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For a while, in my life, even numbered years were less preferable than odd numbered ones in that less bad stuff tended to happen in my life during odd numbered years. At some point, this changed. Now, they all just seem to suck equally, with a couple of exceptions. This year and 2019, so far, have been the two top worst for me in general terms, with 2019 edging out in a few fundamental respects.

I don't even bother being hopeful anymore. Come what may, and all that.

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Karen Sandler

And while we're pausing from questions, I'd be a bad Executive Director if I didn't mention that we still have $92,680 left in our match challenge! Until 1/15 (or until we've reached the $251,939 challenge amount), donations count twice.

I've been inundated with emails today, saying that there are only hours left to donate in 2025! I won't be so theatrical, but I will say it's a very good time to donate to #SFC. We'll use the funds as wisely as possible towards our mission of software freedom.

#sfc

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> Even it were possible, changing from a one-hour to a four-hour confirmation would have significant negative impacts on the Bitcoin ecosystem.

how? What negative impact? The Bitcoin blockchain is a payment rails, not a trading platform. On-chain trading does not have to happen; only final settlement. Layers have been built on top of it for a long time now because even 1 hour sucks for some use cases.

It's like pretending that when you trade stocks they're in your name. No they're not, unless you purchase them and they're direct registered. When you're on eTrade, Vanguard, etc trading stocks they're just changing values in a database inside that company. If you want to direct register your MSFT stocks that you're holding on eTrade it's going to take several days (near a week last I saw) for that to "settle" too.

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Billionaires with $1 salaries
– and other legal tax dodges the ultrawealthy use to keep their riches

Billionaires can enjoy growing wealth entirely free of income tax and reporting

Mark Zuckerberg was the lowest-paid employee at Meta in 2024,
and he made US$1.

But he is not the only very rich person who has collected $1 for a year’s work.

Why would incredibly rich CEOs make only $1 a year when they could pay themselves millions?

The reason is taxes.

Income from work is the most heavily taxed type of income,
as it is subject to both income and payroll taxes.

A self-employed person who makes a modest income of $60,000 will pay over $13,000 of it in payroll and income taxes.

Meanwhile, high-income earners who earn a $400,000 salary can pay about 30% of their income in payroll and income taxes.

So the first step in avoiding taxes is avoiding salary,
and that is what our richest Americans often do.

salon.com/2025/12/28/billionai…


Billionaires with $1 salaries – and other legal tax dodges the ultrawealthy use to keep their riches

Billionaires can enjoy growing wealth entirely free of income tax and reporting.
Ray Madoff (Salon.com)
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> A self-employed person who makes a modest income of $60,000 will pay over $13,000 of it in payroll and income taxes.

oh this is easy, register a single-member LLC and pay yourself a salary of only $20,000. You only do the full payroll taxes on that $20k, and the remaining $40k you can take as equity disbursements

if you get a good accountant they'll coach you through this

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apparently someone or something is trying to screw with my server

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Please Fund My Continued Accessibility Work on GNOME!

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#Accessibility #a11y #GNOME #GTK #GTK4


Please Fund My Continued Accessibility Work on GNOME!

I have been under distress lately due to personal circumstances that are outside my control. I cannot find a permanent job that allows me to function, I am not eligible for government benefits, my grant proposals to work on free and open-source proje…
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#a11y #Accessibility #gnome #gtk #GTK4

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I played quite a bit Slay The Spire this year too, since I was able to pick up the SayTheSpire mod and add support for Downfall and fix some other things as well. The original dev also merged my changes, and its great to give something back to the community. I also played a bit Doki Doki Literature Club and Sequence Storm this year, as well as Final Fantasy VI and IX, which i'm also looking forward to playing more in the future. 15/X

