#yearinreview — Public Fediverse posts
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14 biggest Miami restaurant closures of summer 2026 https://www.diningandcooking.com/restaurants/25852/ #lists #Openings&Closings #Restaurant #Restaurants #YearInReview
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14 biggest Miami restaurant closures of summer 2026 https://www.diningandcooking.com/restaurants/25852/ #lists #Openings&Closings #Restaurant #Restaurants #YearInReview
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14 biggest Miami restaurant closures of summer 2026 https://www.diningandcooking.com/restaurants/25852/ #lists #Openings&Closings #Restaurant #Restaurants #YearInReview
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Diarycast - Year In Review (2025) - The 2025 EOU diary, and a full year without fossil gas... #yearInReview #heatPump #fossilFree - https://www.earth.org.uk/diarycast-20251230.html
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2025 in review: doing my small part to document an experiment in national self-harm
I had thought that 2017’s introduction to President Trump’s chaos, corruption and cruelty would be an adequate preparation for the 2025 sequel that American voters ordered up in a vote that I may never be able to understand fully. I was wrong.
That foolish choice has given us “this moral slum of an administration,” to quote noted liberal squish George F. Will: fascism-curious contempt for Constitutional limits on presidential power, trampled human rights at home and abroad for the sake of a racist and isolationist agenda, a pointless ransacking of useful government agencies that among other costs has probably left hundreds of thousands of people dead overseas, economically and scientifically ignorant policies like up-and-down tariffs and ordering obsolete coal power plants to stay online while trying to strangle offshore wind power, the most openly corrupt White House in history, and a cringe-inducing cult of personality that invites comparisons to North Korea.
I also did not expect so many Republicans to hold their political manhood cheap and sign off on even the stupidest ideas of their Dear Leader, which is how we now have a Confederacy-whitewashing, war-crime cheerleader lording over the Department of Defense and a science-denying quack hijacking the Department of Health and Human Services.
Nor did I predict that we would see so many tech CEOs not only nod politely but grovel for favor before this administration.
(To judge from the beatings that Republican candidates have received in elections this year–in particular, in the state of my birth and in the state of my choice–many Trump voters also didn’t expect this state of affairs and can no longer endorse it.)
My own lot this year seems strikingly easy: I haven’t had to learn what tear gas smells or tastes like, had my job DOGEd out of existence, or seen friends or family members thrown into a foreign gulag. Nor have I had a single client ask me to go easy on this administration in a story or edit my copy to ensure that I would.
I have had the usual struggles of freelancing, both in the sense of managing my time and in terms of managing my client relationships (I did much better at selling to Fast Company but once again dropped the ball with AARP). But I learned a lot, found purpose in sharing what I learned even when it was bad news, and had some fun along the way–including rides on such interesting modes of transportation as a Zoox robotaxi, Arc and Candela battery-electric sport boats, and the USPS’s duckface Next Generation Delivery Vehicle.
Out of the hundreds of stories I wrote this year, these 10 stand out to me as I look back at my own 2025.
- In February, I returned to a topic that I’ve been covering since 2018 in a post for PCMag documenting 8K TV’s embarrassing lack of appeal to consumers who smartly value price above resolution specifications.
- After years of meaning to tee off on Venmo’s horrible privacy settings, I finally wrote that piece in April for Fast Company–in the process, learning that even privacy professionals can miss some of that payments app’s data-leaking defaults.
- In June, I made my first appearance in the Virginia Mercury to write about Richmond’s overdue recognition that ceding online tax prep to Intuit and its ilk in 2010 was a dismal failure. It feels great when you see a gap in news coverage of where you live, then fill it yourself.
- In a July post for PCMag, I broke down how the GOP’s fossil-fuel fetishists were killing off the Inflation Reduction Act’s tax credits for clean-energy purchases–and how many states still had not put in place their own mechanisms to claim some of these expiring incentives.
