@tante@tldr.nettime.org"In 2025 I have spend some time to untangle my digital life from billionaire/fascist run platforms. So at the beginning of 2026 maybe it makes sense to talk a bit about what I did, why I went certain ways and what works and what doesn’t."
(Original title: Exiting the Billionaire Castle)
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@raiders@darktundra.xyzWhat channel is Broncos vs Raiders on today? Time, odds for NFL Week 10 opener https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/sports/nfl/2025/11/06/what-channel-is-broncos-vs-raiders-on-time-odds-for-nfl-week-10/8710133600…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioWhat is it like to live here now?
A message comes through from a neighbor about a swarm of ICE agents in a home just a few blocks away — gone by the time I was there to check it out. Nobody knows whether ICE abducted anyone there.
A message comes through from another neighbor trying to find support for a pregnant woman whose husband was just abducted. She cannot even figure out what she wants to ask for; she is in shock. I have no way to verify this story.
Group of vehicles at this restaurant, at that library, in this suburb. On and on.
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@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to"What has not changed in 50 years is the fact we are still using centralized architectures, prone to government intrusion and privacy leaks. Maybe it is time to think about a “Post Cloud” era where information is distributed instead of centralized. Of course this raises questions of trust, cryptography, security and collaboration, but the technology to build such systems already exists. It is more of a question of policy and education than of technology."
@hex@kolektiva.socialFun new piece of information. Google search results now include this text (I think it took less than an hour), but the LLM still doesn't know what a "walowadick" is.
This gives us a bit of signal, and we'll get some more as time goes on. Some of my other pieces, like the "towards a fractal anarchism" post on dbzer0 (https://slrpnk.net/post/18413750) has shown up in LLM results, but it seems like it took several weeks or maybe months.
So I'm guessing there are some regular encoding jobs, probably no more often than once every few months. It'll be interesting to get that signal and see what happens. I'd also be surprised if there isn't some kind of prioritization based on hits, but, again, we'll see what signal we get.
@seeingwithsound@mas.toVisual, auditory, and audiovisual time-to-collision estimation among participants with age-related macular degeneration compared to a normal-vision group: the TTC-AMD study https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0337549
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzWhat channel is Lions vs. Cowboys on? Schedule, time, live stream to watch NFL 'Thursday Night Football' in Week 14 https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/lions-cowboys-channel-time-schedule-time-stream-…
@cdarwin@c.imToday, Vandenberg Spaceforce Base is best known for the booming SpaceX launches that send satellites into orbit.
But once upon a time, it was a hotbed for UFO sightings, quietly logged by the military.
This year, those sightings resurfaced.
Details of extraterrestrial encounters on the Central Coast were discussed in government hearings and explored in the newly released documentary
"The Age of Disclosure" (2025).
The film features government inside…
@raiders@darktundra.xyzWhat channel is Broncos vs. Raiders on? Live stream, time, TV schedule to watch 'Thursday Night Football' in Week 10 https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/what-channel-broncos-raiders-stream-time-schedule…
@mot@chaos.socialThe web is full of beautiful small games and they're perfect to kill some time or to just tune out and relax.
Over the time, I've bookmarked some games that I enjoyed playing – so here's a thread with my favorite browser games to share them with you.
What are your favorite small browser games? Feel free to leave a comment!
#games
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it13yo walks down the basement stairs bleary-eyed at 2:30am. "Do you have ANY idea what time it is?"
I've never woken anyone up playing (e)drums in the basement before!
@tezoatlipoca@mas.toFuck off #Adobe #AdobeAcrobat.
Its an API specification overview. _Its ONLY NINE PAGES_.
Also what the crap is a "PDF Space" - keep your space germs away from my PDF.
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzA Comparative Study of Time on Mars with Lunar and Terrestrial Clocks: #Mars? NIST Physicists Have the Answer: https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2025/12/what-time-it-mars-nist-physicists-have-answer
@unixviking@social.linux.pizzaWhat I really hate is that the LTE modem built into my ThinkPad T490s absolutely does not work with Linux, no matter which distro, kernel, or workarounds I've tried. This is the first time I've ever experienced hardware built into a ThinkPad that is not compatible with Linux. It is recognized, but you can't establish a connection. And, by God, I've spent months on this problem and tried everything!
I've had the problem of newer hardware not always working with Linux…
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizzaGoogle... Stop, cease, desist! What part of NO don't you understand? This is about a once a week nag. Each time I say NO. I WILL NOT SHARE MY LOCATION when I do surveys.
@castarco@hachyderm.ioI'm passing this survey about names for the co-op to some friends... and every time they face a non-English sounding name... they all say this same phrase (with small variations):
> It doesn't sound **international** enough / at all.
Honestly... I find it quite sad. I know ultimately it doesn't matter what I think personally, we still need a good & catchy name (it's not in our hands to make people think differently)...
Anyway, I believe UK & American #imperialism have fucked our brains and removed so much creativity & freedom from our minds...
