This post will not appear in the timeline of most Pixelfed users. Because considered at "not pretty enough" for them (despite the great illustration by @[email protected] ) It worth asking the question: Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on? https://ploum.net/2025-12-04-pixelfed-against-fediverse.html

Apple to Resist Order in India to Preload State-Run App on iPhones https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/12/02/apple-india-preload-state-run-app

Catching up on Ruben Gallego’s most-recently publicized misogynist, anti-trans texts and, more importantly, his own characterization of them. https://arizonadailyindependent.com/2025/11/29/senator-gallegos-anti-trans-messages-leaked/ Gallego casts his blatant bigotry and hatred as as being in service to an inclusive, “big tent” vision of the Democratic Party. A disingenuous and pragmatically unpromising approach. 1/

AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem. Contribute to kavishdevar/librepods development by creating an account on GitHub.

i've been told recently, that llms have become useful for code review, and [after reading the whole thread here](https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14369), i can't help but remain doubtful.

Reinstate the Condé Four. Famous writers at New Yorker are up in arms after fact-checker’s firing https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/21/conde-nast-new-yorker-firings-labor-dispute/

I think that's the most annoying thing, to me: You can't debloat Linux because the package management tools forbid it. Cups is pretty damn good, I have nothing against the project, it's *way* better at just working than any print stack in the commercial operating systems, but if I'm not printing then I should be able to remove it from my computer that I own in my own house. Try it, though, and literally *everything* vanishes, because apparently you can't watch a video without ffmpeg (in case you need to transcode it for streaming), and ffmpeg can't work without imagemagick (in case you're tired of actual video formats and wanted to animate a series of .jpg files) and imagemagick can't work without the inline documentation system (in case you can't just google the actually readable online documentation in 2025), and the documentation system can't work without ghostscript (in case you wanted to convert your man pages to PDF for printing in a big binder on your desk in the year 2025), and ghostscript can't work without cups in case you wanted to convert your PDF to PS and the only reason you would want a postscript file is to pipe it directly to your laser printer that's enterprise enough to still have a postscript interpreter.

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how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2019/08/22/whats-wrong-how-schools-teach-reading

For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...

What the fuck? https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/11/introducing-iphone-pocket-a-beautiful-way-to-wear-and-carry-iphone/ Just, what the fuck? This reads like an especially over the top April Fool's gag, but that's the real Apple website and it's mid November and Apple has no sense of humour of which we are aware. What. The. Fuck.