add custom text to the share text header line, defaults to (Left Wordle), and add a line below the grid, default is bl…

Wordle - A daily word game
Guess the hidden word in 6 tries. A new puzzle is available each day.

#neovim

GitHub - gbprod/yanky.nvim: Improved Yank and Put functionalities for Neovim
Improved Yank and Put functionalities for Neovim. Contribute to gbprod/yanky.nvim development by creating an account on GitHub.

Not sure I like this…
I
t seems like @… has conformed to Mastodon quote-toot format, which includes a non-removable @ to the OP.
I understand why that is a default and is a good default.
The thing is, *I* don’t want the quiet quote to dunk on OPs. *I* just am inspired to shitpost about things other people have trenchant wisdom about withou…

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says the company is "moving away" from r/popular, the default feed for new users, and will replace it with more personalized feeds (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/837780/reddit-r-popular-communit…

Reddit’s CEO says r/popular ‘sucks,’ and it’s going away
Reddit is “moving away” from r/popular in favor of “better, more relevant and personalized feeds,” CEO Steve Huffman says.

this year is the 80th anniversary of the von Neumann architecture https://www.ias.edu/sites/default/files/library/Prelim_Disc_Logical_Design.pdf

Playing changing the number of 'experts' on an LLM - it's kind of interesting; Qwen3-next runs 10 by default, I can make it run a bit faster on my cpu by turning down to 4 and it's still OK.

@… @… I *literally* had this scenario play out once on the school web server.
I was updating some configs (at the server console in the basement), accidentally opened the default editor (vi) and ended up reboot…

Looking to replace the default Android calculator app with something F/OSS that can do base conversions, display bits in a value, etc. Any suggestions?

“Perl’s early success was its own undoing. It became the default tool for the first web boom, and in doing so, it took the brunt of that era’s chaos. Then, just as it began to mature, its versioning story confused the industry into thinking it had stalled.” #Perl

Dotcom Survivor Syndrome – How Perl’s Early Success Created the Seeds of Its Downfall - Perl Hacks
If you were building web applications during the first dot-com boom, chances are you wrote Perl. And if you're now a CTO, tech lead, or senior architect, you may instinctively steer teams away from it—even if you can’t quite explain why. This reflexive aversion isn’t just a preference. It’s what I call Dotcom Survivor Syndrome:

So I am now at 10% battery, with the machine connected to the power adapter… I wonder what happens when it gets to 0, but is still connected. Losing a percentage point every few minutes at this stage.
Almost seems like it uses the battery by default, and the power going in only goes to charging the battery, not actually running the machine?
And what would happen if I set topaz to do upscaling overnight?

X now lets any user AI-edit other users’ images without consent, and there is no opt out
A few days ago X introduced a new AI Image Editing button that lets any user modify images posted by others, even without the original uploader’s consent. Image owners are not notified when edits are made, and the feature is enabled by default with no opt-out option (at least not so far) […]
🙄

Gibt es hier Menschen mit Grafik-Kompetenz?
Im #DIDay Termin-Tool gibt es einen Werbemittel-Generator und dafür werden noch Default Hintergrundbilder gebraucht. Wer sich auf diese Weise als Teil der #DIDaySupportCommunity einbringen möchte am besten bei

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says the company is "moving away" from r/popular, the default feed for new users, and will replace it with more personalized feeds (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/837780/reddit-r-popular-communit…

Reddit’s CEO says r/popular ‘sucks,’ and it’s going away
Reddit is “moving away” from r/popular in favor of “better, more relevant and personalized feeds,” CEO Steve Huffman says.

With the holidays upon us, it's easy to default to giving the tech gifts that retailers tend to push on us this time of year:
smart speakers, video doorbells, bluetooth trackers, fitness trackers, and other connected gadgets are all very popular gifts.
But before you give one, think twice about what you're opting that person into.
One big problem with giving these sorts of gifts is that you're opting another person into a company's intrusive surveillance prac…

Think Twice Before Giving Surveillance for the Holidays
With the holidays upon us, it's easy to default to giving the tech gifts that retailers tend to push on us this time of year: smart speakers, video doorbells, bluetooth trackers, fitness trackers, and other connected gadgets are all very popular gifts. But before you give one, think twice about...