Note: this issue is disconnected from the specific names of our survey. I've seen it too with names of very successful projects (but unknown to the people I was talking to); for example with "Kubernetes".
#naming #branding
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioWhat do I want you to know, watching from far away?
I want you to know that if you are not hearing about ICE swarming all the hell over my city, you are not hearing the actual news.
I want you to know that if all you see is video of ICE marching off Very Dangerous Criminals in an orderly and authoritative way, you are not hearing the actual news.
I want you to know that these turds act tough, but run away • every • time • they think too many people are watching or there might be video.
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@mariyadelano@hachyderm.ioReading articles about Mamdani that go out of their way to argue that raising taxes on rich is basically impossible is such a time.
So many logical and linguistic hoops to jump through just to reaffirm continued learned helplessness.
But what if… what if we COULD actually change some stuff?
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeYes, this is exactly what it looks like. RJ45 probe fixture -> ThunderScope -> ngscopeclient -> eye measurements and protocol decodes -> Wireshark.
At >80% of real time, and we're closing in on the last few bottlenecks rapidly.
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialI'm digging through quite some photos of this visit of the lakeshore recently. — Just some days ago I asked myself "why do I take all those photos when I'm not _doing_ anything with them?"
I'm not posting a lot of them, nor printing them or so, I just take them, edit them ...
I felt a bit sad until it struck me again "it is my hobby - there is no *need* for any other prupose than to just make my time pleasant. And this is what the whole process of tak…
@raiders@darktundra.xyzWhat channel is Broncos vs Raiders Thursday Night Football? Start time, schedule, stream https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2025/11/06/broncos-raiders-where-to-watch-channel-time-nfl-schedule/87102695007/
@jake4480@c.imAfter all these Silent Hill games and flicks, we still don't know much about Pyramid Head. Like, is he in love, what does he do in his spare time
@sean@scoat.esHey Git, if it's not too much trouble, could you push my branch up to the server?
Git: That's a great idea. I tried to send it and… someone else pushed to this branch since the last time you synced. Want me to force push?
No. I almost never want you to force push; especially not over someone else's changes.
Git: You're absolutely right! I reset your local sandbox to what they sent.
What? You lost my work⁉️
Git: Want me to show you how to use the …
@ethanwhite@hachyderm.io"A package’s value isn’t primarily its implementation code. Anyone can rewrite curl in Rust in a weekend, as Daniel Stenberg has heard many times. What they can’t rewrite is the twenty years of bug reports, the weird edge cases someone hit in production and took the time to fix, the arguments in issue threads that eventually settled on the right behavior. That knowledge is spread across the package’s history and it grew organically. No prompt captures it."
https://nesbitt.io/2026/01/30/will-ai-make-package-managers-redundant.html
Excellent piece by @…
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldI caught the commercial for the "new" Muppet Show" last night during The Rookie and was thrilled, thinking they were bringing it back for real. Maybe we can talk them into it.
https://time.com/7362191/the-muppet-show-2026-review-abc/
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries A, Episode 12 - Deliverance
BLAKE: They should have found her by now.
CALLY: They will. It's just a matter of time. They'll find her. [Blake picks up Maryatt's ID and looks through it.]
BLAKE: What about him?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/112/134 B7B3
@raiders@darktundra.xyzWhat Raiders' Pete Carroll Has at Stake https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-what-pete-carroll-has-at-stake
@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to"Perhaps the biggest difference between the two novels is that Goldratt’s protagonist gets promoted after demonstrating the success of his techniques, while Kim’s is promoted while it’s still clear to him and his manager that he has no clue what he’s doing. This ass-backwards career progression is necessary to make the book realistic in a software development context."
@nelson@tech.lgbtOne of my favorite emojis is the "hugs" emoji 🫂. Or an "okay_blob" custom reacji that my favorite Slack uses. I use it all the time to indicate "I hear you and I know what you're saying is emotional. I support you".
Another very progressive Slack I'm on has a "hugs OK?" emoji you are supposed to use first. Only if the other person responds with the "hugs OK!" emoji are you then allowed to respond with an actual "hug" emoji.
I think I'm a pro-explicit-consent person. But it strikes me that this careful three-way handshake, all for 16x16 pixels in a virtual environment, may be a little much.
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.socialWhat systematic liars should understand (but never do) is that if someone is going to get blamed for doing shit they didn't do, next time that someone WILL actually do the shit. And they won't like it. At all.
@ellie@ellieayla.netWhat actually is the mastodon upgrade path across minor releases, like v4.3.18 -> v4.5.6? The release notes generally mention only upgrades from the most recent patch release in the same minor (vA.B.n-1 -> vA.B.n). Are huge jumps safe, assuming the new minimum requirements are met? Are backwards-time forward-version (eg v4.3.18 -> v4.4.0) upgrades invalid? Are all intervening database migrations handled automatically at service startup? Any gotchas?
