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Happy New Year's eve! I am off until Monday so can read and just relax.
My nail tech rescheduled my appointment and I got my nails done last night instead of this Saturday which makes me happy. My nails have a magnetic polish undercoat of blue with a little pattern and a blue sparkle overlay. They are very festive.
Tonight we'll go out for an early dinner of Thai food and then I'll just read until I get tired. Maybe I'll make it til midnight, maybe I won't! Smile.

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Some friends who live down the street from me asked if I'd install Pi-hole on their network after seeing how flawlessly it works here. So, earlier this week, I brought a Raspberry Pi over to their place that i'd configured here. I assigned a static IP address once it was on their network, and it was off to the races. The most difficult part is working with ISP-supplied equipment and the limitations therein. Lots of fun manual configuration of DNS and the like.

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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.

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#foss @Mastodon @OpenStreetMap @Chaphasilor @Oscloud @Konference OpenAlt @VHSky.cz @FreshRSS

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Pues para terminar bien el año con una muy buena noticia: ya tenemos disponible en la App Store para iPhone mi última aplicación para leer libros: Vox libri apps.apple.com/us/app/vox-libr…

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Download Vox libri by Jonatan Chacon Barbero on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like Vox libri.
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i'm sick and tired of things changing that I normally wouldn't care about. I don't wanna hear anything new about a ball drop or whatever, or my friends changing their plans last minute, or me not being able to do such and such or go wherever all the sudden even though I've planned for it to happen for a long period of time, I just want stuff to go as planned for five minutes I'm begging and pleading at this point I wanna finish my holiday break off at a good note and things aren't looking so good

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my mom is helping me with my social media for my dj business advertising or whatever and I told her that I would prefer not to have an Instagram page because I don't agree with Instagram. we wanted to put emphasis on the fact that I'm blind so we can add some value for people hiring me and Instagram is a purely visual app and so I feel like it would be kind of counterproductive. so do you think that that's reasonable? because she told me that that's how I would get more advertising, and she knows what's best, and I need to expand outreach, but then again it's also my business that I'm running and I do not like Instagram as a platform
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Jonathan

I think Instagram is kinda the Mastodon or Elten for Gen Z. It's difficult to describe, but yeah I think that a lot music-related stuff is also going on there, like artists connecting with their fans, posting stuff to their story, etc. People will probably check it more frequently or rather, specifically see your content if they follow you through the story rather than you know, dumb scrolling on TikTok or shorts. So I think for something like that IG might actually be useful, but I dislike Meta personally and have no account anymore. But there's the question whether you wanna stand with your values or try to gain attention. Since you guys use Meta anyway I guess go for it. I know several blind people using IG.

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Am I the only one literally doing nothing on new Year’s Eve? like even considering just sleeping through like usual. The typical person spends this with their family, friends, or whatever sort of group, but honestly I'm not that kind of family person, my parents are going to friends but I don't see myself sitting around and eating for hours so well. Guess wasting my time nerding around in front of this computer, and recording some fireworks later. You know I'm actually bored of my own words at this point, I'm really not trying to make this sound like self-compassion all the time, but well, what can I say. It is how it is. I'm stuck in a weird state between hoping for 26, and not wanting to be naive and knowing stuff will probably stay the same.
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Tech Singer

It's just another night. I don't do alcohol, am not big on people past a few who I already see daily, and like a quiet life. With respect, the only thing I would disagree with you on is that it's a bad thing. I'm sure many people love different ways of celebrating, and that's absolutely great, I'm all in favor of celebration/joy/pleasure. I hope everyone who enjoys partying does it for days and remembers it for decades. I'm overjoyed to see people happy doing that sort of thing. It just doesn't make me particularly happy to do it myself.

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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...
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#FreeSoftware #linux #opensource #debian #gnome #linuxmint #Flatpak #ubuntu #lts #qa #maintainerlife #gnomecalendar #bugreporting

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Kennt sich hier jemand mit GitHub Repositories aus? Ich habe eine Readme Datei für mein Projekt hochgeladen, bei welcher allerdings alle mit Markup formatierten Überschriften nicht angezeigt werden, lediglich die Steuerzeichen werden dem Text vorangestellt und die Formatierung nicht umgewandelt. Was mache ich denn da falsch? github.com/DO9RE/OpenGD77Melod…

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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.

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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!

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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.

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"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.

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Chris Ammerman

The longer I think about this the more convinced I am that use of LLMs for software development is just offshoring 3.0.

Businesses are making a poorly-considered decision that if you can do things fast enough quality doesn't matter. The theory goes that you can ship crap as long as you can ship it fast, and you can ship fixes fast.

The problem is, when you ship crap, you *can't* ship fixes fast. That's literally what makes the product crap.

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On the last day of the year we want to say ♥️ THANK YOU ♥️ for all your support for DAVx⁵! It's been an awesome year and 2026 will be no less for sure 😃 . Thank you for donating to our project, spreading the word and most importantly for using DAVx⁵!

(And if you already donated through our in-app badges function [only available in the Google Play version] you can now consume badges to buy the badges again if you like 🎉😁 ).

See you all in 2026!

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Yllätin itseni sillä, ettei GtS:ssä ole enempää käyttöliittymää kuin ehdoton, adminointiin vaadittava minimi, ja se nojaa enemmän mastodon-yhteensopivaan apiin ja sille tehtyihin sovelluksiin.

Joten luulen, että oon nyt kiinnostunut mastodon-ios-sovelluksista joissa on päällä merkintä siitä, että toimivat myös macbookilla.

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I still find it a bit odd that Udbhav Tiwari and Meredith Whittaker (@Mer__edith) stormed off the stage at #39C3 with ~20 minutes left in their slot without answering any questions. I always think of Chaos events as being among equals, and a Q&A after your presentation is just part of that. But I guess if you are earning close to $1 million a year, you are a bit more equal than others.

I’m wondering if this was prearranged with the organizers and/or the Herold in that session.

#39c3 @Meredith Whittaker

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If you use a Mac computer with MacOS 14 (Sonoma), 15 (Sequoia) or 26 (Tahoe), you can maybe help me test Gajim (a cool XMPP client) for MacOS!

You can follow instructions on this page and then tell me if it's working (or not):
lithio.fr/gajim/

For now I can only build a x86_64 (Intel) dmg.

Boost can help understanding if a version built on MacOS 14 also work on MacOS 15 and 26 :D

Thanks for your help!

#MacOS #XMPP

Lithio - Gajim for MacOS

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