RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/115936072841429311 this reinforces my point, that what trump's government does is that it started to distribute the totalitarian practices more evenly through the population. this may be a qualitative change in itself, mind, but there are people in the […]

20 minutes into this fucking lunacy and I swear, Zeus as my witness, there has not been a single coherent thought expressed. I might as well be listening to ChatGPT.

My slop-poisoned CEO is forcing me to listen to that fucking Nadella Davos AI video...and I have never heard such an utter spew of gibberish in my life. Not a single sentence has any actual meaning.

Trump out here literally assembling The Legion of Doom. https://apnews.com/article/mideast-wars-gaza-board-of-peace-trump-1-21-2026-2f0e063d03babbd3276f31289ba5f2a2

Another month, another few minutes marveling that my auto-loan servicer's website doesn't understand passkeys, if and only if I'm connected via VPN and IPv6 routing is enabled. Wild shit.

I really, really wish that panic-addicted Liberals and lefties would explain, in technical detail, how Trump “cancels the midterms" without declaring literal martial law, at which point elections are kind of our last concern.

RE: https://mastodon.online/@davidsirota/115894124924447128 For a second I read this as "The Fedi..." and boy howdy was I confused.

To be clear, I'm doing that because life is too short to fuss with this shit. "Darby, how do I do X?" <copies a function from my library> "Just tell it to do this, but in Node."

I love my new job role of writing functions in Python so that my vibe-coding boss can stick them into a Claude prompt.

RE: https://pony.social/@estrogenandspite/115879645049162392 I mean, I'm starting to think AM had a point.

HAHAHAHA. Someone, we literally don't know who, clicked upgrade on the shit-ass Drupal instance that runs our "Enterprise Learning Management Platform" and now we're hard down and waiting on a roll back so that we can manually re-create the last 12 hours of work.

My hipster opinion is that I opposed the creation of DHS (and by extension ICS)--based on "Homeland" alone--beach when they were created.

Worst. Drop cap. Ever.

Call your Senator today and get this stylish "Les Miserables" tote-bag.

Some random Masto leftie. "We need a General Strike" Immediate response from some rando Liberal: "We need a mass movement to call our Senators!" Me: "FFFFFfffuuuuuuuuuu..."

Man, watching some EU-based dipshits arguing that, "You can't say ACAB because *our* cops are good and perfect and it's only you Americans that have this problem" is some wild shit.

Our platform "product manager" just asked me for a screenshot of an error that is literally a blank html page with a single line of text. A line of text that is unchanging and has existed since the turd got dropped in my lap six years ago. If you were wondering how my day is going.

Gah, I'm running into a question where Stack Overflow would have been perfect back in the day, but now everything is a patchwork of scattered Discord guilds instead.

I’m getting a message from the future, John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness style. By the end of 2026 revalations will emerge that Apple is either a) selling user data or b) providing user data to the Trump regime. Or both, it can always be both.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/115883590486924609 No bones about it, Apple is a slop company now, all to chase some investor money.

Back in the good old days of South American Right Wing junta's we had a word, “Disappearing" as in making people disappear. Might want to work that one back into our vocabulary.

I had the sudden impulse to build an IoT enabled incense burner, and…I should probably go lie down for a bit.

One thing I love about the Ol' Fedi is that, instead of the Froodle community making some random chump the main character for dissing fan-favorite Loughy like we had back on Twitter we have a solid 2 weeks of people dragging the Firefox devs for being AI obsessed dipshits.

Like, to take nothing away from Renee Nicole Good, and fuck it, I'll take what I can get; but watching Liberal honkies go all “Man the Barricades!!" right now is fucking taxing. “This is the Rubicon!" My good cracker, we crossed the Rubicon years ago.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@lowqualityfacts/115871033672094574 MiB 3 Was really a mindfuck.

"The legal team said they submitted her US birth certificate along with additional documents they say establish her citizenship – but those materials were still insufficient to secure her release from ICE custody." 25 days. TWENTY-FIVE DAYS they kept this woman after kidnapping her.

