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I found a really nice co-working space near me. It's 30€ for a single day or 250€ for an entire month of access. Coffee and water are free. I have never done co-working before so I can't compare.
What do you guys think of that price?
#Freelance #Freelancer

In some kind of record, I have moved 1247 steps today. I usually walk around more when I'm working from home, but there's literally nowhere to go and I have been writing a paper all day... Hope the storm dies down soon.

Last Working Day of 2025: https://eyebeemania.net/2025/12/31/last-working-day-of.html

Last Working Day of 2025
The last working day of 2025. I hope it’s a …

Using #PHP arrays as pseudo-objects is almost never the right answer. They're less self-documenting, slower, worse on memory, and more bug prone.
https://peakd.com/php/@crell/php-use-a

"I think nobody knows how hard I have been working to get this trophy.
I chased this moment so much,” said Carlos Alcaraz,
who was contesting his first major since ending his partnership with his coach of seven years, Juan Carlos Ferrero, in December.
“Preseason was a little bit of a rollercoaster emotionally… [My team] was just pushing me to do the right things every day, so I have to say I’m really grateful for everyone I have in my corner right now.”

I just realized that my father-in-law does not have an email-address!
I’m visiting later for tech-support but that’s only relevant to his wife. She has the notebook, the smartphone and the inbox!
The man has no concept of any of this stuff! 😵‍💫
(Also, he was working in an actual mine back in the day and not the virtual ones his grand-children yearn for!)

The U.S. patent for mp3 audio was granted on November 26 in 1996. This piece is kinda weird about it in spots, but it gives a decent history about how it laid the foundations for peer-to-peer music sharing, etc.

The U.S. patent for MP3 audio was granted on this day in 1996 — laid the foundations for peer-to-peer music sharing, iTunes, and today's streaming services
The Fraunhofer Institut had been working on its lossy audio compression tech for phone line transmission since 1977.

I've been working on a toy project that analyzes local ADS-B traffic (next to YUL), and alerts when planes are taking off and landing.
It's surprising to me how much the number of commercial planes at YUL changes throughout the day. There are clearly morning/evening/night rushes.
Looks like there's only one (or two) commercial plane(s) at YUL right now, but in 3 hours, there will be dozens of take-off/landing events in that hour.

Greg Olson: 'Keep working every day and continue to get better' https://www.raiders.com/video/greg-olson-offense-nfl-chargers-week-13

Glen Gordon’s departure is a loss for JAWS (and Freedom Scientific / Vispero):
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/glen-gordon-13a625133_today-is-a-very-sad-day-for-me-since-after-activity-7392923860024614912-B9tr

Today is a very sad day for me, since after nearly 32 years, it’s the first day that I’m no longer working on the JAWS screen reader. I’ve voluntarily resigned my position at Freedom… | Glen Gordon
Today is a very sad day for me, since after nearly 32 years, it’s the first day that I’m no longer working on the JAWS screen reader. I’ve voluntarily resigned my position at Freedom Scientific/Vispero because I found myself unable to continue working for a company that’s changing in ways that are moving away from my personal values. As recently as the 2025 NFB convention, I was thinking that I’d be working on JAWS far into the future. Much to my surprise, a recent influx of new Exe…

Whats the latest (and in the easy) vulnerability scanner? I used to use Nessus back in the day, then OpenVAS was always a pain to get working. I haven't scanned anything in a few years so not sure whats in that "easy to use, decent output" category.

@… I wasn't trying to argue with you. I agree with your fundamental point, but I wanted to point out that there is at least one very accomplished author who uses speech recognition software.
I used Dragon every day for years as a lawyer. Because I was a very specialized lawyer working primarily in federal securities laws (mostly mutual funds and investme…

It's the day before Thanksgiving and I am working, apparently. I don't expect a lot of people to be doing the same.

