Everything you missed on The Bryant Review (Dec 14th, 2025)
This week on The Bryant Review we had two handheld console reviews, an interview with the developer of GameSieve for GOG, and a review of the browser extension Graze for Mastodon.
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About Gardiner Bryant: A native Maine resident, Gardiner (yes, that's his first name) is an enthusiastic Linux evangelist, a believer in the efficacy and superiority of the Free and Open Source way, and President of Heavy Element. Heavy Element offers web design, media production, and YouTube consulting services to individuals and companies in Maine and beyond.
00:00 Intro
00:52 The Week in Review
01:11 The Content Drop
03:11 Website updates
03:44 I need your help with Apache server configuration
05:36 Anbernic RG DS Review by Dash
07:33 Why you need Valve's endgame controller
08:26 Graze: A Better Way to Discover the Fediverse
12:32 Miyoo Mini Flip review
13:27 Building GameSieve for GOG: a developer interview
Gardiner Bryant is a privacy advocate and public speaker on the topic. Learn more about his speaking series and schedule an engagement at your institution at gardinerbryant.com
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Buy Dudelings: Arcade Sportsball from the Humble Store
Dudelings: Arcade Sportsball "What if you crossed Pong with foosball?" That's the age-old question we set out to answer with Dudelings: Arcade Sportsball.Humble Bundle
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“Echi di Luce. Dove l’anima si fa luce”: arte, scultura e fotografia a San Cristoforo
La collettiva curata da Artebellariva Aps arriva nella chiesa di via Fillungo, tra opere, musica e performance
The motorcar lobby has really done a number on Americans when it comes to the idea of "jaywalking".
I'm watching A Gift For Christmas (2017). The female protagonist is #cycling furiously and not watching the road ahead and runs over the male protagonist who is using what appears to be a pedestrian crossing in #Philadelphia.
The "#jaywalking is bad" culture is so ingrained that it is presented as perfectly normal that not only do the police allow the careless speeding rider to get off scott free, they even let the rider claim the victim pedestrian's personal effects (including keys) and hand the perpetrator the victim's pet without blinking.
Is #MelissaHill's A Gift To Remember just as steeped in anti-pedestrian thinking?
Reading Title 75 Chapter 35 of the #Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, it appears that this isn't merely a fictional conceit. The law really is this bad.
The cyclist might be liable for a $10 fine (sic!) under §3502.
* Different rules apply on motorways that were built specifically for motor vehicles.
@bytebro
No idea whether it is still a thing but the HMGov modified the Highway Code booklet[1], which is kind of of how you are judged should an incident occur.
The one that blew me away years ago was that they change the wording about mini-roundabouts from "you SHOULD go around the mini-roundabout" to "you MUST go around the mini-roundabout".
A couple of younger friends have failed driving tests here on this.
1. gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-co…
The Highway Code
The Highway Code is essential reading for all road users, including pedestrians, mobility scooter users, cyclists, horse riders, drivers and motorcyclists.Department for Transport (GOV.UK)
After years of beautiful native #GTK apps written using bindings for python, rust, JS and many other...
The GObject introspection system is proving again how great it is, welcoming a new member to the family: #GTKX !
Bindings for writing native apps with #React and #TypeScript
Hopefully even more web developers will be able to write #GTK applications with the tools they know the best!
Read more at: eugeniodepalo.github.io/gtkx/
Also check it out the (source) reddit thread reddit.com/comments/1pkzd6f
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If you do not have jobs for juniors,
you won't have seniors for the jobs you need them for.
The use of llm-driven tools to eliminate junior-level jobs means you will not have senior-level candidates for the roles you need them for.
No llm is capable of the systemic understanding of projects that a senior developer needs to have.
If you are using llm tools instead of juniors and interns, you are shooting yourself in the foot.
restofworld.org/2025/engineeri…
AI is wiping out entry-level tech jobs, leaving graduates stranded - Rest of World
As AI automates debugging, testing, and routine coding, junior developers scramble for relevance or entirely new careers.Itika Sharma Punit (Rest of World)
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There's been zero new kinds of jobs created by llm tech.
It's been used to eliminate classes of jobs by loading the work that juniors used to do onto seniors as additional responsibilities.
The expectations of the people creating these tools is that people who already have skills will use these tools to do more work.
The expectation of management demanding the use of these tools is that they will not have to pay for juniors, and can do the same productive output with fewer staff.
There are no workflows available to train juniors to become seniors.
The only way to get new seniors is by giving juniors work experience so they can learn how to work with actual codebases over time.
The open-source world is not capable of providing this training.
It requires focused managerial investment in the workforce, which means money.
This is not limited to devs, either; infosec has the same issue - and has had, for years.
This shit is why I keep pushing for unionization; management is fundamentally incapable of understanding this systemic issue.
Something in the MBA mindset removes the ability to comprehend systemic workforce logistics; they end up assuming "someone else" will do the training.
