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Have all us Australians hit the tromboncino/cucuzza/zucchini glut yet? Or just me? https://witcheskitchen.com.au/tromboncino-or-zucchini-bake-making-it-up-as-you-go/

Tromboncino (or Zucchini) Bake (making it up as you go)
Tromboncino or zucchini, cheese, eggs, onion of some kind, something tart, something salty, something aromatic, little bit of flour, salt and pepper. Mix together, top with grated cheese, bake. Ser…

A few remarks on "AI" usage and the narrative surrounding it. I think it's about the difference between disconnected creating and embodied making.
(Original title: Something from nothing)
https://tante.cc/2025/12/12/something-from-nothing/

Something from nothing
I am not a talented person, I’ve never been called “gifted” or anything like that. Anything I can do, anything I achieved took a lot of work and stubbornness to achieve. Don’t get me wrong. I am not saying that I’m “selfmade” and that my position in society, my access to resources, etc. had nothing […]

I’m at a spa trying to get my shit together in a 90ºC (~194ºF) sauna after my 2025 was beautiful madness but madness no less.
I’ve finally started to write a new newsletter & if you wanna know more about the madness or what’s coming up or a cute dog photo, sign up at https://buttondown.com/hynek

Hynek Did Something
Greetings friend! This is a list for those who’d like to be notified whenever I, Hynek Schlawack, do or publish something noteworthy, somewhere. Examples are new blog posts, YouTube videos, and talks, significant updates to existing work, or if I need to be bailed out of jail. It does not include announcements about new software releases. But it does usually include a cute dog photo. As a thank you for your trust, the emails aren’t just links to content. They contain a kind of “director's…

After reading Matt Shumer's warning about what AI will do to knowledge workers https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/something-big-happening-matt-shumer-so5he/ I thought: Is anyone demanding a "just transition" for them, or is that only for the energy tr…

Something Big Is Happening
Think back to February 2020. If you were paying close attention, you might have noticed a few people talking about a virus spreading overseas.

Imagine a world that we all control together, not controlled by oligarch or dictators, even indirectly. Imagine something truly collaborative. That world would be very different from our own. In some ways many of us could have a lot more opportunity. But in others, we would be restricted.
In such a world, we couldn't really have elite luxuries. Having such luxuries is only valuable so long as others do not.
> Unlike the vacuum cleaner, the radio, or the bicycle, which retain their use value when everyone has one, the car, like a villa by the sea, is only desirable and useful insofar as the masses don’t have one.
- The Social Ideology of the Motorcar
Imagine a world in which we think about luxury in a radically different way, not as something that only has value via exclusivity but something that enriches the lives of the owners more as more people have them.
What would living in such a world be like? Can you describe a day in your life?
#SolarPunkPrompts #Writing #Prompts

Don't know who this guy is, but I would love someone else's take on what he is saying here. I can't decide if this is utterly apocalyptic, or a guy who is just up to his eyeballs in the Kool-Aid.
Context: was sent to me by a financial advisor friend
https://shumer.dev/something-big-is-ha

Something Big Is Happening
A personal note for non-tech friends and family on what AI is starting to change.

@… is `ArgumentError: UTF-16 string byte length (51) is not a multiple of 2` something that should be handled in my PR or in TruffleRuby?
ArgumentError is semantically off but I vaguely remember that it was some encoding performance stuff or so?
It would be nice if it would act like the other Rubies though 😄

I would like to go on record to say that I don't hate LLMs. That would be like disowning maths.
I hate how people sell it with promises that are simply lies and urging people to use it for things that it is unsuitable for, with the commercial LLMs how they train models on stolen data, how users talk themselves into believing they're talking to a human or something human-like while deskilling themselves, how institutions and organizations shoehorn it into every fucking thing, the way it is usurping computing resources and increasing prices for personal computing, how the big companies underhandedly continuously threaten everyone with "if we don't invest enough the Terminators will get us" and how it is used for very obvious large-scale financial fraud. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Anyone know of an Android to-do list application that is
* Completely device local, no network connectivity required or used
* No ads or spyware
* Doesn't time-out tasks even if they sit around for a year uncompleted (looking at you, google calendar)
* Supports recurring maintenance tasks for weekly, monthly, etc. cleaning or something
Open source preferred, but willing to pay a reasonable price if it's out there as a commercial tool

"this that makes it necessary for the United States to do something to avoid the civilizational and democratic disaster that is unfolding in Europe." — @…
I'm REALLY going to take issue with this. Yes, it's true that Europe faces challenges. But it is not Europe which faces civilizational or democratic disaster. This is classic pr…

New U.S. security strategy calls for regime change in Europe
In this video, I discuss the new U.S. national security strategy, which, to put it mildly, is concerning for Europe. It's largely a document about how the Trump administration sees it as a requirement for continued transatlantic cooperation that MAGA movements come to power in European countries. Watch the

Pixelfed or Instagram? Something tells me this #poll will get people talking, boost and let me know where you stand!
#Fediverse #Mastodon

I sure hope Mamdani does something about NYC's fucked up public school system, because our kids' 2E school just raised tuition to *$105k* per year. This is not an elite prep school or anything fancy, this is just an elementary/middle school that does things for kids on the spectrum that public schools were already supposed to be doing (as dictated by their IEPs).

Hello from the Pacific Northwest during a major rain event, distinguished by a more or less complete absence of any actual freaking light or color. So here’s something I snapped a couple days ago, by way of eye therapy.
#Photography

We moved to our neighborhood 7 years ago. Over all that that time I watched people wander across the road in front of the subway station despite the sometimes heavy traffic. I always figured I'd go by one day and see an ambulance or worse. Tonight when I got off the train, I noticed that the city finally did something about it, installing a crosswalk with a beg button and lights.
Maybe it's a metaphor? We're (incredibly, painfully) slow, but we end up doing the right thing …

When asking someone to do something it's important to be clear about everything you are asking them to do, and when you are asking them to do it, up front.
Increasingly I'm asked to do something, I look at my schedule and other commitments and agree to the ask, and then weeks later am informed that "as part of X (what I agreed to) everyone is expected to do Y (something time consuming that wasn't mentioned before)" or "we need you to provide X (something necessary the day of the event) a week in advance (when there was no indication of this early deadline at the initial ask)".
This means that the calculations someone made regarding whether they could participate are based an incomplete understanding of what is required. That's not fair and it either results in forcing the participant to deprioritize something else or makes them push back on something they never agreed to and potentially withdraw.

"I’m not talking about the sort of hope where you just sit on your hands and wait for God to do something at the end of time. We’re still obligated to do whatever we can, as a measure of our hope and reliance on God."
—Prof. Kathryn Tanner in an interview in the new issue of Reflections h…

Ok, first, I’m genuinely curious about this. Honestly, I’m not trolling. I toyed briefly with some version of *nix years ago (maybe 20 or so) but didn’t get it, or it didn’t get me, or something, and I’ve been content to let Apple do all the heavy lifting for me and my computers. That said, can someone explain to me why there are so many versions, or implementations of it? What’s the point of that? Feel free to

Sometimes I wonder whether EMS folks end up performing a scene survey continually in the background whether something's going on or not.

I got so excited about a device I am building that I started designing the enclosure before I even wired up the circuit to see if it's something I want to use.
To be fair this is my enclosure library so 90% of the work is already done and it's just making a few adjustments.
I guess I figure I'll build the device and then test it... if I don't like it or use it I'll find some else it can do. (Or see if others want one.)

