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Last Notes

2026-11-05 16:49:56 GMT

I am about to drink tea.
It is Earl Grey, and it is quite hot.
👴

2026-11-03 00:47:41 GMT

#Canada Bill C-22 “Lawful Access Act” was debated today.
That's the bill that makes #E2EE #encryption illegal, thereby giving cybercriminals a carbon copy of all your conversations and remote control of all your devices.
Well, it's seeing some push-back now, as a result of Senators getting letters and phone calls from people like you.
It's working! Don't stop calling! Don't let them put you in danger like this!
https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalOptimism/comments/1xl4956/comment/19s1rdfex8qo5/
#cdnpoli

2026-11-02 22:48:05 GMT

👉 going to bed at the usual time, waking up an hour later because daylight savings time
🤚 going to bed an hour late because you spent all evening doing chores, some of which were of questionable necessity, and therefore waking up tired as usual

2026-11-02 22:35:54 GMT

OMG I try to find some issues on gitlab.com, first it didn't work, and now I'm already getting 429 Too Many Requests! WTF!
I tried looking at the same thing on my phone with Wi-Fi off, and it worked once…but then I clicked a link, went back, and now it's giving me the same behavior on my phone.
What utter garbage.
I'm grateful I don't have to deal with this thing more often. Even freaking SourceForge is less broken than this.

2026-11-02 22:13:13 GMT

Hmm, I wonder what one could replace #systemd #journald with on #BSD.
This thing logs into basically a database, which you can then ask for things like “everything since last reboot with priority ‘warning’ or above” or “everything emitted by service xyz since 5 minutes ago”.
Can any other #logging system do that? Preferably from the command line?
#syslog #Unix #sysadmin

2026-11-02 21:40:37 GMT

I have here an 18650 #battery that I charged up to 3.0V last night, and now it's down to 2.5V again.
This cell appears to be toast. Gonna need a new one.

2026-11-02 16:39:58 GMT

Voyager's original path through the galaxy (before Admiral Janeway's temporal incursion) took the ship awfully close to the galactic core, as we can see from this map.
Would any civilizations be able to survive the radiation there? It'd be no problem for a starship that can fly through a binary pulsar and live to tell the tale, but planets and their native life forms don't have duranium hulls to protect them.
And with no civilizations, how would Voyager resupply?
#StarTrek #StarTrekVoyager
https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/117/547/802/260/469/255/original/7faa8237ac5627b9.webp

2026-11-02 04:03:42 GMT

@nprofile…e4n4
Voids are for screaming. Abysses are for staring. 😛

2026-11-01 22:34:23 GMT

Ladies and gentlemen, we are experiencing intestinal difficulties. Please stand back. 💩
#shitpost

2026-11-01 04:00:52 GMT

#Halloween: the one day of the year when strange old men offering kids free candy at night is normal and not suspicious af.

2026-11-01 03:58:30 GMT

Most of the highly-publicized security vulnerabilities in #Linux these days, including the recent kernel TCP RCE, are the result of races and/or memory corruption.
If #BSD were to catch on, all those AI bug-finding bots would be turned on the BSDs…well, it's written in C. They'll probably find plenty of vulnerabilities there too.
Perhaps fewer than Linux, since Linux is so jam-packed with enterprise features and weird optimizations, but still… 😬
Are #NetBSD and #OpenBSD prepared for this?

2026-10-31 20:48:02 GMT

Whenever someone claims that banning people under a certain age from chatting online via #ageVerification does not infringe the people's right to free expression, the claimant is implying that they believe everyone under that age to be something other than people.
Something LESS than people.
Something that does not deserve a seat at the table.
Sound familiar? A century ago, women were deprived of voice and agency in the same way, with the same vacuous excuses.
#censorship

2026-10-31 01:57:08 GMT

The #StarTrekTNG theme has been playing in my head non-stop all day.
If I didn't know better, I'd think the ghost of #PatrickStewart was haunting me. 👻
#StarTrek

2026-10-30 17:48:10 GMT

I have been authorized to complete my assignment by ANY TREATS NECESSARY. 🍪

2026-10-30 17:23:29 GMT

Look, I'm just gonna be blunt: #HOA⁠s are #scam⁠s.
https://finance.yahoo.com/real-estate/articles/nc-couple-gobsmacked-hoa-fees-110000136.html
This one is especially blatant, though. The HOA is managed by one person—the developer of the neighborhood—and fees went from $158/month 5 years ago to $2500/month now, making it impossible to stay and impossible to sell out.
Consequently, the developer gets all the houses back, for basically free, and can sell them again. Everyone who bought one, meanwhile, is utterly ruined.

