🇪🇺 @EUCommission President Ursula von der Leyens is the real leader of the free world at the moment. Her speech today at the World Economic Forum in Davos gave me confidence in the EU’s strength and will to fight for democracy and a more equitable future […]

42 laps around the sun.

I expected ICA’s personalized 2025 year in review to be a bad imitation of Spotify Wrapped, but it actually was creative and amusing. If you are a regular ICA customer: https://www.ica.se/stammis/stammisaret-2025/?ref=activitypub #stockholm #sverige

The monthly SWICG GeoSocial Task Force meeting is about to start if you have thoughts on location data use cases and the social web. https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/ed630a3d-7581-4053-9978-75949ad42f2a/20260108T130000/ #geosocial #geosocialtf #swicg

Since the weather in Stockholm trust has been mostly overcast and snow fog, I’m going to pretend today’s 2 minutes 37 seconds expansion of daylight is responsible for these pretty photos taken at lunchtime. 🌞 8:39 (6h 28m 29s) 15:08 🌖 #stockholm

My next #homeserver will be the Olares One, now available for a discounted preorder on Kickstarter. Beautiful, Apple-quality hardware with the powerful Nvidia RTX 5090 and 96 GB of RAM perfect for running local AI. Olares is a Linux-based OS optimized for #personalcloud use. Its goal is to […]

The song “Drops of Jupiter” is about the singer reconnecting with his dead mother as if she had been alive, but away on a long trip thru space. My mother died of cancer 29 years ago today. I love this song. https://open.spotify.com/track/2hKdd3qO7cWr2Jo0Bcs0MA?si=ab1a83e015b344a2 #nowlistening

I wonder if co-founder of Google Brain Andrew Ng knows I mostly associate him appearing beside toenail fungus cures, weight loss drugs, and bizarre medical conditions addressed by Taboola ads.

Hey FOSS hardware hackers, do your magic and make a version of this without a proprietary OS or questionable cloud service. I would love something minimal and beautiful like this in my living room for controlling my smart home […]

“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.” —Gustave Flaubert, French novelist

When paying my annual membership to @dfri, I encountered a Firefox translation error. It altered the bank account numbers! Fortunately, EU banks are required to verify recipient information. I had not encountered this before. I submitted a bug report for Firefox […] [Original post on alpaca.gold]

RE: https://eupolicy.social/@bert_hubert/115836350463097954 Why do Republican US presidents keep starting wars for oil?

Doing my thing: leaving hearts in the snow everywhere I go. #finnboda #nacka #stockholm #sverige

Okay #Stockholm, we have an eventful Saturday. Today is the first day with the sun setting after 15:00 and the first day with over 2 minutes of daylight expansion since the winter solstice. Also, it’s beautiful snow globe weather. Go for a walk now if you […] [Original post on alpaca.gold]

RE: https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/115826575305574285 Pre-ordered! I look forward to porting my old Fitbit OS watchfaces to Pebble OS and hopefully finishing a few designs I loved but were not possible technically to implement 7 years ago.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@256/115826819535222483 In hindsight, the Zune was actually better than the iPod. It offered a Spotify-like unlimited music access subscription service over 5 years before Spotify launched in the US when $1.29 DRMed downloads and piracy were the norm. It championed […]

RE: https://alpaca.gold/@Jeremiah/115822346560955807 Do you have a personal website? Do you need a little motivation and deadline to write? Do you have an existential crisis at least once a year like I do? Then join the #indiewebcarnival this month!

New blog: The Next Thing Will Not Be Big https://blog.glyph.im/2026/01/the-next-thing-will-not-be-big.html

For this month’s IndieWeb Carnival, I want to know your thoughts on the meaning of life. Why? I’m about to turn 42, the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything. https://www.jeremiahlee.com/posts/2026-01-indieweb-carnival/?ref=activitypub #indiewebcarnival

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@paulox/115819064042518517 Learned of @standardebooks, downloaded a few books, and donated in under 20 minutes. Such a great initiative!

Happy New Year from Stockholm, Sverige! #hny2026 #newyear #nye #stockholm

I organized a box of classic assorted Lego bricks by shape and color to speed up searching for desired bricks when building in the future. #vacation #lego

I did not enjoy "One Battle After Another" at all. I do not understand its 95% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. I would like my 3 hours back. #movies

What is the best app/self-guided method to learn to play piano? My husband bought a Casio keyboard for Xmas. We want to learn to play. I took lessons for 3 years as a kid. I don’t remember much. He was an accomplished trumpet player in high school band, orchestra, and jazz quartet.

