It took decades, but at least they finally admitted it. https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-confidante-says-mitch-mcconnell-215734988.html

*gently grabs the cheeks of all programmers to stare deeply into their eyes*

All I want is a dry tech manual. A boring, well indexed manual that defines every function. Not a chatbot. Not a training. Not a million "articles" that I have to search through. Not a "community forum".

My rice cooker came with one. I want one for every piece of software I have to interact with.

Go get yourself a technical writer if necessary.

I. Want. An. Instructional. Manual.

RE: https://flipboard.com/@tpm/tpm-original-news-and-features-8kgdthvuz/-/a-e1Od7ZYKSvWy_z6O0L7RVw%3Aa%3A4164495824-%2F0

Every word out of his mouth is like Vogon poetry.

The fact that we're willing to rely on LLMs to generate code knowing that it only mostly works because that code has been generated before thousands of times is not an indication that stochastic models are good, it's a massive, punishing indictment of computing as a field.

Using an insanely huge expensive model to quasi-reproduce work that's been created thousands of times already isn't productive or efficient. It's a symptom of profound failures of language, practice, process and imagination.

In response to *gestures wildly*, I've written about LLMs and why tech communities (in particular) should take an ethical stance against their use.

https://linguacelta.com/blog/2026/05/LLMs.html

"Context-aware desktop. That sounds interesting."

continues reading...

"Oh no"

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-26.10-Desktop-Features

In 2006, I made a screen capture of this nifty ANSI title screen from the BBS door game "Solar Realms Elite."

Seven years later, I realized this was a CUSTOM title screen, not SRE's default. Questions abounded: Where did it come from? Who had made it?

Well, a further 13 years on, I have finally solved the mystery! Join me on this voyage of retrocomputing discovery!

https://breakintochat.com/blog/2026/06/14/the-mystery-of-the-solar-realms-elite-title-screen/

#bbs #gamedev #gamehistory #history #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #textmode #ansiart #ansi

Oof.

@jaredwhite has WORDS about Apple in the latest Cycles Hyped No More.

(great newsletter btw; worth subscribing, if they are your thing)

https://buttondown.com/theinternet/archive/apple-has-officially-stopped-caring-about-accuracy/

Here’s an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of yourwill REALLY appreciate.

It’s so good, I had to make a video.

"Your use case is, there's a fourteen year old in an emergency room at 3 AM. English is their second or maybe fourth language. They have a battered school Chromebook or a hand-me-down Android device that was the cheapest thing on the market six years ago or a PS Vita their parents don't even realize has a web browser, and they're trying to educate themselves in the middle of the single most terrifying night they've ever experienced. Your site needs to work for that person at that moment."

Revisiting Go after several years and I'm mostly liking it, but the "capitalization controls visibility scope" really tripped me up for a while. 😅 #golang

OK, "loving it" might be strong. There's definitely some friction here and there. It has improved a lot though. Hopeful for the future.

Remember kids, if you’re not writing your web apps in VBScript and ActiveX then you’re going to be left behind!

I like the functionality of Zed editor, but it's crammed with AI "features", telemetry, proprietary components, and other unsavory bits. Gram is a fork that strips all of that out, and I'm loving it. #gram https://codeberg.org/GramEditor/gram

@Alice

640by480 is an Instagram-Like Photo Site for Users of Vintage Digital Cameras https://640by480.com/

Remember the early days of Uber and Lyft, when rides were dirt cheap because the companies were operating at a loss in order to capture the minds/wallets of the masses?

The rug pull in the AI/LLM world when the companies adjust pricing to actually make a profit is going to be spectacular. Especially when you consider the numbers of people / orgs that are addicted to or dependent on such technology.

RE: https://social.panic.com/@cabel/116553522656332225

This made my day.

I know people like to make fun of niche operating systems, but for the five years I was at Microsoft I used Windows (10 then 11) as my daily driver. It’s much less stable than a professional OS, but it does kind-of work. I wouldn’t say it’s ready for the desktop. The UI is inconsistent and changes randomly between releases, a load of common software is basically useable only in a VM, it lags and freezes periodically (unlike an OS designed for interactive use, random drivers run a load of things directly in interrupt handlers, so you get latency spikes that you wouldn’t see in a more mainstream desktop OS) and the update process can hose the system, so it’s mostly of interest to people who like tinkering with their machines than people who actually want to get work done. Oh and a load of random bits of the OS have ads, but that’s what you get from a free ad-supported system instead of one developed by an active open-source community.

I don’t think I’d recommend anyone use it as their daily driver or in a work setting, but it’s not totally unusable. It’s not at the level of maturity than you’d expect from, say, Linux or FreeBSD, especially not for client workloads. If you do have to use it, I recommend that you install FreeBSD in a Hyper-V VM for real work. That’s what I did and it works quite well.