2025-12-12 13:40:05
Using “AI” to manage your #Fedora system seems like a really bad idea
https://www.osnews.com/story/144006/using-ai-to-manage-your-fedora-system-…
10 years on, believe it or not, the Paris Agreement was signed.
This was our very short reaction at the time. Prescient, you might think.
The Good, The Bad, The Ugly.
Paris Climate Change Agreement, 2015: the good, the bad and the ugly. | Steady State Manchester https://…
The Paris agreement is 10 years old today.
How time flies. But how little really has changed.
"Paris Climate Change Agreement, 2015: the good, the bad and the ugly."
https://steadystatemanchester.net/2015/12/1…
AOC's campaign pours massive cash into luxury Puerto Rico hotels, pricey catering and Bad Bunny venue rental (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aocs-campaign-pours-massive-cash-luxury-puerto-rico-hotels-pricey-catering-bad-bunny-venue-rental
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p86#a251211p86
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Bad Bunny:
🎵 DtMF
#NowPlaying #BadBunny
https://azzur.bandcamp.com/album/bad-bunny-dtmf-meloko-konvex-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/3sK8wGT43QFpWrvNQsrQya
Friends Don't Let Friends Make Bad Graphs! Do you agree with the examples of bad graphs and the alternatives Chenxin Li (@chenxinli2.bsky.social) lists at https://github.com/cxli233/FriendsDontLetFriends
Want to feel even more gloomy? Me neither.
The world is one bad decision away from a silicon ice age • The Register
https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/12/silicon_shield_versus_silicon_winter/
Panthers run all over Cowboys: Why does Dallas still believe defense can be fixed? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6711895/2025/10/12/cowboys-defense-bad-loss-panthers/
Had this lock company just let it go, I would've never learned that:
▫️They bullied a YouTuber
▫️Their CEO is a 3x felon
▫️Their lock is shimmed in seconds
#streisandeffect
▶️ 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him. Bad idea. - Ars Technica
Good examples in that article for why a prompt-based system for system administration seems odd: You type a hundred-word question and are told by the AI to use apt when the Fedora system doesn’t use that package manager at all. https://mstdn.social/@osnews/115702679695335298
I often here about social media being bad for your mental health, but I find the way I use it (Fedi only) is good for mine.
It's fun as heck here! :3
wonder how these people who vague-reply “why would you use Apple products” when you post about good or bad things with Apple products fare at parties
Back when I was little, kids used to freak each other out about bad guys they saw or said they saw or heard somebody say they saw: Gang members. Kidnappers. Drug dealers.
Sometimes it was just attention-seeking or scaring each other for fun. Sometimes it was genuinely scary. Sometimes it was even based in reality. Regardless, these are the boogeymen of my childhood.
I’ve had the chance to talk to some little kids this week. You know who’s the playground boogeyman now? ICE.
1/2
Invited to the mafia don's home to kiss the ring. Is it considered bad manners to bring a sanitizing wipe
Eagles Announce Bad News Before Raiders Game https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/eagles-jalen-carter-lane-johnson-injury/
Another thing I've learned debugging WiFi issues: having router sitting on the floor is a bad idea. How bad can it be? 10dBm bad.
Raising the router off the floor by just 30cm significantly improved network coverage, including on the floor below it!
<Knghtbrd> it's too bad most old unices turned out y2k compliant
<Knghtbrd> because it means people will STILL BE RUNNING THEM in 30 years
=p
<Knghtbrd> it would have been so much nicer if y2k effectively killed off
hpux, aix, sunos, etc ;>
<Espy> Knghtbrd: since when are PH-UX, aches, and solartus "old"?
macOS 26 “Tahoe” is so bad. My main computer is still on the previous OS because of stories like this. Resizing Windows ffs!
https://noheger.at/blog/2026/01/11/the-struggle-of-resizing-windows-on-macos-tahoe/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Midway:
🎵 Bad bad hats
#Midway
https://sadsadmatt.bandcamp.com/track/midway-bad-bad-hats
https://open.spotify.com/track/4RFQqoOFw0pdropkjrPnh3
Where should we recommend events & community host long videos that isn't YouTube?
* Vimeo - paid, embeds work, recently acquired is a bad sign
* @… - free, no embeds
* BunnyCDN - paid, lots of options including APIs, no embeds
* Peertube - self-hosted, no embeds
Full write up in the forum
Is that a bad thing or a good thing? I mean, it seems like the new games are distributed by Amazon which really sucks.
Es heißt ja oft: Deutsch ist eine schwer zu lernende Sprache, Englisch ist leicht.
