Tootfinder

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115984248910194025
While we're at it we should replace studying medicine at university with binge-watching House episodes

Also here:
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/115540417902051094

Found this while updating my screensaver tree -
#FionaTheCat in stealth mode #cat #caturday
ETA: Mom made the quote for my wife and I but Fiona has decided since it has cats on it it _clearly_ is hers.

I can't even begin to explain the heavenly smell of this rye #bread

Here's to 2025: Bye Felicia. 🙄
#GoodRiddance #NewYear #HappyNewYear

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115985073055067101
Surprising no one, nothing was delivered though they still claim they'll deliver today. 😂

More on the topic (I still like this metaphor):
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/114094173419383163

Turned on #Christmas Pandora playlist for the first time this year. And of course the first song was all about it being ok to abuse peers for being different and having the authority figure ignore it until he needs you for something important for him, not because it's wrong.
The "Now that we know your difference is useful we'll stop treating you like shit and pretend it never happened" is a perfect topper.
Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer is a great lesson for children. /sarcasm
#autistic #neurospicy

Been playing Roots Devour (#Steam via CrossOver on #macOS
BE THE ELDRITCH HORROR YOU ALWAYS KNEW YOU WERE
It's pretty great, put in 8 hours so far.
The general gist of the game is strategic, puzzle-like reveal of map levels - capturing cards of creatures and humans, wrapping them in your blood sucking vines, and generally conquering all.
When you get stuck, spend some of the blood to open a card pack and get random helper tools, effects, and critters.
Sounds are superb and visuals are very 𝒜𝐸𝒮𝒯𝐻𝐸𝒯𝐼𝒞 - if you dig Cult of the Lamb or Darkest Dungeon, you'll probably enjoy it.
Only downside is that there's an occasional indicator that English is not the primary language of the game developers. Very rarely you can see untranslated Chinese text on-screen, one or two oddities (uncapitalized, punctuation slightly off). This is unfortunately probably why they're getting a little beat up in the Steam reviews.
Honestly, in my 8 hours so far, I've noticed it like 3? 4? times tops so far. The game is so very much my jam, it really hasn't bothered me.
Some people are also reviewing it as "too linear" - they definitely gave up way too early. There are SECRETS, side areas, choices you can make, intentionally difficult areas that will take some thinking to unlock, etc.
Currently 10% off right now, give it a shot!

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115987382967306613
11 minutes now!

Looking to run for governor? Call me back when you’ve kicked ICE out.

Shout-out to the guy who replied to this that the USA was never real but always a bully.
He must be great fun at parties.
https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115810373152115216

whew, it's fixed

Kitchen Sink Ghost says “Happy New Year!”

This is like Philip Morris saying "Philip Morris is a tobacco safety and research company"

That article is a giant PR puff piece for an AI detection company. Nature ought to know better and should be ashamed of itself.
That’s not to say initial accusation isn’t credible; it certainly is!
But…just look at this reporting. Note how •completely• credulous it is about the accuracy of Pangram’s product.
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They should be required to post photos of those mechanical failures

New #Steam game meta:
Own enough games that every game on discount has an even better discount because you can complete a game bundle you already own the other parts of

What @… said:
Providing employment after deployment = supporting troops
Providing housing = supporting troops
Destigmatizing mental health care = supporting troops
Preventing armed conflict = supporting troops
You know what’s NOT supporting troops? Starting wars as political cover for a failing president. Deploying National Guard just to terrorize people and provoke a backlash. Issuing illegal orders. •That• is not supporting troops.
https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/115634994186527377

Not sure how to take this eBay notification, are they calling me a hoarder

“But will I piss off my audience if I say something about politics!!!1! But but both sides!”
The audience when a YouTuber says how it is:

They have 1 hour and 24 minutes to get it from Pennsylvania to Arizona 😅

If you want see some bad things happening to Nazis, this is a good read

Can you do a favor for my friend @…? He was already having a lousy enough week with his car and his city falling apart when state troopers arrested his wife @… for protesting against the murder of Alex Pretti. (Arrested for what? AFAICT, they were just looking to make an example of some protestors. Just good old harassment via the legal system.)
Now the family has lost work and impending legal bills on top of that new transmission. I’m sure they’d appreciate it if you can chip in a few bucks:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-miriam-recover-from-legal-fees-and-lost-work

