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  "In the kernel community we do open source because it results in better technology, not because of religious reasons. And so we make decisions primarily based on technical merit. Not fear of new tools." https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/CAHk-=wi4zC+Ze8e+p3tMv8TtG_80KzsZ1syL9anBtmEh5Z40vg@mail.gmail.com/

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  "Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them." https://nonfunctional.substack.com/p/passkeys-are-a-trap-do-not-use-them

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  Nice interactive visualization tool for exploring population density anywhere on Earth: https://actualscale.com

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  Sunset and moonrise up in the hills on Sicily

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  Not seeing much activity on GitHub et al in the last couple of days. Everyone still busy with patching and upgrading ALL THE THINGS? I certainly was until late last night.

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  It took me a grand total of about 4 months to go from "I don't want to read LLM-generated content under my fellow contributors' names" to "I wish nobody would ever contribute again without running their contributions through LLMs beforehand". This is exactly the kind of tedious collaboration work that humans are both too lazy and unmotivated for. In the past, this mostly meant fewer high-quality contributions, lengthy review phases, and consid...

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  Correction: the EU (a supranationalist governmental organization) is not the same as "Europe". Either way, they're doing their best to continue building moats around large corporations, while crushing small business all across the region. https://lectronz.com/u/lectronz/articles/how-europe-is-killing-makers-and-micro-entrepreneurs

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  Meanwhile, on the birdsite:

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  This might just be the dumbest #woodworking idea I've attempted to realize so far. Instead of making my first butcher block a reasonable size, i..e. a simple cutting board, I took some laminated oak offcuts from a friend and am currently trying to turn them into an entire counter top for a bar/work table in our kitchen: