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2026-08-22 21:02:07 UTC

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[gesturing] Nobody knows where algebra is! Nobody knows! You need to be Einstein to know where algebra is. People came to me and said, sir, nobody knows more about algebra than you, and that's why we need to tariff bonds with the military. Are we going to let them use their wind farms to blow smoke down to America? Are we going to let them get away with that? No way! Crazy! That's just what those Oxford Commodores want! We're going to get them out of America until they turn the wind farms back.

2026-08-22 20:52:55 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.energy/@Sustainable2050/117138805639634732
I love that we're finally at the utterly-disconnected-from-reality, random insane bullshit stage of this exercise now. Tomorrow, he's going to unilaterally declare a 50% tariff on unamerican vowels. Monday, the Oxford Comma will be formally declared to be a terrorist organization. On Tuesday, he's going to send troops to invade algebra.
https://cosocial.ca/@npub1sgj…vpjx/117138808388807547
#note1f3z…mdfj

2026-08-21 17:25:39 UTC

Fun times talking to people who were working on "national AI strategies" six months ago, who are now quietly talking about outlier-scenario economic disaster-recovery planning.

2026-08-21 13:57:36 UTC

Hey, #mathstodon - a question about "randomness".
The Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe formula demonstrates that in some bases any digit in Pi can independently determined.
My questions are: 1, does this suggest that perceived randomness might in some cases be an artifact of representational choice rather than an inherent property?
And 2: does this have cryptography implications? As in a subset of the "these constants look random but there's actually a generator?"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey%E2%80%93Borwein%E2%80%93Plouffe_formula

2026-08-20 14:00:47 UTC

Butyl tubes are fantastic but pinch flats are the bane of my cycling existence.

2026-08-19 14:00:57 UTC

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I've argued that the main utility of AI is as a dowsing rod for bullshit jobs - if the thing can be done unreliably and badly by someone who doesn't care it's being done unreliably and badly, then that thing is makework bullshit that and it doesn't need to be done at all - but maybe it's more pernicious than that and generative AI is a tool for forcibly turning jobs _into_ bullshit jobs by flooding the market with garbage.

2026-08-18 22:44:25 UTC

Shirts again: Are there Canadian based, full service stickers/shirts/skins shops that people like?
Union preferred, no slop if possible.

2026-08-18 12:56:02 UTC

RE: https://a2mi.social/@misconceptions/117116487453627730
Thesis: that “umami” is a loanword that’s only become part of common English in the last 20 years is monster dunk on British cooking.
#note18my…jgzd

2026-08-17 20:19:18 UTC

Idly wondering if over the entire span of the human endeavour there has ever once been a good or noble or worthwhile idea that’s required the destruction of a book.

2026-08-15 18:41:41 UTC

Harry Potter And The Last Book Came Out 20 Years Ago And The Movies Came Out 15 Years Ago And We All Know Who And What She Is Now And Fuck Everything About That.
Companies doing this in 2026 are picking a side. Just leave and don't say "I'll come back if/when", just walk away.
https://mastodon.social/@brettcannon/117100754497336298
#note1ayu…r7sy

2026-08-15 13:42:12 UTC

Bug Mastodon: WTF is this?
https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/117/099/811/930/429/976/original/f9e874e093ad0bc2.jpeg
https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/117/099/811/951/783/628/original/f587a583ee02a9ab.jpeg

2026-08-14 13:30:34 UTC

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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."
https://www.the-express.com/news/politics/213903/iran-war-reaper-drones-loss

2026-08-14 02:28:08 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@eunews/117090157456097087
Big-metal warfare is dead technology.
The problem is, it's also the only full employment and subsidized education program that both American political parties support.
The U.S. military is shooting $4,000,000 Patriot missiles at $25,000 Iranian Shahed drones that Ukranians are interdicting with $800 drones built out of home 3d-printed parts, off the shelf components and open source software.
Between cheap drones and solar power, the US is losing a two-ocean economic war nobody even sees.
#note1zm5…wv9r

2026-08-13 17:34:01 UTC

I've been pronouncing it "probly" in casual conversation for years to zero pushback, probably - probly! - because I'm an old white dude but still. "It's spelled pro-bab-ly, the ab in the middle of the word is silent" is not a position I'd ever think to take but I've been out here doing that for ages. English is such an amazing contraption of a language.