- I wrote a great many posts about Trump announcements, and each time I tried to provide useful context to help readers judge them independently. Among all those, I particularly like the unpacking of Trump’s “AI Action Plan” that I did in a post later in July for PCMag.
- Sitting down to talk to some managers of the Black Hat cybersecurity conference’s network for PCMag yielded a small lesson about the need for a little empathy in information security.
- In September, I returned to Berlin’s Stasi Museum for the first time since my 2018 introduction to it and had to point out to PCMag readers how I now saw uncomfortable parallels with certain aspects of American politics today.
- Reporting a story for Worth magazine published online in September about the energy use of AI data centers opened my eyes to how certain AI providers don’t want to talk about where they get the electricity for these sprawling facilities or how they plan to avoid stiffing existing ratepayers in the process.
- I spent more time than I expected finding people willing to talk about how the Trump administration’s indifferent and sometimes inept approach to cybersecurity is weakening the nation’s defenses, but that piece finally ran in Fast Company in October.
- Also in October, Fast Co. ran my longest story there yet about how Amtrak’s NextGen Acela remains stuck on previous-generation infrastructure–and how high-speed rail projects throughout the U.S. have been held back by an unwillingness to steal the best practices of other countries.
AI figured in much of my coverage and played an even larger role in my side hustle of moderating panels at conferences. That technology may be eating away at the underpinnings of my industry, but in the short term it has been a boost to my traveling on other people’s money.
This year, those trips and the ones I bankrolled myself introduced me to four new airports and one country, also taking me farther east from home than I’d ever traveled before. I liked seeing new places, making new connections there, and running into old friends along the way, but as ever I especially liked coming home after each of these often-tiring adventures.
(You can see a map of those flights after the jump; just looking at that may make you feel tired.)
I created the map below at the Great Circle Mapper site, following the instructions Tiffany Funk first shared in 2016 at the One Mile At A Time blog. The predominant shade of blue represents flights on United Airlines and codeshare and same-itinerary flights on Azul, GOL and Lufthansa; other colors, some of which may be difficult to differentiate, represent Alaska Airlines and Lufthansa (other hues of blue); American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Swiss International Air Lines, and Turkish Airlines (various shades of red); Qatar Airways (burgundy); and TAP Air Portugal (green).
#2025InReview #abuseOfPower #AI #businessDevelopment #businessTravel #conferences #freelance #freelancing #Trump #Trump20 #yearInReview
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Zeit für einen spannenden Jahres-Rückblick: Hier kommt unser „re:publica 25-Wrapped”!
Wir blicken zurück auf eine fantastische Veranstaltung in Berlin voller inspirierender Momente und toller Menschen, die uns begleitet haben. Danke, liebe Community – wir sehen uns nächstes Jahr!
Mehr Facts & Figures gibt’s hier ➡️ https://facts25.re-publica.com/
Sei 2026 dabei! Hier geht’s zum Ticketshop 🎟️ https://re-publica.com/de/tickets
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YouTube has launched Recap 2025, its first global year-end viewing summary 📊 featuring personalized cards, personality profiles, and music insights. The feature was developed through extensive community research including 50+ concept trials. Read the article to discover what viewing personality types emerged and how to access your own 2025 recap ✨
#YouTube #YouTubeRecap2025 #SocialMedia #StreamingTech #YearInReview
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Here, at the end, is my article on my 2024 review. 😀
Happy New Year! 🎉
#Goodbye2024 #Welcome2025 #YearInReview #YearInReview2024 #HappyNewYear #NewYearsEve #NewYear
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My most played video games in 2024:
1. Factorio :factorio:
2. Dyson sphere project
3. Stardew Valley
4. Baldurs Gate 3
5. Forza Horizon 5
6. Broken Sword 1-3
7. Rimworld
8. Balatro
9. World of Warcraft: The War Within
10. HadesNotable mentions: Dwarf fortress and ADOM (all time favorites of mine)
Everything played under Linux, either natively or by using Proton.
