@publicvoit@graz.social2026-01-08 09:28:11
@publicvoit@graz.social2026-01-08 09:28:11
@boris@cosocial.ca2026-01-08 17:30:35
Hmmm. #ATmosphereConf wrapped, is this anything?
@olof-loves-ai.bsky.social will you join us in Vancouver in March? Would love to have you submit to the CFP: news.atmosphereconf.org/3m6z2b7ovyk2i
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@hex@kolektiva.social2026-01-08 15:07:55
The US military has always had a massive global advantage against enemies by having bases all over the world. There are bases in every NATO country. This would appear to be a powerful threat to anyone willing to oppose American hegemon, and under normal conditions it would be.
But a lot of those kids serving on those bases joined, not because they love America but, because they needed a ticket out of poverty. They joined for the education, for the money, maybe a bit for the adventure, but, more than anything, to escape the ghetto or podunk backwater that trapped them. Under normal times, this is the best deal they could expect. Maybe they risk their lives, usually they sit around being bored for a few years, and they get to come out with respect and paid college.
But what they are being offered is normal in most of the countries they're stationed in. Free healthcare, cheap or free education, is just what citizens in a lot of countries have come to expect. If the US attacked a NATO country, how many would snap up citizenship if they were given a chance to defect? Bonus points for taking some hardware with you, I'm sure.
But there are some who love their country. There are some patriotic Americans on those bases. Some of them joined specifically to protect the US from all enemies, foreign *and* domestic. Given a chance to fulfill that oath or violate international law, what happens?
There are a good number of former military folks too who now are unsafe in the countries they served, who would do just about anything for citizenship in any EU country and almost any NATO ally. Some of those folks know things they swore an oath to never share, but the country they swore an oath to has betrayed them. Today there's no value in leaking those secrets, but in a war between the US and NATO allies things would be different. Some of those former military folks still believe in their oath, and know exactly who the real enemy is. What happens when there's a real threat of war, when they can use their knowledge to fulfill that oath to protect the US against those domestic threats?
There are a bunch of civilian tech workers who have become targets of the regime. Some of them had clearance, or know about the skeletons in the closet. They know about critical infrastructure, classified systems, all sorts of things that would be extremely valuable to an opponent. But the opponents of the US have always been a frightening *other*, never familiar societies these folks look up to, have visited, have thought about moving to, are trying to escape to.
All I'm saying here is that invading Venezuela and kidnapping the president has a very different calculus than does attacking Greenland. I don't know if Trump or his people are able to understand that, but if he and his folks aren't then I hope European leaders are. But more than that, I hope it never comes down to finding out.
But perhaps we should all think about what we would do to make sure things ended quickly if American leadership ever made such an incredible mistake.
@whitequark@mastodon.social2025-12-09 07:59:32
one of the biggest misconceptions about microchips people have is that the process is anything close to "fully automatic"
it really isn't. i mean, some operations are, but look at this video! there's a human like every other step of the process. and it's not like this is some expensive unique device. they're making mass-market LEDs by the reel
@tante@tldr.nettime.org2025-12-08 09:34:06
I think that one thing that kicked "being an AI thought leader" into higher gear than what happened with "the cloud" or whatnot is that to be an "AI expert" you literally don't have to know or be capable of anything.
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-12-10 04:05:17
I guess I’d put it this way: there is a •capacity for action• unlike anything I’ve seen before from my peers.
Maybe I’m just succumbing to my own chronic optimism, but I really do feel like some kind of sleeping giant has awakened.
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2026-01-08 19:45:11
Typical american thinking, anything can be bought, it is so pathetic... $10,000 to $100,000 per person is not even that much for giving up freedom , healthcare, cheap education etcetera
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/trump-…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2026-01-09 16:29:35
Tom Mulcair: "Trump doesn't get the joke about the ‘Donroe Doctrine’”
.... but does Tom get the joke about his relevance to anything at all?
#canPoli #CdnPoli
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/tom-mulcair-trump-doesnt-get-the-joke-about-the-donroe-doctrine/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
@fortune@social.linux.pizza2025-12-08 20:00:01
Coming to Stores Near You:
101 Grammatically Correct Popular Tunes Featuring:
(You Aren't Anything but a) Hound Dog
It Doesn't Mean a Thing If It Hasn't Got That Swing
I'm Not Misbehaving
And A Whole Lot More...
