Canada is definitely feeling the pressure, they have to push the panic button a bit – TSN
02:32 · December 14, 2025 at 1:34AM ESTBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Under de senaste åren har det skapats en mängd nya partier av uteslutna och avhoppade vänsterpartister. En del av dessa partier har slagit in på en främlingsfientlig väg, andra har stått fast vid vänsteruppfattningar. Om de senare har jag tidigare skrivit ett inlägg om att de inte är några gångbara projekt inför framtiden. Men jag har inte föreslagit vad de borde ha gjort istället för att skapa nya partier för den parlamentariska arenan. Det ska jag råda bot på nu.
blog.zaramis.se/2025/12/14/vad…
#FuckTrumpRapistCriminal #fucktrumptohell
I've finished: When the Sparrow Falls by Neil Sharpson
This is a story about a Soviet style East European dystopia. As someone who grew up in the late 80s it really appealed to me.
An ideology turned into an authoritarian nightmare and the people that get ground up in the wheels.
It is Sharpson's ability to personalize those people as they get crushed in the gears that makes this a great novel.
It's a bit strange to read a novel in 2025 where the AI future is viewed in a positive light. But it was published in 2021, before AI became synonymous with LLMs.
It was interesting reading When The Sparrow Falls at the same time as The Ragpicker, a novel where the digitization of human consciousness and virtual reality are the cause of the apocalyptic nightmare.
app.thestorygraph.com/books/50…
@bookstodon @audiobooks #ScienceFiction #dystopia #AI #bookstodon #amReading #AudioBooks
I see lots of others are saying there is no first round and they edit as they go. I’m the same, and any ‘rounds’ of revision that ensue are impossible to count in whole numbers. I like to say they’re fractal—and, yes, the word is associated with chaos theory.
#books #writing #writersofmastodon
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flatpak time
program: 20mb
> requires 500mb in runtimes
> every program somehow requires yet another one of these
we have achieved worse than microsoft .net levels of waste
From Project Gutenberg:
Tuhkimo ja kuninkaantytär: Nelinäytöksinen satuseikkailu
by Larin-Kyösti
Get it at: gutenberg.org/ebooks/62761
Tuhkimo ja kuninkaantytär: Nelinäytöksinen satuseikkailu by Larin-Kyösti
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.Project Gutenberg
Una imagen de un refrigerador lleno de bebidas. A la izquierda del refrigerador se ven algunas bebidas en una repisa. Se ve un cartel rosa pegado en la puerta del refrigerador. El cartel dice:
ALTO
usa gel
y espera en la
COLA
Por favor
espera tu
Turno.
Gracias.
El refrigerador es plateado y tiene una pantalla roja en la esquina superior izquierda que dice "19". A la derecha del refrigerador se ven más carteles en la pared.
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The image depicts two figures in a dark, atmospheric setting, surrounded by foliage and candlelight. One figure is clad in a dark, ornate coat with prominent wings extending from the back, and a dark hat, holding a smoking pipe. The second figure wears a long, vibrant red dress and is being held or embraced by the first. The scene is lit by a scattering of small candles placed amongst the plants and rocks, creating strong shadows and a sense of depth. The background is a dense forest with a blurred effect, emphasizing the foreground figures.
The figure in the coat has pale skin and white hair, and is holding a pipe in their mouth with smoke visible. The figure in red has darker hair and a pale complexion. The coat features intricate designs and a high collar. The surrounding foliage appears lush but slightly overgrown, with rocks and moss visible. The overall mood is mysterious and somewhat gothic.
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Gooien neerlandici inderdaad actief online-projecten in de vergeetput?
OK, now I have the RasPi Pico 2 W so that it's connecting to my wifi, and making HTTP POST requests to a web server. The requests represent any of the buttons on the LCD hat, formulates a path to POST to for each one, and I have a python script that returns raw RGB565 bits that the Pico receives, then displays onscreen.
Now I can make a dungeon crawler for the Pico.
#Programming #RaspberryPiPico #Embedded #GameProgramming
unrelated: does mcp have any viable use for manual tools
like spellcheck asking a dictionary for words (neither of which actually making LLM calls)
i assume not really and that since its json-rpc you'd just add other endpoints for those instead, but was worth asking 
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in reply to TuxTux👗🧔♀️ • • •Ein Foto eines großen, gotischen Gebäudes, das bei Nacht beleuchtet ist. Das Gebäude hat einen detaillierten Fassade mit vielen Fenstern, Türmen und Verzierungen. Die Beleuchtung ist violett und rosa, was dem Gebäude einen dramatischen Look verleiht. Im Vordergrund befinden sich mehrere Strukturen mit roter Beleuchtung und Menschen, die herumlaufen. Das Gebäude ist groß und dominant, erstreckt sich über den gesamten Bildrahmen.
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