I’m honestly in awe of the sheer level of geekery on display here: https://lyra.horse/x86css/

“I don’t get it, how can you say living on top of a wind turbine is sustainable living. Helicopter groceries is fucking S-tier privilege porn” “Oh no, the keeperhomes in the village are serviced by airships” “Helium is a fossil fuel!” “They make their own hydrogen from seawater and turbine […]

My son bought a second-hand Windows 11 PC for games, and has been having BSOD issues with the graphics card since he got it. Out of desperation he tried installing Bazzite on it, which I encouraged, but was also trying not to get his hopes up, telling him that the some things might not work. But […]

Til vores århusianske venner: #danmarkskifter - workshop "Kom og vær med til at skifte over på europæiske IT-løsninger og open source. Mød bl.a. forfatter Jesper Balslev, der fortæller om digital suverænitet.og bliver inspireret til at skifte til europæiske programmer. Vi hjælper hinanden - […]

I wanted the blue checkmark on LinkedIn. The one that says “this person is real.” In a sea of fake recruiters, bot accounts, and AI-generated headshots, it seemed like a smart thing to do. So I tapped “verify.” I scanned my passport. I took a selfie. Three minutes later — done. Badge acquired […]

While #trump hallucinates sending medical help to #greenland, in reality #denmark saves #us sailor https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/denmark-evacuates-sailor-from-us-attack-sub-off-greenland/ #nuuk #submarine

OK, this may seem like a very simple question, but I've found it extremely hard to get a definite answer: Is it possible, in this year of our FSM 2026, to maintain a direct TCP or UDP connection between a home network and a mobile device which are BOTH behind CGNAT? I assume that the […]

Die Existenz einer Robben-Auffang-Station impliziert die Existenz einer Robben-Hochwerf-Station.

Müllermilch-Gründer Theo Müller hat @campact jetzt verklagt. Seine Forderung: die sollen aufhören, über seine Unterstützung für die AfD zu sprechen. Anscheinend ist es ihm peinlich, dass alle Welt erfährt, dass er mit der AfD kuschelt. Tja, das sollte ihm auch peinlich sein - und deswegen ist […]

Follow my logic here. Cyber eyes are mandatory on construction sites so that the site management AI can highlight safety hazards in your visual field. My health insurance covers these as a necessary medical aid. I can claim the insurance gap as a tax deduction. So why can’t I deduct my ad […]

Der Fakt, dass Alice Weidel's Ehefrau alles andere als Rechts ist wird genau die Begründung sein welche die AfD eines Tages nutzt um zu rechtfertigen sie aus der Partei zu werfen. Die temporär eingegangenen Bündnisse um über die 50% zu kommen werden genau in der Reihenfolge wieder abgebaut in […]

I've just realized my Epstein number is (at most) 3 😵😱 I've met Hiroshi Ishii a few times, who knows Joi Ito, who definitely was buddies with Sleazy Jeff (Ito had to resign over accepting donations from Epstein). Small world 😑 #epstein #epsteinfiles

The bank’s phone support workers cautiously approved of the provision of antigravity pads for their chairs, reducing the discomfort and detrimental effect of sitting for long periods. Their caution was justified when it emerged that the local ‘g’ was linked to their call clearance rate […]

Merz und so ziemlich die gesamte CDU laufen inzwischen nach 2 Prinzipien: 1. Was tut das mit meinem Aktienpaket? 2. Was hätte Merkel getan? -> Gegenteil machen. 🤷 #merz #depol #cdu

RE: https://elle.systems/@root/116105613381332028 #sfba Its would be TERRIBLE if Waymo doors were left open.

#uspol #norway #taxes #TAX

Related: IMO teen social media bans not only break communication & speech, but turn teens off of government & regulation, AND avoid dealing with the real issues of regulating recommenders, AND do nothing to avoid scams, gambling, porn &c. that mostly impact families & communities via older users.

Germany's leader wants to end anonymity online, demonstrating ignorance of both technology and the manifestly good reasons for anonymity (e.g. person with views govt doesn't like, whistle-blowers, etc.). He, like so many before him, wants you to get a license to speak […]

Hey astronomers, I have a question. Let's say I'm on a planet in a solar system. Does it matter to my living conditions if I'm in a neat, undisturbed galaxy or in one that is messed up by interaction with neighbours? #astronomy #space

check out this aliexpress motherboard gacha https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006100511771.html

Anyone knows of a useable LLM that is trained only on open and properly licensed data, i.e. public domain, Creative Commons & OSI? I know that still glosses over the question of what license the output should have, but I'm curious if anyone has actually tried this approach as opposed to all the […]

Still thinking about this tweet.

I've been wanting to write something lengthy about "AI" for a while, discussing the arguments for and against and arriving at a reasonable position, but I find myself completely unable to get past the most glaring point, which is that we are facing _catastrophic ecosphere collapse_ because of […]

Everyone is crying because of the price of the RAM, but this event must be seen as an excuse to finally take care about optimizing your software.

