choutos @choutos@qoto.org

#caturday #sun #happiness

Looks like Chromebook is being replaced with something called "Googlebook" and it is full-scale Microsoft-style Surveillance PC. Apparently anytime you "wiggle your cursor" anything that is underneath the cursor gets fed into Google's surveillance AI https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/platforms/android/meet-googlebook/

One of these things that makes me consider detecting the platform from my webserver and blocking it entirely because the probability of whatever I wrote becoming an LLM input is too high

Uso uma app muito fixe para impedir que o chrome encha o meu disco com merdIA. Se quiserem, descarreguem aqui: https://www.firefox.com/pt-PT/

If the earth was flat, cats would have knocked everything off it by now.

Happy Pi Day for those who count, bake, and eat pies. #PiDay

#FuckICE #Nuremberg2 #Trump #MAGA #PunchNazis

https://xornalgalicia.com/reportaxes-a-fondo/pp-culpable-el-legado-de-corrupcion-y-desastre-sanitario-de-alberto-nunez-feijoo-un-analisis-critico-desde-los-estatutos-del-pp-y-su-responsabilidad-penal:

"Feijóo, o arquitecto da privatización e a impunidade sanitaria. Alberto Núñez Feijóo, o actual líder do Partido Popular (PP), é un político que construíu a súa carreira sobre a privatización da sanidade pública, a corrupción institucionalizada e a impunidade. Desde a súa etapa como secretario xeral de Sanidade no Ministerio de Sanidade durante o goberno de José María Aznar (1996-2000) e como presidente do Instituto Nacional de Saúde (Insalud )"

🐙 We just published the 8th version of #PeerTube !

New video player, collaborative channel management, improved import system…
With each update, PeerTube improves to better meet your needs!

In a new blog post, we review these new features, as well as the past year and our plans for the future.

Check it out on Framablog!

👉 https://framablog.org/2025/12/09/peertube-v8-manage-your-videos-with-your-team/

https://praza.gal/acontece/o-negocio-de-ribera-salud-desde-que-mercou-povisa-un-20-mais-de-cartos-publicos-cun-15-menos-de-pacientes

Está claro que ésta empresa estafa a seguridade social. En Galicia nin o necesita a Conselleira de Sanidade dálle cartos ao chou. Casi seguro que o PPdeG non recibe nada de Ribera ao igual que o PPdeMadrí non recibe nada de Quirón.

#Derogacion da Lei 15/1997 sobre habilitación de nuevas formas de gestión del Sistema Nacional de Salud.

The Dread Pirate Robert Nozick
http://existentialcomics.com/comic/631
#ExistentialComics

History of Rock Paper Scissors

#FreeSoftwareAdvent

I'm not sure if I will keep this up for the whole of advent (good luck @neil ), but if there's one piece of Free Software I want to highlight, it's vim.

I learned vim because it was the default vi implementation in RedHat Linux 5.x back in the distant past and vi is required by POSIX and so was installed everywhere (except Windows, where nothing useful is in the default install, but it is easy to add). I mostly use gVim early on, but once I was fairly comfortable with it, I started using it in the terminal.

And it's great to be able to use the same editor whether I'm local, on via SSH on a remote Linux or *BSD machine. I tried using VS Code's remote mode, but it's Linux only, and only fairly mainstream Linux even there. Want to connect to a RISC-V Linux? Sorry. Alpine on x86-64? If you jump through some hoops. CheriBSD on Morello? Or even OpenBSD on x86-64? No chance. Vim? All of those. And even things like Amiga, VMS, or QNX. Or iPad, or Android, or Haiku (the BeOS port seems to have died, but I haven't run BeOS for around 20 years).

I have written a few hundred lines of code, over a hundred and fifty articles, five books, two dissertations, and a couple of dozen papers in it. Most on a laptop, a bit on a desktop, and a surprising amount on a Nokia 770 with a folding Bluetooth keyboard (great for writing in a cafe by the sea).

When I started, the main benefit of vim over vi was multi-level undo. Since then, it's gained plugins for LSP support (so I even get nice error messages and autocompletion with our custom version of clangd with all of the CHERIoT extensions!), spell checking, and unlimited persistent undo. The last of which is the reason I don't use NeoVim (they didn't consider breaking the on-disk format for persistent undo a problem, I consider data loss very bad, and so don't trust them with my data).

At this point, my fingers are so trained to use vim shortcuts that I end up with :w scattered in the middle of random documents if I wrote them in anything else.

Curiosity in Trees by Hope Doe

#Art #Painting

LucaPonsatoArt
the little i had left.

#Art #Painting

By Lee Avison

#Art #Painting

HTTP has a new method: QUERY. Tl;dr: GET with a body.

https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-httpbis-safe-method-w-body-14.html

(Doesn’t have an RFC number yet but has been approved, will get one in a few weeks.)

#ietf