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• Post #4326256

  PSA! Every time you give Andy Weir money, you're powering the mind behind this: https://lifeonartemis.fandom.com/wiki/Rudy_DuBois

• Post #4326255

  "A suite of new laws restricting cooperation between Maine law enforcement and Department of Homeland Security agents is set to take effect today, less than three weeks after an ICE agent shot and killed 25-year-old Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine. These “ICE Out laws,” as they’re collectively known, will limit collaboration between state and local police and federal agents, and forbid landlords, hospitals, and schools from sharing personal information with ICE.&q...

• Post #4326254

  Mamdani continues to to demonstrate the healthy kind of populism. https://jacobin.com/2026/07/zohran-mamdani-nyc-public-grocery-plan #mamdani

• Post #4326253

  My wife just told me eBay is opting some people into their slop training by default. You can go to your account settings and opt back out if they've done this to you. #ebay #slop

• Post #4081407

  Alright, occupational hazard. I dropped off my reject pile at my friend's book store, and then saw this. Normally the cover and the Stephen King plug would turn me off, but starting into it, this might be a modern Lucifer's Hammer, but hopefully without the racism and sexism. We'll see! #books

• Post #3917354

  I saw a terrible message from DigitalOcean yesterday. I was helping a co-worker learn to do SASL authentication with Postfix, using Dovecot to do the heavy lifting, (second co-worker this week! Breaking people free from Google!) and we got to the point where we were ready to have him send out a test email - a reply to an email I'd just sent him that exercised all the moving parts of his inbound path. But when he tried to send, he couldn't talk to my email server. I checked to make sure...

• Post #3843869

  A friend asked me, "Why is Google moving away from Kubernetes?" I realized that I hadn't ever seen anything put together to talk about it. So I looked, and this talks about it, and has some interesting data I hadn't seen previously: https://aws.plainenglish.io/why-even-google-is-rethinking-kubernetes-internally-a4c457252450 Of course, today, the LLM addiction is doing even more economic harm to companies, but this stuff is still worth knowing. #kubernetes #google

• Post #3843189

  For anyone who hasn't looked at air quality today, take care. It's bad where we are, and it looks like it's bad a lot of places. #airquality #maskup

• Post #3770980

  I've used pkgbasify for the first time, and then immediately thereafter, I upgraded a FreeBSD 15 box to 15.1 with pkg. This is really dramatically faster than freebsd-update. I think I'm hooked on pkgbase now. #freebsd

• Post #3746404

  "Meta’s AI glasses have all sorts of alleged use cases. The real use case is the market of creeps and weirdos who film people out and about without their consent." "And Meta is now in an arms race with its actual paying customers." https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/09/metas-new-ai-creep-glasses-will-record-24-7-without-a-light/ It's worth following @davidgerard@circumstances.run and listening to his podcast. He researches the horror so you don't have to. #privacy #s...

• Post #2765566

  My wife called CVS and couldn't get through the automated system. So I called. I ignored the prompts. I said "raptor" a few times, "help" once, and I made a gurlging noise partway through before reverting to "raptor". Did the trick and I was talking to a person in less than a minute. #cvs #llm #apocalypse

• Post #2765565

  Sometimes listening to some Phil Collins hits the spot.

• Post #2765564

  This was well worth hearing. We're not particularly well prepared for the next pandemic - we're not doing awfully well with the still-ongoing COVID pandemic. https://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/preventing-future-pandemics #covid #pandemic #publichealth

• Post #2765563

  Perhaps he can be tried for war crimes once he's out of office. It might set a good example for the US. "Israel's parliament approved a bill on Wednesday to dissolve itself, potentially bringing forward by a few weeks the next national election, which surveys predict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will lose." https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-vote-dissolve-parliament-may-bring-elections-forward-2026-05-20/ #israel #warcrimes

• Post #2765562

  Here's some good news! "Two police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday seeking to block the Trump administration’s nearly $1.8 billion fund to compensate people who claim they were targets of a “weaponized” legal system." https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/05/20/lawsuit-is-first-known-legal-challenge-new-18-billion-fund/ #trump #criminal #emoluments

• Post #2765561

  It's regularly surprising to me that people support this stuff of their own free will. It won't be long now before people start walking the streets with robes and sticks telling random strangers, "you are not of the body". https://www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/21/google-explains-how-it-will-infuse-ads-into-ai-answers/5244586 #llm #ai

• Post #2765560

  "First vaccines, now mammograms? RFK Jr.’s latest firings have doctors outraged." I wonder if RFK Jr. is secretly pushing beyond "paleo diet" towards "paleo life" where humans don't live past forty. Firing members of the US Preventive Services Task Force is a step in that direction. https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/05/doctors-outraged-after-rfk-jr-fires-leaders-of-key-preventive-medicine-panel/ #publichealth #medicine

• Post #2623529

  This post from @alien is exciting! This is very neat stuff. I'm going to go spin up an account when I get to my computer. I'm really curious about the container registry too. https://fosstodon.org/@alien/116584899021902096 #slackware #git #forgejo

• Post #2539310

  This arrived in the mail today! Such glorious goodness. #lisp #commonlisp #books

• Post #2509455

  This is dismaying. Jewish Voice for Peace is using tracking pixels. This is the second such message I've received from them, and they're making decisions based on my not complying with their surveillance technology. No good. #jvp #jewishvoiceforpeace

• Post #2467815

  This is a beautiful idea: Abandon platforms! The Internet remains. (A nice step in the right direction might be: Abandon web browsers.) https://www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet/ascii I'm really happy they reminded me of Soma FM. I used to listen to Mission Control, and I'm listening to it again right now as I read. I'm grateful to @dougmerritt for posting Terry's article.

• Post #2385543

  I wonder if we couldn't save ourselves a little misery and suffering if we were to all band together and buy Richard Dawkins a preening mirror.

• Post #2385542

  People who write code are programmers. They program. People who really love to write code and take pleasure in elegant systems of codified thought are hackers. They hack. But vibe coders... We need a word for what they do, and I've come up with some possibilities, but I can't decide. Can you help? What do vibe coders do? #llm #taxonomy #nomenclature

• Post #2385541

  It's said that a million monkeys typing for an infinite time will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. LLMs give us a glimpse of the rest of their work. #ai #llm

• Post #2385540

  On this Mother's Day, remember that Renée Good had a young child. #mothersday

• Post #2385539

  Continuing the exploration @tealeg sparked yesterday: lazy-ffi in Chicken Scheme is nice. $ csi CHICKEN (c) 2008-2021, The CHICKEN Team (c) 2000-2007, Felix L. Winkelmann Version 5.3.0 (rev e31bbee5) linux-unix-gnu-x86-64 [ 64bit dload ptables ] Type ,? for help. #;1> (import lazy-ffi) ; loading /var/lib//chicken/11/lazy-ffi.import.so ... ; loading /var/lib//chicken/11/lazy-ffi.so ... ; loading /var/lib//chicken/11/srfi-1.so ... ; loading /var/lib//chicken/11/srfi-69.so ... ; loading /v...

• Post #2385538

  I miss System 6 and earlier. Those were good days. #mac

• Post #2369612

  Who was the more frightening limbless floating robot? #startrek

• Post #2197601

  Reminder, the FreeBSD 15.1 RC process is this month. https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.1R/schedule/ #freebsd

• Post #1937375

  Fascinating article about vision implants and corporate failure. This is why governments should run these projects. Capitalism just can't do it. https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete #vision #medicine