Question to screen reader users, just because I'm curious:

If I write using the occasional homophone, perhaps to make a pun, is that something that is completely lost to you, unless something clues you in to the fact that there might be spelling shenanigans going on?

For example, if I had posted the other day, "I can't wait to see Santa's slay!", would you just have assumed that that last word was "sleigh", and never noticed that it was "slay"? #accessibility #ScreenReaders

On this last day of the year, I want to congratulate France for its termination of the ARENH law 🥳

This law, in full "Accès régulé à l'électricité nucléaire historique" or "Regulated access to historic nuclear electricity" was a law that was introduced in 2010 by the then French government under president Sarkozy, that ostensibly aimed to introduce an "energy market" in France.

It worked like this: EDF was forced to make available 100 TWh annually to third party companies that could buy this for a mere 4 cents per kWh. These companies then sold it for "market prices" to consumers. You'd be correct to think that this was a massive forced subsidy by EDF to create its own competition.

To add insult to injury EDF was then forced to buy back the energy that these companies couldn't sell, 𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘴.

Over the period that this law was in effect, from July 2011 to today, EDF accrued tens of billions of debt. Now that this law is expiring EDF can finally raise their prices, from 4 to 7 cents per kWh, and start investing again in new nuclear builds and pay off that debt.

It is perhaps hard to ascertain the intent of the lawmakers back in 2010, but this type of law would be ideal if you wanted to kill the nuclear sector, which almost succeeded!

Fortunately, this nightmare is now over and we now live in a world where the French value their nuclear assets and are set to expand it by building up to 14 more large reactors in the coming years.

Adieu ARENH 👋

More info on this law:

cre.fr/electricite/marche-de-g…

Accès régulé à l'électricité nucléaire historique (ARENH)

Le dispositif de l’accès régulé à l’électricité nucléaire historique (ARENH) a été instauré par la loi n° 2010-1488 du 7 décembre 2010 portant nouvelle organisation du marché de l’électricité (dite loi « NOME »).

^CRE

The whole point of society - all of this - is so that we are all enriched together, that collectively our lives should be better. We invented farms so folks wouldn’t starve.

But a couple thousand years ago a few assholes decided that personal enrichment is the most important thing. For the most part, we’re still going along with that bullshit.

The only way we survive is if we move back to shared enrichment. This coming year, think carefully about how you’re spending your money and labor.

#microsoft just sent me an email telling me an alert in Microsoft Defender needed my attention.
The alert was that my pc is fine, but that I'm able to protect 4 more devices.

I have a question ... DO YOU WANT PEOPLE TO GET HACKED? Don't throw false positives at users like that, the f*** is wrong with you? #adpocalypse

I just noticed Deque changed its logo from the combined ‘D’ and ‘Q’ letterform (visually representing the pronunciation) to the ‘AI’ anus (or “AInus”) of the big LLM purveyors.

I bet this was for Deque’s 100% WCAG ‘AI’ coverage, which must be getting released today to honor its March promise.

As the year is closing by, I thought I will donate to the FOSS projects I'm using regularly. I chose 10 non-commercial projects to which I donated 10$ (or 10€) each, here is the list with a brief explanation:
- @Mastodon
- @openstreetmap
- Obtanium (github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium) - manage apps on GrapheneOS
- @freshrss - self-hosted RSS feed aggregator
- Read You (github.com/ReadYouApp/ReadYou) - RSS reader for Android
- Finamp (github.com/jmshrv/finamp/), @chaphasilor specifically - amazing Android client for Jellyfin media library
- Aegis (github.com/beemdevelopment/aeg…) - 2FA auth app for Android
- RethinkDNS (github.com/celzero/rethink-app) - intelligent DNS manager, VPN and Firewall for Android
- Syncthing (github.com/syncthing) - file synchronization app
- ntfy (github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy) - push notifications service I can self-host

Additionally I sent 10€ to @oscloud. I don't use their services regularly, but I like what they do (and enjoyed this years @openalt_konference streaming through @vhsky).

Thank to all working on #FOSS and making this world a better place!

GitHub - ImranR98/Obtainium: Get Android app updates straight from the source.

Get Android app updates straight from the source. Contribute to ImranR98/Obtainium development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

Going to FOSDEM? Matrix enthusiast? There will be plenty of opportunity to see us!

Between the Decentralised Comm Devroom, our booth, and our hackathon, we will be here in full force!

matrix.org/blog/2025/12/fosdem…

FOSDEM Update

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

^{Thib (matrix.org)}

FLOSS #MaintainerLife public service advisory:
If you're filing a potential bug upstream in #GNOME, particularly on rapidly-improving apps like GNOME Calendar, please test the latest version, unmodified by third-parties. #Flatpak helps.

Don't come at me with a 4-years-old version cowboy-patched against our will by #Linux distros like Mint; I will send you downstream, like this: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-c…

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #QA #bugreporting #LinuxMint #Debian #Ubuntu #LTS #GNOMECalendar

Problems showing CalDAV event series with a modification with THISANDFUTURE set (#1526) · Issues · GNOME / gnome-calendar · GitLab

Affected version: 41.2 on Linux Mint 22 (Wilma) Bug summary A calendar event with...

^GitLab

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I'm searching for my boykisser pride flag that I forgot to remove on day 4. In the morning of day 5 it was already gone, and unfortunately L&F doesn't have it. It is marked with my name (bluemedia) and I would be thankful if it found its way back to me!

Boosts welcome

#39c3 #lostandfound

I don't watch Linus Tech Tips. I'm not subscribed to their channel. I have, however, watched enough of their videos that the algorithm still sends me notifications about new videos.

Recently, there was something about a $2000 gaming PC. My first cynical thought was that it's just a short where Linus holds up a RAM stick, and it cuts to black.

UNIFI, 3 hours ago, jt: WiFi Impersonation Detected , U6 Mesh detected a third-party AP broadcasting UniFi Wireless on channel 153 with a signal strength of 39.

Hey, fool, that's another UniFi access point. Come on, you should know better than that. It's on the same controller and everything. Figure out your crap!

The age-old question has plagued the tribes of men since the dawn of time. Since the first fire was coaxed from stone and the first shadow learned to move without owner. What endures, and what is merely passing?

I stand once again at the threshold of a another new year, watching mortals perform their small rituals of hope. They raise glasses, kiss strangers, make promises they will forget before the snow melts. They count time as if it were a thing that belongs to them. For me, it is only weather.

I am the undying vampire, older than men, older than the trees, younger only than the bare rocks of the mountains. I have watched those rocks split and tumble, have seen forests rise where seas once slept. I feed on the blood of the innocent and renew myself eternally, while generations flare and fade like sparks.

In medieval Hungary I was Szmilágyi the Impaler, feared in whispers and prayers. In Imperial China I reigned for a century as Sma Li the Terrible, my name carved into history by trembling hands. In caveman days I hunted my human prey, saddled upon a sabre-toothed Smilodon, the stars colder then, the nights longer.

Each new year arrives the same way - loud, hopeful, fragile. Another turning of a wheel that will never carry me closer to an end. I watch the fireworks bloom and die, counting neither seconds nor years, only faces. They will all be gone soon enough.

I am the undying nightmare of humankind. The clocks move. The calendars change.
I do not.

"I used Claude to make 200 pull requests last month."

That's 9 to 10 PRs per work day.

We keep hearing how it is stupid and irresponsible to take changes from a LLM without careful review by experienced developers.

You can't speak in absolutes, but generally: 9 per day is a reckless amount of PRs for one person to submit. If a project team is actually absorbing this amount of change from each developer on the team, they are rapidly paving a road to hell for themselves and their stakeholders.