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Skip, the SwiftUI for Android stack is now open source.
The post details how they are going to fund their future work:
https://skip.dev/blog/skip-is-free/

#funkwhale is weird... 😅
It's running, but in addition to the network storage problem that I still need to solve, it shows a strange quirk:
When I click on a song in the webUI, it only plays 2-3 seconds of it and then stops. If there are more songs in the queue, it plays the rest of them properly. If I skip to the first song again via the "previous" button, it plays it comp…

Heute vor 67 Jahren: Am 29. Oktober 1958 führte die USA mit "Mazama" den 32. Atomtest der Operation Hardtack II, eine Serie von 37 #Atomtests auf der #Nevada Test Site, NTS, durch. Von Ballontests bis zu unterirdischen Explosionen wurden verschiedene Methoden erprobt.

Heute vor 67 Jahren: Am 29. Oktober 1958 führte die USA mit "Evans" den 31. Atomtest der Operation Hardtack II, eine Serie von 37 #Atomtests auf der #Nevada Test Site, NTS, durch. Von Ballontests bis zu unterirdischen Explosionen wurden verschiedene Methoden erprobt.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Skip Marley:
🎵 In Our Sight
#SkipMarley
https://open.spotify.com/track/2Z6LKK4NITZealrsv6KROq

Amazon Fire TV adds an Alexa feature enabling Prime Video users to skip to movie scenes using natural language descriptions, character names, or famous quotes (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/amazon-fire-tv-prime-video-alexa-plus-a…

Amazon Fire TV's New Alexa+ Feature Will Let Prime Video Users Skip to Their Favorite Movie Scenes
The new AI-powered Alexa+ feature will expand to TV shows on the streamer at a later date

Azerbaijan's president cites 'busy schedule' to skip Russia summit despite Kremlin expecting his attendance: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/22/azerbaijans-president-cites-busy-schedule.html

Deion Sanders Explains Why He Might Skip Shedeur’s First Start vs. Raiders https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/deion-sanders-shedeur-browns-start/?adt_ei=[email]

Amazon Fire TV adds an Alexa feature enabling Prime Video users to skip to movie scenes using natural language descriptions, character names, or famous quotes (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/amazon-fire-tv-prime-video-alexa-plus-a…

Amazon Fire TV's New Alexa+ Feature Will Let Prime Video Users Skip to Their Favorite Movie Scenes
The new AI-powered Alexa+ feature will expand to TV shows on the streamer at a later date

@… re: #670 Overtime segment on TVs. I currently have an HD Homerun that gets a signal from an OTA antenna that works pretty good. I too use Channels ✅
One thing that rarely gets mentioned when talking about streaming sports - if you're watching live, or close to live you CANNOT skip commercials. My fav use case is to start a FB 45 min late and skip commerc…

“People that have been very vocal regarding other horrible situations around the world
—Russia and Ukraine, Israel and Palestine
—now,
when it comes to look inside and think about,
‘How are we dealing with the dissipation of American democracy,’
they’re not really doing that"

Cautious or Protesting, Foreign Scholars Skip U.S. Conferences
As President Donald Trump deploys National Guard troops to American cities and ICE arrests pick up, some international scholars are opting out of U.S. travel.

There's a lot to like in this government initiative but concerning that improved heat-tightness (chiefly via insulation) doesn't get the leading emphasis it should have. Instead a lot of emphasis on solar, but the EROI of solar isn't great in the UK.
Skip past the copious puff to the bottom, notes to editors, to find a bit of detail.
Families to save in biggest home upgrade plan in British history - GOV.UK

Families to save in biggest home upgrade plan in British history
Government launches Warm Homes Plan to upgrade the nation's homes, help families cut their energy bills, and tackle fuel poverty.

1/ Last year I had to spend time with someone who votes far-right.
I could have avoided all political discussions but I gave it a try - knowing about the risc!
At some topics I said: I don't want to discuss that, I have a strong opinion there but let's skip that please.
At other topics, the discussions got heated until I said: waait. We don't need to fight. We agree to disagree. But none of us can change it. Our duty is to vote, not to fight each other. And I d…

You're American?
You need to watch this.
(if you're not, you can skip it, but it won't hurt if you watch it as well)
https://youtu.be/qYKpN5rib10

Ah yeah! @…’s horror advent calendar has arrived 🙌
Here’s a little taste from last year..

