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jbz

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🧙‍♂️ Software engineer turned clanka babysitter.
👨‍💻 Rust // Elixir // Python

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☠️ Vibe Coding Kills Open Source

｢ When OSS is monetized only through direct user engagement, greater adoption of vibe coding lowers entry and sharing, reduces the availability and quality of OSS, and reduces welfare despite higher productivity. Sustaining OSS at its current scale under widespread vibe coding requires major changes in how maintainers are paid ｣

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.15494v1

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Screeps: How A Game About Programming Sold Its Players a Remote Access Trojan

https://outsidetheasylum.blog/screeps/

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Private equity firms acquired more than 500 autism centers in past decade, study shows | Brown University

“It's all about the financial incentives,” Arnold said. “I worry about the same types of revenue-generating strategies seen in other private equity-backed settings. I worry about children receiving more than the clinically appropriate amount of services and worsening disparities in terms of which children have access to services.”

https://www.brown.edu/news/2026-01-07/private-equity-autism-centers

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🗓️ IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn’t taken over the world // The Register

"Migration costs, complexity, and training requirements remain high, while short-term ROI is low," Gartner distinguished VP analyst Andrew Lerner told The Register. "Performance parity across applications and devices is inconsistent, and some organizations even disable IPv6 for better performance. Lack of dual-stack support in legacy infrastructure is another barrier"

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/31/ipv6_at_30/

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Microsoft Office renamed to "Microsoft 365 Copilot app"

https://www.office.com/

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Thompson says Plan 9 "the best operating system out there" but will "never make it, ever, ever"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=EoYUZtZl02g

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How Peter Thiel Is Destroying Democracy // fern

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP7Z_Eqxhxk

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No one is coming to save you, and I mean that in a positive and encouraging tone.

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Just vote

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Before midnight you'll be visited by 3 ghosts

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｢ postmarketOS, an Alpine-based Linux distro designed to run on smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices, has published its 25.12 release ｣

https://linuxiac.com/postmarketos-25-12-brings-gnome-49-plasma-mobile-6-5-and-phosh-0-51/

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:no_nazi: The 60 Minutes report on CECOT that Bari Weiss censored is now internet contraband // @

｢ The segment lives as online samizdat now. Thanks to Weiss’ censorship, it may very well wind up being the most-talked-about CBS News story this year ｣

https://www.theverge.com/policy/849432/60-minutes-cecot-censored-canada-leak

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“If the standard for airing a story becomes ‘the government must agree to be interviewed,’ then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state,”

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Programmers reinventing the will

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🫩 Stack Overflow finally surrenders, it'll become another toxic AI landfill like Quora

https://www.webpronews.com/stack-overflow-pivots-to-overflowai-and-openai-partnership-amid-chatgpt-rise/

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Link in UEFI

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🛰️ US spy satellites built by SpaceX send signals in the “wrong direction” // @arstechnica

｢ About 170 Starshield satellites built by SpaceX for the US government’s National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) have been sending signals in the wrong direction, a satellite researcher found ｣

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/us-spy-satellites-built-by-spacex-send-signals-in-the-wrong-direction/

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🪦 Legendary game designer, programmer, Space Invaders champion, and LGBTQ trailblazer Rebecca Heineman has died

｢ Born in 1963, Heineman initially made a mark on the industry by winning a national Space Invaders tournament in 1980 in New York, becoming the first formally recognized US champion of any videogame. She went on to have a far-reaching career, being credited on 67 games according to MobyGames ｣

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/legendary-game-designer-programmer-space-invaders-champion-and-lgbtq-trailblazer-rebecca-heineman-has-died/

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I don't like hitting bystanders with a hammer, but hitting bystanders with a hammer isn't going anywhere, it's just how the world works now.

