Nostr notes by mhoye

If you rely on Bitwarden, they've changed leadership and are ...

2026-05-19T17:17:55Z

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

"Age verification is not a fix, but ignoring the problem ...

2026-04-15T18:00:18Z

In reply to nevent1q…hnsr
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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.

Age verification is a deliberate attack on system sovereignty, ...

2026-04-15T12:25:57Z

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.

My kingdom for a "presentation browsing" browser mode, ...

2026-04-13T19:24:10Z

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.

A picture of Margaret Hamilton, programmer for the Apollo space ...

2026-04-06T19:15:31Z

A picture of Margaret Hamilton, programmer for the Apollo space program, standing next to not one single microsoft error message or bluetooth problem.

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2026-03-29T21:07:47Z

jfc

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

I do not get tired of the fact that my phone insists on ...

2026-03-27T22:13:54Z

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

what what what ...

2026-03-27T17:14:20Z

In reply to nevent1q…x2jc
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what what what

"Do you want to die fast or slow" is a whole product ...

2026-03-27T17:05:15Z

In reply to nevent1q…xn39
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"Do you want to die fast or slow" is a whole product genre in this space.

Fame but at what cost ...

2026-03-27T17:02:08Z

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Fame but at what cost

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2026-03-27T16:57:51Z

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"Cigarettes".

I'm looking for cases I can repurpose for a meshtastic ...

2026-03-27T16:54:31Z

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.

the thing porn and software have in common is that they’re both ...

2026-03-27T11:29:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…aznd
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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.

I have to admit I'm enjoying OpenAI's progression from ...

2026-03-26T12:22:22Z

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!

We really, really need to enshrine in law the idea that fines be ...

2026-03-26T12:18:45Z

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.

“Clearly, there are only four kinds of student: brave but not ...

2026-03-26T02:42:42Z

“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.

I used to believe that anyone saying TL;DR was just an asshole, ...

2026-03-25T16:44:38Z

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

quoting
note10a4…scsk

I personally consider "I asked ChatGPT to generate a response to you" not witty but a form of an insult. Don't do that please. If that is how you want to talk to people at least don't tell me. It's offensive.

A random question: My place was built with all the plumbing for a ...

2026-03-25T15:54:44Z

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.

accidentally typed 'meshcore' as 'menshcore', ...

2026-03-24T18:31:56Z

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

Seeing “callout culture” discussed like it’s about having ...

2026-03-22T15:47:00Z

In reply to nevent1q…fd25
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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

I also believe this was at the core of a lot of the fedi’s ...

2026-03-22T15:23:21Z

In reply to nevent1q…843t
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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”.

I believe that in authoritarian-leaning cultures “callout ...

2026-03-22T14:47:22Z

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

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2026-03-22T13:17:03Z

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

Where does “board member saying something that’s obviously ...

2026-03-20T12:16:23Z

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

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note13l5…50ew

Mike Masnick, who sits on the board of #Bluesky, claims the team was too busy to announce the series B funding (see screenshot).

But something is fishy.

Even the VC firm - Bain Capital Crypto - isn't listing Bluesky anywhere on their website: https://baincapitalcrypto.com/portfolio/

Why the mystery? Was Bluesky afraid of a public backlash & asked to keep the information under wraps?

Sorry if I keep repeating myself but I will forever be skeptical of Bluesky and think of the tale of the scorpion and the frog.

Once again I am heartbroken to remind you that the Dunning-Kruger ...

2026-03-18T15:53:41Z

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.

There was a time when Dril’s identity was leaked and we all ...

2026-03-18T02:29:47Z

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.

Is there an elegant way, in the shell, to say “run this program ...

2026-03-17T17:50:27Z

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.

Imagine being a newspaper editor looking out at the world, ...

2026-03-17T17:07:36Z

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.

Two games, both called "Piece by Piece", were ...

2026-03-17T14:02:05Z

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/

ok I laughed ...

2026-03-17T01:15:18Z

ok I laughed

"By taking a total dependency on this privately-owned, ...

2026-03-16T17:39:19Z

"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

Anyone else remember that thing where 2020 taught us that a ...

2026-03-15T21:52:28Z

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

"Do you have any formal training in in this field at ...

2026-03-14T20:14:20Z

In reply to nevent1q…h2cm
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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."

