[Ranting about Apple] The more I use iOS 26, the more I think voiceover is essentially broken and cannot be repaired. Focus is utterly atrocious. Multiple times, I close an app, or open another app, only for voiceover to continue to read the previous app as if it were still up on the screen […]

Remember kids: "Passive income" is a term used to describe wealth handed out to people by society, through our economic system, without doing any work. Many people receiving a "passive income" are intergenerationally wealthy, as opposed to the working class and long-term unemployed people who […]

While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #unix v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973 Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum #retrocomputing

Listening in to a meeting of radio astronomers: direct-to-cell satellites are SO BRIGHT that even though they're following the rules and broadcasting in their allocated bands, they destroy astronomical observations across a huge swath of frequencies. Radio telescopes were designed to operate in […]

@benpocalypse relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1988/

So far pt isn't helping with the pain I went in for but it *is* helping with a pain I was happily ignoring so I guess that's nice?

"python is the JavaScript of programming languages" * offended * agreeing * confused * giggling(meanly) * offended(again) * confused (again)

This should settle it: according to the creator of the image format, the 'G' in PNG is pronounced 'J'

I've been walking around Disneyland all day with this shirt. Nothing I've worn before has ever gotten me more compliments, positive comments, fist bumps and high fives.

This weekend, the International Space Station marks a quarter-century of continuous occupancy. "By NASA’s count, 290 people from 26 countries have visited the space station. Seven are up there right now, representing the U.S., Russia and Japan." […]

As Amber Ruffin said, Chuck Schumer has reanimated his corpse. https://youtube.com/shorts/LkT-cuIot34

If I thought he were literate, I would consider a man throwing a #greatgatsby party at his mansion headlined “A Little Party Never Killed Nobody” to be an obvious cry for help. Who, having read the book, would want to be Jay #gatsby, in life or in death?

#til about Simplified Technical English. https://www.asd-ste100.org How in 15 years in Software have I not encountered this concept?

#bovino carries out #halloween #arrests. 'They showed up here to terrorize people,' alder says The agents swept through the #chicago Albany Park & Edison Park neighborhoods, & suburban #evanston, #skokie & #niles Friday morning & afternoon after dog killer] #dhs Secy #kristinoem said […]

In case you’re wondering how the corporate recommendation algorithm game is going, YouTube’s has begun recommending people to me who used to be into Joe Rogan back when he was fine, actually, and people who are interested in hearing Candace Owens out on her latest PragerU video.

The #seattle parents shepherding their trick-or-treaters in this downpour deserve a medal, but all I got for you is candy and turkey meat sticks to keep you going. 🫡

At the grocery store, anyone need a toy car with shit on it

The list of types of people who get sent to camps, in the new Trump-branded US, continues to expand. The list is not done expanding.

3. Utter Horror!

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Wired: No, SNAP Benefits Aren’t Mostly Used by Immigrants SNAP benefits are set to run out on Saturday. Far-right influencers and extremists are incorrectly claiming that immigrants are the main recipients of food stamps. "...A number of conspiracy theorists and […] [Original post on ai6yr.org]

What does it mean when the fortune cookie packet is completely sealed but there is no cookie inside?

"You really want your tax dollars going to feed poor people?!" Yes. Take more. Take more of my money and give it to poor people. I'd rather help them eat than pay for another goddamn aircraft carrier or some shit.

‘Much like observing a dog and wondering “What’s going through its mind right now?”, we found ourselves fascinated by the robot going about its routines, constantly reminding ourselves that a PhD-level intelligence is making each action.’ I had this experience when I was 13 and built a Lego […]

oh dang something _big_ just fell down outside #boom #northshore #wawx #windstorm

In August, the #Trump admin sent #ucla a 27-page list of demands and settlement proposal, which UCLA wanted to keep confidential during its deliberations and negotiations. The UCLA Faculty Association sued to compel its disclosure, and the California Supreme Court just decided in favor of the […]

Just texted my partner "There are CHICKS in the CEILING" and I will just leave this here as a teaser for a future hilarious post.

it's hard to imagine seeing the current software ecosystem and wanting "more, faster" rather than "less, better"

“Liberation Day” liberated Americans from their hard-earned money What a joke that was

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if you see a beast trying to crawl onto land push it back with spears. Or you might have to pay even more taxes next year!

2023: Gov. Bill Lee (R-TN) signs record tax break for corporations 2024: Lee signs new record tax giveaway for corporations ($2B; most went out of state) 2025, Jan: Lee signs $1.1B voucher handout to private school parents 2025, Oct: Lee says state can’t afford to feed kids #BillLee […]

My salary is "frozen" again & I can't get research funding. We laid off most of our staff. My brother lost his government job. My disabled mom's health insurance is about to go up 10x. My neighbors' houses are all for sale. The middle class is deep underwater and this billionaire MF keeps […]

"The White House account has drawn only around 12,000 followers. More than 100,000 users have the account blocked."

That thing you just posted. Is it true? How do you know it is true? If it were actually false, what steps would you have to take to realize you were wrong? Did you try those steps before you posted?

taken at the FDR Memorial in DC, a few days ago. #nokings

English personal pronouns are significantly more complicated than I had thought. https://youtu.be/PEw-J-_8WGw My favorite point bro makes: singular “they” is 700 years old, and came from Old Norse. English really is five languages in a trench coat. #english

I would advise caution with believing and spreading any claims about people being shadow banned on whatever website. While shadow banning is a real thing and it has occasionally been misused, most claims boil down to “I got less engagement than I expected on a post about a sensitive topic.” […]

The costs to ecology: These are too numerous to even try to list. All life on Earth – including humans, migrating birds, pollinating insects, plankton in the oceans – depends on the natural day-night cycle of light and darkness. Many hundreds of scientific studies document the importance to […]

The media coverage of BUR Tower being understaffed hits pretty strange for me. Flying commercial into an untowered airport or even calling an 800 number to pick up your departure clearance isn’t weird *at all*. I’ve landed at PAE behind a Horizon flight after tower operating hours. It’s only […]

Whenever I interact with AI or watch a video about it or read about how people are using it, I am reminded about the spünz and broccli. https://hachyderm.io/@mmcknett/113487815571901005

What happens when you combine pasta and antipasta?

When they send me to the gulag it will be for thinking that Democrats aren’t really terrorists, actually. #uspol

idk if this is a bug or not but on iOS 26 you can fling around and rotate the safari details sheet

The crime wave Stephen Miller is wailing about is coming from inside the [White] House www.youtube.com/watch?v=rten...

« C'est un biais complet pour que nos démocraties aillent aux extrêmes, pour que le bruit & la fureur l'emportent sur l'argument raisonné, pour que rapidement, la musique disparaisse pour laisser place aux cris, & dont les algorithmes sont faits pour favoriser l'excitation cognitive, la […]

KOIN TV - A judge has granted a temporary restraining order, preventing deployment of federal troops to Portland, Oregon. https://www.koin.com/news/portland/us-district-judge-ruling-oregon-v-trump-national-guard-10042025/

Thinking about #terrorists, #terrorism, and the “enemy from within”. “Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism “Governments accused of state terrorism may justify these […]

At the request of DoJ, Apple has removed apps that allow people to alert others nearby about sightings of ICE agents in their area. https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/03/tech/iceblock-apple-removed-trump

Whelp back I go down into the IPv6 mines wish me luck (I need to get Cilium/Talos running in dual stack before I get these remote nodes working) The nodes are getting ipv6 addresses but it isn't propagating into k8s/Cilium for some reason... #selfhosted #homelab #ipv6 #networking #talos […]