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:tux: New project brings strong Linux compatibility to more classic Windows games / Ars Technica

｢ a new open source project is seeking to extend Linux interoperability further back into PC gaming history. The d7vk project describes itself as “a Vulkan-based translation layer for Direct3D 7 [D3D7], which allows running 3D applications on Linux using Wine.” ｣

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/11/new-project-brings-strong-linux-compatibility-to-more-classic-windows-games/

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🐍 uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade - Blog - Dr. Emily L. Hunt

｢ uv is a free, open-source tool built by Astral, a small startup that has been churning out Python tools (like the excellent linter Ruff) for the past few years. uv can:

  • Install any Python version for you
  • Install packages
  • Manage virtual environments
  • Solve dependency conflicts extremely quickly (very important for big projects.) ｣


https://emily.space/posts/251023-uv

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🤬 China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show / BBC

｢ The documents she obtained showed the university "had negotiated directly with a foreign intelligence service to trade my academic freedom for access to the Chinese student market," she told the BBC ｣

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq50j5vwny6o

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:firefox: ‘A good moment in time for us’: Firefox head on AI browsers and what’s next for the web / The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/28/firefox-ai-internet-anthony-enzor-demeo

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FreeBSD Graphics Stack Developer Position | FreeBSD Foundation

｢ The FreeBSD Foundation is seeking a Graphics Stack Developer to contribute to our Laptop Support and Usability Project — a major initiative focused on enhancing the “out of the box” experience for FreeBSD users worldwide ｣

https://freebsdfoundation.org/open-positions/freebsd-graphics-stack-developer-position/

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🗺️ New OSM file format: 30% smaller than PBF, 5x faster to import

｢ we created GOB (“Geo-Object Bundle”), a new file format that makes tackling OSM data faster and easier. It’s a companion format to our now-familiar Geo-Object Library (essentially, a tightly-compressed GOL with its indexes stripped) ｣

https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/new-osm-file-format-30-smaller-than-pbf-5x-faster-to-import/137151

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｢ Dosbian is the first distro totally dedicated to the DOS world. It boots straight to Dosbox, from there, you can install whatever you want and building your ｣

https://cmaiolino.wordpress.com/dosbian/

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🤥 Leading OpenAI researcher announced a GPT-5 math breakthrough that never happened

｢ Mathematician Thomas Bloom, who runs erdosproblems com, pushed back right away. He called the statements "a dramatic misinterpretation," clarifying that "open" on his site just means he personally doesn't know the solution - not that the problem is actually unsolved. GPT-5 had only surfaced existing research that Bloom had missed ｣

https://the-decoder.com/leading-openai-researcher-announced-a-gpt-5-math-breakthrough-that-never-happened/

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🚷 The White House is already one of the most blocked accounts on Bluesky / @Techcrunch

https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/the-white-house-is-already-one-of-the-most-blocked-accounts-on-bluesky/

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💰 Reports: EA set to be sold to private investors for up to $50 billion

｢ with Silver Lake, Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF), and Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners reportedly interested in investing. The Wall Street Journal says the move "would likely be the largest leveraged buyout ever." ｣

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/09/reports-ea-set-to-be-sold-to-private-investors-for-up-to-50-billion/

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So it was a self-coup backed by a billionaire fascist after all.

｢ Shopify demanded that Ruby Central take full control of the RubyGems GitHub repositories and the bundler and rubygems-update gems, threatening to withdraw funding if Ruby Central did not comply ｣

https://joel.drapper.me/p/rubygems-takeover/

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:no_nazi: via @davidcelis

｢ I get that doing so is an incredibly difficult decision to make, but people have had years to distance themselves from this man. But they don’t, so Ruby and Rails continue to be directed by far-right sympathizers like DHH and Tobi Lütke (and their money). And all of this is allowed because Ruby and Rails have a code of conduct that purposefully falls prey to the paradox of tolerance ｣

https://davidcel.is/articles/rails-needs-new-governance

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Nintendo holds the patent for furries.

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Some thoughts on personal git hosting | @Edent

｢ I'm looking at moving my personal projects away from GitHub. I already have accounts with GitLab and CodeBerg - but both of those sites are run by someone else. While they're lovely now, there's nothing stopping them becoming as slow or AI-infested as GitHub.