(From: Struwwelhitler, a parody of Struwwelpeter, 1942.)
You can a full PDF here: https://parridigit.istitutoparri.eu/public/multimediale/1/Monografie/multimedia_source/STR/UW/STRUWWELHITLER.pdf

Democratic fundraising SMS spam:
“Life hasn’t always been easy. As the proud daughter of a union pipefitter and an F-16 fighter jet, I crawled my way up the broken glass of the capitol building steps to rein in greedy corporate lima bean cartel criminals. In this 10,000-word biographical essay, I will…”
Republican fundraising SMS spam:
“Stop ignoring us, you utter shitsack. Click here to pledge your firstborn daughter to Trump: […] Can he count on you? This is your last chance!”

This computer is kind of interesting actually. The floppies are from a Mindset workstation (the rest isn't).
Here's a cool video on it (no, not the one from the 2-bit guy): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcmwa0xCSnU

vibe coding

“They’re all the same” is a form of negotiating against yourself in politics.
“Good, bad, or completely ugly, they’re all part of a system we can use to amplify our own power” is my attitude. Politicians don’t lead. •We• lead, and we fight to make politicians follow.

NOTEPAD.EXE now has AI features??!?
I'm going back to Windows 1.01

People are •way• too focused on the personalities and inner thoughts of politicians, like politics is basically People magazine except with votes — and not nearly focused enough on when and where and how politicians are points of leverage, and tools we use for exercising our power.
My spicy take is that while many politicians are hideous people, in the median they’re actually much better humans beings than we tend to imagine — and that doesn’t matter, because they are leverage points in a system and not protagonists in a novel.

photo from a recent trip to Phoenix

Hey my Steam account can drink alcohol in the US now

I imagine these posts are going to trigger the usual Reply Chorus of
“ugh, those Democrats, they’re the worst”
“they [Democrats] are all the same”
“they [politicians] are all the same”
…and, like, yes, I get it, and yes, all politicians are products of the electoral system that drives their behavior…
…and also “Democrats” includes Ilhan Omar getting ready to punch some fashy scrub in the face and Senators actually to kneecap DHS funding, and that is behavior I want to reward.

You better look if you have some of this type of Teac cassette tapes in your attic

(To be clear, I never signed up for messages from Klobuchar in the first place)

We used to be a real country

"Mint! L@@… STEVE JOBS"

Yes, the Minneapolis metro area, famously known as the “Only Child City”

All I want for the next year is world peace and free healthcare for everyone.
Oh yes and also chonky computers, the least realistic of these wishes.

RE: https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/115984678970907274
1. This seems like a bit much.
2. They’d better nominate “Minneapolis-St. Paul,” or they’ll never hear the end of it.

My new year’s resolution is 128×112

Make it a resolution for yourself for 2026 to convince at least one single person to read or listen to one single book.
You'll literally change the world.

Racist would like not to be remembered forever as a racist.
Mmmm hmmmmmm.

RIP Stewart Cheifet 1938–2025

Why?
1. Kavanaugh wrote the opinion that explicitly legalized racial profiling in immigration enforcement.
2. The term “Kavanaugh stops” really, really, really gets under his skin.
3. He’s now kind of trying to walk back the opinion in the hopes that the phrase “Kavanaugh stop” does not become a permanent part of our legal and cultural memory.

Don’t forget about the Y2K26 problem

Please remember: when an officer stops somebody based on racial profiling to challenge their immigration status, the correct and proper term for that is a “Kavanaugh stop.”
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/12/brett-kavanaugh-stops-immigration-racial-profiling-ice.html

With hard-caked snow and ice, MSP once again answers the question, “What would driving be like if there were no visible lane markers?”