🔧 YAML frontmatter converts directly to CLI flags: model: opus becomes --model opus, mcp-config: ./mcp.json becomes --mcp-config ./mcp.json, dangerously-skip-permissions: true becomes --dangerously-skip-permissions
🔄 Full Unix philosophy support: Pipe data in and out with stdin/stdout, chain agents together like git diff | review.claude .md or plan.claude .md | implement.codex .md, transparent logging shows what runs

Can an octopus learn to play a piano? This guy, Mattias Krantz, tried to find out. He rescues a random octopus from a fish market and then tries to work out how to teach it to play. You can skip the training to 15:20 to hear their first duet, but the training is interesting too. https://youtu.be/PcWnQ7fYzwI?si=BMFFE7

Reading Capital, I'm often tempted to skip the footnotes, but I'm glad I read the one savaging Jeremy Bentham just now. "This is the kind of nonsense with which the good man...has filled mountains of books. If I had the courage of my friend H. Heine, I would say that Mr. Jeremy is a genius of bourgeois stupidity." Marx would be such a shitposter today

Thought of a fun game:
- wait for a sponsor message
- skip to the end
- try guess how it's linked to the video
Only works for a "sometimes I" type sponsor though

I tried a new recipe for these potato chip chocolate chip cookies… not impressed, but I’ll try another batch with dough that has chilled longer. I also might skip the “pan smack” next time.
I expected more potato chip goodness but it seems lacking.

New York Young Republican Club gala draws white nationalist, far-right Germans as elected officials skip out (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/15/new-york-young-republican-gala-frohnmaier-00690510
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p77#a251215p77

Question for Fedi:
What is the best way to get started with self-hosting PeerTube? I have an S3 compatible storage thing setup (Backblaze B2 - love it!), so mostly concerned about transcoding - I have a Digital Ocean droplet which is fine for websites, but not great for more intensive stuff. How intensive is transcoding and can I do that locally and just upload all versions to B2 and skip transcoding altogether?

I have not updated my main Mac to the new OS. I have updated my laptop, and regret it. I am concerned about security updates but I believe Apple provides security updates for not-too-old versions.
This UI, though, I just do not feel comfortable with it. I am hoping I can skip this major version and that the next one will be more in line with Apple's historical attention to getting UIs right.
Please don't respond with discussion about the UI, but: please do respond if I am making a security mistake by holding off on the update.

Today at work, hamalert went off on my phone. @… was activating the state capital, two blocks away from me, on 20m. For once, not in my skip! I grabbed my QMX, ran up three flights of stairs out onto the patio, pulled all the parts together, and...
silence.
I looked off the balcony at the state capital groun…

For better or worse, I’ve had a revelation re: low-profile mechanical keyboards:
Low-Profile Gateron Mechanical Brown switches are at best uninspiring. I’ve gotten to know these via the Keychron K3. It’s fine, but mushy. In the future I will probably skip low-profile mechanical switches altogether.

Why NFL teams want more QBs to skip the draft and stay in school https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6859079/2025/12/05/nfl-draft-quarterbacks-stay-in-college/

There's an intersection in Cambridge on my usual commute that was substantially reworked to be more bicycle friendly, but they went and screwed up the light timing so that almost everyone on a bike hits at least one red light if not two. This also gives people the time incentive to do a non-standard thing to skip one light phase.
The video shows what is necessary to get a green and a yellow -- 20mph on an e-bike.

nice, pinact, the GitHub Action pinning tool added version cooldowns in 3.5.0!
https://github.com/suzuki-shunsuke/pinact/releases/tag/v3.5.0

Release v3.5.0 · suzuki-shunsuke/pinact
v3.4.6...v3.5.0 Features #1266 #1267 Add --min-age (-m) option Skip recently released versions when updating actions with -u flag. pinact run -u --min-age 7 # or using short alias pinact run -u -m ...

The office tonight. 70s theme, with special guest Skip Martin from Kool & The Gang and The Dazz Band.
#LetItWhip

Had a dream earlier that my teacher said I could skip an assignment of I flew up and down the street while meowing loudly.
Rest of my dream was, you guessed it, me meowing a tune while flying while everyone watched. :3

"Changes that Disney made to a popular program that lets qualifying disabled people skip long lines at its California and Florida theme parks are too restrictive, disabled fans contend in a federal lawsuit and shareholder proposal that seek to expand eligibility."
What to know about changes to Disney parks' disability policies | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/what-to-know-about-changes-to-disney-parks-disability-policies

First snow of the season. Even at 10 years old Harley has a skip in her step when she gets her first steps in the white stuff.
#DogsOfMastadon #GetOutside

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…

My mom has been staying with us for over a month for the holidays, and to skip a bit of the winter in Lithuania, and I have to say, it's been nice having her around. I think the last time we've been together for this long was 27 years ago. A wild realization...

Morrissey fan - BLOCK
Musk fan - BLOCK
Radiohead fan - BLOCK
"But.. but.. THIS billionaire is lovely, really!" - BLOCK
I skip around gaily, throwing out blocks like confetti.
In 2026, please remember, you never have to engage with fuckwits on the internet.
Save your energy, block with abandon.