2026-10-30 16:54:00 GMT

Hey, remember what I said about #Reddit and their new “login (and show ID) or GTFO” policy?
Well, guess what just happened to their stock price. 📉
I guess that explains why they'd do something so drastic. Not sure why they think turning it into an exclusive club with a bouncer and a surveillance camera at the door is going to improve the situation, though.
https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/117/530/883/010/393/238/original/1a36115f1ed405b1.png

2026-10-30 06:19:07 GMT

#EInk is no good for video and #gaming? Refreshing 30 times a second will destroy the #screen and consume tons of power, or is just plain impossible? One enterprising hardware hacker says “hold my beer.”
https://youtu.be/s939m7j2yKU

2026-10-30 03:11:52 GMT

Several lawmakers from the Conservative Party of #Canada have voiced concerns with Bill C-34, the #censorship / #ageVerification proposal.
One of them has received calls from her constituents who were worried about mass surveillance and age verification.
Call your lawmakers!
https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalOptimism/comments/1xe9gbe/comment/19runj6etkqpv/
#cdnpoli

2026-10-30 01:58:35 GMT

So, let me get this straight.
#Reddit is going to be requiring everyone to create an account before they can see any content.
At the same time, Reddit is being required in many places to check your ID during account creation.
So, anybody who shows up, not knowing what “Reddit” is, has to show “papers, please” before they can even see what they're signing up for.
Am I getting this right? Because that sounds like it'll kill Reddit dead. Nobody's gonna do that.

2026-10-29 22:42:14 GMT

TFW the test fails because the code under test is more correct than the test is. 🤪
#programming #shitpost

2026-10-29 20:43:59 GMT

If ever there was a right time to post this, it's now. https://youtu.be/VgyjL0g9hpo
Rest in peace, #PatrickStewart. If any aspect of you lives on, then may the stars be ever in your favor.

2026-10-29 19:21:40 GMT

CVE-2026-98432: yet another use-after-free resulting in likely system crash and maybe arbitrary code execution. https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2026-98432
Remember #Winnuke from #Windows95? This is like that: a bug in the #Linux kernel TCP implementation that results in memory corruption.
I'm low-key rooting for #RedoxOS. Seems like that's the only way this is ever gonna end.
#cybersecurity #infosec #security

2026-10-29 15:24:10 GMT

Michael Geist reports https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/10/the-age-verification-bill-that-wont-die-how-bill-s-209-complicates-the-governments-bill-c-34-online-safety-plan/ that the #Canada Bill C-34 will apply to sites that have a certain number of users, with the threshold to be decided by cabinet.
Maybe Fedi will survive by its decentralized nature? The bill text https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/45-1/bill/C-34/first-reading is not clear; the manner in which the user count is determined is also left to cabinet (§8(2)(c)).
#cdnpoli #ageVerification #censorship

2026-10-29 01:31:01 GMT

How are you gonna play this big, mean melody from #FinalFantasy5 on your little old #NES?
The answer: use the sound chip, and if that don't work, use *more* sound chip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aXusSkBoqk
#retrogaming #retrocomputing

2026-10-29 01:23:12 GMT

Let's make sure history doesn't forget the name Enterprise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HxiUFq7NHI
#StarTrek #StarTrekTNG

2026-10-29 01:12:02 GMT

Self-OH: “You are the kittiest cat that ever catted in the history of kitty cats.”

