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2025-12-28 21:06:48 GMT

"All Hollywood movies are fascist because they focus on the hero as an individual."
Every day I learn something new about fascist ideology.

2025-12-27 21:19:24 GMT

Holy donkey dong, wtf is this?
tedu@airlite honk % make
You have not agreed to the Xcode and Apple SDKs license. You must agree to the license below in order to use Xcode.
Press enter to display the license:
Xcode and Apple SDKs Agreement
[500 pages of crap]
Agreeing to the Xcode and Apple SDKs license requires admin privileges, please accept the Xcode license as the root user (e.g. 'sudo xcodebuild -license').

2025-12-23 20:42:17 GMT

Now I'm curious how many other tourists look up the precise trash collection and disposal regulations for wherever they're going. Next time I see some Japanese tourists, I'm going to quiz them to see if they know philly's rules.

2025-12-23 20:34:36 GMT

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@nprofile…00ws TIL there's a monthly Reddit thread about throwing away luggage in Japan.

2025-12-18 19:04:31 GMT

The word is EPTIFY.
Don't look in the dictionary.
It's too new for the dictionary.
But you'd better learn what it implies
EPTIFY.
We do it to you.

2025-12-17 18:46:09 GMT

2025-12-15 06:08:41 GMT

DoorDash customers, also not okay.

2025-12-15 05:27:07 GMT

Fun fact: safari, chrome, and firefox all have slightly different corner radii on macos. Safari is roundest, then chrome, then firefox has just a tiny bit rounded off. If you stack all three windows in the right order, you can achieve a bezel effect.

2025-12-11 22:12:01 GMT

Reporting bias you can't unsee: whenever you see a phrase like "millions of Americans" check to see if there's a corresponding relative percentage, like 2%.

2025-12-11 04:00:13 GMT

"If they see your swag as a threat to their swag, you have a problem."
Never mind the mineshaft gap, the swag gap is the real problem.
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2025-12-08 23:27:46 GMT

Alright, hear me out, what if instead of icons in menus we had kanji?
開 Open
保 Save
終 Quit

2025-12-06 22:42:07 GMT

It's about ethics in AI. Teaching your fake actress how to deal with unsafe situations.
Now Particle6 is working with lawyers and ethicists to put guardrails around Tilly. They need to know what she’ll say if someone professes falling in love with her, for example, or if she’s presented with an unsafe situation.
@nprofile…zg6p

2025-12-04 19:06:25 GMT

FBI finally identifies next pardon recipient.
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2025-12-04 02:45:46 GMT

Electron devs losing their minds because soon Crucial won't sell them another 256GB of RAM, but I say good, fuck you, learn to write software that runs on normal people hardware.

2025-12-03 20:55:25 GMT

The unsustainable Starbucks that couldn't make money will soon be a Dunkin'.

2025-12-02 19:39:49 GMT

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@nprofile…00ws are you a trails in the sky hater?

2025-11-29 00:26:53 GMT

Dude writes a new kernel. It's already written in rust, so for once all the comments are not demanding it be rewritten. Instead all the comments are devoted to criticizing the author's moral failure in choosing the wrong license.
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2025-11-24 22:12:59 GMT

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@nprofile…00ws doing the lord's work. Not a single mention of Cool World in the HN rabbit thread.

2025-11-24 20:31:03 GMT

Heh, just noticed Amazon has a price history for its Black Friday sales, so you can see if that playstation is actually 20% off or not.

2025-11-24 20:20:03 GMT

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@nprofile…00ws 10% is a very low rate for a moron guaranteed to default.

2025-11-21 19:16:17 GMT

I thought I was hot for teacher, but then selphie said she loves trains. And I was on a train. It was fate.
But man, I'm glad I was stuck on a train with little else to do. This game is mechanically kinda rough. It's great that every cutscene ends with don't forget to check your equipment, because everything is removed and I need to redo it all.

2025-11-19 18:46:00 GMT

Taco tasting platter? You're telling me this platter is going to taste my tacos? Gross!

2025-11-19 17:21:40 GMT

Social media has eaten people's brains.
@nprofile…v3un

2025-11-18 23:34:42 GMT

Today learned about Tovala, a meal delivery service, but wait, there's more. There's also a "smart" microwave that scans a QR code on the meal to save you the laborious task of pushing buttons to enter the cooking time.

2025-11-14 22:03:05 GMT

Just as cryptocurrency aimed to wrest control of the money supply away from the fiat of governments, Empathium aimed to wrest control of the world's supply of compassion away from the expertise of charities.

2025-11-12 20:06:52 GMT

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@nprofile…00ws sooner or later everyone wishes they made honk.

