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Does @theonion.com have more print subscribers than WAPO yet?

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

a chart showing a big, somewhat sustain spike in followers starting just before Christmas

btw bluesky is having its biggest month in a while by the math

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I’m probably the most impressed AND grossed out by the several people who gifted an actual red Onion until the paper arrived in the mail. That’s some smelly-ass ingenuity right there.

An onion in a Christmas box

merry christmas, my gf got us a print sub to @theonion.com and gave it to me like this

I'm not sure its possible to fully stop someone sufficiently motivated doing something they want to do, but I think about the idea of making software so convenient to use for good and so inconvenient to use for evil that anyone wanting to be evil has to basically just write their own new software.

The concept of trying to develop software in such a way that your design choices steer/bias your software towards only being useful for ethical/well intended purposes is interesting to me.

A photo of the east wing of the w hite House being torn down with the caption "we're sorry, US-east-1 is down right now"

YouTube video by Louis Rossmann How Denver's Mayor forced flock AI surveillance on residents after a 12-0 vote to get rid of them

You may want to see this:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQxQ...

It sounds like he's asking for something similar to what you are doing.

The yellow comb at the top of an escalator. A larger than normal gap is present across the walkway after the steps end, approximately level with where the handrail ends. It serves as part of a sensing mechanism for detecting objects in the comb

I found one with a really big gap

Framework under fire for Omarchy/DHH/Hyprland support? You might’ve noticed Framework, the laptop manufacturer, embroiled in a controversy as of now. The Discord server is on lockdown because the volunteer moderation team has gone on hiatus, and the Frame...

I still recommended the products, but buying new from @frame.work is no longer part of my recommendation. Growing the tent to support people who fundamentally disagree with core open source values will end up shrinking the tent.

I thought FW was better than this

crimier.github.io/posts/Framew...

As a @frame.work laptop owner, the companies recent promotion and inclusion of people in the community who have a long and un-reversed track record for being harmful to other open source communities makes me sad.

Best question from Texas LinuxFest:

"If everything is a file in Linux, what kind of file is imposter syndrome?"

Answer: /dev/null - you keep writing to it but nothing actually persists.

Thanks to everyone who stopped by the Rocky booth. You reminded me why I love this weird, wonderful world.

The "lawyer passport locksmith gun" talk by @deviantollam.bsky.social talks about citizenship too if youre interested

Are humans technically sewage (creation) systems too?

If only there was a squeaky tank in the room

Is this real?

Argument with a romantic partner?

Nah, I prefer the term "emotional debugging/troubleshooting"

Anyone else think the pic looked like Gavin Newsom for a second?

Screenshot of a council meeting, where a person in a hot dog costume is handing councilor green a plate.

Yes, someone in a hot dog costume just hand-delivered Councilor Green a hot dog before starting today's council chat on sidewalk vending.

The 'kin' of ‘napkin’ means "little."

‘Nap’ comes from ‘nape,' which means “tablecloth.”

So a napkin is a little tablecloth.

10/10, no notes.

“Whose Line Is It Actually?” an improv show with three comedians and a fact-checker

Seems like Youtube and open software communities are dealing with two sides of the same "how to track usage" coin.

Arguably open software communities have it worse because a proprietary metrics endpoint is not as feasible to add to an open project vs a proprietary one.

Maybe theres a better way

I've always kinda wondered why youtube doesn't track views based on downloads of the video data.

Its probably flawed in many ways (download could be cached and used to serve many views, stats can be skewed by video download tools/archival efforts/bots, etc).

Could this be one of the first somewhat large scale natural experiments that concretely show data on the prevalence of ad blocking tools?

Many affected youtubers have shared their analytics data to help figure out what's happening.

www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/di...

What if you added AI and made it @diaperdiplomacy-m.bsky.social -ify them in real time?

Right to Repair: Reform Section 1201 of the DMCA The overly-broad language of Sec. 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is restricting repair by preventing innovation and competition in the repair market. This law prevents tinkerers and entr...

Theres a reason theres a #clippy in my avatar: #righttorepair

New "reverse ransomware" tactics are being used to break the devices you own post-sale, then sell you the fix as a subscription.

Let's reform the copyright laws that enable this deceptive behavior:

actionnetwork.org/letters/righ...

Movie Poster for Hackers

Happy 30th Anniversary to one of the best 90s movies ever made!

Also, one kickass soundtrack.

Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference Reproducibility is a bedrock of scientific progress. However, it’s remarkably difficult to get reproducible results out of large language models. For example, you might observe that asking ChatGPT the...

Artificial Intelligence does weird things, gives delusional responses, because there's a major flaw that makes LLMs unstable, research paper by Mira Murati and her Thinking Machines lab shows.
Who else is asking questions may even affect your results!

thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeati...