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I’m a little early this year with the ol’ Default Apps post. I enjoy the reflection and being able to cheat diffing the Markdown from previous posts and figuring out what I changed. 😅

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Default Apps 2025

Apps I used regularly in 2025.
Matt Stein

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Romania commissions 400 MWh battery storage project, its largest to date byteseu.com/1633890/ #Romania
Romania commissions 400 MWh battery storage project, its largest to date

Romania commissions 400 MWh battery storage project, its largest to date

The largest battery energy storage system (BESS) to date in Romania, with a capacity of 200 MW/400 MWh, has been commissioned in Cluj County by the private
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#romania

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What gets you ready for a big social thing you can't/don't want to skip?

#poll

  • Preemptive napping (50%, 31 votes)
  • Extra time in the blanket fort (17%, 11 votes)
  • A variety of snacks (24%, 15 votes)
  • Going to bed early like an adult. (43%, 27 votes)
62 voters. Poll end: 3 days ago

#poll
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Dang. I have an event like that tonight and I was hoping to find some good tips in the replies. I'm repeatedly taking my temperature willing myself to have a fever. But I think what will get me to go is driving there and not drinking at all. It's more painful to sit through without alcohol but I can make a quick getaway without having to make chit chat on the sidewalk waiting for taxis.
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@Bumblefish I went to mine and I had a great time. There's just something about holiday gatherings that bring out a different side of humans, and I thoroughly enjoy them.
@That’s a moray

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Adolescentes recaudan fondos para ayudar a compañeros de secundaria con padres en detención migratoria
https://chicago.suntimes.com/la-voz/2025/12/16/adolescentes-recaudan-fondos-para-ayudar-a-companeros-de-secundaria-con-padres-detenido?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Adolescentes recaudan fondos para ayudar a compañeros de secundaria con padres en detención migratoria

El equipo DREAM de la Secundaria Solorio en el lado suroeste ha recolectado más de $6,000 para sus compañeros.
Sarah Karp | WBEZ (Chicago Sun-Times)
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Slate crosses 150,000 reservations despite waning EV truck enthusiasm
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/16/slate-crosses-150000-reservations-despite-waning-ev-truck-enthusiasm/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Slate crosses 150,000 reservations despite waning EV truck enthusiasm | TechCrunch

It took Slate Auto about seven months to grow its customer list by 50%, but new reservations appear to be outpacing any cancelations.
Sean O'Kane (TechCrunch)
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Kent Pitman presents his lisp condition system implemented for python

Index of Kent Pitman's CL References

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#programming #python #commonlisp #softwareengineering #typetheory @Kent Pitman

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Bulgaria’s PM in Helsinki: Russia Remains a Long-Term Threat to the EU’s Eastern Flank – Novinite.com byteseu.com/1633888/ #Bulgaria
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Bulgaria’s PM in Helsinki: Russia Remains a Long-Term Threat to the EU’s Eastern Flank – Novinite.com

The countries of the European Union located along the Eastern Flank are intensifying coordination at a moment described as decisive for the continent’s
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#bulgaria

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My carpet of alocasias allforgardening.com/1540584/my… #alocasia
My carpet of alocasias

My carpet of alocasias - All For Gardening

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#alocasia

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Dogrose on Mt Iron
Bush with pink roses in the foreground, mountain and lake scenery behind

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🔎 Comment fait un journaliste pour trouver un (bon) sujet ?

Guillaume Chazouillères, journaliste immobilier à l'Informé, répond en vidéo à la question d'un lecteur ⤵️

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"And there’s #SteveBannon and #Epstein taking a selfie in a mirror, and sitting in Epstein’s townhouse. So weird how his relationship with Epstein overlapped with his time as Trump’s #WhiteHouse adviser, and continued all the way until Epstein’s arrest, with Epstein pressing Bannon on ways to rehabilitate his image. Remember when author Michael Wolff said that Epstein told him Bannon was the only person the #Trump campaign was afraid of?"
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#DonaldTrump #News #US #USA

Headline from Wonkette: Oh Look, More Gross Jeffrey Epstein Pictures! Story still not going away! by Marcie Jones Dec 15, 2025

Oh Look, More Gross Jeffrey Epstein Pictures!