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-09 22:21:57
Binance
—Whose Founder,
Changpeng Zhao,
Was Pardoned by Trump
—Now Holds 87% Of Trump’s Stablecoin
(roughly $4.7 billion of the $5.4 billion total)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2026/02/09/trump-stablecoi…
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2026-01-09 01:09:32
Never thought I'd ever be on Team Netflix for anything ever but here we are.
Stop watching CBS/Paramount.
▶️ Warner Bros. sticks with Netflix merger, calls Paramount’s $108B bid “illusory” - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/tech-po…
@rachel@norfolk.social2025-12-09 19:48:08
Certs are a 25 week wait at the moment, if that means anything to you.
#trans
@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.org2026-01-07 14:15:50
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-12-08 21:24:24
Sometimes I forget I even use Debian, it's so deeply ingrained in my workflow that I can't imagine using anything else. Same goes for Fedora.
:debian: :fedora:
#DebianTrixie #DebianSid
@karlauerbach@sfba.social2026-02-09 18:45:40
As a teen I fell off the other side if this damn dam... It had pipes sticking out every few feet and I bounced off of every one of 'em on the way down. Amazingly I did not break anything.
By-the-way, this photo shows the downstream side - the concrete apron is used in many films (such as in the film clip - Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Official Trailer - below after the photo.)
I drove past just the other day and low and behold there was yet another film crew filming someth…
@Kingu@sakurajima.moe2026-02-09 15:28:45
The problem is if Discord go to hell, I will be back at the beginning fighting against my player who would really want us to play using Facebook Messenger.
Discord was the best I could do. Anything open-source is doomed to fail.
@scott@carfree.city2026-01-09 22:36:42
"Did the Upper Great Highway closure make Sunset neighborhood streets less safe? Supervisor Alan Wong claimed it did at a January 8, 2026 press conference, citing a simple year-over-year map comparison of crash data. But my analysis, using the same DataSF crash data with rigorous statistical controls, finds no evidence to support that claim, and if anything, the data suggest the opposite."
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-02-09 06:31:09
216gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@smashtie@mas.to2025-12-08 08:20:29
"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."
Alexander Graham Bell
"Now, what's this meeting supposed to be about, exactly?"
Me
#Monday
@njamster@mastodon.gamedev.place2026-02-08 08:29:47
If you can, go watch "It Was Just An Accident". It's good (albeit a little slow) and will stay with you long after the credits rolled. Can't say I've watched anything similar yet.
https://letterboxd.com/njamster/film/it-was-just-an-accident/
@fgraver@hcommons.social2026-02-08 09:07:58
The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb/07/jd-vance-boos-winter-olympics?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2026-01-09 21:35:05
@… thanks for telling me that I haven't read anything.
Any more insults?
@cheryanne@aus.social2025-12-08 08:28:42
Husband is still wielding a bandaged hand but is basically managing everything himself now (day 4) 'cos he's a stubborn old bugger.
Off to the GP on Wednesday to change the dressings and hopefully he'll be permitted less obtrusive wrappings.
Hospital checkup booked for 3 months time.
He's not allowed to do anything physically strenuous for the 6 weeks after the carpal tunnel op. He fudged the medical directives but I always check the paperwork for myself beca…
@Cognessence@social.linux.pizza2026-02-08 09:47:55
Not sure if this would be to any tastes, but I’ve never shared anything here from artistic residencies or such. This was done with German conceptual artist Kristina Buch and is quite fun, actually. Possibly.
https://youtu.be/IaUnkaryXyw?si=LtxxWIW8OPeSu__P
About it:
…
@ubuntourist@mastodon.social2026-02-08 17:46:14
The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US
#censorship
@grumpybozo@toad.social2026-01-09 20:27:15
Had a long talk with Elder Spawn this morning and I’m a bit at a loss for trying to be the wise old Dad…
She got tailspun by Covid, she has chronic health issues, & she hasn’t responded to her friends for a couple months. One of them who’s local here called me as they were on the verge of calling the Las Vegas PD to ask for a wellness check.
