it is all stupid stuff including forced password stuff/policy and not accepting suggested password by my password manager. and don't get me started on disabling copy and paste stuff. ugh!!!

Bank: Change password now.

Me: Types 20 char long random password.

Bank. LOL. Noop. Here are the rules:
Password must be 8-12 characters with a combination of atleast one uppercase, one lowercase alphabet, one numeric and atleast one of these special characters !@#$%^&*

Me: Ugh. Opens terminal & types: `p="$(openssl rand -base64 32 | tr -dc 'A-Za-z0-9!@#$%^&*' | head -c8)"; p="${p}Aa1!"; printf '%s\n' "$p" | fold -w1 | shuf | tr -d '\n'; echo`

Me: here is the new password. Happy?

Bank: 👌

Partial eclipse from Germany. Really happy with how this shot turned out. Taken with an Acuter Elite Phoenix 40 and a ToupTek G3M678M.

#solareclipse #eclipse #eclipse2026 #photography #astrophotography #Astrodon #astronomy #sonnenfinsternis

Mama cat carrying her baby

1 Quit your IT job.
2 Start your own company.
3 Take the risk.
4 That is how you go from making $15,000 per month to $0 per month.
5 ???
6 Profit 🙃

The fastest way to get VIP treatment when you land...seriously, how dumb do you have to be to try something like this? This person on Reddit stole my thoughts verbatim: "committing federal crimes from inside a sealed metal tube that lands exactly where the feds are waiting is certainly a strategy."

https://www.reddit.com/r/delta/comments/1vl52vr/dl591_lasatl_arrival_met_by_federal_agents/

Wall Street is officially treating AI compute as its own asset class. Nvidia is partnering with BlackRock, Blackstone, & Goldman Sachs to back a massive $500B AI infrastructure push. This is another form of circular deals https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78gr0jv0mdo

They won't stop until everything crashes. No, I'm not talking about speculative debt/stock market stuff (yes, that's bad for people who play by the rules for their pension needs). I'm talking about existing jobs, clean water, energy, the environment 😔

we should have stopped here 😔

Over 181,000 AI meeting recordings left wide open in note taking app. I reported this on January 28th, 2026. It is now July 2026. Six months later. The Firestore database is still wide open. The CTO never responded. I guess my emails were too long and they didn't view them https://bobdahacker.com/blog/tldv-hack

The IT industry is pretty much on the verge of collapse now and it has been hijacked by people who think they can prompt their way out of it.

FUCK. xfce is going slop and posting lengthy semi-generated apologia.

https://www.spurint.org/journal/2026/07/llms-and-xfwl4

Windows 11 built-in weather app eats more than 1.2 GB of memory just to tell you if it is going to rain or hot today. Hah. Linux and Unix users just type:

curl wttr.in
curl wttr.in/city_name_here
curl wttr.in/nyc
curl wttr.in/moon
curl wttr.in/london

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/08/09/windows-11s-weather-app-uses-5x-the-ram-of-macos-weather-and-it-still-shows-ads/

Your AI did not "go rogue"
it's just a program.

Your AI did not "hallucinate"
it has no brain.

Your AI did not "create" anything
it's just a plagiarism machine.

Your AI is not your "friend"
stop anthropomorphizing it.

It's just code. Exploitative, polluting, and unethical code :no_ai:

#NoAI

Weird how nobody's AI has gone rogue, broken containment, and become profitable.

Aunt: Do you still make furniture?
Me: What? I don't think I've ever made furniture.
Aunt: But I remember when you were just out of college you were so proud of that job in NYC doing table design. On the computer. I guess you didn't really build them yourself, then.

For two decades this sweet woman thought I was making literal wooden tables. I just thought that designing the tables was the most fun and glamorous part of database design.

I regret to inform everyone that my copy of QBittorrent escaped its sandbox last night and downloaded a whole bunch of content owned by major corporations, and then my copy of Jellyfin broke containment and added those unfortunately-downloaded media files to its various libraries. I'm conducting an internal investigation to figure out how this happened, which will involve consuming these media files until the answers become apparent. Thank you for your cooperation during this trying time.

We have a perfectly working home planet. Let's ignore it and think about going into deep space, building data centers, AI, and robots to replace human jobs and chasing the fool's dream of living in 100% unknown deep space. So that is the vision billionaire brats are selling? Nobody sees a problem with this plan? Why not take good care of home first, advance space exploration without causing water or noise pollution and keep all humans healthy with good jobs? Maybe am I the fool one? 🤔

RE: https://mastodon.social/@hagen/117054700080240558

💯

Oracle has banned AI-generated code from OpenJDK contributions, citing safety, security, and intellectual property risks. The open-source Java project steward said developers can use LLMs privately for debugging and reviewing code but cannot submit AI-generated material to repositories, pull requests, or other project channels.

source
https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/03/as-larry-ellison-bets-the-farm-oracle-says-it-loves-ai-written-code-just-not-in-openjdk/5281851 and https://app.dealroom.co/news/feed/oracle-bans-ai-generated-code-from-openjdk-despite-ellison-s-claim-oracle-isn-t-writing-its-own-code

/dev/null: little known facts of the day:

NASA quietly benchmarks black holes against it. The black holes lose 😱

Also big thumbs down to Google, Microsoft, and ALL others for playing a big role killing the open web with your LLM overviews and other AI bullshit. May all of you burn down to ashes!!!! Never forgot how Google killed RSS feed readers, too.