Nostr notes by Joe Ressington

it's certainly sad but they should ride it out. Wait for the ...

2026-03-25T02:47:42Z

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it's certainly sad but they should ride it out. Wait for the vibe slop to become economically unviable and then charge an arm and a leg to clean up all the mess. This is incredibly short-sighted.

if this is true they are fucking cooked.

2026-03-25T02:29:48Z

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if this is true they are fucking cooked.

Just updated my iPad. It wanted me to take a photo of a credit ...

2026-03-24T20:56:48Z

Just updated my iPad. It wanted me to take a photo of a credit card. I did not let it. It then told me I might not be able to access certain things. The future is fucking shit.

@npub19na…nep3 YouTube recommended this to me. The title is a ...

2026-03-16T02:10:49Z

Jason Evangelho 🐧🎒 (npub19na…nep3) YouTube recommended this to me. The title is a bit clickbaity but it's actually really interesting. Made me think of you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiVXocpJmfg

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2026-03-13T01:31:12Z

Fuck "AI" and everything it has fucking ruined.

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2026-03-05T07:06:38Z

you could have fucking walked it by now

2026-02-27T21:50:50Z

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you could have fucking walked it by now

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2026-02-12T04:36:00Z

Part of your skeleton you clean most often

An alarming and growing number of leaders in open source are ...

2026-02-09T18:45:33Z

An alarming and growing number of leaders in open source are starting to embrace generative AI and "agents" etc. We need to push back and let them know that we as a FOSS community do not want this. We must all do our duty to say no to this unethical technology.

Very good piece on why it's pointless to try and debate ...

2026-02-07T23:40:16Z

Very good piece on why it's pointless to try and debate people who are into genAI.

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2026/note-on-debating-llm-fans/

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2026-02-05T02:20:13Z

Moltbook is AI's NFT moment.

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're ...

2026-01-23T03:39:57Z

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Windows, is in fact, Copilot/Windows, or as I've recently taken to calling it, CopilotOS.

I absolutely love that Cory Doctorow is fast becoming a ...

2026-01-11T08:00:03Z

I absolutely love that Cory Doctorow is fast becoming a mainstream voice of reason for the left when it comes to tech and how it intersects with the wider world of geopolitics.

I vote we put him in charge of the world and make Molly White his deputy. Molly can take over when Cory retires.

No one is perfect, but these two genuinely give me hope in an otherwise terribly bleak time.

seen it 🙃

2026-01-07T23:42:14Z

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seen it 🙃

We need a sitcom to watch while eating. We have fairly strict ...

2026-01-07T23:22:32Z

We need a sitcom to watch while eating. We have fairly strict criteria:

+ episodes no longer than 25 mins
+ all of the characters can't be irredeemable arseholes
+ no shaky camera
+ English language

Recommendations welcome. Thanks.

looks like I'll have to try it!

2025-12-20T03:28:28Z

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looks like I'll have to try it!

you're giving normal people, who have never even heard of ...

2025-12-20T02:43:18Z

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you're giving normal people, who have never even heard of Linux, laptops that are running NixOS? Or have I misunderstood this?

It's a pretty weird coincidence that the far right regressive ...

2025-11-30T03:56:43Z

It's a pretty weird coincidence that the far right regressive people in the Linux world are against anything that amounts to progress like systemd, Wayland, Rust etc. I just can't work out what's going on here. 🤔

"Wherever you get your podcasts" is one of the last truly ...

2025-11-16T06:19:01Z

"Wherever you get your podcasts" is one of the last truly empowering ideas in a tech world that's dominated by the very worst people on this planet.

We have lost almost every other medium to the worst people and corporations.

Audio is the last holdout. Spotify tried to take it from us but they failed. They spent the best part of a billion dollars trying to be the YouTube of audio but somehow they failed.

This is why I continue to make audio, and not videos with thumbnails that kill my soul

"Please stop talking about politics on your podcast about ...

2025-10-21T16:05:49Z

"Please stop talking about politics on your podcast about [inherently political] open source software" is a very odd request.

It has become clear to me that @npub15f7…m7wr is going down a ...

2025-10-08T19:06:44Z

It has become clear to me that Framework :fedora: :ubuntu: (npub15f7…m7wr) is going down a very bad path. I hope this is corrected quickly.

WHERE ARE THE POINTLESSLY ODD TIME SIGNATURES

2025-10-05T03:56:53Z

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WHERE ARE THE POINTLESSLY ODD TIME SIGNATURES

Not sure what to make of Taylor Swift's new album. My first ...

2025-10-05T01:43:17Z

Not sure what to make of Taylor Swift's new album. My first impression is that it's not very good and I don't really have any desire to listen to it again. Maybe it's shit then. 🤷‍♂️

Apple and Tim Cook are obviously a shower of bastards, but before ...