Snowglobe life today #valdemarsvik #sverige

Our journey in the glorious expansion of daylight over Stockholm starts today! The daylight gain today is modest—just 3 seconds. The expansion will accelerate to a maximum daily gain of 5 minutes 19 seconds on the spring equinox in March. I am excited to be […] [Original post on alpaca.gold]

Reusable bag tags for checked bags should be an industry-wide aviation practice. SAS is killing its reusable checked bag tag program on January 1, 2026. It only offered it to people who achieved “conscious traveler” status, which I just got in November. (I had to buy the biofuel surcharge on […]

Bowen Yang’s final sketch on SNL was so perfect. He quickly became one of my favorite cast members. Going to miss his many characters! I wonder who will be the next openly gay man in the cast… #snl

Tjena! 🌅 Today is the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere. 🇸🇪 For people living in Stockholm, today has just over 6 hours between sunrise and sunset. Follow me for regular updates on the glorious expansion of daylight until Midsommar in Stockholm. Our […] [Original post on alpaca.gold]

Chag sameach! One must be a light to not add to another’s darkness. 🕎 No antisemitism 🕊️ No Zionism #hanukkah

So grateful Svenskar don’t celebrate winter solstice eve with a Disney cartoon.

As #authors, we often talk about the creative process but not how we try earn a living from what we make. I joined with fellow African SFF authors Cheryl S Ntumy from Ghana & @dilmandila from Uganda, with @Jeremiah from Interledger, to talk writing, getting paid as African creators, & our hopes […]

All-hands question for software developers with executives who overvalue AI: “How will our company do software development with AI well when Microsoft—as one of the early research pioneers, biggest investors, and biggest host of FOSS—hasn’t been able to do it […] [Original post on alpaca.gold]

I was wondering why `fnm` was recommended as a way to install @nodejs instead of `volta`. Volta has been around longer, is also cross platform, is also written in Rust, and automatically uses the version specified in a project’s `package.json`. Then I learned `volta` is now unmaintained and the […]

My next #homeserver will be the Olares One, now available for a discounted preorder on Kickstarter. Beautiful, Apple-quality hardware with the powerful Nvidia RTX 5090 and 96 GB of RAM perfect for running local AI. Olares is a Linux-based OS optimized for #personalcloud use. Its goal is to […]

How are you ending 2025 with whatever brings you joy?

I beg FOSS office suites to please be inspired by Apple Contacts (pre macOS 26), Calendar, Keynote, Mail, Numbers, and Pages instead of Microsoft Office and Google Workspace. #foss #ui #ux

RE: https://officiell-info.se/@svtnyheter/115708032522997261 Do you miss me? I miss you. Our journey together celebrating the glorious expansion of daylight starts soon. #stockholm #solstice

I need Firefox’s address bar to suggest "switch to tab" above all other suggestions so that I don't end up with 14 tabs of Google Calendar dinging about an upcoming meeting split seconds apart. #firefox #ui #ux

Sverige should add English as an official language. English is required for international business and the primary shared language between collaborators from multiple countries. I think English is a terrible language linguistically, but it is the one with the most interoperability and economic […]

Report by progressive grassroots advocacy group RootsAction details why Kamala Harris lost in 2024 with truths the Democratic National Committee may never accept. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/10/kamala-harris-election-autopsy?ref=activitypub #uspol

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jimniels/115682264724995650 One of the “this feels less refined than macOS” UI details when I use Windows and Linux has been useless icons in menus. I do not understand why Apple is regressing and recommending unhelpful visual clutter. #ui #ux #macos

Secretary of State Rubio has concluded Calibri is a DEI font and orders US diplomats to revert to Times New Roman in official communications. https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/politics/3725456-font-wars-times-new-roman-vs-calibri-in-us-diplomacy

“Good As New” by Maisie Bull is a beautiful EDM-ish pop song about working thru depression that hooked me in the first few seconds. She only has 1400 monthly listeners. She deserves more. https://open.spotify.com/track/3nZNbQEgYGjSnDA9BwHJUT?si=4c042524cdde470b #nowlistening

I signed a petition for SVT to boycott Eurovision unless the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) decides to exclude Israel from the contest. Israel has violated the "ceasefire" over 700 times, resulting in at least 377 deaths and 987 injuries since October. Allowing Israel to participate in […]

The problem, my dearest Mozilla Foundation, is that donations to you do not fund the development of Firefox, which is the primary reason Mozilla has influence regarding Internet and technology issues. Firefox is the invitation to the conversation and the […] [Original post on alpaca.gold]

My friend, I hope you write a song that only you can write from your pain and your joy, your losses and your hopes, the lies you need to get thru the day and the truths you speak to power. I hope when you sing it, we join in the chorus and you feel how much you belong here, with us.

I have been hearing EU VCs and politicians going gaga over Lovable (“Europe’s AI unicorn zomg!”) all year and I finally looked into it. Is Lovable really just Claude preconfigured with a bunch of context for vibecoding and basic web hosting? How is that worth a $6B valuation?? Lovable even […]

Terrible UI behavior in the Apple macOS app store app (v3.0): When writing an app review, the return key does not create a line break. Return does nothing on first press and submits on the second press, even though the focus does not visibly change and the submit button is not highlighted. You […]

Dammit. I’m out. My husband put on The Holdovers. https://ldbgame.net/?ref=activitypub #ldbgame