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The latest two paintings are now with the framer, so I get to celebrate. Trying out linocut for the first time since my childhood. Turns out that I don't have the right kind of ink for printing, and that means I go back to the art supply store tomorrow! #arttherapy #MastoArt #linocut #printmaking

At the top, U.S.-China tensions run hot. Inside government offices, things look familiar. A new analysis shows bureaucrats on both sides respond to the same pressures and manage difficulties in similar ways.https://theconversation.com/2-superpowers-1-playbook-why-chinese-and-us-bureaucrats-think-and-act-alike-266305

🔥 take: Mozilla’s challenge isn’t leadership or AI. Virtually no one wants to “browse” or to have a “browser”. They want to search, scroll, or use a webapp—if they think about the renderer’s UX something has gone wrong. So as long as Moz self-identifies as a “browser company”, they’ll lose.

Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/16/trump-dismantle-national-center-atmospheric-research-climate/87798771007

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Fundamentally, a boundary is a clear line between you and others. So yes, that can look like setting limits on how you will be treated. And yes, that can look like not internalizing others’ expectations of you (real or not). But it *also* looks like not imposing your expectations on others. It also looks like not policing others’ feelings, experiences, values, and behaviors.

A volte non resta che constatare l'amarezza delle cose, e trangugiare quest'erba amara

it's truly amazing what LLMs can achieve. we now know it's possible to produce an html5 parsing library with nothing but the full source code of an existing html5 parsing library, all the source code of all other open source libraries ever, a meticulously maintained and extremely comprehensive test suite written by somebody else, 5 different models, a megawatt-hour of energy, a swimming pool full of water, and a month of spare time of an extremely senior engineer

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@squinky huh! You can put the Markdown in a `source` property on the Note, instead.

Memory at the Speed of LightLook inside a science fiction computer, and you’ll probably see tubes and cubes that emit light. Of course, it’s for effect, but the truth is, people do think light computing may be the final frontier of classical computing power. Engineers at the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute and the University of Wisconsin-Madison are showing off a workable photonic latch — a memory element that uses light.The device uses a commercial process (GlobalFoundries (GF) Fotonix Silicon Photonics platform) and, like a DRAM, regenerates periodically to prevent loss of the memory contents.On the device, you’ll find a combination of tiny photodiodes, micro-ring resonators, and optical waveguides. Simulations show the memory element can operate at 20 GHz and might even be readable at 50 or 60 GHz.If you want to dive deeper, the work is based on a paper from earlier in the year.hackaday.com/2025/12/16/memory…

@Em0nM4stodon this feels like a victory for some reason

I don't want AI in my browser, I just want the #RSS icon in the address bar to come back. I liked that.#Firefox

it sucks that the only real browser options currently are firefox and its forks, different flavors of chromium, and safari if you're in the apple ecosystemif you're keen on something different, consider giving servo a boost - it's still in early dev but it'll be refreshing to have a new browser engine up and about https://servo.org/

I made oatmeal raisin cookies. Or, rather, a giant single cookie that I had to cut into 24 irregular pieces. They taste great, though!

PRACTICAL ENGINEERING: So here's a video about sawing a dam in half on purposeME: Oh please let there be some wonderful bullshit hereGRADY: So the short version is that the concrete got cancerME: GOD I love this channel

When they said FreeBSD 15 was now easier to install, they weren’t wrong. Here it is up and running on a Lenovo Thinkpad. Wifi works, trackpad works, setting up X11 was easy. Pretty impressed really. #freebsd

today’s “tales from the #enshitocene”… 😩 we’re at a rental property for our honeymoon! 🎉🎉🎉 👰‍♀️👰‍♀️🐶 🚣‍♀️🐶🚣‍♀️ (that’s not the #enshittified part 🤪) the house has a “smart” (🙄) TV – so far I’ve removed 3 previous still-logged-in Google account profiles, disabled analytics & “data sharing” in three different places, turned off all the Google / Alexa integration bullshit (especially the microphone wake word!), etc., etc. 😩 but at least one profile is still “remembered” somewhere in the settings, since if you open the “set up Google assistant” page (to make sure everything’s turned off), it “helpfully” pre-fills the account box with the email of one of the (obviously-not-really-)deleted accounts (I’ll probably email that person & let them know that I’ve logged out of their account for them & suggest that maybe they should do that themselves next time they log in to their account on some rando’s TV… 🤪) and of course, despite us def never logging in to any apps on some rando’s TV & only running stuff on our own laptops connected via HDMI, we still run the risk of the TV snitching on us via totally undisclosed & in-opt-outable #AutomatedContentRecognition (#ACR) tech – this particular TV is a #TCL one, one of the brands named in a new #lawsuit in… ✷checks notes✷ …#Texas (😳 but also 🎉) more of this #RegulatoryAction pls! 🤜💥🤛‬ Attor­ney Gen­er­al Pax­ton Sues Five Major TV Com­pa­nies, Includ­ing Some with Ties to the CCP, for Spy­ing on Texans https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-general-paxton-sues-five-major-tv-companies-including-some-ties-ccp-spying-texans#enshittification /ping @pluralistic 👋

Another of my wife’s #watercolor winterscapes.