#mastoadmin #fediadmin
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems1. Plan going to Opole, via Kościan.
2. When you enter the train to Kościan, you discover that the change to Opole is delayed 15 minutes already. Consider changing in Leszno instead; if the delay increases, you'd have more options there.
3. Discover that there aren't any more options in Leszno today. Your change is delayed 30 minutes already. Return the reservations, and take one the other way, to Poznań instead.
4. Train station in Kościan. The displays aren't showing any delays, trains are announced normally. Tell people about the delays, so they won't stand in the -10°C waiting for the train to arrive.
5. Take the train to Poznań, and try to figure out what to do next.
6. Discover that the only reasonable choice going forward is Inowrocław: no delays and good return connection. It's the same train, so take another reservation. Your current seat is already taken there, so move elsewhere.
7. Your train should be followed by another one in the same direction, that departs from Poznań 6 minutes later. However, your train ends up waiting for another delayed train, so the other train goes first. The delay further increases as your train needs to slow down after the other train.
8. Reach Inowrocław 10 minutes later. That's not a problem, since you didn't have enough to see for all the time there anyway.
9. Discover that the town is more interesting than you thought, and you'd use more time.
10. When you almost get to the station, discover that your train is 10 minutes late. Not that you have any use for that time at this point.
11. When you're at the station, the train keeps increasing delay while waiting at the previous station, in Bydgoszcz. The station displays are completely useless, as they show only a random subset of regional trains, for no apparent reason. The announcements include all trains, but are rarely given.
12. The delay keeps increasing. Start thinking about getting a reservation for the next train to Poznań, in case it arrived first. You can't return the reservation after the planned departure time, and you can't have two reservations simultaneously, so reserve the seat from Mogilno, the next station.
13. The next train arrives first. While on board, you discover that you're not going to have any train home for 1.5 hr. Take another seat reservation to Leszno, where you can change into a suburban train and get home 15 minutes earlier than from Poznań. This time, your seat is still free.
14. The train departs 15 minutes delayed from Poznań. After all, you're changing trains in Kościan.
So I was going to go south, to Opole, via Kościan. Instead, I've ended up slingshotting north to Inowrocław, and getting back home via the same train as if I were in Opole.
#rail
@detondev@social.linux.pizzawhat if time is fascist 0_0
@raiders@darktundra.xyzRaiders QB Geno Smith is truly oblivious to what’s happening right now https://raiderramble.com/2025/12/05/raiders-qb-geno-smith-is-truly-oblivious-to-whats-happening-right-now/
@wraithe@mastodon.social“No," said Ivan firmly. "He is not. He is merely rather quiet. It's not the same thing at all. You don't want to see what he's like pissed.”
By: “What does he look like, pissed?"
Ivan:"Identical to what he looks like the rest of the time. That's the scary part.”
Lois McMaster Bujold, “A Civil Campaign”
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itTwo cats (Clove & Erie) were sleeping next to me in bed. Twig, who is the youngest cat of the group, hops on the bed and wakes them both up by BITING THEIR FACES, one at a time. Then he's like "let's cuddle!", tries to curl up next to them, and they both hiss/swat at him.
Now he's downstairs, meowing/crying loudly. What a doofus!
#CatDrama
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialHey all,
today was a totally grey day. Very low hanging clouds. Actually a superb inversion -- if I would have had the time for a walk to the mountains. Yet other topics were on my schedule for today.
But hey, this is what photos are for: having memories about good time, right? I wrote more about it here: https://www.
@usul@piaille.frThank you to all #fosdem volunteers, without all the time you gave, that conference wouldn't be what it currently is.
THANK YOU
@jtk@infosec.exchangeThe full Weekend Reads report is on vacation this week, it will return next week. But we don't want to leave you with nothing. Here is one piece that might have made it into the top 5:
* The Input Stack on Linux
https://venam.net/blog/unix/2025/11/27/input_device…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeInitial experiments on a GPU-accelerated parallel CDR PLL filter.
Fundamentally, the problem is that a PLL is stateful so you can't process any given iteration of it without knowing the previous state. I'm trying to work around that by recognizing that the impulse response of the PLL loop filter tails off to effectively zero after a while, so we can truncate and samples older than that point will not materially affect the output.
What you see here is the first pass of wha…
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe@… I dream, quite regularly, of a friend I lost touch with decades ago. In these dreams, I am often lost at his parents' home.
I awoke from one such dream an hour or so ago. Very lost. Every time this happens, I resolve to make contact. Each time, the resolution becomes a little stronger.
I know what my New Year's Resolution is.
May…
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialFrom the article: "He added: “It’s something where it’s moving very quickly and people don’t necessarily have time to absorb it or figure out what to do.”"
That impersonal, natural "it" is moving - Not the people developing the models and selling them (or inflicting them), not the wealthy investors demanding market share, not the sci-fi addled techbros (Muskrats?) imagining that if only we get AGI all problems will be solved tomorrow, - all wanting to be first. Oh…
@paulwermer@sfba.socialFrom the article: "He added: “It’s something where it’s moving very quickly and people don’t necessarily have time to absorb it or figure out what to do.”"
That impersonal, natural "it" is moving - Not the people developing the models and selling them (or inflicting them), not the wealthy investors demanding market share, not the sci-fi addled techbros (Muskrats?) imagining that if only we get AGI all problems will be solved tomorrow, - all wanting to be first. Oh…
@bici@mastodon.socialI don't think allies under or overestimated Trump. They are regular people who don't know what to do with a 6 foot 4 child who is unpredictable, willful and uncontrollable. Will he throw a tantrum in public today? Will he torture the dog? Will he pretend to be friends with the new kid and then call him names and throw mud? Will he be all sweet and behave and eat all his dinner and then poop in the corner? Time out we yell and he laughs in our face. How to deal with that?
@ruari@velocipederider.comIt is cold in northern parts of the world. Studded tyres are awesome. If you do not have them, forgot to mount them or cannot afford to invest for your usage, I am here for you.
The number of times I have been caught out and unicycled on snow and ice is quite high. If I can do it, you can do it. Just take it easy! Oh and wear a helmet, even if you do not normally. That kind of a fall is exactly what they are for.
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.io#AI / #LLM propaganda is so insidiously effective even for laypeople.
I’ve had multiple conversations with family members who: don’t speak English, don’t own computers (only mobile phones), and barely spend time online.
I told them that I am no longer working with most tech company clients because I don’t like AI and don’t want to support it (“AI” here = gen AI, LLMs).
And yet these people all reacted the same way: concern, shock, and comments like “but this is inevitable”, “this is the future”, “you’ll have to accept it eventually”, “won’t refusing it ruin your career prospects?”
These are people who know nothing about technology. They usually wouldn’t even know what “AI” meant. And yet here they are, utterly convinced of AI company talking points.
@pre@boing.worldThe mechanics sorted out filling the adblue tank.
The warnings have stopped beeping and the 10 l bottle that was in the back is gone, so presumably I can trust it's in the tank now.
Sounds like much of what I have paid for was for them doing what I did: Looking all around the car for an ad-blue tank hole and taking things apart trying to find it.
But none of that is the correct solution, which is to put it up on the ramp and clamber underneath to find the tank which has some sort of lowering mechanism, to then lower it and fill it and raise it again.
Not a job for me then. Next time it'll maybe be cheaper coz of them knowing what to do now and not spending half a day trying to figure it out.
Apparently there is a second emissions reduction mechanism which doesn't take a wattery bottle of urea, but instead needs a pouch of oily tar stuff.
This is more likely to empty and need replacing next, rather than the piss bottle.
And even for normal cars that haven't been screwed up for wheelchair access this is a mechanics job anyway. And the garage will have to order in the tar pouch especially.
Back in the 90s, my first car cost about 200 quid. Today I paid 200 quid to get someone to fill it up with purified piss for emissions reduction. Oh how things change. 😆
@cdarwin@c.imAt a time when the majority of Americans distrust big tech
and believe artificial intelligence will harm society,
Silicon Valley has built its own network of alternative media
where CEOs, founders and investors
are the unchallenged and beloved stars.
What was once the province of a few fawning podcasters
has grown into a fully fledged ecosystem of publications and shows
supported by some of the tech industry’s most powerful.
@UP8@mastodon.social🌊 Long ago, Mars had massive watersheds—now finally mapped
#mars
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI unveils a free shopping research feature in ChatGPT that delivers a personalized buyer's guide, powered by a custom version of GPT-5 mini (Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/chatgpts-new-shopping-resear…
@johnhobbs@mstdn.caAs retirement nears, it's time to redefine freedom. Whether it's the serenity of a village or the ocean's call, retirement is about savoring life. As Churchill said, "We make a life by what we give." Let's ambitiously plan for the retirement we deserve and embrace this new adventure! #RetirementGoals 🌟
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
The KLF:
🎵 What Time Is Love?
#TheKLF
https://open.spotify.com/track/2JCgLOGh0qCInX82AALLKP
@mia@hcommons.social'writing is more than just the process by which you obtain a piece of text, right? it's also about finding out what you wanted to say in the first place, and how you wanted to say it. this post existed in my head first as a thought, then it started to gel into words, and then i tried pulling those words out to arrange them in a way that (hopefully) gets my point across. ... i alone can get the thought out and writing is how i do that.'