Gerade hat mir jemand erklärt, warum "It's not too bad" sowohl heißen kann: "es ist nicht gut" als auch "es ist ziemlich toll".
Da halte ich es doch mit der konkreten Ruhrpott-Sprache: Woandert isset auch Schei*e.
It's the worst known greenhouse gas, and a factory in Southern Germany emits a lot of it 🌍🏡💨🏭
Sulfur Hexafluoride/SF6 is a gas that has been used in Nike shoes (til 2006), Magnesium production, soundproof windows, and electric switchgear. It has an extreme impact on the climate. Studies have warned that atmospheric measurements and reported SF6 emissions don't add up. Now it looks like a major source of these discrepancies was found. A Solvay factory in Bad Wimpfen emits far mor…
A US appeals court panel orders the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to restore striking journalists' benefits from 2017, ruling the paper bargained in bad faith (Megan Swift/TribLIVE.com)
https://triblive.com/local/regional/appellate-court-…
DOJ Withheld Proof They Knew Their Assault of LaMonica McIver Was "Bad" before They Charged Her - emptywheel
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/09/doj-withheld-proof-they-knew-their-assault-of-lamonica-mciver-was-bad-before-they-charged-her/
After reading a term paper that demonstrated nothing more than the "author's" brainless use of a brainless statistical model to brainlessly vomit brainless prose, I'm deeply grateful for the flawed result of human thinking that turned up second in the grading pile. It's not amazing but it's really not bad and, more importantly, it shows the student learned something. If nothing else, LLMs have given me a new appreciation for the imperfect but honest work we produce …
Eine künstlerische Rekonstruktion des Kopfschmucks der Schamanin von Bad Dürrenberg.
How is this still happening?
We all knew that hard-coded credentials were BAD and WRONG 35ya.
#InfoSec https://infosec.exchange/@offseq/115528481041007501
RE: https://phpc.social/@syntaxseed/115855415960085751
I have such conflicted thoughts on this.
What happened? Gross. It's very much a harm as a systemic effect of "AI"
But also _open source industry_ is in fact a thing I think has been deeply destructive and somewhat replaced the collectivist work done before. We could go back to that. That was good stuff.
But TailwindCSS is super popular.
I also think it's a bad technology, meant to undermine the foundations and design of CSS, leading us to technically worse places.
Also the business? It is selling themes and components.
That's a really hard business to be in. The time to buy a license comes in a project's lifecycle too early, so people avoid it. It's a weird business. Not one I think people should plan to have work.
I just sent a very angry note to my Congress Critter who voted to block the resolution to impeach trump.
Sure, it won't pass the Senate, but that's not a reason for Congressional cowardice.
(I was quite ticked off that one D congress critter said that he did not vote for it because they had to do research to figure out if trump had done bad things!!!!!! What utter hogwash!!!)
Bringing this gem over from the bad place:
Went to get a bagel this morning and it was so cold out!
Crowd: HOW COLD WAS IT?
It was so cold, the bagel is a Lender’s frozen bagel now.
I think I now know where to draw the line between "good" and "bad" #GenAI, and possibly (or rather obviously) the same for #machineLearning. It's simply whether the input data has been constructed rigorously. Put this way it's the most obvious statement ever, but somehow
Degrowth, fears and euphemisms
Reflections beyond growth: Degrowth, fears and euphemisms Álex López translated by Mark Burton In the series Prospects for Degrowth Republished from revista 15/15\15 Reflecting on the Beyond Growth Conference. Madrid, 2025 The Beyond Growth Conference document offers us a promising future: less production, less consumption... but, curiously, more public services, more rights, more democracy, more of everything good and none of the bad.
... stupid thing I'm stuck on: in order to make the type of personal website I want, I think I need to do server-side line breaking. I know this is carving against the grain of html, but I'm failing to see any good alternative. all the options are bad
Reading this article as I listen to Joan Baez (coincidentally): https://archive.is/pky5Q And I think: is it a bad thing that it's almost impossible for AI companies to license music for training their models…? I don't think it is, actually. Perhaps they should look for business models that don’t in…
Meaningless Raiders field goal leads to brutal bad beat for Broncos' backers https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6871610/2025/12/07/nfl-bad-beat-raiders-broncos-spread-betting/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Hayden:
🎵 Bad as They Seem
#Hayden
https://hayden4.bandcamp.com/track/bad-as-they-seem
https://open.spotify.com/track/13pcMVbQ5jOVJK7QN4ADSy
When "self-driving" cars were first getting some hype back in ~2015 or so, I told people who asked me that I didn't think they'd be safe, and that I wished the same money were being invested in driver-assistance systems instead.