#yearinreview #gaming #LinuxGaming #2024recap #newyear #factorio
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DATE: December 30, 2024 at 08:00AM
SOURCE: BioWorld MedTechDirect article link at end of text block below.
AI drives financings, approvals for APAC med-tech in 2024
#medtech #endofyear #review #yearinreview #APACMed #KPMG @BainandCompany #BainandCompany #Seegene @Seegene #Biomap
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DATE: December 27, 2024 at 03:30PM
SOURCE: BioWorld MedTechDirect article link at end of text block below.
AI drives financings, approvals for APAC med-tech in 2024
#medtech #endofyear #review #yearinreview #APACMed #KPMG @BainandCompany #BainandCompany #Seegene @Seegene #Biomap
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This is a summary of the work done by Fedora Infrastructure & Release Engineering teams as of 2023. As these teams are working closely together, we will summarize the work done in one blog post by both teams.
This update is made from infographics and detailed updates. If you want to just see what’s new, check the infographics. If you want more details, continue reading.
About
Purpose of these teams is to take care of day-to-day business regarding Fedora Infrastructure and Fedora Release Engineering work. It’s responsible for developing and maintaining services running in Fedora and preparing things for the new Fedora Linux release (mirrors, mass branching, new namespaces etc.).
Issue trackers
Closed tickets
- Fedora Infrastructure – 585
- Fedora RelEng – 617
Fedora Infrastructure highlights
- Pagure to GitLab importer tool
- Digicert codesigning alternative
- Update koji messaging schema
- Skeleton for bridge from fasjson groups to discourse
- Flask-OIDC improvement
- ppc64le workers for osbuild
- mdapi rewrite
Fedora Release Engineering highlights
Photo by Taylor Vick on Unsplash. Modified by Justin W. Flory. CC BY-SA 4.0.
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/2023-year-in-review-infra-releng/
#Fedora39 #FedoraInfrastructure #FedoraLinux38 #Infra #InfraReleng #mdapi #ReleaseEngineering #YearInReview #YearInReview2023
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This is a summary of the work done on initiatives by the Community Platform Engineering (CPE) Team. Every quarter, the CPE team works together with CentOS Project and Fedora Project community leaders and representatives to choose projects that will be being worked upon in that quarter. The CPE team is then split into multiple smaller sub-teams that will work on the chosen initiatives and day-to-day work that needs to be done. Some of the sub-teams are dedicated to the continuous efforts in the team whilst some are created only for the initiative purposes.
This update is made from infographics and detailed updates. If you want to just see what’s new, check the infographics. If you want more details, continue reading.
About
The Community Platform Engineering Team is a Red Hat team that is working exclusively on community projects. Its members are part of Fedora Infrastructure, Fedora Release Engineering and CentOS Infrastructure teams. This team works on initiatives, which are projects with larger scope related to community work that needs to be done. It also investigates possible initiatives with the ARC (The Advance Reconnaissance Crew), which is formed from a subset of the Infrastructure & Release Engineering sub-team members based on the initiative that is being investigated.
Issue trackers
Initiatives
PDC Retirement
PDC is the Product Definition Center, running at: https://pdc.fedoraproject.org/.
However, this application which was developed internally, is no longer maintained. This codebase has been “orphaned” for a few years now and we need to find a solution for it.
We are reviewing and having a critical look on what we store in there, see what is really needed and then find a solution for its replacement.
Status: In Progress
Issue trackers
Documentation
Application URLs
Matrix Native Zodbot
With ongoing stability issues with the Matrix <-> IRC bridge and many contributors switching over to Matrix, Zodbot has become increasingly unreliable. The bridge is currently shut off completely. This initiative aims to provide a future-proof solution and allow us to conduct meetings without wasting time troubleshooting the Matrix <-> IRC bridge and Zodbot.
