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This is your city on driverless cars.

A blackout in San Francisco yesterday cut power to traffic lights. Drivers coped; Waymos just stopped moving, often in intersections, stranding passengers and compounding gridlock.

sfstandard.com/2025/12/20/waym…

Waymo suspends service amid widespread blackout-related disruption

Company temporarily pauses robotaxis in San Francisco after cars stalled out and blocked intersections, causing traffic jams.
Kevin Truong (The San Francisco Standard)
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Přátelé máme tu zimní slunovrat. To znamená, že se nám začínají krátit noci a prodlužovat dny.

Hlavně to ale znamená, že je čas otevřít solarogafy, které od letního slunovratu (21. června) snímají dráhu slunce na obloze. Že ještě nemáte #solarograf? Nové video jak si jeden vyrobit už teď na VHSkách :vhsky:
vhsky.cz/w/3inz7oFAC2UgRc2RTFy…

Včerejší noc byl také nov, tak máme skvělé podmínky na sledování Ursidů :meteor:

#solarograf

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We set up a new Mastodon instance focused on supporting nonprofit/charitable organizations. If you know of such an organization looking for a place in the Fediverse, please point them our way.

empathyforward.org/2025/12/cha…

charities.place/about

#nonprofit #mastodon #fediverse


Charities.Place - Empathy Forward

One of our goals at Empathy Forward is to support long-term projects that benefit society. Part of that is helping […]
James Smith (Bene Homini Society)
#fediverse #Mastodon #nonprofit

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YAML is such a stupid, stupid format for human-written config files. I've just spent an hour finding a two-space "error" in netplan. Using spaces (or tabs) for semantics was (and still is) a mistake in makefiles, it was a mistake in Occam, it's still a mistake in Python and it's a mistake in YAML. It's a mistake whenever humans are supposed to write these files.

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this might be a weird question, but are you always truly genuine with your friends or family, or do you catch yourself saying things that sort of give the impression of connection without really saying anything? or maybe you intend to actually have a conversation, but end up just sort of landing on lines that are sort of aesthetically pleasing without substance? Or maybe you notice people doing that to you sometimes

is there a word for this behavior? are we talking at each other instead of to?

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Yessie 🌓

Don't doubt yourself. This shit is hard and takes a lot of practice. It will be easier if you don't beat yourself up when you screw up. One thing that helps me is to literally count to 3 in my head. Usually if I'm about to say something I'll regret, that helps me at least rework the thought so that it doesn't come out as harsh. Anything that temporarily interrupts your ability to respond should work.

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I'm glad they took away that award from Claire Obscura for having AI generated assets during development. I hope we maintain our integrity and only give awards to video game companies that abuse their employees with terrible working conditions and mandatory overtime so they can't even be present at their child's birth

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IMHO: I spent a couple of hours listening to a bunch of top songs generated by Suno v5, their latest model. Sad to say, but it’s comparable to the average music on Spotify from the last two decades. The key word is average though. The mixing, production, performance, arranging, and songwriting are all passable. Sometimes you notice slight audio artifacts or too many words crammed with awkward phrasing, but people wouldn’t even notice as background music in a random coffee shop or airport. #AI
#AI

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Chi Kim

@vick21 I wonder what the saturation will do to music industry. Digital music production and social media democratized for indie artists, but now AI is democratizing mass production. Anyone with good music taste can do it, and people are already floodding streaming services with AI music. I read about an Uber driver with no music background making a few hundred bucks a month by generating AI tracks. Also some AI generated songs already hit number one on the charts.
theguardian.com/technology/202…

AI slop tops Billboard and Spotify charts as synthetic music spreads

Hits include country songs and a Dutch anti-refugee anthem, both entirely made without human composition
Aisha Down (The Guardian)
@victor tsaran

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Ein sehr gutes neues Video von Ultralativ zum Thema KI, und warum Kunst von KI niemals menschliche Kunst ersetzen kann und damit auch der Frage, was eigentlich Kunst ist, und wann und wie viel wir ihr zurechnen. youtube.com/watch?v=kUuwvJfQfI…

Künstliche Intelligenz: Für euch reicht’s

Generative KI ist unausweichlich. Auch deshalb, weil Influencer, Fernsehsender, Marken und Co. eine Geisteshaltung entwickelt haben, dass generierte Imitate ...
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Guess what, #Nextcloud? #OneDrive has a "Copy Link" in the file context menu. And guess what? They also open a dialog, like with whom to share, for editing or for viewing, but this dialog is fully accessible. Webbish, yes (I would prefer a native Windows API one), but fully accessible.
And guess what even more? #GoogleDrive also has "Copy Link" in their context menu. Aren't they secure enough? I don't know. But they are *convenient*. And *accessible*.
UPD. this post was inspired by my struggles with sharing Nextcloud links and by this ongoing discussion. TL;DR: The option was there, it worked like a charm, but then it was removed because of "security".
github.com/nextcloud/desktop/i…
#Accessibility

The public share link has been removed with the 3.15 client version.