So I want to host my own Git instance for my personal projects ｣

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/09/some-thoughts-on-personal-git-hosting/

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👊 Patients Furious at Therapists Secretly Using AI

"He was taking what I was saying and putting it into ChatGPT."

https://futurism.com/patients-furious-therapists-using-ai

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:akko_shrug: Godfather of AI Says His Girlfriend Broke Up With Him Using ChatGPT

"She got ChatGPT to tell me what a rat I was," he told the newspaper. "She got the chatbot to explain how awful my behaviour was and gave it to me."

https://futurism.com/godfather-ai-ex-broke-up-chatgpt

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｢ a customer seemingly crashed the system by ordering 18,000 water cups, while in another a person got increasingly angry as the AI repeatedly asked him to add more drinks to his order ｣

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgyk2p55g8o

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"Palantir's stock fell by nearly nine percent this morning"

https://futurism.com/ai-industry-nvidia-stock

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👩‍⚕️ AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study

｢ AI helped health professionals to better detect pre-cancerous growths in the colon, but when the assistance was removed, their ability to find tumors dropped by about 20% compared with rates before the tool was ever introduced, according to findings published Wednesday ｣

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-12/ai-eroded-doctors-ability-to-spot-cancer-within-months-in-study

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🤬 Microsoft bans LibreOffice developer's account without warning, rejects appeal • Neowin

｢ Recently, we reported on LibreOffice, accusing Microsoft of intentionally using complex file formats as a tactic to lock in users to Microsoft Office, hindering open source alternatives like LibreOffice.

Now, Microsoft has banned LibreOffice developer, Mike Kaganski, from using its services, citing an "activity that violates [its] Services Agreement" ｣

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-bans-libreoffice-developers-account-without-warning-rejects-appeal/

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🐧 6.16 brings faster file systems, improved confidential memory support, and more Rust support

｢ new abstractions have been integrated into the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM), particularly for ioctl handling, file/GEM memory management, and driver/device infrastructure for major GPU vendors, such as AMD, Nvidia, and Intel. These changes should reduce vulnerabilities and optimize graphics performance. This will make gamers and AI/ML developers happier ｣

https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-6-16-brings-faster-file-systems-improved-confidential-memory-support-and-more-rust-support/

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Top 50617 prompts to maximize your ChatGPT productivity

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🇺🇸 How a $2,000 'Made in the USA' Phone Is Manufactured

｢ It’s the Liberty Phone, which is made by a company called Purism. The phone is a version of Purism’s Librem 5. The Made-in-China Librem 5 costs $800, and the Liberty phone costs $2,000. It has 4 GB of memory, and reviewers say that its specs are pretty outdated ｣

https://www.404media.co/how-a-2-000-made-in-the-usa-liberty-phone-phone-is-manufactured/

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Why i wont be vibe coding anymore | Varun Raghu

｢ as i was lying in bed on a sleepless night. i realized i hadn’t learnt a new concept in weeks. i had built a few useful apps with ai, but a nagging question kept me awake - what was the point of it all if i didn’t learn a thing? ｣

https://varunraghu.com/why-i-wont-be-vibe-coding-anymore/

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🙄 Firefox 139 Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing, Here's What to Expect

｢ Firefox 139 appears to come with a change that (most probably) many of you will not like, namely a pop-up that forces you to accept the Firefox Terms of Use and Mozilla’s Privacy Notice, whether you agree to them or not. And it looks like if you don’t click on the “Confirm and continue” button, you won’t be able to use Firefox anymore ｣

https://9to5linux.com/firefox-139-is-now-available-for-public-beta-testing-heres-what-to-expect

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Australian academics refuse to attend US conferences for fear of being detained | The Guardian

｢ “They are doing things like checking if your medication matches your declared disability,” she said. “If it doesn’t, they can deny you entry ｣

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/14/australian-academics-refuse-to-attend-us-conferences-for-fear-of-being-detained

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🗑️ Data centers contain 90% crap data
— @gerrymcgovern

｢ We’re destroying our environment to store copies of copies of copies of stuff we have no intention of ever looking at again. We’re destroying our environment to take 1.9 trillion photos every year. That’s more photos taken in one single year in the 2020s than were taken in the entire 20th century. That more than 200 photos taken for every child, woman and man alive ｣

https://gerrymcgovern.com/data-centers-contain-90-crap-data/