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If I have one more fucking techbro explain to me that actually, I’m the problem for criticising Big Tech (and, yes, fucking Linux distributions and components tied to trillion-dollar corporations is also Big Tech) I am going to scream.
(Actually, I’m just going to block and move on and not give you another thought this lifetime. And maybe also scream.)

A bit coarse, but spot on: https://www.otherstrangeness.com/2026/03/14/have-a-fucking-website/
This is POSSE <- to which we should all aspire.

This will be a long fucking week

There have been like 20 fucking horror movies about the dangers of thawing ancient things out from ice, but I sure am glad scientists are doing it today https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/20/science/romania-ice-cave-resistance-antibiotics

Ancient bacteria strain discovered in ice cave is resistant to some modern antibiotics
In a cave in Romania, scientists found a bacterial strain entombed in ice that is resistant to 10 modern antibiotics. But it may also help fight superbugs.

Bari Weiss is a fucking monster.
Once upon a time, radio was the hot communication tech driving startups. Bill Paley bought a controlling chunk of a struggling new radio network from Columbia Records and somehow managed to compete with RCA’s National Broadcasting Company. CBS put men in Europe who formed our narratives of the 30s and 40s and defined what Americans still think about that time.
It was the last radio news network

Ummm, what?
What the actual fuck??
No. Fucking. Way. The US can take a very long walk off a very short pier. @… https://social.bau-ha.us/@CCC/11644140…

who decided it would be a bad idea to ground CRT TVs. seriously that seems like a fucking no brainer

keytool decodes the keystore, the cert passes tests and while sslchecker.com says it is missing Org, it says the same about every cert we've used the past three years.
I do, I truly, honestly and with all my heart loath this industry that has eaten my life for 50 years with shit like this. Always shit like this, ten million variables where just one is off by a little bit, go fish. I fucking hate it, I want out.
But I also hate to leave a friend in a lurch, out of business, for reasons unknown, so torn between "fuck it" and "crying".
I was just updating a fucking certificate.

Google stop sending me notifications of Linux articles with AI-generated penguins for thumbnails I'm gonna fucking lose it

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@samvarma/116116851674585165
And that's 4 attempts now
Frozen
"It just works"
What a fucking joke

While the EU is busy making relatively inconsequential but nice-to-have changes to technology while the planet fucking burns around us, how about a resolution to require software engineers to provide an explicit, permanent "NO" option rather than "ask me again later" or "not now"

One of the reasons I like music and movies so much is that they force my stupid fucking brain to think about something else for a few minutes

The Palantir manifesto summarized

@… I think my skintone puts me in the appropriate category though, so allow me to say it:
Good fucking riddance. Quit being hateful pieces of shit folks.

1/2 These stupid, damn garbage companies that keep stuffing their fucking logos into the footer make me want to throw up. It is the most disgusting thing you can possibly come up with when it comes to emails. Try finding an email that actually has a real attachment. Yeah, every single email already has an attachment. Some companies have absolutely no clue how to build their damn footer properly without completely wrecking the entire email ecosystem.

One sad thing, a Tik Tok trend, is threats of school shootings. Someone picks an arbitrary date and then writes a threat of a shooting. If the lad or lass attended school enough they will pick a date antecendent of the day of writing - and successful threats also means they learned to spell. Fucking hate this, hate Tik Tok trends..

Used to be, game companies would include a charger cable with your console that was just one simple fucking cable, the brick and cable combined. Now, a lot of these companies have cheaped out and just give you some shitty brick and an equally shitty separate USB-C cable that comes apart easily and comes out of the console constantly. Reject modernity

@lexinova@cyberplace.social @… or.. like make a fucking sandbox an official part of the platform, like plugins are sandboxed in the browser. Sideload all the garbage apps you like in sandbox mode, but they get locked the F down and all I/O or perms have to be re-vetted by the user periodically and/or leaves an transaction trail that can be rolled back or whatever.

Bloody fucking ultrahell on a greased tin pan https://social.coop/@cwebber/116421159289416290

I've gone back to a paper diary. I switched away from the app I loved and had used for years as it was getting dodgy. I tried Fossify Calendar but just couldn't settle with the display to the point that I started forgetting upcoming appts, so I have delightedly gone back to paper. As the Queen of Admin it suits me very well. I'm keeping the new calendar app just for push reminders of a few bits, but my mental map of the week comes from my diary. I can feel myself relax, daft old …

why do things keep fucking installing pipewire. EVERY FUCKING TIME it breaks my audio setup and i have to remove it. and i NEVER realize i've installed it either

Why tf do all these flag stand vendors on ebay have fucking thin blue line flags as an example? 🫤

I want to re-iterate that waypipe is fucking cool

Gee. A company which stands to make billions from the resulting military contracts (and P.S. run by two foreigners) wants to tell us how to run our fucking country? FUCK. YOU. RIGHT. IN. THE. FACE.
https://www.newsweek.com/us-draft-update-maj…

US Draft Update: Major Tech Company Urges Universal National Service
The company has won major Pentagon contracts, including work on Project Maven, an AI‑driven targeting and surveillance program.

