"The mistake that every investor, commentator, analyst and member of the media makes about NVIDIA is believing that its sales are an expression of demand for AI compute, when it’s really more of a statement about the availability of debt from banks and private credit."

-Ed Zitron

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The Enshittifinancial Crisis

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^{Edward Zitron (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)}

In programming, we have a nice pair of opposed acronyms:

• DRY for "Don't Repeat Yourself"
• WET for its opposite, "Write Everything Twice" (or "We Enjoy Typing")

But there's an intermediate position. The benefit of DRY, other than brevity, is that if a thing is specified just once, the specifications can't get out of sync with each other. If you can't manage that, the next best thing is to make sure the compiler or test suite _checks_ that they're in sync. You have to do more typing than you'd like, but at least you've removed the risk of an accident, which is the _most_ important thing.

(For example, in Rust, if you add a new branch to an enum and forget to update one of its match statements, the compiler complains about the one you missed.)

I feel as if there ought to be a nice intermediate acronym for that state of affairs, so you can say "Weeell, it's not as DRY as I'd like, but at least it's only MOIST." Or DAMP, or HUMID or something.

"Match Or Interpreter Spots Trouble"?
"Disallow Almost-Matching Programs"?
"Holler Unless Many Instances Dovetail"?

Not sure about any of those. The last one in particular seems especially "you resorted to a thesaurus, didn't you?".

I've got enough pending accessibility-related PRs on my Godot fork such that the editor is almost pleasant to use. Made the scene tree labeled and usable, fixed tab bar navigation so it wraps and doesn't just dump focus wherever if you mistakenly arrow past a tab border, added regions/landmarks to major editor areas so you know where you are, labeled more unlabeled weirdness.

Going to spend the next week mostly hacking on this before switching back to more "productive" work. It might be about time to start working on making the tilemap and audio editors accessible.

I have this crazy idea that it might actually be easier to rewrite and finish System Fault in Godot than to keep up with the perpetual Bevy churn, along with trying to create pathfinding and other systems entirely from scratch and without seeing the results. Even if I rewrote by hand rather than leaning on gen AI, I can drop bunches of buggy pathfinding/visibility code and just focus on the gameplay itself. I'd often said that System Fault could be done already if I could have used an actual, production-ready game engine to build it. I guess soon we'll see.

And to be clear, none of this is a slam on Bevy which has been great. It's just been a huge lift maintaining bunches of code that does what other engines do out of the box, plus keeping up with the inevitable changes caused by building on third-party libraries to make my life easier, then rebuilding when those libraries go away. Bevy will get there eventually, but not on a timeline that has me finishing this thing anytime soon.

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Asking for help! My wife is currently locked out of most digital services due to her phone being broken, and all passwords being in #bitwarden . The bitwarden webapp doesn't help because it asks a verification code, sent on an email which password is.. in bitwarden.
What can we do?

#askfedi #HelpRequest

Whoop! FOSDEM travel and hotel booked. See you in Brussels at the end of January?

#fosdem #fosdem26

Let 2026 be the year where UI designers

- stop hiding which window has focus. It used be done well in 1984
- stop stealing fucking click. If I dismiss one of you fucking dialog the click should not be passed down
- start serving user, and I don't mean in a cookbook way

Когда я была ещё маленьким аутёнком и не понимала людей, я решила прочесть одну из книг-инструкций Дейла Карнеги.
Прочла.
Из всех советов помню единственный: подумали что-то хорошее о человеке — скажите ему.

В подростковом возрасте следовать совету для меня было почти невозможно, но со временем получилось. И всем хорошо: человеку — от комплимента, а тебе — от его радости.

В итоге, понимать людей мне помогли не инструкции, а тонны прочитанной художественной литературы и внимательное наблюдение за окружающими. Так что мало кто разглядит во мне того аутёнка теперь. (А он есть.)

Alternatives européennes et open source aux GAFAM
En 2025, plusieurs alternatives européennes et open source aux GAFAM se distinguent, notamment pour répondre aux enjeux de souveraineté numérique, de respect de la vie privée et de conformité au RGPD.
https://www.mapao.net/actualites-web/982-alternatives-européennes-et-open-source-aux-gafam.html

#opensource #logiciellibre #europe #RGPD

I’ve just gotten culture shock.

Those of you keeping track will know that I did a Christmas market tour early December last year. I ended up downloading the Karlsruhe transit authority’s (KVV) app and buying a day ticket or two off them.

These days I’m more familiar with German transit ticketing, so I haven’t used the KVV app since then.

And today I have received this SMS, telling me they’re going to delete my account soon.

…

⁃ A company that is systematically deleting accounts after a year?
⁃ That takes their data protection responsibilities seriously?
⁃ That proactively informs their data subjects with plenty of time to cope?
⁃ That doesn’t do so using dark marketing patterns that try to guilt me into staying?
⁃ Or upsell me?
⁃ Or trick me into clicking somewhere as the only way to exercise my rights?

I am agog. My flabber is truly ghasted.

Genuinely, this sort of attitude needs to be praised. It’s been 10 years since GDPR, and this sort of thing is still that rare.

You might not notice it in your peer group, when you are not their age, but my daughter showed me that many 20-30yr olds are switching to dumb phones, are cancelling their Facebook/tiktok/twitter accounts and are discovering libraries and printed books. As a conscious decision. Not all of them, but quite a lot and it's growing.

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Hey guys, I am reviewing delta chat as a signal alternative. Does anyone have any best practices recommendations?

So far I like that you can add all of your devices under one profile so we don’t need the separate phone numbers silliness signal has

#deltachat

Please remember the 6-2-1 rule:

6 hours of sleep
2 warm meals
1 shower

Per day.
Not per Congress.

Please don't overwork yourself. If you feel exhausted, please take a break. Pease don't hesitate to call us via DECT 1023 at any time to sign out of a shift if you can't make it or feel uncomfortable for any reason.

P.S.: Drink more water!

#39C3

While some people on our team are enjoying the opportunity of learning a lot more things about postgresql, in the meantime here's a rendered version of the map of the event as of the evening of December 24th:

#39c3

26 years ago, on December 28 1999, we migrated the main #curl source code from self-hosted to Sourceforge.

It was the new hot thing. Imagine the idea of a dedicated service devoted to nothing but hosting code!

We then kept the code there for ten years (on CVS). A period when the distributed version control systems really exploded.

I'll be at CCH again starting in about 30ish minutes until ~18:45 or so.

Call/write me, if you want to say hi or goodbye! 😊

#39c3

Die #DB_Bahn sollte sich lieber mal fragen, wieso Menschen mit Rollstuhl 'verladen' werden müssen - wär sie nämlich #barrierefei gäbs das Problem nämlich nicht.

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Mal abgesehen davon, dass Menschen mit Hilfebedarf aufgrund fehlender #Barrierefreiheit ja nicht mal spontan reisen können sondern sich vorher erstmal beim Mobilitätservice anmelden müssen.

Der nach meinem letzten Kenntnisstand eine kostenpflichtige Rufnummer hat.

#Inklusion ist ein Menschenrecht

„Maximal respektlos“: DB-Durchsage enthüllt grundlegendes Problem in Deutschland

Eine Durchsage der Deutschen Bahn zur Verspätung eines ICEs sorgt für Empörung im Netz. Nicht wegen der Verzögerung – sondern wegen der Begründung.

^www.fr.de

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