RE: https://mementomori.social/@rolle/115830860141268596
I've implemented this design on datasci.social now via Custom CSS. Looks much better than the default - great work by @…

So it's been pointed out that steve, the #jobserver, doesn't have a #logo. Here's a first approximation. Made in #Inkscape, using lines and fonts (the apples are from Noto Sans, I think). I also have an SVG version but browsers mess it up by substituting the apples for some colorful emojis with incompatible metrics. I've added a bright background, since the actual transparent background doesn't work on black (which seems to be Mastodon default).

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/115639842170295353
OMG it turns out this is due to the Mac APFS filesystem’s default case-mapping behavior, so things like SSH and LS work (bleccch).
(h/t @stoey.bsky.social over on bsky)

Linux tips:
se in #gentoo ti trovi Baobab che si apre al posto di Thunar in HexChat e probabilmente da altre parti la soluzione é usare il comando
gio mime inode/directory
e re-impostare thunar.desktop come default con
gio mime inode/directory thunar.desktop
My Due Cent
#gentoo

MicroSucks STOP WITH THE CHANGES! I had Word showing one page as my default view. Today it switched to multiple pages. I DIDN'T GIVE YOU PERMISSION TO CHANGE THAT SETTING.
Small change, but one I should not need to make! I think they are annoyed that I changed from Edge to Firefox.
Also, annoyance is that in SharePoint using Firefox I MUST sign in every site I open. Massive (middle) finger pointing right now.

Great talk by @… of #GNU #Hurd fame, in a packed room, selling the the Hurd really well (in my not entirely unbiased opinion, of course) and starting with
It'…

I have replaced the default browser on my iPhone. I sincerely hope this is one metric that Apple tracks and they’ll start realizing that Safari is not truly the better browser.

Instead of an "AI kill switch" like they promised, #Mozilla will provide "AI controls" buried deep in settings a #Firefox update which isn't out yet, until then the AI features which are already released and on by default can only be disabled by digging through about:co…

#linux #openwrt
Q: I am starting with open wrt. My problem is that I want to reach it over my LAN. The default ip is 192.168.1 but I have 192.168.0 as a default and I can not change it (ISP restriction). I have googled and youtubed it but I still can't get it to work. I can log in to t…

@… I get failure to install offline packages – packages are the default with FreeBSD-15.0-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso – with UFS, vm.pageout_oom_seq=120 and 256 MB given to a VirtualBox guest.
The tail of /var/log/messages – after bsdconfig networking (to allow use of termbin.com):
Feb 4 01:05:58 pkg[1652]: FreeBSD-bzip2-lib32-15.0 installed
Feb 4 01:05:58 pkg…

Looking forward to the @… community bike ride in downtown Burlington on New Year's Day. It should be calm and quiet out. -9°C though; hope everyone layers well. A cup of hot chocolate or apple cider afterward is going to be amazing!
#BikeTooter #BurlOn

To be entirely fair, macOS and Windows are going down such clownchute that it is possible that they just won't work for people at all anymore, so it could be that Linux gets popular by default.

Mailing Lists? In this day and age!?
I've been pointed to Groups.io and Gaggle Mail as alternatives to Google Groups for a mailing list, but I've love to hear about others.
Google Groups tends to be a default for many people doing a mailing list because it's free and well known, but I want to offer an alternative to Google and other big US-based tech companies.
Any other suggestions?
(Thanks to @…

You dont like the default color palett of #ggplot? You can change it: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10504724/change-the-default-colour-palette-in-ggplot

Change the default colour palette in ggplot
I have written a function that returns a vector of color names: custom.colors <- function(n) { palette <- c("dodgerblue1", "skyblue4", "chocolate1", "seagreen4", "bisque3", ...

