Happy birthday Katrina! https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2025-12-23/0/POSTING-en.html :-)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I was surprised by that as well. 😅 I thought these were features that you can use, but no, you must do all this.

By the way, I now fixed the issue that I mentioned at the end and it works on the netbook now. 🥳

https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2025-12-21/0/netbook.jpg

Wow, @movq@www.uninformativ.de, so many tables. No idea what I expected (I’m totally clueless on this low-level stuff), but that was quite an interesting surprise to me. https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2025-12-21/0/POSTING-en.html

I quit LinkedIn
I recently quit LinkedIn. Ironically, the post I made about why I was
quitting was probably the most viewed thing I ever posted. Haha.

If you need to see my CV it’s right here on my website:

https://hack.org/~mc/cv.html

This is what I wrote back in November:

I’m terminating my account on LinkedIn next week. This is possibly
some kind of career suicide.

I’m very seldom visiting LinkedIn, so I’m probably late to the party,
as usual. Perhaps there has already been a lar … ⌘ Read more

The phone situation
I need to write something about this or I’ll burst.

I have a new phone. It’s an old iPhone SE 2022. Yes, I know. Evil,
evil Apple. Won’t someone please think of the privacy issues? Right,
well, Apple has at least better reputation about these things than
Google does, but we’ll come to that.

It feels like I’m betraying the FLOSS cause. I feel horrible, although
probably not just because of this.

Let’s recap:

• My main phone has been a de-googled (not even microG) Fairphone 4
  with CalyxOS. CalyxOS … ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah, well, given that I didn’t need this for such a long time, it’s probably not an essential tool. 😅

I’ve often wanted to have an outline of text documents, though, and tagbar/ctags can do that as well:

https://movq.de/v/3c6d1a13d6/tagbar-md.png

https://movq.de/v/abc58e6d66/tagbar-latex.png

This isn’t as powerful as the “Navigator” tool in StarOffice/LibreOffice (which can be used to rearrange the document), but still pretty useful:

https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2024-05-23/0/so31.mp4

GitHub Is Going To Start Charging You For Using Your Own Hardware
GitHub will begin charging $0.002 per minute for self-hosted Actions runners used on private repositories starting in March. “At the same time, GitHub noted in a Tuesday blog post that it’s lowering the prices of GitHub-hosted runners beginning January 1, under a scheme it calls ‘simpler pricing and a better experience for GitHub Actions,’” … ⌘ Read more

Repeal Section 230 and Its Platform Protections, Urges New Bipartisan US Bill
U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse said Friday he was moving to file a bipartisan bill to repeal Section 230 of America’s Communications Decency Act.

“The law prevents most civil suits against users or services that are based on what others say,” explains an EFF blog post.

“Experts argue that a repeal of Section 230 could … ⌘ Read more

Applets Are Officially Going, But Java In the Browser Is Better Than Ever
“The entire java.applet package has been removed from JDK 26, which will release in March 2026,” notes Inside Java.

But long-time Slashdot reader AirHog links to this blog post reminding us that
“Applets Are Officially Gone, But Java In The Browser Is Better Than Ever.”

This brings to an official end the era of applets, w … ⌘ Read more

Firefox Survey Finds Only 16% Feel In Control of Their Privacy Choices Online
Choosing your browser “is one of the most important digital decisions you can make, shaping how you experience the web, protect your data, and express yourself online,” says the Firefox blog. They’ve urged readers to “take a stand for independence and control in your digital life.”

But they also recently polled 8,000 adu … ⌘ Read more

Alright, Advent of Code is over:

https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2025-12-12/0/POSTING-en.html

It’s been quite the time sink, especially with the DOS games on top, but it was fun. 🥳

In case you’re wondering: All puzzles (except for part 2 of day 10) were doable in Python 1 on SuSE Linux 6.4 and ran in a finite time on the Pentium 133. Puzzle 10/2 might have been doable as well if I had better education. 🤣

Live: PM says Australian families ‘taking back power’ from social media companies
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Live: AUKUS is ‘full steam ahead’, Marles says
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Google Says First AI Glasses With Gemini Will Arrive in 2026
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Live: Wall Street closes in on fresh record ahead of expected Fed rate cut, ASX poised to slip
Expectations of a rate cut pushed Wall Street higher, while the ASX looks unlikely to follow that positive lead. Follow the day’s events and insights from our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog. ⌘ Read more

