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Just wait until these guys learn about how companies like Apple buy future years worth of hardware and fab time for stuff that hasn't been sold yet or doesn't even exist

Or I don't know, the entire concept of futures contracts. Did you know they've even proposed the idea of organ futures for human organs ?
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2025-12-18 21:39:06

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To spell this out clearly, the reason RAM has quadrupled in price is that a huge quantity of RAM that hasn't been produced yet has been bought with money that doesn't exist to populate GPUs that also haven't been produced to go in datacenters that haven't been built powered by infrastructure that may never exist to meet a demand that doesn't exist at all to make profit margins that mathematically can't exist while economists talk about this thing they call the "rational markets hypothesis".

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What’s really amazing about vibe-coding is how people are replacing programming languages which are strictly deterministic with human speech which is highly ambiguous and expect programming to be faster and better.

“Well only use it when you’re already an expert!”

None of the people starting their careers using this technology are experts yet, nor will the ever be.

And within some finite amount of time nether will you, the expert, be an expert anymore.

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Törmäsin Linkkarissa uuteen, kotimaiseen äänikirjapalveluun, josta voi ostaa kirjoja yksittäiskappaleina. He lisäksi lupaavat reilumpaa korvausta tekijöille. Toistaiseksi vain Aviadorin ja Aula & co teoksia tarjolla, mutta mielenkiinnolla seuraan, miten tämä lähtee kehittymään. 🤔

#kirjamastodon #kirjailijanelämää #äänikirja
kuulokuva.com/blogs/news/aanik…


Äänikirjat kappalemyyntiin – Kuulokuva takaa tekijöille reilun korvauksen

Lukuaikapalvelut ovat pienentäneet kirjailijoiden tuloja, joten Kuulokuva tarjoaa vastavoiman: äänikirjojen kappalemyynnin. Kuulokuvassa äänikirjat tuottavat yhtä hyvin kuin paperikirjat. Kuulokuva laajentuu kustantamosta äänikirjakaupaksi.
Sami Kuusela (Kuulokuva)
#kirjamastodon #kirjailijanelamaa #aanikirja
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Mixxx was spotlighted in Magnetic Magazine, featuring an interview with one of our Core Team developers: magneticmag.com/2025/12/a-look…

A Look Into the Only Open-Source DJ Software On the Market: A Conversation with the Mixxx Team - Magnetic

When we first learned about Mixxx, it almost seemed too good to be true.
Ben Lepper (Magnetic Magazine)

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DVV julkaisi listan 100-vuotiaista henkilöistä, joista heillä ei ole mitään ajantasaista tietoa ja jotka julistetaan kuolleiksi, jos muuta tietoa ei ilmene. Tuli erikoinen olo tätä listaa lukiessa. Keitä nämä ihmiset olivat? Mihin heidän jälkensä päättyvät? Miksi DVV ei tiedä näistä ihmisistä mitään? dvv.fi/julkiset-kuulutukset

Julkiset kuulutukset - Digi- ja väestötietovirasto

Digi- ja väestötietovirasto

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Short and succinct, @neil lays down the incredible danger of the UK's current political talk about "banning under 16y olds" from using online services.

UK's "age assurance" is similar to #chatcontrol 's "age verification" plans: the end of privacy when using online services. Basically policing everywhere demanding "show me your passport!" before you can cross the street to a web shop or forum.

decoded.legal/blog/2025/12/a-p…


A proposed legislative amendment to attempt to ban under 16s in the UK from common messaging services, sharing family photos, using Wikipedia, and doing much else online, by imposing age assurance on everyone

Earlier this week, I wrote about a proposed legislative amendment to attempt to compel VPN services providers to prevent anyone under 18 in the UK from using their VPNs.
decoded.legal
#chatcontrol @Neil Brown

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HN elitists: omg FreeBSD is so retarded I can't believe this exploit existed what kind of idiot still uses shell scripts for stuff this important

Oh I don't know, like everybody??