At the time, advocates were claiming that self-driving cars would be safer than human drivers.
We now have both self-driving cars and some nifty new driver assistance things, and it turns out that the self-driving cars are in fact being developed by corporations whose attention to the bottom line results in danger to others on the road pretty regularly. I don't actually have stats here for whether they're "safer than human drivers" or not, but the opportunity for one bad software update to make *all* self-driving cars dangerous at once kinda makes me doubt that.
Here's an example of Waymo cars getting "more aggressive" as they try to balance between being too timid and obstructing traffic (including emergency vehicles) and being too dangerous:
https://archive.ph/JJuGv
Here's another example of passing stopped schoolbusses leading to a software recall:
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/waymo-issue-voluntary-software-recall-after-close-calls/story?id=128207776
In the first article, Waymo claims 91% fewer serious accidents per mile. Obviously an independent audit would be actually trustworthy, but even if we take that claim at face value, it's meaningless if an update tomorrow causes 100,000 accidents.
Note that they could be using better engineering practices, and the fact that they aren't shows that they don't care enough about the risks. They could be deploying new software versions incrementally and slowly, letting new versions rack up lots of miles only on a few vehicles before pushing them to a fleet. The should also have the equivalent of a simulation unit test for "schoolbus is stopped, what do?" and if a software version fails that test, it doesn't make it to the fleet. Clearly they don't have that.
I feel pretty vindicated in my earlier prediction that this tech is a bad idea in the hands of the current advocates.
This is heresy; and moreover, it's gross and bad that anyone would want it
"I Cannot SSH Into My Server Anymore (And That’s Fine)" https://soap.coffee/~lthms/posts/i-cannot-ssh-into-my-server-anymore.html
from my link log —
Should CSS be a constraint system instead?
https://pavpanchekha.com/blog/why-css-bad.html
saved 2025-12-06 https://
My controversial take on "AI" ray tracing helpers are that it's a really good idea.
First some background: keep in mind that machine learning tecnologies excell at tasks that have a high reward for success and a small cost for failure. In this case getting most of the rays right improve performance, at the cost of some few rays being shot in nothing.
Secondly, light rays are way too many in real life to be simulated in their entirety, so using some statistics to approximate the lighting model makes a lot of sense here. Plus at the lower quantum scale even phisicists use statistic to explain this stuff, so it's not that irrealistic either.
Finally the source data for this stuff is entirely other games, so ethically sourcing the training data set should not be a concern here.
Here, technology can be good or bad. It's not the tech, it's the use of the tech by the people (but that I mean oligarchic corporations) that makes them good or bad.
Apple replacing Alan Dye with Stephen Lemay may fix Jony Ive's mistake by restoring the Jobsian "design is how it works" ethos in Apple's UI design (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/bad_dye_job
Today I received some frequent visitors to my feeder: House Sparrow 🐦
They come daily and steal everything, pretty bad that they take everything out of the feeder usually. You can hear them enjoying the last seeds.
#SilentSunday
Not sure if it'll be useful, but looks good 🤔
Too bad I can't add a Share/Download (image) button due to CORS issue (avatar image and header image). Possibly can fallback to just pure solid-color version but doesn't look as pretty 😆
For context, Mastodon Android app has this https://bl…
Friday Links 26-01
First round of links for 2026. Everything is bad, so have some links to cheer you up.
I really liked the article about visibility, the one about Friday deploys, and sitting alone in a café … which I can relate to.
I am a big fan of Bill Nighy's podcast, that certainly will improve your mood.
For some reason, the random section is full of cassette tape related links.
The bot trimmed one little piece of the joke: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe was a sequel, and obviously needed to start with a recap, so the full quote is:
❝The story so far: In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.❞
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Bad Brains:
🎵 Big Takeover
#BadBrains
https://schlitz1.bandcamp.com/track/big-takeover-bad-brains
https://open.spotify.com/track/2z83t0gfxu3Dnb0XUDBR3B
Anyone know anything about solidagent.io?
They appear to be an EU hosted AI agent - in the sense that they have the trained models on their own platforms, rather than using an API so presumably queries etc stay on their servers.
Their statements of #privacy etc look good and the test queries I posted (on quite complex #coding problems) were very impressive, but I don't think it's strictly FOSS otherwise.