Bringing machine 'default' up with 'libvirt' provider...
[fog][WARNING] Unrecognized arguments: libvirt_ip_command
==> default: Box 'generic/freebsd15' could not be found. Attempting to find and install...
default: Box Provider: libvirt
default: Box Version: >= 0
The box 'generic/freebsd15' could not be found or could not be accessed in the remote catalog.
Anyone knows if there are plans to provide more images for …

@… And Typst produces Tagged PDF by default: https://typst.app/docs/reference/pdf/

@… And Typst produces Tagged PDF by default: https://typst.app/docs/reference/pdf/

So, I’m sitting here in my default coffee shop, typing on my phone and wondering if I could actually use this for some kind of productivity.
I do have my iPad, which I bring with me occasionally, but not today.
All I would need is to bring a small keyboard with me, and my MagSafe pop out stand, and I’m pretty much sorted!
#iphone #WFH #coffeeshop

“And the cost of credit default swaps, which protect bond investors from losses, has surged in recent months on some A.I. companies’ debt.”
Cool cool So like a dot-com boom-bust with mortgage crisis characteristics?
https://www.

As A.I. Companies Borrow Billions, Debt Investors Grow Wary
Artificial intelligence companies looking to raise funds are being made to pay lofty interest rates, as debt investors become cautious.

reason to lose ten minutes to stupid computer shit: libreoffice appears to default to UTF-7 (sic) when importing CSV files
why in the ever living fuck would you want to use UTF-7. ever. at any point in your life

Just finished "If You'll Have Me" by Eunnie. A wonderful and very sweet sapphic romance graphic novel. I love the fact that it's set in a world where gay is the unremarkable default (there's a subtle token hetero couple that appear on a single page, IIRC).
#AmReading #ReadingNow

I thought I'd killed my trusty #turrisomnia but it turned out my tinkering had left it and the recovery partition in a very old broken state. Fortunately after failing with a cheapo usb key I did get a more recent factory image on it. I now realise quite how fast back the system was because everything is dark mode by default now with a nice onboarding process.

playing whack-a-mole with app notifications that get enabled by default when you get a new phone. geez, how do people get anything done if they just keep the defaults!

Google makes Gemini 3 Flash the default model in Gemini app and Search's AI mode; it scored 33.7% without tool use on Humanity's Last Exam vs. GPT-5.2's 34.5% (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/17/goog

Google launches Gemini 3 Flash, makes it the default model in the Gemini app | TechCrunch
Google is making Gemini 3 Flash the default model in the Gemini app and oAI model for Search

The ability to schedule posts is really one my favorite https://phanpy.social features which I've been using a lot this year. 🙏 Other than lack of dev bandwidth/resources, not sure why the default Mastodon UI doesn't support it if it's actually part of the official API. There's an open issue about it sin…

Phanpy
Minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Django Django:
🎵 Default
#NowPlaying #DjangoDjango
https://djangodjango.bandcamp.com/track/default
https://open.spotify.com/track/1EmimnysAUBhiy8rDbNN01

Anybody else wish C and C had named function arguments like SystemVerilog module ports, and allowed you to default-value an optional argument in any position?
foo.bar(
.baz(1),
.foobar("hai"),
//foobaz is unspecified and gets a default value
.asdf(42)
);

Just don’t use the internet and DHS won’t stalk you.
“What opportunities are available for individuals to consent to uses, decline…or opt out?
Any individual may decline or opt out of having their information gathered…by not posting material online or limiting access to who can view their
posts.”
PDF: <…

The number of default-named #Meshtastic nodes in #Montreal is surprisingly high.
Like lots of `Meshtastic 40af`/`40af` nodes.
Is it like this everywhere? Why don't people configure their nodes? Am I just failing to read the configured name properly? So many questions…
Edit: adding screen…

DECT default Klingeltöne und Nadeldrucker Geräusche.
Der #39c3 ist quasi Arztpraxen-simulation

Default is Firefox on work machine.