2026-08-13 12:23:58 UTC

Framing any technical discussion about software choice in terms of the ethics of opt out or opt in is missing the larger point that virtually nobody changes the default settings on their software either way, because outside a rounding-error number of particular nerds nobody knows those choices exist, much less understands them, much less how to express an ethical or moral intention in them, and this is not a people failure, it is a software accessibility failure.

2026-08-13 01:31:33 UTC

Lazyweb, anyone on here worked with STM32 chips with QSPI flash onboard? I have questions and search is terrible now.

2026-08-12 13:55:12 UTC

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There are plenty of examples in my phone - even _phone numbers_ are an example of this sort of nonsense, certainly keyboards are - but another example is my car, an EV, that creeps forward when I'm not touching the gas (lol) pedal the same way an automatic transmission, internal combustion car might.
I wonder how many of these retroformed artifacts are sitting there in plain sight in the various corners of my life my life, invisible to me, hidden by muscle memory and unconsidered history.

2026-08-11 13:23:56 UTC

It would be pretty cool to have real privacy laws in this world, so people could go about their business without having every single action they pursue monitored and carefully calibrated by private multinational actors so they can be targeted and manipulated at any moment at any future date.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/08/new-surveillance-tech-links-your-phone-to-your-license-plate/

2026-08-07 11:14:54 UTC

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So far my opinion of Pluribus is that it's an decent character study that doesn't otherwise make a lot of sense even on its own terms. Seehorn and Vesga's acting carries a story that needs a lot of heavy lifting to move.

2026-08-07 02:31:43 UTC

Giving Pluribus a go, and deus ex i get it but no researcher in the history of ever has stripped out of their hazmat PPE so they could give cpr to a lab rat.

2026-08-06 23:45:12 UTC

Wild that all the news says it's a press release and there are no photos or recordings of him saying anything, and people are sticking with "McConnell said".

2026-08-06 17:04:20 UTC

RE: https://wandering.shop/@skimbrel/117046812404530861
So after diarrhea lettuce and salmonellapeños, what are we betting on to round out the trifecta? Tuberculomatos? E. corni?
#note1827…nrpx

2026-08-05 20:48:34 UTC

Is there any point in responding to a blooski bridgy account on masto?

2026-08-05 15:41:44 UTC

Calm down, shuffle.
https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/117/043/658/020/145/874/original/84082f31b35c0d3a.jpeg

2026-08-04 17:53:27 UTC

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I don't like these arguments either, but the question of what happens to a democratic society when the cost of generating an arbitrary number of synthetic identities drops to zero is I think an important one.
https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/117/038/508/880/116/246/original/0745fa29b7228021.png

2026-08-02 21:07:43 UTC

Random question about cookware: My teflon pans are giving up the nonsticking ghost here, and on the one hand, I'm kind of disinclined to keep participating in the convenient-but-forever-chemicals process, but on the other hand I've never had any other nonstick option work worth a damn. While I'm looking into moving to induction sometime soon but my family dislikes the weight of cast iron.
Has anyone tried out nitrided steel? What do we think, and are there other options?

2026-08-02 16:45:00 UTC

Funny thing I learned today for reasons I can't share: all the ringing and connection noises you hear when you make a phone call from a cell are no more real than the static on flat screen TVs set to a dead input. They're just recordings being played back for you to signal to you it's working.

2026-08-02 15:19:53 UTC

"Blackstone's Ratio" is famously the argument that "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer."
In mechanical terms, this means that in the application of the law a 90% false-negative rate is morally defensible; a 10% false-positive rate is not.
This is the foundation of our entire idea of "reasonable doubt."
With a 29% accuracy rate, nothing Flock does cannot be reasonably doubted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_ratio
https://infosec.exchange/@adamshostack/117026508916658391

2026-07-31 21:38:00 UTC

It's aged spectacularly poorly, but I think it's possible that a modern retelling that recognized Newman as the unsung hero of the entire series could be pretty good.

2026-07-30 18:23:26 UTC

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Maybe it’s only funny to me but the funny part is that this was a Costco run.