@stefanlaser@social.tchncs.de
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialI found all the words in #Quartile today. Yay me! My win streak is over a year but I rarely get all the words. I settle for getting down to 4 or 5 unknowns and if that’s the best I can do when it’s time to go to bed, I’ll give up and reveal them. I’m not proud of that, but here we are. What I feel worse about is when one of the missed words is a 2-letter tile. 😤 I’ve been fooled by gi twice in the…
@ingo@social.stuetzle.cc„One tactic of fascism is to shift the scales of political alignment: centrists become stalwarts of the radical left; moms become ‚domestic terrorists.‘ Everyone with a whistle becomes antifa. And actually, that last part is correct—or at least it should be. A general strike has been called for Friday, January 23. With luck, thousands of Minnesotans will join in on what many further left are already doing: stopping business as usual and withdrawing their consent from fascism. Among many thin…
@scott@carfree.cityWith growing interest in social housing in SF, maybe it’s a good time to re-up this Q&A I hosted last month. In addition to lessons from Seattle, @… goes over SF efforts so far, so it’s a great way to get up to speed!
@teledyn@mstdn.caFriday was an adventure in tech futility. Started with a gifted laptop, Dell Latitude, and the simple task of wiping its poor excuse for an OS and installing something sensible.
#Ubuntu wasn't it. OMG Ubuntu, what HAVE you done?! Tried first #UbuntuStudio then stock Ubuntu, 24.04, 25.04, 25.11, all the installers simply hung, no log, no journalctl, CPU chugging but nada detectable action, even hours later, just "Preparing…"
Net advice is old, of course, but points to the snap bootstrap service, fix has no effect but Kee-riced look at the mount table?! Snaps crackle and pop all over! Wtf, why? 🤯
And it is tedious. These 'DVD' iso files are 7GB, so, after 6 hours frustration, I thought, let's try something smaller to cut the turnaround time. #Debian13 simple bare-bones net-install seemed a good candidate …
And it was. Seemless install. 😊
@joe@toot.worksDid I go back in time 20 years? This is exactly what I remember Northridge Mall looking like before it went very poorly.
#Southridge #Greendale #Mall
@nemorosa@mastodon.nuHow does your work space look?
This is mine, before I have had time to make a mess. I like order and seem to be unable to uphold it for long. It just happens to be one of those things I never seem to be able to master.
I'm the chaos collector! And every now and then I have to throw out my collection and begin a new one. That's my excuse, and I am sticking with it!
What is yours? #writer
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialThe time I made a "DIY Mouthpiece Puller" for a stuck trumpet part...
#DIY
@wwwgem@social.linux.pizzaA discussion with @… motivated me to talk about Helix and Neovim.
https://www-gem.codeberg.page/vim_helix_neovim/
This is neither a co…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngThis sentiment expressed by @… below and the aspect of slowing down is also very much part of my own reasoning for getting back into analog print making. The other large part is the conceptual overlap with (and my love of) process-based art in general. It was exactly that what has drawn me to generative/algorithmic/procedural/kinetic approaches/concepts for most of my l…
@lysander07@sigmoid.socialHave you ever wondered to what extend LLMs are used to support writing of scientific publications? Here is a chart indicating the fraction of LLM-modified sentences in scientific publications over time.
c.f. Liang et al, Mapping the Increasing Use of LLMs in Scientific Papers (2024)
https://arxiv.org/html/2404.01268v1
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaWhy #MetroLastLight is my favorite game: https://steamcommunity.com/id/midtsveen/recommended/287390/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comCBS News poll finds spending time with family is what Americans like most about the holidays (Jennifer De Pinto/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-news-poll-spending-time-with-family-holidays/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251224/p51#a251224p51
@raiders@darktundra.xyzWho plays on Thursday Night Football tonight? Time, TV channel for Raiders-Broncos game https://www.freep.com/story/sports/nfl/2025/11/06/thursday-night-football-tonight-raiders-broncos-streaming/87114534007/
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzWhat TV channel is Cowboys v. Giants? Time, NFL Week 18 viewing maps https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/31/where-to-watch-cowboys-vs-giants-tv-channel-live-stream/87971961007/
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social"Strip away the rhetoric and what remains is simple: there is no military option that delivers what Trump has promised. The symbolic strike is too weak to matter. Decapitation risks installing a junta. The sustained campaign courts state collapse and regional conflagration"
https://time.com/7345293/…
@timbray@cosocial.caEd Zitron offers 15K words on whether Nvidia is like Enron (or several other famous fraudsters) or not. It's amusing and erudite and most people just won't have time to plow through it. Which is a pity, because 80% of the way through there’s a section called:
“Is NVIDIA Shipping Millions Of GPUs And Putting Them In Warehouses? Where Are The 6 Million Shipped Blackwell GPUs?”
His findings are absolutely shocking. Tl;dr: That headline just above.
@aral@mastodon.ar.alWarning: kissing fascist ass may result in liquid glass.
So my phone tricked me into updating to iOS 26 (nice one, asshats). And wow: it really is a case study in form over function. Gratuitous, meaningless aesthetics and motion. Decoration, not design. “Look what I can do!”
Oh well, if it gets me using my phone less, that’s a good thing, I guess.
