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• Post #2505217

  TIL that if you double park in (I think) Istanbul, they roll up a truck that cantilevers your car onto it's back and takes off with it in about 20 seconds.

• Post #2457345

  I place this in the public domain, hope you find it useful.

• Post #2252595

  A little louder, a reminder: "Good UX" mostly means "I've seen this before." Have you ever seen an adult without your cultural baggage approach a doorknob for the first time? They'll start by pulling it, then pushing it. There's nothing "intuitive" about turning a round doorknob. But you've been trained, so you don't even notice. "...but Apple, but the iphone", the iPhone was never...

• Post #2172144

  free business idea: rear- mounted orange triangles for bikes to fool automatic cars into seeing a pylon. Bike jerseys whose full-back logo is a 5mph speed limit sign.

• Post #2053908

  Dug this out of the crates for my kid, perhaps you would also like to hear Bjork and PJ Harvey covering I Can Get No Satisfaction. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a8RFignlzaM

• Post #1824205

  That rarest of gems - an orange site comment worth recirculating - seems to be making the rounds again. From 2017:

• Post #1771439

  Government agencies can afford their own instances. Companies can afford their own instances. Don't let credibility-moochers use your community as human shields.

• Post #1700655

  If you're switching to Firefox this week, I collected a list of the team's favourite hidden features back when I worked there: https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2020/10/25/navigational-instruments/

• Post #1607920

  You say Beetlejuice or Bloody Mary or anything three times and they appear. But there are billions of people who know this, with some subset saying the names at every moment; milliseconds, barely, of haunt-per-summoning. Monsters appear and vanish before they can be perceived; by the cold power of math alone they effectively no longer exist. So humans are constantly summoning demons to no effect, and the demons themselves are the ones trapped in this strange kaleidoscopic hell of endless demand.

• Post #1394196

  Hands up if you would absolutely have believed a headline saying that the State Department was going to restore America's masculine greatness by communicating only in Impact Bold from now on.

• Post #941449

  Huh. So, just now I learned that you can convert miles to kilometers with the Fibonacci sequence? A mile is 1.609 kilometers. The Golden Ratio, the ratio between Fibonacci numbers as they get large, is 1.618. So, within about 1%. And large doesn't need to be that large, it's actually pretty accurate from about 8 onwards. 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55 89 etc etc 5 miles is 8 km. 21 miles is 34 km. 89 miles is 144 km. etc etc. Kinda neat IMO.

• Post #925385

  Neither stable nor coin but a secret by which I mean arbitrary, volatile and wholly imaginary, third thing. https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/115984706901526780

• Post #925384

  Hey - I'm reposting this since I've updated it a bit. This is my collection of uBlock Origin bonus content. This deliberately breaks you tube embeds, which you might not want, but it also blocks Facebook and X everything, which I bet you do. I hope you find it useful. You can add it by pasting the text of the gist into the My Filters tab behind the gears in the uBlock preferences. (Much love to Mastodon, for needing zero filtering...) https://gist.github.com/mhoye/dcc2c2febe...

• Post #925383

  Press play on this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo8Dvjg5OIw and then watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTnnXhcmSgY

• Post #925382

  (The video of ICE chasing a big middle finger on a rolling office chair is AI slop.)

• Post #925380

  The bizzarro-land ethical conundrum of "should we let people just buy political influence with cash just so movies like 'Melania don't need to be made." I'm thinking about this from an artistic harm-reduction perspective.

• Post #925379

  I have more to write about this, but I think the FOSS world urgently needs to come to grips with the fact that "Sovereignty" and "Liability" are the same thing. Accountability before the state and accountability to the laws of the state are the same thing, If devs can be held responsible for their code, what difference does it make at the implementation level if the injured party is the individual or the state? "Free as in no warranty express or...

• Post #925378

  Buttered Crumpet - a Wallace & Gromit font. https://jamieclarketype.com/case-study/wallace-and-gromit-font/

• Post #925375

  https://wikiedu.org/blog/2026/01/29/generative-ai-and-wikipedia-editing-what-we-learned-in-2025/

• Post #865614

  “Meta abandons fact checking” and “Meta deploys fake AI-generated accounts to boost human engagement” were announced a countable number of hours apart, but for some reason people don’t think they’re the same story.

• Post #848062

  I've just been informed that the people who green-lit a Space Jam remake and released Morbius to theaters twice are describing actors and writers as having unrealistic expectations.

• Post #825465

  It’s not just vibe coding; SAAS has just destroyed people's ideas of how fast computers are or what anything costs. I'm in a... somewhat awkward conversation in a different forum where people are talking about a database migration that's "millions of rows" and "as many as 57k transactions per month" and I'm sitting here thinking, ok so on average a transaction every 40 seconds or so, have you considered putting it on an SD car...

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• Post #726428

  https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/112637213238431183 A friend of mine joked when this came to light the other day that we should start the timer to see how long it would be before some SystemD person crawled out of the woodwork to say that was expected behavior and you're an idiot for using it wrong. And we laughed to ourselves, wouldn't that would be funny, that really is the reputation they have now isn't it. Well, jokes on us, because that's the first fucking...

• Post #670105

  The talks from MatrixConf 2024 are up! Here's mine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs_V8Ns4ggc I haven't even watched the whole thing, and I hope I haven't embarrassed myself any more than the normal amount, but I love (and I say this with genuine love, I laughed for real) that I was introduced as "that guy over there". I'm going to add that to my CV immediately. "Introduced at the 2024 Matrix Conference as 'that guy over th...

• Post #654141

  "We estimate that the Metaverse could generate $4 trillion to $5 trillion in value by 2030." Happy three year anniversary to McKinsey's "A CEO's Guide To The Metaverse". https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/growth-marketing-and-sales/our-insights/a-ceos-guide-to-the-metaverse

• Post #629016

  I was in SF for a few days this week. There are cars lining every street, owners paying pennies an hour if they're paying anything at all for the space and the state is tearing up homeless encampments as though the people in them have anywhere else to go or any way to get there. There are parking lots taking up half a city block all over downtown and an affordable housing crisis. Subsidized housing and full employment programs for cars, subsidized theft and state-sanctioned cruelty for...

• Post #589981

  Working my way through https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en/public-consultations/help-define-next-chapter-canadas-ai-leadership

• Post #451361

  A friend pointed out last night that WinRAR is more profitable than OpenAI and I can't stop thinking about it.

• Post #415971

  The idea that programming is about generating code makes exactly as much sense as the idea that cooking is about generating shit.