Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

In case anyone is unclear, since I hear he's also campaigning on this Linux age-gating trash:

Bryan Lunduke is a fascist hatemonger. He represents the absolute worst in free software and I believe he should be ostracized from any and all parts of our community. He wants software freedom for himself and in the abstract but despises individuals expressing their freedom. He believes in a software freedom that is hollowed out and missing love.

people vibe coding their "projects" are missing out - if you don't know how your projects even work, you can't infodump about them, so like what do you even talk about then ​​

Sorry, I meant to say Microslop.

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/03/02/microsoft-gets-tired-of-microslop-bans-the-word-on-its-discord-then-locks-the-server-after-backlash/

Gonna make a Microsoft version of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion that replaces the speechcraft "Not now, not later, not ever" response with "Ask me again in 3 days"

Just remembered my all-time favourite bug, where Android accidentally rendered the name of the "Grunt" tool on its webpage as "Dorkq" https://github.com/gruntjs/gruntjs.com/issues/81

The intrusive thoughts finally won

Hey. Hey guess what. Guess what day it is? It's our birthday, and the Vagina Museum is nine years old today. The world has changed massively in those nine years. We started out with a tweet... and now we're a vibrant community space, dedicated to education and celebration!

When I first watched War Games (1983) I thought "wow, so weird, not only they had terrible password management, but their test 'AI' system was directly linked to the prod".

Ha-ha.

My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited"

Kudos to all who participated in writing the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and the whole WikiProject AI Cleanup team, this was very much a group effort!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_articles_with_large_language_models/RfC

today we learned that the open-source release of the pre-Explorer windows file manager had a hostile fork in 2023 https://github.com/microsoft/winfile/issues/411

Making an account on something today when I came across a novel to me password restriction

This Software is UNFIT for ANY PURPOSE

just saw a poorly translated manual call an extension cord a “line of prolonging” and I am totally using that now :P

I suspect I am going to get a lot of use out of this new sticker design.

Google has news on what you will need to do for still being able to sideload apps:

* enable developer options
* confirm that you are not tricked
* restart phone and re-authenticate
* wait one day
* confirm with biometrics that you know what you are doing
* decide if you only want unrestricted installs for 1 week or forever
* confirm that you accept the risks
* enjoy the few apps that still have developers motivated to develop for a user-base willing to put up with this

https://goo.gle/advance-flow