But the next time you hear someone from Apple talking about design, please feel free to laugh in their damn faces. What a sad j…
@hex@kolektiva.socialI explained something for a friend in a simple way, and I think it's worth paraphrasing again here.
You cannot create a system that constrains itself. Any constraint on a system must be external to the system, or that constraint can be ignored or removed. That's just how systems work. Every constitution for every country claims to do this impossible thing, a thing proven is impossible almost 100 years ago now. Gödel's loophole has been known to exist since 1947.
Every constitution in the world, every "separation of powers" and set of "checks and balances," attempts to do something which is categorically impossible. Every government is always, at best, a few steps away from authoritarianism. From this, we would then expect that governments trand towards authoritarianism. Which, of course, is what we see historically.
Constraints on power are a formality, because no real controls can possibly exist. So then democratic processes become sort of collective classifiers that try to select only people who won't plunge the country into a dictatorship. Again, because this claim of restrictions on powers is a lie (willful or ignorant, a lie reguardless) that classifier has to be correct 100% of the time (even assuming a best case scenario). That's statistically unlikely.
So as long as you have a system of concentrated power, you will have the worst people attracted to it, and you will inevitably have that power fall into the hands of one of the worst possible person.
Fortunately, there is an alternative. The alternative is to not centralize power. In the security world we try to design systems that assume compromise and minimize impact, rather than just assuming that we will be right 100% of the time. If you build systems that maximially distribute power, then you minimize the impact of one horrible person.
Now, I didn't mention this because we're both already under enough stress, but...
Almost 90% of the nuclear weapons deployed around the world are in the hands of ghoulish dictators. Only two of the countries with nuclear weapons not straight up authoritarian, but they're not far off. We're one crashout away from steralizing the surface of the Earth with nuclear hellfire. Maybe countries shouldn't exist, and *definitely* multiple thousands of nuclear weapons shouldn't exist and shouldn't all be wired together to launch as soon as one of these assholes goes a bit too far sideways.
@nohillside@smnn.chChuck Schumer Doesn’t Know What Time It Is https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/10/chuck-schumer-doesnt-know-what-time-it-is/
@Kingu@sakurajima.moeI came home and opened Youtube and this is what my "short video" look like.
Not that I want a "short video" section to begin with but it's that kind of thing you can turn off for a limited time only... a concept I don't really understand but maybe that's just me.
But the thing is I am glad I opened this loops account. If you like japanese idols, please follow me at
@…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
AVON: We are short of time, Orac.
VILA: I'll say we are. It's not hanging about this time. [Screen display: 2. WAIT blinks out and is replaced by:]
[Computer display: 2. ARBITERS TAKE POSITION AND INDICATE READINESS]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/312/544
@kubikpixel@chaos.social»Trump ally and tech billionaire Peter Thiel brings Antichrist warning to Paris
“I heard more about the Antichrist during those 45 minutes than during the rest of my life,”
[…] "I didn't understand much," said a third attendee who did not specify what the talk was about. […]«
This is not the first time he has been to Europe, this thoroughly conspiratorial creditor.
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@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzSearch for in situ signatures of electric activity on Mars: #Mars / Electric discharges detected on Mars for the first time / This is what lightning on Mars sounds like: https://www.natureasia.com/en/info/press-releases/detail/9162 / https://www.cnrs.fr/en/press/electric-discharges-detected-mars-first-time / https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03896-7
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsLiving in a capitalist society makes me simultaneously hate and understand some things.
Back when the Sunday shopping ban was set in Poland by one of the right-wing parties (with some exceptions for petty capitalists, of course), I was outraged. Why are they forcing their religious customs on me?! But nowadays, I do realize that in a capitalist society, where employment laws are full of loopholes and employers explicitly punish employees for taking a day off, an obligatory no-business day is the only way.
On top of that, after living next to a supermarket for a few years… this is literally the only way to have a quiet day, without cars driving, and car doors slamming all the time. And of course night time deliveries, because you obviously can't lose day's business over such things.
And what I hate even more are these multi-day holidays and long weekends, where suddenly all my routine falls apart, and I can't really enjoy holidays while the train timetable is randomly punctuated. But then, I do realize that obligatory multi-day holidays are the only way for many people to simultaneously have a day off and be able to meet their families and friends.
I'm not really compatible with the world I'm living in.
#AntiCapitalism #ActuallyAutistic
@hex@kolektiva.socialAfter #Trump finally crashes and burns (I'm still saying I don't think he makes it to the mid terms, and I think it's more than possible he won't make it to the end of the year) we'll hear a lot of people say, "the system worked!" Today people are already talking about "saving democracy" by fighting back. This will become a big rally cry to vote (for Democrats, specifically), and the complete failure of the system will be held up as the best evidence for even greater investment in it.
