This is just the dumbest science fiction future possible.

Oh no, I'm going to end up writing my own protocol stack on top of RS-485 aren't I?

Did you know that 3D printed covers for Flock cameras are easily printed and make cameras inoperable when you plop them on using a pole?

I share this information for no reason at all.

“Age assurance is a privacy nightmare. Enshrining it as the industry standard means the end of meaningful online anonymity, and it ‘forces’ Meta to collect more data about all of us — including adults” that can be used “for whatever else they decide it’s useful for. That’s bad.”

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do/post/3mtziyhs64k2d

The reason people say Dolly Parton wasn't political is because caring for one another isn't political.

The people who make it political are the people who don't want to be kind and don't want to help people.

Am I using regular make to run cmake? Yes.

Is this cursed? Yes

mitch mcconnel was kicked from the server for idling

FUUUCCCKKKKKKKKK

https://cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com/entertainment/yayoi-kusama-dead-587981

REMINDER: Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in now 73 days. Yet he still:
•Has his job
•Gets paid, and
•Gets free world-class healthcare

The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, & against guaranteed paid leave, is getting all three when he needs it most. Every person deserves the human dignity McConnell is getting on the taxpayer dime. Anything less is shameless cruel hypocrisy.

State Department removes a work by Kehinde Wiley that it commissioned for the US embassy in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and that the current ambassador recently described as a symbol of “globalist and woke ideologies.” https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/25/kehinde-wiley-painting-removed-us-embassy-dominican-republic-state-department

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@Secure_ICS_OT/117164962733408808

Reduce your debugging with this one weird trick nobody wants you to know about.[1]

[1] Weird trick is putting everything on a flat network with public IP addresses. Now everything works seamlessly.

you release 49 feral hogs to the city labeling them from 1 to 48 and then 50. they will spend forever looking for the feral hog 49

#DollyParton still doing good after her death

"Judge strikes down #Texas ban on #drag shows, tells people offended by them ‘just don’t go’"

Judge Hittner cited Dolly in his ruling, pointing out "erotic" elements targeted by #SB12 would apply to Dolly as well

One of the plaintiffs in the case is #BrigitteBandit, a Dolly impersonator. Dolly gifted a rhinestone guitar to Brigitte in 2023

Brigitte will be performing in #Austin on Saturday in Dolly's honor, as Dolly

👏👏👏

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/judge-strikes-texas-ban-drag-shows-tells-people-offended-just-dont-go-rcna594448

Double Fine is making Brutal Legend free on Itch.io for the next 666 minutes to celebrate Tim Curry

https://doublefine.itch.io/brutal-legend

Shoutout to that one guy recording Columbo’s statement with a cassette player that can’t record

Accurate.

#AI #Funny

Well this is interesting. My old colleagues at Equal Experts took away a team’s AI tools to try and gauge the ROI on AI spend.

The team got faster. And improved their domain knowledge. And realised they were losing their coding chops(!)

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/equal-experts_a-client-asked-us-to-prove-the-roi-of-their-activity-7497914475795136513-_pc6

Cheesus!

ABC7: Spilled pallets of cheese balls cause traffic mess on 105 Freeway in Lynwood

https://abc7.com/story/spilled-pallets-cheese-balls-cause-traffic-mess-105-freeway-lynwood/19741016/

#cheese #traffic

@ShadowPlay @petrillic Somebody noted that if that tropical storm Dolly hits Maralogo they will have to consider profound possibilities :P

🚧 edit: no need to recurse to "glacier collapse". Please read a better explanation in the next post.
(So i have just learned to beware the New Scientist.)

"The full extent of the deaths and damage caused by the enormous flash flood that swept down a river valley in Nepal and Tibet today won’t be clear for weeks. But initial analyses of satellite images and seismic data suggest that the collapse of a high glacier caused the disaster."

"Melting snow appears to have weakened a steep glacier at an altitude of 5 kilometres, causing it to plummet around a kilometre into the river valley below."

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2586497-a-glacier-collapse-is-most-likely-cause-of-the-nepal-disaster/

#glacier #flood #Tibet #Nepal