She does not let my call go to VM. She’s in no emergent danger. She’s stuck. Doesn’t feel safe doing anything that she understands as an…
@wraithe@mastodon.social2026-01-08 23:32:53
Well it took a while to find it (Twitter) in my purchase history, but I finally went to:
https://reportaproblem.apple.com
And reported Twitter (now “X”) since if they can’t control their program Grok from creating Non-Con porn and CSAM
Will it fix anything? Probably not. But at least I took …
@villavelius@mastodon.online2026-02-08 10:30:15
"Except for viewers in the US"
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb/07/jd-vance-boos-winter-olympics?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@tydalforce@mastodon.world2026-01-08 14:20:23
If I were to use AI for anything, it'd be to strip e-mail signature graphics from every fscking Jira update
@migueldeicaza@mastodon.social2026-01-07 20:38:56
Has anyone heard anything from Apple regarding the safety of X, given that it is a porn generator on demand?
They seemed to be very concerned about it a year ago:
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-02-09 03:26:45
The Seahawks are Super Bowl champions because they blocked out the BS https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7030470/2026/02/08/super-bowl-seahawks-champions-winning-strategy/
@Erikmitk@mastodon.gamedev.place2026-01-08 16:51:50
RE: https://social.lansky.name/@hn100/115859364777138030
Yesterday I got a ticket assigned and got thanked for fixing the problem as it was closed a few hours later.
I didn’t do anything up to this point. So… I can verify the technique works by acci…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-01-07 13:48:35
For example, with “AI” hypers will tell you that you’ll be “unemployable” and “get left behind” while doomers say “it will kill us all”.
Imagine them saying this about hammers.
It’s self-evident why they do this: you can’t sustain hype based on objectively looking at a thing that’s just not all that useful—and anything that’s overwhelmingly actually useful doesn’t need hype to be sustained.
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2025-12-07 16:16:33
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-12-09 19:20:52
Ryan Flournoy making offseason decision on Jalen Tolbert easy https://insidethestar.com/ryan-flournoy-making-offseason-decision-on-jalen-tolbert-easy
@fell@ma.fellr.net2026-01-07 01:16:19
I want a high quality metal fidget toy. It keeps me from opening a browser tab the second I have to wait for anything to load.
I want it to be somewhat precisely manufactured and made out of safe materials, preferrably metal.
I know about https://lautie.com, but I was wondering if there was anything decent inbe…
@andycarolan@social.lol2026-02-07 15:53:56
Can anyone suggest anything interesting that I can do with a Zucchini? I have a couple spare after doing a mediterranean roast.
#vegan
@chrislowles@mastodon.social2026-01-08 07:20:19
Wondering what everyone is gonna get caught up in so the response to the latest actual honest-to-god crimes being committed by ICE doesn't result in anything substantive.
@BootsChantilly@mstdn.social2025-12-07 21:21:13
I have psoriatic spondylitis, which is pretty much psoriatic arthritis that attacks my SI joints, spine, lungs, & skin. It came w/ horrible eczema, mostly on my face (ARGH), elbows, & in my ears. I’d hate to add up how much $$$ I’ve spent on eczema creams over the yrs, but it’s a LOT. Not too long ago, a derm I know told me to try Desitin diaper cream. I did. It works better than anything I’ve ever tried, & it’s $6-7. 1/2
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2026-02-08 19:22:47
"The Hunting Party" promo has Kelsey Grammer playing a narcisstic psychopath actor & wow, if you know anything about Grammer's LA reputation, NBC nailed it.
☑️ Kelsey Grammer praises Donald Trump as 'maybe the greatest' president
https://www.
@joe@toot.works2025-12-07 17:38:20
... I replaced one tire after I bought it but I'm pretty sure that the others are original. I'm a little irritated that I need to spend anything on it but spending $800 in ten years is probably fine.
#EV #CarRepair #VW
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2026-02-08 01:45:54
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-02-08 08:21:08
177gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-06 20:35:59
ChatGPT head says screenshots of ChatGPT ads are "either not real or not ads"; OpenAI's research head says "anything that feels like an ad" is now turned off (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/openai-insists
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-01-08 21:29:01
Content warning: sexual violence mention
As the Red Army was pushing into Berlin, Hitler tried to order the destruction of German Industry. It was not simply to prevent the allies from continuing, but also to punish the German people for failing him. The film Downfall portrays him believing that the German people had shown themselves to be weak and that they deserved to die.
Trump has always had some Hitler energy. It's been reported multiple times that he keeps a collection of Hitler speeches by his bed. As he threatens Greenland, everyone wants to jump to compare that to Poland. The thing is, he doesn't have Hitler 1939 energy. He has Hitler 1945 energy.