First day working at Microsoft 365, wish me luck! :elmo_fire:

For the next 4 weeks I’m only working Monday & Tuesday, then off until Jan 6. Bliss!
I am popping into the office today to help with next week’s office move though, so another day TOIL due

Happy Holidays and Merry Xmas to all the folks working behind the scenes to make this day function for everyone else. Myself included. #NFL #strangerthings

Totally normal problems.
So one day I had trouble zipping my winter jacket; around the final teeth, the zipper would stop catching. And when I tried again, I couldn't zip anything at all. Finally, at nth careful attempt it finally worked, and I had no more trouble that day. When I've turned, we looked at it, and decided that a loose thread must have gotten into it while zipping. Cut the thread off.
Next day, the zipper worked just fine in the morning. However, when I was about to leave the train, it suddenly stopped working. It seemed that I'm up for a cold day in unzipped jacket, but it finally caught a few minutes later, on the road. This time, I suspected the zipper. Tightened it, it started working again.
Today, I've tried zipping it three times to make sure it really works. And of course, as soon as I arrived at the destination, it refused to zip. I've tried again while walking, and it fell apart completely. Fortunately, the wind stopped blowing, and walking on snow was hard enough to jumpstart my metabolism fast. Finally, I've replaced the zipper and now everything works.
I wonder what tomorrow holds…

you can bring down 20% of the internet with a single-character typo in a regex, but you can also destroy a nearly 50 year old bridge with a single incorrectly placed piece of heatshrink
isn't technology beautiful
https://blog.cloudflare.com/details-of-t…

Fedex just shipped a package from Taiwan to NL for me, tried to deliver at a random time during a working day. Found me not home, then immediately threatened to send the package back if I don't leave delivery instructions. Then only let me talk to AI agents, who don't understand what I want.
This level of dysfunction is staggering. Surely it can't be good for their bottom line if packages are sent back across the world all the time?

Back in the day I was working on a team with an ugly ETL pipeline for scraping news articles.
It had a habit of guessing wrong about character encodings, so by the time the data reached my zone of responsibility it was often solidly mojibake.
So two of us wrote a module that tried to guess at the (noisy-channel) transcodings that got us here & reverse them (used a simple "what language is this" filter to evaluate candidates).
Some clever wit -- I think it was…

Apropos of a gas station exploding in my neighborhood: Fossil fuel infrastructure is an ecological disaster every day, especially when there isn't an accident, when everything is "working" "safely."
https://theonion.com/millions-of-barre

Millions Of Barrels Of Oil Safely Reach Port In Major Environmental Catastrophe
PORT FOURCHON, LA—In what may be the greatest environmental disaster in the nation’s history, the supertanker TI Oceania docked without incident at the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port Monday and successfully unloaded 3.1 million barrels of dangerous crude oil into the United States.

I've been messing with wget and HTTrack for archiving web sites... An artist friend of mine passed away last year and I have this fear his web site might disappear some day, and I want a copy of it.
The images are not hosted on his domain though, they are on a SquareSpace domain, but I think I've got HTTrack working to grab them all.
Still need to figure out the exact formula, so it'll take a bit of testing.

Forty years ago, 21 people gathered for the first meeting of what became the Internet Engineering Task Force or #IETF . Every day billions of people use the open standards and technologies developed in the IETF. And nearly 8000 volunteer IETF participants from around the world collaborate in more than 100 working groups evolving those open standards and making the Internet work better!

IETF@40
Forty years ago today, 21 people gathered in San Diego, California for the first meeting of what became the Internet Engineering Task Force.

School communities — parents, educators, and neighbors — are working overtime right now to provide escorts and legal observers, every single day at every single school.
That is a •massive• operation. It is operation of a scale that ordinary people with their own lives can reasonably be expected to take up. But we’re taking it up anyway. We’re making it happen.
9/

Today was the last day of ESA's JUICE Science Working Team Meeting at #mpsgoettingen in Göttingen – with lots of talks, discussions, and planning for the months and years ahead. Thanks to everyone for being here and making the meeting a success!
#ESA

Just spent an hour and half my ChatGPT quota for the day trying to figure out why my Sonos wasn't working. Turns out Ken had turned the volume to 0 with the old fashioned in-wall potentiometer.

Just what public safety demands: Skilled workers in a complex environment requiring attention and awareness are now working second jobs. (When I worked in industry, many of the problems arose at the ends of long shifts, when workers were tired.)
"Most controllers are working mandatory overtime six days a week during the shutdown without pay, and some are taking second jobs to pay their bills, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) has said."