Really "love" how mass media is completely not saying _why_ that guy was arrested.
He's a fucking child rapist.

Dear Mr. Merz: don't come up with excuses to track our IDs.
Just fucking ban tiktok and instagram instead, ok?
Or are you saying that, since 14yos don't vote and have little money, they're not useful to tiktok and instagram as adults are?

A thought, after listening to all the fucking securocrats wanking off over their Munich Security Conference.
In the Franco-Prussian war, the Paris Commune happened. At the end of the first world war, Russia had a #communist revolution, while the German navy mutinied in an explicitly left wing revolt. After the second,

Wait, Waterparks? If this is heavy metal I'm gonna be so fucking pissed.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=5O3lpjTrRMk

How you know Zohran Mamdani is doing well:
The billionaires and capitalist class fucking us all over are scared
https://bsky.app/profile/junlper.beer/post/3mjmzhaiod224

To review, I am not going quite so far as to saying the thing is “entirely without use”. I am saying:
* There’s a lot of FOMO around LLMs.
* There are money-men heavily invested in you using them *no matter* their efficacy.
* The ethics are… not good IMO.
* Building software is a lot more than writing code that “technically works”.
* There are definitely at least *some* times where doing it yourself is faster.
* I’m fucking tired okay.

I am guessing no one here can confirm or deny this #java #JVM crash-on-keystore-decrypt which, if true, is a VERY SERIOUS BUG that could not be trusted in a production environment, and then has gone unfixed for decades? That does not seem very likely, does it?
As it is, keytool says there is nothing wrong with my keystore or its password, and watching the process launch I see after the init, it sits, idle, a few seconds later its Time value in top only increments the millisecs, and within a minute, it is gone, voom, not a trace in any logs as to why.
I do, truly, LOATH this technology. It is so fucking fragile; a life-sentence for the sr developers and sysadmins in production systems (that's why they often don't get holidays)

You know what game has a fucking sick soundtrack? Horizon Forbidden West https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW6i-mXGops&feature=youtu.be

Holy shit Gawyn, holy fucking shit

If you're doing a podcast, start each episode by getting to the fucking point. Sitting through 20 minutes of two people I don't know talking about their family or hobbies or what they had for dinner on Thursday interests me not even a little, particularly when I'm tuning in for the first time, and I will unsubscribe and move on to something that doesn't waste my time. Feel free to record your catch-up first and then paste it at the end, or even put it on Patreon for all I car…

Me when terfs start their fucking Nazi bullshit.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116257102307053080
There's no fucking mystery here (the Verge doesn't imply one, the article is well written, Im just saying aloud) - there is zero fiscal incentive for automakers to PUSH low end models.
Auto…

He's not tasteful. He's a giant fucking tool.
▶️ LA’s ‘Most Tasteful’ Burglar: The Case of a Mid-Century Modern Furniture Thief
https://youtube.com/watch?v=XbDEu5M1EFk&si=vFSHMK7reMzWrW9H

This fucking timeline man. WTF

Well, now I feel stupid. I finally figured out why, since upgrading to Debian 13/trixie, there are some websites I couldn't connect to, but only over IPv6, they work fine on their IPv4 address.
Fucking MTU.
I'd for a long time had an IPv4 iptables rule to force the MSS (maximum segment size) on outbound packets to `1400`. But I never put in an equivalent for IPv6.
I use 'jumbo packets' on the LAN between desktop and server, which means an MTU of 4088 (for …

This x1000.
For every "[corporate] social media harms kids because" comment, I see the exact same concern for adults that we're doing NOTHING about.
Facebook has literally promoted a genocide in Myanmar, but for some reason they're still in business and probably promoting another genocide somewhere. How many kids got butchered in that massacre? These toxic cesspools of hate are a problem for ALL age groups, but targeting kids is only pretending to do something a…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116411085882345749
That's a step in the right direction. But it's not the step people wanted most: letting us turn off the fucking AI "translations".