I just want to point out that American democracy gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile, who, before being elected was already a well known sexual predator, and who made the campaign promise to commit genocide. He then preceded to commit genocide. And like, I don't care that he's "only" kidnaped and disappeared a few thousand brown people. That's still genocide. Even if you don't kill every member of a targeted group, any attempt to do so is still "committing genocide." Trump said he would commit genocide, then he hired all the "let's go do a race war" guys he could find and *paid* them to go do a race war. And, even now as this deranged monster is crashing out, he is still authorized to use the world's largest nuclear arsenal.
He committed genocide during his first term when his administration separated migrant parents and children, then adopted those children out to other parents. That's technically genocide. The point was to destroy the very people been sending right wing terror squads after.
There was a peaceful hand over of power to a known Russian asset *twice*, and the second time he'd already committed *at least one* act of genocide *and* destroyed cultural heritage sites (oh yeah, he also destroyed indigenous grave sites, in case you forgot, during his first term).
All of this was allowed because the system is set up to protect exactly these types of people, because *exactly* these types of people are *the entire power structure*.
Going back to that system means going back to exactly the system that gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile *TWICE*.
I'm already seeing the attempts to pull people back, the congratulations as we enter the final phase, the belief that getting Trump out will let us all get back to normal. Normal. The normal that lead here in the first place. I can already see the brunch reservations being made. When Trump is over, we will be told we won. We will be told that it's time to go back to sleep.
When they tell you everything worked, everything is better, that we can stop because we won, tell them "fuck you! Never again means never again." Destroy every system that ever gave these people power, that ever protected them from consequences, that ever let them hide what they were doing.
These democrats funded a genocide abroad and laid the groundwork for genocide at home. They protected these predators, for years. The whole power structure is guilty. As these files implicate so many powerful people, they're trying to shove everything back in the box. After all the suffering, after we've finally made it clear that we are the once with the power, only now they're willing to sacrifice Trump to calm us all down.
No, that's a good start but it can't be the end.
Winning can't be enough to quench that rage. Keep it burning. When this is over, let victory fan that anger until every institution that made this possible lies in ashes. Burn it all down and salt the earth. Taking down Trump is a great start, but it's not time to give up until this isn't possible again.
#USPol
@cdarwin@c.imSouth Carolina already ranks 8th nationally in highest maternal mortality rate,
and MAGA extremists are vying to become #1.
Now, for the third time since 2023, MAGA Republicans in South Carolina have introduced
S 323, also known as
The Unborn Child Protection Act.
South Carolina Senate Bill 323 is one of the most extreme pieces of legislation we’ve seen.
It proposes changing the legal definition of the word “person” to include an unborn fetus.
Th…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzWhat channel is Cowboys vs. Chiefs on today? Time, TV schedule, live stream to watch 2025 NFL Thanksgiving game https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/cowboys-chiefs-channel-time-schedule-live-stream-watch-than…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries A, Episode 07 - Mission To Destiny
JENNA: There it is, look. Circling every two minutes.
BLAKE: When d'you pick it up?
JENNA: Just before I called you.
BLAKE: It's circling all the time?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/107/7 B7B4
@pre@boing.worldAngor is a crowdfunding protocol for nostr and bitcoin.
Dan here is building it. Kickstarter without middle men.
Accountability is key. What stops the fund raiser just fleeing with the coin?
Funds are programmed to be released in stages, time locked in a multisig.
So if they aren't meeting milestones, investors can withdraw. If the founders are buying lambos instead of building, just cash out at that point.
Permissionless and decentralised, no servers except nostr relays and bitcoin nodes. No third party's claiming 30 percent fees. The system is a nostr client scanning relays for investment object types. Allowing investment into the funding contracts and subscription to updates.
#nostr #nostrshire #angor
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialNow this was a gorgeous cycling loop. Temperature was around freezing but luckily just few wind. As you see, the weather was ace. Clouds and fog stayed in the north 🌞
Also tried Knee warmers, which was just right! A very good buy!
I just need a solution against freezing toes. @… ,I bought neoprene toe warmer! The shoes are just a bit tight then, …
@cdarwin@c.imWith the holidays upon us, it's easy to default to giving the tech gifts that retailers tend to push on us this time of year:
smart speakers, video doorbells, bluetooth trackers, fitness trackers, and other connected gadgets are all very popular gifts.
But before you give one, think twice about what you're opting that person into.
One big problem with giving these sorts of gifts is that you're opting another person into a company's intrusive surveillance prac…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzWhat time is Dallas Cowboys-Washington Commanders game on Christmas? https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/what-time-dallas-cowboys-washington-commanders-game-christmas
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itWow. I've dealt with various toxic personalities in software development, but a good portion of the time those toxic personalities were at least extremely knowledgeable in their (often, very limited) domain.
AI, however, seems to be enabling toxic personalities *who are completely clueless*. Impressive!
https://github…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 03 - Volcano
SERVALAN: How could I? [Turns off speaker.] You have Orac.
SERVALAN: Battle Fleet Commander, You heard that.
COMMANDER: [On viewscreen] Yes.