Hi, The public share link has been removed with the 3.15 client version. Could it be possible to bring back this feature ? Below, a screen from a right click on a folder/file with the 3.14.3 client...
SebjuFrab (GitHub)
#Accessibility #onedrive #nextcloud #googledrive
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Steffen Voß

Guess what, @menelion? You can file suggestion for #Nextcloud at Github: github.com/nextcloud/desktop/i…
I don't know if something like that is possible for OneDrive or GoogleDrive but for Nextcloud it is possible that YOUR idea becomes true. 😉

nextcloud/desktop

💻 Desktop sync client for Nextcloud. Contribute to nextcloud/desktop development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub
#nextcloud @André Polykanine
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André Polykanine

@kaffeeringe Unfortunately, nope nope. I'm writing this not for the first time, and it's actually a bitter feeling after this (ongoing) discussion. TL;DR: The option was there, it worked as a charm, then it was removed because of "security".
github.com/nextcloud/desktop/i…
Sorry, I'll edit my post to give more context, because you're right that it sounds like mere whining.

The public share link has been removed with the 3.15 client version.

Hi, The public share link has been removed with the 3.15 client version. Could it be possible to bring back this feature ? Below, a screen from a right click on a folder/file with the 3.14.3 client...
SebjuFrab (GitHub)
@Steffen Voß

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The Vancouver Christmas tree right after its lighting ceremony, at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC. — December 2010

This is deliberately out of focus.

Olympus E-P1, m-Zuiko 17mm f2.8

(20101202_PC031144)

A night scene with the shape of a Christmas tree. Everything is out of focus but the Christmas tree is lit and all the light appear as fuzzy circles of colour. On the top a fuzzy star in white. Behind tall building lit up are also completely out off focus, everything creating an "impressionist" effect.

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I don't really care much about cerifications of any sort so I can't be sure I'm describing the right one, but I remember when working at a small ISP/datacenter we wanted to get SOC II (??) compliance to please some customer and the process was like this:

Me: what are the requirements?

🤖 We have to document all our processes and procedures

Me: and then what?

🤖: an auditor will verify (by quizzing you in front of a computer screen they don't understand) to prove you're following the documented processes and procedures

Me: okay, but like what do we have to do? How long do we have to retain customer backups, for example?

🤖: there is no requirement. How long are you retaining customer backups?

Me: well we had that failure so right now we only have 6 months

🤖: so document 6 months

Me: can we just say one month? And then we exceed our documented retention by a good margin?

🤖: yes

Me: this is a scam isn't it?

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#odemčeno Jen aby se nám vláda nerozbila dříve, než dostala důvěru.

denikn.cz/1926006/pan-ministr-…


„Pan ministr se trochu porouchal.“ SPD šokoval její šéf obrany Zůna, hnutí přitom Rusko za agresora označilo také

Analýza: Páteční tisková konference ministra obrany Jaromíra Zůny (za SPD), respektive její ohlas se hnutí vymkl z rukou.
Jan Wirnitzer (Deník N)
#odemceno
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Tarren (They/Them)

Same to you as well, may your #Yule be blessed, peaceful and joyous. It's gonna be a busy one here, with a morning service (the one I play on #SleighRide for) and an evening service for which I'm playing #HandChimes. First year I'm actually making it to the intergenerational pageant service in quite some time. I think I've maybe made it once or twice over the 11 years I've been here.
#yule #sleighride #handchimes

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TIL that the sixth largest pipe organ in the world is contained within the home of a man from Alabama called Barry Norris.

According to Wikipedia, it has 11,200 pipes.

By comparison, the Royal Albert Hall's organ (which TIL is called The Voice of Jupiter, which is an amazing name) has just 9,999 pipes. Tiny. Pathetic.

pipeorgandatabase.org/instrume…

Pipe Organ Database

pipeorgandatabase.org

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#Spotify #music #metadata #DataRescue

'It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with enough disk space), with 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of listens.'

annas-archive.li/blog/backing-…


Backing up Spotify

We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with enough disk space), with 86 mil…
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#music #spotify #metadata #datarescue

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Self hosting a Postgres or MySQL/MariaDB database is often treated like a horror story told around a campfire, a narrative carefully created by big cloud providers over the last decade. But is it actually "terrifying," or just a lost art of Sysadmining? This post talks the reality of self hosting versus managed cloud versions like AWS RDS, cutting through the marketing to look at the actual trade offs for both IT pros and developers.

pierce.dev/notes/go-ahead-self…

Go ahead, self-host Postgres | Pierce Freeman

Self-hosting Postgres is simpler and cheaper than managed services suggest, with comparable reliability and better performance tunability.
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