Playing a little bit of the new B42 Zomboid last night, I came up with a new feature I need...
Change the auto-updater to skip updating if there are players currently logged in.
It'll check Steam, (or whatever the relative source), for an update and apply those changes once an hour. However for fast-changing servers like Zomboid (during development cycles) and ARK (notably when they "fix" something only to break 3 more things), this can be annoying for users alread…

What happened in Gramzow is just awful, and I really hope they can remove all the oil
There something interesting linguistically, though. They're all using “die PCK Schwedt,” which sounds odd. Apparently, “PCK” has lost the property of being an acronym for “das Petrol-Chemische Kombinat” but turned into a modifier or even only arbitrary first part of the name “die Raffinerie.” Similar as people use “der Radio” or “der Fernseh” skipping “apparat.”

Excellent words from @…, shared here with permission:
❝My favorite piece of advice for protests has been, “accept side quests”. Sure, you can show up, shout a bit, and go home - there's value in just uncorking some frustration. But don't look past meeting your like-minded neighbors. If you're an introvert, like me, that may induce anxiety just thinking about it. But there's all sorts of easy conversation starters - people spent time on their signs, and chances are they would love to talk about them - how they made them or what they were inspired by. Viola! Now you're talking! Everybody at a protest is looking for something - whether it is a word of encouragement or witty comment, a pointer to a place to go or a thing to join, that something may be you!❞

Anyone else occasionally get the desire to hunt down funding/money for random safety devices? For instance, could make an SOS Beacon thing using meshtastic or something...
#computing #research #safety

BLUETTI just dropped something big at CES 2026: a road trip charger that runs on your alternator and solar, plus power stations made from bio-circular plastics that slash CO2 emissions.
The Charger 2 solves slow-charging headaches with universal compatibility and bi-directional power. Meanwhile, their new Elite series brings sustainable materials to high-density energy storage.

BLUETTI Targets Circular Economy & High-Speed Mobile Charging — CES 2026 Launch - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. The “spec war” in portable power is officially shifting toward material science and deep vehicle integration. Monitoring the latest from CES 2026, it’s clear that BLUETTI is moving beyond the simple “more kilowatt-hours” race to tackle two of the industry’s ... [continued]

After Neuralink, Max Hodak is building something even wilder https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/05/after-neuralink-max-hodak-is-building-something-stranger/ (heading for the Borg, Silicon Valley people indeed often sound as confident as LLMs, but …

After Neuralink, Max Hodak is building something even wilder | TechCrunch
"You could really, in a very fundamental sense, talk about redrawing the border around a brain," Hodak says, "possibly to include four hemispheres, or a device, or a whole group of people."

There's a real sense of expectation in this photo by @…. Like something is about to happen, or has just happened. Like a surrealist liminal space.

I'd noticed on apps with Client side decoration that if they blocked on something they were much more of a pain - you can't move the window like you could when they had a window manager driven title bar. This is much more of a pain than not redrawing or responding for a few seconds.
I'm seeing it in Thunderbird's matrix client as it's syncing.

You know what really sucks about being raised in Polish culture? You learn to always expect criticism and sarcasm.
Someone tells you a compliment? In the best case, you feel uneasy about it. In the worst, you start suspecting it was veiled sarcasm.
Once I've read here a suggestion to compliment strangers. I don't know if I'll ever be able to do that. I'd keep worrying that I may be misunderstood, either as being sarcastic or as expecting something.
#Poland #ActuallyAutistic

This will never happen. It’s LIGHT YEARS more likely to happen, like, IRL or in other media. But now somewhere in season 2 of #HeatedRivalry I want Shane, or maybe Ilya, to say to the other, getting ready to leave or something, “Saddle up, cowboy! We got bad things to do!”
1/2

#photography

Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
VILA: Bayban, yes.
BAYBAN: Bayban the Beserker. Bayban the Butcher.
VILA: Bayban the Butcher . . . you're Bayban the Butcher! Oh, no.
BAYBAN: That's better.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/306/164 B7B4

Trump: 'We are going to do something on Greenland whether they like it or not' (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/09/trump-greenland-military-denmark-nato.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p127#a260109p127

