The current @neverpo.st episode on DIYing your "cloud" is great. Not just cause it shows what is possible, that you actually can do a lot, but also the cost (financial and others). Because hosting things (especially for others) is and requires care work. Great interview.

People in/around Göttingen: I'm looking for a place to stay with 6-8 people, single-bedrooms/places to sleep, a room where all of us fit to work on a game together, more or less stable Internet connection. As cheap as possible for now, but we are looking for ways to get some money.

ME PRE TRANSITION: lava is so cool THE LADS: hehe yeah bro ME POST TRANSITION: lava is so cool THE LADS: aha easy mistake to make but actually it's very hot

It seems the most surprising thing in the P. Diddly documentation was the baby oil for a lot of people...

That book is Steve Bannon’s inspiration, a fascist novel. Just openly laughing at everyone they hate

Everyone in this household is sick, and we're spending the time bingeing trash. So far, we watched the first season of The Buccaneers, the Puff Daddy documentary and have started Love Is Blind Germany. Just to give you a measure of how bad things are...

FFXIV has a whole refugee crisis story arc where you go and ask for help from every major world government and they all tell you to pound salt, forcing you to start new organizations to support them. This is AFTER you've saved those government's nations, too.

Romantic scene in a movie. Two lovers' gazes meet as one of them says to the other: "You're not people..." Me, feeling very smart and funny: "That means she's not Soylent Green"

Holy fire from @damiengwalter.com about how the Singularity is just the Jackpot with a marketing gloss. Worth watching just to hear him use the word ἀγάπη to describe my favorite scene from one of my favorite films.

Chickens have quadrupled in size too... www.economist.com/internationa...

But if AI is so userful and everyone wants it, why does Microsoft have to cut its AI sales targets in half? Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas

At this point, Mark Zuckerberg is the exact opposite of Kassandra.

I only understood half of Gerald Undone's rant on #opengate, but man, was I laughing tears...

like i said months ago: reopen alcatraz and fill it with tech billionaires. they must be stopped.

We're trying to watch The Mighty Nein on Prime, and to be honest the amount of ads in a 45 minute episode are an absolute deal-breaker, considering I'm already paying for the streaming service.

If you're buying gifts for spirited 12 year olds who have read most of the middle grade graphic novel canon, can I recommend my book The Legend of Auntie Po? It's multi-awarded, and well reviewed, but hasn't entirely found its commercial footing. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/601780...

Da mach ich jetzt ein Fass auf, aber mir geht Wordpress seit Jahren auf die Nerven. Hasse die Block-Orientierung. Angenommen ich möchte ein übersichtliches Blog-CMS wie „Wordpress früher“. Alte Inhalte müssen unbedingt migrierbar sein. Gerne LAMP. Was möchte ich dann nehmen? Erstmal hypothetisch?

“In 1999, I interviewed Prince for TIME and he told me to leave my tape recorder off because he didn’t trust what future technology might do with unauthorized recordings of his voice. At the time, I thought Prince was being paranoid.” time.com/7338205/rage...

Every dollar JK Rowling makes from Harry Potter is going into bankrolling an extortion racket issuing legal threats to organizations across the UK to purge themselves of trans people or face ruinous lawfare.

Somehow the Stranger Things kids are older than I am now.

New speed run strat dropped: just tell an LLM powered game that you've finished it, and it will believe you

It's that time of year! @neverpo.st is having a MEMBERSHIP SALE. That's right! You can get our top two tiers for the price of our lowest, this month. "But Mike," you're asking, "don't the higher tiers get me ... exactly the same thing as the lower one?" YES! "This ... makes no sense." CORRECT!

Yes! Was able to snipe two tickets for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - A Painted Symphony in Berlin on the 19th of March! 💜

i quit using spotify years ago because i just thought the interface looked bad and some of you can't be bothered to switch to an alternative even knowing that they pay artists horribly and underwrite Joe Rogan and their head is an arms tech guy and they do shit like this?

gimme yule gimme fire don me now with gay attire

AD-ROCK: Yo Ebenezer you gotta show re- BEASTIES: MORSE AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of Beasties: COURSE MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy BEASTIES: MOOCHER MCA: We’re Christmas Past MIKE D: Christmas Present BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE

Out of the five TTRPG I really wanted to play in 2025 I managed to play three. That's not bad in my book. I also played some Shadowdark, Brindlewood Bay and of course D&D. Shout-out to @professional-sloth.bsky.social, @mitvorteil.bsky.social and all the other lovely folk who played games with me!

Hahaha, right?! Or what about mandatory disclosures for the discrepancy between the salaries of the CEO and their lowest paid worker? That would be so funny, right?! Let’s do it as a funny joke!!!

If you are upset about how other people are playing DnD now the solution is to not play DnD with them. Then the problem goes away.

"I was making 390k a year, here's how I saved 1.5 mio" is financial advice for who exactly? www.cnbc.com/2025/10/15/n...

Simone Giertz whispering “you’re going to help me win time back… from the algorithms” to a plant is the inspiration I needed today! 💜 youtu.be/0rXpncpkLcw...

“Wow this is the hardest escape room ever. I may never get out!” Me, still lying in bed scrolling on my phone.

“Wow this is the hardest escape room ever. I may never get out!” “Ma’am, this is a bookstore.”

Huh, looks like I should fucking swear more...

@dedalusroot.net has swears! They've used 79 profanities in their last 1,144 posts. 🥇 "damn" (19 times) 🥈 "shit" (14 times) 🥉 "ass" (9 times)

@profanity.accountant so, how bad is it?

Instead of GitHub, I'm considering using Codeberg, mainly because of its non-profit status & data privacy. I'm still relatively new to programming, so I don't have any experience to compare it to. I was wondering if anyone here already uses it? What are your experiences? Any preferences?

Shit flows downhill. When you're an executive, your outputs become someone else's problem. When you're doing the implementation, the gap in every half-assed idea and slipshod assumption becomes visible & it's your responsibility to fix it.

I think people really don't appreciate how remarkable it is that the games industry releases hundreds of video games every year when you consider that not one person on earth knows how to make a video game

Something similar happens in the software industry. A lot of engineers are being pressed by managers who generate a bunch of toy code using genAI over a couple of hours, then wonder aloud why the people who work for them are being so inefficient.

German friends: Where are you getting your custom stickers printed?

I totally see the value of AI in the workplace now. replaceyourboss.ai

Tim Sweeney says it makes no sense to disclose if a game uses Ai on the games store page because it will be used in nearly all products in the future. "Why stop at AI use? We could have mandatory disclosures for what shampoo brand the developer uses." www.eurogamer.net/epic-games-b...

Some moody early morning goodness. #berlin #photography #urbanLandscape

If you have something cool to say about CBR+PNK, *please* do it as a review on this page. That would help a lot fighting against a couple of misguided "reviews" the game has received. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...

Some moody early morning goodness. #berlin #photography #urbanLandscape

1/ Ich glaube, das wesentliche Problem von LLMs ist, dass versucht wird, sie in kybernetischen Kontexten einzusetzen, LLMs aber völlig unkybernetisch sind. Das muss ich erklären. Ein kybernetisches System dient der automatischen Steuerung. Primitives Beispiel ist immer die Heizungssteuerung:

Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

Warren Zevon's "Don't Let Us Get Sick" came on in a series we're currently watching, and man... I love that song. youtu.be/ELe4vC3oM5E?...

Some might say I compensate stress with food, I say I spatchcocked a chicken and roasted it with veggies, made a salad and whipped up a quick pan sauce for a simple weeknight dinner...