Live: Natural disaster declarations across NSW as premier thanks 1,500 firefighters
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Live: Extreme fire danger remains in parts of New South Wales as a heatwave spreads across the country
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Meta Acquires AI Wearable Company Limitless
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AV1 Open Video Codec Now Powers 30% of Netflix Streaming
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Live: Fires, heatwaves strike across Australia with extreme warnings issued
A broad heatwave is expected to spread across Australia, with short and sharp bursts of heat throughout the southern states. Follow live. ⌘ Read more

Live: ASX to rise, as Facebook’s owner backs away from Metaverse
It has been a relatively calm day on Wall Street overnight, with Australian stocks set to follow. Follow the day’s events and insights as they happen with our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog. ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net I couldn’t find the exact blog post from before, one that used redirection directives in its nginx config. but I found [this one ](https://melkat.blog/p/unsafe-pricing#:~:text=Something%20else%20I’ve%20been%20doing%20this%20year,%20fine.) mentioning a similar process but done differently.

Live: Wall St gains as US jobs market weakens, ASX set to follow
Australian shares are set to edge higher as Wall Street keeps gaining on hopes of Fed rate cuts. Follow the day’s events and insights from our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog. ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: SAFE for Elixir: Phoenix LiveView
Erlang Solutions launched SAFE, a Security Audit for Erlang in the fall of 2023. We extended the analysis for Elixir in the spring of 2024 and now, SAFE officially supports Phoenix Liveview, which means a SAFE scan is now looking for vulnerabilities common in Phoenix web applications.

[SAFE](https://www.erlang-solutions.com/services/security-audit-for-erlang-and-elixir/#:~:text=SAFE%20is%20an%20audit%20procedure,Any%20security% … ⌘ Read more

Live: Debate to determine future of Hobart AFL stadium
The future of Hobart’s proposed AFL stadium is set to be decided by a vote in Tasmania’s upper house of parliament, which begins today. Follow live. ⌘ Read more

3mdeb Ports Their Dasharo Firmware To A Recent ASRock Rack Motherboard
Open-source firmware consulting firm 3mdeb published a blog post today outlining their work on bringing their Coreboot-downstream Dasharo to the ASRock Rack SPC741D8/2L2T, a recent server motherboard for supporting Intel Xeon Sapphire Rapids and Emerald Rapids processors… ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: From Prototype to Production: Scaling Fintech for SMEs
The moment a fintech product shifts from prototype to production is often when the cracks appear. Tiny shortcuts. Half-formed assumptions. Decisions made because “we’ll fix it later.” They all return, and they return quickly.

At first, everything looks fine. The demo works. Early users onboard without trouble. In turn, confidence builds. Then real volume arrives with real expectations, and the product t … ⌘ Read more

Live: Wall Street wobbles as Bitcoin continues to dive
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Live: Government to establish landmark probe into ADF sexual violence
A landmark inquiry into sexual violence in the Australian Defence Force will be announced today. Follow live. ⌘ Read more

My November ‘25 in Review
The second-to-last month of the year is now over too, so it is time to take the monthly look back. ⌘ Read more

Linux Kernel 6.18 Officially Released
From the blog 9to5Linux:

Linux kernel 6.18 is now available for download, as announced today by Linus Torvalds himself, featuring enhanced hardware support through new and updated drivers, improvements to file systems and networking, and more.

Highlights of Linux 6.18 include the removal of the Bcachefs file system, support for the Rust Binder driver, a new dm-pcache device-mapper target to enable … ⌘ Read more

Live: Kerr starts from the bench as Matildas face New Zealand in Gosford
The Matildas begin their final international window before hosting next year’s Asian Cup, with Sam Kerr in contention to play her first minutes on Australian soil in two years. Follow live. ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net I remember reading a blog-post where someone has been throwing redirects to some +100GB files (usually used for speed testing purposes) at a swarm of bots that has been abusing his server in order to criple them, but I can’t find it anymore. I’m pretty sure I’ve had it bookmarked somewhere.

@prologic@twtxt.net AI is slot machines for coders:

• “Before starting tasks, developers forecast that allowing AI will reduce completion time by 24%. After completing the study, developers estimate that allowing AI reduced completion time by 20%. Surprisingly, we find that allowing AI actually increases completion time by 19%–AI tooling slowed developers down.” https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/
  
• “Stack Overflow data reveals the hidden productivity tax of ‘almost right’ AI code”: https://venturebeat.com/ai/stack-overflow-data-reveals-the-hidden-productivity-tax-of-almost-right-ai-code
  

The same intermittent reward operant conditioning that gets people addicted to gambling and thinking that if they follow certain rituals they’ll win “next time” drives people’s beliefs that AI tools are making them more productive when they’re making them less productive. I’m going to guess that a side effect of this is that people think they’re typing less when in the longer term they’re typing the same amount or more when you factor in the productivity loss (as far as I’ve read the studies don’t measure this so I’m only guessing).