Language conversations have become highly performative,
with a fixation on the words people are using,
not why they’re using them
or what they’re reaching for when they deploy language
like “crazy,” “lame,” or the r-word
(currently experiencing a resurgence in popularitythanks to Elon Musk).
The language is a metaphor:
We call something “insane” because that word carries a specific baggage and burden.
But the fact that mental illness is stil…

Language Wars
Conversations about language were supposed to be a starting point rather than an ending one.

so, i have something important to say. on 9th of December 2025, i woke up to someone who stalked me for eight years being inside my home, finding my address through means that are still not fully clear.
i know that several people reading this have in the past supported her (knowingly or not) or tried to "help" her after they learned of the stalking.
𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩. your goodwill (or sometimes spinelessness) is being exploited. all you're doing is adding to the harm do…

@… you seem to misunderstand the nature of the Fediverse, where people write something and other people might, or might not, read that thing.
Serendipity.
I can''t recall how your toot became visible. That's how it is.

So... that's a new one: I got a mail that clearly looks like some kind of scam, and they ask me to contact them via @…
It looks like they link to the legit signal installation source, and want me to contact them via a signal number or username. Is that something Signal would want me to report, and if so, where?

Kimi Onoda, Japan's new Minister of State for Economic Security, is a 43 year old half-Irish ex-game industry PR femcel with an extensive history of defending her exclusive attraction to anime boys on twitter

Man, whatever. Go yell at a wall or something.

Random thought: the centralization of authentication to a few big OAuth providers like MS and Google, combined with services that time out your cookies and force relogins every so often, makes phishing people so much easier.
Want someone's account creds? Just pop up something that looks like a ms or google login form, odds are they're so conditioned by login fatigue that they'll automatically type their creds and TOTP token into it.

@…
At the corporate event everyone is wearing a name tag with your title and the company you work for. Guests are circling each other trying to read the name tag and see if you're interesting enough to talk to. Almost no one is there to simply socialize. They are trying to sell you something, sway your opinion, or add your details to their records for future use. In the background the conference has a software app that allows attendees to track and target each other. The goal is to add as many people as possible to your network, or insert yourself into their contact list. It's rare to make a new friend.

I've found myself with a kilo of awkward chunks of unsliced bacon. I guess I'll slow-cook it and try to pull it, even though it's the wrong texture. Yanked ham, or something.

#GrindayFriday this week is 2022 self titled LP by Seattle grind/powerviolence trio NURSER. They kinda remind me of Mastiff or Napalm or something like that. No frills, just grinding and violence: https://nurserdeath.bandcamp.com/album

audio description rules because even though im completely sighted, sometimes my brain doesn't work right and I can't follow what's happening BUT ALSO it's great for if you wanna watch something but also close your eyes for a bit or try to fall asleep or your head hurts but you still wanna watch an episode of something. they're usually really well done, too

How does XMPP work? I'm looking at Jabber's website and apparently some clients are both clients and servers at the same time or something? It's quite confusing...
Are spaces or multi-channel groups (like discord) a thing in xmpp? Which clients support that on iOS and Linux and etc?
Is Movim a client or a server or what?
Are groups hosted in the server of the user who created it like on Matrix or what?
Any easy tutorials I could send to my discord friends?
#XMPP #Jabber #Movim

Writing unit tests in Java be like
Java: Hey your test failed.
Java: I am going to tell you name of failed class.
Java: I am going to tell you name of failed method.
Java: I am not going to tell you WHICH LINE failed! I have something better. Let me present you ...
... a hundred lines of exceptions of at java.base/jdk.internal and at org.springframework you must be interested in.
Java: you can display more lines with -e or -X switches.
Java: have a nice …

If you say that someone or something has pizzazz, you mean that they are very exciting, energetic, and stylish.