That's gone now.
Your company will need to learn to invest in juniors to teach them how to be seniors, or you will not have any more seniors, period.
The usual argument I've had from dipshit managers in the past refusing to provide training or access to juniors is that "if we train them then someone else will hire them away and then that money is wasted."
Which tells me you're refusing to provide a safe and trustworthy environment for your employees in general.
Funding used to be at a higher level for entry level positions too, but I think they redid the funding levels since I last looked into it, so it might not be as helpful as it used to be, but these sort of things can help too.
again? Sure, let's blame a thing that greedy corporations made a scapegoat to shift anger to.
As @pluralistic says, they think headlines like "we're doing so well, we replaced them with AI" are better than "we're doing so bad, we are laying off senior staff".
And let's be real: AI in such cases really means overtime work, underpaid juniors(and overworked seniors) and outsourcing to India.
@anarchia
“Viaggio molto”, dice l’artista spagnolo Santiago Sierra, noto per la performance art e l’arte delle installazioni, “ma entrare in un paese è come andare in prigione. I confini mi disgustano – come idea e come esperienza personale. Questo lavoro
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C'est l'heure du goûter, le moment parfait pour déguster l'épisode 14 de votre conte de l'Avent tout juste sorti du four :
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Où l'on commence à en apprendre plus sur cette mystérieuse boule à neige.
#conteDeNoel #calendrierDeLavent
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Virus influenzale scatena il flunami, allarme Bassetti sulla peggior epidemia d'influenza degli ultimi 40 anni
Il virologo Bassetti sul virus influenzale: "Raramente si era vista una pandemia influenzale così diffusiva e aggressiva già a dicembre"Giulia Bassi (Virgilio Notizie)
OpenAI Researcher Quits, Saying Company Is Hiding the Truth
OpenAI is making it hard for its researchers to publish research that tells the truth of AI's potentially negative economic impact.Frank Landymore (Futurism)
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«Incident: Jetblue A320 near Curacao on Dec 12th 2025, near collision with invisible US military aircraft»
欧州企業、中国供給網の多角化を加速＝商工会議所 | ロイター - WACOCA NEWS
在中国の欧州連合（ＥＵ）商工会議所は１０日、欧州企業が中国のサプライチェーン（供給網）からの多角化に向けた取り組みを加速していると指摘した。WACOCA News Editor (WACOCA NEWS)
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Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM
Samsung is reportedly preparing to wind down its SATA SSD business, and a notable hardware leaker warns the move could have broader implications for consumer storage pricing than Micron’s decision to end its Crucial RAM lineup.Yetnesh Dubey (Notebookcheck)
Silver Tree
This photograph captures bare white or silver branches stretching upward against a dark gray sky, stark and skeletal.
If you enjoy wildlife and nature photography, check out my photo gallery here:
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#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #nature #tree
Asking someone "how would you know what that sounds like" when they describe an odd sound with an odd analogy.
They haven't actually heard it, but they can imagine what it might be like, which I think is a cool concept.
2/ It's windy and bitter cold outside. Charlene approached when I was outside about the battery and came back inside with me. That's when I contacted the owner and pled our case.
#CharleneTheCat looked around a little and settled next to my desk chair. ❤️
Really is there anything more threatening than armed white men checking personal details and papers before allowing entry into a toilet in Texas?
#life #uspol #uspolitics #texas #ICE #NationalGuard #misogyny
It’s not the first time, and it won’t be the last—President Donald Trump was a little too eager to claim he had ended an international conflict.
Thailand Fact-Checks Trump on Bogus Ceasefire Claim
Cambodia and Thailand have not agreed to stop fighting, despite the president’s Friday announcement.The New Republic
The Arched Bridge
📷 Olympus XA
🎞 Ilford pan 400
#photography #photo #fotografie #analogphotography #filmphotography #believeinfilm #35mm #darktable #gimp #blackandwhite #monochrome #cityscape #landscap #SilentSunday
On Friday I found someone local to me selling a Bowens Illumitran 3 slide copier (I plan on modifying it a bit to try using it with a DSLR for "camera scanning" negatives). While I was there, I asked if he had any other photography/darkroom related equipment for sale. He said:
"Well, my neighbor was a photographer who sold his work at shows/conventions all over the country and, when he passed, his wife gave me a lot of his supplies. I've sold most of it, but I still have tons of frames, museum/conservation frame glass, and a few other things if you'd like to take a look."
He gave me a price I couldn't say no to and said I could take "as much as I could fit in my car". I walked away with:
- ~50 unused, hand-made, hand-stained wood frames of various sizes
- An incredible amount of glass (I can't even guess how much)
- A very nice mat board cutter,
- ~20 boxes of new frame hardware
- A new, unused roll of backing paper.
It looked like I burglarized a frame shop.
#frames #framing #art #artsupplies #photography #finds
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