There are, some very fucking weird people on this here ol' Fediverse. Just absolute fucking nutters.

https://daringfireball.net/2026/01/fuck_you_make_me_without_saying_the_words This is one of the stupidest, most craven, fucking Apple-pilled takes I’ve ever seen...and we're talking Gruber, so that's a high bar to clear. To absolve Google and Apple of HOSTING A FUCKING CSAM/NON-CONSENTUAL PORN […]

It never ceases to amuse me that the html-encoded form of “&" contains an actual “&”. And by “amuse" I mean "annoy the fuck out of me when one of my tools fails I end up with a video title with something like “CCNA Routing & Switching" Like, common, it's right there!

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mhoye/115225388080683402 I wish there was a way I could boost this a thousand times.

RE: https://me.dm/@anildash/115866075845121862 Lotta ahistorical nonsense in here, but the tech circle-jerk rolls on.

Every Victorian Recipe: A simple recipe that saves much time: Make the roast tilly in the usual manner at least one hale tun. Pat it all round and add some scrups of mace and no more of the crying match girl's dust than needed. Wrap in sensible cloth and let it laze on the hop bunting for a […]

RE: https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/115855675741407781 So, opinions on whether Apple should be working with OpenAI at all aside, it's nice to see that, decades in, 9to5Mac's shitty reporting remains shitty. A quick read of the headline and article absolutely makes it sound like this is a […]

Any Democrat running for any office higher than dog-catcher who isn't running on "Abolish ICE" isn't worth my spit.

The Mitchell and Web "Are we the baddies?" sketch meme but combined with the astronaut "Always have been" meme.

I don't do the "Steve would…” thing; but the reality is that Apple has reverted to the state it was in before Steve came back. They're a chump company run by tasteless chump-ass mofos. https://mastodon.online/@nikitonsky/115842181787810835

“If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots” - <citation needed> https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jdfwnosj5tavojrkinbcor6h/post/3mbpdasbsic26

For the love of all that's holy, Liberals fucking stop with the idiotic “Herp, derp, invading a sovereign nation and abducting its leader was just a distraction from Epstein.” bullshit. You fucking mooks are an embarrassment.

Any theoretical “consequences" that come out of all this bullshit absolutely need to contend with the extent to which the corporate media machine has been utterly complicit in this fascist State. https://mas.to/@truthout_rss_bot/115844265841018010

"This is unprecedented!" I mean, the latest precedent was March 2003, but whatever, enjoy that goldfish lifestyle.

I think people should self host should try not to see ‘family members not wanting to use your service’ as ‘stupid’ and more Switching costs are hard It’s really hard to change consumer behavior Even if your solution is better This is the no 1 thing that people who have never worked on the […]

so if you feel it's fine to play a potterverse game because you don't care what jkr is doing now, only how nice it would be to get some warm feeling of your childhood back, sure, go do it. but also, fuck off, and we end our acquaintance right now.

Microsoft is really giving Apple a run for their money when it comes to one-word generic product names.

This nonsense is why I get annoyed at the “We can fix Capitalism/Fascism by just switching to Linux/Alternate Browsers/VPNs, etc" crowd. I’m a certified computer diddler and this shit fucks me up. Imagine some poor rando whose family “helpfully" set them up this way. Hate Apple all you want […]

Surfacing this from within a thread for better visibility. One of the sites that has been giving me pains with passkeys is apparently down to them doing something with IPv6, which Mullvad VPN and Firefox in combination are not happy with. So, something to keep in mind if you're troubleshooting.

Don't know if I should blame Apple or CVS for the fact that my prescription refill notifications have been buried in Messages spam folder, so I'll just blame Capitalism with a side of opprobrium for our shitty healthcare system.

I see my auto-loan servicer’s website has yet again forgotten that I have a perfectly usable passkey for it stored in Bitwarden. Obviously this is a punishment inflicted upon me for not being sufficiently deferential to the goodness that is passkeys. Just a password zealot am I.

The idea that Trump supporters can be shamed baffles me. Like, his whole schtick is part of the appeal.

I sort of get the why of it; but the fact that pretty much all of the useful features of Apple's Reminders app only work with iCloud reminders is annoying (and don't get me started on how buried even the *option* of using non-iCloud todos/tasks/whatever in Reminders is in the first place).

I hear-by propose that all televised political debates be conducted with the participants doped to the gills on sodium thiopental. At best we'll get an accurate assessment of their views, and at worst it will be hilarious.