I’m not on board with this.
Instead of an “are you over 18” question for a feature I don’t want, let me skip it and keep the feature off.
Also, didn’t Vispero get my contact details in order to take my money?
“Vispero Accounts: An Explanation, an Apology, and a Path Forward”
https://vispero.com…

I'm anticipating a lot of grief in 2026 after a hard end to 2025, so I'm not looking forward to the many January conversations about everything to look forward to in 2026
You can't skip processing grief and jump straight into hope. The grief will consume you and turn into despair, or you'll internalize and repress the trauma and metabolize it into despair via a different path.
Or, I don't know, maybe some people can grieve and hope at the same time, but I know…

@… so much, so very much to read today. If I skip the link, am I safe to assume that it's something to do with his nappies?

"Leaders of world’s biggest polluters skip UN climate summit"
#UN #UnitedNations #Climate #ClimateChange

Leaders of world’s biggest polluters skip UN climate summit
BELEM, Brazil (AP) — World leaders gathering in a coastal city in the Brazilian Amazon for the U.N.‘s annual climate summit hope it’s a rare opportunity to turn previous commitments into practical steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, preserve rainforests and make good on pledges to finance clean energy. But the heads of the world’s […]

Something about Polish people, and probably more.
First, they discovered that if they skip the middleperson and buy straight from the producer, they can pay less.
Then, they discover that if they buy from shady middlepeople, they can pay less.
Then, they discover that if they buy straight from China, they can pay less.
They never discover that if they stopped all the manipulations, they could actually earn more.
#AntiCapitalism

Raiders Predicted to Skip QB

Rockbands, die schreien oder grunzen anstatt singen, kann ich halt so gar nicht mehr ab. *skip* #rocknroll

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

I enjoy when you click SponsorBlock's "skip to highlight" button and it goes to the very end of the video

Thank you to everyone who writes alt text on images.
I am not blind, but for some reason the images don't load in my feed. The images have been on or off for the last few days.
So if you skip ALT text, I'm looking at an opaque rectangle with rounded corners. No idea what's in it, so no reaction.

The NYT's lawsuit against the DOD over its new journalism rules is on a fast track, heading to oral arguments on March 6, as both sides filed to skip discovery (Erik Wemple/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/business/media/new-york-t…

New York Times Case Against Pentagon Will Move Quickly
The lawsuit, over the Defense Department’s new rules for journalists, is headed for oral arguments in March.

Why NFL teams want more QBs to skip the draft and stay in school https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6859079/2025/12/05/nfl-draft-quarterbacks-stay-in-college/

🎜 When's the chorus? You may well ask. I'm sure it's long overdue.
🎝 Don't hold your breath. Hmm: 42 poudriere jobs ahead in the queue.
🎜 It's all good, I'll just skip the chorus. Build my own stuff from ports.
🎝 So, what's up next? What's new? I dunno. Oh, right! pkgbase, of course.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #TheEarlyMusicShow
Anonymous, Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra & Skip Sempé:
🎵 When Dafne from fair Phoebus did fly
#Anonymous #CapriccioStravaganteRenaissanceOrchestra #SkipSempé

Door Dasher Life Fun Facts: This might be useful to think of when you're rating your Dasher.... Who's at fault in this situation?
Let's say I accept an offer for McDonalds.
I head straight there... pull up to the store, and as I walk in the app buzzes again with a 2nd order for the same McDs.
Naturally, I accept. (not accepting reduces my Acceptance rate and potentially my ability to get new offers).
Now I have two orders at the same place! Great! Efficient!
The first order comes up quickly, I put it in my bag, 'pick it up' in the app, and wait for the 2nd order.
Now the fun begins. The restaurant says the 2nd order will be 10 minutes beyond the pickup time. I notify the app, and both customers of the wait... and I wait... and wait... if I remove the 2nd order from my app it affects my completion rate *and* means the customer has to wait for another dasher to come along.
Eventually the 2nd order is ready and I head out to make the deliveries. Both of course now late.. the first potentially cold (even in an insulated bag) *and* late.
In addition, sometimes, often a day or two later, the dasher will receive a “Contract Violation” for the lateness. 3 Contract Violations in a short period and you can be deactivated.
So... there ya go. It happens. I'm never sure what the best course of action is... unless both orders are immediately ready, which you can never predict, someone will end up losing; the store, customer, dasher, or a mix of all three.
#DasherLife #GigWork #DoorDash #Uber
P.S. It's worth noting that Door Dash is the only service I know of that is this strict. Uber Eats does not have mechanisms like this (at least in my experience). Never used Skip, so can't say on that.

Cynicism, "AI"
I've been pointed out the "Reflections on 2025" post by Samuel Albanie [1]. The author's writing style makes it quite a fun, I admit.
The first part, "The Compute Theory of Everything" is an optimistic piece on "#AI". Long story short, poor "AI researchers" have been struggling for years because of predominant misconception that "machines should have been powerful enough". Fortunately, now they can finally get their hands on the kind of power that used to be only available to supervillains, and all they have to do is forget about morals, agree that their research will be used to murder millions of people, and a few more millions will die as a side effect of the climate crisis. But I'm digressing.
The author is referring to an essay by Hans Moravec, "The Role of Raw Power in Intelligence" [2]. It's also quite an interesting read, starting with a chapter on how intelligence evolved independently at least four times. The key point inferred from that seems to be, that all we need is more computing power, and we'll eventually "brute-force" all AI-related problems (or die trying, I guess).
As a disclaimer, I have to say I'm not a biologist. Rather just a random guy who read a fair number of pieces on evolution. And I feel like the analogies brought here are misleading at best.
Firstly, there seems to be an assumption that evolution inexorably leads to higher "intelligence", with a certain implicit assumption on what intelligence is. Per that assumption, any animal that gets "brainier" will eventually become intelligent. However, this seems to be missing the point that both evolution and learning doesn't operate in a void.
Yes, many animals did attain a certain level of intelligence, but they attained it in a long chain of development, while solving specific problems, in specific bodies, in specific environments. I don't think that you can just stuff more brains into a random animal, and expect it to attain human intelligence; and the same goes for a computer — you can't expect that given more power, algorithms will eventually converge on human-like intelligence.
Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, what evolution did succeed at first is achieving neural networks that are far more energy efficient than whatever computers are doing today. Even if indeed "computing power" paved the way for intelligence, what came first is extremely efficient "hardware". Nowadays, human seem to be skipping that part. Optimizing is hard, so why bother with it? We can afford bigger data centers, we can afford to waste more energy, we can afford to deprive people of drinking water, so let's just skip to the easy part!
And on top of that, we're trying to squash hundreds of millions of years of evolution into… a decade, perhaps? What could possibly go wrong?
[1] #NoAI #NoLLM #LLM

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #TheEarlyMusicShow
William Brade, Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra & Skip Sempé:
🎵 Galliard (1614 / 1)
#WilliamBrade #CapriccioStravaganteRenaissanceOrchestra #SkipSempé

My friend Carlos knows better how to spend his time than on social media, so I can't tag him here, but he knows everything about statistics and Star Wars.
The thing is, my kids want to watch the clone wars series and I hate the idea because I think it's dull. But Carlos gave me a list of all episodes with "need to watch" rating (and in a better order!) so that we watch only the story arcs and skip all fillers. Now Clone Wars is tolerable for me!
1/2
https://pixelfed.de/p/CombSynPeople/889113283333962949

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #TheEarlyMusicShow
William Brade, Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra & Skip Sempé:
🎵 Paduana (1614 / 1)
#WilliamBrade #CapriccioStravaganteRenaissanceOrchestra #SkipSempé

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #TheEarlyMusicShow
William Brade, Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra & Skip Sempé:
🎵 Das Rothschenken Tanz
#WilliamBrade #CapriccioStravaganteRenaissanceOrchestra #SkipSempé

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #TheEarlyMusicShow
John Dowland, Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra & Skip Sempé:
🎵 Lachrimae Verae
#JohnDowland #CapriccioStravaganteRenaissanceOrchestra #SkipSempé

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #TheEarlyMusicShow
William Brade, Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra & Skip Sempé:
🎵 Canzone
#WilliamBrade #CapriccioStravaganteRenaissanceOrchestra #SkipSempé

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #TheEarlyMusicShow
Samuel Scheidt, Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra & Skip Sempé:
🎵 Courant ('Ludi Musici', Cantus XIX)
#SamuelScheidt #CapriccioStravaganteRenaissanceOrchestra #SkipSempé

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #TheEarlyMusicShow
Michael Praetorius, Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra & Skip Sempé:
🎵 Bransle de la Torche (XV)
#MichaelPraetorius #CapriccioStravaganteRenaissanceOrchestra #SkipSempé

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #TheEarlyMusicShow
Michael Praetorius, Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra & Skip Sempé:
🎵 Bransle double de Poictou (IX / 3)
#MichaelPraetorius #CapriccioStravaganteRenaissanceOrchestra #SkipSempé

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Jean-Baptiste Lully, Capriccio Stravagante & Skip Sempé:
🎵 Amadis (Chaconne)
#JeanBaptisteLully #CapriccioStravagante #SkipSempé