@… That is definately a solid way to fix it. Just change this
tar -acvf ../../../../../$target.zip *
to
tar -acvf ../../../../../$target.tar.gz *
(for gzip/deflate)
or if you want something smaller
tar -acvf ../../../../../$target.tar.xz *

_Rhythm_ is a way of trusting the future.
This sounds poetic, but is also quite literal!
To entrain is to assume: something will happen again; it will happen around about when expected; it is safe to commit energy in advance.
It is a minimal form of trust.
Despair is characterised, in part, by a breakdown of such trust. The future becomes either threatening or blank.
Rhythm gently reinstates futurity.
A pulse says: you can lean forward; time will catch you…

One way to identify if something is a fad or bubble is if the hypers and the doomers are actually the same people.
Neither are actually talking about the thing.
The hypers ceaselessly tell you that you will look bad if you don’t use the thing.
The doomers spin tales on how it will end your way of life or worse.
They both work to keep the thing in your mind while never actually talking about the thing, in an endless parade of manipulating your emotions.

Outside of automated messages from various systems I care about or watch, I haven't gotten a single #email or #teams msg.
Starting to wonder if I still work here. Something #sus.

I want to get into bobbin lace, I got a second hand pillow and bobbins and am enjoying surfing youtube, but not sure how to navigate all the tutorials etc.. Anyone with advice for a good book or something, or even better in a similar position and fancy some peer learning?

I had to smile at this paragraph:
> The mountains taught me the same lesson. They just stand there, massive and indifferent, doing nothing but being mountains. They don’t try to be more spiritual or more awakened. They simply are. And somehow, in their ordinariness, they hold something sacred.
Besides that, it's a good article I think.
Why I No Longer Chase Enlightenment | by Clara Ramirez

Why I No Longer Chase Enlightenment
I used to think enlightenment would arrive like a sunrise, sudden and complete. That one day I’d wake up in Rishikesh or Bali, and…

Just once I want the one of the Connections connections to be "mascots of England's football league division 2 teams" or something.

OpenClaw is What Apple Intelligence Should Have Been
Yep.
I run my instance on Ubuntu Server in a Proxmox VM in my home lab, but it would be nice to take advantage of some of the Apple-specific workflows on a dedicated Mac Mini.
https://www.jakequist.com/thoughts/opencla…

We can conclude that democratic control and oversight, the role of Congress in the US, is essentially death. If Trump can do this and get away with it he can basically do anything. If Trump wants to strike in Mexico, why would he consult/inform congress, or when he does something against Greenland or Canada.
#venezuela

From the article: "He added: “It’s something where it’s moving very quickly and people don’t necessarily have time to absorb it or figure out what to do.”"
That impersonal, natural "it" is moving - Not the people developing the models and selling them (or inflicting them), not the wealthy investors demanding market share, not the sci-fi addled techbros (Muskrats?) imagining that if only we get AGI all problems will be solved tomorrow, - all wanting to be first. Oh…

From the article: "He added: “It’s something where it’s moving very quickly and people don’t necessarily have time to absorb it or figure out what to do.”"
That impersonal, natural "it" is moving - Not the people developing the models and selling them (or inflicting them), not the wealthy investors demanding market share, not the sci-fi addled techbros (Muskrats?) imagining that if only we get AGI all problems will be solved tomorrow, - all wanting to be first. Oh…

self driving is a lie which musk and others have lied about since 2015 at least. I believe it will work sometime after 2030 with some sort of breakthrough but i'd rather spend the money on i don't know climate change and feeding people or something :-)
https://mastodon.social/@JoBlakely/116

Was there industrial action or something at the BBC last night?
Whatever, #BBC TV News at 10 couldn't find any actual news to report.

RE: https://syzito.xyz/@fkamiah17/115979357962273534
Almost as if people who are complicit in genocide aren’t good people or something. But that can’t be right, can it? I don’t want to sound antisemitic or anything.

