As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

Dear Microsoft, Instead of pouring billons into AI slop nobody wants, fix parity storage spaces or integrate ZFS. 30MB/s writes to an 8 disk array, in 2026, is completely unacceptable.

I am so, so, so, so, SO tired of tech companies opting people in by default to the most invasive and abusable ideas they come up with.

I highly recommend Joe’s trainings. Even if you aren’t doing anything with hardware, learning how the hardware *actually* works (as opposed to how it’s *supposed* to work) gives you new perspective and insight into whatever you are working on. At the end of the day, everything runs on hardware.

Here, you need beaver kit cam. You might not know you need beaver kit cam, but you do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy76...

It's absolute hubris for McCartney to claim it's one of his songs when Gwar exists. We would all live, laugh, and love in perfect harmony until the scumdogs of the universe eviscerate us all. Call forth Oderus from the afterlife to rain blood and chaos upon humanity. That's true unity right there.

"If she has her own house, what will she need me for?" I don't know, dude, maybe be cool and fun to be around and be happy for her success instead being whiny little sad-ass troll about it? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Cool YouTube, cool, cool, cool... definitely something I'm interested in... /potentially lethal levels of sarcasm //Yes, I reported it. "Fuck Nazis" > "Snitches get stitches"

OH MY GOD WE DON'T NEED AI WE JUST NEED PASTE WITHOUT FORMATTING TO BE THE DAMN DEFAULT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA 🤬

Hey if you still have an Angelfire or Tripod site, or if you like one, now is the time to back it up, like, urgently

Dear Apple, STOP PUTTING THAT FUCKING U2 ALBUM ON MY PHONE!!!!! I know, with absolute certainty, that it was not on my phone prior to the iOS 26.4 update. I know, with absolute certainty, that I did not sync it to my phone. And yet, every-other song on today's random shuffle was fucking U2.

Of course, the one door I *want* to be installed poorly is freaking perfect…

Will the wrong people please stop dying and the right ones please start. That would be great.

Anyone know any consumer router this *wouldn’t* apply to? Because I’m drawing a blank.

The lesson here warrants repeating, with stories like this, until people get it: Surveillance is surveillance. No matter who builds it for what ends, others may use it for their own.

Hopefully @tracketpacer.com just saved someone an extremely frustrating troubleshooting experience the first time they encounter this. The sheath on the cable in the wall saying "CAT_" and it having been working for 10+ years does *NOT* mean you can treat it as "known good". Check for CCA.

2006 internet: RSS feeds, forums, communities of hobby blogs, where people post about interior design, fashion, and music for free 2026 internet: sponsored content, paid partnership, buy my merch, try my supplements, invest in my crypto, click link in bio to unlock the secrets of life for $30

Throw every single phone-answering-bot in the garbage. Every one. I do not want to talk to a robot, especially if I'm having trouble talking in the first place! Companies need a clear opt-out from this trash that you can access via pressing a button. www.wired.com/story/sears-...

Felt cute today, might delete later. 💅 #OmArt #art

Anyone else seeing a major uptick in pig butchering scam spam? Just got the third one in as many days.

"WebP compresses better, don't you want the internet to be fast!?" yeah i do maybe we could work on not embedding twenty megabytes of trackers and other bullshit JavaScript so your page runs without adblocking most of it first. no? then fuck webp. that's my opinion

Maybe we should be clearer. Jobs aren’t at risk from AI. They’re at risk from amoral shitbag short term spec capitalists using AI against a weakly unionised workforce and broken government.

There is no fucking way this wording is legal.

Dear companies If you’re going to make me use an app for what is obviously just a website, you should make sure your app renders that website correctly. That is the only reason for that app to exist. To ensure things get rendered the way they are intended. I doubt “unusably cut off” is intended.

I wonder what role all the "Nuke it from orbit" memes/comments in the training data is playing in this.

“I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange.”

I made a tool that turns PCB designs into 3D-printable molds. you sandwich copper tape between the parts, sand the ridges, and you have a real working PCB. no etching, no chemicals. I am losing my mind castpixel.itch.io/pcb-forge

Reminder: all those egregiously expensive chocolate dipped strawberries you spent the last week restraining yourself from buying just got a deep discount

I'd extend this to "a potentially recorded platform". And yes, above a certain level that even includes Signal. You can set messages to disappear but that doesn't apply to the picture the person on the other end took of it with their other phone so they wouldn't forget. I recommend golf.

HAPPY BOSTON MOONINITE PANIC DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

Use Signal. Use Tor. Even if the NSA has broken them, it doesn't matter. They're not going to burn that capability on you. Don't believe me? Ask the Operation Pacifier pedophiles who got unbelievable plea deals/charges dropped because DoJ didn't want to burn how they deanonymized Tor users.

Happy Birthday to 3/4 of the people I know! Wild how we were all born on the same day...

I'm not sure what it says, but I'm pretty sure the fact I've heard more fireworks tonight than the past 10 years *combined* says *something*. And it's still not quite 10:30 here.

Just spent three days banging my head against a wall thinking I'd screwed up something on one of my printers only to find that it was a problem in the latest manufacturer firmwares and rolling back instead of forward fixed it. Profanities were uttered.

That "what to do if the traffic lights are out" wasn't part of their "list of things our fully autonomous vehicle may have to deal with" says a lot. And none of it's good. That all these companies start in cities (hardest, most dangerous place) makes their unseriousness clear from start.

Seeing folks freaking out over this... it's fine. It's going to be okay. This is just a friendly "heads up" to other operators. NTP source clocks going offline/out of sync isn't common, but it happens enough for the redundancy and fault tolerance of the system to be *well* tested at this point.

Your annual reminder as we enter resolution season that “survive” is a perfectly legitimate New Year’s resolution.

Yes, 6pm on a Wednesday is definitely the time to push changes to prod for a restaurant ordering system...

This is one of the under-appreciated contributors to "achievement gaps" between income classes and rural/metro areas. For example; where I live, which is both relatively rural and relatively low income, some of the school bus routes take over three hours. Their days aren't magically 30 hours long.

Y'all know the font thing is just a pretext to fire people, right? Like, the entire reason for the change to Calibri was because Microsoft made that the default font in Word and State decided just allowing it was easier than changing the default (at scale) or trying to enforce Times New Roman.

Really not sure why everyone's surprised that FIFA 1000% understood the assignment. Institutional corruption and pandering to autocrats are kind of their core competencies...

For those following the news re: EU fining X for DSA violations, this thread explains that (despite how we may see the right and the U.S. gov frame things), it isn’t about “censorship” or even content moderation, but about X failing to follow laws about platform transparency and deception. A thread:

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Hey, @matthewdgreen.bsky.social, heads up bsky.app/profile/matt...

The level of detailed causality NTSB investigations get to always amazes me. It wasn't just "a loose connection". It was "a misplaced label made this specific wire fractions of a millimeter larger, which kept it from fully seating, which caused a loose connection".

And as a nice little bonus, a whole bunch of the people who were doing those investigations (and were good at them) left rather than take the reassignment. So, not only is HSI not doing those investigations, they've lost the *ability* to do them.

I'm choosing to believe these operation names are some poor enlisted's entirely intentional way of fucking with him.

And it's down!!!! Congratulations @tracketpacer.bsky.social and all the Blue Origin team!!!