2026-04-20 19:46:57
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Spoon:
🎵 Anything You Want
#Spoon
https://spoontheband.bandcamp.com/track/anything-you-want
https://open.spotify.com/track/6qqFJJpLRfhkAIENHuqCIg
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Spoon:
🎵 Anything You Want
#Spoon
https://spoontheband.bandcamp.com/track/anything-you-want
https://open.spotify.com/track/6qqFJJpLRfhkAIENHuqCIg
Some day billionaires will have all the money.
Which will then be worth zero because they can’t buy anything as nothing will be made anymore.
Can you imagine anything more ridiculous than thinking someone is superior to someone else because of the color of their skin? How sad and fragile are these white people?
The part of the Epstein files we've seen makes it possible to reconstruct Trump's probable orders to his servants at DOJ.
"Just release a few million. Make sure they don't contain anything new about me, but that they cause trouble for a lot of other people. Media will focus on the latter."
such a fun label & will pretty much check out anything they put out, but as a non-londoner i had no idea about their main activity as promoters. https://social.lol/@thetonearm/116217980473411117
So, what’s new with the #EpsteinFiles? Anything? Not even crickets?
«Is End-to-End Encryption Optional For Large Groups?
One of the recent topics in Messaging App Discourse is whether it makes sense to prioritize End-to-End Encryption (E2EE) when searching for an alternative to Discord.»
— by @…
Encryption rarely has anything to do with secrecy, but with the reality of the source and the trust in their data.
"They just want to torture and punish transgender people because they don’t like them, period. It has nothing to do with kids or women’s rights or anything else. They just hate the very idea of transgender people and want to make it impossible for them to function in society or even make it criminal. So much for freedom."
Did You Think It Was Just About Girls’ Sports? – Digby's Hullabaloo
https://digbysblog.net/2026/02/19/did-you-think-it-was-just-about-girls-sports/
If your app or device *requires* any kind of 'biometric' bullshit- fingerprints, facial recognition, my first born, etc, I'm just not going to use it. I don't do any of that bullshit, and I never will. It's not even that I'm paranoid or anything. All that garbage is a step too far, and I hate it.
Hmmm.... Guess I need to figure out why my Ubuntu sometimes slows to a crawl and doesn't recover. The mouse can barely move. I end up needing to hard reboot.
Alt control f1 doesn't do anything for me.
I've yet to find an app that will show me important events in a simple way to debug.
#ubuntu
This piece from the LRB blog, "It cannot read the human heart", about a (Chinese) plagiarism scandal, has total «Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote» energy, which is both particularly fitting and ironic in this situation.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/february/i
The group stage in sporting competitions are the best part. In the knock-out rounds, results often award teams that don't play any better than their opponents. In the group stage, on the other hand, everyone gets to play and, on paper at least, anything is possible.
The people building LLMs are trying to kill all humans. Literally. They are exterminationists who want to replace human life with AI and upload their brains to the cloud. They're AI death cultists.
They are the enemy. Anything that empowers them, at all, in any way, is unethical and suicidal.
I don't think admitting that there can be good use cases for LLMs does that, because the use cases are not being served by all this training. The *reason* they keep training is that they're trying to make LLMs do something that isn't possible.... because they're cultists.
That's the point, IMHO.
I reject the M/N spectrum.
I’m never ready to do anything serious before like 9:30-10 AM, nor later than 8 when my kid goes to bed.
I’m strictly a midday person.
https://mastodon.world/@jeffowski/116432671170256220
My kids have no school today.
Next week, my kids have no school on Thurs & Fri.
The week after that, my kids have no school on Thurs & Fri. It's the beginning of their spring break, which starts Apr 2nd and goes through Apr 13th.
It's fine, I don't need to work or anything!
Stop speaking on Venezuela like they got cold hands clasped together in new child rape clubs as Deep State Siri lists potential 0.0001% profit gains off their oil. Its not financially justifiable at the current oil price or even a slightly higher one to go get that oil. None of these execs have anything close to the brainpower it takes to deliberately orchestrate American financial dominance. Elon wouldnt be a trillionaire if there were still firm consequences beyond base physical revolt. It…
Exhibit #5356765336895 in "nobody hand-rolls anything related to cryptography correctly, even when they at least try to use tested, trusted algorithms."
116gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
Just made a mistake on page 40 of a #LEGO build that turned out to be wrong, but it didn't interfere with anything until page 242. It was a but janky, but thankfully I didn't need to unbuild everything in between to fix it. Lego puts a huge amount of attention into the design of their instructions, but things like this are pretty hard to catch. I was building quickly and assumed a beam should go on symmetrically when actually it needed to be off-center.