Everyone knows he's a pedophile and a rapist. He's a loser and he'll do anything to distract from that. He would literally start WWIII if he thought it would give him a few more days. He's a coward who's afraid to face what he's done. But he's a coward with nuclear weapons.
I just hope the people around him value their life more than they are loyal to him.
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2026-01-06 12:12:22
I don’t know anything about “Wicked” but since it features an Orion I assume it’s part of the Star Trek universe?
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-02-04 09:42:03
from my link log —
Writing an async runtime in Rust.
https://michaelhelvey.dev/posts/rust_async_runtime
saved 2026-02-03 https://
@theodric@social.linux.pizza2025-12-06 22:20:56
I do wonder if the Voynich Manuscript was just some scribe's (or bored elite's) elaborate piece of handwriting practice. When I was trying to learn Carolingian minuscule decades back, I'd cover pages with gibberish like this trying to get transitions between letters to "look right." It didn't need to say anything; it was about nailing the æsthetic.
@trondc@social.linux.pizza2026-01-09 09:26:39
A metal stick poked discreetly, but firmly, in through the grill of a car will have a relatively good chance of puncturing the radiator of said car, thus disabling it. Not saying you should do anything with this information, but now you know.
@rafa_font@mastodon.online2026-01-07 10:46:19
SLEEP BETTER!
Three tips to improve your sleep:
- Go to bed 30 minutes earlier than usual on weekdays instead of sleeping in at the weekend 🛏️
- Expose yourself to bright light in the morning as much as possible, be it outdoor or indoors light 💡☀️
- Spend at least 20 minutes in restorative activity daily: reading, nature, music, anything you want, no goals, just restore 📖🌳♫
From a newsletter "Eight weeks to a healthier you" by
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu2025-12-07 20:27:04
This kind of circular causality is exactly the reason why I don't have even a burner account on X. As a social website, it went belly up more times than his owner's talk of colonizing anything in space.
X axes European Commission’s ad account after €120M EU fine – POLITICO
https://www.
@adulau@infosec.exchange2026-02-04 21:53:40
GCVE will be at hackathon.lu - April 14th and 15th, 2026
So if you want to work on all the cool stuff around vulnerability management, federated publication of vulnerability information, analytics, and anything related to vulnerabilities, join us.
#gcve #opensource
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2026-01-07 07:04:21
@adamhotep@infosec.exchange2025-12-09 01:54:28
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Viss/115590880988013530
There is no such thing as a device that can "find" cameras or GPS sensors because they're passive: they don't emit anything (Air Tags etc do, so they can be detected, but they're also ~responsibly engineere…
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.io2026-01-06 15:07:56
Such a bummer when people lie for no reason.
Found out today that a client I previously ended our work with had lied to us about their plans and why they wanted to stop our engagement.
The truth wouldn’t have changed anything for us. We still would have parted ways on good terms and done our best to offboard. In fact, we would have been able to help them more by properly instructing people coming to take over.
So now that the lie came to light, long after the engagement ended, I have a bad taste in my mouth and no longer feel good about how things ended and or them as a past client.
I just wish they told the truth.
@jaygooby@mastodon.social2025-12-07 12:23:00
From @…’s excellent microfictions horror advent calendar 7th Dec…
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizza2026-02-07 22:50:41
To all those worthwhile bloggers on Substack (yes, there are still): do you want to be associated with this platform? I have already abstained from reading anything that's published there some time ago. Time to take your scribbles somewhere else?
https://www.
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2025-12-07 04:41:42
OK so, I've started cleaning up the PCIe code but also took this opportunity to do some tests.
I'm just writing to a random old SSD I have lying around that I used for some tests a while ago, I have no idea what writing to a random address is doing (I haven't even set a BAR on it so it's probably ignoring me) but the goal is to test the SoC not do anything real.
Here's a 128 byte memcpy to the BAR. It turns into eight 16-byte TLPs, presumably each generated by…
@servelan@newsie.social2025-12-06 18:23:13
"My supervisor @ BLM (Bureau of Land Management) just informed his team that they were told not to give a rating higher than a 3 on our performance plan. Anything higher requires a justification to be written"
Employee Prefomance Ratings Vent. : r/fednews
https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1pftabq/employee_prefomance_ratings_vent/
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-01-08 02:57:20
I’ve seen a lot of posts from afar to the effect of “Why aren’t people in Minneapolis / the US doing anything?? When will they take action???”
