for some reason the old laptop someone gave me has a hard drive holder that does not want to actually lock into the slot and just springs right back out when I insert it ...horrifyingly, my solution to this problem was to set it off to the side and insert the ssd directly with nothing covering […]

I find it strange people use the line "AI is here to stay" as a reason for adopting it. Air pollution is here to stay too, but that doesn't mean I'm going to swap out my bicycle for a diesel-powered truck. Switching, in both scenarios, would have three effects: 1. Make the environmental […]

You know, I was going to let this domain expire... https://istheinternetonfire.com/ Originally set up for Heartbleed in 2014; hadn't remembered to update it since the CrowdStrike incident two years ago. I guess I'll just set it to a permanent "yes" going forward. #copyfail #dirtyfrag

RE: https://indieweb.social/@web3isgreat/116533818918607126 what the hell is this timeline

There are two kinds of people in the world. One says, “I went through something hard, so I’m going to make sure no one else has to go through that.” The other says, “I went through something hard, so everyone else should have to go through it too.” #sensemaking

I had a dream that I invented a wearable fungus clothing line At first, I wasn't sure it would be practical or comfortable, but it's growing on me

Spent the day talking to university students about open hardware. There are so so many hurdles we need to overcome to make this space more approachable.

Has it really already been a year???

“Don’t rely on responses from Gemini Apps for diagnosis, treatment, or medical, legal, financial, or other professional advice. Its output is for informational purposes only.” motherfucker what do you think “information” is

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116517079196754450 unfortunately yes

Just finished talking to a class of 30 students at TU Berlin about Open Source Hardware and my work at #mnt! Was a trippy experience trying to describe this whole world of alternative tech to a group of people who had just tried `git` for the first time mere minutes earlier.

Okay I NEED the original source from this one, way too good.

kiki and xenia :3

Current global top score I just set for #coldwarhotburger (version 0.0.1): Time: 25:48 Score: 2091 Wave: 38

RE: https://join.piefed.social/2026/05/04/ai-assisted-moderation-in-the-fediverse-is-happening-now-what/ Any instance using LLMs for moderation should be blocked in my opinion. It not only demonstrates an unwillingness to effectively moderate, but also ends up being easily abusable.

I made a game parodying McCarthyism. https://coldwarhotburger.hexaheximal.com

in case I forget: raylib commit 05c15c8ba775d2e05ddbe6ef4b248d6f2bfd3ace

First time seeing a “NO META GLASSES” sign in the door of a shop! I’m not surprised… and I expect we might see more of these kind of things in the years ahead. #meta #metaglasses #ar #privacy #surveillance #vermont

attempted pixel art and did better than I expected somehow

making a game parodying mccarthyism - more info coming soon :)

Can web developers stop fucking with scroll bars please? No website is so beautiful that is justifies losing the ability to see how far the page scrolls down. I don't give two shits about your design vision.

it's hilarious to me that ask.com and excite.com are just github pages now

"Wait this APK has no classes.dex inside of it" "It's one of those fancy AI apps, it vibe codes itself anew on each startup based on a prompt in res/prompt/"

honestly I wish I had a pencil and notebook ready at all times

I love bullying microorganisms into giving me food (making bread)

Notice how they don't mention at all that there are now AI code contributions to blender too. This is PR. Not an actually genuine response. https://www.blender.org/news/upcoming-blender-development-fund-and-ai-policies/ #Blender #FOSS #FLOSS #Linux

Tmobile wants a fiber network service like verizon apparently. https://www.fierce-network.com/broadband/t-mobile-invests-27b-more-fiber-acquisitions

Does #copyfail open any interesting doors for hacking (and upgrading/re-using) old locked down hardware? I'm initially thinking about old routers which couldn't previously have #openwrt installed on them 🤔 (I'm very much beyond my knowledge area, please inform/correct me) #permacomputing […]

RE: https://furry.engineer/@charcole/116494069884942140 what's echo scheming up this time...

The Zig project's rationale for their blanket ban on AI-assisted contributions makes a lot of sense to me - for them, time spent reviewing PRs isn't about the code, it's about growing new contributors for the future of the project https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/30/zig-anti-ai/

Google's 'advanced flow' for sideloading is a deterrence mechanism, not an escape hatch. 9 steps and a 24-hour wait for software you own? No thanks. @keepandroidopen #KeepAndroidOpen https://keepandroidopen.org

RE: https://martianbase.net/@mackuba/116489954707134774 how the hell has this been sitting in the open this whole time

RE: https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/116489950026041377 Any company that's "proudly" working with the US military in 2026 is also "proud" to be building the fascist hellscape we are continuously heading into.

new blog post! https://lina.sh/blog/ddos-honeypot i stumbled across a secret fake DDoS-as-a-Service website ran by the dutch police, and when i started digging into it, they panicked and shut it down really funny story, if anyone is interested how such a fake website looks like, take a read ^^

Your phone is about to stop being yours. https://keepandroidopen.org/en/ 125 days until lockdown Starting September 2026, a silent update, nonconsensually pushed by Google, will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with Google, signed their contract, paid up, and handed […]

btw shout out to @RiptideAtlantic for asking me for the name of the author when quoting my own writing 😭

you will not lose your job because an AI will replace you. you *will* lose your job because the white-collar criminals driving AI's fraudulent circular financing are going to cause a global financial crisis when the bubble pops though

He has that MrBeast smile now . You can tell all the good has left his body & he’s just running on pure evil

Now I'm learning about the lesson that users have learned from yes/no "consent" modals is that they just always have to say "yes" or the computer will deny them critical access to functionality that they need in order to perform their desired task, complete assigned work from an employer or […]

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Time to update the guidance from IBM: A manager can never be held accountable. Therefore a manager must never make a computing decision.

It's not suspicious at all that #gmail is marking as spam the notifications people were sent about a class action settlement for which #google is the defendant and liable to pay out proceeds. One would have thought the plaintiffs' lawyers would have included as a condition of the settlement […]

RE: https://vmst.io/@jalefkowit/116478297177233678 Friends don't let friends use GoDaddy. You shouldn't let your enemies use GoDaddy either. It's that bad

A wee history lesson

I know you kids these days like your neural networks *sits backwards on a chair* how about you open a book and train the original neural network :neodog_book:

What fediverse client are people using nowadays on iOS? Currently still using Ivory, but not sure I have the spending to keep paying for it :(

I updated my fortune cookie to be accurate.

I propose calling bluesky the butterflysite the same way we call twitter the birdsite.

at a job interview "whats your biggest weakness?" "understanding the semantics of a question but ignoring the pragmatics" "could you give an me an example?" "yes i could"

Here's what I've been working on this week: a Discord RPC server clone! While I was planning and working on a revival of XMPP's User Gaming XEP, the problem I've encountered while doing so was that there would be very little adoption by programs due to its […] [Original post on wetdry.world]