Do you need better performance than what the standard #tidyverse functions have? {collapse} might be worth a look: https://sebkrantz.github.io/collapse/

"During the station’s broadcast of the Philadelphia Eagles/Dallas Cowboys game, the hijacker began running a loop of fake EAS tones, a racist Country song, and a promo to follow them on social media."
ESPN 97.5 Houston Victim Of Barix Hack
https://radioinsight.com/headlines…

ESPN 97.5 Houston Victim Of Barix Hack
For years now radio stations using the default Barix logins have been victims of audio feed hijackings. This afternoon Gow Media Sports “ESPN 97.5” KFNC Mont Belvieu/Houston TX fell victim. During the station’s broadcast of the Philadelphia Eagles/Dallas Cowboys game, the hijacker began running a loop of fake EAS tones, a racist Country song, and a promo to follow them on social media. As of this report, all of the social media accounts mentioned have been deactivated. Similar “hacks”…

AI Image Generators Default to the Same 12 Photo Styles, Study Finds
https://gizmodo.com/ai-image-generators-default-to-the-same-12-photo-styles-study-finds-2000702012

Btw, afaiac I'd love to swap KDE out for Cosmic. But the window rules (or current absence of it) is preventing me from doing it. Like a Kwin for Cosmic, that would be cool. But what the Cosmic team has achieved so far is really impressive. I wouldn't be surprised if this becomes the default DE for Ubuntu.
#cosmic

Mating secrets revealed
https://fesummaries.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/bird-mating-secrets-revealed-in-europes-last-ancient-forest-cheating-birds-i…

Bird mating secrets revealed in Europe’s last ancient forest
Cheating birds in Europe’s last untouched forest show promiscuity may be a natural default Joanna Sudyka, Irene Di Lecce, Grzegorz Hebda, Patryk Rowiński, Robert Rutkowski, Anna Szczuka, Char…

hmm, our crappy access point has terrible bufferbloat when the offspring is downloading stuff on the pc
the pc is now running linux mint, which has fq_codel by default, but evidently that’s ineffective for an edge device
so i fettled it to use bbr instead of reno congestion control, while giving a lecture on why this might help with buffer bloat
we shall see if it actually helps…

I missed this one:
#12886 [css-fonts-5] Text Fitting: Default scaling limit
https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/12886
Essentially a discussion how responsive text can satisfy 1.4.4, especially in this fit-to-container pitch from Google.
I added a comment …

[css-fonts-5] Text Fitting: Default scaling limit · Issue #12886 · w3c/csswg-drafts
In the original issue we received valuable feedback that a native fit-to-width solution can potentially introduce a simple way for authors to violate Success Criterion 1.4.4 Resize Text, in the sam...

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsIndieForever
Django Django:
🎵 Default
#DjangoDjango
https://djangodjango.bandcamp.com/track/default
https://open.spotify.com/track/1EmimnysAUBhiy8rDbNN01

I wonder if it is just an effect of old hardware, but boy, the new @… OS release is a crashfest on my 2011 Mac Mini. The App Center crashed on me at least 7 times before I had enough and downloaded Zorin (because I’ve also wanted to give that a spin). It looked very nice, though, and it’s nice that Flatpaks show up now by default.
BTW: Elementary is …

@… hi 👋!
When using the iOS Create action there is no way to set the Reminder sound.
And it doesn’t use the default one either.
This means it’s impossible to create a Reminder with a sound alert using Shortcuts.
Is this a bug? Is there a workaround I could use?
Thank you

@…
You might try https://www.eac.gov/sites/default/files/voters/Available_Voter_File_Information.pdf as a starting place…

Huh. This is kinda cool.
"Windows Media Player Legacy" - the version that does CD rips and plays MIDI files - is hidden but available for Windows 11.
✅ Install or Uninstall Windows Media Player Legacy app in Windows 11 | Windows 11 Forum
https://www.

Install or Uninstall Windows Media Player Legacy app in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to install or uninstall the "Windows Media Player Legacy" app for all users in Windows 11. Windows 11 includes the new Windows Media Player app from the Microsoft Store by default. Windows 11 also includes the old Windows Media Player Legacy desktop app if you...