Yeah FreeBSD manages resolv.conf changes using shell scripts from a BSD licensed project called openresolv

But Debian does the same goddamn thing with their version of it called resolvconf: salsa.debian.org/debian/resolv…


Debian / resolvconf · GitLab

Debian Salsa Gitlab
GitLab

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#TikTok Deal Done And It’s Somehow The Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse - techdirt.com/2025/12/19/tiktok… "This was never about addressing privacy, propaganda, or national security. " #ellison

TikTok Deal Done And It’s Somehow The Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse

There were rumblings about this for a while, but it looks like the Trump TikTok deal is done, and it’s somehow the worst of all possible outcomes, amazingly making all of the biggest criticis…
Techdirt
#tiktok #ellison

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🎮 BLOCK LEAGUE TOURNAMENT - Christmas Edition 🎅

Santa's checking his list, but you'd better be checking your back: IT'S PEW PEW TIME 💥

2 SPOTS LEFT!

❓ 8 teams of 3 players each. Direct elimination.
🗺 Hyperium (quarterfinals), Station 2
📅 Friday, 19 December
🕑 8:30 PM - 10:30 PM (UTC)
🏆 €20 each, champion title tag and more

✍️ How to apply:

join our Matrix community matrix.to/#/#luanti-aes:matrix… to find and/or tell us your teammates!

#Videogames #Gaming #Luanti #LibreSoftware #FreeSoftware #Event

Voxel. A futuristic stadium at night, snow falling, lots of artificial lights. Text says: "Block League Tournament 19/12/2025, Sponsored by FSFE"

Matrix - Decentralised and secure communication

You're invited to talk on Matrix. If you don't already have a client this link will help you pick one, and join the conversation. If you already have one, this link will help you join the conversation
matrix.to
#FreeSoftware #gaming #libresoftware #videogames #event #luanti
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Would you believe there’s a new installment of the Taming the Terminal podcast out today? 5 years ago, @bart had taught us everything he’d planned, so we set the show aside until he had new material. If you’ve always wanted to know how to use the Terminal but thought it was too intimidating, or if you just want to be better with it, this is the show for you. Head over to the link below or subscribe in your podcatcher of choice!

ttt.bartificer.net

#Terminal

Three Ts pointing to the center at angles with a command prompt in the middle. Get it?

Taming the Terminal

ttt.bartificer.net
#terminal @Bart Busschots
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I have 2-3 packages with at least different 2 couriers out for delivery today which means a minimum of 2 trucks driving to my door and it's so fucking dumb that instead of legally mandating Canada Post be used for the last mile instead the Liberals want to kill Canada Post and end door-to-door delivery.

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A Texas district in which Black students were allegedly taunted with monkey noises.

An Arizona school where students admitted saying “slavery is good.”

These are some of the incidents Trump’s Education Department has ignored.
propublica.org/article/trump-e…

#News #Education #Trump #Racism #CivilRights #School #Family #BlackMastodon


Monkey Sounds, “White Power” and the N-Word: Racial Harassment Against Black Students Ignored Under Trump

Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation. It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discrimination ... don’t matter,” one attorney said.
cengiz.yar@propublica.org (ProPublica)
#Trump #News #education #racism #civilrights #school #blackmastodon #family

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Mildly curious, what do people use for mastodon on windows at this point? Asking this because my client of choice, enafore, seems to crash or refuse to load when quotes come on my home timeline (or that's what I assume breaks it), and semaphore doesn't play sounds when new notifications come in, an enafore feature I got a bit attached to lol. I really like the pinafore/semaphore/enafore line, but the tradeoff of either random breakage or lack of sounds is admittedly bothering me.

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Okay, I'm loving this gitlab CLI. I'm so glad that I know about it now. Of course, I need to figure out how to do things with it, but, for instance, I can just go into my at-spi2-core directory from the console and type
glab mr update 220 --draft

Otherwise, I'd need to open gitlab.gnome.org in a browser, click the button to sign in, type in my username and password, get my phone out for the two-factor authentication, then find the control on the web page to do what I want.

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Endlich! Das war ein Krampf über mehrere Tage, bis das endlich geklappt hat. Angeblich hätte ich immer noch irgendwelche Aktivitäten gehabt (die ich nicht hatte). Jetzt hat es geklappt, nachdem ich wiederholt den Antrag gestellt hatte. Und gleichzeitig habe ich drei Dutzend Bestätigungsmails ins Postfach gespült bekommen, dass Zahlungen im Einzugsverfahren storniert worden wären, die ich irgendwann als junger Mann mal stattgegeben hatte. Ein Rückblick in meine Konsum-Historie ....
#Paypal
Screenshot der Paypal-Kündigungsbestätigung: "Konto geschlossen. Hiermit bestatigen wir, dass Ihr PayPal-Konto geschlossen wurde."
#paypal
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🎉 arcanechat.me server upgraded! 🎉

some of you might have noticed arcanechat.me was down for a few minutes, that was because I was migrating to the new more powerful server as announced some days ago!

besides having a faster more powerful server, now every user have 2GB of temporary storage! useful if you receive a lot of media!