Why is “Welcome in” replacing just plain “Welcome”? It doesn’t add anything of value, seems inefficient.🤔
Especially from the same generation that says “ima” instead of “I am going to”.
@… seems like the queue isn’t going to the priority podcasts like it used to. Anything I can do to help you debug?
Alt Text:
"Andy Borowitz
"Trump Says Andrew's Arrest Sets Dangerous Precedent of Pedophiles Facing Consequences”
Beneath, a photo of Donald Trump speaking, looking somewhat upset, maybe? (I don't know. Do sociopaths' externalised emotions mean anything anyway?) https://social.vival…
How to get a package removed from #Gentoo?
1. Add a new #NIH dependency.
2. The dependency turns out to use coherent.build. Nightmare! Oh, wait, apparently coherent.build generates source distributions that use flit.core (understandable; coherent.build is unusable).
3. The dependency depends on chardet (the project famous for GPL copywashing). Okay, technically it works with the older version, and the dependency is optional with poor person's fallback, so I guess it would be fine.
4. But hey, this package is not used by anything, and the last package using it in Gentoo was removed in 2020, after not being touched for 4 years already. Also, that package is not maintained upstream since 2017, so I guess there's negligible risk of it ever coming back.
#Python
I can certainly understand the Iranian regime’s #mistrust of a devious, treaty-breaking, lying Darth #Trump.
After all, they’ve had bad experiences with him. He’s attacked Iran twice while peace talks were underway.
No one really wants anything to deal with Trump anymore. His word isn’t worth a dime…
The American right wing has forgiven Donald Trump for his affairs, impeachments, mass deportations and the platforming of JD Vance.
But having stuck with him through all that unpleasantness,
it seems that we may have discovered the one thing that is capable of splitting some Maga conservatives from Trump:
starting a war in the Middle East.
On Tuesday Joe Kent, the US counter-terrorism chief
who previously ran for office as an ultra-Maga, white nationalist-endors…
Draftkings has Cowboys battling for playoff spot in projected win total https://insidethestar.com/draftkings-has-cowboys-battling-for-playoff-spot-in-projected-win-total
“A country might justify that position if it used the proceeds to build something (anything!) like world-class public services, extraordinary infrastructure, or a society so well-functioning that the trade-off had a visible return. Ireland did… None of this. It extracted from others and failed to build anything for itself. That is the uniquely disgraceful aspect of the Irish model; not the extraction alone, but the total nothingnessthat followed it. The nothingness we live in.”
This is…
The other one I truly love is GitUp (https://gitup.co). Its visualization handles certain specific tasks better than anything else — tasks where I’m more concerned about the shape of the commit graph than the contents of individual commits.
Because of the way it does live updates of repo state and offers a whole-commit-graph-level undo, I’ll sometimes keep it open in the background while doing some fiddly thing in another tool (Fork, CLI, whatever) just so I can see what the ^*@# is happening.
Alas, its lack of support for commit signing means I use it less and less.
“Iran attacks wipe out 17% of Qatar’s LNG capacity for up to five years” costing $20 billion.
Bribing potus with $400 million plane wasn’t good from an ROI standpoint.
Surveillance gear installed can’t have given anything yet because he’s not flying it yet, and they’re out $19.6 billion on the $400 million “investment” bribe.
They got rid of an outdated plane, but still: potus doesn’t stay bribed.
Anybody in the fediverse representing EdTechNZ? They're just emailed me about their 'rebranding' to show that they're more 'open'. They don't explain what they mean by 'open', however, I've never seen anything I would identify as even vaguely open about them. From what I can see, they're a lobby group promoting proprietary education tech.
Added a "free play area" to the otherwise unused space in the corner of the ReworkCTF board. Just a bunch of fine pitch traces on various layers, some 0402 footprints, and some vias - not wired to anything else, just a playground for circuit edit practice.
Plus a pair of crossing trace pairs on L1 and L2 that might be fun to do something with.
i do not care about marco “gusanito of state” rubio's opinion on anything, actually
> “Let’s just call this what it is: Donald Trump’s administration wants to silence anyone who says anything bad about Trump on TV, because all Trump does is watch TV, OK? He’s like a toddler with too much screen time. He gets cranky and then drops a load in his diaper.”
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https://www.
Just noticing how in #ubuntu 24 with 2 screens the frames dropped in youtube jumps when the other screen has a webpage that is anything other then a static bit of html. very upsetting!
163gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
Don't understand how Frimpong was guilty of anything other than being grabbed and pulled sideways.
#LFC
brb. Gotta go invent a time machine so I can prevent adolescent Elon Musk from getting his hands on anything written by Heinlein.
Wait, I think I figured out the secret sauce:
If you blindly accept what the LLM generates on the first pass, and never try refining anything, you don’t have to waste time waiting for it to rework the code over and over again.
Might explain all the slop code my coworkers have been shipping lately.
Forbes Prediction Market Gamefies Story About Mass Shooting of 8 Children https://www.404media.co/forbes-prediction-market-gamefies-story-about-mass-shooting-of-8-children/
Series B, Episode 02 - Shadow
BLAKE: Maybe it wasn't anything - anything real.
ZEN: Information. Flight time remaining is now fourty-eight minutes. Visual and detector readouts are now available.
BLAKE: Let's see it, Zen. [Zondar is shown on the screen]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/202/438
Good news for Trump before midterms: he’s still more popular than cockroaches
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/18/ants-wasps-trump-and-the-midterms
Some HN folks found that the URL parameter accepts… anything as output language https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47408940
E.g.: …
so this password manager paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/058 starts with:
> We examine the extent to which security against a fully malicious server holds true for three leading vendors who make the Zero Knowledge Encryption claim: Bitwarden, LastPass and Dashlane
with
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@samvarma/116089604971387896
Facebook I basically need for work so I'm fucked. Never browse, never post anything personal.
The similarities between VR and AI are actually really striking; both are technologies that are amazing for a few narrow niche use cases and completely unsuitable for anything else.
But they are both heavily marketed and hyped exactly for the use cases where they suck and make no sense.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheMorningAfterMix
Adrianne Lenker:
🎵 anything
#AdrianneLenker
https://hardrock.bandcamp.com/track/anything
https://open.spotify.com/track/4PwWESSlTwzvw9B7bmtTLS
I so dislike that everything has to be political.
I once was with friends and spoke about an interesting form of renewable energy (not dealing with if it would be scalable, doable or reasonable financially).
Ah! So you are a green-voter?!
Until 5s ago it was only about technology.
Can't I discuss anything without being placed in any political party immediately?
Actually, this kills any discourse. I'm just so annoyed that I don't speak about several t…
The Powerful Never Stop Anything Voluntarily - The Concho Observer
https://conchoobserver.com/powerful-never-stop-anything-voluntarily/
A couple of days in the countryside of Vietnam has a refreshing effect on screentime. Family, friends, eating all the time and sufficient boredom.
I'm seriously considering winding down to this rhythm. Can assure you all our digi-stuff is essentially totally unimportant. No laptops seen here, and 8 year old smartphones are sufficient to do anything.
#archlabs
How a cinematic clip of Tom Cruise fighting Brad Pitt made using Seedance spooked Hollywood, drawing condemnation from some and indifference from others (Derrick Bryson Taylor/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/movies/tom-c…
I think the reason Meta et al are pushing for the OS age thing is that they know there's no way that anything they can do themselves for age verification will satisfy the regulators and/or cause them to have to pass data to 3rd party dodgy verifiers; they'll always get the blame if kids find a way around it if it's done at their end.
To be clear: Joe Kent never should have been hired for anything. He’s a Nazi.
But he WAS the head of the National Counter-Terrorism Center. he had a role. He had people in operational roles beneath him at the NCTC, mostly non-partisan professionals. If it is true that he was not trusted and was not involved in war preparations, Tulsi Gabbard needs to go too, as she’s not doing her job of overseeing the agencies that report directly to her.
211gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
While being an #onlychild has ... had (its less exciting as an adult).. its advantages, one of the challenges I particularly struggle with is when something goes missing I am quite... unhinged. Like "frantically tear the house apart looking for it, can't do anything else until I find it". 'Cause, it would only be where __I__ last put it.. right? Not so when you share a house with a pa…
"The #Labour party won one third of the votes (34%) in an election in which under two thirds (60%) of the electorate voted. Only one in five (20.4%) registered electors in Britain support this government. It has no mandate to do anything. If it tries to do anything radical, then, as Thatcher did with the poll tax, it will find the difference between Westminster games and real politics.
