Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

I missed the 55th anniversary of the earliest Unix that came with a manual because it fell on the huge distraction of the USA's election day.

Oh, no. I'm just a few days younger than that manual.

Today's a good day to remember that every OS on every computer sucks, and it's only been made suckier by the techbro motto 'move fast and break things.'

Today's a good day for everyone touching computers and related technologies to reject tech dudebro culture and embrace a new motto:

Move purposefully and fix things.

I'm now at the point where I'm writing creative shellscripts but to boring and almost bureaucratic coding standards. They still run too fast for me to follow, so I don't need to shave nanoseconds with clever hacks. By being smart & refusing to be clever, my mistakes are obvious, easy to spot, & even easier to correct.

By refusing to move fast & break things, what I'm making will also refuse to do that, & it'll still probably come out faster & more robust than techbro drafts & slop.

I wish Sam Altman a very special and deeply heartfelt go fuck yourself sideways with a paddle.

Tom's Hardware, 2026-10-30, OpenAI CEO says it's 'quite terrible' for your PC to have RAM — Sam Altman says data centers offer better utilization

Someone parked a trailer full of campaign posters on an empty lot near my office and stuck this flag on a pole next to it.

"Had enough? Vote Republican!"??? My dude! Which party has been manning every switch and in charge of wrecking our economy, environment, global reputation, grocery bills, and job market for the last two years?

Anyway, thread on why Anthropic, Microslop, and Binance are in the news today: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/117528831681803563

I never installed VSCode because it has a hard dependency on cups and somehow has a recursive dependency in several places on "the sound (mixer) of silence," pulseaudio.

Cups tries to break my LPR network, and pulseaudio succeeds in breaking my audio in unpredictably incredible ways.

I sit here under my rock, where my only text editor worry is Vim modeline exploits.

Then I peek out, glance at Microsoft VSCode and it's possible relationship to cryptobros using the "lol what are safeguards" AI to hack AI-bros at the cryptobro bank, facepalm, and go back under my rock.