🎁 this is my Christmas gift for the #ArcaneChat users, if you feel like showing back your love, you can support my work here:
arcanechat.me/#contribute
💜

an image showing the storage usage of an user in arcanechat.me, max. storage is 2gb

ArcaneChat

Private chats for the family
arcanechat.me
#arcanechat

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Quick PSA : yes, #Mozilla has been disappointing, but so far, they’re the only organization preventing Google to have a full control over web standards. Blink/WebKit-based browsers (Chromium, Vivaldi…) do NOT help at all in that regard.

So please use #Firefox or a #Gecko-based alternative (#ZenBrowser, #LibreWolf…). Ride the nightly release train and report bugs if you can. #Servo is getting ready, but for the next ~5 years, Gecko is our only suitable option.

#firefox #mozilla #librewolf #gecko #servo #zenbrowser
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Raphael van Lierop :

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what GenAI is.

GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, because you don't have evil in your heart.

But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, and anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.


Bianca's answer :

Not just that but Tolkien also said: "Evil cannot create anything new, it can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made.".
Sound familiar ?
Screenshot of the two bluesky posts. Raphael's post is illustrated by a still from The Fellowship of the ring, and shows Boromir holding the One Ring in front of his eyes. His left hand is about to take the ring from its chain.
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Important Acronyms in IT Technology

IPv4: Internet Problem, Version 4
IPv6: same, but 6 times more Problems
DHCP: Desktop Hardware Cleaning Protocol
DNS: Destroying Network Protocol
VPN: Very Problematic Network
EthO: Eternity, low Level
Eth1: same, but stoned
SDA: Software Defined Anger
CPU: Core Problem Unit
RAM: Random Access Mismatch
HD: Historical Device
SDD: Self Destroying Device
TCP: Total Complex Protocol
UDP: Undefined User Paranoia
USB: United Shit Bracket
GW: Genuine Witchcraft
ROM: Rusty Old Malware
GPU: Great Picture Utensil
C#: Chaos
C++: same, but much more
CAT0...n: Number of Cats lying on keyboard, what else?

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I just wrote up some docs on how to hide images in public rooms on Matrix in several clients.

matrix.org/docs/chat_basics/pu…

If anyone was able to add info for more clients that would be awesome. Here's my change for reference: github.com/matrix-org/matrix.o…


Document how to hide images in Element by andybalaam · Pull Request #2971 · matrix-org/matrix.org

As discussed within the Trust and Safety Research and Documentation Working Group. ✔️ Checklist Check for common mistakes: Wrap plain URLs in <> to linkify them (learn more). Use the ri...
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Jiří Eischmann

"But that’s just the Economics 101 reason not to do this. The other one is this: I’m pretty sure people actually hate this? You have the data, you know."

Oh yeah, they do, but their goal isn't making features people don't hate. Their goal is making profitable features which people hate, but not to the extend they would leave the service. And because they have data, they have learned that the threshold is really high for most people.
So we have a market with a handful of dominant services which are hated by their users, but it isn't going to change until people stop complaining about it and actually start leaving them.

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Filip Hracek

I take your point. People apparently don't hate this enough to leave right now. But the thing about losing goodwill is that things happen gradually, and then suddenly. I think that a good business leader should be sensitive to this. The fact that the data doesn't show enough outflow to worry about _today_ doesn't mean you're not going to see something much worse in the future.

We all know the rationale of shoving AI on people. I just thing 2 massive buttons around every email is stupd

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Just tried building a rust project using cargo and it started pulling and building 385 dependency packages without any confirmation prompt. This is insane and super not secure. How are rust devs ok with this?

EDIT: to make it clear, my problem is that it didn't stop for confirmation. This is not ok. I thought NPM was bad but this is insane.

#rust #rustlang

#rust #RustLang
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Dear Fediverse, I recently acquired a second-hand #guitar that I had "love at first sight" for as soon as I saw it online. It really is lovely to play, but I know very little about it, though, except that it's from a now defunct brand called #Dreambow. I can't find any other name or serial. Do you know what model it might be, and/or year? It definitely is a single cut, but it's not a Les Paul replica as you can see in the picture. Please help me boost this until it reaches someone who knows 😅
Picture of a natural wood finish Dreambow single cut guitar I bought
#guitar #dreambow
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