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2026-03-14T14:14:39Z

Amazing watching these doge kids testifying. Moral toddlers.

Where all these age verification laws seen to be coming from: ...

2026-03-13T20:43:43Z

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

What options do I have, if I want an operating system and ...

2026-03-12T17:58:59Z

In reply to nevent1q…u062
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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?

Devuan it is then. ...

2026-03-12T17:23:16Z

Devuan it is then.

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/main/AGENTS.md

You burn 6M tokens, and what do you get / you get another day ...

2026-03-11T14:37:15Z

In reply to nevent1q…7eqn
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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

Great news, our company won't be charging you when you use ...

2026-03-11T14:20:44Z

In reply to nevent1q…xrgl
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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.

“We can’t sell it so we’re giving it to you for free” ...

2026-03-11T11:24:45Z

“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

I wonder how often we're going to see "popular app leaks ...

2026-03-10T13:43:43Z

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

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2026-03-08T22:23:15Z

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

“Appears to contradict” is one of those sentences I wish ...

2026-03-08T22:18:02Z

“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.

"Respectfully, there's no such thing as providing ...

2026-03-06T13:22:56Z

In reply to nevent1q…jgl8
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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.

I'm trying very hard not to get into a fight on github after ...

2026-03-06T13:14:59Z

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.

Just absolutely no regard for security at all. None. The entire ...

2026-03-05T18:21:46Z

Just absolutely no regard for security at all. None. The entire burden of self-protection shifted to humans alone at their endpoints in systems and communities entirely, foundationally built on mutual trust and trustworthiness.

Welp. I wonder if there's room out there for community ...

2026-03-05T18:18:36Z

In reply to nevent1q…mfdj
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Welp.

I wonder if there's room out there for community management as a service, for people who suddenly find themselves being FOSS-main-charactered and need help fighting the indignant-nerd-tide.

Thinking about that old line that Twitter is a game with one main ...

2026-03-05T16:49:28Z

Thinking about that old line that Twitter is a game with one main character per day and the goal of the game is to never be that person.

Please listen to me: if FOSS turns into that, then FOSS turns into Twitter.

Who knows if it will help but not trying never does. ...

2026-03-05T15:45:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…js72
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Who knows if it will help but not trying never does.

https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327#issuecomment-4005991360

As gross as I think Claude is, I also think that if the end state ...

2026-03-05T15:22:25Z

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As gross as I think Claude is, I also think that if the end state of open source projects is that devs are left to work alone for years on the keystone projects of this jenga tower we're calling modern infrastructure, and then we collectively jump all over them when they turn to the kind of help that, however reprehensible it might be, _actually shows up to help_, then the entire FOSS project is a popularity contest where the losers get to join a slow, lonely suicide pact.

I don't know that the world needs to hear My Take on the ...

2026-03-05T15:12:53Z

I don't know that the world needs to hear My Take on the chardet claude-laundered relicensing question - claundering? - but I think that at least part of our thinking has to be grounded in the fact that this one developer has been working on this codebase almost entirely alone, without support or funding, for at least twelve years.

And I have to ask you, I am begging you, to think about where we've heard a story like that recently.

I begging for an image format that includes transcription, and a ...

2026-03-04T16:27:56Z

I begging for an image format that includes transcription, and a tool that lets you copy an image and include transcription in one motion.

Accessibility would be so much easier if all of these tools were not negligent makework bullshit.

I will say this again: if the actual people who build these ...

2026-03-04T15:25:25Z

In reply to nevent1q…l977
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I will say this again: if the actual people who build these systems, those comfortable, very well paid engineers, managers, directors responsible for their design and operation, if they all had to spend one week every quarter and maybe one day a month doing the work they foist off on people paid pennies an hour in underdeveloped, overexploited countries on the far side of the planet, Facebook would not exist in a year.

And they all fucking know it.

It is important to understand that these are not "Meta ...

2026-03-04T15:22:25Z

It is important to understand that these are not "Meta workers" in the way you might think of them as "extremely well paid engineers in California."

These are the underpaid contractors in Kenya and Nigeria doing the soul-destroying work of watching every horror of the world so that some American congressman's kid or hyperindignant ragekaren doesn't inadvertently see a boob on a slow news day.

These people aren't being creepy, they're being exploited.

https://norden.social/@wackJackle/116168368689889090

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note1ef0…5ny7

We, as a society, have to bully all people who wear those glasses. They have to be excluded form all social gatherings and we have to make fun of them everywhere they go.

