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• Post #4394652

  If you don't all clap, Clankerbell will die! https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2026/01/20/ai-boom-could-falter-without-wider-adoption-microsoft-chief-satya-nadella-warns/

• Post #4360988

  A bunch of firefighters in full gear (https://fire-end.com/collections/halligan-tool/products/hire-hooks-hybrid-halligan-bar !) walked through the apartment's common area (I asked, "burned food set off an alarm, all good") and I was immediately struck by how DIFFERENT an experience it is from police doing the same thing. I'm reminded why nobody has ever written a song called "fuck the fire department". These guys are unambiguously here to help, know what they're...

• Post #4265639

  Note to self: the trick to properly flexible um̈lauts is echo -e 'm\xcc\x88' (Which is, admittedly, a 10 yard penalty for abuse of explicit utf8 to create unicode combining characters. The ref gives you a purple card if they catch you.)

• Post #4265638

  The Electric Trucker is posting videos translated to english again (from German). He just got a lightly customized electric semi built to take on a world tour to show _everybody_ has charging infrastructure now, and Phineas Fogg can go around the world in 80 megawatts. https://youtu.be/H4qTi3AOhWY He'd previously (understandably) given up on the English speaking world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALd4vDlUmV0

• Post #4265637

  The reason "AI" data centers are so loud: https://gizmodo.com/this-viral-data-center-sounds-like-satans-buzzsaw-2000791122 And terribly polluting: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/pollution-musks-unpermitted-xai-power-project-hits-hardest-black-communities-2026-07-14/ Is real gas turbines are backordered for SEVEN YEARS: https://www.spglobal.com/energy/en/news-research/latest-news/electric-power/052025-us-gas-fired-turbine-wait-times-as-much-as-seven-years-costs-up-shar...

• Post #4265636

  A developer is creating a firefox fork removing tens of thousands of lines of "AI" features. https://mastodon.social/@sarahjamielewis/116999414866668884

• Post #4265635

  Checking ID in bars was _also_ the thin end of the wedge. https://hachyderm.io/@evacide/116999414583570844 No matter how well-intentioned your "we know better than you" patronizing, it's _going_ to serve fascism eventually. But the ends justify the means THIS time because we're so horrified by Thing We're Against: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_emergencies_in_the_United_States

• Post #4265634

  I've been listening to a lot of Rory Sutherland's talks. He's an old marketer who pushes back against stupid financialization of business. (Number go up is Goodhart's law.) https://youtu.be/ppXQrtE1PyI

• Post #4265633

  According to @pluralistic when Uber̈ used surveillance to stop passing surge pricing through to drivers, they created "bizarro world marxism" where you pay according to your ability and they work according to their need. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dAIJRjb-Bw (I still say capitalism is the new religion. Churches->banks, priests->bankers, sin->debt... but it's just as made up. Money isn't real, it's a social construct. When peop...

• Post #4265632

  Africa installed more solar power in the first half of 2026 than in all of 2025, and is on course to triple last year. https://www.africa-energy.com/live-data/article/african-2026-grid-solar-additions-surpass-those-2025 This is what S-curves look like.

• Post #4265631

  "Sex addiction" and "porn addiction" are not real medical diagnoses. https://www.scarleteen.com/read/sex-sexuality/facts-porn-sex-addiction They're just more made up Project 2025 pearl clutching and scaremongering from prudish assholes.

• Post #4265630

  Pop culture references aren't a new invention. Cartoons' "Which way did he go, George" referenced a famous 1939 "Of Mice and Men" movie starring Lon Cheney. https://youtu.be/urNpNc9z6-w The same channel also described how hayes code censorship ended Betty Boop. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zNGIOqExoA

• Post #4265629

  While loading a webcomic site, firefox just popped up a dialog to save a zero byte file called "about:blank" if you're wondering how the vibe coding is going.

• Post #4265628

  Every problem she lists would be solved by guillotining enough billionaires. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBZv0_MImIY Billionaires can voluntarily stop being billionaires at any time, they're the ones who insist it can only happen over their cold dead bodies. I lobby to change the law to acknowledge their position: hoarding an offensive amount of capital should be a capital offense, with due process of law, ending at a guillotine. Taxes are a wishy-washy compromise position nobody t...

• Post #4174018

  A "conservative" is someone who found a lungful of air they liked 30 years ago and hasn't changed it since.

