@gottalaff.bsky.social Great thread by Will Bunch.

Weather for Bossier City, Louisiana ☁️

Forecast for the coming days:

• Tuesday 23 December: Min 65.7°, Max 78.6° (Fog) 🌫️, Wind speed: 9.1 mph (4.1 m/s)
• Wednesday 24 December: Min 60.8°, Max 73.0° (Fog) 🌫️, Wind speed: 8.1 mph (3.6 m/s)
• Thursday 25 December: Min 59.5°, Max 78.6° (Cloudy) ☁️, Wind speed: 8.4 mph (3.8 m/s)
• Friday 26 December: Min 64.6°, Max 81.5° (Cloudy) ☁️, Wind speed: 11.4 mph (5.1 m/s)
• Saturday 27 December: Min 66.6°, Max 75.4° (Cloudy) ☁️, Wind speed: 10.1 mph (4.5 m/s)
• Sunday 28 December: Min 59.0°, Max 71.1° (Light drizzle) 🌦️, Precipitation probability 12%, Wind speed: 12.9 mph (5.8 m/s)
• Monday 29 December: Min 43.9°, Max 55.2° (Light drizzle) 🌦️, Precipitation probability 7%, Wind speed: 12.7 mph (5.7 m/s)

Hourly forecast for the next 12 hours:

• 10:00: 73.0° (Cloudy) ☁️, Precipitation probability 1%, Wind speed: 9.1 mph (4.1 m/s)
• 11:00: 74.8° (Cloudy) ☁️, Wind speed: 8.8 mph (3.9 m/s)
• 12:00: 77.0° (Cloudy) ☁️, Wind speed: 8.3 mph (3.7 m/s)
• 13:00: 78.3° (Cloudy) ☁️, Wind speed: 7.8 mph (3.5 m/s)
• 14:00: 78.6° (Partly cloudy) ⛅, Wind speed: 7.4 mph (3.3 m/s)
• 15:00: 78.6° (Clear sky) ☀️, Wind speed: 7.1 mph (3.2 m/s)
• 16:00: 75.2° (Clear sky) ☀️, Wind speed: 6.6 mph (2.9 m/s)
• 17:00: 72.3° (Clear sky) 🌕, Wind speed: 8.1 mph (3.6 m/s)
• 18:00: 70.0° (Clear sky) 🌕, Wind speed: 7.9 mph (3.5 m/s)
• 19:00: 68.5° (Clear sky) 🌕, Wind speed: 7.6 mph (3.4 m/s)
• 20:00: 66.7° (Clear sky) 🌕, Wind speed: 6.0 mph (2.7 m/s)
• 21:00: 65.5° (Clear sky) 🌕, Wind speed: 6.0 mph (2.7 m/s)

@blogdiva

Techbros are weird and not all the smart.

How it started… How it’s going! A HUGE thank you to everyone who came to the rescue & helped support independent journalism in this darkest of years. We lost our news organisation…but we built a new one! @thenerve_news 🙏🙏🙏

@blogdiva would love to know what their #testing strategy will be for this? I have a bad feeling it will be AI driven as well - hallucinations testing hallucinations?

Weather for Lake Charles, Louisiana ☁️

Forecast for the coming days:

• Tuesday 23 December: Min 61.9°, Max 76.5° (Fog) 🌫️, Wind speed: 5.8 mph (2.6 m/s)
• Wednesday 24 December: Min 60.8°, Max 76.3° (Fog) 🌫️, Wind speed: 5.1 mph (2.3 m/s)
• Thursday 25 December: Min 60.8°, Max 79.3° (Fog) 🌫️, Precipitation probability 1%, Wind speed: 11.3 mph (5.1 m/s)
• Friday 26 December: Min 65.1°, Max 78.6° (Light drizzle) 🌦️, Precipitation probability 1%, Wind speed: 12.2 mph (5.5 m/s)
• Saturday 27 December: Min 64.6°, Max 79.2° (Partly cloudy) 🌤️, Wind speed: 12.1 mph (5.4 m/s)
• Sunday 28 December: Min 64.6°, Max 80.8° (Fog) 🌫️, Precipitation probability 7%, Wind speed: 7.1 mph (3.2 m/s)
• Monday 29 December: Min 46.6°, Max 71.2° (Cloudy) ☁️, Precipitation probability 9%, Wind speed: 15.8 mph (7.1 m/s)