But why THE FUCK are Meta workers watch the material? Ah, it's Meta. Of course, they're watching.

Well, this probably means that using generative AI for ...

2026-03-02T23:18:48Z

Well, this probably means that using generative AI for development is incompatible with any foss licensing, but it also means that there’s no such thing as “proprietary” GenAI code.

https://www.engadget.com/ai/the-supreme-court-doesnt-care-if-you-want-to-copyright-your-ai-generated-art-171849407.html

It's difficult for me to believe that three F-15s were shot ...

2026-03-02T15:47:22Z

It's difficult for me to believe that three F-15s were shot down by friendly fire in two days.

It's much, much easier for me to believe that the American - and world's - military-industrial apparatus will say and do whatever it takes to keep the headlines from reading "$100,000,000 F-15 Strike Eagle Brought Down By $5,000 Drones."

It remains wild that all of these tools - MCP, OpenClaw, not just ...

2026-03-01T15:37:26Z

It remains wild that all of these tools - MCP, OpenClaw, not just the entire AI stack but the entire ecosystem - don't think that security matters at all. Validation, sanitization, authentication, none of it, just call it 'autonomous' and yolo'ing it out there.

There's relearning the lessons of 90's computing, and then there's the lessons of 1850s London sanitation, of Roman-era waste management. Everyone just lets their cattle shit in the town well, it'll be fine.

https://social.coop/@cwebber/116154573042963148
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What if I could convince you that taking the same time to explain ...

2026-02-28T14:40:24Z

What if I could convince you that taking the same time to explain detailed requirements and carefully validate results with a junior colleague instead of a chatbot would not only give you two people who understood the code instead of zero, but if you do it a few times in a row you eventually get a senior colleague out of the deal for free.

An externality is just a subsidy that's been extracted from ...

2026-02-27T15:38:17Z

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An externality is just a subsidy that's been extracted from people who weren't given a choice in the matter.

"But people want this" - Just one hundred accounts are ...

2026-02-27T15:34:03Z

In reply to nevent1q…y30y
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"But people want this" - Just one hundred accounts are responsible for the great majority of the conspiracy theories being peddled in Canadian social media. Do "people really want this", or do a handful of really loud assholes with a handful of system-privileged amplifiers want everyone to want this?

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/25/news/conspiracy-content-report-canada

I'm glad we're looking at ethical alternatives to ...

2026-02-27T15:31:34Z

I'm glad we're looking at ethical alternatives to imperialist tech generally but my position remains that the ethical alternative to large-language-model SAAS is "don't."

The whole thread under this "microgpt" project is ...

2026-02-25T18:21:53Z

The whole thread under this "microgpt" project is fascinating. In particular the desire for some people to push the conversation towards pseudo-organic terminologies, and others looking for optimization paths.

But this whole thing - "It's just a technique made possible by an abundance of CPU cycles, not a world-changing sentient anything" - is where I think this story ends: Small, useful, reproducibly-built models trained on curated, consentfully-obtained data.

https://karpathy.github.io/2026/02/12/microgpt/

The mildest of frustrations given all Debian has given me, but ...

2026-02-23T20:48:39Z

The mildest of frustrations given all Debian has given me, but following the instructions in the guide only to find that the tool I’ve got from the apt repos is less than current and missing the option I need feels like a frequent story.

"understanding epistemic dependencies", I feel like if ...

2026-02-23T16:00:22Z

"understanding epistemic dependencies", I feel like if Socrates had been introduced to heroin instead of hemlock that we'd have a much more nuanced philosophy around cause and effect here a few thousand years later.

Once again, age verification is actually identity verification ...

2026-02-23T14:31:19Z

Once again, age verification is actually identity verification and the the end goal is "papers, please" for the internet.

"Age verification" will do nothing to protect children, but will definitely facilitate mechanized attacks on virtually every facet of life involving identity and security.

This breach includes "...national IDs, full dates of birth, and contact data, which are prime ingredients for identity theft, SIM-swapping, and social-engineering attacks".

https://cybernews.com/security/global-data-leak-exposes-billion-records/

This got crystal clear to me when I learned that content ...