2026-07-30 17:52:16 UTC

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https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/117/010/192/984/246/079/original/125b3fd45ef36642.jpeg

2026-07-30 17:01:24 UTC

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https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/117/009/957/709/020/085/original/9840f6fd65b85f07.jpeg

2026-07-30 16:45:59 UTC

https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/117/009/937/601/890/807/original/825938db5b5cae1e.jpeg

2026-07-29 22:51:32 UTC

True #canadian fact: you’ve got a one in three chance of ruining any Canadian genXers’ day by reminding them they used to like Moxy Früvous.

2026-07-29 14:38:10 UTC

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Imagine watching a world burn and acting as though the externalities and consequences of your actions aren't real as long as you, personally, enjoy a convenience.

2026-07-29 14:33:23 UTC

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Whenever I hear "but for me AI is useful", all I hear is the end of the Parable Of The Nazi Bar. "you have to ignore all their reasonable arguments because their end goal is to be terrible, awful people."
Except the AI enthusiasts are legitimizing, empowering and funding the terrible, awful people, for that meager benefit.
Imagine the Parable Of The Nazi Bar ending with "... but they pay their tabs and sometimes wipe the counters and that's useful for me so it's fine to let this happen."

2026-07-29 14:23:36 UTC

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@ltriant/117002472059958347
These two posts in immediate succession in my feed, destroyed books and propaganda floodplains.
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:twjze4qqf6fgxz33ct52wlnl/post/3mrq4ojrmhk2q

2026-07-28 21:41:33 UTC

There is no path; these footprints lead nowhere. But on the day you seek what I am seeking we will surely meet in the forest.
https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/116/999/631/048/315/857/original/dc46ea160e596c73.jpeg

2026-07-28 18:20:06 UTC

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Spiritual Continuous Improvement.

2026-07-28 18:04:44 UTC

RE: https://beige.party/@geekysteven/116998668352437593
“Soul patch” implies the existence of Soul Diff, Soul Merge and above a certain level of enlightenment, Soul Version Control.
#note1mau…xfmp

2026-07-28 00:35:52 UTC

Check out the ambition on this guy.
I’ve updated my pizza dough recipe to equal parts water and flour and longer in the stand mixer. This guy got a five or six hours rise on the counter, and then it’s portioned into ziplock bags in the fridge until Friday to get that cold ferment going. I think I’m going to go for that cast iron skillet technique this week.
https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2026/02/10/pizza-progress/
https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/116/994/775/124/603/941/original/12b236217ae1b1fb.jpeg
https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/116/994/785/561/761/915/original/95408e02927687b7.jpeg

2026-07-27 03:50:30 UTC

The song “You can leave our hat on” never describes the hat, please suggest one.

2026-07-27 03:27:44 UTC

So… the current state of iOS games and mobile gaming generally is “this whole ecosystem is an afterthought” now, correct? Apart from some arty endless runners (Alto, Tiny wings, Canabalt, etc) and some novel uses of the medium (Device 6, Prune, Hundreds, Ridiculous Fishing) is this all gatcha grindouts and threadbare ports of years-old pc/console games?

2026-07-24 13:26:40 UTC

Me yelling over the fence at the neighbour whose dog woke me up: "I IMPOSE A FIFTY PERCENT TARRIF!"

2026-07-23 13:52:23 UTC

I'm reminded of @npub1tq4…6nqn 's correct observation that the reason to use open source software is that over any time horizon that matters proprietary software doesn't exist.
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/why-no-more-imax-70mm-screens-the-odyssey-christopher-nolan-1236813019/
https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/116/969/612/311/804/571/original/18b9f8d402736e56.png

2026-07-16 17:15:38 UTC

A bit of joy from work, in getting to write the rollback planning and policy documentation.
One super-secret way you can drive the major cultural improvements of psychological security and emotional safety, not to mention the million invisible efficiencies of a well-functioning workplace culture is by writing the documentation about what people should do and who they can go to when things go really, really wrong.
@npub18g0…0a9e has been a huge inspiration for this.

2026-05-25 02:38:03 UTC

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The coolest fact I know about the human brain is that people who are blind from birth will gesture when they speak in ways that are both similar to sighted people who share their native language and differ from other blind-from-birth people who speak a different language.
Our languages are connected to our bodies in ways that provably exist but that we don’t yet understand at all.

