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.
#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-…
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…annas-archive.li
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…
Self-hosting Postgres is simpler and cheaper than managed services suggest, with comparable reliability and better performance tunability.pierce.dev
Don't let your Wi-Fi get in your way.Gaurav Sharma (How-To Geek)
Focus groups indicate that insurance companies have to annoy the shit out of you several times a game just to break through the noise.
That’s why I’m not just Peyton Manning, I’m _also_ IRRITATIN’ Manning
Awww, someone made a badge for me for 39c3.
You can get it by getting hugged by Foxbrush!
(For people uncomfortable with hugs but who want the badge regardless, I can of course make exceptions, but the badge name and description do say you got a Foxbrush hug)
#39c3
Hey, budds. Just a reminder that it's that time of year when we all try to be just a little happier and leave the negative bullshit behind for a while?
like... I've seen so so much whining just on my home tl the last few days and to be perfectly blunt, some of yall really need a reason to smile.
Please stop fighting each other. please stop being so radically opinionated that you can't have a conversation with any level of nuance. Please just walk away if people aren't serving you anymore. Please stop.
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Kwanzaa Facts
1. Kwanzaa is a made up holiday.
2. So is every other holiday.
3. Anyone can celebrate Kwanzaa.
4. It was created by Black, (mostly American and Christian*) people in the 1970s to celebrate Black history and the influence of African culture in the African diaspora and to assert the presence of Black people in US culture.
5. Most Black Americans don't celebrate Kwanzaa.
6. It is not a holiday tied to any particular religion.
Das ist immer eine Empfehlung wert. 😊
Ich will auch mal bei der lokalen Bibliothek schauen. Falls sie es noch nicht haben, werde ich fragen, ob sie es ins Sortiment aufnehmen, wenn ich es ihnen schenke.
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Tuta #Wrapped2025: How we fought #ChatControl ⚔️
✅ Published an open letter
✅ Made noise on social media
✅ Wrote directly to politicians
✅ Gave interviews
And finally convinced politicians that #encryption must not be broken. 🔐🎉
Check out what happened in 2025, and stay tuned for the 2026 fight against #AgeVerification ✊
Just read from a #ccc toot that German Bundestag is ... Aagaaaiin ... Trying to bring IP collection / storing into discussion... While all the previous attempts have been ruled illegal by highest German court
Raging headache, left ear is just about completely blocked.
Hey, I know. Let's get on an airplane during one of the busiest travel days of the year!
Yes, what a fantastic idea!
Today is going to be so much fun, I can tell.
It's definitely been an interesting time here at LGA.
TSA was being extra slow and TSA-ish today. I had a Ubiquiti U6 Mesh access point in my suitcase, which looks suspiciously like an aerosol can, so they had pointed questions about that.
Then, the gate for my flight changed five times. First, it was gate 30, then 31, back to 30, then 18, then 29.
So I'm sitting here at gate 29 hoping for the best.
I should be boarding in a few minutes, so there is still time for a couple more gate changes just for fun.
Adventní countdown dnes doběhl, Stromečkovice jsou za rohem, takže nám nezbývá, než vám popřát pěkné Vánoce, pod jedli hodně investičních paměťových modulů a do nového roku rychlé internetové připojení.
Slibujeme, že i příští rok budeme u nás na OSCLOUD makat na lepším a svobodnějším pracovním i zábavním prostředí na internetu!
@archos @cynik_obecny
@schmaker
"In Zen Buddhism an action is considered good when it brings happiness and well-being to oneself and others, evil when it brings suffering and harm to oneself and others."
– Thich Thien-An
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Thien-An #ThichThien-An
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China cracked the US ‘super code’ that controls most power grids in the world. Breakthrough could shake-up global tech markets with nations able to run their own grids and break away from US dominance. 🎉
In addition to achieving an average computational efficiency that surpasses leading American solvers by 14 per cent, Tianquan’s computational error is also 23 per cent lower than that of US solvers and the computational stability is 21 per cent superior.
Trump lifts more sanctions on Putin:
This time companies delivering equipment to Putin’s war machine get taken off the US sanctions list.
You read that right: In the oval office sits a president who wants to help companies delivering equipment to the Russian military.
I truly hope the American people stop the Russian collaborator at the midterm elections in 2026.
euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/19…
Treasury dropped sanctions on Cyprus, Dubai, Turkish, and Finnish firms tied to Russian military supplies - without explanation.Benjamin Murdoch (Euromaidan Press)
OSCloud je komunitní, open-source a bez reklam.
Běží díky lidem, kteří chtějí svobodné a soukromí respektující služby.
🎄 Vánoce jsou dobrá chvíle zastavit se a podpořit projekty, které dávají smysl.
👉 Pokud vám OSCloud dává smysl, zvažte finanční podporu.
Pomůžete udržet infrastrukturu a rozvoj služeb pro všechny.
oscloud.cz/co-to-bude-stat/
#oscloud #opensource
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@pluralistic Every business is a bank now
Sorry your Iphone is bricked until you pay up
techcrunch.com/2025/12/18/appl…
Apple says it can now collect any money a developer owes the tech giant at any time.Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)
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Does anyone have a copy of “Porting Xenix to the Unmapped 8086” by Hare and Thomas? Proceedings of the Winter USENIX Conference 1984.
C’mon. I know one of you has to have a copy.
In the first draft of the Black Mirror episode for this scenario, a Waymo exec has a medical crisis and the ambulance can't get there on time because the streets are choked with Waymos.
In the final script, Waymo invites PG&E employees to their blowout holiday party, with free Waymo pickups. Most of the staff is in those Waymos when the power goes out; they're stuck all over the city, unable to solve the problem.
The episode is called "Vendor Lock-In"
sfba.social/@fadersolo/1157553…
SF’s is having a massive power outage. We ended up having to drive across SF to find a laundromat to dry our soaking wet laundry. Here’s my two observations: every third block is a traffic jam caused by a confused Waymo that doesn’t know how to handle these intersections with no power. Why are the Waymo’s even allowed to drive right now?Also, considering how much of our city’s budget goes to the cops, why aren’t any of them directing traffic? I mean, it’s not like SFPD is busy solving crime…
#SanFrancisco #Waymo #AI #Doom edit: I’m adding #WayMogeddon
SF’s is having a massive power outage. We ended up having to drive across SF to find a laundromat to dry our soaking wet laundry. Here’s my two observations: every third block is a traffic jam caused by a confused Waymo that doesn’t know how to handle these intersections with no power. Why are the Waymo’s even allowed to drive right now?
Also, considering how much of our city’s budget goes to the cops, why aren’t any of them directing traffic? I mean, it’s not like SFPD is busy solving crime…
#SanFrancisco #Waymo #AI #Doom edit: I’m adding #WayMogeddon
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