2026-02-23T02:40:45Z

In reply to nevent1q…as9e
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This got crystal clear to me when I learned that content moderators and data curators for these systems are getting paid a dollar fifty an hour or less to look at the most horrific shit imaginable a hundred times a day so that rich, privileged people don't bump into it at random. This is straight up extractive-resource colonialism, but the resources being extracted are psychological safety and mental health.

Honestly, I'd rather be invaded by the US military than the ...

2026-02-22T18:02:49Z

Honestly, I'd rather be invaded by the US military than the US health care system.

I’ve been thinking about this for days. Incredible stochastic ...

2026-02-22T00:42:50Z

I’ve been thinking about this for days. Incredible stochastic algorithm, gets more reliable the larger your input, incredibly fast, trivial to implement and deterministic on its inputs. It really has so much going for it.

(Via jonathankoren™ (npub1vfk…2qrp) )

Lazyweb: are there any fitness-tracker wristbands out there that ...

2026-02-20T23:20:23Z

Lazyweb: are there any fitness-tracker wristbands out there that do not need a sign in to an account on a service anywhere and keep data local, if only to the phone? Or in a better world, desktop? My position is that “Obscure thing plus obscure software plus contortions” is fine, but “you only need to log into Wayland-Yutani Bioconsumer products healthotronic AI services once” is not.

I legit thought this was going to be about how much 32kb cost at ...

2026-02-20T18:28:08Z

In reply to nevent1q…95wn
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I legit thought this was going to be about how much 32kb cost at the store now.

"Joomla, Drupal ... is Drupal like RuPaul's depressed ...

2026-02-18T00:44:10Z

In reply to nevent1q…ss5z
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"Joomla, Drupal ... is Drupal like RuPaul's depressed alter ego? RuPaul's Eeyore? Look, I work on a computer that's a combination of dabean and cinnamon, I know tech people are all weirdos but why are you like this? You expect me to believe that something called "InMagic DB/Textmate" is real and not just somebody ran out of ideas? Yeah fine Deh Bee Ahn. I'm calling it "da bean".

"Why are they asking teenagers for proficiency with Meta? ...

2026-02-18T00:26:20Z

In reply to nevent1q…gqu9
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"Why are they asking teenagers for proficiency with Meta? There are zero real teenagers on Meta. Oh, I guess Instagram... What is a Slack? Oh, it's just Discord for people who care about interest rates. What is a Jira. Tech people need to stop naming things, this is stupid."

My daughter is struggling with job applications where they ask ...

2026-02-18T00:19:52Z

My daughter is struggling with job applications where they ask you for a long list of technologies and being the tech person in the house I'm taking the brunt of it. "Joomla isn't real. HTML is real, Javascript is real, Joomla isn't real. Nobody would call anything that. It sounds like the name of the villain in a movie where a poodle wins a beauty contest. Why are tech people capitalizing every other letter? Tell people to get their shit together."

Speaking as a parent my current opinion on internet age ...

2026-02-17T20:08:33Z

Speaking as a parent my current opinion on internet age verification laws is that after the state starts putting the Epstein class in prison en masse then maybe we can start taking anything else they say about protecting children seriously.

I suppose we're not supposed to ask where the information in ...

2026-02-14T20:50:21Z

I suppose we're not supposed to ask where the information in these proprietary machine learning models came from.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/distillation-experimentation-integration-ai-adversarial-use

It sure looks like Benj Edwards and Kyle Orland at ...

2026-02-13T21:18:50Z

It sure looks like Benj Edwards and Kyle Orland at Ars Technica (npub15wh…e9hw) used a badly behaved chatbot to write their article about somebody else's badly behaved chatbot. At the very least, they signed off on bunch of fabricated quotes.

Ars Technica used to be so good.

(Edit: Article got pulled, but the internet remembers: https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116065428288139586 )

https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116065340523529645
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These two images are the entire story of open source software ...

2026-02-13T17:21:11Z

These two images are the entire story of open source software support in this world, in a nutshell.

Exhibit one is the list of companies who are sponsoring the Linux Foundation, a murderer's row of the largest and most powerful hosting and services companies in the world.

Exhibit two is one dude scrambling to keep the lights on after a raid failure because KTLO for the servers that everyone uses to _download Linux_ are "outside the scope" of the Linux Foundation's "main duties".

Anthropomorphizing the technology is just one more way humans try ...