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#News #USA #DonaldTrump #Trump #US #WhiteHouse #Epstein #SteveBannon

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Nach seiner Freilassung in #Frankreich - weil ans autoritäre Ungarn nicht ausgeliefert werden soll - wurde #Gino auf deutsches Ersuchen heute abermals festgenommen. Es ist unklar wo die Bundesrepublik gegen ihn prozessieren will. Die Auslieferung ist auch nicht sicher.
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#Frankreich #Gino

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Grr. I have finally set up regular offsite backups, and now deja-dup simply won't remember my username and password.

Any hints? I'm on Debian 13, with deja-dup v45.2.

#backup #debian #gnome

#backup #GNOME #debian

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Crisafulli LNP government’s first year devastates new renewable energy and storage investment in Queensland

-Investment in large-scale renewable energy and storage projects in Queensland has fallen by more than 74 per cent
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Crisafulli LNP government’s first year devastates new renewable energy and storage investment in Queensland

New investment in renewables and storage has "dropped off a cliff" in first year of new LNP state government in Queensland, new data shows.
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Azerbaijan, Moldova discuss boosting parliamentary ties byteseu.com/1633886/ #Azerbaijan #Moldova #ParliamentaryTies
Azerbaijan, Moldova discuss boosting parliamentary ties

Azerbaijan, Moldova discuss boosting parliamentary ties

Azerbaijani Ambassador to Chisinau, Ulvi Bakhshaliyev, and Moldovan Parliament Speaker, Igor Grosu, discussed enhancing interparliamentary cooperation,
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#azerbaijan #Moldova #parliamentaryties

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I wanted to create a female protagonist but not one with few cloths or oversized body parts

Also not "weak" or "helpless" but instead fearless and an angel of death

Don't mess with #Luna!

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#luna

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patricus
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tbh if you'd make an accessible game I'd had given you some money, and I think it's enough to pay at least a quarter of your server costs, and I could get you even more with promoting on audiogames.net
yes, I'm bribing you, but I think it's worth trying, it's a fun challenge for you and a reward.
we lack good RPG's or MMO's, except the old crap.
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@patricus No need to bribe!♥️😸 I do love the idea!

Can you tell me, what would be a good way to make a 3D bow and arrow game accessible? Sound cues for example but how would such a thing work for let’s say combat?

@patricus
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combat, well? you can make it so the enemy makes sounds, and you have a key to make the screenreader speak how far the enemy is.
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and if there's some walking involved, if it's a open world, make a points of interests list in every area, and add keyboard shortcuts to switch between them and then go to them

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A doctor who helped sell ketamine to actor Matthew Perry gets less than a year of home confinement
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they have this thing called the “Fermi paradox.”
They get all sad and mournful about “where is everybody else in the universe?” and it’s hilarious because it’s impossible for me to imagine any of us ever been that way: but that’s just how isolated they are: they have no idea they aren’t alone and they have no idea what a blessing that is.

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one day I was looking at a image of the center of the Milky Way with another person. I blurted out "that's were everone else lives". They were startled by that thought and said "how do you know"? My response: "Just look at how crowded it is, we live out in the far rural area." 😅 . I know the problems with that logic, but so what, I'm just an unsophisticated creature from the middle of the universal nowhere. What would I know. 😂
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I do find the Fermi Paradox or, more generally, the lack of evidence of biology outside this solar system depressing.

Yes, statistically there *should* be other life out there, but we don't *know* that yet and I find the prospect that perhaps we (as in life of all forms on this rock) *might* be "it" sad.

Short length of time left for this solar system compared to the stretch of time to the heat death of the universe.... it just feels terrible to think of no one experiencing it.

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South Pole Elves Making Cheap Knockoff Toys For Half The Price

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South Pole Elves Making Cheap Knockoff Toys For Half The Price

ANTARCTICA — Santa Claus' Workshop may be in trouble after it was revealed that elves located at the South Pole have been making cheap knock-off toys for Christmas at half the price.
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