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  A tech overlord gets a basic lesson in how foisting a largely unwanted, fraudulent technology that's destroying the planet, the world wide web, knowledge in general, and making it harder to find works of meaning, upon everyone might possibly be slightly unpopular. ...and takes no lessons from it. What a shitty bunch of losers our leaders are. https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/932203/university-of-arizona-students-boo-eric-schmidt-ai-commencement #ai #llm

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  There is no such thing as pretending to be a Nazi but secretly being a moderate. No Nazi actually believes their BS, that's the entire core of Nazism.

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  In no particular order: 1. Unreal Tournament (99/2004, maybe even 3) 2. Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri and Civilization 3. Saints Row 2 and 3 4. Skyrim, heavily modded, and Fallout 4 5. Mass Effect 1 #5games RE: https://www.threads.com/@jscalzi/post/DYdFpH5GYGU

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  I'm just trying to interpret the name of their initiative here: https://www.salon.com/2026/05/17/tpusas-make-heaven-crowded-revival-tour-is-a-disaster/ Do they mean they're all going to die somehow (but not commit suicide presumably), or are they going to kill us but are acknowledging that we're actually the ones in the right here and therefore the ones that'll go to heaven?

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  There was a time I was reading lots of Asimov, and at the time I was on a classical music kick and listened to a lot of Prokofiev. Now I hear Lt Kije and immediately get transported in my mind to Trantor, Aurora, and Solaria.

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  Hey BSers, you don't have to post here that BS is down, you can just post regular stuff you would have posted to BS but can't because it's a bad network and this is a good one but you refuse to switch to the good one because ew nerds or something.

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  Why? Just make them cheaper FCOL RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116598610411343801

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  So, any kernel vulnerabilities, local or remote, found in OpenBSD lately? Or is it too obscure for that?

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  Accidentally revealed my politics to my hair stylist today and fortunately she's a Democrat. Well, pretty much guessed from our previous conversations but good to know. MAGA Republicans are such a-holes right now that I wouldn't put one past being very unprofessional knowing my politics. (Edited because there are obviously Republicans who are temporarily not supporting their party because they too are disgusted.)

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  Never heard of this film format before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9.5_mm_film Basically nearly 16mm quality but using about 1/2 of the film, by inserting sprocket holes between frames rather than on the sides. No room for audio though, but if you had to go back to film in the 21st century, I'm guessing you'd probably do audio differently anyway.

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  FWIW trying a braised pork recipe. May simplify at some point to see if I can make it easier. Both the beef burgundy recipe I follow and this one advise frying the meat chunks before cooking. I was wondering if that's strictly necessary. Especially as, with any kind of stew, "sealing in the juices" isn't really a thing that's needed anyway. I mean, you want the meat to take on the flavor of the sauce and vice versa right? Now, add to that that the cons...

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  This search is somewhat horrifying: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ftsa&q=%22Devuan%22+linux+%22woke%22&ia=web I thought the selling point of Devuan was supposed to be the lack of systemd (rightly or wrongly) not that it was a reaction against Debian having a code of conduct (which, naturally, the right wing have misrepresented.) Also someone pointed at a fork of Devuan which is supposed to be the "Anti-fascist version of Debian without systemd" called "A...

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  Is Gentoo still a thing? Do people still compile everything themselves so it's 5% faster?

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  CopyFail results: On Debian 12 (6.1.158 kernel) PoC didn't seem to work, I got prompted for a password. On Debian 14 (6.18.5 kernel) got dropped right into a root prompt. So this is very real. Yikes. Proof of concept: https://github.com/theori-io/copy-fail-CVE-2026-31431/blob/main/copy_fail_exp.py Write up: https://discourse.ifin.network/t/copy-fail-732-bytes-to-root-on-every-major-linux-distributions/342

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  I'm not asking much, just for the "lock" keys - Caps, Num, etc - to be toggles, not push buttons. Close to 50% of the key presses on them are by accident, and the only reason it's that low is that each accidental press requires one non-accidental press to undo it. You'd have thought in an era where people spend $400 on keyboards with giant chunks missing, someone would have dealt with that problem by now.

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  Crossword Pro-Tip: if it's an American lake, four letters, it's always ERIE. That is all.

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  Idea for keyboard: Lock keys (Caps lock etc) are actually locks. You need a key to change mode. Patent pending.

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  I'm guessing WHSmiths doesn't sell home computers any more? A key part of my childhood was spending time after school playing on the demo Spectrum, C64, and BBC Micro they had, plus whatever the other machine was (Atari ST, etc) #retrocomputing

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  I don't know how effective this would be, but it's still a nice sentiment RE: https://oldbytes.space/@Kroc/116467630598241148

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  Has anyone noticed that the people who have the strongest opinions about buses and their viability (negative, of course) are those who have never ridden one or lived in an area served by a proper bus service?

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  I wish I had a solution to elses in nested if statements that didn't involve forcing the use of blocks.

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  I have one of them there Thermoses that's been on the news. Fortunately I've never used it, largely because we bought it shortly before the pandemic.

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  It's nearly Saturday.

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  I'm wondering if we should teach our kids COBOL, to pass up generation after generation, until the year 9995 where they can start to use their skills.

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  Part of my mind goes to odd places from time to time. Like, a feature I've never seen in a programming language is support for genders. Classes could have genders for example. At first I thought you could do it the same way romance languages do: if it has a name ending in 'o' it's male, in 'a' it's female. But then I thought even further, and because there's an element within the software development movement that's trans...

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  Very reluctant to reboot my laptop at the moment as every update I do fails because the kernel and whatever version of the proprietary Nvidia drivers Debian 14 bundles are, right now, incompatible. I assume there's some way to resolve this that doesn't involve going back to nouveau (not because I don't want to, but because for some reason the graphical application I want to use it with most isn't compatible with nouveau.) At some point though I know the laptop wi...

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  As usual, not mine

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  OK, but what can/do they do about it? https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-employees-are-starting-to-wonder-if-theyre-the-bad-guys/

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  Another downside of genAI: the Linux devs are busy removing drivers for anything they think are unlikely to be widely used, because the amount of slop AI reports they're getting is overwhelming them. Probably not so much an issue with things like old mice controller cards, but we're still having problems with poor support for anything but a handful of wireless cards.

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  Best statement terminator