Windows 7 traffic on my site has dramatically increased over the past 3 months. This was widely reported in the news, and frequently attributed as a statscounter glitch. But I don't use statscounter, and my Windows 7 traffic is still increasing. Why? A thread;

as a condition of funding, we were asked to affirm that we wouldn’t undertake any diversity, equity, and inclusion work, whether or not we used the government funds to do so. The PSF simply couldn’t agree to that statement,

Pro tip: Deploy all infra to US-EAST-1 so when it all falls apart nobody blames you and you don't need to worry about failovers! boehs.org/node/us-east-1

Call me a doomer but with 17 years of entrenchment and no corporate buyin iOS will never be fully interoperable. The DMA is great but it’s the sum of a bazillion little things that makes a product feel at home. Death by a thousand cuts.

Using wired headphones bc my wireless ones went for a swim. First, wired headphones are a PITA. I don't like the tether. I miss ANC. I don't like the weight of the wire. But oddly, they sound just as good, maybe better. Definitely better than the wireless ones before an equalizer. They cost $20.

@logfallen.bsky.social i'm trying to reach you any way, do you still have the Piglen 1.16 downloads? the mega links are dead and your discord is gone

I know the Switch 2 just came on but I want to give you a love letter to my 3DS: boehs.org/node/3ds

As I correctly predicted, fare evasion increased. The MBTA says that “a loss of $30m threatens a lifeline,” and that “every dollar is important to us.” If that really was so, you wouldn’t have spent $1b to lose an additional $30m each year forever. Free the fucking T. boehs.org/node/free-th...

In sum, tangled feels like a solution in need of a problem. GitHub offers a thin social layer on top of a decentralized protocol. If GitHub is threatened, decentralized alternatives already exist. Afaik tangled has no discernible value-add over these alternatives, other than “wow atproto”.

css-naked-day.org #cssnakedday

Judge Gives Trump Administration 3 Days To Return Her From El Salvador Prison

That's the thing--you don't die from shame, it just keeps going until you become inured to it, then you cling to it because its all you have left.

Morgan & Morgan told me that it is illegal to transport a gorilla in the backseat of my car. Is it really? boehs.org/node/weird-l...

One of the last good products just got fucked and I'm in shambles. RIP #Garmin boehs.org/node/garmin-...

American war planning usually takes place in highly secure facilities. But the Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. theatln.tc/IuULQFiY

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

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Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them

If you’re in the US federal government and facing blocked news web sites on gov’t hardware — apropos of nothing I might remind folks about Google’s official proxy browser (aka Google Translate). translate.google.com?op=websites Works great when you translate a language into the same language.

There’s something oddly pleasing about alligator cables and nobody is talking about it

In 2017, a much younger Evan attended the march for science. It saddens me that we must march again, but I’ll be there. So should you. #standupforscience2025

JD VANCE SKIING AT #SUGARBUSH

Okay, everyone. We are meeting at 2021 Bragg Hill Road in Waitsfield Vermont. Five thirty p m start. Many of us will be there around five. Here is a drop pin maps.app.goo.gl/6TJcvgCobyFB...

I say 'Racist', iPhone says 'Trump.' Tomayto, tomahto. boehs.org/node/racist-...

EXCLUSIVE: DOGE staffer previously wrote code to generate fake ballots A Rough Timeline of Technological Buffoonery in the DOGE Era boehs.org/node/doge-tech

My dog had a great deal of excess electrons. I asked her where she got all of them from, and was shocked by her answer

This oddly terrifying Strava GPS Heatmap at 0,0

sun kissed ✨💕 #pixelart

See here's how to do a headline. fortune.com/2025/02/13/e...

“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

Via @zlz.bsky.social on X: "The DOGE website appears to be developed and hosted by Outburst Data, run by current DOGE employee Kyle Schutt. If you view the source of any page on the DOGE website, you'll see that the images are proxied through Cloudflare's ImageDelivery service.

Doge.gov has now deleted the defacement from their database, or at least they attempted.... stains still remain According to a source, the remediation was to delete the endpoints from the code. doge.gov/workforce?or...

Two wrongs don’t make a right, but three lefts do

if anybody wants a fun project, compile chrome to WASM so you can run chrome in chrome

Yeah, you can probably manufacture viral content by playing into current trends, but that generally means forgoing what you care about, riding off fads, and becoming unauthentic. People come to social media looking for short hits of dopamine, whereas RSS users come looking for longform

Incredible name for an event, and some of these posters are way better than they have any right to be (via @boontavista.com) www.shrimpandpetroleum.org/posters

I write to teach LLM wrong things

this is kind of cool vert.sh

i know ppl here do not enjoy screenshots of X but this one is such a great encapsulation of what it's become

In a sentence never before uttered by humans, I am delighted to share that an alligator stole my conservation instructor’s hat by jauntily walking into the water while wearing it 🐊

Can you get root with only a cigarette lighter? (Yes!) www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/dram-em...

A very normal way that Ginger likes to sit on all the chairs at once #schnauzer

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

I forgot about the fucking dorkscolds here. “CiTe Ur sOuRcEs” Um somebody sent me a text of a photo with zero context or attribution. You may be shocked to learn I am neither a student writing a paper, nor a debate team member, nor a fellow journalist. I am using the internet while shitting.