…and, well, running with the metaphor from that thread, I guess maybe they’re looking at the top of the bread and wondering why it’s not golden brown already.
I want you to know, I want the world to know: never in my life, not even after the murder of George Floyd, have I seen the amount of sustained daily action I’ve seen here these last few weeks.
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.social2026-01-06 14:57:12
From now until the end of the current regime in Washington I refuse to refer to the wannabe dictator there by anything other than "Epstein's best friend", "orange mussolini" or "the pedophile".
And I'm adding the hashtag #trump just so you know.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-07 20:47:05
This is more Communist than anything Xi or Putin does or says
Trump:
All United State Defense Contractors, and the Defense Industry as a whole, BEWARE:
Defense Contractors are currently issuing massive Dividends to their Shareholders and massive Stock Buybacks, at the expense ano detriment of investing in Plants and Equipment.
This situation will no longer be allowed or tolerated!
Until they do so,
no Executive should be allowed to make in excess of $5 M…
@detondev@social.linux.pizza2025-12-07 03:31:20
u are now forced to talk about nothing but sadness and abriction. im catching up since so far away in time. i fw this song in particular it brought me back to musicposting so u know its gas. also heard forbidden bounds, while i appreciate the different approach, some of the lyrics are too annoyingly online tgirl and overall only like 3 moments really did anything to me.
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-01-08 13:11:08
284gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@tezoatlipoca@mas.to2026-01-06 18:11:00
RE: https://mstdn.ca/@CanadianPolling/115849491716799970
Where's the option "Poor - but because they're not doing anything, but still better than a Conservative government would have been so my regret is complicated and multi-faceted."
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-01-04 08:48:31
“Love thy neighbor*”
– USian Christians
* Unless they have natural resources. In which case, bomb the shit out of them, invade them, kidnap their presidents… anything, really, until we can steal what they have. After all, we built our whole damn country on stealing from and enslaving others (amen, etc.)
@niklaskorz@rheinneckar.social2026-02-06 09:16:56
A few months after handing in my thesis and receiving my Master of Science degree in 2022, ChatGPT was released. Essentially, nothing about how I solve problems has changed since then, but I had to continuously observe the brain drain around me. It's weird how the majority of people suddenly treat anything an LLM spits out as truth while I stick to good old search engines (with the additional hurdle of now having to filter LLM garbage from my search results).
@pre@boing.world2025-12-06 13:33:51
The thing about a life-logger, is you input sensitive data about your life, lifestyle and activities, so privacy and data-integrity are some of the most important issues.
There can be no server, the data has to be yours and yours alone. Because you can’t tell what is happening to the data in a closed-source app, it must be completely free and open source.
You can’t trust a corporate diary, they must sell to anyone offering enough money.
So it is with my life log app, all data completely in your own device. No home server ever sees anything.
There is no home server. Just the code.
To achieve this Exocortex Log is a Progressive Web App. It downloads when you are online at the website and can be installed onto the homepage of your phone.
It keeps all data on the local device using indexdb.
This means you must be responsible for your own backups. Be sure to export and back up your data regularly. I have gaps in my ten year record where my phone was stolen and most recent backup was months prior.
Once installed it will work offline, airplane mode, no internet, down in the tube station at midnight, anywhere.
There's a blog on the website saying this and more: https://exocortexlog.com/news/articles/2025-12-06-release/
@alejandrobdn@social.linux.pizza2025-12-06 13:49:32
Today, one of my best friends told me that he's installed eMule on his NAS because "he's sick and tired of Netflix not having what he wants when he wants it." I've never had Netflix or anything like that, but I guess it makes sense.
Welcome to the dark side, mate.
#selfhosting
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2025-12-04 10:52:13
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
CAN:
🎵 A Spectacle
#CAN
https://panoplylab.bandcamp.com/track/anyone-and-anything-can-become-a-spectacle-at-any-time
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-12-02 13:30:33
Bears head coach Ben Johnson: Holding No. 1 seed in Week 14 'doesn't mean anything' https://www.nfl.com/news/bears-head-coach-ben-johnson-holding-no-1-seed-in-week-14-doesn-t-mean-anything
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-01-06 15:50:16
Why does this shit make it into mass media as if it is anything to take seriously?
This is on exactly on the same level as Mayan-calendar apocalypse stuff.
Not only is it complete bullshit, it also takes away time and space from the actual issues with "AI", like widespread theft ripping off authors and artists, the largest investment bubble in history threatening the economy, even more aggregation of wealth in the hands of a few tech billionaires, the deskilling of people and the utter bankruptcy of education; just to name a few.