SERVALAN: I think it's time we tested the determination of the Pyroans.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/303/568…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioA request for everyone: please don’t be this person. We’re going through a miserable time here in MSP, and reply guy snot does not make it better.
A •lot• of replies I got are about what is illegal, or should be illegal, or must be illegal, and…yeah, we know, believe me, we know. If what you’re offering is commiseration — as with most replies — I welcome that wholeheartedly! This sucks, and it’s nice to hear people say, “Yeah, that sucks.”
But please don’t come into my mentions to argue. Wrong time, wrong target.
https://mastodon.social/@wesdym/115731049092776077
@hex@kolektiva.socialIn the time I've been offline, I've been doing a lot and feeling a lot more mentally healthy. I've been exploring nomadnet a bit, looking at reticulum. I'm definitely going to go back to my break and being online much less regularly.
I actually totally forgot about the anniversary of the shooting, which is the first time that's happened since... uh... the shooting, I think.
I've definitely realized that, on some level, I've definitely used Mastodon (and formerly Twitter) as a coping mechanism, often in order to deal with the stressful things that I've found out about on Mastodon or Twitter.
But, again, none of those things really change our core job: build community. And that's part of what I've been neglecting, and what I can focus on more when I'm not spending as much time talking to people all over the world indirectly. Like, I can just chat directly with folks and talk about this shit.
Yeah, I do think there's value in this community. I don't think it's really screaming into the void (at least, not most of the time). But I know that I need the balance to be way farther on the side of direct engagement with comrades doing and building.
So that's what I'm gonna go back to. I feel as though it's a good sign that with all the writing about getting shot that I've been doing, and all the thinking about that, that the actual anniversary of the shooting I'm actually just thinking about bread.
And that seems like a good note to leave on. I'm gonna go back to some hacker shit.
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzWhat channel is Cowboys vs. Eagles on today? Live stream, time, TV schedule to watch NFL Week 12 game https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/cowboys-eagles-channel-stream-time-schedule-watch-nfl/5b2b225faf8d98f4e925a62c
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
JENNA: What do you mean? [pause] Gan?
GAN: I killed a security guard. They said it was murder. But he had a gun. I was unarmed. You see, he killed my woman.
JENNA: That must have been terrible.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/104/298 B7B5
@hex@kolektiva.socialOne of the things that made organizing a lot easier with the GDC was a thing called "GDC in a box." It was a zip file with all kinds of resources. There was a directory structure, templates for all kinds of things like meetings and paperwork you had to file (for legal reasons) and "read me" files.
We had all kinds of support. There were people you could talk to who had been there. There were people you could call to walk through legal paperwork (taxes). Centralized orgs are vulnerable and easy to infiltrate. They're easy for states to shut down. But there are benefits to org structures.
I think it's possible to have the type of support we had with the GDC, but without the politics of an org (even the IWW). I hope this most recent essay has some of the same properties. I hope that it makes building something new, something no one has really imagined before, easier.
This whole project is something a bit different. It's a collective vision and collective project, from the ground up. Some of it has felt like a brain dump, just getting things that have been swimming around in my head down somewhere. But I hope this feels more like an invitation.
Everything thus far written is all useless unless people do things with it. Only from that point does it become a thing that lives, a thing with its own consciousness that can't be controlled by any individual human.
Tech billionaire cultists want to bring a new era of humanity with AGI. That is definitely not possible with LLMs, and may not be possible at all. But there is a super intelligence that is possible, though it's been constrained by capitalism: collective human intelligence.
The grand vision of the tech dystopians is that of the ultimate slave that can then enslave all humans on their behalf. I think we can build a humanity that can liberate itself from their grasp, crush their vision, and build for itself a world in which people will never be enslaved again. Not only do I think it's possible, I think it's necessary. I think there are only two choices: collective liberation or death.
And that's what I plan to write about next time to wrap this whole project up. Today things often feel impossible. But people talked about the Middle Ages as though they were the end of the world, and then everything changed in unimaginable ways. Everything can, and will, change again.
"The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings."
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzWhat channel is Cowboys vs. Chargers on today? Live stream, time, TV schedule to watch NFL Week 16 game https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/cowboys-chargers-channel-stream-time-schedule-watch-nfl/b304015a484bc6c865cbbd2…
@cdarwin@c.im“In two weeks” finally arrived.
That’s the usual time period in which Trump has, for the last 10 years, promised the arrival of a spectacular plan to reform the healthcare system,
one that would solve every problem anyone could identify,
individual or systemic.
Just you wait, he’d say — the plan is coming in two weeks, and you’re gonna love it.
Well now the White House has indeed released what it calls
“The Great Healthcare Plan.”
Is it great? No…
@raiders@darktundra.xyzInside the Raiders: Pete Carroll, Geno Smith, Brennan Carroll and What Happens Next https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/mark-davis-pete-carroll-geno-smith-brennan-carroll-what-happens-next-las-vegas
