I laughed

thanks for adding the links

James Blunt: ‘Do I have a nickname? Yes, it rhymes with blunt’ | James Blunt | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/nov/15/james-blunt-10-chaotic-questions-interview

@mhoye that's almost exactly what I said when I read Torvalds entitled bullshit.

Well it's his project and he seems to only want Corpo devs in it. So be it.

I hope all driver mainteners make sure their stuff gets licenced in a way so other projects like e.g. NetBSD can use it and the devs who are not fully paid corpo drones spend their time on projects that appreciate 'em.

@TheBreadmonkey I actually watched the video, but the explanation was so unremarkable that I instantly forgot it, apart from it being a popular motif because society used to revel in the morbid. If there was any other reason it's lost in the mists of banality.

Did I make the hives start or nah?

I'm trying to capture "the tone"

And I'm sitting there, reading this on the screen of a five thousand dollar Macbook Pro in an office where the snacks are free, feeling humbled and ashamed.

Having a bit of a 7 Inch Saturday (no, I’m not making a porno. I don’t do that anymore.)

Went downtown and found some very unique and interesting 7”s/45s.

Some novelty ones, a few Christmas, some punk/power-pop, and some really obscure ones, including Bob Coulter, which was produced by good friend and legend Ron Obvious, who is unfortunately dealing with some serious health problems at the moment.

I think I’m going to gift the Plastic Man/Metamorpho one to my good friend back in Boston, Brett Warwick; an expert and connoisseur of all things DC Comics, including toys and records.

Can’t wait to start ripping through these.

#vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #records #vintage #retro #physicalmedia #analog #vinylcollection #art #music #7inch #45rpm

@zzt @clew we call those red flags "bri'ish"

@georgetakei The one thing AI gets right is spelling. Typos are actually an indication that someone typed it out themselves.

It’s a tree full of cats. #Cats #CatsOfMastodon #OrangeCats #SimonTheCat #SylvesterTheCat #TuxedoCats #Caturday.

aftergleam.app

github.com/jakobkreft/Aftergleam

Chronic and endless cynicism isn't insight, I'm sorry, it's also miscalibration. It looks like insightful analysis only accidentally. But really it just causes you to resist other important forms of evidence about the world that are positive.

@clew “oy she’s fit for purpose aint she” this is a remarkable number of red flags for such a short sentence

@realcainmosni Centre for Computing History is well worth a visit!

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@eniko/117610931545123688

feel like i need to quote this to stress this fact: the absurd demand for AI compute WAS MADE UP. nvidia had a tsunami of RAM and wafers coming at it it didn't know what to do with and hundreds of billions of dollars worth of GPUs were channel stuffed so hard they're rotting in warehouses

this was market manipulation at massive scale to defraud investors

Running an A/B test without explicit and informed consent of your users is a practice that would get you shut down and laughed at by any ethics board at a serious research institution.

You're running unethical psychological experiments on people who will largely stay unaware of what you're doing.

This kid's running one of those weird, dual-slot Pentium III boards with two physical CPUs. He's running Linux - somehow - on a hard drive that's almost full, with a userspace partition is NTFS, and the more I hear about this system the more confused I get.

For the non nerds following this thread, this is like finding out somebody's daily driver was is made out of the parts of a sports car, a semi and a train, and it's running on vegetable oil. You might ask why, but the first question is how?

@NanoRaptor ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

Also, who said computing centres had to be ugly.

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center, which hosts MareNostrum, renovated a 19th century church.

Residual heat from the installations is routed to heat surrounding campus buildings.

Visit it! https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=oj5FSKsTt7o