I do not share Glasser’s reaction — I expected it to be at least this bad — but as a catalogue of awful things and their enablers, it’s a good contribution. More of that in the MSM please: list the wrongs, as many as possible, over and over. Don’t let the memory hole swallow them up. https://mastodon.world/@BrianJopek/115810196467256804

The Commodore 64 Ultimate is really a masterclass in how to make a new #retrocomputing product the right way.
While I don't have one, I really appreciate the attention to details and the way they're marketing it.
Also astounding that there were so many naysayers (I unfollowed or blocked so many retrocomputing people who were outright hostile to it). ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

“Babysitter” is such a weird word. Is it only for babies? Does the job involve sitting on them?? No, the job is to supervise young children of various ages: play with them and make sure they sleep when it’s time to sleep. A more accurate word would be “kidnapper.”

David Bowie’s “Underground” (from the Labyrinth soundtrack) is a great song, often overlooked. That is all. You may now resume your activities.

I don’t just mean this as a flippant remark. I’m deadly serious. If whipping up a fake war keeps Epstein off the front page, they’re going to keep doing it. Our best hope for preventing a war is to make it not work as political cover for them.

No, @…, emphasizing the safety of vaccines is not a strawman. For everlasting fuck’s sake.
Come back to planet Earth, where:
- scare-mongering about vaccines is running rampant,
- right-wing propaganda is intentionally fueling that fear for profiteering and political gain,
- parents are very clearly afraid of the vaccines themselves right now,
- diseases like measles are making a return because of that fear, and
- people are dying as a result.
Your post is a non-sequitur. Whatever stick you have up your butt about lockdowns or whatever this post was about, please keep that stick in your butt and out of vaccine safety discussions. https://mastodon.online/@dennmans/115631732594437886

Is there some actual study on the "life expectancy" of magnetic media such as cassette tapes or floppy disks?
E.g. I have a pre-recorded compact cassette that is 50 years old and works just fine (and sounds great!), and floppy disks from the early 80s that read with no problems.
Yet when I search for this topic everyone always claims "10–20 years" is what to expect from magnetic media.

What Radley said.
The big questions lurking behind this rush to war:
(1) Where are the Epstein files?
(2) Is this regime redacting or suppressing their full release? https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:c7ozmxoc5b2ky4iam2o36uic/post/3m6rrrnggjk27

To be entirely fair, macOS and Windows are going down such clownchute that it is possible that they just won't work for people at all anymore, so it could be that Linux gets popular by default.

The headline should be: ❝AI vendor’s AI-generated analysis claims AI generated reviews for AI-generated papers at AI conference❞
To be clear, I give great credence to the claims of the humans in the article who thought they’d received an AI-generated review. I bet •they’re• correct. It’s Nature I’m coming after here.
A journalistic institution would investigate that claim, track down the reviewer in question, get to the bottom of the story. A PR outlet would just repeat some vendor’s product claims as fact and click “publish.”
Which one is Nature?
/end

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@Linux_in_a_Bit/115981024856898565
This is why Linux will never be widely popular.

Note that the headline treats this product’s output as established fact:
❝Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI❞
They didn’t even have the journalistic decency to append “claims AI detection company.” Note the passive voice in the sub-headline:
❝Controversy has erupted after 21% of manuscript reviews for an international AI conference were found to be generated by artificial intelligence.❞
“were found”…by whom? Nobody. It’s just a magic fact.
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'A recent post by Marcelo Emmerich proposes replacing package managers with a “prompt registry.” Instead of publishing code, library authors would publish AI prompts.'
Also, the Wikipedia article about sniffing your own farts shows this guy's portrait.
(quote from this post: https://nesbitt.io/2026/01/30/will-ai-make-package-managers-redundant.html)

Ha ha — but also note that the 21% figure is itself •generated by an automated tool•:
❝The next day, he got a response from Max Spero, chief executive of Pangram Labs in New York City, which develops tools to detect AI-generated text. Pangram screened all 19,490 studies and 75,800 peer reviews.…Pangram’s analysis revealed that around 21% of the ICLR peer reviews were fully AI-generated, and more than half contained signs of AI use.❞
The word “revealed” is doing way too much work there.
1/
Re this from @…:
https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/115632304917619952

anyway watch this https://youtu.be/EUrOxh_0leE

(This is a compliment)