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music
The Make-Up:
🎵 I Want Some
#TheMakeUp
https://gunderman.bandcamp.com/album/maintaining-the-drive-for-creative-endeavours-and-artistic-pursuits-during-the-algorithmic-age-fucking-sucks-i-literally-just-want-to-blaze-up-and-make-shit-techno-without-having-to-worry-about-a
https://open.spotify.com/track/6dzU1QWJOkGogEaCTVjYRk

Microsoft should fork Hurd and then just replace the kernel with NTOSKRNL. NTOSKRNL *nix would fucking slap.

I don’t know much about Stoat yet but the web site says “Welcome to the 21st century.” and I dunno but the *20th century web* was pretty fucking banging in many ways before corporations and people ruined it in the 21st century with all their bullshit and capitalism.

RE: https://mindly.social/@alan/116414621601704688
People are facing genocide and some motherfuckers are worried about their precious hashtag.
Fuck you, man. And fuck your fucking hashtag.
What level of privilege is this?

@… They did but it was actually with this article
https://theonion.com/trump-escalates-f

So, if a site has a cookie options banner, and there's a toggle to turn off 3rd party ads, and the toggle *doesn't fucking respond to being clicked on*... is that a felony?
Because it really should be a class 1 felony.

Wenn wir schon wieder eine fucking #Energiekrise aufgrund der fossilen haben sollten wir wohl endlich mal diese Abhängigkeit abschaffen.

Good mooorning, everyone! 🌞
#wallpaper

#USpol

Fascist paramilitary invaders threatening community members; “You're fucking dead dawg!" (Richfield, MN - 2/10/26)
ICE threatens observers today (2/10/26) in the greater twin cities area (near Hope Church in Richfield MN).
Around 34 seconds into the clip you can hear the agent say your fucking dead dawg to the observer who is interacting with them.
The scene: Observers report witnessing ICE pulling over a random vehicle and checking their citizenship status before …

Firefox on my Android device just updated itself and is suddenly way, way faster.
Which makes a fucking change from updates making things worse!

i have to be screened and I have to be screened goddamn soon and if i’m somehow not actually found to be neurodivergent or ADD or ADHD or ASD or RSD or SOME FUCKING THING i am going to be so fucking pissed. I know life isn’t fair but this isn’t fucking fair TO ME.

Why do I feel like Vinge's Singularity really *is* about to hit, but rather than politely advancing to posthumanism and quietly fucking off to infinity, it's instead going to make sure that all actual sources of information get overrun with crap, that everybody in our entire civilization who actually knows anything gets fired from their jobs for being insufficiently productive due to refusing to using AI tools, and then we're just going to drown in this inifinite circle jerk of A…

computer: your computer has to restart for updates
me: uh, im in the middle of something; i have 17 things open.
computer: ok would you like to reschedule?
me: yes, tomorrow at 5:30pm
computer: sorry can't reschedule for then.
me: ok, how about tomorrow at 9am
computer: sorry can't reschedule for then.
me: so its "now" or "???". That's not really a fucking choice then is it?
CAKE OR DEATH. cake please. WELL WE'…

Just deleted my Bluesky account. Fucking useless waste of time.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116245455485134341
jfc the horse armor controversy was fucking 20 years ago

@… Perhaps not surprising, but absolutely fucking disgraceful.

I've met so many of you since I last talked about it, so maybe I should briefly mention music I've done. I recorded a bunch years ago & was in bands years ago but haven't recorded much but demos for many years. Some of these are rough. Some more polished. These are me. Wrote (minus covers), sing, play bass, sometimes regular guitar on all. More eventually? Maybe.

Sour Anteater Records
Loud, rough pseudopunk + weirdness. No fucking fascists or bigots

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Nigel_Purchase/116235380161088503
Fucking barbarians.
(You don’t even have to read the post, you already know who I’m talking about.)

Same, but for bikes. (build some fucking PBLs in central queens already) https://bird.makeup/users/streetsblognyc/statuses/2023092954827456522

I’m not *feeling* special…
I’m feeling fucking cold. I am gaining an understanding of how people are driven to dangerous stupidity by the lack of heat.

Fucking secure boot. This is the reason why hibernation is disabled on my laptop? Fucking great.

Why would a company pay you to come up with the same solutions generated by a chatbot?
The answer is, they don’t want to pay you! It’s that fucking simple!

Update
Please fucking bubble, pop already.

WHY IS THERE AN ENTIRE COPY OF VOTV 0.8 IN MY DOCUMENTS FOLDER. NO FUCKING WONDER IT'S 11 GIGS

Fucking Finally!
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/eff-leaving-x

EFF is Leaving X
After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue.