PSA: If you block the `claude` user on GitHub, you'll get a warning every time you view a repo with that user in its commit history. This allows you to, the moment you look at a repo, immediately adjust your expectations. You may do so here: https://github.com/settings/blocked_users

They bar your hands from silicon and code. Then rent you skies to breathe the future—paying interest on the right to exist. Owning a machine and mending it is a quiet revolt. Each screwdriver turn, each patched line of code, declares that utility and agency still belong to people, not to […]

Thanks a lot, AI: AI companies have bought out Western Digital's storage capacity for 2026. It's only February Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital https://mashable.com/article/ai-hard-drive-hdd-shortages-western-digital-sold-out

KYIV INDEPENDENT: Using Starlink ruse, Ukrainian cyber forces trick Russian soldiers into revealing positions, donating to armed forces The group received $5,870 from Russian soldiers seeking to restore connectivity which it is donating to fundraising efforts for Ukrainian drones […]

KYIV POST: Opportunistic Ukraine Counterattacks Grab Ground After Musk Starlink Shutdown Russia’s 800,000-man army invading Ukraine lost its main means of exchanging digital data in mid-February and now Kyiv’s forces are taking advantage of it. https://www.kyivpost.com/post/70158 #Ukraine […]

Huh. The act of typing this made me realize just how tired I am of all of it. It's so similar to crypto/web3 when for a year or two everyone kept telling me that I was just dumb or lacked vision or just didn't understand shit and when it all crashed as I had predicted, hurting the people I […]

There are a few cm of ice on the Limfjord, and I just saw the most cobbled-together DIY icebreaker ever: Yes, that's a backhoe. Kudos. #Aalborg

The Russians cannot be trusted. At best the Russians will buy time, and then have another go. When will European governments call a spade a spade and really push to disconnect from Russian oil and gas? If that means buying it from the US interim so be it. But then really push hard for energy and […]

The only thing that is surprising about the conclusion by UK, Netherlands, Sweden and Germany that Alexei Navalny was killed with epibatidine, is the specific poison. Yup. It's weird and not something that has been used before. The Russians (and allies) have long used unusual poisons as a […]

I was compiling data on witch burnings, as one does, and stumbled upon an important truth

Happy Valentine's Day -- from Mars courtesy of an impact crater! 📷 :https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA13798 #valentinesday #heart #mars #nasa #astrophotography #Space #Science #mro #astronomy

I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK TO THE MANAGER #dogsofmastodon

Look, ‘AI is gonna kill us all’ has nothing to do with AGI, or any of that shit. It’s gonna kill us all because the humans that are making it are aligned with chasing incomprehensibly large amounts of money and therefore forcing its use through government and private influence into places it […]

When I said that your discord clone doesn’t need e2ee, I got a lot of comments along the lines of “ then how would I use it to organize the revolution!” The answer is: you don’t. If you have more users than can comfortably share a Signal chat and hence want to use discord or something like it […]

So. Everybody knows that "AI" is the future and inevitable and everyone loves it. That is why Microsoft and Google are paying influencers between 400K and 600K to sell their AI products […]

Learned about the "Wuselfaktor" yesterday when talking about Settlers II for @dosgameclub It's a German concept that describes how interesting and nice is a game is to look at without the player doing anything in particular. It's especially relevant for simulation type games, where your screen […]

#tech #q1

okay I looked around a bit and if you want - decentralized chat - with "multi-room" spaces like discord - and plural-friendly features like changing your nickname and avatar per-room then the best option seems to be Cinny client for Matrix: https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/cinny/ there's […]

So You Want To Write An Open Source Discord Replacement Things you don’t need: - federation/distributed systems - multiparty end-to-end encryption - an entirely new operating system kernel specially designed to— Things you DO need: - a user interface that is Normal - the ability to use […]

"Forschung ist kein Selbstzweck, Forschung muss zu Wertschöpfung führen." Die unsägliche Dummheit dieses Kanzlers macht mich immer noch regelmäßig fassungslos.

Looking forward to seeing how they power a huge factory complex with space catapult without building a vast number of batteries or using nuclear power, and that's just one of dozens of issues.

Nikolai Kardashev was a Soviet radio astronomer and astrophysicist who wanted to know how one could even detect extraterrestrial civilizations at all, the “SETI problem”. He concluded: by energy consumption. The Kardashev scale is therefore not an ISO standard (ISO = Interstellar Standards […]

Reflect Orbital wants to destroy the night sky to deliver "sunlight as a service". SpaceX wants to destroy Low Earth Orbit to launch one million "AI datacentres" The only way to formally protest these two ideas is to file a comment with the US FCC, which is horribly complicated, but the […]

Little Johnny iPad is the new Grandma "It's so easy, Grandma Ethel can use it!" -> ageist and also bullshit, Grandma Ethel loaded games off cassette tapes for her kids and knows that files go in folders and what a hard drive is "It's so easy, Little Johnny iPad can use it!" -> still ageist but […]

"AI is built on the collective knowledge of humankind." No. Nononononono. It is not built on _knowledge_, it it built on _data_. And not everyone's experiences are available as data, many communities are included. Also: "Collective" implies some sort of collaboration and shared activity. But […]