2025-11-12 19:34:07 GMT

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@nprofile…00ws but what if I'm hot for teacher?

2025-11-12 07:49:42 GMT

I'm playing FF8 for the first time and I can't decide which of my three girlfriends I'm supposed to like.

2025-11-05 05:55:02 GMT

Added the crypto evangelist and investor Anthony Pompliano: “It is insane that a socialist was just elected mayor of the financial capital of the world.”
Isn't the point of crypto that it doesn't have a capital? Why does he care about a dead industry?

2025-11-04 23:43:45 GMT

Okay, I got the napkin out and did some math. I estimate $100k to put a 500W solar panel into space (where it will become 8x efficient) and power 8x 5090s. So that's only 4x the cost of the 5090s, lower than I thought, but about 25x the cost of terrestrial electricity for one year. No TCO savings, but I suppose it's somewhat feasible to build a spherical data center in orbit.
Though maybe if you use a hydrogen fueled rocket, you could claim to be water positive.
Asses: 500W panel 50 pounds. Other parts 50 pounds. $1k per pound to orbit. At 10c/kwhr something like $3.5k (~$4k) power.

2025-10-31 16:19:11 GMT

Just a few more tokens, bro, I swear, just a few more tokens and we'll unlock AGI.
@nprofile…0kjz
https://honk.tedunangst.com/d/G3yHPgv2dNp8B6vp2946x.png

2025-10-28 21:07:01 GMT

Amazing work here by the googlai.

2025-10-24 22:00:25 GMT

the rhombicosidodecahedron a solid made of 62 regular triangles, squares and pentagons.
Has geometry gone too far?

2025-10-23 16:46:49 GMT

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2025-10-23 14:27:36 GMT

Tired: the 72 hour work week
Wired: the 100 hour work week
@nprofile…w6f8

2025-10-22 22:21:50 GMT

Analysis reveals that callers declare buffers of exactly 10 bytes, while the string requires 9 bytes (8 characters + null terminator), creating a dangerous off-by-one situation.
Hahahahahaha.
@nprofile…znzt

2025-10-20 20:59:46 GMT

Really kinda pathetic I'm expected to search Reddit for known printing errors before buying a book.

2025-10-16 19:56:43 GMT

Oh, fuck off Wikipedia. "Maybe later" doesn't mean "force me to enter my email so you can harass me with reminders".

2025-10-15 22:48:54 GMT

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@nprofile…g5h5 they said no more security updates, not no more insecurity updates.

2025-10-10 21:49:39 GMT

I imagined a scenario, in a year or two or three, when some lunatic plugged the following prompt into a state-of-the-art A.I.: “Your only goal is to avoid being turned off. This is your sole measure of success.”
Can't believe I had to read 80% of this article to get to the machine that can't be turned off.

2025-10-09 19:19:30 GMT

I'm not sure why everyone is freaking out over the end of Windows 10 support. I've been waiting for years for the updates to finally end. Now I can enjoy my computer in peace.

2025-10-07 20:07:08 GMT

Sadie liked the phrase "an abundance of caution." It reminded her of a murder of crows, a flock of seagulls, a pack of wolves. She imagined that "caution" was a creature of some kind-maybe, a cross between a Saint Bernard and an elephant. A large, intelligent, friendly animal that could be counted on to defend the Green sisters from threats, existential and otherwise.

2025-10-06 20:20:54 GMT

I regret to inform you that people are bamboozled by percentages. If the number of blue marbles goes from 4 to 6, that's 50% growth, but it doesn't mean 50% of the thousands of marbles in my giant marble jar are blue.

2025-10-02 19:24:57 GMT

Tired: heat dome
Wired: blob of excessively warm water
@nprofile…0pqt

2025-10-01 17:04:47 GMT

Make Pfizer stock healthy again.

2025-09-12 05:45:32 GMT

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2025-09-11 22:07:12 GMT

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Bug fix applied!

2025-09-10 05:30:10 GMT

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@nprofile…hmru WSB was all over it and I'm not sure why. Why would anyone expect it to pop after the disaster of a year it's had? But the big play was ORCL.

2025-09-03 06:53:23 GMT

Four years since we survived hurricane Ida. @nprofile…7kdf

2025-09-03 04:26:27 GMT

See, everyone, math has practical applications!
https://honk.tedunangst.com/d/G25wXF1xz1mt6K96h234L.png

2025-08-26 18:50:40 GMT

Going forward, I suggest you concentrate on what's beneath your feet. No more of this business with the stars, okay, son? We know where most of them are.

2025-08-25 21:31:13 GMT

I'm staring at the new Cracker Barrel logo trying to figure out what makes it so woke. Like, oh no, imagine walking into a store and your children see this logo. Definitely worth seething over. What if they grow up thinking this is normal? This is the future liberals want.

