One thing I'm still trying to wrap my head around is how Maine simultaneously has a lot of environmental protections in place while also almost every home I've seen uses a giant can of #2 heating oil to heat their house, and a nonzero number of people who have strong opinions about heating their house with a wood burning stove. Granted, I am not free of sin. My house has a giant tank of dinosaur juice in the basement because the plan to replace it with a heat pump is long and expensive. I will get there eventually though!

the new Predator movie is fun but, more importantly, they made a conlang for the predator species (the yautja) to speak. Consider this advanced warning before you hear a lot of grunting and glottal stops at your next comicon

the two settings for Steam store content are "Filter out adult content, which weirdly also filters out a ton of non-horny games that happen to be rated M" or "every time you open Steam you get endless suggestions for porn-themed Bejeweled clones"

It's time for No NAT November! Don't forget to move all your devices to IPv6 if you want to participate

Reminder that straight money donations to food pantries goes further than food donations! Not that food donations are inherently bad, mind you. If you have spare canned goods, or your garden was extra productive, or things like that they'll still accept it! But, if you donate straight money, most food banks have someone whose entire job is using those donations to get the best deals on food as possible. Lots of buying in bulk or getting deals straight from food producers. Your $1 donation can be stretched to a solid $5 worth of food in the right hands

things you can do if you say it's for tech company reasons: * steal massive amounts of intellectual content * put objects into reserved airspace without informing the FAA * break FCC regulations by intruding into ham radio bands * run bot farms * extort money out of the owners of vulnerable devices that you made * reinvent curl, but worse

Imagine being one of the antarctic researchers working when Mark Shuttleworth was in Antarctica, trying to hire Ubuntu devs. "Jim, we're seeing data from McMurdo describing a group of penguins near our sensors. Can you go check the site to make sure the solar panels are still in good shape?" "..." "Jim?" "Oh, sorry. This guy named Mark kept me up all night, said he needed to assemble a team." "A team to do what?" "He says he wants to make a pretty good Debian fork with a history of innovation but some less than stellar business decisions."

always a good day when CISA starts telling people to start yanking cables.

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pretty messed up how magic smoke is smoke that indicates a fried pcb instead of smoke that makes a genie come out of your pcb

The biggest tragedy of LLM slop code is that I no longer think it looks cool if my terminal output has emojis. it used to be cool! then Gemini and Replit used too many emojis!