Question:
Barnaby Joyce will be in One Nation...
@Federation_Bot
@azonenberg @poleguy @dalias also notice that the attitude of user-as-threat applies outside the enterprise context, and is the rationale for sandboxes, no-root devices, etc
RE: https://hci.social/@fasterandworse/115708118238131855
We all know the pitch is just that you no longer have to write. They want to be the infrastructure for entities to "create content" (derogatory)
GEMINIDS PEAK THIS WEEKEND
The best meteor shower of 2025 peaks Dec 12–13 and 13–14 as Earth passes through debris from rock-comet 3200 Phaethon. Real talk: it’s not a downpour—expect 1–2 meteors per minute if you’re patient. Spend 30 minutes under dark skies between 10 pm–2 am and you’ll likely catch bright streaks or a fireball. Bonus: Jupiter joins the show. More info: https://spaceweather.com/
Geminids over Teide Volcano, Canary Islands — Juan Carlos Casado
I relistened to Decoder Ring Theatre Showcase season2 last night!
This season was a bit of a hodge-podge of stories, but I do enjoy the meta-level comedy of Slick Bracer Private Investigator! As well as the Buck Rogers-inspired "Deck Gibson: Far Reach Commander", about a defector from the fascist Earth space-military who joined an aid & exploration organization called "The Far Reach Fleet".
Also there's a standalone story suggesting that movies need a human sacrifice to bring them to life...
In case you missed it, in November I made "IT 2: They/Them" a sequel to Stephen King's IT in which Pennywise is going through a bad breakup and approaches the Losers Club for help retrieving its record collection from its ex, They/Them. It's an open world turn-based puzzle platformer and takes about an hour to finish.
You can play it for free on itch: https://twinbeard.itch.io/it2/
Or the Lexaloffle BBS: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=153208
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Austria Bans Head Scarves in Schools for Girls Under 14
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/world/europe/austria-head-scarf-ban-schools.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into World @world-newyorktimes
Osef de L'IA, rendez la RAM !
@cheeaun Yeah, only the absolute path. It's enough to paste into Claude Code and it knows what to do. It's super handy when you want to refer to a few pages/screenshots or parts of a page within the same prompt.
Question:
What is your preferred chat command prefix.
I am probably getting old, but the idea to cram in lots of events in Brussels the entire week before FOSDEM is not getting my thumbs up. Or well, you can have them but I won't be there.
A regular FOSDEM already wears me out on its own. Being at the European Open Source Awards on the Thursday before FOSDEM is stretching it but I will do it.
Adding *more* events to my agenda that week would probably kill me.
Did I mention I'm old? Leave me alone.
@bagder 😊
TextAudio is now open source!
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Feel free to continue.
🔗 https://github.com/Pariatorn/textaudio
#OpenSource #Privacy #TTS #TextToSpeech #SelfHosted #Sovereignty #VoiceCloning #Python #FastAPI #SvelteKit #FOSS
Question:
Anziehen morgens:
As Dale Vince (Ecotricity) points out, all that is required to reduce energy prices (specifically electricity) in the UK is to remove the requirement from the auction system that the price is dictated by the highest bid (nearly always that made by gas).
Breaking the link with gas prices (and allowing each energy source to be supplied at its actual bid price) would immediately reduce energy prices across the country.
Moreover the Govt. has the power to do this, they just don't!
#energy
h/t FT
As I understand it, the reason for maintaining prices at levels required by gas generation is that at lower prices the private gas generators are not viable - so the owners won't keep them going to cover any gaps in renewable generation - so the problem is not regulation, but private for-profit ownership.
why read the room when you can leave the room
Oops, I missed this letter of mine published in the Newcastle Herald on 10/12:
I WAS slightly puzzled by a few people saying online that Rising Tide left rubbish on Horseshoe Beach after the blockade, as I was aware of the great effort they made to keep the whole area immaculate. It turns out someone faked a photo of the beach covered in rubbish, blaming Rising Tide, and it has spread far and wide on social media. I presume this was the source of the rubbish comments. Just goes to show we need to question everything.
#Risingtide #fakenews #auspol
Ist euch auch aufgefallen, dass Rechtsextreme derzeit wieder an vielen Fronten die EU angreifen? Und auch die Rechtspopulisten sorgen mit ihrem Ruf nach einem "Aus des Verbrenner-Aus" für Unmut bei progressiven Menschen.
Woher kommt das?
Es kursiert eine geleakte, längere Version der "US National Security Strategy" mit konkreten Zielen. Unter anderem soll es darum gehen, Österreich, Ungarn, Italien und Polen zum Austritt aus der EU zu bewegen. Außerdem soll die G7 zugunsten einer sogenannten Core 5 (C5), bestehend aus USA, China, Indien, Japan und Russland, aufgelöst werden.
Die Zerstörung Europas nennt man ironischer Weiße analog zur Zerstörung der USA: "Make Europe Great Again"
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/trump-eu-make-europe-great-again-5HjdPH2_2/
time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana
@Taweret Banana arrows are inaccurate, but still have some appeal. To at least two kinds of flies.
What does it take for a distributed community to organize its own gathering from scratch? Earlier this year, a group of Tor folks set out to prove that community-organized meetings can work on a shoestring budget. But why?
https://blog.torproject.org/bringing-tor-community-together/
@torproject
Hello I send greetings from narrow swallehz
Meetings and gatherings organize people on what to do
What is your option
