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Are you looking for a new challenge? Would you like to be part of a great team - and work remotely? ISC is looking for a QA engineer for our Stork graphical management tool for DNS and DHCP!

All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply at isc.recruitee.com/o/stork-qa


Internet Systems Corporation - QA Engineer for Stork

ISC is a well-established non-profit corporation with a mission to provide open source solutions to help sustain the infrastructure of the Internet and protect against monopoly and centralized control
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I've just pushed Tor integration in Libervia (first step of the NLnet metadata reduction and serverless grant).

nlnet.nl/project/ServerlessXMP…

This has been done thanks to the work of @meejah on `txtorcon` and of course of @torproject and the support of @nlnet and @NGIZero .

A thought for Lunar who is mentioned in the documentation of txtorcon (for doing the Debian package) and who passed away last year.

#tor #XMPP #Libervia #txtorcon #nlnet #ngi

Screenshot of the Libervia CLI frontend, showing the status of the Tor daemon, and the Tor circuit used to connect to the XMPP server. The first part says: Tor Daemon General data on Tor daemon. mode enabled_no_webrtc (Tor is enabled for all connections, WebRTC is disabled to avoid leaking IPs) version 0.4.8.21 uptime 1 hour, 58 minutes bytes read 1.38 Mio bytes written 1.23 Mio Then we can see the 3 relays used, their id, name, ip, country, relay flags, and a link to the corresponding https://metrics.torproject.org detail page.

NLnet; Serverless and Metadata Reduction for XMPP

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#xmpp #libervia #nlnet #Tor #ngi #txtorcon @The Tor Project @NGI Zero open source funding @meejah @NLnet

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🚫not asking for advice🚫
🚫no mens comments🚫

I'm going to try and stop watching short-form content online.

I gave up watching tiktok a number of months ago, and now it's time for Reels and YouTube Shorts to go as well.

I have a theory that they trigger the same areas of the brain that gambling lights up.. and it's not so much about the watching, but about swiping to see if you ✨win✨ by finding something fun. I noticed that I'd be watching something I was enjoying and just swipe anyways to see if the next clip was ✨better✨, which feels like classic gambling behaviours.

#addiction #gambling #tiktok #YouTube #tech #technology #SocialMedia

#technology #youtube #socialmedia #tech #tiktok #addiction #gambling
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Ugh! Well, figured out after many hours of learning and troubleshooting that I have yet another piece of equipment that doesn't do what I want even though it theoretically should! The whole point of me getting a USB Mixer was so that I could choose what analog inputs do and don't get routed over USB to the machine it's connected to. An Audio Interface such as my Evo will route everything or nothing, so that wasn't the ticket. turns out, though, that USB analog mixers do not do this, either and that is what this one is. What I apparently want is either a digital mixer or hybrid mixer with a routing matrix. So, guess I'll be taking a trip to Guitar Center with these two things when I get back from TN and see if I can sell them.

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Modular thingies are cool when they work right.

I just configured a new Ubiquiti wireless access point... well, actually an old one that was taken out of service last year when I wasn't home to fix broken things. It was easier to replace it than to walk someone through getting this one working again because of how it was mounted and such.

Anyway, adopted it to the controller, and devices automatically roamed to it. Then when I upgraded the firmware, those devices roamed back to where they were, then back again when it came back online. Nothing actually dropped for long enough to cause a noticeable problem.

Now I need to actually install this AP where it's meant to go, re-replacing the one it originally replaced. LOL!

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My way of rebelling against techbros and autocrats:

December 2024: quit all Big Tech platforms and start #selfhosting essential services

December 2025: write guides for newbies about how to self-host

I'm also in discussion with a blogger I admire to start a podcast about tech... where we'll focus on solutions (instead of problems)... aiming to inspire others to join in...

It's been a really heavy year but these little acts of rebellion give me hope ✨

#selfhosting

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today I discovered that a whole stack of my personal files, including multiple books I had written and performances recorded, were no longer on my hard drive, because Windows had deleted them "to free up space" and only kept the copies on their onedrive server. That's not a backup. That's deleting my work without asking me. I'm switching to Linux.

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RE: crab.garden/@brainblasted/1157…

Unfortunately could not play Skyrim VR or No Man's Sky VR at all :(

Chris 🌱

2025-12-14 03:18:14

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Really impressed with my Bazzite VR experience today. Was able to play a few hours of Half Life: Alyx and Boneworks today :D The main issue I ran into (with both) is that Steam Link will cut out when you first launch the game when trying to pre-compile shaders. Sometimes this leads to Steam VR bugging out and requiring a reboot in order to reconnect. After the first launch the experience was completely seamless.

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RAM prices spiking

SSD prices going up

My reaction when HDDs aren't even safe

tweaktown.com/news/109352/oh-g…

Oh great: HDD prices surge to highest point in 2 years with demand from China and the US

HDD prices are now rising, with the highest-ever price increase over the last 2 years... joining the RAM and SSD crisis, as we step into 2026.
Anthony Garreffa (TweakTown)

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Just a quick note for everyone who upgrades to Mona 7 on the mac. Once you install the Mona app from the mac appstore, you will find in your applications folder a mona app and a mona 2 app. the mona 2 app is the new Mona 7 app so once you have run the mona 2 app your settings will be synced from the older Mona app. Once you have purchased the Mona ultra upgrade the old Mona app can be removed from the mac and your dock and then you can rename Mona 2 to Mona and add it back to the dock and your good to go. Just wanted to pass this tip on to mac user’s.

