the big men of FOSS told you that you were no good at organizing, at the messy legal bits, at licensing, at the social bits. they demanded fealty and money because they were the organizers. how could you hope to come up with a (laughably weak) document like the GPL? with 1000 variants of the BSD license? how could you get money and housing for giving (frankly universally terrible) talks for your knowledge? you were told that the only thing you were good for was your technical skill, and someone else would worry about the rest.

none of those big men are special. all of us are organizers. all of us can do what we will with our labor. all of us have proven to be better at both organizing and technical labor than any of the big men. they keep proving it every day.

why do we have to follow their marching orders? why do we have to act like switching operating systems is resistance?

be impolite. be a fucking nightmare. they owe us for everything they are now.

I'm more upset than I've been in a while.

Windows 11 sets the default documents folder to onedrive\documents. Anything that gets saved there gets backed up to one drive. This includes various save games, all my Reaper stuff, and various other odds and ends that I like to, you know, save.

To save disc space, OneDrive also defaults to files being online-only. They're not stored on your device, they're just listed there. So despite what they call it, this is in fact not a backup at all, because it doesn't create an extra copy. It is actually just transferring your most precious, irreplacible, personal files to Microsoft in the background, and trusting that nothing will happen. You can see where this is going, but just to underline the point with a bleeding fucking dagger, I did not ask for any of this, I just clicked save like I have done for the last twenty or so years of my life using Windows.

Since I don't care about and have never intentionally used onedrive, I signed out of it. Flash forward six months, the files that I thought were on my computer (because I can go see them there in the folder) are in fact gone from my hard drive, and also Onedrive nuked them from orbit.

Years of my life, gone without a trace. Thanks so much, Microsoft. Whoever came up with all those ideas probably got massive performance bonuses, because we're in the worst timeline.

Goodnight.

A world in which the norm consisted of potential victims and bystanders engaging in lethal self-defense against rapists would be a better world.

Hello #craft folks, maybe you can help me with this question?

My older son (pre-teen) wants to do decorated magnets, where a glass pebble is glued to a pretty paper and then to a magnet. In the craft book they suggest using E6000 to glue the magnet.

However, when I looked online, some people are vocal against E6000 for it being toxic. Is there any less toxic glue you'd recommend for a kid to work with? Or do we need to use the stronger glues due to the materials?

I appreciate any suggestions 🙂

#makers

For the past several months, I've been watching academics become righteously angry because AI allegedly solved a bunch of difficult math problems all on its own, only for it to be revealed that it was based on stolen work from human mathematicians all along because it can't reason.

It's like the comic of the grim reaper going from door to door massacring the room's occupants, except the reaper breaks in, steals everyone's shit, cuts them down, then leaves. It's happening now with all the game decomps, years of stolen work from human teams all wrapped up in a slop-coated bow.

Journalism is failing us so hard right now. Journalistic integrity is a perpetual struggle, but in this moment of need, it's failing utterly. I've seen article after breathless article declaring this is a turning point for games, like scrappy underdogs are stealing treasure from corporate dragons.

It's just... going over everyone's heads that this is a kind of settler-colonial violence, individuals imbued with the power of the State or of Company to spread out and destroy anything in their path so it can be claimed. These corporations need not raise armies; the people volunteer themselves.

It's why I believe the defining feature of this tech, the capacity to do harm, is *the feature* that excites these people the most. I'm convinced that if AI somehow hurt no one, they would not use it. That it might produce passable work is secondary to that harm. Harm is the true product being sold.

And media is complicit. Human decomp teams were illuminated with a suspicious light at best, if they were even noticed by outlets at all.

AI decomps now dominate the discussion in a "tee-hee, what is the Big Evil Game Corp gonna do now?" framing, deliberately obscuring what's actually happening.

The laziness of a thousand wannabe journalistic influencers repeats the message over and over again, lone hackers or creatives bucking the system and taking power back for the Little Guys.

Nah, man. They're just assholes, and their mandate is to move into a space and force humanity out of it.

There are a lot of smart people on Mastodon, so I’m looking for someone with the knowledge to help me build a death pod but it's more like a badass bobsled that rides a water slide into a volcano but it can't be plastic because it would melt and it probably shouldn't be metal because it would likely get too hot before you were launched into the lava so please let me know what materials would work best because this is not something I want to mess up.

Please boost for visibility.

Serious idea - does anyone want to collaborate on building a site to list NON-AI jobs (tech or adjacent). Where to list a job the company has to:

- not be an AI company
- not require AI use for the role
- not use AI to filter resumes (or write the job listings)
- not use AI generated content (in marketing materials etc)
- follow all local laws (so here in CA this means listing a salary range for the role etc)

Likely charging companies to list jobs (to help avoid non-real job listings)

@somebody I am honestly shocked by how much i want to hurt that man. It’s not my nature to be violent. And im sure its all the repressed trauma and rage finding a target acceptable, but holy mother of whips, i want him in stocks, whipped by every woman whom wants to leave a stripe, i want to throw rotten eggs at him, i want him to be so humiliated and so shamed he never touches pen to paper again.

I am perceptibly peeved.

What Michael Tracey has done is attempted murder.

Somehow I really want to like the game, Caves of Qud, but I just can't get into it, and I've tried many times.

LinkedIn just sent me a bunch of links on advice for buying a home when you only make "six figures".

My best year was about $65K, I felt guilty about how much money I was making, and I've been unemployed for a year.

Curious how well #federation is working, so please answer any way you'd like on this #Poll

American political commentator Michael Tracey , on Twitterx, doxed the victim of the #Cornell7 and published her name, her address, her phone number, her government id info, and leaked files that could have only come from defense teams.

Jane Doe has been swatted hour after hour. She’s getting death and rape threats by the minute. Her brothers were held at gunpoint during one of the swats.

#MichaelTracey should remember he is real fucking easy to find. And swat boys? You’re script kiddies. As the cybertruck of heavy metal James Hetfield would say; sleep with one eye open.

I am so angry I’m shaking.

#IamJaneDoe #WeAreJaneDoe

hey @homeassistant

what the fuck

https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant.io/issues/49314#issuecomment-6222899100

Going 94 MPH on a Skateboard (New World Record). “I cannot believe how closely the camera car is following him — looks like only a few feet away. Bonkers.” The final run is breathtaking. Literally…I was holding my breath, https://kottke.org/26/10/going-94-mph-on-a-skateboard-new-world-record

torvalds is really speedrunning all the major “dickhead manager discovers the slopbot” points

and of course, observers know what comes next: trying to shout over every breakage, every maintainer that leaves, every instance where using LLMs has proven to be a horrible fucking idea

nobody operating in good faith thinks an LLM is like a compiler. this is an AI booster meme from early 2026. but torvalds has a captive audience, so his bad takes don’t need to be new. expect to see this crap parroted once again by the worst guys you know. https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/117451805824031590

Fuck A.I.

Meet Lucy. Lucy is a little concerned about whether she's got the spell right. Will keep trying.

@Jasperthecat

#sillySpookyHatting

I tried playing Rimworld again a few times recently, and I'd forgotten how brutal the game was. I was just looking at the Steam forum for Rimworld and, I suppose unsurprisingly, the fans revel in the game's brutality. It's pretty much a game for people who think disaster survival is primarily about building walls and stockpiling ammunition.

Hey y'all. Does the follower count matter to you ? And do you use it as a measurement of how trustworthy someone is here on Mastodon?

I'm just curious. I know I can look it up but I like having additional source of info.

Boosts aren't mandatory but appreciated. Besides I'll make my own conclusions eventually...

#askfedi #mastodon #askfedi #fediverse #poll #polls