Would be happy to hear if others have good/bad experience with them as they seem quite new.
https://www.solidagent.io/privacy
The #PoisonPill Request: How One Bad Request Can Kill Your Entire Fleet
https://systemdr.substack.com/p/the-poison-pill-request-how-one-bad
💥 Pro-cycling crashes can be bad, but evidence suggests slower bikes aren't the answer
#sports
I'd like to distinguish between 5 positions:
1. GOP: "Trump is good and Maduro is bad."
2. Many elected Dems: "Trump is bad, but he is the lesser of 2 evils compared to Maduro."
3. Me, before last night: "Trump & Maduro are equally bad."
4. Me, now: "Maduro is bad, but he is the lesser of 2 evils compared to Trump."
5. Tankies: "Maduro is good and Trump is bad."
Just because I've moved from 3 to 4, doesn't mean I'm willing to move to 5!
Mastodon, my friend, are you having a bad day?
I love how signing into Fusion 360 has the same apparent complexity of launching nuclear missiles: opening four different windows across two apps, requiring reading off a secret code after inputting other secret codes. It’s too bad they don’t include a keylock USB device and play “TURN YOUR LAUNCH KEY SIR” after clicking the final signin prompt #fusion360
🇺🇦 Auf #radioeins läuft...
Bad Bunny:
🎵 NUEVAYoL
#NowPlaying #BadBunny
https://fefotheghost.bandcamp.com/track/bad-bunny-nuevayol-fefo-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/5TFD2bmFKGhoCRbX61nXY5
"AI is the world's most expensive and energy-intensive plagiarism machine....""
'Breaking Bad' Creator Hates AI, Promises New Show 'Pluribus' Was 'Made By Humans' - Slashdot
https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/25/11/09/047221/breaking-bad-creator-hates-ai-promises-new-show-pluribus-was-made-by-humans
RE: https://mastodon.social/@ErikJonker/115693178301989314
Sophia Cope, a senior staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation: “..
It has not proven effective at finding terrorists and other bad guys,” she added. “But it has chilled the free speech and invaded the privacy of innocent travelers, along with that of their American family, friends and colleagues.”
(From link ⬇️)
Trump’s Half-Baked Venezuela Takeover Is Bad News for Alberta:
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/01/06/Trump-Venezuela-Takeover-Bad-News-Alberta/
Hey, remember when that Republican called out "You lie!" at Obama and the subtext was "You lie, [boy]!"? That was bad b/c of the racist subtext, but uh...maybe other people should try that?
Maybe Democrats and the press should try doing that to Trump and Vance and all these mofo grifters out here brazenly lying to our faces 24/7. And don't @ me about decorum when these people have destroyed all sense of gravitas already.
The #KeepassXC discussion about GenAI coding tool use seems a bit too simplistic at the moment.
There is room for nuance:
1. Yes, LLM based code generators consume insane amounts of electricity and generate collateral environment damage. That's bad, and we should talk much more about energy efficiency and reasonable use of resources.
2. Yes, LLMs generate a lot of bad o…
it occurs to me now that I have a laptop from this decade I could prolly start making let's plays again
I am bad at every video game so they're usually pretty funny I'm ngl
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMfOTogVYs…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Frank Ocean:
🎵 Bad Religion
#FrankOcean
https://illwink.bandcamp.com/track/frank-ocean-bad-religion-illhouse-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/2pMPWE7PJH1PizfgGRMnR9
@… I won’t say no if you’re offering. It’s a bit outside my normal reading zone, but that’s not a bad thing.
I thought designer dog breeds were bad when I heard about "goldendoodles".
But snickerdoodles are a new low. A Snickers bar and a poodle? How does that even work?
49ers' Jennings says trash talk didn't cross line https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47249786/49ers-jauan-jennings-trash-talk-browns-bad
Did Raiders’ field goal cause worst bad beat of year? Barstool Sports founder thinks so https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/betting/did-raiders-field-goal-cause-worst-bad-beat-of-year-barstool-sports-found…
WBD merging with either Netflix or Paramount should be challenged by US antitrust authorities and would be bad for US streaming market competition (Tim Wu/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/opinion/netflix-paramount-warner-bros.html
It's funny how "AI" tools are simulteanously marketed as "agents" that can run fully in the background and do stuff but whenever they do something bad it's the user at fault for not supervising the software that doesn't work.
Even when it’s directly used and the user has the chance to review everything—it’s extremely dangerous, especially at tasks it is doing fine like 95% of the time and/or when the bad things are only subtly wrong.
Imagine other tools being like this, like a steering wheel that turns the car 95 out of a 100 times. 2% of the time it steers into the other direction. 3% of the time it steers 5x as much as normally.
OpenAI is testing training LLMs to produce "confessions", or self-report how they carried out a task and own up to bad behavior, like appearing to lie or cheat (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/0<…
Most meetings are bad, and most attempts to fix it merely reduce the *amount* of meetings, rather than do anything to improve their usefulness.