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Had to run an errand today that involved navigating what I consider to be one of the worst intersections in the city - it's between two shopping areas and just slow and clogged and everyone is always grumpy.

Two people were standing OUT IN THE RAIN, making giant bubbles that would float into the intersection and interact with everyone. It was total magic.

Person standing on a corner in a busy retail development, holding up two sticks with rope between them, that have been dipped in bubble soap and create these massive floaty, rolly bubbles set free into the roadway, shiny iridescent blobs of joy.

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This is one of my many favorite artists. I wanna' be her when I grow up! #womenmusician #americana
youtube.com/watch?v=BoQctt3WEy…

Brandi Carlile: Tiny Desk Concert

Ann Powers | December 3, 2025Brandi Carlile has a way of making any performance feel like a tête-à-tête, a deep emotional exchange between friends that just ...
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#americana #womenmusician
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Ok fun fact that I found out a few weeks ago. All the way back in like 2007/8 when Logic Pro 8 was released, Apple included one of Brandi's songs (Late Morning Lullaby) as a project to demo what the software was capable of. They've been doing this for years, but I actually thought she was a relatively new artist and didn't know she'd been releasing stuff all the way back then. Also love Tiny Desk, great series with a really diverse range of artists.
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miki

@jackf723 @jscholes And afaik the more radios you have, the more certification pain you get from all the countries you're trying to sell to.

AT is one of the worst markets to be in from that perspective, since you're mostly selling to individuals, you don't have high volume to spread the costs over, and your customers are extremely geographically diverse.

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@miki @jscholes Cellular certification over here is insane, the FCC's rubber-stamp cost has to be in the 5 figures which is a major hit when selling at low volume. There was a time when it wasn't that way, the last vestidges of that in the AT space being the Levelstar Orion and the Braille+18 which had modems. Figure that predated the big phone manufacturer lobby (Apple and Samsung, most likely) to rais the rates to be unattainable for most.
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@miki @jscholes The SensePlayer and Orbit Player, both of which use the same Mediatech Helio P35 SoC, have cellular modules. Well, the SensePlayer does, the Orbit Player might actually not since it doesn't produce an IMEI like hte SensePlayer. Figure in the case of the SensePlayer it was because the only SoC's available to Hims/Selvas were those, and given chip shortage and all, it was probably best to claim plausible deniability so long as the modem was left inactive.
@miki @James Scholes
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Simon Jaeger

@jackf723 @miki @jscholes Does it actually have cellular capability enabled? I didn't think it did.
Yeah, at this point I'm just resigned to using an Android phone as a hotspot or whatever. Maybe the thing that will push me to buy an ARM laptop will be cellular. Kind of a shame we're not at the point where Humanware could just use one of those.
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*sighs* I should not need to say this but... Telling someone to "get over" their mental condition or neurodivergence doesn't work. Nobody, no matter their condition, should ever, *ever* have to hear "get over it," "just be normal," or anything implying their brain can just be normalized, controlled or that they're making it up. Sure, I'm sure some people in the world fake mental disorders or other neurodivergence, but most of us aren't. Most of us are just trying to survive in a world that's rarely if ever accommodating to us and our needs, depending on what those needs are. Hearing that we should just get over ourselves never, ever helps, and often does more harm than good. You know a neurodivergent person? Great! so then you help them with whatever they're struggling with. You accommodate them. You ask how you can make their sensitivity, anxiety, stress level, focus, or whatever else easier in your environment. You absolutely do not tell them to get over themselves or just be fine with things you might think are completely fine and nondisruptive, but that might thoroughly disrupt them. Your experience of tolerable isn't everyone's experience of tolerable. Demanding someone to get over a sensitivity won't make it any less stressful to them. Don't do this. It's not cool. Ever
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After years designing and scaling web and mobile applications using React and Node.js, I am now actively looking for a full-time, remote FullStack position.

My focus has always been on solving tough technical problems and building systems that last. I enjoy creating maintainable solutions and have a background in developing products that significantly boost efficiency and customer retention.

Any leads or introductions to teams building great products would be genuinely appreciated!

#FediHired

#fedihired

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Ranting about how stupid cultural superiority is.

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TIL that Kenyan workers have been used so much to train AI systems, that standard writing by Kenyan people is often flagged as AI generated while it is not (which means that they can get discriminated for jobs / exams etc)
marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-…

Edit: many people raised below that the article is talking about texts written in very classically trained English detected as AI generated, which is the case for many Kenyans. It is documented that many Kenyan workers have been hired to train LLMs, but I made an assumption that it was the reason for this detection while it may not be. Sorry about that, thanks for the feedback (and feel free to continue the discussion here)


I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me.

I'm calm. I'm calm. I promise.
Marcus Olang' (this man's mind)
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