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Numbers and algorithms are so messed up for my brain.
I have a YouTube channel with 97K subscribers and if I publish a video that does below 1K it feels like a failure, even tho I get dozens of positive comments, I'm proud of the video, and I had fun during the time I spent making it.
Fuck numbers and algorithms, dude.
I need to go back to how I was pre-internet, just making things for my own pleasure, and being happy if only a handful of people like it

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Welp ... I was just informed through a Slack DM that I will no longer be working at the place I'm working at in two weeks' time. That is, evidently, how we handle that now. Not entirely unexpected as the writing on the wall was evident, but still not loving that approach for reasons I haven't quite worked out yet.
If anyone needs help with their #accessibility from someone with both native #screenReader experience and a coding background, keep me in mind I guess :)
Located in the eastern Netherlands, primarily interested in remote opportunities.
#fediHired #layoffs
#Accessibility #screenreader #fedihired #layoffs
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It's both sad and refreshing to see that "made by people" is now considered a wonderful and welcome surprise.

Public Rejoices as Porsche Releases Beautiful Ad Not Made Using AI share.google/RVC3BhA404ciJWZnR


Public Rejoices as Porsche Releases Beautiful Ad Not Made Using AI

Porsche made the incredibly bold decision of releasing an ad that seemingly isn't made with AI, and the internet rejoiced.
Frank Landymore (Futurism)

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Okay, I am thinking about doing Jamuary this year, but maybe with a twist? Would any of you mutuals be interested in creating a prompt for me?

This could be anything, with the stipulation YOU create it. A text prompt of any kind; a visual score; a drawing, painting or photograph; a set of instructions such as tempo, key, timbres, etc; a brief sound recording for me to react to or even incorporate; a mood board or collage; etc/et al.

So, does that interest anyone?

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Just had a great 3 hours music session with @ZBennoui, going through my recently installed ample guitar, and coming so far with a project of mine on which he's been helping me, that now I can finally resume some work on it myself! Yes, that old forgotten instrumental I posted once upon a time in july. Either way as a little shoutout, this ongoing cooperation is amazing looking back and listening to the first tracks, comparing them to what we have now. Really appreciate your help man!
@Zach Bennoui
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Welcome trxvorr as #curl commit author 1427: github.com/curl/curl/pull/2010…

digest: fix OWS and escaped quote handling by trxvorr · Pull Request #20102 · curl/curl

The migration to the strparse API introduced regressions in Digest authentication parsing where Optional Whitespace (OWS) after commas was not skipped, and escaped quotes in values were not correct...
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We should talk about Werner Koch's response gpg.fail on the oss-security mailing list.

openwall.com/lists/oss-securit…

Yes, and actually the only serious bug from their list.


Koch either didn't watch the talk, he is in such defense of his own ego that he can't see how serious the bugs were, or he's tacitly admitting that PGP is not a serious recommendation.

Can you distinguish between these three explanations?

Could it be all of them are true?

Impact

While this may allow remote code execution (RCE), it definitively causes memory corruption.


Good research.


I think this sarcastic quip is what reveals Werner Koch's opinion about the security researchers and their work.

The rest of his email is measured (and partly responding to other mailing list participants rather than the disclosure directly).

gpg.fail

gpg.fail

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One of my favorite "Star Sightings" was one my ex-wife had. She and her boyfriend at the time went to a Broadway show. Sitting in front of them was Patrick Stewart. My ex says to her boyfriend, that's Patrick Stewart. He replied, not it's not. At intermission Patrick Stewart turned around and said to her boyfriend in his baritone voice, "But he is."

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I've discovered this gem only today! #Music #Hebrew #Kaveret #כוורת youtube.com/watch?v=zAaHhoNMXS…

כוורת - היא כל כך יפה

ללהיטים הגדולים של כוורת להאזנה ברצף:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHxYIcFyBVwמילים: דני סנדרסוןלחן: יצחק קלפטרהיא כל כך יפה זה צובט בלב שלך, אך בכאב עצום....
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#music #hebrew #kaveret #כוורת
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