This is incredible. I remember this Star Market shutting down because I was living in Winter Hill when it happened… *17 years ago* https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]/115708701767757200

"copyright infringement"

Trying to Make a Useable Archive Volume from a Time Machine Backup, Day 72

I know there's a lot wrong in the world, but can we stop making fucking images function as links without actually linking them?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@cosmocatalano/115661756779236682 Also, if you're gonna say the company name was inspired by The Matrix, please at least *mention* that The Matrix scene was in turn referencing the 1970's flimflam of warping flatware with "mental energy".

how the fuck do all these pieces on Bending Spoons omit the fact that the company turns the product to absolute dogshit for the end user? https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/what-is-bending-spoons-everything-to-know-about-aols-acquirer/

the only thing that makes me ashamed to be from Massachusetts these days is how little snow it takes to cancel school and related activities.

trying to us Google in 2025 is just so fucking heartbreaking "buT thE StOCk PriCE is uP"

Last Crusade was good because Tom Stoppard was great.

python devs really looked at the javascript landscape and said "here, hold my beer"

having to go on Facebook to do it is a red flag and I will die on that hill

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On Sept 9, this 2808 sq ft home listed at $895k despite a $1.1MM Zestimate at that time It sold on Halloween for $865k individual houses are notoriously unreliable data points, but starting to feel like maybe line goes down

if you won't use it, don't built it

As many of you know, my preferred recession indicator is the Burlington Mall parking lot. At 11am on a Monday, the great spots are still taken but mostly by smaller and older cars. On the whole, finding a space was quick and easy. It’s still early in the holiday season, but feels a touch ominous.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@cosmocatalano/115491908266067389 I had mistaken a fast-charge USB-C cable without data spec (USB 2) for a similar-looking 40Gbps USB 3.2 cable (overkill anyway because HDD) This situation has been corrected, resulting in a ~10x increase in transfer speed

That’s not how this works. That’s not how *ANY* of this works.

not sure I want these guys doing my surveying work tbqh

Sitting here, watching an HDD->HDD transfer of less data than I can fit on a flash dive hit the 24 hour, mark wondering how the hell we built an entire digital ecosystem on 5400 rpm SCSI drives.

bro was in the bathroom for a while. Harlem Shake didn't come out until 2012 and the meme didn't materialize until 2013.

I know there’s a lot of bad stuff going on right now, but why is the iOS weather app still a slab of flaming shit?

My child is demanding we carve “6 7” into our pumpkin, and my wife—who does not spend all day in the Internet—is extremely confused.

Mermaid's Rest, at 46002 Ocean Dr in Buxton NC, sold for $580,000 last September. Today it fell into the ocean. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/46002-Ocean-Dr-39-Buxton-NC-27920/348506545_zpid/

convince a boomer to be introspective challenge (impossible)

I can’t tell if WSJ’s reporting on rich people worried about Mamdani is tongue in cheek or not. Always feels a little bit like the reporter is in on the joke but the editor is not.

how utterly disconnected from the work of your employees do you have to be to think this technology is a viable replacement?

happy Checking Facebook To See If Local Businesses Are Open Day to all those who celebrate

congratulations ClassDojo, you have the darkest unnecessary upsell patterns I’ve ever encountered. which is to say, fuck you.

massachusetts, united states

tired: wash trading NFTs wired: wash trading GPUs https://www.wsj.com/tech/nvidia-openai-100-billion-deal-data-centers-d2f85cae

if you're a dev who misses the constant messaging from pandemic-era recruiters, just tell LinkedIn you're a small business; the InMail spam is non-stop

photoshop is just a stack of user experience bugs in a trench coat

moats

business insider

I don’t want a thinnest ever iPhone. I want Messages to send images to Android users over WiFi.

it's kind of incredible how frequently Google's own shitty AI crashes Google's own search in Google's own browser

with the exception of gen AI (which, in many cases, users didn’t ask for and actively dislike) pretty much every major tech feature roled out since the pandemic has been investor-facing https://mas.to/@carnage4life/115144421749554282

It’s been almost a month since someone got hit by Brightline

it's wild to me that other states honor Connecticut driver's licenses.

I will never stop thinking about a college classmate who told absolutely straight-faced at reunion that anything can be broken into 15 minute tasks.

one thing about us wiseguys, the hustle never ends. https://gizmodo.com/openais-gpt-5-has-clearly-never-seen-the-sopranos-2000641447

Downtown Concord MA is a meta-capitalist hellscape. Everything is expensive, and yet also terrible. Cell service is a mess, but nowhere has good wifi. Many of the historic buildings/storefronts serve no discernible purpose justifying a physical presence.

why is so much of the reporting on AI so heavily credulous of hype from people with a significant stake in its success and so seemingly untroubled by mid-to-negative reports from people actually using it and/or studying its ability to increase productivity?

fucking a11y, how does it work

you, an AI hypelord: Llama 4 is *so* disappointing me, a shitposter: Llama 4 fucking rules

get wife to help with childcare before 11am challenge difficulty level: impossible

no one who's called out another person's supposed sense of entitlement ever had much to complain about.

"Hi we updated our privacy policy and the we we decided to tell you about it is by not saving the data that we made every effort to look like we were saving!" piss-poor work from ‪@concept2.bsky.social‬ whose service is (of course) the only option to get data out the erg.

RIP to a real one. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/arts/music/tom-lehrer-dead.html

I fuck up everything I’m working on my mobile device by accidentally brushing against the top of the screen *at least* twice a day.