Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

pushes a quasar off the table because you arent looking at them
#space #painting #canvas #outerspace #nebula #cats

@gabrielesvelto when they took down half the Internet twice with just a little break in between I suspected AI shenanigans to be the cause, and maybe I wasn't the only one. Announcing now to fire the people who might correct the next mess may not be reassuring.

I had heard about the CloudFlare job cuts, what I had not realized is that after announcing them the company lost over 23% of its value in one sitting. I guess the trick of announcing job cuts to pump up your stock doesn't work anymore.

Finally a video that conveys my mental state

Fediverse: "It's the internet I was promised in 1996. It only took thirty years and the complete collapse of American journalism to get here." https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/
by @matdevdug

#fediverse #journalism #USA

losing my mind looking at junk mail
#collage

@aparrish There are two kinds of articles you can write about AI, just like there are two kinds of obituaries you can write about Henry Kissinger.

And every morning tech "journalists" wake up and choose the one that is not this: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/

my favorite kind of AI/LLM criticism media is when the person begins with a huge hedge like "I'm not an AI hater. *of course* AI is a useful technology and it will doubtlessly have transformative effects on the way we work" and then they spend the next 8k words/45 minutes showing how AI isn't actually useful and won't actually transform the way we work. it's like... it's okay to just say that AI sucks

These lyrics are a little different from what I remember...

A little reminder about the photos on this account. While they are default Creative Commons, Public Domain or other free licenses (except when otherwise mentioned, but that is very rare), it is still common courtesy to mention the author if you reuse or repost them anywhere without keeping the post link intact. Also applies to the fennec, arctic the leggies daily accounts.

You are free to use most of them as you see fit, but the license technically requires attribution. So please do the original authors this little favor. They will be happy to see their work travel around the world and be mentioned as the original author.

If you’re implementing a timezone selector after handling all continents, oceans, and pseudo-macro regions… don’t forget Büsingen am Hochrhein 😄 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BCsingen_am_Hochrhein

A tiny German town of fewer than 1,500 people, completely surrounded by Switzerland.

Fun historical timezone trivia:
Büsingen is associated with Europe/Zurich instead of Europe/Berlin.

Why? In 1980, West Germany introduced DST, but Switzerland initially did not. For a few months:

Germany was UTC+2
Switzerland stayed UTC+1
and Büsingen followed Swiss time to avoid daily chaos with the surrounding area.

That historical difference is still reflected in the tz database today.

#coding 👨‍💻 #timezone 🌐 #freebsd #unix #time 🕜 #sysadmin 🖥️ #germany 🇩🇪 #Berlin #Switzerland 🇨🇭 #Zurich

Here are the photos of my new 4-bit computer, Sharp PC-1246. In this thread, I will compare it with my Sharp PC-1248, including their insides.

I also made Hamurabi work on PC-1246 - https://git.sr.ht/~nkali/hamurabi-sharp-pc-1246 - so if you happened to have a PC-1246, 1248, or maybe even 1211, 1245, or TRS-80 Pocket Computer, you might be able to try it out. It was quite a challenge to cram the game in 1278 bytes of RAM available on this computer.

🧵 thread, go

Intersex people deserve their own 88×31-pixel buttons with retro PC fonts. Left: CGA, centre: EGA, right: VGA. Web-safe palette. May be used freely.

Download the buttons separately and more here: https://qalle.neocities.org/88x31/#pronoun

#intersex #pronouns #88x31 #cga #ega #vga

Uh-oh, something's up with LE:

https://letsencrypt.status.io/

This is a good thing, that they're suspending issuance to ensure fraudulent certs aren't issued if they may have had a breach.

But we wouldn't have to deal with any of this backwards certificate authority bs if browsers would just honor DANE. 🤬

cue everyone who saw this coming 100,000 miles away

https://www.wired.com/story/thousands-of-vibe-coded-apps-expose-corporate-and-personal-data-on-the-open-web/