Hourly forecast for the next 12 hours:

• 10:00: 70.3° (Partly cloudy) ⛅, Wind speed: 5.3 mph (2.4 m/s)
• 11:00: 72.9° (Partly cloudy) 🌤️, Wind speed: 4.5 mph (2.0 m/s)
• 12:00: 74.8° (Partly cloudy) 🌤️, Wind speed: 3.2 mph (1.4 m/s)
• 13:00: 76.1° (Clear sky) ☀️, Wind speed: 3.7 mph (1.6 m/s)
• 14:00: 76.5° (Clear sky) ☀️, Wind speed: 4.9 mph (2.2 m/s)
• 15:00: 75.7° (Clear sky) ☀️, Wind speed: 5.2 mph (2.3 m/s)
• 16:00: 72.0° (Clear sky) ☀️, Wind speed: 5.8 mph (2.6 m/s)
• 17:00: 68.5° (Clear sky) 🌕, Wind speed: 5.1 mph (2.3 m/s)
• 18:00: 66.7° (Clear sky) 🌕, Wind speed: 4.2 mph (1.9 m/s)
• 19:00: 65.7° (Clear sky) 🌕, Wind speed: 4.9 mph (2.2 m/s)
• 20:00: 64.9° (Clear sky) 🌕, Wind speed: 4.5 mph (2.0 m/s)
• 21:00: 63.7° (Clear sky) 🌕, Precipitation probability 1%, Wind speed: 3.7 mph (1.7 m/s)

UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/23/unix_v4_tape_successfully_recovered/

Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works

<- by me on @theregister

KYIV POST:
Ukrainians Plan Holiday Spending Carefully, Prefer Meaningful Gifts – Deloitte

Ukrainians are keeping budgets modest, prioritizing family and charity, and favoring human judgment over AI tools, a Deloitte Ukraine study finds.

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/66447

#Ukraine #Economy #Business

2025: Web pages vanished. Links broke. Public data disappeared. But the Internet Archive kept the receipts.

From investigations by The New Yorker and The New York Times to video features from the BBC and CNN, these stories show why preserving the web became one of the year’s defining information battles. ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/12/22/top-news-stories-about-the-internet-archive-2025/

Weather for Lafayette, Louisiana ☀️

Forecast for the coming days:

• Tuesday 23 December: Min 59.0°, Max 74.8° (Fog) 🌫️, Wind speed: 5.7 mph (2.6 m/s)
• Wednesday 24 December: Min 58.8°, Max 72.1° (Fog) 🌫️, Wind speed: 4.9 mph (2.2 m/s)
• Thursday 25 December: Min 59.2°, Max 76.3° (Fog) 🌫️, Wind speed: 10.1 mph (4.5 m/s)
• Friday 26 December: Min 63.9°, Max 77.7° (Light drizzle) 🌦️, Precipitation probability 2%, Wind speed: 13.6 mph (6.1 m/s)
• Saturday 27 December: Min 63.5°, Max 78.8° (Clear sky) ☀️, Wind speed: 12.4 mph (5.6 m/s)
• Sunday 28 December: Min 63.5°, Max 79.3° (Light drizzle) 🌦️, Precipitation probability 6%, Wind speed: 9.7 mph (4.3 m/s)
• Monday 29 December: Min 47.7°, Max 70.2° (Light drizzle) 🌦️, Precipitation probability 11%, Wind speed: 17.6 mph (7.9 m/s)

Hourly forecast for the next 12 hours:

• 10:00: 71.2° (Clear sky) ☀️, Wind speed: 5.5 mph (2.5 m/s)
• 11:00: 73.0° (Clear sky) ☀️, Wind speed: 5.7 mph (2.6 m/s)
• 12:00: 74.5° (Clear sky) ☀️, Wind speed: 4.7 mph (2.1 m/s)
• 13:00: 74.8° (Clear sky) ☀️, Wind speed: 5.3 mph (2.4 m/s)
• 14:00: 74.7° (Clear sky) ☀️, Wind speed: 4.7 mph (2.1 m/s)
• 15:00: 73.2° (Clear sky) ☀️, Wind speed: 4.5 mph (2.0 m/s)
• 16:00: 70.5° (Clear sky) ☀️, Wind speed: 3.4 mph (1.5 m/s)
• 17:00: 67.6° (Clear sky) 🌕, Wind speed: 4.9 mph (2.2 m/s)
• 18:00: 66.0° (Clear sky) 🌕, Wind speed: 4.7 mph (2.1 m/s)
• 19:00: 64.6° (Clear sky) 🌕, Wind speed: 4.0 mph (1.8 m/s)
• 20:00: 63.7° (Clear sky) 🌕, Wind speed: 4.3 mph (1.9 m/s)
• 21:00: 62.8° (Clear sky) 🌕, Wind speed: 3.7 mph (1.6 m/s)

