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I could probably dismantle the master's house with the master's tools. It would be easy for me
“What I REALLY need is a big-ass coffee!”
is an actual phrase I exclaimed in a dream last night. 😂
This is going to be my new catchphrase. 😁
@jaredwhite sticker design when
Linux Weekly News - Steam machine disappointment, Epic made a Git competitor
“Kohler's New ZZT Game” by Chris Kohler (1993)
Published by: Kohler Productions
[KOHLER.ZZT] - “Title screen”
View World: https://museumofzzt.com/file/view/kohler/?file=KOHLER.ZZT&board=0
Play Online: https://museumofzzt.com/file/play/kohler/ #bot
@woozle I try to share with journalists, teachers, somebody I think would try to find it useful, and they just blank on me.
It's okay, I know I'm niche and weird, it doesn't matter.
That's not a you-deficit, though.
It's a problem in that it leaves you isolated, but it's not the sort of problem that means you're inadequate or broken. It's a format-compatibility issue, which is something many/most of us neuroweirdos have to deal with... if that wasn't obvious.
"Feeling disconnected" has been a frequent topic of discussion in my therapy-sessions, fwiw. My partner has these weekly meet-ups with her fiber-arts (aka knitting-and-stuff-like-that) group, who are pretty much all really smart neurodivergent women who I'd be friends with in a heartbeat -- but their interests are generally not my interests, even though we have a lot of overlapping oddities (e.g. I can make science or math jokes, and enough people will get them for it to be worthwhile), so I still can't start babbling about my problems with the design of process-derived-I/O-stream management classes in PHP and expect any eyes to not glaze over.
So whatza girl to do? Still working on that...
I spoke to two people whose Android Firefox OneCRL somehow did update and they were both "signed in" to Firefox. Is OneCRL linked to "signing in"?
@mcc not over here. Signed in but still connects to all of those.
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I can’t believe we’re still arguing over whether X is for jerks: https://lexontech.org/i-cant-believe-were-still-arguing-over-whether-x-is-for-jerks
Christine Lemmer-Webber
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We are currently in the process of organizing a Lisp assembly for #40c3. The assembly space could, for example, be used for self-organized workshops. If you are part of a Lisp-related community and planning to attend 40c3, come and join our Matrix chat.
More information: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2026-10/msg00121.html
#Hydrangeas going to seed.
Anyone else recently start having issues with their enter button? It works most of the time. Strange.
Linux Fanboy takes another look at macOS: not that bad nowadays
Phil Nelson
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Google Cloud outage takes down Revolut, Lloyds, and other banking apps
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-cloud-outage-revolut-halifax-emma-uk-london-2026-10
Why is the universe the way it is? A long-overlooked particle might have given matter an edge over antimatter in the split-seconds after the Big Bang, which researchers say “could transform our understanding of cosmic evolution and the fundamental laws of physics.”
https://www.404media.co/scientists-discover-a-strange-particle-explains-the-origin-of-reality/
@404mediaco disappointed by the poor quality AI graphic halfway down the page
Well that was a first for me...
Instead of hearing "This call may be recorded for quality assurance purposes..."
...I just heard "This call may be analyzed by AI for quality assurance purposes."
Lovely.
Awesome.
"This call may be analyzed by AI for quality assurance purposes."
"This call may be consumed by AI for performative quality purposes."
fixed that for you
In an interesting moment to watch, legally: https://www.404media.co/reverse-engineer-anything-is-the-new-wild-west-of-ai/
I'm not a fan of / don't respect vibecoding, but I *am* a fan of jailbreaking devices and *legalizing* decompiling (notably, the decompiling work that's interesting is not happening by vibecoders though).
It's an interesting moment because previously corporations have been in the "we can do whatever we want because we're exploiting the commons" perspective, and now things are starting to hit against their own stuff. What will happen? I don't know.
I'm not sure what is going to happen from a legal perspective, but I think we are looking at one of three outcomes:
- This all gets declared legal, which would be a huge win against the ways corporations hold copyright over people
- This all gets declared *illegal*, which could be a win against a bunch of the business cases genAI hinges upon
- But unfortunately, there is also the likely third option: big corporations become allowed to do these things, individuals are not
is there good vibecoding and bad vibecoding? where is the line?
@philnelson Imagine the outrage if those divs were not announced
@jwz oh I know, it just appears ridiculous to normal people. Or so they tell me
Mastodon Migration
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"Meta can use web scrapers to crawl and collect content from websites “associated with” business accounts on its platforms, according to its new commercial terms of use. https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/metas-new-commercial-terms-will-allow-the-scraping-of-news-sites-legal-experts-say/
Linux's biggest opportunity yet, New Linux Tablet, Google fined €4B - Linux Weekly News
Maciej Makuła
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