2026-10-28 22:26:03 GMT

The #Canada House of Commons is not okay. They're just competing over who can harm Canadians' privacy and online safety and free expression the most. I'm disgusted and horrified and speechless. https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalOptimism/comments/1xe9gbe/comment/19rsqtke28y81/
#cdnpoli #censorship #ageVerification

2026-10-28 20:19:37 GMT

Apparently, #audiophile s now believe they can get better sound quality by upgrading their #Ethernet switch? 🤨
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/sound-cards/usd4-700-audiophile-grade-network-hub-promises-a-noise-free-experience-and-music-with-emotional-impact-seven-isolation-stages-per-port-were-chosen-with-listening-comparisons

2026-10-28 20:13:22 GMT

Welp, I'm glad I'm on Fedi.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/1020488/x-twitter-animated-hand-point-promote-posts

2026-10-28 17:46:39 GMT

When I remove a symbol that I believe my program no longer needs, the compiler will list, in its error messages, everywhere that item is still referred to. If I missed any, the compiler will find them and tell me exactly where they all are.
My IDE contains a modified compiler and can therefore also do the same thing.
THIS RIGHT HERE is one of the many reasons why my requirements for #programming languages include “strong static typing or GTFO.”

2026-10-28 17:22:41 GMT

It has come to my attention that there exists an article of apparel known as a “hatinator”.
Unfortunately, it has absolutely nothing to do with Arnold Schwarzenegger's movie character.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascinator
#shitpost

2026-10-28 15:19:11 GMT

I'm not sure who needs to hear this, but just because someone is a kid doesn't mean they're stupid or wrong.
And if someone does dismiss something said by a kid just because it was said by a kid, then that's a hint that that someone isn't being honest. An honest person refutes with logic, not ageism.

2026-10-28 04:39:37 GMT

It is a good day to dine.
#StarTrek #shitpost

2026-10-28 03:09:04 GMT

#Excel tip: if you want to find all references that reference a cell even indirectly, type `#REF!` (without the backticks) (or any other error code) into the cell. This will generate an actual `#REF!` error that will propagate into any cell that references that one, and cells that reference that one, recursively.
Then Ctrl+F, type in that same error code, set “within” to “workbook” and “look in” to “values”, and click “find all”.
Et voila, a list of all references to that cell.

2026-10-28 02:03:30 GMT

Knifey is a knife and he loves his wife!

2026-10-28 00:07:52 GMT

Not content to impose heinous #surveillance and #censorship via #ageVerification of social media users, a minister in #Canada has now announced plans to impose the same heinous surveillance and censorship of gamers as well.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-digital-safety-bill-gaming-platforms-marc-miller/
Meanwhile, Bill C-34 (the surveillance/censorship/age-verification bill in question) is scheduled to be debated on Wednesday and Thursday of next week. https://openparliament.ca/debates/2026/10/22/arielle-kayabaga-1/
#cdnpoli

2026-10-27 21:05:14 GMT

Reuters: “In China, the #AI bubble has already burst”
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-ai-bubble-has-already-burst-2026-10-26/
The Chinese STAR 50 index has been plunging since mid-July, is now where it was at the start of September 2025, and is still dropping. https://www.reuters.com/markets/quote/.STAR50/ The CSI300 index of blue-chip stocks is likewise tanking. https://www.reuters.com/markets/quote/.CSI300/
@nprofile…84ur

2026-10-27 18:05:06 GMT

The latest dirty trick from #Android #malware is a fiendish one indeed.
It shows you a fake full-screen “your phone is infected!!1” message as per usual, but with a twist: if you swipe up to reveal the buttons and then tap the square to reveal which app is showing the fake message, the message disappears!
Ah, but Settings→Apps reveals the truth. There, the top app in “recently opened apps” is the one that showed you the fake message. From here, you can report and uninstall it.
#malvertising

2026-10-27 16:27:52 GMT

Looks like the #Debian LLM review thing is as controversial inside Debian as it is on Fedi. The “I will no longer upload to NEW” thread has blown up on debian-devel. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2026/10/

2026-10-27 07:27:13 GMT

#OpenBSD does not have Bluetooth.
#NetBSD does not have Wi-Fi except the extremely old and slow a/b/g versions.
Sigh. Computers used to be simple…