• Post #3985365

  Microsoft implanted a Global Device ID into each windows install so the FBI can track any windows machine through VPNs. https://www.pcmag.com/news/a-hackers-arrest-reveals-microsoft-can-track-users-via-a-windows-device https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/court-filing-reveals-windows-device-id.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkvetmzCh_M

• Post #3942309

  Amazon Web Services was built when Moore's Law was still happening, meaning they knew their data centers would be cheaper to repair and cheaper to upgrade in future. AI data centers will only get _more_ expensive to maintain as the helium runs out and international shipping faces state sponsored piracy and so on. They're spending trillions to do what AWS spent billions on because Moore's Law stopped, but their business model depends on it continuing.

• Post #3926829

  How is the state of the US healthcare system not being addressed via guillotine? (Health insurance is not health care.) https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/birthday-rule-denied-medical-claims-colorado/

• Post #3696109

  Over 70% of the Dutch responses to the EC consultation on stricter rules for selling vapes were AI-generated, presumably by Phillip Morris. https://nos.nl/l/2620686

• Post #3518026

  The Linux developers have started removing 486 support. https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linux-devs-start-removing-support-for-37-year-old-intel-486-cpu-head-honcho-linus-torvalds-says-zero-real-reason-to-continue-support I really need to get netbsd installed on a laptop...

• Post #3467291

  The important thing is to prosecute every single collaborator for every single offense after the octogenarian dies and the regime falls. https://sfba.social/@karlauerbach/116830782669560454 The neuremberg trials are why we got ~70 nazi-free years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_executions

• Post #3097676

  Myspace was THE social media site... until Fox News' parent company bought it in 2005. Hotmail was THE online email site... until Microsoft bought it in 1998. Skype was THE video calling platform... until Microsoft bought it in 2011. Twitter was THE short form social media site... until Elon Musk bought it in 2022. There's a pattern here. Microsoft bought github in 2018, dice.com bought sourceforge in 2012...

• Post #2965497

  Culture is full of persephone eating pomegranate seeds, beware of greeks bearing gifts, don't eat fairy food, don't accept favors from demons because you'll owe them, monkey's paw wishes... And then all these "ain't no such thing as a free lunch" fuckers tell you to check in LLM pull requests, and mock the reluctant as fools. STRINGS ARE VERY MUCH ATTACHED. This crap is fucking sticky at nuclear contamination levels. You pivoted from NFTs to this, we watched you do...

• Post #2923412

  I started today with eight fairly high priority time sensitive todo items, and have done two of them. I'm going to take the win.

• Post #2923411

  Sadly, projects have lifespans. I'm experiencing that with Linux, and now Wikipedia[citation needed] is succumbing to capitalism: https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/116643105080029251 Which explains https://mstdn.ca/@PatrickWirth/113870089909281547

• Post #2923410

  I met the linux/arch/hexagon developers at ELC last week, and I'm trying to get their target properly working in the next mkroot release. They actually have a qemu-system-hexagon they say linux boots under now: https://github.com/qualcomm/qemu/tree/hex-next I still need to build their forked qemu and their forked kernel, but things are progressing upstream and they have actual documentation: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bcain/linux.git/tree/Documentation/arch/hexago...

• Post #2923408

  California AB 1856 is attempting to at least partially unfuck Gavin "spyware" Newsom's mandatory OS age discrimination before it kicks in on the 1st. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVersionsCompareClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1856 Maybe I _won't_ have to delete all my software off the internet on December 31 to doge Blue Maga's version of Texas' abortion bounties? (Yeah I lost access to github's web UI when https://mstd...

• Post #2923407

  Fuck no. https://www.androidcentral.com/phones/samsung-galaxy/your-samsung-phone-is-officially-a-tsa-approved-digital-passport

• Post #2263150

  Kids in the UK are defeating age checks by drawing on a mustache with eyebrow pencil. https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/kids-are-bypassing-online-age-checks-by-drawing-fake-beard-on-their-face/ It's not that the checks are porous, I"m sure they'll get more expensive. It's that pearl-clutching fascist plutocrats are teaching a generation to rebel against authority en masse because their elders are fucking idiots who have no respect for them, and the only w...

• Post #1873187

  People complain about software nobody maintains anymore. https://fedi.lwn.net/@lwn/116477056237142860 They freak about legacy software where nobody is left alive who understands it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8oc_UXgD2A But they're happy to depend on something an LLM spit out that no human has EVER understood. At least the unmaintained legacy stuff was thought through and tested.