2025-10-03T13:33:51Z

Apple and Tim Cook are obviously a shower of bastards, but before you polish you pitchfork too much when you hear that they are kicking ICEBlock out of the App Store, it's worth keeping in mind that it isn't a useful app (quite likely the opposite) and should have been removed weeks ago.

https://micahflee.com/unfortunately-the-iceblock-app-is-activism-theater/

at what cost, though? At what cost?

2025-09-28T06:37:16Z

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at what cost, though? At what cost?

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2025-09-27T05:12:09Z

Fuck it, I'm gonna lean into it. Time to start watering my ...

2025-09-23T02:44:03Z

Fuck it, I'm gonna lean into it. Time to start watering my plants with Gatorade.

price point. (although I'm often guilty of this)

2025-09-10T18:13:35Z

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price point. (although I'm often guilty of this)

If you are talking about a new phone in your YouTube video and ...

2025-09-10T02:46:56Z

If you are talking about a new phone in your YouTube video and you describe it as "5.6mm thin" rather than "5.6mm thick" like a normal person, I'm going to assume you're in a corporate cult and I'm going to stop watching your videos.

I think you'll find I'm very much down with the kids.

2025-08-01T01:55:21Z

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I think you'll find I'm very much down with the kids.

ok boomer

2025-08-01T01:28:06Z

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ok boomer

you don't need controls for videos that short. You either ...

2025-07-31T23:46:24Z

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you don't need controls for videos that short. You either watch the whole thing in one go or you swipe up for the next one if the first few seconds are annoying and/or shit.

Over the last 6 months or so, all the @npub1sy6…9wac shows have ...

2025-07-29T01:42:07Z

Over the last 6 months or so, all the The Late Night Linux Family (npub1sy6…9wac) shows have seen slow and steady growth. This is pretty satisfying. No doubt we have driven off quite a lot of people with our overtly antifash views but more cool people have found us and stuck around.

Audio podcasts like ours without vertical video clips to share on socials only really grow through word of mouth so thanks, everyone! This must be down to you.

So onwards we go, growing slowly and not breaking anything.

This is great. Anyone who moans and complains about it can get ...

2025-07-24T01:51:48Z

This is great. Anyone who moans and complains about it can get fucked.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/07/a-nudge-to-fund-our-future/

Two things Back to the Future Part II got right about the future: ...

2025-07-19T01:40:00Z

Two things Back to the Future Part II got right about the future:

+ Multi-screen experiences
+ Really accurate weather predictions

Even as an old person I find myself watching something on TV while being distracted by my phone. I'm told by my peers that their children do this to an even greater extent.

Huge thunderstorms have been predicted for a couple of days so I adjusted my walking schedule and arrived home tonight just as the first drops of rain appeared. It's now pissing down.

About a month ago I updated the Android version on my Pixel 9 Pro ...

2025-07-09T03:37:27Z

About a month ago I updated the Android version on my Pixel 9 Pro Fold and my back button effectively broke. The monthly update arrived today. It was quite small. Presumably just bug fixes. My back button is still broken. Cool.

fackin scorchio m8

2025-06-19T22:44:22Z

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fackin scorchio m8

Pi 1 with HDMI and LEDs disabled.

2025-06-04T03:38:58Z

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Pi 1 with HDMI and LEDs disabled.

What Molly explains here is quite something. Something deeply ...

2025-06-01T04:41:25Z

What Molly explains here is quite something. Something deeply disturbing. A GPT implementation, promoted by OpenAI, that advises incels to do all sorts of shocking things in their quest to attract women.

It's real future shock stuff. I think my gen X "normie" friends would be completely baffled by the whole thing. Even some zoomers I know wouldn't be able to fully understand it.

Have a read or a listen to Molly reading it out. Then do your best to explain it to people.

https://www.citationneeded.news/openai-incel-chatbot-subhuman-men/

only my wife calls me that but feel free to join her.

2025-05-04T02:27:13Z

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only my wife calls me that but feel free to join her.

There are a lot of mysterious things about Americans. Why they ...

2025-05-03T22:58:08Z

There are a lot of mysterious things about Americans. Why they put up without proper healthcare, why everything is so massive there (cars, portions etc), and why the fuck they keep electing that orange twat to name just a few.

But why on earth they pronounce the name "Craig" as "Cregg" will forever baffle my tiny little brain.

Three sets of elections this week. You look at Canada and ...

2025-05-03T17:05:05Z

Three sets of elections this week. You look at Canada and Australia and they have realised that they don't want a version of Trump.

But English exceptionalism is so bad that we can't put 2 and 2 together and see Farage for what he is.

Moving to a new Mastodon instance is very easy ...

2025-04-29T02:16:09Z

Moving to a new Mastodon instance is very easy

https://joeress.com/moving-to-a-new-mastodon-instance-is-very-easy/

Podcast suggestions, please. But please no Linux, tech, or ...

2025-04-27T01:45:57Z

Podcast suggestions, please. But please no Linux, tech, or politics shows. And no platform exclusive bullshit. Something with an RSS feed.