2026-10-26 15:19:00 GMT

The collapse of the #Debian project is going faster than I thought it would.
I was disappointed and horrified by the earlier vote to allow LLM use, but even then, I had no idea it was going to get this bad this quickly.
Forcing all package maintainers to jump through an LLM hoop to upload their packages is scary reminiscent of companies forcing job applicants to jump through LLM hoops to keep their job applications from being ignored.
At this rate Debian will soon be gone.
@nprofile…tzvj
#Linux

2026-10-26 03:13:25 GMT

The existence of light-emitting diodes implies the existence of sound-emitting diodes.
#shitpost

2026-10-26 01:33:48 GMT

#Connecticut has built a #solar array on top of an old landfill, thus solving two problems at once. Nice.
https://www.courant.com/2026/10/19/solar-arrays-are-finding-homes-in-ct-on-sites-that-tend-to-produce-less-pushback-where-they-are-so-far/

2026-10-25 04:43:35 GMT

Normies: “Kids need to get off the Internet and go play outside! The Internet is ruining them! Ban them from the Internet!”
Meanwhile, someone on Reddit: “I can say with conviction that I would have turned out much more bitter and cynical without the internet. I sure wasn't having any luck finding people I could get along with in the real world.”
#AgeVerification is not child safety. It's child *abuse*. And this right here is yet another point of evidence proving it.
#censorship

2026-10-25 04:28:48 GMT

OH: “Close enough! Not 6, but 7.”
I suspect the youngins will get a kick out of that.

2026-10-25 03:49:52 GMT

TIL: If you tell #Mastodon to notify you when someone posts, that only applies to top-level posts. You still won't be notified when they post a reply.

2026-10-25 02:57:51 GMT

I just randomly recalled some of the…celebrations 😒 of the Olsen twins' 18th birthday.
As a young man at the time, close in age to the twins themselves, I found this mildly amusing…but in retrospect, it was very creepy, and moreover I seriously doubt the celebrants were anywhere near the twins' age… 😬

2026-10-25 02:56:35 GMT

I just randomly recalled some of the…celebrations 😒 of the Olsen twins' 18th birthday.
As a young man at the time, only slightly older than the twins themselves, I found this mildly amusing…but in retrospect, it was very creepy, and moreover I seriously doubt the celebrants were anywhere near the twins' age… 😬

2026-10-25 00:24:59 GMT

I wonder if anything has become of the #NetBSD FUTO controversy.
Background for those who don't know: https://mas.to/@zzt/117456446153437892

2026-10-24 20:32:19 GMT

I was lucky to start using Linux when I did. Back in 1997, computers were simple and standard enough that there was already a driver for everything I had.
It was only later when GPUs ceased to be simple frame buffer devices and needed complex drivers< and Wifi became a closed proprietary thing with scarce drivers.
Now I look at, for example, Redox, and…there's no driver for my common boring AMD GPU. Argh.
OS hopping isn't what it used to be…

2026-10-24 18:19:47 GMT

The takeover of #Debian has revealed a scary vulnerability in #FOSS projects in general: as soon as big companies employ at least half of the contributors to a project, the project becomes de facto those big companies' property. And anyone can become a contributor, including big company employees.
How will projects like #NetBSD protect themselves from this strategy?

2026-10-24 07:32:22 GMT

Story of my f***in' life.

2026-10-24 07:27:13 GMT

girl, made out of other, smaller girls

2026-10-24 03:24:55 GMT

But wait, there's more! If you update now, I'll throw in a second #PHP #vulnerability absolutely free!
https://www.php.net/archive/2026.php#2026-10-23-1
Anyway, everybody who didn't do the session.upload_progress.enabled=0 mitigation the first time: you need to go do that now.
#infosec #cybersecurity #security #PHP2Shell

2026-10-24 02:46:50 GMT

Warning: this video has hazardous amounts of flop-doing. https://youtu.be/tBJNYdHPcDE
#asdfmovie

2026-10-24 01:54:59 GMT

Just heard of a rather self-centered individual being described as “the baby at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral.” 😂

2026-10-24 01:33:37 GMT

I've heard that somebody named Mutahar is making some wild doomsday proclamations about the whole #PHP2Shell thing.
I don't know who that is, but…that kinda amuses me.
Because like, yeah, a whole lot of old unmaintained systems are gonna get pwned now…but what else is new? Next you're gonna tell me the Pope is Catholic.
I imagine this is part of why there are all these “residential proxies” everywhere, BTW. They're all insecure AF and got pwned long ago.
#infosec #cybersecurity #security

