How can you make sure that your USB SSD backup is intact after messing with hardware settings? Well, if you do ZFS backups, then you just plug the drive into the fastest port and scrub all that 4 TB of data in 1.5 hours.

This is marvelous. > Writing an NES emulator in Haskell arthi-chaud.github.io/posts/funes/

Amazing

Since Firefox has sold out to AI, and keeps accidentally deleting my data, I use LibreWolf now, a de-enshittified version of Firefox. So far it works well.

Why we need to tax the super rich more. Their wealth is growing MUCH faster than everyone else's. And they're using it to outbid you for real resources: housing, assets, healthcare, education and everything else of real value.

It was never about the art, it was always about control. I worked in advertising bringing in clients for years, and most of the times the client wants to feel "in control", as if they had some say in it. With AI, they can pretend like they did the whole thing

Every facet of generative AI has made my professional life worse, without question, but THIS specific aspect has been driving me NUTS. Clients, who have made me toil for weeks over indescribably small details, are now approving & producing in-house commercial artwork that looks like a fever dream.

I saw someone recently calling it degenerative AI, and I think we all need to adopt that 😂

We #adhd folks should start calling all the useless knowledge we gathered while avoiding other work and/or while in hyperfocus „collateral knowledge“

James Dyson owns more UK land than the actual KING. But he pays an effective tax rate of LESS THAN 1%* on his total wealth. Here’s a novel idea @keirstarmer: to fund schools and hospitals, TAX THE BILLIONAIRES. 📍Station Lane, Bristol - near James Dyson’s £20m country estate Dodington Park

Car Size xkcd.com/3167/

The system is rigged against you. Here's how

The full set of slides is here: hollycummins.com/quarkus-ridi...

convenzione rinnovata all'ultimo: lo spid rimarrà per altri 5 anni

Hibernate Validator 9.1 == faster validation. Reduced memory allocation and overall increase in throughput. Check the detailed report: in.relation.to/2025/09/29/h... #Hibernate #Java #Validation #Performance

You can just build stuff. Here’s to 5 years of willing SuperStation One into existence.

This is brilliant

WAIT A SECOND

we're not the same

You want to vibe code, I want Hoogle for every programming language I use integrated into my editor

Gameshittifaction

You come for me like this, in my own timeline…

...yeah, I love the idea of European AI and Cerebras-hosted inference, but if Mistral is SOTA for EU LLMs right now, we're pretty much screwed 🫠 (just a sample question. I got so many hallucinations and made-up facts *despite* web search, like a model from 2022)

We need to tax wealth not work. Why? Because usually no matter how hard you work, the compound interest on huge wealth grows much faster than your wages + the rich use this passive income to buy all the assets. Someone made a game to show this: therichdont.work

It's another double win. If you install solar panels on land sheep are currently grazing, not only can the sheep continue to graze there, they're actually *happier* (because of the shade and more diverse vegetation), and they produce more wool. Hmm, is that actually a triple win?

Low interest rates after 2008 failed to achieve any real growth or increase in living standards in the UK. If we stopped obsessing over rates, we might see how the resources are distributed – and how it's this that's holding our economy back, not monetary policy.

Every "AI CEO":

I don’t know if it’s true, but I read that Microsoft’s #1 customer service question right now is “how do I disable Copilot” 😂

I blogged! This is the longest article I have ever written, so I hope it can bring more eyes to the fantastic @quarkus.io project! The role of Quarkus in the modern Java ecosystem javapro.io/2025/08/22/t... via @javapromagazin #quarkus #java #framework #innovation

Happy to have my biases confirmed in this way ...

Basically a good rule of thumb post 2018 is if the person selling a thing to you describes it as "AI", run away; and if the person selling it to you describes it as "machine learning", consider using it. If someone says "AI" that's a flag they don't think they can sell their product without lying

I was trying to explain how fun vibe coding is to SPJ over a coffee and now he wants me to look at the GHC type checker and I'm not feeling the vibes any more

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HR shelved 1 Mech. Eng. for being too old at over 45. Top uni + yrs of exp. I didn't care so I offered an interview. He did it 100% in Chinese & joined R2 shortly after. Turns out, he can speak and understand EN fine. Best MD I've worked with in 6 years. youtu.be/wawwwU6Iv1E?...

The CFP for #DevoxxMA closes in 2 days! Hurry and submit your talks! Link: dvma25.cfp.dev

Neighbor-Source Heat Pump xkcd.com/3099/

If @quarkus.io dev-ui link to IntelliJ IDEA does not work for you (e.g. in the test error screen), add the idea command line to your classpath export PATH=/Applications/IntelliJ\ IDEA\ CE.app/Contents/MacOS:$PATH

Absolutely surreal to have lived through the Napster days and watched as the titans of industry moved hell and high water to lock down any possible chance that someone's song might get swapped online without giving the studios a cut and now those same people are just like "well we gotta steal music"

This article is going to get hideously misunderstood by some. To clarify, this isn't gen-AI. Giant open worlds like do not happen without some kind of procedural generation. Tech like Speedtree and tools to dynamically place detail and clutter has been part of the basic design tools for ages.

#Java 25 is shaping up to be another BIG release! 🚀 Currently targeted final features: * simplified main * flexible constructors * module imports * scoped values API * key derivation function API * compact object headers

Vert.x 5 is here! vertx.io/blog/eclipse...

Too long, not long enough

A major refactoring and no significant test failures??

CRT support The performance is great and this is very easy to use for younger kids.

I'd use something like this to interact with YouTube every day instead of doing via the browser. The idea of showing the text against the video as primary information is a good one

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I must say, the Frecciarossa is an awesome way to travel through Italy with kids

Last week phone time was down to 1h and 5m on average. I'm very proud of this 😀 Black and White filter seems to be working