Status: In Progress
Issue trackers
Documentation
FMN Replacement
FMN is a project that allows people in our community to get notified when messages that interest them fire on the message-bus, making the message-bus more useful to people that are not directly developing or troubleshooting applications running in our infra.
The previous solution had plenty of tech debt which caused lag times between an event happening and the subscriber to be notified, so this initiative rewrote the service from scratch and is now live! Users are recommended to migrate their rules to the new service and notifications can also now be configured to email, IRC and Matrix.
Status: Done
Issue trackers
Documentation
Application URLs
DNF-Countme Update
DNF Mirrors Countme scripts are used to gain statistics data about the downloads of Fedora. Purpose of this initiative is to optimize the current solution by adding more comprehensive testing, removing unnecessary code and reducing storage consumption of the data.
Status: Done
Issue trackers
Documentation
ARC Investigations
Investigate moving registry.fp.o to quay.io
Traditionally, registry.fedoraproject.org was needed as quay.io did not support multiarch which it now does. The purpose of this ticket is to carry out some investigation work to confirm all the above is true as well as finding any other potential blockers to the move.
Status: Done
Documentation
Spam fighting
We had plenty of spam on pagure.io this year. To fight it more effectively, the ARC team tried a few different approaches to recognize and delete spam. It’s now much easier to delete the spam user with all the spam it created.
Status: Done
ARC investigation/planning for FCAS
In order to have a quantitative understanding of how the contributor activity has changed over the years and to provide the foundational support to the Fedora Project strategy 2028’s guiding star about doubling the number of active contributors every week, it is important to have a service that tracks their statistics. This measurement would help make the strategy goal meaningful as well as assist the Fedora Council and the related bodies understand how far they have progressed into making this happen and identify the underlying particular problems that act as a barrier in realizing this objective.
Status: Done
Documentation
Badges backend for new Service
Fedora Badges is a service that grants virtual accolades for milestones and completing tasks within the Fedora Project community. For example, a community member may collect badges for testing package updates on Bodhi when they test 1, 5, 10, 20, 40, 80, 125, 250, 500 and 1000 updates.
Status: Done
Documentation
Pagure to GitLab importer
With Fedora and CentOS now having an official namespace on GitLab, multiple projects want to migrate their repositories from Pagure to GitLab. This initiative is aimed to provide an easy way to migrate those projects.
Status: Done
Documentation
DNF-countme
The purpose of this work was about investigating the current solution and it’s bottlenecks to identify what needs to be done to solve the following problems:
- Storage bottleneck when creating the intermediate database file
- Operations efficiency for the infrastructure team
Status: Done
Documentation
Dist-Git decoupling & ecosystem mapping
The objective of the potential initiative is to move repository contents (including but not limited to source codes, Packit configurations, RPM specfiles) from Pagure Dist-Git to another platform and confirm that the associated tooling and services (including but not limited to FMN, Datanommer, COPR, Toddlers, FMN, CI, Monitor-Gating, Packit, Bodhi, Fedpkg) work well with the newer platform. The investigation aims to be as agnostic as it can be regarding the destination platform to help ideate a general solution for the compatibility of the associated tooling and services.
Status: Done
Documentation
Epilogue
If you get here, thank you for reading this. If you want to contact us, feel free to do it on matrix.
As CPE members are part of Fedora Infrastructure, Fedora Release Engineering and CentOS Infrastructure, see also the Fedora Infra & Releng update and CentOS Infrastructure update.
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/2023-year-in-review-cpe/
#CPE #distGit #DNF #Fedora39 #FedoraInfrastructure #FedoraLinux38 #FedoraMessagingNotificationFMN_ #Infra #Meetbot #YearInReview #YearInReview2023
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Most-Watched Television Networks: Ranking 2023’s Winners and Losers
#Variety #News #Ratings #HBO #Reelzchannel #YearinReviewhttps://variety.com/2023/tv/news/most-watched-channels-2023-tv-network-ratings-1235850482/
