@… thanks, I've been watching <https://www.freshports.org/ports-mgmt/pkg-devel/#history>.
Didn't expect -devel to be skipped, but direct t…
This blog post links to all my #FreeSoftwareAdvent posts which are revolving around tools used in our VFX pipeline.
https://www.comp-fu.com/2025/12/free-software-advent-2025…
Forgive me Fedi, for I have sinned.
I have given in to wanton temptation and yesterday I bought a pack of mince pies, although it is still only September.
An excellent summary here via @… about how the structures of our civil society have failed to stop ICE from becoming Trump’s Brownshirts.
The one thing the piece omits: someone •is• stopping ICE. It’s the citizens filling the streets, honking and shouting and filming and generally harassing ICE, doing the work our government has failed to do. If it were not for that response being so widespread, sustained, and forceful, we’d be in far worse place right now. https://mastodon.social/@AnnaAnthro/115616389777857234
IN 2026, The leaders of America’s (former) trading partners are going to have to grapple with the political consequences of tit-for-tat tariffs.
A tariff is a tax paid by consumers, and if there’s one thing the past four years have taught us, it’s that the public will not forgive a politician who presides over a period of rising prices, no matter what the cause.
US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack
Savvy countries will discover there’s a way to mitigate the harm inc…
Came across this 2010 blog post about mindfulness in computing and so much of these behaviors have only intensified to new extremes with LLM usage. So much so that not only is the process of software creation being quickly supplanted by prompts and (stochastic) "search" assemblies, but more generally the kind of mindfulness talked about in the post (here meaning thinking through & solving a problem yourself[1]) is now being openly discouraged by industry and forcefully delegate…
Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Vorfahrt für WLAN: Digitalminister Wildberger soll 6-GHz-Band für WLAN sichern