This is an opportunity for #UX designers aspiring to "do strategy." But hi-fi artifacts won't help you here; their purpose is to document decisions that have already been made.
Lo-fi artifacts only appear skippable when seen alone; i…
Breathless headline: "97% of buildings on Earth now 3D-mapped!"
Well, 0% of my or my three nearest neighbors' 14 houses/sheds are there in any way, and the "buildings" that *are* present near us don't actually exist, so either we're the 3%, or that number is utter bullshit.
...which is a good thing, tbh, because this is a massive invasion of privacy. Bad enough to have Google taking pictures of me from the sky; now I have to let the council do dr…
L-MEM-BAD, bad memory
VMS-F-PDGERS, pudding between the ears
I really wish Ghost didn't force you to have bad heading nesting.
Jake Ferguson injury update leaves Cowboys TE's Week 15 status in serious doubt https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/jake-ferguson-injury-update-cowboys-week-15-status-serious-d…
When Fallout-for-life MrMattyPlays breaks his silence & goes straight after Bethesda & Fallout 4: Anniversary, that's... really bad. 😥
▶️ Fallout 4: Anniversary Edition Is Legit Insulting... | Review - MrMattyPlays
https://youtube.com/watch?v=jF5XYg0ECu0&…
Renee Good is a crisis for the Trump regime: not because they care about her life, but because ICE murdering her makes ICE look bad. They’ve been telling all these stories about all the imaginary violence ICE officers face. In their minds, it’s the people on the streets who were supposed to lose their cool first. Now they’re falling over themselves to make that happen.
We just want ICE gone, but their bosses want them dead. And no, I’m sure they do not understand this.
☕ Sociology, meet ecology: How the variability of coffee harvests can teach us about sustainable farming
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-sociology-ecology-variability-coffee-harvests.html
The worst thing about this is: if you run to defend bad shit you will only ever injure yourself—the bad shit makers do not know about you or care about you.
Have some self-respect and call things out when they're bad.
Hate pastor & neo-Nazi influencer say maybe Hitler wasn't so bad after all - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/hate-pastor-neo-influencer-say-maybe-wasnt-so-bad-after-all/
Meaningless Raiders field goal leads to brutal bad beat for Broncos' backers https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6871610/2025/12/07/nfl-bad-beat-raiders-broncos-spread-betting/
The good, the bad, and the ugly from a Cowboys' loss in Detroit https://insidethestar.com/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-from-a-cowboys-loss-in-detroit
MAGA Land as graceful and dignified as usual after a bad night - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2025/11/07/maga-land-as-graceful-and-dignified-as-usual-after-a-bad-night/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Bad Colours:
🎵 Underwater
#BadColours
https://badcolours.bandcamp.com/track/underwater
https://open.spotify.com/track/5bGi40kxoLmwPA2wgZR0fK
Spagnola: Bad just grew worse Monday night https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/spagnola-bad-just-grew-worse-monday-night
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Bad Colours:
🎵 Safe and Sound
#BadColours
https://badcolours.bandcamp.com/track/safe-and-sound
https://open.spotify.com/track/23bXC7VrB5JkBoxduDwHzl
Raiders Get Bad News Amid Geno Smith’s Uncertain Future https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/bad-news-geno-smith-future/?adt_ei=[email]
I strongly think that government should be where they can reach people; especially for emergencies but also for boring normal civics and politics.
This includes websites, TV, radio, print media, social media and whatever the future brings.
(Do not confuse abuse of this, as currently practiced by some western governments, with it being inherently bad.)
https://mstdn.social/@Nickiquote/115689504321086580
Spagnola: Bad just grew worse Monday night https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/spagnola-bad-just-grew-worse-monday-night
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Tricky:
🎵 Bad Dreams
#Tricky
https://open.spotify.com/track/3zH00XpiWg81z2Dqsnni3W
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Bad Religion:
🎵 American Jesus
#BadReligion
https://zerojanitor.bandcamp.com/track/bad-religion-american-jesus-2a03
https://open.spotify.com/track/5TZn3LQSWwVPnBlPgFKb54
Cowboys, Lions, Bills and Bears get bad news from CBS Sports' Seahawks trade rumor https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-lions-bills-bears-bad-news-cbs-sports-seahawks-…
Trevon Diggs got off to a bad start with Packers after Cowboys release https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/green-bay-packers/news/trevon-diggs-bad-start-packers-cowboys-release/a97a8c90b53f50daacc34b87
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Naked Giants:
🎵 Bad Guys Win
#NakedGiants
https://nakedgiants.bandcamp.com/track/bad-guys-win
https://open.spotify.com/track/5Eb3hHTGwKiKyEVDfHqaB3