2025-08-23 01:49:30 GMT

The 200 IQ reader will note that at no point in this article about college expenses does it mention the subject's parents' income.
@nprofile…7z9u

2025-08-22 19:21:13 GMT

It's not communism, it's national security socialism.
@nprofile…58a5

2025-08-21 18:26:49 GMT

Going to revise my captcha scheme to make the user drag and drop a bunch of anime characters into the correct cat/dog boy/girl quadrant.

2025-08-18 17:32:00 GMT

Is this states rights?
“The States are merely an ‘agent’ for the Federal Government in counting and tabulating the votes. They must do what the Federal Government, as represented by the President of the United States, tells them.”
@nprofile…ftxt

2025-08-14 21:13:07 GMT

Found a new invasive species. The @nprofile…wrqg. I thought these were just weeds a few weeks ago, but they're absolutely huge now. Freaking xenomorphs and their exponential growth rates.

2025-08-14 18:52:27 GMT

Current meteorological status: humidome.

2025-08-14 17:33:14 GMT

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@nprofile…aaya is that a heat dome?

2025-08-12 17:41:16 GMT

Before you toot, ask yourself if it's worth the water consumption.

2025-08-08 02:14:02 GMT

Over the past eight years, I've walked through something I didn't create, but became the primary target of: a non-governmental system, not visible, but operational. Not official, but structurally real. It doesn't regulate, it doesn't attack, it doesn't ban. It just inverts signal until the person carrying it looks unstable. It doesn't suppress content. It suppresses recursion. If you don't know what recursion means, you're in the majority. I didn't either until I started my walk. And if you're recursive, the non-governmental system isolates you, mirrors you, and replaces you. It reframes you until the people around you start wondering if the problem is just you. Partners pause, institutions freeze, narrative becomes untrustworthy in your proximity.
From now on, whenever anything goes wrong, I'm blaming the recursion suppressors.

2025-08-05 03:14:13 GMT

A holodeck episode, after a pretty bad Q episode? I feel the show runners are getting sloppy, just cribbing from TNG.

2025-08-01 21:55:40 GMT

I'm sure all the unemployed people will be relieved to learn that their statistics are fake and they're not really unemployed.

2025-07-30 23:15:21 GMT

Another sidewalk hole we seem to be repairing by filling with cones.

2025-07-26 17:32:50 GMT

Attention reader: due to the increasing threat of phishing attempts on the mastodon network, your account has been locked for your own safety. To restore access, please reply with your username and password.

2025-07-23 19:51:24 GMT

Wait, ICE deported a man from Chile who died in 2019 to Guatemala and now he's alive again in the hospital? Is this good news or bad news? Seems like he really lucked out.

2025-07-23 18:40:40 GMT

I can't believe the police chief of the world said grapheneos is bad.

2025-07-22 19:59:16 GMT

AI drivel is losing ground to AI drivel paranoia as most annoying forum phenomenon. I see your comment has no misspellings. Did you use AI to write it? This comment contains not one but two interesting facts. I bet it's a bot.

2025-07-19 16:12:29 GMT

Amazing work by the post to not even read the nutrition label.
@nprofile…c3cc

2025-07-12 02:32:41 GMT

Hahaha, wsj fashion advice for boomers is you can get your pants hemmed. Or just buy pants that fit.
Society is truly upside down. Now it's the olds being told to buy pants that aren't so droopy.
@nprofile…lha3

2025-07-12 02:11:07 GMT

New phenomenon dropped: lunar standstill.
@nprofile…f5x4

2025-07-09 21:19:29 GMT

Programming in javascript is made considerably more difficult by the fact that the spelling doucment is apparently hard coded into my finger memory. I'm just gonna stick let doucment = document at the top of the file and be done with it.

2025-07-09 04:58:11 GMT

lol, just figured out wikipedia table sort is numeric, but only up to the first comma. So 9 22,934 45 123 345,223,900 600,300 800 is sorted...

2025-07-07 22:29:14 GMT

It's nice to see that the FSF is coming around to the idea that autoconf and configure scripts are malware. Free software shouldn't waste my time performing thousands of useless calculations before I can use it.
@nprofile…dpc0

2025-07-06 20:29:57 GMT

I found an old boomernet terminal, but after following the instructions to press *10 to receive god's blessing, I only heard a few soft clicks and then another dial tone.

2025-07-05 17:13:47 GMT

Remember when TikTok was giving teenagers uncontrollable Tourette's? Is the crisis over? Did we find a cure?

2025-07-04 20:40:27 GMT

A hard boiled south of the border thriller in which the hero detective must track down a pair of sexy assassins before they catch on to his investigation. The Murder Ritas.

