Samsung unveils the $229 Galaxy Buds On, its first open-fit, C-shaped cuff earbuds to compete with Sony and Bose, designed with AI's help, shipping November 6 (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-28/samsung-unveils-galaxy-buds-on-clip-on-earbuds-for-229
http://www.techmeme.com/261028/p25#a261028p25

US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans

https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-government-is-hiding-a-secret-court-ruling-about-how-it-spies-on-americans/

@libreoffice contributors doing a pinky promise in how they aren't using the slop machine in the way the slop machine encourages everyone to use it doesn't make those contributions any less slop.

In addition to that, it does nothing to make you less complicit with all the shockingly excessive CO2 production, hurdles in adoption of green energy, exploitation of workers in the training process, forced deskilling of specialised workers, financing and legitimisation of the most egregious corporations who are eagerly collaborating openly with fascist governments and contributing to war crimes, and transfer of wealth from individuals to these massive corporations and billionaires, among other issues that I probably forgot to include.

Do you really want to allow contributions that gave this kind of impact in the world? Changing your contribution guidelines to forbid AI contributions has both a positive impact in the development process and a positive impact in the world around. I ask you to reconsider this and make a change for the better, everyone will celebrate it the same way they celebrated the first article about not having slop features in the suite.

@fasterandworse This is the way

@davidgerard Thanks. Suspected as much. And not surprised to hear their hosting is incompetent.

@onepict Yes! Yes yes yes yes yes! We used to have microcomputers you could switch on and write programs with, immediately. With a couple of basic (hur hur) commands you could then load and run any number of different programs from games, to astronomy chart creators, text editors, and so on.

They came with manuals explaining how to use this amazing tool on a level that 10-year-olds could understand and learn from.

Nearest I've come to replacing them for my kids is RPi running Debian, and C64U.

"Flávio! You managed to fuck up your half-assed coup attempt. What are you going to do next?"

[ turns directly to camera ] "I'm going to Disney World!"

So where's Flávio Bolsonaro gonna go now that he's here? Probably Wisconsin, right? Get himself some of those famous cheese curds

Sometimes it feels like [ gestures wildly ] is all just a conspiracy to make me dumber

As a child it occurred to me that since chemical reactions work better with heat, I could make a glow stick brighter by microwaving it. Stick popped, microwave covered in chemicals. Dad got the blame, parents divorced soon after.

@baldur I solved this by not having workflows any more

Goddammit! I AM A BEING OF PURE LIGHT, I should not have to learn what a “malfoid” is

@bigzaphod @gedeonm And even the “fast food and pizza” is pricey these days! 😡

When I was in college, there was always enough loose change, dollar here, couple of dollars ther, combined with coupons/specials; to buy enough pizza to feed 3,4,5 dorm rooms. And there was usually some left.

Now one “large” pizza (which was the size of a medium back then) is $13. If your 5 people each eat 3 slices; that’s 2-3 pizzas. $40 if everyone just drinks water. ☹️😤

For reference, here is a map showing where Diego Garcia is relative to the Strait of Hormuz. You have to sail past all of India to get there.

“A few years ago, a port call in the Middle East might mean bottomless-mojito brunches in Bahrain, hitting the indoor ski slopes in a Dubai megamall, or a desert safari in Qatar. But since Operation Epic Fury began eight months ago, U.S. warships in the theater have basically had just one option: Diego Garcia, some 2,500 miles away.

“It’s not great for morale, but the consequences go beyond disgruntled sailors. The remote coral atoll lacks the pierside infrastructure that many ports can offer. As the Navy stretches its fleet with longer deployments and fewer port calls, warships are losing the ability to do crucial mid-cruise maintenance.”

https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2026/10/port-call-situation-wearing-out-navy-warships/416859/

It makes me wonder if someone couldn’t make a penny stealing a trick from the earliest days of DVD.

When the first wave of DVD movies were released in the mid-‘90s, nobody was really sure how much they should cost. Some studios went luxe with fancy packaging and lots of extras, appealing to the collector market that was then on LaserDisc. Warner Bros. went the opposite direction. Their goal was the lowest possible price for the biggest possible market, and to get there they cut every conceivable corner: cardboard “snap cases” rather than plastic, no extra features whatsoever. Just a disc with a movie on it in a cheap paper case. It didn’t appeal to collectors, but their DVDs were several dollars cheaper than anyone else’s.

The market eventually stabilized a little more upmarket than that, and WB soon met everyone else there with the same packaging and features. But today, if the only DVD customer left is the extremely price-sensitive customer, maybe studios could pad their margins a little by selling that customer a disc in a cardboard case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap_case