2026-05-24 23:37:56 UTC

If you take Nvidia out of the picture this is a massacre. It's a bloodbath of red ink.
https://isaiprofitable.com/

2026-05-24 19:11:30 UTC

The only difference is that electron wrapper is a browser that works for them, not for you. Tracking protection, adblockers, none of that in here for you!
https://mastodon.social/@PavelASamsonov/116623276420116169
#note1eth…t2sg

2026-05-20 04:00:59 UTC

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Yeah, I saw that. I'm a Firefox house with aggro adblock, though, so I ignored it.

2026-05-20 03:04:30 UTC

Some magnificently sinister antipatternist interface bullshit from Linkedin here.
Notifications _before_ I log in?
How, please explain, do you know?
https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/116/604/679/226/145/184/original/f8d466155b51cce7.png

2026-05-19 17:17:55 UTC

If you rely on Bitwarden, they've changed leadership and are now on the PE extract-and-exit track. Start working on your backup/exit strategy as soon as you reasonably can.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-quiet-renovation-at-bitwarden

2026-05-15 16:44:11 UTC

if the horse's name is actually "a horse with no name" then the whole song is hinting at the existence of an entire new who's-on-first skit lying undiscovered since the seventies

2026-05-12 01:56:11 UTC

I hate the term 'normies', but I would like a term for the non-domain-specialists who have had computers shanked into their lives involuntarily and have to navigate the Many Indignities Of Computer despite Not Being Computer People. "Users" sounds like somebody saying they only use meth for the articles or something. "Operator" is sort of specialist-inflected already; so much of the terminology around this nonsense is tied to identity and anchored in an undeserved elitism that I despise.

2026-05-11 01:41:23 UTC

I see that today @npub1m49…yl0h has chosen violence.
https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/03/incident-report-cve-2024-yikes.html

2026-05-06 18:26:11 UTC

It's kind of amazing how many veteran Linux greyhairs I've seen, downstream of the age-check-in-systemd decision, saying well I guess I need to get comfortable with a BSD now. Thirty plus years of deep-grooved Debian/RedHat muscle memory to a one, quietly tidying up and looking for the exits.

2026-04-15 18:00:18 UTC

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"Age verification is not a fix, but ignoring the problem isn't a fix either, so we're going to verify age" is silly, and this whole exercise is an attempt _by social media companies_ to push the burden of responsibility for age verification - and the liability for failure - away from the people who _should_ be verifying the ages of their customers: those same social networks.

2026-04-15 12:25:57 UTC

Age verification is a deliberate attack on system sovereignty, both for individuals and countries. There’s no “age verifcation”, there is only “identity verification that includes age”, and the system doing verification is not just a privacy-invasive user tracking system but a remotely controlled off switch for anyone of any age.

2026-04-13 19:24:10 UTC

My kingdom for a "presentation browsing" browser mode, "demo browsing" as distinct from "private browsing". Regular browsing but hide toolbars and don't offer to autocomplete or show history/bookmark suggestions. Private-in-display, not private-in-data-storage.

2026-04-06 19:15:31 UTC

A picture of Margaret Hamilton, programmer for the Apollo space program, standing next to not one single microsoft error message or bluetooth problem.
https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/116/359/346/646/309/159/original/99b557b9b4e64639.png

2026-03-29 21:07:47 UTC

jfc
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2521256-ai-data-centres-can-warm-surrounding-areas-by-up-to-9-1c/

2026-03-27 22:13:54 UTC

I do not get tired of the fact that my phone insists on correcting “Angine de Poitrine” to “engine de poutine”.

2026-03-27 17:14:20 UTC

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what what what
https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/116/302/259/126/976/268/original/c3b0650ff3a6db3c.png

2026-03-27 17:05:15 UTC

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"Do you want to die fast or slow" is a whole product genre in this space.
https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/116/302/222/857/085/606/original/f21cad7f81a97dde.png

2026-03-27 17:02:08 UTC

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Fame but at what cost
https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/116/302/205/086/677/710/original/f7958a72ebf0880b.png

2026-03-27 16:57:51 UTC

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"Cigarettes".
https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/116/302/194/003/028/435/original/78e4afe6f77c59ad.png

2026-03-27 16:54:31 UTC

I'm looking for cases I can repurpose for a meshtastic project without needing to 3d print things and I'm reminded once again that the AliExpress cultural chasm is a lawless, unhinged cultural free-fire zone.
https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/116/302/170/247/553/162/original/31357d665da25eed.png

2026-03-27 11:29:34 UTC

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the thing porn and software have in common is that they’re both more difficult businesses to be in than you’d think because so many people are willing to make it and give it away for free.

