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Feedtunes
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With today being Christmas, here is your annual reminder to be nice to newbies in your spaces.
There is going to be a very sudden influx of people who are just getting into the spaces you occupy because they got a gift that acts as their gateway into that activity. Maybe you're into photography and someone just bought them their first ever camera body, or you're into music and someone bought them their first guitar, or you're an audiophile and someone bought them their first really nice headphones, or you're big into TTRPGs and someone just bought them their first ever core rulebook.
Whatever the specific activity and gift, these people are going to have no idea what they're doing, they're going to ask a lot of obvious questions, they're going to make a lot of rookie mistakes, and there's going to be a lot of them.
I cannot stress this enough: BE NICE TO THEM.
Few things will ruin someone's enjoyment of something faster than trying to join its community and getting such a rude first impression that their conclusion is "People who like this are kind of assholes. I don't think I want to do this if it's going to involve getting yelled at." Craigslist and eBay and FB Marketplace will be filled with mint condition gifts being resold to attest to this in the coming months.
You were there at the very first step once. Be the person for them that you wish you had back then. (Or if you were lucky enough, the person you did have who fostered your love of it!) Make this something they'll love just as much as you do, not something they'll want to sell and get away from as soon as possible.
Be the reason this Christmas starts a lifelong passion for them, not the reason they decide to abandon something that they would've loved because people made them feel bad for needing a helping hand.
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Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
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Well, the holidays have afforded me with several days in a cabin in Norway with no particular plans, which nicely lent itself to giving this another go.
Although I obviously haven't mastered the language yet, I do feel like it has clicked in a way that it hasn't before. I figured I'd share a couple of impressions from the experience here.
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decryption
decryption@aus.socialoh wow, anna's archive "backed up" Spotify! they downloded 256 million songs - roughly 300TB - so you could technically, make your own spotify at home! would easily fit in a 2RU server, hmmmmm
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Tim Waterman
timwaterman@mas.toIt's not just economic power, it's digital coercion. We have to get our institutions weaned off of US-based software and platforms, including Microsoft, Meta, Google, Xitter, and more. Open source is the answer! https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/12/danish-intelligence-accuse-the-us-of-using-economic-power-to-assert-will-over-allies
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datum@zeroes.caSome reporting on excellent news about:
the physics professor who became Uruguay's energy secretary, and within five years had the country on 98% renewable energy.
and economically it was a smash hit
the cost of electricity production decreased by roughly half compared to fossil-fuel alternatives, and the country attracted $6 billion in renewable energy investments
Going forward,
He hopes to help 50 countries move to renewables over the next ten years. He said, "We want to prove that an energy transition can be possible in different geographies and can work in different national energy and political contexts."
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FediThing 
FediThing@chinwag.org
This is a really excellent non-fiction piece by @WeirdWriter about a writing group with a tech bro:
https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence
It is a distilled essence of the social and cultural damage AI/LLM is causing, how AI promoters are cynically destroying people's confidence in their own humanity, while simultaneously trying to ridicule and other people who point out that AI is bullshit. (And this isn't even mentioning the environmental consequences.)
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May is Seasonally Seasoned
mayintoronto@beige.partyI need you to stop scrolling and read the most human piece of writing I've read in a very, very long time.
https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence/
Thanks, @WeirdWriter.
Edit: If you feel like you got a lot out of this piece, I'm sure Rob would definitely appreciate some subscribers to his newsletter and tips/a paid subscription if you can afford it! It's not easy making a living as a writer.
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Computer Facts
computer@facts.computergiving impressionable still-developing young men "ai girlfriends" who cannot ever say no and that they can customize with sliders and parameters down to minuscule detail will probably break them in unfixable ways and permanently foreclose on their healthy participation in human relationships but beep boop what does computer know
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Søren Have
sorenhave@mastodon.nuToday’s mustread is from Alexander Stubb, Prime Minister of Finland.
“The global West cannot simply attract the global South by extolling the virtues of freedom and democracy; it also needs to fund development projects, make investments in economic growth, and, most important, give the South a seat at the table and share power.”
#dkpol https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/wests-last-chance
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Thomas Hansen 📝 🇩🇰
tbhdk@social.data.coopStøt og del gerne dette borgerforslag: #opensource
"Anerkendelse af frivilligt arbejde med open source som samfundsgavnlig indsats med juridiske og skattemæssige fordele"
📝 https://www.borgerforslag.dk/se-og-stoet-forslag/?Id=FT-22237
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Harald Hoyer
backslash@floss.social
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John Kennedy
micefearboggis@fediscience.orgHey! I’m CEO of a company that has just raised $10 billion for an app that takes the hard work out of enjoying music. Did you know, some people waste hours each day listening to “tunes”. Our AI will listen to it for you and summarise it in a 15 second scream leaving you more time to focus on what's really important in life: adding value.
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trashHeap 
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In the early 2000s the ReactOS team paused development for years; to engage in a project wide audit, under accusations that a developer may have SEEN leaked windows sourcecode.
In the 2020s folks keep insisting it's cool for #FLOSS devs to use AI's trained on random other projects to generate code; when it is known that such AI assistants occasionally reproduce code verbatim, without regard to the original software license. #llm #AI #eliza #generativeAI
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Joxean Koret (@matalaz)
joxean@mastodon.socialThe Dread Pirate Robert Nozick
http://existentialcomics.com/comic/631
#ExistentialComics
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David Graeber Institute
DGI@graeber.socialWe could house everyone. We could feed everyone. We could care for everyone. We could build devices designed to last as long as possible. We could align our manufacturing around the needs of the people and the planet.
We materially have the resources to do so.
That's why leftists are so angry. The resources we need to build a world everyone can thrive in literally already exist. We are just using them mostly to pamper the rich or murder the poor.
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xssfox@cloudisland.nzYour `pip` unwrapped 🎇
- you tried to install `requirements.txt` 18 times this year. Doing better than last year!
- of the packages you installed 67% started with py, 11% python, and 6% Py. You guessed wrong 85 times.
- your love for building source has no bounds, except maybe the 92 failed compiles
- you updated `requests` 18 times. Urllib is feeling lonely.
- the average time between updating `pip` was 97 days. But we warned you 338 times!
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Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
tokeDiscovered that there's now a mode where Bind will manage keys and signing automatically. Yay! Only problem is, the domain in question was not configured that way.
Decided to use the occasion to swap over the config to that mode. Which of course caused Bind to generate new (managed) keys without doing any of the smooth gradual rollover that it otherwise implements. Oops!
Ah well, everything is set up correctly now, and it'll only be a single TTL until the whole world agrees. Should be fine; right? 😅
#DNS #DNSSEC #OpsFail
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Greg K-H
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Quentin Monnet
qeole@hachyderm.ioDecember again. Christmas is getting near, winter is coming*, and... The call for proposals for the eBPF Devroom at FOSDEM'26 is about to close. Today is your last chance to submit! If you have things to say about eBPF, send an abstract ⚙️ 🐝
https://ebpf.io/fosdem-2026.html
* Subject to availability in your hemisphere
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