Is there a term for that thing when you ask someone to send you something because you need a piece of text and then they send you a screen shot and you have to retype the text from the image?
There should be a word or phrase for that.

"Just write a quick note to specify something from your last article." he tought. "It'll be quick and you can be in bed early." he thought.
He's a dumbass. That's what he is. Well, here's "Personal computing"
https://tante.cc/2026/01/08/personal-c

Personal computing
When computers entered the homes it was often as toys or toy-like artifacts: These machines, usually called “home computers“, were often used like gaming consoles with magazines giving you code to type in to have simple games on them. Their use was limited to people who wanted to play arcade games without losing all your […]

In the closing days of the Biden administration, deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technology Anne Neuberger warned,
“China is targeting critical infrastructure in the United States.”

That sounds like the sort of thing the U.S. government might want to do something about.
But apparently not;
On Dec. 3, the Financial Times reported that the Trump administration had
“halted plans to impose sanctions on China’s Ministry of State Security

What Trump lets China do for buying U.S. soybeans
The president is buddy-buddy with Xi and won’t let cyberattacks or saber-rattling get in the way.

After months of GitHub saying incorrectly that I had unread notifications, someone or something reset something and now I finally have a dotless board. Thanks to whatever or whoever is responsible.

"If #police leaders step up now... this could be their finest hour. But it requires action, not neutrality:
- No participation in raids lacking warrants, transparency, or legal authority.
- Intervene when any agency uses excessive force or violates rights.
- Protect every resident, regardless of immigration status.
These are not radical principles. They are the minimum…

A New Kind of Courage: Why Police Must Confront Federal Overreach.
Something extraordinary just happened in Minneapolis — something we have not seen from a major-city police chief in years. Chief of Police Brian O’Hara said publicly what many chiefs admit only in …

RE: https://mastodon.social/@rufustheduck/115820709664397926
If you've got something dark you want to photograph, like a black cat or article of clothing, you can achieve better definition by having some white paper or styrofoam outside the frame,…

Every once in a while in a random thread on here, someone unnecessarily pops into the replies and says "block me, I'm pro-slavery!", or "block me, I'm a nazi!", or expresses something similar. I always appreciate how forthcoming they are before I block them.
Obviously they dress up their sentiment in some kind of vague language of respectability or something, but it's usually pretty clear what they're saying.

hey wanna hear something surreal?
when i called 911 [on 9th of December] to report "a stalker being actively in my home right now", the cop on the phone spent like a minute trying to figure out if my ethnicity was "white - british" or "white - other"
lord only knows what they wanted that data for

I don't get people with their "Friday evening out" or "night life" ideas. I mean, what's there to live when it's dark outside? You can live when it's daylight and you can go to a forest or something, but when it's dark, all you can do is either work or sleep.

No high fructose corn syrup.
Just regular corn syrup plus a bit of extra sucrose. Gotta love sketchy marketing.
(A previous formulation had the first two ingredients corn syrup and fructose... I wonder if they got sued or something and changed it to spike with sucrose instead?)

It's funny how "AI" tools are simulteanously marketed as "agents" that can run fully in the background and do stuff but whenever they do something bad it's the user at fault for not supervising the software that doesn't work.
Even when it’s directly used and the user has the chance to review everything—it’s extremely dangerous, especially at tasks it is doing fine like 95% of the time and/or when the bad things are only subtly wrong.
Imagine other tools being like this, like a steering wheel that turns the car 95 out of a 100 times. 2% of the time it steers into the other direction. 3% of the time it steers 5x as much as normally.

Series B, Episode 07 - Killer
BLAKE: Who? What are you talking about? Cally, what are you picking up?
CALLY: I don't know, but Blake, there is something malignant on that ship.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/207/41 B7B6

I do wonder if the Voynich Manuscript was just some scribe's (or bored elite's) elaborate piece of handwriting practice. When I was trying to learn Carolingian minuscule decades back, I'd cover pages with gibberish like this trying to get transitions between letters to "look right." It didn't need to say anything; it was about nailing the æsthetic.

So, with the Discord thing rn I guess teh closest we have to an alternative is like Zulip? Except it's more self-hosted focused.
So, is anyone around here hosting a Zulip (or other real, feature-complete, discord alternative that I don't know yet) instance open to (or even better, focused on) small-ish kink communities?
I have some friends on discord that I really wanted to migrate somewhere else.
I thought about hosting one in my NAS, but even if cgnat wasn't a thing actively moderating porn-focused places seems like a nightmare so I'd want something hosted by someone with a bit more experience on that such as moderating fedi servers or something. I guess some people who host fedi instances probably also host chat rooms right?

“Everybody is so fed up with #Labour’s only strategy being ‘vote Labour to keep the Tories out’, and now it’s ‘vote Labour to keep Reform out’,” Spencer tells me. “It’s like: how about you actually just do something to make people vote for you?” -- #Green party candidate Hannah Spencer in the Gorton and De…

does something that affects/changes literally anything in any way shape or form

I love that so many Americans turned out to not just protest policies that hit personally,
but to rally in support of democracy writ large.
For many, it was their first time taking this kind of action,
and they were doing it in a way that expressed optimism and possibility rather than giving in to anger or despair

Commentary: America tried something new in 2025. It's not going well
Glow up or grow up? Times columnists Anita Chabria and Mark Z. Barabak look back and assess whether 2025 was good for America or an unmitigated disaster.

RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/115861173721374216
Hey, this is a great idea! While we're at it, we should send lump sum payments to everyone who lives in the US, too. We could call it.. Universal Bribery Income or something. This "UB…

I agree with the storyteller: the experience of having a slave is abhorrent, simulated or not, and this story is a window into something •deep• about the present moment. Even without having slaves, we are all in danger of having a •slaver mindset•. It’s a disease that’s running rampant now in billionaire-shaped techno-utopian circles.
I wrote this thread on the topic earlier:
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/113295613785073188
…and even having written that, it’s still shocking — not surprising, exactly, but shocking — to hear those thoughts expressed so baldly by the colleague in the story above.

For a project to be truly #OpenSource (not to mention #FreeSoftware), it really needs to:
1. Have a *public* issue tracker that enables you to browse and search through issue reports *without* having to create an account.
2. Accept issue reports, with no strings attached. Yes, expecting registration is fine. Yes, expecting some effort to file a good bug report is fine. No, expecting people to ask permission, donate or otherwise put a lot of extra work to report a problem is not.
3. Do not close issue reports as "stale". Yes, it's fine to close a report if you really believe it was fixed, or if you asked for something and the user didn't reply for a long time. It's not fine to run a bot expecting users to jump every month so that the issue report that *you are ignoring* doesn't get closed.
If a project doesn't meet these, it's just a glorified throwaway code.

Math people: If I have a bunch of sampled data that I've found a local maximum on, and I want to interpolate the peak location to sub-sample precision, what's a good way to do that?
I know how to interpolate a zero crossing linearly but this is a bit more complex, I feel like I'll probably want to fit a sinc or gaussian or something to the data somehow?

Thread about gifting (or buying yourself) a telescope and avoiding getting something terrible.
(sorry for Bluesky link but I’m auto-removing posts on Mastodon, this is from last year)
https://bsky.app/profile/thomasfuchs.at/post/3lbx2egm5222k

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_Sixes_and_Sevens

If you need something and Black Friday is the only time you can afford it or the only time you think it’s worth the price—please go ahead and buy it.
Doubly so if it’s something that helps you for a disability or maybe something that helps you free up time in your life for fun things.
It’s not your fault that we live in a capitalist society.

