Halle Berry is 59. She still looks so good god damn. Watching John Wick 3

Tip: if you have a Red Hat Developer account you get like 16 installs of RHEL for free.

I set up my home server again. This time with proxmox. So far it just has a RHEL10 VM on it for podman containers.

Woo. Haven't been here in a while.

Why is Monday. Why. I am tired after being lazy as fuck all weekend.

The Virginia Department of Health has issued a standing order so that people can get the COVID vaccine without a prescription. You can print out the order here: www.vdh.virginia.gov/content/uplo...

And I think about all of you, too.

The PowerMac G4 Quicksilver is becoming my favorite computer. I have so much fun playing games on it.

Fall yard cleanup and garage reorganization DONE

AI art does not exist. It is an oxymoron.

Fuck Google. XML and XSLT are still very relevant. They don't get to pick the technologies we use.

Portrait of an author with their new kitten

The constant follows from NSFW accounts that I am really not interested in are getting annoying. If I think you're hot AND you seem cool I'll follow...but I just don't like the "join my OF!!!" Follows. @bsky.app can we get something like a follow approval system? Is it already there?

I really can't stress enough how safe I feel in DC at all hours of the night. Not once have I had anything worse happen than someone having an episode and yelling. And that was many years before the gentrification of the past decade or so. I've seen more meth heads at my rural grocery store.

we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

If it doesn't run on a 68060 then we don't need it

when the AI bubble finally collapses and everyone who spent a year smugly hyping it suddenly has to come crawling back with their tail between their legs, i just want to say i am not going to be the bigger person about it. i am going to be meaner than you can even believe

A.I. stands for Accelerated Idiocy

Finally playing Shenmue as it was meant to be enjoyed By broadcasting wirelessly it to my 1998 Sony Watchman, complete with glorious 2.2" colour screen 😍

I deeply love D.C. It is a beautiful and safe city. Don't believe GOP lies. Homelessness is a policy failure. Martial Law is a crime. D.C. Statehood Now!!!!

D.C. STATEHOOD NOW

Today's the day! My new book MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER is finally out! If you want to understand why tech billionaires are so obsessed with impossible ideas about space and AI — and why that's dangerous — this book is for you. #MoreEverythingForever www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/adam-...

Just finished reading More Everything Forever by @adambecker.bsky.social Excellent book. A thoroughly researched and well reasoned takedown of the utter bullshit about A.I. and the future pushed by tech billionaire space-imperialists. I support the 100% wealth tax.

it's your friendly neighborhood internet fox reminding you that adblockers still work over here 🔥

I write a lot Python for work. Not in the ML/AI space. I am dismayed to learn how power inefficient it is. Assuming the results in this study hold up... This does explain why the AI companies are sucking down cities worth of electricity... states.github.io/files/j2.pdf

New life experience. I have herded five (5) sheep. #rurallife #secureyoursheephudson

The `sudo systemctl soft-reboot` on Linux is used for performing a userspace only reboot operation. It will reboot the Linux distro without the BIOS, UEFI or the hardware having to perform a complete cold boot. As a result your system reboots in seconds but will not load a new Linux kernel.

Dune, 1965

Huge congrats to the workers at Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore for winning their first union contract in 142 years!

This is extremely cool. GOG is taking a stand against payment processors caving to fundamentalist religious groups and is offering a bunch of "banned" games for free. freedomtobuy.games

I have a surprising number of trans friends as a cishet person. Do I share their feelings as trans people? No. Do I fully understand them? No. Answering "yes" to these questions would be too presumptuous. I understand them from an outside perspective. They are my friends because I like them

People need to understand that total bodily autonomy is the definition of freedom, and if you are willing to restrict the bodily autonomy of any person for any reason then you do not believe in freedom.

Normalized mass surveillance and censorship is a nightmare.

All of these pro surveillance/ pro censorship bills are starting with porn sites, fan sites, and any NSFW content deemed “obscene”. Sex workers are an easy target to test the waters. Puritanical/ religiously motivated censorship WILL affect you eventually. If you don’t think that, you are wrong.

I am about halfway through this book, and so far, I strongly recommend it. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/adam-...

Libraries are cool and librarians are awesome.

If anyone is interested in donating books to a good cause, let me know! There is a queer library in my local area and I'm happy to drop off books or pass out the address (in dms).

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#Linux has officially surpassed 5% desktop market share in the USA! A huge milestone for #opensource. Windows at 63.2%, macOS at 24%, and Linux at 5.03%. The growth is clear and recognized. https://ostechnix.com/linux-reaches-5-desktop-market-share-in-usa/

Anyone who donates $25 via the link below will receive a copy of The Binding of Bloom Mountain. The money goes to an organization to provide resources to prevent su*cide. As someone who struggles massively with SI, this is very important to me. afspwalks.donordrive.com/participant/...

Big platforms and their censorship is another reason why regular people should care about community owned, community led, open source, decentralized platforms.

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.

Hopefully I will be getting my Apple II online soon when my Uthernet II arrives. Can anyone recommend a popular BBS that vintage computer people actually hang out on? #bbs #computing #retro #vintage #apple #uthernet

Setting up Pylance in vscode can be a little finicky sometimes.

Itch.io is blaming an org called Collective Shout. They didn't have to cave. #itch.io #collectiveshout #busy-body-bastards

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