2026-10-24 00:23:57 GMT

Since I have a new #phone, I figured I'd give it a new #ringtone.
And by “new” I mean “almost as old as me”.
#retrogaming
https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/117/493/032/224/233/896/original/6ca1a215aca3f963.mp3

2026-10-23 23:16:51 GMT

you know what screw you *pokes your mon*
#shitpost

2026-10-23 22:07:47 GMT

The #EFF is calling for everyone in #Florida and #Georgia to begin documenting the harms they suffer as a result of #censorship laws in those states, and write to the EFF about your experiences.
That includes if you choose to drop out rather than comply with #ageVerification demands.
Now that the 11th Circuit has failed to uphold the First Amendment, the EFF's next plan is to use your experiences to pressure lawmakers to reverse course.
See the article: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/two-states-can-now-restrict-social-media-access-heres-what-do-next

2026-10-23 18:09:51 GMT

More bad news from #Canada: bill C-22, the colorfully named “Lawful Access Act”, more-or-less makes government malware mandatory and more-or-less makes #encryption #security illegal, putting innocent Canadians in danger of theft and violence at the hands of criminals.
This bill has passed the House of Commons and is now before the Senate.
See the EFF article for more, including what you can do if you're a Canadian citizen: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/canadians-are-running-out-time-oppose-dangerous-c-22-surveillance-bill
#privacy #cdnpoli

2026-10-23 15:17:26 GMT

Aw hell. Here comes another #vulnerability. This time it's a buffer overflow in the #Brotli compression library.
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9v8h-qqgm-4m35
I've seen some speculation that web servers need to be patched as well, if they can decompress a Brotli-compressed request-body. Apache docs don't say anything about decompressing request-bodies, though, so it's probably safe: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_brotli.html
#security #cybersecurity #infosec

2026-10-23 05:44:46 GMT

The California “Transparency in Frontier AI Act” (2025 SB 53) imposes a bunch of requirements on companies that train an AI on “greater than 10^26 integer or floating-point operations.”
Now, how many of those besuited bureaucrats do you think even knows what that funny hat symbol means, let alone what an integer or floating-point operation is?
And where'd that arbitrary threshold come from?
Bet this bill was written by the AI companies themselves, to hinder their competitors.

2026-10-22 21:09:01 GMT

The #Google Pixel 11's edge is shiny, like chrome.
Which I guess is fitting, seeing as it comes from a company that makes a product called #Chrome.

2026-10-22 19:16:52 GMT

The existence of Courier parking implies the existence of Times Roman parking.
#font #typography #shitpost
https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/117/486/157/290/403/603/original/0eabe1dfee6d1935.jpg

2026-10-22 14:57:23 GMT

Self-OH: “Now then. This needs cheese.”
#shitpost

2026-10-22 05:56:13 GMT

Ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to announce that I have obtained a new phone, and my mobile shitposting capabilities have been fully restored.

2026-10-22 02:19:30 GMT

I've heard that the Canadian legislature had a disastrous hearing today, in which pols parroted pro-censorship think-of-the-children propaganda.
They're discussing it on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalOptimism/comments/1x5h5wk/censorship_megathread_lxxiv_federal_judge/?sort=new
If you're a citizen of #Canada, you should contact whoever represents you and inform them that you are very not okay with age-based #censorship, the rampant invasion of #privacy that #ageVerification entails, nor shuttering Fedi and other innocent nonprofit websites.
#cdnpoli

2026-10-22 01:04:26 GMT

What's a desperado's favorite operating system?
GUN/Linux.
#shitpost

2026-10-21 20:40:25 GMT

Currently, my notification count is 4.
How appropriate.