2026-03-26 12:22:22 UTC

I have to admit I'm enjoying OpenAI's progression from "we're building the future of synthetic sentience, we will be the birthplace of a new silicon hypergod, everyone better watch out" to "well, artificial general intelligence is kind of hard to define, maybe that's not a useful term" to "we can't figure out how to make any money selling people personally-tailored pornography generators so we're turning their chatbot girlfriends off."
I'm looking forward to their next big innovation!

2026-03-26 12:18:45 UTC

We really, really need to enshrine in law the idea that fines be proportional to the size of the entity being fined. Stop fining near-trillion-dollar companies in the millions and start fining them in percentages of their market cap. Fifty million dollars is shake out the couch money to these guys. Two percent of market cap and you're goddamn right they'll pay attention.

2026-03-26 02:42:42 UTC

“Clearly, there are only four kinds of student: brave but not smart, smart but not evil, evil but not brave, and chubby.”
“Well yes, obviously.”
“And the way to teach these students is to have a talking leather hat decide which one they are and then make them fight each other.”
In hindsight Rowling’s self-loathing and hatred of any idea of self-selected identity is obvious from the text. None of her characters choose for themselves who or what they want to be.

2026-03-25 16:44:38 UTC

I used to believe that anyone saying TL;DR was just an asshole, but thanks to modern innovation the invention of llm summaries has automated the being-an-asshole process.
Somebody in a leadership position who uses language models to summarize what their reports tell them, and then send generated replies back is adding zero value to an organization and their dismissal will cost the company nothing.
https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116290410669187001
#note10a4…scsk

2026-03-25 15:54:44 UTC

A random question: My place was built with all the plumbing for a central-vac system that I have no intention of using ever. What alternative uses might I have, for this idle series of tubes? Right answers, speculative answers and hilariously wrong answers equally welcome.

2026-03-24 18:31:56 UTC

accidentally typed 'meshcore' as 'menshcore', which makes me think of a ska band made up of orthodox jews who write loud songs about how some people are good people sometimes

2026-03-22 15:47:00 UTC

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Seeing “callout culture” discussed like it’s about having the courage to shame other people isn’t just a misunderstanding, it’s the kind of ugly ignorance that can only come from parting something out of someone else’s culture, stripping it of context and history and acting like whatever’s left belongs to you. The other term for cultural appropriation is culture, sure, I get it, but there’s such a thing as taking without context, without understanding and without giving back

2026-03-22 15:23:21 UTC

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I also believe this was at the core of a lot of the fedi’s disputes about quote posts: “we don’t want quote posts because it leads to pile on behavior that’s better handled by blocklists or mods” v. “We have to have quote posts specifically because our community doesn’t and can’t trust outside mods to understand or even see what we see”.
It’s reasonable for a community to hear, “you can’t have the tools you need to self-police safely” and to interpret that to mean “you’re not welcome here”.

2026-03-22 14:47:22 UTC

I believe that in authoritarian-leaning cultures “callout culture” has a perfomative shaming function, but in cultures authority-averse cultures it becomes a form of soft self-policing. If you’re comfortable calling the cops, you might find it tasteless or pointless! But if your community - reasonably - does not feel any safety around cops or formal authority structures, it’s a necessary tool for community safety.
https://hachyderm.io/@recursive/116271640740835563

2026-03-22 13:17:03 UTC

“/home is a temp file” wasn’t enough of a warning, I guess.

2026-03-20 12:16:23 UTC

Where does “board member saying something that’s obviously nonsense about the company finances” fit on our hierarchy of market-legible signals?
https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116260908095581163
#note13l5…50ew

2026-03-18 15:53:41 UTC

Once again I am heartbroken to remind you that the Dunning-Kruger effect is probably not real:
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking/dunning-kruger-effect-probably-not-real
Like Freudian psychology, Hardin's tragedy of the commons and any number of other popular pseudoscientific narratives, it caters to our preconceptions and makes fore entertaining, easy to re-tell stories, but it's also... not true.
And - again, I am entirely saddened by this - that means that if we keep using these metaphors we're legitimizing the false ideas behind them.

2026-03-18 02:29:47 UTC

There was a time when Dril’s identity was leaked and we all just agreed to ignore that and mind our business as if it hadn’t happened and I think we owe Banksy at least that much.

