Merry Holidays, Happy Christmas, and pour one out for 'ol Saint Nick who threw hands with an Arianism heretic. Wishing you all a great Christmas my fellow internet strangers.

@FediTree What's my fedi tree looking like across the bridge?

I replaced an iffy valve stem on my car today, everything went well until the check engine light came on during my test drive (new, unrelated problem).

Finished reading Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin recently, it's a really good read. At the start it feels like the writing keeps branching in unrelated ways, only to abandon the plotlines and jump to something seemingly unrelated, but it all comes together in the latter half of the book. A very interesting read with a fairly unique execution. #bookstr

RIP react devs

This is Fine: an Interim Microblogging Protocols Update

As is customary on my microblogging posts, let’s get us started with an original meme. Also, if you’d like to read my previous Microblo...

New #blog post, plus a #meme that goes over some updates in the decentralized social media space (#activitypub #nostr and #at / #bluesky ). Was planning on doing an updated comparison post at some point, but figured I'd separate things into this post with a more informal list of happenings that I found noteworthy, then later I can do a comparison post focused on the protocols themselves that doesn't become an entire novella. #blogstr

I got a letter today from the DMV, on the back it had a suicide hotline on it. Lol, I can imagine them being like "I know you have to deal with us, but please don't kill yourself because of it, we still need your tax dollars."

Minecraft swamp house, RTX on. #photography

Added a bunch of photos to my photos page on my site, been a bit so I had quite a few to add.

Photos

Going to make a 🧵 here below with most of the photos I added. Fingers crossed relays don't block me for having a whole bunch of links to images. (1/6) #photos #photography #film

Big pay at KeyOpp real estate.

The games industry's self-induced traumatic brain injury

Pluralistic: The games industry’s self-induced traumatic brain injury (17 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

"No matter the reason, there is nothing good about the games industry's decades-long project of erasing its own past. It's bad for gamers, it's bad for game developers, and it's bad for games. No art form can exist in a permanent, atemporal now, with its history erased as quickly as it's created."

I couldn't find the oil & filter type in my car's manual, and the table of contents wasn't helping me, so I just asked AI (specifically Brave's ask feature) and it gave me a page number. The page was 396 - a general maintenance overview page. While it didn't have the information I was looking for, that page mentioned page 243 which had the specs that I needed. Maybe it's not a good sign my dumb self couldn't find it, but I'd say it was pretty impressive of the tool that it could point me to the right page on a random car manual (at least in a round about way).

Android Developers Blog

Android developer verification: Early access starts now as we continue to build with your feedback

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

I don't know exactly what the "advanced flow" to install 'unverified' software is going to look like, but Google backtracking on requiring their approval to install apps on your phone is certainly a good thing to hear. I'm sure they're going to make some sort of really inconvenient hoop to jump through, but I guess just about anything is better than outright preventing it. As always, though, it's a good time to de-Google you're phone if that's something you'd be up to. It puts a nice little buffer in between you and Google's shenanigans. It's rather nice to be able to treat my phone as ... *checks notes* ... my phone.

While technically true, I feel like "human settlement" is a rather odd way to describe a town.

Rather Impressive Image Compression

Can you tell the difference between the two images above? At first glance, probably not. If you look at them side by side long enough, at least in ...

Quick blog post about AVIF, a new (relatively speaking) and pretty efficient image format. #blog #blogstr #avif #photography