Bought a little present for my son. He'll get it for Christmas and I believe he'll be delighted. #pokemon

Nothing says "this is a healthy company working in a healthy sector" than having to publicly deny that you're looking for a bailout. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-openai-might-not-want-to-go-public-110017536.html

The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels." https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/11/06/chinas-clean-energy-revolution-will-reshape-markets-and-politics

Yesterday I used Android accessibility settings to disable animations and wow, best improvement ever. Everything is now super-snappy and battery life improved a lot, plus I don't get stupid mis-taps if I move my fingers too fast.

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

„Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – or $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show. A cache of previously unreported documents reviewed by Reuters also shows that the […]

@gabrielesvelto I have advocated for the purchase of last gen enterprise hardware for many, many years. Aside from the solid hardware that is far more durable and reliable, the base Windows install (if that's your thing) is bloat-free. And if that's not good enough a starting point, I then hook […]

Oh yeah, I wonder why, why would they do that?

Has anybody else noticed a visible delay when launching apps from the Windows start menu in Windows 11? At first I thought it was a problem with one particular app, but then I noticed across several. It seems like the menu registers the button press but then takes a while to respond. It seems to […]

It pairs well with something that I think it was @ceejbot said at one point "the job of the senior engineer is to bring clarity" So often in tech work we end up in a field of ambiguous possibilities, and people usually default to throwing habits and opinions out. But it turns out, in a great […]

Well, this is a nice thing to wake up to. You can change the icon for Firefox Nightly:

A friend needed a new laptop and was about to buy some consumer-grade garbage for ~500-600€. Fortunately he asked me before committing to it, and we found a second-hand AMD-based Thinkpad T14 for 300€. It's stupidly powerful for what he does, has much better connectivity and a much sturdier case […]

i have understood for over a decade now that community led open source isn't a _development_ strategy or _maintenance_ strategy. it is a survival strategy in an adversarial environment dominated by capital. this is why, in long term, it is superior to any other type of software/hardware development

Heel goed https://www.dutchnews.nl/2025/11/more-women-win-seats-in-parliament-thanks-to-tactical-voting/

The final section, called "The Chance of the Alternatives" is rousing: 1. The task of thinking people is not to leave an unfree world as it is. 2. We can improve things when we recognize the contradictions we live with. 3. Technology won't save us. 4. Art is a bastion of hope. It keeps […]

After "May I Ask for One Final Thing?" we now have a second anime about a girl punching people left and right: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2025-11-03/mayo-momoyo-always-a-catch-light-novels-get-tv-anime-in-spring-2026/.230591 I'm happy to report that **battle shojo** is finally a […]

LMAO, I've run into this issue quite often and I often thought that maybe it was me, I had hit the wrong button. But no, it wasn't me, it was Windows. This is another tell of the overall quality of the software and hardware industries. It's going down and it keeps going down. How else would you […]

It’s Sunday afternoon! Time for some pen and paper #ose #dnd #rpg

We keep seeing startups who want to replace something valuable (therapy, counseling, tutoring, artistic expression) with some tech bullshit under the banner of democratization. But why do we need to invest so much in bad tech that doesn't work instead of just giving people access to what they […]

> To be clear, everybody is losing money on AI. Every single startup, every single hyperscaler, everybody who isn’t selling GPUs or servers with GPUs inside them is losing money on AI. No matter how many headlines or analyst emissions you consume, the reality is that big tech has sunk over half […]

Cyclist falls down 130-foot ravine in France, survives 3 days by drinking wine he had in shopping bag Updated on: October 31, 2025 / 6:45 AM EDT / CBS/AFP A French cyclist survived for three days after a horrendous 130-foot fall into a ravine, kept alive by the bottles of red wine he had in […]

I spent the last two weeks grappling with Windows asynchronous I/O and I have formed some very strong opinions about it. I will refrain from sharing them because we're all being very polite in here and I don't want to ruin the mood.

just wanna add that I've been trying to cover political topics through the lens of anime/manga (especially shoujo) since I started my channel!!