My top debian-derived linux tip is to uncomment the bash completion bits in /etc/bash.bashrc
It enables tab completion for a bunch of commandline stuff that saves loads of time
No idea why this isn't enabled by default. Setting up a new linux mint install for me these days is basically just doing that and mapping caps lock to ctrl.

Meta Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2025 Results (Meta)
https://investor.atmeta.com/investor-news/press-release-details/2026/Meta-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-and-Full-Year-2025-Results/default.aspx

I updated the initial Kitten course based on our first lesson with @… and your feedback here. So now we start with no tooling except for your default terminal app and Kitten and it serves as a gentle introduction to the command line and gets to you seeing your first web page in your web browser far more quickly.

This is sick, evil, and a very intentional infliction of pain.
Especially so when it is noted that that El Cheato's mass pardons and commutations have cheated many victims (and the government) who are owed restitution by criminals.
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/23/nx-s1-5653…

#TIL there’s no longer a Twenty Twenty-Six theme for WordPress this year. So I won’t change the theme of my blog like I did in the past years.

ref: wordpress.org/support/topic/menu-plugins-color-plugins-2026-official-theme/

Menu Plugins, Color Plugins, 2026 Official Theme | WordPress.org
Is there a plugin that can help me force block themes in Gutenberg to work and show menus and menu items like with themes before blocks? Because I…

Today I discovered the use of:
width: 0;
min-width: 100%;
This forces an element's intrinsic width to be 0, while its actual width is still equal to the parent's width.
As a result, the parent element's default width calculations will ignore this element and only consider its siblings.

I spend a lot of my teaching life helping students learn to use Git, and I cannot emphasize enough how hostile the user experience of a merge conflict is for a new user. It looks like everything is broken. The terminology is crap. The verbiage is bamboozling. The default actions are all booby traps. The most important information is buried. The UI is terrible (both CLI and most GUIs). It’s incredibly easy to accidentally commit the conflict markers. It’s a nightmare.
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Google adds Gemini 3 to AI Overviews as the default model globally and now lets users ask follow-up questions "seamlessly" via AI Mode (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/868497/google-ai-search-follow-up-questions-gemini-3

Google Search now lets you ask AI Overviews follow-up questions
Gemini 3 will be the default model for AI Overviews and Google says follow-ups let you jump seamlessly into conversations with AI Mode.

Meta reports Q4 revenue up 24% YoY to $59.9B, vs. $58.35B est., net income up 9% YoY to $22.8B, and family DAP up 7% YoY to 3.58B for December (Meta)
https://investor.atmeta.com/investor-news/press-relea…

It isn't all that hard for my reminders. I use the default stuff for now, but there are #opensource apps that can remind you to do things.

Mozilla specifying valid upstreams with ASPA object
https://console.rpki-client.org/rpki.ripe.net/repository/DEFAULT/39/675399-81be-4fec-9f86-55131cc1efea/1/PpC-jCzEwXeURniqNoGbKQGbl80.asa.html

@… the reboot (18:06) – very few people realise that this is a blunt instrument.
Surely harmless in your test, however clean shutdown and restart practices should be promoted.
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The {conflicted} package makes sure that namespace conflicts are solved explicitly and prevents unpleasent surprises: #rstats

'mtr' is a TUI traceroute with a bunch of extra features (which I occasionally find more of) - in it's default mode it shows all the network hops between you and your destination - and shows packet loss on each link, which is great for finding who is to blame for a *partially* dodgy connection. Hitting 'Z' shows you the ASN for each hop, which lets you find who owns it; Hitting D gets a scrolling display so you can see where momentary blips happen.

#Homebrew 5.0.0
https://brew.sh/2025/11/12/homebrew-5.0.0/

So I've a medical thing that I need to buy once a month on Amazon and they cancelled my subscription delivery for it last time (but not the subscription itself), without telling me.
I tried to just order it for one time delivery, but the delivery date was a month out and they immediately cancelled my order.
My wife told me to use my developer brain—and yes, imagining a bug with some row in a database being in a fugue state, the exactly a month out delivery date being the biggest hint to something going into a default state when a calculation fails.
So I removed the subscription to the item (they make it hard to find where to do this).
Bingo: I can now order immediately for delivery in two days and for working subscrpition delivery.