KYIV POST:
Ukrainians Plan Holiday Spending Carefully, Prefer Meaningful Gifts – Deloitte

Ukrainians are keeping budgets modest, prioritizing family and charity, and favoring human judgment over AI tools, a Deloitte Ukraine study finds.

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/66447

#Ukraine #Economy #Business

My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions: includes fediverse predctions focuesed on work being done by: @dansup @surf @Mastodon @piefedadmin @ghostexplore @rimu @activitypub.blog @anewsocial @fedify @fed.brid.gy @altstore See what you think. What did I miss? https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/12/23/my-open-social-web-predictions.html

…In emails signed by “A” from an email address appearing as “The Invisible Man,” the correspondence continued:

The person in the email is not explicitly identified as #AndrewMountbattenWindsor, but he was introduced to #Epstein in 1999 by GhislaineMaxwell, Epstein’s then-girlfriend.

In Oct, #Britain’s royal family stripped Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly #PrinceAndrew, of his titles & ordered him out of his 30-room residence in the grounds of Windsor Castle, due to his association with Epstein.

@jerry I am glad and congratulate myself for having stopped sticking my nose into cybersecurity and going back to programming in Linux, just for the art. The bugbounty scene, in particular, has been filled with Mac kids playing with AI.

Weather for Shreveport, Louisiana ☁️

Forecast for the coming days:

• Tuesday 23 December: Min 66.2°, Max 79.3° (Fog) 🌫️, Wind speed: 10.1 mph (4.5 m/s)
• Wednesday 24 December: Min 61.3°, Max 73.8° (Fog) 🌫️, Wind speed: 8.3 mph (3.7 m/s)
• Thursday 25 December: Min 60.3°, Max 78.4° (Cloudy) ☁️, Wind speed: 8.4 mph (3.8 m/s)
• Friday 26 December: Min 64.6°, Max 81.5° (Cloudy) ☁️, Wind speed: 11.4 mph (5.1 m/s)
• Saturday 27 December: Min 66.6°, Max 75.4° (Cloudy) ☁️, Wind speed: 10.1 mph (4.5 m/s)
• Sunday 28 December: Min 58.8°, Max 70.9° (Light drizzle) 🌦️, Precipitation probability 12%, Wind speed: 12.9 mph (5.8 m/s)
• Monday 29 December: Min 43.9°, Max 55.2° (Light drizzle) 🌦️, Precipitation probability 7%, Wind speed: 12.7 mph (5.7 m/s)

Hourly forecast for the next 12 hours:

• 10:00: 73.2° (Cloudy) ☁️, Precipitation probability 1%, Wind speed: 9.4 mph (4.2 m/s)
• 11:00: 75.7° (Cloudy) ☁️, Wind speed: 8.9 mph (4.0 m/s)
• 12:00: 77.5° (Cloudy) ☁️, Wind speed: 8.8 mph (3.9 m/s)
• 13:00: 79.2° (Cloudy) ☁️, Wind speed: 8.0 mph (3.6 m/s)
• 14:00: 79.3° (Partly cloudy) 🌤️, Wind speed: 7.7 mph (3.4 m/s)
• 15:00: 79.3° (Clear sky) ☀️, Wind speed: 7.3 mph (3.2 m/s)
• 16:00: 76.1° (Clear sky) ☀️, Wind speed: 6.0 mph (2.7 m/s)
• 17:00: 72.7° (Clear sky) 🌕, Wind speed: 8.0 mph (3.6 m/s)
• 18:00: 70.9° (Clear sky) 🌕, Wind speed: 8.1 mph (3.6 m/s)
• 19:00: 69.4° (Clear sky) 🌕, Wind speed: 8.3 mph (3.7 m/s)
• 20:00: 67.6° (Clear sky) 🌕, Wind speed: 7.0 mph (3.1 m/s)
• 21:00: 66.7° (Clear sky) 🌕, Wind speed: 7.4 mph (3.3 m/s)