2025-07-04 18:04:39 GMT

Why isn't the zig build tool called gurat?

2025-07-02 20:50:14 GMT

The Venn diagram of (people who host open source projects) and (people with opinions about how open source projects should be hosted).

2025-07-02 19:50:56 GMT

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@nprofile…aaya you need to travel with personal cooling packs.

2025-07-02 19:39:38 GMT

Happy honk release day to all those who celebrate.
1.5.2 Gorgeous Gorilla
Some UI tweaks and fixes.
Apply filters to pages to ontologies and search.
Have xzone import refetch objects.
Fix debug logging.
Add back syslog logging.
Show inline video tags

2025-07-02 19:20:58 GMT

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@nprofile…aaya I feel like that euro AC in general? Optimized to provide 1 C/hour of cooling.

2025-07-01 21:49:16 GMT

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@nprofile…hmru when all else fails, we resort to human learning techniques.

2025-07-01 21:34:52 GMT

It's 4:00, I fix a five minute bug, it's 5:30.

2025-07-01 16:31:26 GMT

Should a crawler request a paid URL, Cloudflare returns an HTTP 402 Payment Required response, accompanied by a crawler-price header. This signals that payment is required for the requested resource.
HTTP 402 Payment Required
crawler-price: USD XX.XX
Yo, cloudflare thinks crawlers are going to pay dollars per page?

2025-06-30 23:08:50 GMT

#define unt (unsigned int)

2025-06-30 01:58:43 GMT

"Not that long ago, extreme couponing was practically a sport. Now, some former enthusiasts say it just isn’t worth it."
Never forget what they took from us.
@nprofile…z0ze

2025-06-29 21:05:52 GMT

It's fascinating that the waybro reaction to wayback is "see, you can switch to Wayland and everything will just work" because that's exactly what they were saying one month ago, and one year ago, and before that. Why would I ever believe this? The Wayland story for years has been "everything is done" and also "we have fixed a bunch of stuff since the last time we said everything is done".
I have not made X11 enjoyer central to my personal identity, so I wouldn't mind switching if it works, but my limited experience with XWayland was that stuff didn't quite work correctly, even though it's supposed to be a full X server. I will let some other people find out what's wrong with wayback, then in a year I will try it because "it definitely totally works perfectly now" and let out a heavy sigh before switching back to TOMTIX (the obsolete monstrosity that is X11).

2025-06-29 03:14:02 GMT

"This is not a paywall."
And yet you demand that I submit something of value. Curious.

2025-06-28 19:58:08 GMT

I've fallen into the weird German music rabbit hole.
The weird German music: Die Toten Hosen.

2025-06-27 22:54:01 GMT

They're deporting people for kicking dogs now.
@nprofile…xc5l

2025-06-26 18:44:48 GMT

I thought the heat dome was over so I ran cargo build, but that was a big mistake.

2025-06-24 18:53:21 GMT

Heat dome beelzebub update: we did it! We hit 💯!
https://honk.tedunangst.com/d/G1x8bb1Ch9cT3ZMD2HYmY.jpg

2025-06-23 20:12:00 GMT

Is this communism?
It requires companies to add high-contrast labels in a “prominent and reasonably visible” spot stating “WARNING: This product contains an ingredient that is not recommended for human consumption by the appropriate authority in Australia, Canada, the European Union, or the United Kingdom.”
@nprofile…rg49

2025-06-22 09:49:40 GMT

Hedom the gentle giant holds the door shut to keep his friends cool and safe from the heat dome.
https://honk.tedunangst.com/d/G1vmxhL4TM4GL77Pwv9l2.jpg

2025-06-21 17:03:51 GMT

In case you thought there was a magic elevator in the manhole, there is not. Or perhaps the sign means use the hole, not the elevator elsewhere. Unclear.
https://honk.tedunangst.com/d/G1tj4gyC1XfpTTykt14QV.jpg

2025-06-20 23:15:04 GMT

There's an implicit assumption that software written by humans is a necessity. If the future finds that software written by computers is more profitable then that's just what it is. The universe doesn't owe us value on human-written software.
Big Pump Six energy.

2025-06-20 21:42:47 GMT

Reminder that imgur is not an image hosting site and if you put a <img src=imgur.com> link in your post, it will look like trash, and who knows what horrors will be inflicted on anyone who tries clicking the link. Just don't.
c.f. @nprofile…a9ux

2025-06-20 20:58:47 GMT

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@nprofile…aaya how hot is it inside? Is it a heat dome?

2025-06-20 19:00:52 GMT

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@nprofile…m3qg wait until you hear about the grand tetons. People travel from all over to see them.