today in tim sweeney https://store.epicgames.com/news/epic-games-launcher-preview

lol https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-researchers-smoking-ai-cure-cancer-palantir-cto-2026-10

ffmpeg putting up nazi-themed decorations in their bar https://code.ffmpeg.org/michaelni/Fairies#grok-build-backend

irc3 no longer requires a bouncer, right? but do any of the major networks support that yet

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-now-lets-anyone-use-your-instagram-photos-in-ai-images-unless-you-opt-out/

delete every meta account yesterday https://bsky.app/profile/lebassett.bsky.social/post/3mwemvokei22s

the creative fields that understand themselves as such have largely rejected generative AI, but the median programmer would never describe themselves as in a creative profession and also has the interiority of a fruit fly. these things are probably connected

thinking again about Egg saying how he has zero introspection and why programmers might be especially susceptible to LLM derangement

- [x] 'AI has been around forever -- you activists don't know how computers work'
- [x] 'LLMs aren't going away, so shut the fuck up!'
- [x] 'Also, be nicer to me!'
- [x] debian vote cited

waterslop https://www.waterfox.com/blog/where-waterfox-stands-on-ai-llms/

consider that using law as your primary framework to interpret the world might end up cooking your brain

it's really funny to be like 'we chose to step in on the side of the most evil companies in existence because one of the things they're doing in their chain of actions destroying the world is technically legal'

it’s unfortunate that ‘tescreal bundle’ has historically bad mouthfeel

i will never, ever forgive rust for this https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/05/the-rust-evangelism-task-force-has-declared-ethics-to-be-out-of-scope/

'no crapware'

great idea https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/pull/18757

netbsd baby question: i want to see if the bwfm drivers work for my macbook's old broadcom wifi, but modstat doesn't show bwfm at all; is it not included by default in netbsd 11?

tfw dangar

programmers should be kept in cages under the custody of historians, sociologists, etc, and let out in order to work on air-gapped computers with a local archive of stackoverflow circa 2020

reading mailing lists for software projects is useful to remind oneself that software developers are some of the stupidest people on the planet