"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens https://xeiaso.net/shitposts/no-way-to-prevent-this/CVE-2026-45584/

metroidvanias, megalovanias, pennsylvanias. are there any other vanias we should know about

Way more niche but I think percentages should only be described in terms of operations closed over [0, 1]. It's just intuitive! "20% to 40% is 2x more" no!!! "80% to 60% is .75x decrease" yes!!!

I am a prescriptivist for the word "exponentially". It has specific useful meaning! You can't say A is exponentially more than B when they're fixed values. It refers to a relationship between two quantities!! It's okay if it's an implied quantitative measure over a qualitative measure, but cmon

how long of a skeet are you allowed to even make

I'll stop jujutsu posting for now. I'm not trying to denigrate the project, I'm happy it exists. But this is too much pain for the simplest git use case. Frustrating to lose an afternoon mucking around with VCS instead mucking around in my project.

# Install and configure Jujutsu cargo install --locked --bin jj jj-cli jj config set --user user.name "change_me" jj config set --user user.email "[email protected]" jj config set --user ui.editor hx

Using Jujutsu and I don't like it. - No offline docs, man page - Name "jujutsu" is already taken, makes internet search hard - Official tutorials are incomplete, links out - Too many symbols to memorize (@○◆~) - Syntax highlighting on everything hard to read, means nothing differentiated by color

Look: Even as someone who believes a computer could be sentient, neural networks aren't. People are tricking themselves because LLMs generate text. Generating natural language wouldn't be a prereq for sentience. If any NNs were sentient, it'd be those stock trading models way before LLMs.

I love when grocery stores have those awful spring-loaded product shelves, so reading the nutrition label and putting it back means destroying it to put it back. Especially cool when it's set up for bread in plastic or paper bags.

2024: xz backdoor uncovered before it provided root access to the world because an attentive engineer noticed a short delay in SSH connection and decided to dig deeper 2026: if you even read the code you're about to commit, you will be fired on the spot

Patreon, Steam, Itch, and now Kickstarter ban NSFW content, looping up queer content in many cases. This is because far-right groups pressured payment processors, who threatened to leave these platforms. This ramped up in 2018 with SESTA/FOSTA and has been getting worse since.

Why do all the entries in this wave of AI generated personal sites copy oxide.computer? I liked the aesthetic (black background, flat color accent with high contrast colorful text and borders), and hey at least a lot of it is frameworkless. But these all seemed to appear out of nowhere?

macOS software update Terms of Service freezes if you use the scrollbar to read more. Horrible QA on Apple's part

2008, under Bush, Acosta gets Epstein an illegal, secret, lenient plea deal. 2017, Trump takes Acosta into his admin. 2019, Epstein "kills himself". 2025, Trump gives Maxwell a lenient sentence, DOJ evidence implicating Trump. MAGAs vote Trump because he protects pedos, it's not a secret.

I can't stop thinking about this video since I saw it last night

Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit https://xeiaso.net/blog/2026/abstain-from-install/

Mina the Hollower has officially gone GOLD! The game is complete and has begun the submissions process with our first-party partners. We’ll know the final release date soon and as soon as we can share it, you’ll know it. Thank you for sticking with us. We can’t wait for you to play!

science.nasa.gov/3d-resources... NASA provides free 3D resources, and even has two Blender tutorials, one of which provides the secret best way to make a sphere (from a cube)

as a software user, i want no telemetry what so ever as a software developer, i'd love a screen recording, webcam recording, log files, root access to your machine, and a time series of your heart rate

apps.npr.org/gaza-buildin... Israel bombs an apartment, murdering 132 people in your extended family. After 18 months, you finally get permission to perform the grim task of digging through rubble and decayed corpses to try and identify murdered loved ones by glasses, hair, clothes.

It's taken ~5 years but Brave browser is the first browser to come up w/ a solution to prevent device fingerprinting being done by y2u[.]be on their YouTube spam campaigns. It's a subtle fix but the browser now takes their URls and rewrites to youtube directly. issue @ github.com/brave/brave-...

