Thread (ten posts) making a convincing case for Ukraine winning the war in the next 3-6 months due to an accelerating Russian collapse, caused by … well, that'd be a spoiler.
Go read.
This, happening within months of the AI bubble bursting and taking down the US stock market, is going to make 2025 the pivotal year of the decade. (Forget Trump, he's a side-show.)
https://wargamers.social/@oldladyplays/115365508400226222
I recently found a photo I took during the height of COVID that, in retrospect, wonderfully encapsulated our failure as a species.

<erno> hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is.
i3 has this feature, where if it crashes (due to a memory corruption or something), it shows a dialog, allowing you to (among other things) restart it in-place. Which lets you keep all your state, your applications keep running, your window and workspace configuration stays the same…
In any case, I really wish the sway people had taken more from how @zekjur did things. Incredibly frustrated right now, because something about my home setup seems to make sway crash unpredictably.
Today is the day Mr. Hummelgaard wanted to push through a vote on Chat Control in the EU Council. But he failed! 🎉
However, Chat Control will be back, so let's look at what this law means for everyone, not just here in Europe:
#ChatControl is nothing but a Trojan Horse for citizens and businesses in Europe. Why?
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Anyone got a good style guide for the use of global, local or hierarchical labels in KiCAD?
I've split a schematic into parts, but I'm not quite sure what scoping rules to apply and, e.g. if using some global labels as interfaces, should they be used everywhere or connected to local symbols?
That kind of thing.
Spotify is running ICE recruitment ads.
#electronics
conference of the spikes
#dragonflybsd #runbsd #openbsd #netbsd #freebsd #hardenedbsd #bsd #unix_surrealism #comic

Weeks 39…41 progress on #kotlin 2 packaging for #debian: updating the intellij-community-idea source package.
Very little progress again these last three weeks due to being preempted by other concerns and then health issues forcing me to take a break. Overall I only managed to spend 2 hours on intellij-community-idea on W39 and a few minutes this week updating the todo list.
Planning to work on building a recent kotlinx-coroutines with old tools this week.