RE: https://mastodon.social/@LanceJZ/115753199788467220
Me after working (an hour) at the Hard Day factory

Mšs paisajes así, siempre #silentsunday
#pixelfed

When you get that opacity and Gruvbox theme working in Wezterm (wezterm.lua).
Pushing my luck here, but it looks to turn out as a great day.
#freebsd #wezterm #geekspeak

And now it turns out that the telemarketers from Lester, Inc. who have been calling me multiple times a day every day for weeks are working for PBS Channel 13. This is outrageous. It means that my subscription money is going to advertising.

Last Long Day: https://eyebeemania.net/2025/12/12/last-long-day.html

Last Long Day
It’s my last long shift this week. I am working …

As Donald Trump ramped up his threats against the people he is supposed to be working for,
his administration’s extreme immigration enforcement led Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to admit that anyone
— U.S. citizen or otherwise
— should be prepared to have to prove their citizenship to DHS agents.
Asked Thursday about U.S. citizens being asked to provide proof of citizenship in Minnesota
and whether that is “targeted enforcement,”
Noem said the f…

Noem says that virtually anyone could face a Kavanaugh stop
Trump started off the day with an Insurrection Act threat. Noem followed up by saying that anyone "surrounding" any DHS target has to prove their legal status.

Today, instead of the last day of #AdventOfCode, I will finish our MAB2-to-MARC21 converter (handling depended works), which in fact feels quite similar to working on Advent of Code puzzles.

I’m working as an election inspector today (6am to 9pm). There’s only a single question on the ballot, a county-wide school millage, and what with vote-by-mail and early voting, I’ll be surprised if we get even 20 in-person voters all day. In fact, we just got our first.
#a2votes

FTSE 100 CEOs earn more than average worker’s yearly pay by noon on 6 January
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/06/ftse-100-ceos-earn-more-than-average-worker-yearly-pay-by…

We've done the science—let's get on with climate action #climate

We've done the science—let's get on with climate action
For three decades now, I have watched Earth warm—not through headlines or politics, but in my own data. Every year, the evidence has become clearer. My colleagues have measured rising CO₂ levels in Antarctic ice cores. We have seen ice caps retreat, permafrost melt, ecosystems shift, and species vanish. Every single working day of my life has been a front-row seat to a planet in rapid transformation.

Today is going to be a good day for several large (very large) shots of Scotch.
Working with client for a test file and asked questions on how we are to set up the test environment. It hit me after I asked that I didn't even know what the hell those changes to the files were for.
I checked our current release documents and the next release documents. Zero notes on the changes. I am the release coordinator and I remember nothing on the topic for the current two releases. …

My first day working at #Verizon
Hope nothing goes wrong...

Hi! I'm Koffietje! (Not very original, might change that later.)
Obviously, I'm a big fan of coffee! Generally black, over-steeped in a French press. But lately I've been messing around with the Moka pot.
I'm also big on Linux. My daily driver is Fedora, which seems to work incredibly well on my computers. I'm also curious about ARM & RISC-V, and have dipped my toes into BSD. Always trying to learn more, and currently I'm working on my Bash skills, tryi…

The Pixel's Android 16 is the most distressingly buggy shit I've ever had foisted on me by a phone manufacturer. It's like using a beta. I have to restart 1-2x per day when parts of the shell just suddenly fail. Statusbar disappears, system gets stuck on the lock screen, back button stops working, space bar starts inserting double-taps with each press-- the list goes on. The only thing worse is having to use iOS.

FTSE 100 CEOs earn more than average worker’s yearly pay by noon on 6 January
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/06/ftse-100-ceos-earn-more-than-average-worker-yearly-pay-by…

The mainstream media said voters wouldn’t go for him
and they said “socialism won’t sell.”
But on the streets of New York, people were done listening to conventional wisdom.
All throughout Manhattan and from East Harlem to Queens, voters told us the same thing:
they’re tired of the old guard, the empty promises, and a system that serves the wealthy instead of the working class.

Mainstream media tried to scare Mamdami voters with socialism—it didn’t work!
TRNN was on the ground in New York City on election day speaking to voters.