Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Shark Tank reboot but it's just throwing rich people into a tank full of sharks.

When therians shift

One of the ways that LLM-authored code improves productivity is by merely SAYING it does things. It's way faster than the whole time-consuming process of actually doing things. This is real code someone sent to me for review.

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus.

FOSS nerds: the Torment Nexus cannot be ethical until it is Open Source

"The Master said: 'The common man gets drowned by water, the noble man gets drowned by his mouth, and the man of importance gets drowned by the people – it all lies in what they take too lightly.'"

(from "Black Robes" section of The Bamboo Texts of Guodian: A Study & Complete Translation by Scott Bradley Cook)

#classicalchinese #philosophy #translation

a humorous little infosec study in a case of a vendor applying their anti-piracy DRM to the installer and not to the actual software https://www.ud2.rip/blog/enigma-protector

self-hosting my S3 bucket the right way

So this is a thing that is VERY VERY much nowhere near done yet, but I want to share what I've got so far. It's a list of as many retro games as I can find which had a trans person on the dev team or otherwise involved in some way, along with a quick summary of who and what they did. It's partially an attempt to counter the narrative that trans people are some New Thing that's only just showed up on the gameing scene and also society in general, which sometimes these kinds of lists can accidentally imply, and also it's just kind of a fun bit of HEY LOOK AT ALL THIS COOL SHIT TRANS PEOPLE DID. I've found over 170 games so far, with quite a lot I'm still to properly go off on.

https://dotmaetrix.neocities.org/classictranslist

So much of my list is Weird Ports like Burger Becky's 3DO port of DOOM and the incredible amount of Mac ports done between her and Glenda Adams so it's so hilariously fitting that apparently THE first ever game ever developed by a trans person was A GODDAMN PORT OF SPACE WAR FROM ONE UNIVERSITY'S COMPUTER TO ANOTHER! Are you actually kidding me?!

I'm sorry exscuse me what the FUCK do you mean one of the SPACEWAR devs was trans?!??!

https://bluerenga.blog/2025/08/26/hobbit-1975-1979/

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Happy lunar new year everyone

"Gone Like A Memory" 2026, Action Suspense Film

Xenia the fox and her rag-tag crew of cyberdeck-toting, open-source champions may not be the most friendly crew, but in this feature length film you'll cheer for their success as the plot the heist of the decade:

Infiltrating AI data centers to strip the servers for parts and leave the infrastructure destroyed, then distributing the hardware to people in need.

Rated four and a half stars by furries and independent PC hobbyist (And five stars by those who are both).