Got a new shirt @ ozcon

extremely good things happening in America right now www.404media.co/did-a-time-t...

Vague posting is going to make the work of future historians so very difficult indeed.

Cole Allen sent a manifesto shortly before the attack, writing: I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.

Shots fired at the Whitehouse Correspondents Dinner, holy shit?

discord.gg/hyxvyNxYJq It's early, but Demake86 has a Discord server now, anticipating we might have nearly DOZEN of members who want to discuss the game, or otherwise hang out. Link will rotate out over time, a fresh link will remain available on the site linked in bio :^)

pete hegseth is so bad at his job that we're like one tick away from the gray zone being like "actually, pete hegseth is good, because he effectively stands against american imperialism"

*while proposing to the love of my life* …And so a lot of the most often-repeated critiques of the Soviet system today actually began as literal Nazi propaganda! It’s wild, I’ll have to share some links with you because it is, like, completely bonkers. But I’m getting off-topic…

Hey to my friends, go follow my art / gamedev BlueSky! I've been working on this for awhile and I really can't wait to be able to share it.

Vercel got pwned, so here is another prompt to stop using them. Entirely unrelated, but here is a picture of Vercel's CEO with Netanyahu, the man responsible for the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

sometimes I feel like I've experienced all the different kinds of posting that the world had to offer, but then I read something unknown and wonderful. I feel uplifted

- 8x8 pixels per tile, 8x8 tiles per room, 8x8 rooms in the labyrinth! - can you beat it in 86 seconds? - free, play in browser, open source on release - no AI "Legally Distinct Action-Adventure Platforming Game set on a METEOROID", or #Demake86, releases Aug 6th !! #gamedev #metroidvania

samus is trans, not because of lore reasons, but because girls in their 20s say so and sakamoto has like two more decades on this earth, maybe three

We have trained people to associate digital formats with being exploited.

Some FamiCube concepts from a while back.

kinda wild how voice assistants were so bad for so long it collectively lowered people's expectations of software that "works" enough to prepare the soil for an incredibly inconsistent but sometimes useful new technology to gain enough adoption to get good

so many critters

An extremely bad OS-level age verification bill. This is *not* like the CA and CO age bills, which I thought were a good idea. (blog.giovanh.com/blog/2026/03...) It's the worst of both worlds, requiring all users not just attest but PROVE their identity *and* requiring every OS to enforce this.

www.lyft.com/terms Lyft's Terms of Service has something going on that breaks CTRL+F search when JavaScript is enabled. Crazy bullshit

One of my favorite memes is when Richi Phelps translated the Navy Seal copypasta and became a meme himself, with people thinking he was just posting that as an earnest threat

gender dysphoria has social, psychological, and neurobiological components. not every trans person experiences dysphoria along all of these axes. but before transitioning, I did along all three, for over a decade. even if the first disappeared in a "utopian" society, the latter two would still exist

We've had fuzzing for decades and NNs for it for a decade. We've also had impunity-by-default for catastrophic security breaches. The general public doesn't appreciate the degree to which the world is replete with low-hanging vulnerability fruit!

first impressions of the Lego smart brick, before I do any actual tearing down: wow, I forgot how good they are at working with plastic. the injecton molding remains impeccable, at least for this specific piece (I know about their recent QC issues elsewhere)

Why do kids use Discord and not IRC? Don't they know IRC is just as good? *If you don't need images, videos, emojis, reactions, threads, profiles, avatars, voice, video. Just choose a client (but not that one), self host a bouncer (and not that one), and memorize all these fucking / commands,

amazing scientists push the brink of human exploration as we know it and it's a sidepiece to Swalwell. c'mon, man

I can finally exhale whew

Something you might find very funny coming from the AI world is that FP4 is a real datatype they're using. Admittedly it works! But also lol