Can't fault the Onion lately fucking hell
https://www.tumblr.com/theonion/810636126184505344/putting-the-nation-on-alert-against-what-it-has?source=share

Post by @theonion · 1 image
💬 10  🔁 242  ❤️ 730 · Putting the nation on alert against what it has described as a “highly credible terrorist threat,” the FBI announced today that it has uncovered a plot by members of al-Qaeda…

Oh, dear thing, did you see a post by a Palestinian facing genocide on your favourite fucking sci-fi hashtag by mistake? You, poor, delicate flower. Do you think you’ll survive? Should we call 911? @… ht…

I’m close now, right? I must be close.
I’m so fucking cold. Everything is difficult today. I definitely don’t want to survive a civilizational collapse.

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?

You save the entire fucking Western world with your genius and the thanks you receive is getting murdered with poison for being gay and then having some kissless incels hand out a shitty dog bowl every year with your name engraved into it

I fucking hate war, but I have to admit that there's a real possibility that we (and they) blow up everyone's oil refineries and we finally wean ourselves off of fossil fuels. The absolutely stupidest and most violent way possible.

Don’t ever ship at Target. Let them fucking die.
EDIT: removed link because it was deleted
Tl;dr guy’s wife got arrested for “shoplifting” (days later at home) after AI at self-checkout flagged her and they booked her with stripsearch and what have you and not was over like $80 or something.
Judge immediately threw case out because no evidence.

So a Palestinian facing genocide autocompletes a hashtag incorrectly by mistake (#doctor -> #doctorWho) and you jump down her throat?
How about you get some fucking perspective, Angela?
#Gaza …

I wish it didn't take me so fucking long to do everything

Joey Ramone passed away on this day (April 15) in 2001. Joey no longer walks Earth (and Dee Dee and Johnny are no longer with us either), but the unreal music he and they left behind is immortal, and it will fucking blast and rip forever. It still blows my mind I was briefly on Earth at the same time as this man, this legend, Jeffrey Hyman.
Here's a writeup Ultimate Classic Rock put up today on Joey and the Ramones for the 25th anniversary of his passing:

This is why a Mayor has to just fucking build it, rather than holding endless public outreach (and scarring city employees in the process, who are then less likely to take bold action because they're scared of getting yelled at).
It's also why when people are like, "but you can't blame people for climate change, that's Big Oil propaganda!", it's ultimately both. Oil companies have the deep pockets, but individuals have the passion to fight for their dumb p…

Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher, PhD (@mbonsma.bsky.social)
Awesome new paper by @ashtonindc.bsky.social unpacking ideas about "what—and who—our streets are for" that are behind car supremacy. By analyzing what people say at public meetings, this paper makes the case that individuals are upholding car supremacy and stymieing efforts to build safe streets.

Fucking clowns https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/mar/13/grammarly-removes-ai-expert-review-feature-mimicking-writers-after-backlash

I'm wondering if a chunk of PTM7950 would help this laptop (P14s Gen 5 AMD, 8th-gen Ryzen 7 Pro) not hit fucking 96°C during an all-core build

Years before that movie Titane, I'm fairly sure the Traveling Wilburys song 'Dirty World' is about fucking a car
https://youtu.be/0HCu6pim4Ec

You try and help. You try and make things a little better in whatever small way you can. You think, “hey, maybe at least there will be some respite now… maybe things can start to get better” and, just as your foolish little brain starts to believe it, the fuckers who fuck everything up for everyone but themselves – and somehow are never held to account for any of it – go and fuck things up even further. It’s fucking depressing. I mean I don’t know how we’re not all just fucking depressed eve…

People are reminiscing about their "childhood Macs" and I'm losing my fucking mind because it's mostly machines with Intel CPUs

Just taking a moment to once again marvel at the fact that US voters were fucking stupid enough to elect him *twice*.

No decent person looks at the world and says “you know what I want, a billion dollars!” So why do you still expect such people to behave decently? Or to learn from their “mistakes.” (They’re not mistakes.) It fucking blows my mind how some of you are still giving these parasites every benefit of the doubt.

RE: https://lgbtqia.space/@m/116222680806173310
So fucking sick of money in politics. At this point I'd love to see fascist SCOTUS just abolished outright. Leave it up to the federal circuit courts.

Bonus #ThursDeath. This is new LP 'The Perfect Specimen' by Crescent City, Florida's OSSIFICATION, and it's fucking KILLER. Old school style, maybe Dying Fetus vibes. Brutal, but a solo or two here or there. Wild guitar shit on track 6. It's a CONTENDER. And it's NYP!

Man, I fucking love Amtrak
#TrainTooter

RE: #usa

Me: Let’s see how the FairPhone folks are doing… maybe I was overly harsh on them and they’ve used the time to wean themselves off of Google… what with being Waag and all…
Also me: fucking what the fuck now?
*sigh* 🤬