T…
„20 years from now we'll be inundated with documentaries more honestly detailing what a gargantuan bullshit artist Elon Musk was. Until then we appear stuck in a press-enabled purgatorial innovation mythology comically detached from anything resembling factual reality.“
https://
I'm 4 days late to the party, but after watching some Seedance 2.0 videos, I think most elevator-pitch industries will soon be dead. "movie about P, but with Q", any type of mash-up, anything expressible in a few sentences, can be rendered good-enough by gen-AI in a disposable instant-gratification way.
well, there's still a chance it gets blocked somehow, but this is a weird variation of class war. I think the likely outcome is "everybody loses"
the f…
Jamelle Bouie says the SAVE Act will take us back to Jim Crow South:
“a one-party state, backed by the threat of violence, where the law ensures that most people cannot hope for meaningful political representation
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/opinion
I’d like to pre-apologize for anything I might do wrong in the future. When I mess up, you can pull up this post and see that I’ve already communicated my sincere regrets. I will be learning and doing my best to improve going forward from each future incident.
If Susie Wiles Can't Say Anything Nice About Ric Grenell, She Can Sit Right Here By Us
https://www.wonkette.com/p/if-susie-wiles-cant-say-anything
RE: https://mas.to/@Gogs/116425190287104570
Is there anything better than a bowl of fried air, just like mom used to make?
Seemingly insignificant things hurt the most. Today I feel betrayed, like my safe place was taken away from me. And simultaneously so lonely, completely alone in how I feel. I have trouble focusing on anything, and I can't do anything about it.
186gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
Some HN folks found that the URL parameter accepts… anything as output language https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47408940
E.g.: …
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Astrud Gilberto:
🎵 I Haven't Got Anything Better to Do
#AstrudGilberto
https://open.spotify.com/track/6Mx6r8fep8jIv5SseTSZ8r
I believe I can do anything I put my mind to.
Most of my mind if put to watching youtube videos.
😬 😬 😬
they are really good videos yall.
223gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
Voltaire once wrote that, “in order to have taste, it is not enough to see and to know what is beautiful in a given work.
One must feel beauty and be moved by it.”
No large language model has yet been programmed to feel anything
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/inf…
It’s funny how people don’t ask _why_ LLMs seem to be doing relatively well writing code but are awful for writing anything else
@… I swear buying anything these days is a three act story with betrayal and let down all around.
149gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
Donald Trump has a strange effect on others.
I’m not the first to note that it seems like half his cabinet and strongest allies were virulently against him before they fell in line behind him.
These kinds of flips have been known to happen in politics before,
but never anything approaching the scale of the Trump phenomenon.
And it doesn’t just happen with officials serving under him and prominent allies in his administration.
The effect extends to people in …
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Can:
🎵 A Spectacle (Dominick Dawson Vocal Reversion)
#Can
https://panoplylab.bandcamp.com/track/anyone-and-anything-can-become-a-spectacle-at-any-time
AI can’t make mistakes*, but you can make the mistake of believing AI can make mistakes.
*they don’t have a mind, cannot think, don’t conceptualize and have no understanding of anything, therefore they can’t be mistaken
@… I have, but I decided to do it all myself, for the sake of the mental exercise as much as anything.
If I get to a point where it’s too tedious, I might write my own little generator.
I do however intent to write a little feed file later to enable syndication.
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116083589029041168
Nobody gives a shit anymore about anything.
It’s fine to post absolute tripe like this on a corporate website.
It’s fine to post quotes that were never said in a newspaper.
It’s fine to reference science that doesn’t exist in scientific papers.
It’s fine to commit code that was never checked to software.
It’s fine to post music that no one made.
It’s fine to share videos of things that never happened.
It’s fine to steal, lie and scam people.
All of this is hyped and cheered on by governments, organizations, businesses and individuals.
What in the fucking fuck is wrong with everybody?
@… They should meet my Polish grandfather, he always taught me, based on what he lived through: Everyone has something to hide, because the wrong people can turn *anything* into a problem.
America’s top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,
staked his political career on the false belief that vaccines cause autism,
and has used his power to force federal agencies to support his bonkers position:
The CDC’s website now says,
“Studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism."
Thanks to Kennedy and others, measles outbreaks are happening all over the country after the disease was declared officially eliminated in th…
110gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
The iMac Pro wouldn’t boot anything including recovery/internet recovery even after a T2 restore.
Hardware test claimed everything is fine. Because hardware test ran fine but it can’t boot and won’t see SSDs even in target disk mode, I’m suspecting one of the SSDs (the iMac Pro has two in a RAID) to be defective (hardware test doesn’t really look into those).
I’m replacing the SSDs and blowing the air ducts out and redo the thermal paste just in case.
Fingers crossed that that will fix it. 🫣
#Marchintosh
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