Windows is chock full of magic values and constants, most of which only appear in the Windows SDK headers and are not documented. So if you find yourself lost The Magic Number Database is a page that lets you look them up by name and value in various formats. It's an excellent resource […]

There's only three ways I have to listen to music these days: an independent local web radio, albums I buy off of Bandcamp and ripped CDs which I had either bought decades ago, recently bought second-hand on eBay or borrowed from a public library.

Has anyone tried Internxt cloud storage? The prices of their lifetime plans are intriguing, especially given they can be used for the usual backup stuff but also mounted as WebDAV shares.

NEW VIDEO OUT NOW time to hop into the discourse youtu.be/cR8dpBTNpRo

This is a very good idea. We've been detecting memory issues within Firefox crash reports for a few years now because they're so common, and this year we've rolled out a memory checker in the crash reporter. But there's only so much that can be done in userspace, the OS is a much better place to […]

Hokuto no Ken had this peculiar property of mixing turbo-testosterone-violence-comes-first masculinity with the complete opposite of it: from realizing the consequences of violence, to being very visibly emotional about it... to doing household chores because why not […] [Original post on mas.to]

The Mozilla marketing team probably https://mastodon.social/@dirtypair/115441908309220131

Dreadful #Scotland #Kilt #tartan

I've spent the entire day doing household chores and I'm exhausted. No wonder men have been dodging this stuff for centuries, it's an egregious case of generational slacking. No more, fellow dudes, we have zero excuses. Cleaning, tidying, cooking and tending to the kids is our job too (and […]

So about the still-ongoing Framework community management incident, > Harassment or threats: Any comments, posts, or replies that attack, demean, or intimidate an individual or group (e.g., homophobic slurs, anti-trans sentiment, calling other users “Nazis” or “fascists”, etc). Who tf said […]

This is neat! This is basically pumped-storage hydroelectricity but using the difference in salt density between different layers of sea water instead of differences in height. https://sizableenergy.com/news/2l26pidy71-sizable-energy-raises-8-million-to-launc #renewableenergy

Morning art-stream results! Felt like doing some more #poly #yuri stuff. Getting better at drawing the scenery! Still terrible at drawing hands. #art #mastoart #lgbtq

"That's no ballroom"

Let's fire all the competent tech people we have, they said, we'll save money, they said. https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/10/jaguar-land-rover-struggling-8-weeks-after-most-expensive-uk-cyberattack/

Isn't it funny, in a sad kind of way, that techbros don't know shit about tech?

I've been on a boosting spree today, I know. Please bear with me, there's just too much good stuff not to share it.

TIL that the reason why several different Japanese sellers on eBay often have identical listings of the same object is because they're copying auctions off of Yahoo Japan. They obviously don't have the item in hand and will try to get it after you buy it from them, so you might not get what you […]

Lots of faces at #amiga40, old faces, new faces, some even transitioned... But not to the Atari 😜

Dale Luck, one of the engineers who designed the Amiga, let me touch the Lorraine, the first working prototype. I am a happy man. When I come down from nerd heaven I'll make an extensive thread about it, with plenty of pictures and loads of alt text for those who […] [Original post on mas.to]

Amiga 40 has been really cool until now but there's just one thing that bugged me, and it's not something specific, but something I saw in other retro scenes. The (fortunately not frequent) use of AI-generated images. Please, please, please don't do that. Finding one in this context feels like […]

Hacker gets annoyed at Amazon’s Kindle apps, reverse-engineers the Kindle web reader’s protocol (which basically sends each page as a set of glyphs in a deliberately broken variant of SVG). Such obscurity, much security. https://blog.pixelmelt.dev/kindle-web-drm/

I'm in Amiga paradise after so many years #Amiga40 #amiga

Map of the fediverse

Plug-in hybrids pollute almost as much as petrol cars 🫠 https://www.transportenvironment.org/share/plug-in-hybrids-pollute-almost-as-much-as-petrol-cars-eu-data/image/143008#143252

Just made my 29,000th answer to the #Mozilla Support Forum, 2003 of those have been made in the last 90 days. Plenty of amazing contributor Mozillians have done far more, but feeling a bit shocked right now as that was incredibly hard work. As much as 30k is a tempting goal, I have already done […]

Dominion Media Television dropped this absolute #StarTrek banger the other day and I couldn't not share it here.

This weekend I'll be at #amiga40 and from the looks of it half of fedi will be there too