2026-10-21 20:09:06 GMT

CA/B Forum: “Your private CA's long-lived certificates are NOT COMPLIANT!!! You CAN'T USE THEM!!! 🤬🤬🤬”
Also CA/B Forum: “eMudhra is a perfectly trustworthy #CA. Pay no attention to their proud use of AI in security-critical operations, nor to the fact that they used the exact same private key for literally a dozen different CA certificates, nor that the private key is 4.”
News flash: red tape and buzzword-laden checklists do not beget #security. Patient diligence does.
#cybersecurity #infosec

2026-10-21 19:23:23 GMT

“Please download your recover codes!”
Son, I have write access to your database. If I lose my 2FA key, I will recover from that situation by force.

2026-10-21 17:28:02 GMT

#Canada Privacy Commissioner: “Age assurance providers must: Collect the minimum amount of personal information necessary … Delete personal information collected for age assurance”
My brother in Christ, you are not this stupid. You know as well as I do that they're gonna collect and sell the F#@% out of that information, your slap-on-the-wrist cost-of-doing-business “fine” ain't gonna stop 'em, and you ain't gonna toss 'em in prison.
#ageVerification #censorship #privacy

2026-10-21 16:11:47 GMT

The only kinda bot I want in my life is @nprofile…me99⁠.

2026-10-21 03:14:46 GMT

Yes, it can't possibly be that men are depressed about, y'know, poverty and job loss and war and climate change and a Goddamn global financial crisis and all. No, it's definitely social media that's causing all of men's grief. 😒
Goddamn lying, censorious sacks of garbage.
https://www.freezenet.ca/cmhf-publishes-flawed-survey-to-say-social-media-is-harmful/
#censorship
https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/117/476/696/298/365/853/original/82f850a35482b351.webp

2026-10-21 01:09:25 GMT

@nprofile…nrmm @nprofile…5dxw What's your take on this? You're based in Germany, yes?
https://www.biometricupdate.com/202610/germany-sets-graduated-age-model-for-social-media-ahead-of-d-you-wallet-launch

2026-10-20 21:50:04 GMT

Ladies and gentlemen, we are experiencing testicle difficulties. Please do not adjust your set.
#shitpost

2026-10-20 15:33:44 GMT

electric outlet, but instead of prongs sticking out of the plug, the prongs stick out of the outlet
#shitpost

2026-10-20 02:29:10 GMT

I notice that pictures involving #eyeContact are fairly often #CW⁠'d on the #Fediverse. Why is that? I take it some people have a sensitivity to eye contact? I want to know more!

2026-10-19 20:51:10 GMT

The existence of attribution implies the existence of processing instruction, elemention, commention, CDATA section, text nodion, and entity referencion.
#XML #shitpost

2026-10-19 15:02:46 GMT

/me looks wistfully at everyone installing NetBSD etc
I wish I hadn't been in crisis mode this whole year… All the time and energy I would've otherwise had, with which to explore other operating systems, have been sucked right out of me, and there's no end in sight.
I'm starting to understand why so many people feel stuck on Windows…

2026-10-18 06:25:27 GMT

I need everyone who saw today's #Instagram and #Bluesky incident to understand that #ageVerification and #digitalID legislation like the #EUKidsAct has absolutely nothing to do with child safety. Its purpose is to make sure that THIS RIGHT HERE can happen to YOU.
Except instead of banning you from just one platform, the almighty central gatekeeper can ban you from the entire Internet.
At will. Whenever it wants. With no warning, recourse, or alternative.
#censorship

2026-10-18 02:23:42 GMT

I would like to extend my gratitude to whoever decided to add sealed classes, records, and exhaustiveness-checked switch pattern matching to #Java.
This has enabled me to use the same data-bearing-sum-type pattern that #Rust enums provide.
This feature just saved me a bunch of grief and potential bugs in implementing a state machine in which the states are records with different fields. Common in Rust, but this was hard in Java until now.
Keep up the good work!
#programming

2026-10-16 20:32:15 GMT

The existence of QIC-80 implies the existence of SLO-40.
#tape #retrocomputing #shitpost

2026-10-16 15:50:02 GMT

Apparently the new Tesla Roadster has compressed-air thrusters for limited flight.
I guess I get to add “death from above” to my list of things to worry about while riding in a car from now on. Great.