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-01-08 15:11:08
285gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@tante@tldr.nettime.org2026-01-06 14:35:43
RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/115848630887537402
I mean hey, if Claude allows you to kill a bunch of Nazi pages, at least something good came from it.
In my understanding using LLMs for coding does violate at least those two points of the hacker…
@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.org2026-02-07 23:07:52
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-06 11:36:11
A look at Phreeli, a privacy-focused phone carrier that lets users sign up with only a ZIP code and uses an encryption system based on "zero-knowledge proofs" (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/new-anonymous-phone-carrier…
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu2025-12-07 19:43:12
I still like better the South Park interpretation of Hegseth, but what South Park lacks is Jost's looks and delivery. His Hegseth would never be kicked in the ass and thrown out the door. No possibility of anything like this happening exists in real-Hegseth's self-imagined world.
Pentagon Press Conference Cold Open - SNL
https://ww…
@fortune@social.linux.pizza2026-02-06 15:00:01
Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto
undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.
-- Max Beerbohm, "Mainly on the Air"
@villavelius@mastodon.online2025-12-07 11:05:25
RE: https://mastodon.social/@fj/115666454691421015
The only choice left to Europe is to strive, with all the strength it can muster, for independence from America, China, and Russia, and to ensure it won't be dependent for anything from any single other sou…
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-01-09 15:51:09
187gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@theodric@social.linux.pizza2025-12-07 21:36:30
I hate what's been done to Linux. Seems like anything good has to be destroyed.
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2026-01-08 01:37:55
First Stefanski, then Harbaugh. I genuinely don't understand anything in the NFL.
☑️ John Harbaugh fired: Here are the NFL teams making changes in 2026 - Los Angeles Times
https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2026-01-…
@scott@carfree.city2026-02-07 01:55:02
Perfect timing for the March for Billionaires tomorrow, which lists Bezos as one of the good ones.
https://universeodon.com/@jaykuo/116026776153656984
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2025-12-08 13:11:10
87gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-05 03:04:07
Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order.
Now he wants to sell you phone service
—without knowing almost anything about you.
https://www.wired.com/story/new-anonymous-phone-carrier-sign-up-wit…
@fortune@social.linux.pizza2025-12-06 10:00:02
Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-12-06 14:17:51
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115667646361265085
The other ongoing criticism is "well actually, iTunes was always bad".
No, it wasn't. When it was released it was _way_ better than any other jukebox sofware.
You could actually find stuff easily, manage playlists super quick. It ripped CDs, including getting track titles and managing files, with literally _no clicks required_.
Burning CDs took like two clicks.
While admittedly lock-in, it would sync your iPod with no clicks after dropping it in the iPod dock. And it was super fast. (Other manufacturers didn't have anything close to this convenient).
Other jukebox software didn't do any of this.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2025-12-09 15:21:09
120gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-12-08 03:14:41
LaFleur: Win vs. Johnson-led Bears not personal https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47242862/lafleur-packers-get-best-johnson-bears-top-nfc-north
@tante@tldr.nettime.org2026-02-05 08:22:13
"Guidelines" for "AI" are not a meaningful tool against slopification of anything. People don't produce slop because they don't know better.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-05 18:12:25
OpenAI says GPT-5.3-Codex goes beyond an agent that can code "to an agent that can do nearly anything developers and professionals can do on a computer" (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-3-codex/
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-05 18:30:37
Why Claude Code is much more than a coding agent: it is a general-purpose AI agent that can do almost anything on a computer with impressive capabilities (Shakeel Hashim/Transformer)
https://www.transformernews.ai/p/claude-code-is-about-so-much-more
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-02 13:11:08
Gustavo Petro of Colombia and Donald Trump have had a tense relationship
that escalated into threats by Mr. Trump,
before easing.
Anything could happen at their Feb. 3 meeting.
The meeting between the two presidents
— arranged after Trump threatened Mr. Petro with military action
— is meant to de-escalate tensions, diplomats said.
It is also meant to address topics such as “the fight against transnational organized crime, especially on the border,”…
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-02-07 15:11:08
173gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-01-07 14:11:09
211gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2025-12-07 06:31:08
120gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-02-06 07:11:09
161gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-01-06 10:51:09
284gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2025-12-06 14:21:09
116gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
