Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

dc is a semi-standard linux/unix RPN calculator. Many years ago, inspired by a code golf challenge, I performed an exhaustive search of digitless dc programs using the character set ~^-/*+|ABCDdEFIinOorvz to find all integers up to 1,000,000. https://emergent.unpythonic.net/01525128151

So as we roll towards 2026 I checked my list to find the shortest digitless dc program that produces the output 2026: CiDCAn

This program sets the input radix to "C" (12) then inputs the non-canonical base-13 number DCA (= 13 * 12**2 + 12 * 12 + 10), and finally prints it.

Non-canonical base 12 numbers are used in several upcoming years:

2026 CiDCAn
2027 CiDCBn
2028 CiDCCn
2029 CiDCDn
2030 CiDCEn
2031 CiDCFn
2038 CiDDAn

The current year (2025) can't be written in the same manner, because it would use the digit 9. It is still a 6-character program though: CF F*n. This multiplies the non-canonical base-10 number CF (135) by the non-canonica base10- number F (15).

The Revolution Will Not Make the Hacker News Front Page

(with apologies to Gil Scott-Heron) If you get all of your important technology news from "content aggregators" like Hacker News, Lobste.rs, and most subreddits, you might be totally unaware of the important but boring infrastructure work happening largely on the Fediverse, indie web, and other less-centralized communities. This is no accident. The rough consensus of these spaces has been strongly in favor of the…

http://soatok.blog/2025/12/17/the-revolution-will-not-make-the-hacker-news-front-page/

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lb5dnroqbk4ikw4zmgdd77dd/post/3ma6cnnk75s23

premier internet brainrot here by way of our Word 98 install, the save-to-postscript feature of the printer driver, and ps2pdf out on the real machine

Mozilla’s new CEO: Firefox will become an “AI browser”

In recent years, things have not been going well for Mozilla. Firefox's market share is a rounding error, and financially, the company is effectively entirely dependent on free money from Google for making it the default search engine in Firefox. Mozilla's tried to stem the bleeding with deeply unpopular efforts like foc

https://www.osnews.com/story/144027/mozillas-new-ceo-firefox-will-become-an-ai-browser/

#MozillaGecko

Tomorrow is another day to keep doing your best while cartoonish villains destroy society in every direction

I knew a few people who worked at Mozilla in ‘good times’ and Twitter ‘after’ and they all said Mozilla on a regular day was a much more confusing and toxic org. I think Mozilla will go down in history as the one that squandered every opportunity and chased the wrong thing

I've never seen anyone hating Mozilla as much as Mozilla.

if you *absolutely, positively, must* use a Chromium, consider Vivaldi. do not use Opera. do not use Brave.

if you’re (rightly!) pissed at Firefox for doubling down on AI nonsense, as a web developer I would humbly request that you consider trying Waterfox, Orion or Safari before you move to something based on Chromium; Google are already too powerful, don’t hand the web to them

Take a break before you need it. It will make it easier to prevent burnout.

May you never lose your whimsy or your ability to be silly. 💜

Firefox is too important to be left to Mozilla

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