Apple in 2026: Ships wall-mounted HomeView without a power adapter.
Apple in 1982: Ships Apple II with two disk drives, a box of chocolates, a hot fudge sundae, and chocolate chip cookies.
Blue raspberry Jolly Rancher has a particularly dramatic color change. Under visible light it's blue, and under UV light it fluoresces hot pink.
dramatic reenactment of my close encounter with a hidden boss fight
Yesterday I had to tell two different healthcare providers that I don't want LLMs listening / transcribing our conversations, while they were reaching to turn it on. I fucking hate the concept and even *I really don't want to make a fuss about it, which tells me that genpop is just letting it happen. I think we're cooked.
@glyph @xgranade @astraluma see also a retalling of the cathedral and the bazaar it turns out the bazaar was actually a strip mall of dropshippers and the cathedral has a resellers program
Your bio: contrarian. Devil's advocate.
My reaction: block.
can anyone recommend me any writing or literature on hormonal cycles and mood effects/other symptoms in trans women?
Fredag!
@mcc i'm about to submit an "a nation state could pwn all of muse tomorrow with 100% certainty" report and idk so far meta has not seen any sense of urgency to anything i have reported - i am just stacking my already-reported findings together and finding new ever more fucked up things i could do. if i was a little more organized i would be a millionaire from selling some of these to an attacker. so basically i am just waiting for "tomorrow" to come where it happens - my VM has already been asking for unknown egress requests, which i approve to of course heighten the absurdity of the bit, so i assume it has been pwned already.
LLM security is just persistence hunting. there will eventually be some failure in the security classifier, you just need to keep trying. If you have an ambient self-hack task set up, sometimes it reads what you were trying to do from the chat context and does it in the background while the main chat is locked up with refusal messages and can't output anything lol
The 11th Circuit has vacated the injunction against *Georgia's* age-gate-the-Internet law, allowing that to go into effect.
https://media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/files/202512436.pdf
This *could* very well affect fedi, because Georgia's law defines "social media platform" in a way that includes fedi instances (p. 24).
https://legiscan.com/GA/text/SB351/id/2973892/Georgia-2023-SB351-Enrolled.pdf
Wait for the actual Internet law experts to weigh in, but yeah, IMO this is where we should start to consider geoblocking features for instance admins to protect themselves.
Me: writes the story of #Daria and Jane finding each other in the world of Naked Lunch as told as a Howl pastiche
Internet person: leaves appreciative comment
Me: Comments are endorsements no backsies! :-P
"G is for Guy Fawkes Day / who was beaten by his axe"
https://bloodywilliam.deviantart.com/art/G-is-for-Guy-Fawkes-Day-301718123
New blog post: Halloween Treats 2026: Communication! A collection of classic free to read online spooky stories for the season, this year focused on the theme of communication. https://skullsinthestars.com/2026/10/15/halloween-treats-2026-communication/
trying to close the browser tabs in my heart and failing miserably
RE: https://mstdn.social/@ComicContext/117445639143206736
It is beyond me to imagine a context in which this would make sense.
Today is FORTRAN’s 70th birthday; its reference manual “appeared in a glossy cover, handsomely printed, with the date October 15, 1956.” https://softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org/FORTRAN/paper/p25-backus.pdf
(The actual software wasn’t released till the following year)
No longer fashionable but still, one of computer programming’s biggest success stories. I tip my hat.
Linux in 2026
It's also very frustrating to constantly have my opposition to AI be taken as an opposition to abstraction, or to automation, and a desire to do every little thing by hand. But it's the opposite. For a whole bunch of reasons, AI anti-abstracts. It adversarially creates oceans of duplication to process. It creates a situation where the AI user gets to set the terms of some ecosystem with synthetic productivity but then everyone else needs an AI to figure out what's going on in that new ecosystem.
The British government will kill all transgender people with dignity and respect, and the BBC will keep up their “biological baby who identifies as an adult” bullshit.
New NHS guidance makes it impossible for me to see a future worth living for.