2026-02-12T13:57:27Z

Anthropomorphizing the technology is just one more way humans try to escape accountability. “The AI contributed a patch”, “the AI wrote the blog post”, “the car hit the pedestrian” and “the knife killed the victim”, those are all the same framing.

https://swecyb.com/@anderseknert/116056950299738296

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AI agent "contributes" PR to matplotlib.
PR gets rejected.
AI agent *writes and publishes blog to shame the maintainer*.

What a time to be alive.

https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132

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2026-02-11T14:06:07Z

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"With that in mind, we need to consider the possibility that ...

2026-02-11T14:03:03Z

"With that in mind, we need to consider the possibility that cp(1) may soon become – and indeed _may already be_ – sentient and self-aware."

https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2026/02/07/on-the-crank-spectrum/

https://mastodon.social/@Mabande/116051626354398163

asking my kids if this is hatsune miku just to see what happens ...

2026-02-10T23:48:33Z

asking my kids if this is hatsune miku just to see what happens

I mean, yes obviously. The world needs Cozy Ghostbusters. ...

2026-02-10T02:56:57Z

I mean, yes obviously. The world needs Cozy Ghostbusters.

https://mstdn.social/@GayDeceiver/116043698975215311

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Hear me out: Antiques Roadshow, but for cursed objects.

#AntiquesRoadShowCursedObjects

As pretty as it was this was very difficult to get around in. ...

2026-02-08T15:18:37Z

As pretty as it was this was very difficult to get around in. Definitely cements my desire for a fat bike though.

Some of my answers to this include: - A canning funnel. Cheap, ...

2026-02-07T14:54:43Z

In reply to nevent1q…jkyr
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Some of my answers to this include:

- A canning funnel. Cheap, and spill-free pouring stuff into containers is a lot easier.

- Oil all the hinges in the house.

- Get a slow-settling toilet seat, so it never slams down.

I threw this up on Metafilter too, but why not here? Lazyweb, a ...

2026-02-07T14:20:47Z

I threw this up on Metafilter too, but why not here? Lazyweb, a question:

On a whim, I've added zipper pulls to a bunch of my clothes and coats. It's such a small, inexpensive thing but it's an improvement I notice dozens of times a day, especially wearing winter gloves.

So I'm thinking about aggregating marginal gains now, and wondering what other options like this I have. What is the _smallest_ thing - in terms of size, cost, effort, whatever - that has made your life better in some way?

You are a flamboyant Jazz-age alcoholic, and in my younger and ...

2026-02-05T19:52:15Z

In reply to nevent1q…5f3p
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You are a flamboyant Jazz-age alcoholic, and in my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. “Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”

You are two horny teenagers with poor strategic judgement from ...

2026-02-05T19:46:59Z

In reply to nevent1q…jmav
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You are two horny teenagers with poor strategic judgement from noble Italian households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life; Whose misadventur’d piteous overthrows Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife.

You are an unremarkable english bureaucrat, and it was a bright ...

2026-02-05T19:43:42Z

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You are an unremarkable english bureaucrat, and it was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him.

You are Ishmael. Some years ago - never mind how long precisely- ...

2026-02-05T19:41:31Z

In reply to nevent1q…lpha
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You are Ishmael. Some years ago - never mind how long precisely- having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation.

I think I'm going to start doing my part to improve the ...

2026-02-05T19:39:28Z

I think I'm going to start doing my part to improve the overall code quality and cultural knowledge of the world by copying the text of notable classics from the Gutenberg Project into CLAUDE.md files.

"You are a hungry French merchant, and it was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness..."

FYI here's Epstein and Bannon talking about coordinating with ...

2026-02-05T15:04:00Z

FYI here's Epstein and Bannon talking about coordinating with Ken Starr to get Gorsuch on the Supreme Court so he can overturn the Chevron ruling. That happened six years later.

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01615176.pdf

French police raid SpaceX. (corrected from earlier) ...

2026-02-03T19:25:09Z

French police raid SpaceX.

(corrected from earlier)

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/police-raid-spacex-x-acquisition

Golly, would you look at that. ...

2026-02-02T15:11:11Z

In reply to nevent1q…s8tw
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Golly, would you look at that.

Good morning to the Q-Anon crowd, happy waking up to discover ...

2026-02-01T15:21:51Z

Good morning to the Q-Anon crowd, happy waking up to discover your whole identity was an Epstein side project day.