People are also being rapidly de-skilled by this technology: the more they use it, the more their actual skills atrophy. “Continuous exposure to AI might reduce the ADR (adesoma detection rate) of standard non-AI assisted colonoscopy, suggesting a negative effect on endoscopist behaviour.” (science speak for saying that radiologists get worse at seeing tumors in scans once they’ve used AI): https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langas/article/PIIS2468-1253(25)00133-5/abstract

Nobody who cares about the future should be using this stuff for anything.

Live: ASX to rise as Wall St extends rally on growing bets of Fed rate cut
A rally on Wall Street is likely to send Australian stocks higher as revived tech strength and the growing probability of a December interest rate cut from the US Federal Reserve put investors in a buying mood the day before the Thanksgiving holiday. Follow the latest updates in our live blog. ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Stop Telling Us XMPP Should Use JSON

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We hear this too often: “XMPP uses XML. It should use JSON—it’s more modern.”

The logic seems straightforward: JSON came later, so it must be better. But better for what, exactly?

JSON became successful because it’s the standard serialization format for JavaScript. That made it convenient for browser-based applications.

Does that m … ⌘ Read more

Closing one chapter
Today marked my last full working day (tomorrow I will just hand back in the equipment) at my current employer in the automotive industry. Next Monday, I will start a new job in another domain. ⌘ Read more

Google Revisits JPEG XL in Chromium After Earlier Removal
“Three years ago, Google removed JPEG XL support from Chrome, stating there wasn’t enough interest at the time,” writes the blog Windows Report. “That position has now changed.”

In a recent note to developers, a Chrome team representative confirmed that work has restarted to bring JPEG XL to Chromium and said Google “would ship it in Chrome” once long-term ma … ⌘ Read more

Mozilla Announces ‘TABS API’ For Developers Building AI Agents
“Fresh from announcing it is building an AI browsing mode in Firefox and laying the groundwork for agentic interactions in the Firefox 145 release, the corp arm of Mozilla is now flexing its AI muscles in the direction of those more likely to care,” writes the blog OMG Ubuntu:

If you’re a developer building AI agents, you can sign up to get early acces … ⌘ Read more

GoBlog not only has a new README file on the repository (replacing the old, cluttered, incomplete documentation) but also has a new share button implementation. No more relying on third-party services for that basic functionality! ⌘ Read more

Docker Model Runner Integrates vLLM for High-Throughput Inference
Expanding Docker Model Runner’s Capabilities Today, we’re excited to announce that Docker Model Runner now integrates the vLLM inference engine and safetensors models, unlocking high-throughput AI inference with the same Docker tooling you already use. When we first introduced Docker Model Runner, our goal was to make it simple for developers to run and experiment… ⌘ Read more

An architectural decision: Containers on bare metal or on virtual machines
Building and running modern applications begins with selecting Kubernetes distribution as a baseline. Once a platform team has selected its orchestration layer, one of the next architectural choices involves the deployment architecture where that cluster will… ⌘ Read more

Why I joined Docker: security at the center of the software supply chain
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Cloudflare Explains Its Worst Outage Since 2019
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6 Must-Have MCP Servers (and How to Use Them)
The era of AI agents has arrived, and with it, a new standard for how they connect to tools: the Model Context Protocol (MCP). MCP unlocks powerful, flexible workflows by letting agents tap into external tools and systems. But with thousands of MCP servers (including remote ones) now available, it’s easy to ask: Where do… ⌘ Read more

What is platform engineering?
History and evolution of platform engineering Platform engineering is a discipline focused on building and maintaining software development platforms that provide self-service for developer teams, offering the necessary infrastructure for provisioning an application, for example. The… ⌘ Read more

Docker + Unsloth: Build Custom Models, Faster
Building and Running Custom Models Is Still Hard Running AI models locally is still hard. Even as open-source LLMs grow more capable, actually getting them to run on your machine, with the right dependencies, remains slow, fragile, and inconsistent. There’s two sides to this challenge: Model creation and optimization: making fine-tuning and quantization efficient. Model… ⌘ Read more

The final ride of the year?
Today I did another bike tour, following several I’ve taken recently. I didn’t blog about those, although they were quite nice and I truly enjoyed them, now more appropriately dressed.1 ⌘ Read more

Top 5 hard-earned lessons from the experts on managing Kubernetes
Kubernetes has transformed how modern organizations deploy and operate scalable infrastructure, and the hype around automated cloud native orchestration has made its adoption nearly ubiquitous over the past 10+ years. Yet behind the scenes, most teams… ⌘ Read more