Please stop with the “do LLMs have fee-fees?” bullshit
This presupposes LLMs are alive which in turn means that for every prompt an LLM baby is born and after answering is snuffed out, dying horribly
Like the whale in the Hitchhiker’s Guide

WITCHCRAFT!! https://mastodon.world/@paulschoe/115558305386505942

I fucking don't want to live in interesting times https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jan/30/brian-may-says-us-is-currently-too-dangerous-for-queen-to-tour-there

I'm gonna go offline for today, starting some lunch first.
jfc
https://www.reuters.com/world/un-chief-guterres-warns-imminent-financial-collapse-2026-01-30/

Currently have two deliveries, one with USPS and it’s currently in Pennsylvania and one with UPS which is in New Jersey.
Both claim delivery is today in Arizona. 🥴

Heads-up, pretty serious food and drug recall in Indiana, Minnesota and North Dakota for a bunch of products including Cheerios, Kellogg’s stuff, Pringles, Coca-Cola, Gatorade, Heinz ketchup, Crisco, pet foods, beauty products etc because of literal rat shit at a distributor
The PDF with products is 44 pages long
https://people.com/thousands-of-gold-star-items-recalled-for-exposure-to-rodent-waste-11894824

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcnees/115984789450402477
guys that’s the guy who invented gui

Aka the whole program is a sort of long con to funnel money to companies that did Space Shuttle stuff and to Musk.
A lot of it is now financed by shutting down actual science and research at NASA.

If you see the “return to the moon” news, remember that an actual landing by 2027/28 (as currently planned) depends on SpaceX being able to launch about 10–20 Starships within a single month (for their lander and fuel).
They haven’t even launched it into orbit yet.

If you're a YouTuber or have some other platform, please take a hint from Technology Connections and tell the truth to your audience.

I've been yelling at YouTubers for several years now (since back in 2016) to say something—it's so good to finally see this.

If you're an American, I'd like you to watch Alec from Technology Connection here starting at about 1:16:30 (link contains jump to that time).
Ideally of course watch the whole video too, but the end here is I think really important because there's so few people who saying this so clearly.
https://youtu.be/KtQ9nt2ZeGM?t=4594

whyyyyyy do I still have to block people who post AI slop imagery into my timeline

Unsure what Mac application is the shittiest, but Discord is certainly in the top 5

Unpopular opinion, "collaborative" word processing is bad.
People should have ownership of their writing and changes to documents should be requested and not be a fait accompli.

Using devices as long as they work is literally the exact opposite of “hoarding”, which would be buying a new phone every year and ending up with a hoard of them.
Let’s not use words that were deliberately used in bad faith to blame consumers for problems producers have.

haha lol nope

How to use generative AI ethically and tastefully
Thread 👇

RE: https://chaos.social/@karolherbst/115635491492141491
Wait I thought it's GNU/Linux, not MAGA/Linux

It's so annoying that you can't add images to quote posts on Mastodon, this prevents a whole oeuvre of really funny shitposts

otoh i've been wrong before ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

tbf with some patience, I'd expect these to show up for cheap on ebay next year as people who got one loose interest & want to get some of their money back with economy being hosed and all

Oh no I feel a desire to order a Commodore 64 Ultimate which makes no sense because I already have 4 OG Commodore 64's, the SX and a 128

(Please don't add "AI" to Notepad 1.01, this is not a dare.)

Love how some bullshit "AI" story is on top of The Guardian.
No, "AI" doesn't show signs of self-preservation.
"AI" does not exist. It doesn't have permanence, thoughts, reasoning or consciousness.

PSA: if you start watching The Hudsucker Proxy at 10:23:14pm the clock in the movie will strike midnight (New Year's Day 1959) exactly when it's your local midnight

Well actually the duration of a year is 365.256363004 days
Also I’m fun at parties

I hope that the members of said list step on LEGO bricks every day

Happy New Year to everyone but [list of people and companies that grew exponentially in 2025]

Asbestos is here to stay! You better learn using it or you’ll be left behind.

So will they finally ship the PowerBook G5 in 2026?

Doing the adult thing and going to sleep at 10:30pm

blockchain mind virus