2026-10-16 15:31:50 GMT

Ahem.
[dramatic camera pan]
Mentlegen.
#TeamFortress2 #shitpost

2026-10-16 00:47:46 GMT

#Linus #Torvalds: “I don't understand this whole idiotic concept of "don't use AI for X". Here's a new rule just for you: don't use compilers for any of your kernel submissions.”
Last time I checked, compilers didn't randomly hallucinate. Or have any randomness in their behavior at all, for that matter.
Nor did people bafflingly praise compilers for doing things that pre-existing tools already did perfectly well (e.g. finding call sites). Compilers did something new.
#Linux #LinusTorvalds #AI

2026-10-15 21:06:32 GMT

Back in my day, us kids referred to this sort of thing as an “epic fail”.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2026/10/13/1619
#Linux #Linus #Torvalds #LinusTorvalds #AI

2026-10-15 06:54:55 GMT

🤚 Naming your extremely large telescope “Extremely Large Telescope”
👉 Naming your extremely large telescope “BFT-9000”
#Doom #shitpost

2026-10-14 20:01:02 GMT

Coworker uses chatbot to argue with me.
Chatbot to coworker: “The developer is right on nearly every point, so I wouldn’t try to defend the original proposal. The stronger move is to concede what he’s won”
TFW your coworker's bot respects you more than your coworker does.

2026-10-14 19:55:18 GMT

My true feelings on the topic of this email conversation involve a great many expletives. I assure you, my restraint has been exemplary.
#shitpost

2026-10-14 17:11:27 GMT

Last year, I worried what would become of #Linux after #Linus #Torvalds retires or passes away. Will the new leader run the project into the ground?
Well. I guess I don't have to worry about that any more.

2026-10-14 05:41:37 GMT

LWN: “[Linus Torvalds] took an old patch and had the LLM revise it; the result has made him unwilling to work *without* an LLM. … Why bother, he asked, to search for all of the call sites of a function he has just modified, when the tool can fix them all automatically?”
Sounds like a language issue. I certainly don't need need an #LLM to refactor #Java code.
#C #Linux #Linus #LinusTorvalds #AI #programming

2026-10-13 19:24:48 GMT

The AI output my coworker sends me, besides being often wrong, also has an insufferable overconfidence to it.
It proposes projects for me to do, and it tells me how easy and simple they are…with zero awareness as to the actual complexity of the task.
It also proposes I use resources I don't actually have.
Reminds me of how I was when I was a teenager, acquired some skills, and thought I knew everything. It's got that same arrogance, except it never ever learns.
And neither does my coworker.

2026-10-13 06:30:12 GMT

The existence of #Danfoss fridges implies the existence of Danclosedsource fridges.
#FOSS #shitpost

2026-10-12 17:16:05 GMT

Well, here's a case that's pathological af: at the start of D2ICO MAP03, I get a higher frame rate from the #UZDoom software renderer (~135fps) than I do from the Vulkan or OpenGL hardware renderer (~60fps)!
…But only if I set resolution to 320×200. At 3840×2160, the software renderer gets about the same frame rate as the hardware renderer (~50fps).
On maps that are not so big and wide open (MAP30), the hardware renderer is much faster, as you'd expect.
How odd!
#Doom #gaming #retrogaming

2026-10-12 05:10:09 GMT

The shutdown of the #Yandex data centers and subsequent drastic drop in engagement on mainstream social media platforms has laid bare what's at stake with #ageVerification #censorship.
Mainstream social media is full of bots. The only place to talk to real humans is on independent sites like this one. And how will these sites pay the staggering costs of age verification and bureaucracy that these laws demand?
There will be no place left to have a real conversation.

2026-10-11 23:06:49 GMT

Oof. Wanted to do some Fun With #Database⁠s™ on a server I manage, but that server's SQLite is from 2018. 💀

2026-10-11 03:22:41 GMT

It strikes me that both of the most popular desktop computer lineages (IBM PC and Macintosh) were initially marketed as Very Definitely Not For Gaming.
I wonder what was up with that? #Gaming has sold quite a lot of silicon over the years. Seems pretty lucrative.
#retrocomputing #retrogaming

2026-10-11 03:14:16 GMT

The introduction of mirrorless digital cameras has had the side benefit of greatly improving humanity's anti-vampire surveillance capabilities.
#shitpost