2026-03-17 17:50:27 UTC

Is there an elegant way, in the shell, to say “run this program until this other program is finished”?
I know I could run a thing, get a PID and then append a command with “&& kill pid” or something but that feels clunky.

2026-03-17 17:07:36 UTC

Imagine being a newspaper editor looking out at the world, chomping that cigar and shouting "this whimsical protest graffiti has to be stopped. Find out who he is!"
Even J Jonah Jameson set his sights higher than this.

2026-03-17 14:02:05 UTC

Two games, both called "Piece by Piece", were coincidentally released within a few days of each other by their developers.
They got in touch with each other, and now both games are available together as a Steam Bundle, because reasonable people can find mutually respectful, no-drama ways to solve problems.
https://www.polygon.com/steam-games-piece-by-piece-bundle/
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/68985/Piece_by_Piece_Double/

2026-03-17 01:15:18 UTC

ok I laughed
https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/116/241/850/875/120/526/original/caba33a591950118.png

2026-03-16 17:39:19 UTC

"By taking a total dependency on this privately-owned, centralized system that generates the thing, the thing will be democratized."
because i actually think words mean things
and I have to ask
will it
will it really

2026-03-15 21:52:28 UTC

Anyone else remember that thing where 2020 taught us that a bufferless, deeply interconnected world of just-in-time production was incredibly fragile, and an otherwise completely manageable temporary disruption would cascade quickly into economic catastrophe, but instead of learning any lessons or building resilient, humane infrastructure we told everyone that the crisis was past and normal was back and go sacrifice your lives and health to grease the machine?
I do.
https://www.techspot.com/news/111683-critical-semiconductor-gas-lost-third-global-supply-drone.html

2026-03-14 20:14:20 UTC

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"Do you have any formal training in in this field at all?"
"I believe you can get equivalent expertise through alternative, non-academic paths, like reading books."
"Did you read any books on this topic?"
"No."

2026-03-14 14:14:39 UTC

Amazing watching these doge kids testifying. Moral toddlers.

2026-03-13 20:43:43 UTC

Where all these age verification laws seen to be coming from: https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings

2026-03-12 17:58:59 UTC

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What options do I have, if I want an operating system and software that is created reproducibly by non-proprietary generators?

2026-03-12 17:23:16 UTC

Devuan it is then.
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/main/AGENTS.md

2026-03-11 14:37:15 UTC

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You burn 6M tokens, and what do you get / you get another day older and deeper in debt /St Peter don’t you call me cause I can’t go / I owe my soul to anthropic and claude

2026-03-11 14:20:44 UTC

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Great news, our company won't be charging you when you use the washroom in the office anymore, you can use the washrooms for free, we're calling it our Whole Body Compensation Strategy.
You'll still need to badge in to the washroom though, we aren't turning that off.

2026-03-11 11:24:45 UTC

“We can’t sell it so we’re giving it to you for free” does not sound to me like “compensation”.
https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-compute-compensation-software-engineers-greg-brockman-2026-3

2026-03-10 13:43:43 UTC

I wonder how often we're going to see "popular app leaks private user data in massive breach" and "common misconfiguration of Google Firebase" before anyone at Google starts to take some sort of responsibility for their tool.
https://www.404media.co/viral-quittr-porn-addiction-app-exposed-the-masturbation-habits-of-hundreds-of-thousands-of-users/
https://news.google.com/search?q=firebase%20misconfiguration

2026-03-08 22:23:15 UTC

Saddened to see vim, neovim, fresh, all vibeholed.

2026-03-08 22:18:02 UTC

“Appears to contradict” is one of those sentences I wish journalists were only allowed to use once per subject. Afterwards, you just have to say, this person’s claims are unverified, or cannot be taken at face value.

2026-03-06 13:22:56 UTC

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"Respectfully, there's no such thing as providing mechanism without policy. There is only mechanism with safe, well-considered default policy or unsafe, unconsidered default policy."
Going to bite my tongue after that.

2026-03-06 13:14:59 UTC

I'm trying very hard not to get into a fight on github after being told that a package manager should implement _mechanism_ not _policy_, a canard I haven't heard in probably 15 years.
Deciding not to set safe, reasonable defaults is an abdication of responsibility. It's negligence. We've tried doing it that way and we just know that now.