maple "mavica" syrup [6502] @mavica_again@computerfairi.es

Get Firefox dot com.

It isn't the best browser; it's oh so far from being the best. However, it's the _least_ bad of the major browsers capable of accessing supercomputer-needing websites, and it's the last major browser standing that hasn't surrendered its page rendering engine to Apple or Google.

hacker group known only as "CloudFlare" has once again defaced several major internet sites

Rebecca "Burger Becky" Heineman passed away yesterday. If you don't know her, she was the first video game champion in 1980, then immediately went to work programming video games because she got so good at them by literally disassembling to find out how they worked.

She was a major inspiration for me not only for being a trans woman in the industry but because of the amazing technical feats squeezing performance out of every bit of hardware she could touch.

My heart will ache for a good while.

The last toast from the legend herself:

Valhalla really really reeked of beer, but Jennell seems happy

The other angels are tired of me saying “fight for the other users” while throwing my halo around

I leave it up to you to go to lindken.com and look up Jennell Jacques, now look at her job description, goddess of technology… and fuck cancer, fuck it in the ass

- Becky

Ever wonder why the "vi" editor uses H, J, K, and L keys for cursor navigation, and why Unix shells traditionally use "~" as an alias for the home directory?

The ADM-3A terminal was a very popular and inexpensive Unix terminal in the 1970s. Notice where the arrow keys are, and where the "~" key is? It influenced a lot!

Today, my VPS served over 51.5 million requests. Well over 99% of that was AI crawlers and other obnoxious shits.

This is not normal. This is complete and utter bullshit. This is also happening all over the place.

It can be caught, it's not even hard. But we shouldn't need to. This is about three orders of magnitude more requests I'd normally receive, and it's almost entirely useless garbage.

Every single one of you who use GenAI tools, you personally, are complicit in this. You are responsible for these bots hammering the entire internet, you are enabling it.

If you think this price is acceptable, that every single person who hosts anything outside of BigTech walled gardens deserves this relentless assault of thieving robots, then you are a garbage human being.

But it is not too late to change course. You too can look back at the carnage you enabled, and feel remorse. It's okay. We'll forgive you.

You don't need to look at the environment damage LLMs cause - we can have an educated guess (it's very bad). You don't need to look at the unsustainability of it all. All of those are things that we don't directly feel right now.

But look at the damage these things cause to everyone outside of the BigTech walled gardens. That is measurable. These attacks are fact. You can't debate it. You can't justify it.

You, dear enabler of GenAI bullshit, you are responsible for enabling this carnage. Think about that. Feel bad about it, and stop. Today is a great day to do that.

Looks like @burgerbecky is in the ICU and needs 20k more for a medivac: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebecca-ann-heineman-fight-aggressive-cancer/cl/d?utm_campaign=pd_ss_icons&utm_content=amp17_td&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link&attribution_id=sl%3A5d377792-4702-4311-8d19-35d65896c99a&ts=1763261459

Let's do everything we can to keep this legend going! No regrets!

I just learned about a new data storage format. A rare analog digital hybrid. Behold the "Aperture Card"

This is a punch card that holds a microfiche slide with a document, diagram or photo.

The punch card could be used to catalog the scanned document or to make searching easier.

(Why does looking at these give me feelings. I love this. )

https://www.pimage.com/appcards.htm