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Jake in the desert

🤮 Don't buy Palmer Luckey's 'retro N64 style' clone console- if you see one, steer clear. Palmer is a shitty fucking warmongering asshole, and you can read about his shitty warmongering in this very article. Fuck this bullshit.

tomshardware.com/video-games/c

#RetroGaming #FuckPalmerLuckey #assholes #WarmongeringAssholes #gaming #emulation #M64 #ModRetro

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

I can't wait for an LLM to convince Poettering to bring back the rm -rf / bug again. It would be especially hilarious if the slop machine convinced his army of sloperators to put it in journalctl.

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Need to find out what's happening as it happens? `tail -f /var/log/logname` is for luddites; systemd hates you so much it's `journalctl -f -u and_you_had_better_give_the_right_unit_name_baltimore`

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

I left Linux 10 years ago because his notoriously bad code and good charisma with distro maintainers and one desktop environment in particular...

...made it literally impossible for me to install something as entirely unrelated as a (GNOME-based) window manager without replacing my system initialization daemon with systemd.

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I am entirely unsurprised that Poettering et al would become a sloperator, but it's destined to prove that LLMs are even worse at coding and reinventing software poorly than he is.

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Jeremy Soller 🦀

LLM slop is just one part of the broader systemd/Linux sloperating system.

github.com/systemd/systemd/blo

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Kranston

just realized that "microslop" is all well and good but we can go even further and bring back the old ways. it's "Micro$lop" now

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David Revoy

GNU Terry Pratchett - Tiffany Aching fan-art

#krita #speedpainting #discworld

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Soatok Dreamseeker

Last thing: When I said "No" is a Privacy-Enhancing Technology, I didn't just mean an opt-out.

I mean the engineers growing a fucking spine and telling their boss, "No, we shouldn't collect this data."

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Soatok Dreamseeker

"No" is a better privacy-enhancing technology than the state-of-the-art differential privacy techniques.

It's efficient! Not collecting data requires at most O(1) bandwidth, O(1) storage, and O(1) compute.

"No" is not "Maybe later".

"No" is not "Ask me again in 3 days".

"No" is not "Maybe after a few more beers", since many of the people that need to hear the first part of his message likely also needs the second.

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Soatok Dreamseeker

Here's a privacy-enhancing technology for you to consider:

"No."

You don't need to know. You don't need to measure. The efficacy of an advertising campaigns, market segmentation, and relevance targeting should be minimized for the good of humanity.

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Soatok Dreamseeker

At #RealWorldCrypto this year, there was a session on "privacy-enhancing technologies".

The first talk in the session was about a new encryption method for Tor.

The next two were painful examples of "a person cannot be convinced of something when their salary depends on them not knowing it".

Advertisers wants to collect signals about populations without being individually identifying. So let's talk about differential privacy techniques to let them do that.

One example was "Meta wants to know what percentage of its teneage users blocked a contact today".

At no point did they address the elephants in the room.

  • Why do they want this data in the first place?
  • What are they even doing with this signal?
  • Have you considered telling them to fuck off and not collect it in the first place?

As tempting as it might be to hand wave it and say "well yes but their business model depends on it" to which I say "then perish".

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Parts consumed: LR-1130 battery (1), $0.40.

Tools required: Driver and bit from an electronics toolkit, $25.00 in my case.

Labor expended: 5 minutes (0.083 hours), $4.17.

Total cost: $25.00 initial investment + $4.57 parts and labor.

Comparison with replacement cost: $1.00 if I'm lucky, $10.00 if not.

Evaluation: Worth it! Not just the satisfaction of maintaining something not designed to be maintained, but of successfully refusing to dispose of something literally made to be disposed.

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Many years ago, I bought a cheap disposable calculator sold under Dollar Tree's "Jot" brand, & I chose it because it was the first dollar-budget calculator I've ever seen that isn't a simple 4-function that can't correctly answer "3 + 4 × 5".

It's the Scenery Electronics Limited SS-6618. Description and manual: externaldocuments.com/articles

Today, I replaced its dead battery. It lives and works again! But I discovered the back plastic has to press down on the battery to keep it on the contacts.

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captain acab :antifa:

same

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Taggart

Salty today.

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Taggart

"If you want to improve the model's output, you can write skill files with more specific instructions!"

"Oh wow so like a file that tells the computer to do exactly what you want?"

"Yep!"

"You're never gonna believe this."

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LOUIS

how it feels using a smartphone in 2026

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Obscura, Cheetah

Bein' my sassy chee self! 💜

Arts by Claire Bear (clairebear.fursona.one/)

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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

Claude Desktop app was unresponsive for users for several hours because it did not account for daylight savings time:
status.claude.com/incidents/pq

> Root cause: Users with scheduled tasks in Claude Cowork or Claude Code who are in a timezone that observed daylight saving time last night were affected by an infinite loop. When the app tried to locate tasks scheduled during the “skipped” hour, it couldn’t resolve them and got stuck.

Enterprise quality. Serious company. Many wow. 🤡

#AI #Hype #Claude

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