Weather for Baton Rouge, Louisiana 🌤️

Forecast for the coming days:

• Tuesday 23 December: Min 59.7°, Max 74.8° (Fog) 🌫️, Precipitation probability 3%, Wind speed: 7.5 mph (3.3 m/s)
• Wednesday 24 December: Min 60.6°, Max 69.4° (Fog) 🌫️, Wind speed: 6.0 mph (2.7 m/s)
• Thursday 25 December: Min 61.5°, Max 77.9° (Fog) 🌫️, Precipitation probability 1%, Wind speed: 6.2 mph (2.8 m/s)
• Friday 26 December: Min 63.3°, Max 76.8° (Light drizzle) 🌦️, Precipitation probability 2%, Wind speed: 9.0 mph (4.0 m/s)
• Saturday 27 December: Min 63.1°, Max 79.5° (Clear sky) ☀️, Wind speed: 8.7 mph (3.9 m/s)
• Sunday 28 December: Min 63.9°, Max 79.7° (Partly cloudy) ⛅, Precipitation probability 7%, Wind speed: 6.6 mph (3.0 m/s)
• Monday 29 December: Min 51.1°, Max 72.7° (Cloudy) ☁️, Precipitation probability 12%, Wind speed: 13.1 mph (5.9 m/s)

Hourly forecast for the next 12 hours:

• 10:00: 70.9° (Clear sky) ☀️, Wind speed: 5.4 mph (2.4 m/s)
• 11:00: 72.9° (Clear sky) ☀️, Wind speed: 4.6 mph (2.1 m/s)
• 12:00: 74.1° (Clear sky) ☀️, Wind speed: 4.8 mph (2.1 m/s)
• 13:00: 74.8° (Clear sky) ☀️, Wind speed: 5.1 mph (2.3 m/s)
• 14:00: 74.8° (Clear sky) ☀️, Wind speed: 4.7 mph (2.1 m/s)
• 15:00: 73.2° (Clear sky) ☀️, Wind speed: 4.5 mph (2.0 m/s)
• 16:00: 70.3° (Clear sky) ☀️, Wind speed: 4.0 mph (1.8 m/s)
• 17:00: 68.0° (Clear sky) 🌕, Wind speed: 5.0 mph (2.2 m/s)
• 18:00: 66.6° (Clear sky) 🌕, Wind speed: 6.0 mph (2.7 m/s)
• 19:00: 65.5° (Clear sky) 🌕, Wind speed: 5.0 mph (2.2 m/s)
• 20:00: 64.2° (Clear sky) 🌕, Wind speed: 2.5 mph (1.1 m/s)
• 21:00: 63.3° (Clear sky) 🌕, Wind speed: 3.4 mph (1.5 m/s)

Being sucked into #monopoly enforcement against #gatekeepers around the world has given me direct insight into why #AntiTrust enforcement is so important economically: monopolists spend huge sums on PR to sell things that people do not want. Organizations like @fdroidorg can spend next to zero money and some hours of volunteer time to pop PR bubbles that surely cost many millions. The money is so concentrated that lots is thrown at even stupid ideas just because the monopolists want it that way.

@GossiTheDog Also, your sonicwall, fortinet, and palo altos firewalls should be behind a firewall and not exposed to the internet

As a certified #beunHaas , when it comes to sysadmin stuff, upgrading OS releases and migrating clusters to new postgres versions there is always a fresh dose of existential dread for my systems. Luckily, after breaking the VPS running #mastodon only twice we are back up with the latest and greatest.

And yes I really should switch to some form of docker hosting, but psychologically I am just not there yet 😅

According to @tchambers's My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions:

Fedify will power the federation layer for at least one mid-sized social platform (500K+ users) that adds ActivityPub support in 2026. The “build vs. buy” calculation for federation shifts decisively toward “just use Fedify.”

We're honored by this recognition and will keep working hard to make #ActivityPub adoption easier for everyone. Thank you, Tim!

#Fedify #fediverse #fedidev