I give my kids old phones with the assumption that they will get lost in a field or dropped on the subway tracks or left out in the rain or something. The 13yo's on his 3rd phone in ~4 years, so this expectation holds up.
Meanwhile, the 8yo has the Oneplus 3 That Will Not Die. Battery life's still great, screen's only cracked by the fingerprint reader (not part of the display), I've had to repair the buttons two or three times now.. After almost 3 years, it's gettin…

I don't think I'm ever going to enjoy gifts.
I can get why people would give them to children. After all, children don't have their own budget. However, I'm talking about occasional gifts, not a new toy every second week, because "we must outcompete the other grandparents". But to adults?
Once I've heard that you should gift people with what they won't buy themselves. Well, that's won't work for me. I'm a minimalist. If I don't need something, I don't want to have it. Unnecessary junk is only emotional burden to me.
I can get why you'd enjoy something handmade. But something people bought? If I need something, I can buy it myself, when I need it. And I definitely don't need people to prove to me that they never cared to learn who I am, and just buy whatever they like or whatever is "fashionable"; which usually means exactly the opposite of what I'd prefer (i.e. something minimalistic). Or even worse, I don't need people manipulating me through gifts.
Sweets? Besides my diabetes, I don't really enjoy expensive shit that people generally buy because it's what's advertised. For the money they waste on it, I'd buy three times as much sweets I'd actually enjoy.
Gift cards? Oh yes, "you aren't supposed to give money, so let's just give the equivalent of money that's actually worth less than money". Actual money? And here we reach the true nonsense; we exchange the same amount of money, so it's just pointless gesture. Unless one of us gives less money…
What I'd really like, as a gift? Maybe that people would finally bother accepting me as who I am. The absolute minimum of caring that I hate consumerism, and not fueling it "for me".
#AntiCapitalism #minimalism #ActuallyAutistic

In a conversation at this year's
Billionaire's convention
—aka the World Economic Forum
—Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned that AI will lose public support
unless it's used to "do something useful that changes the outcomes of people and communities and countries and industries."
"We will quickly lose even the social permission to take something like energy,
which is a scarce resource,
and use it to generate these tokens,

Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it
Workers should learn AI skills and companies should use it because it's a "cognitive amplifier," claims Satya Nadella.

Recently picked up a "ceramic" coated frying pan for the first time and wondering what it's actually made of and how it's put on.
From the color I'm guessing alumina or maybe silica is likely? Sintered powder coating then firing? My first inclination for putting such a layer on something would be CVD but that's probably too expensive for the thicknesses and production volumes in question, but I feel like a sintered powder layer would be too porous.

If you reply to me and expect an answer, maybe don't call what I said a "bad faith argument".
What do you want me to say?
"Yes, I posted this to specifically upset you personally even though I didn't actually mean it!"
Or, you know, maybe if it makes you feel angry—figure out why.
Anger is an emotion that just tells you something might be wrong. You should take it as sign to think about why you have the feeling. It might be that there is something the matter with your beliefs or what you're doing.

I don’t know if this has a name but I see this more and more with AI apologists: because what they have been prognosticating isn’t happening they instead claim words suddenly mean something else, for example “autonomous” or “cognition”.
Fascinating how we used those words wrong for generations and we are finally told what they actually mean!

I have a test case for libscopehal that has recently started failing in the GitHub CI environment with a SIGSEGV.
The same test, run on any of my machines, passes even when run under asan.
Anybody have ideas on how to debug? The limited visibility into the CI environment is annoying, I can't like ssh in and run gdb or something.

Highly recommend not to identify yourself with any technology.
Doesn’t matter if it’s AI, bicycles, cars, video games, old computers, photography or Hi-Fi equipment.
If someone says something bad about it (doesn’t matter if true or not) and you feel personally attacked—take a step back and think long and hard about your feelings.
Can you be “into” something? Yes, of course. But don’t lose yourself.

If you post or repost something into my timeline (like a link to an article) that shows me a giant preview with "AI" generated slop I will probably block you.
It's an affront to being human.
A lot of other people feel the same.