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• Post #3528583

  Seems bad, a mass surveillance act progressing through Congress, again in the name of "protecting children," bah https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/kids-act-would-require-age-checks-get-online

• Post #2542473

  I'll be getting a table at Vintage Computing Festival (VCF) Southeast 2026 this year in Atlanta! And it looks like I'll be able to present my talk on the history of Loadstar there too! https://vcfed.org/events/otherevents/vintage-computer-festival-southeast/

• Post #2536971

  Hay eveybodie, They Might Be Giants is giving away a free download of Flood in America, a collection of songs from Flood as performed on live tours, for today and tomorrow only! Here: https://tmbgshop.com/collections/all/products/flood-live-in-america-download

• Post #2430241

  Thinking about switching from Gmail to some other email. They've decided to move their purely Baynesian promotion filter under the same umbrella their AI features are under, so you can't have the first without the second, and I'm fed up. Any suggestions?

• Post #2430239

  WIRED: "Chrome users were caught off guard by a 4-GB Google AI model baked into Chrome, sparking privacy concerns. The good news: You can easily uninstall it. The bad? You might not want to." PLEASE DON'T PRESUME WHAT I WILL AND WONT WANT WIRED MAGAZINE

• Post #2430238

  I mentioned Wrong People yesterday. I mean that, not just to mean people who say something incorrect, but people who, for whatever reason, _constantly_ say things that are incorrect. Of course different people will have different definitions of wrongness, but... Often you'll find people who, for whatever reason, are _consistently_ wrong. Not randomly wrong, but you get the sense that they have ulterior motives for their wrongness. Maybe they're trying to push the discourse in so...

• Post #2430235

  I've been working on a silly little terminal game. Deliver the mail to the people in a small (one screen-sized) kingdom. Problem is, there's one randomly-placed live landmine left over from the recent war. Everyone has an idea of where it is, but not everyone is right. It's not the kind of game where you deduce its location. It's the kind of game where you use what info you get and hope for the best. And if you lose, hey, it takes like five minutes to play.

• Post #1967372

  I just found an amazingly AI slop computer explainer video. It's awful! The illustrations hurt my brain! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIrwKuAwjZE

• Post #1967371

  NETHACK 5.0 is out. https://nethack.org/ I am literally crying right now.

• Post #1967370

  There are two poles of Linux use. There's people who use it like they used Windows, as a GUI with settings and knobs. You usually get your software out of a repository, and if you don't a .deb now looks just like a .msi installer. If you're using Mint or Ubuntu, it'll look very familiar to you. But it's a lot easier than on Windows to drop down to the underlevel. The terminal prompt. It's like the old DOS prompt, but far more powerful, and actuall...

• Post #1967365

  Remember Slashdot? Long long ago i submitted an article about a new Nethack version to its front page and they published it. Well, on a whim, I went back and submitted one about Nethack 5.0, and not only did they publish it this time also, but unprompted by me they also linked to my @Play column about it. https://games.slashdot.org/story/26/05/04/0137222/nethack-50-released

• Post #1947771

  'pparently now some people are starting to call No AI No Matter What folk (pretty much people like me) haters. I mean setting aside how this economically benefits terrible companies, how the great push for building datacenters for these things will consume resources... ...how they're all made possible only by the outright theft of data from countless websites, how they're profiting off the kindness and generosity of people putting information on websites... ...how AI s...