Wrote a webpage in HTML. Like 10 lines.
Found a bug in mobile Safari’s default stylesheet.
Computers.
Can’t live with them, can’t live… what’s that? You can live without them?
Boy I should give that a try.

@… if I create a new profile whilst using LXQt Desktop, the default is Noto Sans.
If I create a new profile whilst using Plasma, the default is Hack.

Microsoft warns that Copilot Actions in Windows, now in beta and off by default, can infect devices and pilfer data, prompting concern from security researchers (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/

Critics scoff after Microsoft warns AI feature can infect machines and pilfer data
Integration of Copilot Actions into Windows is off by default, but for how long?

Microsoft provided the FBI with the recovery keys to unlock encrypted data on the hard drives of three laptops as part of a federal investigation, Forbes reported on Friday.
Many modern Windows computers rely on full-disk encryption, called #BitLocker, which is enabled by default.
This type of technology should prevent anyone except the device owner from accessing the data if the computer is …

Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch
The FBI served Microsoft a warrant requesting encryption recovery keys to decrypt the hard drives of people involved in an alleged fraud case in Guam.

Meta reports Q4 revenue up 24% YoY to $59.9B, net income up 9% YoY to $22.8B, and family DAP up 7% YoY to 3.58B for December (Meta)
https://investor.atmeta.com/investor-news/press-release-details/2026/Me…

I Love You, #Redis, But I’m Leaving You for #SolidQueue
https://www.simplethread.com/redis-solidqueue/…

Im using case_when() quite a lot, case_match() is new to me: #rstats

A general vectorised switch() — case_match
This function allows you to vectorise multiple switch() statements. Each case is evaluated sequentially and the first match for each element determines the corresponding value in the output vector. If no cases match, the .default is used. case_match() is an R equivalent of the SQL "simple" CASE WHEN statement. Connection to case_when() While case_when() uses logical expressions on the left-hand side of the formula, case_match() uses values to match against .x with. The following two statement…

OpenAI merges ChatGPT's voice mode directly into the main text chat interface by default; users can still switch back to the original, separate voice mode (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/11/25/chatgpt-merges-chat-and-v…

ChatGPT just made voice mode even more capable - 9to5Mac
ChatGPT has an impressive voice mode that offers a very natural, conversational flow. The latest update to ChatGPT now combines...

Anthropic details the "Assistant Axis", a pattern of neural activity in language models that governs their default identity and helpful behavior (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/assistant-axis

The assistant axis: situating and stabilizing the character of large language models
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Google says it needs more time to upgrade Assistant to Gemini on most Android devices; Google previously planned to complete the transition by the end of 2025 (Mariella Moon/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/google-assista

Google Assistant will stick around a bit longer than expected for some Android users
Google has announced that it needs a bit more time to make Gemini the new default digital helper for most of its users.

BNPL use in the US has grown to 91.5M users, with 25% financing groceries, as default rates accelerate and most loans aren't reported, creating "phantom debt" (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/16/bnpl-is-expanding…

BNPL is expanding fast, and that should worry everyone | TechCrunch
As Morris watches his BNPL investments from the other side of the table, he seems to understand the warning signs better than most.

Apple unveils iOS changes in Japan to comply with local law, including alternative app stores and payment options, a new fee structure, and new default controls (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/17/japan-app-store-feature-updates/

Japan App Store Gets Alternative Marketplaces, Third-Party Payments and More
Apple today introduced several changes to the App Store in Japan to meet the requirements of the Mobile Software Competition Act (MSCA) that goes...

DTCC: credit default swaps tied to a handful of US tech groups have climbed 90% since early September, as investors seek ways to protect against an AI debt bust (Financial Times)
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