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That’s one “hell” of a headline, OSNews!
“Microsoft settles centuries of religious debate by providing clearest definition of hell to date: Windows with a website-based shell running only Copilot”
https://www.osnews.com/story/145423/microsoft-settles-centuries-of-religious-debate-by-providing-clearest-definition-of-hell-to-date-windows-with-a-website-based-shell-running-only-copilot/
The Onion's takeover of Infowars has launched and it rules https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnz6PTSXiI0
Today, the European Court of Justice has upheld Google’s fine of around €4.1 billion by the European Commission for abusing its dominance by requiring distributors of Android devices to bundle Google Search and Google Chrome. I expect the copper-coloured crumbly crypto cretin to nuke Luxembourg. PDF: https://curia.europa.eu/site/upload/docs/application/pdf/2026-07/cp260093en.pdf
RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116757991915568453
I dont even read the code anymore, I just let the whole internet prompt inject an agent loop that writes and merges everything itself, and label every issue good-first-issue let the haunted hum of unmonitored metricsmaxxing compute sort it out.
https://github.com/charles-openclaw/charles-microbounties/issues/2220
It's 1998, you make a website in the copy of frontpage express that came with your computer, it's just like Word and it's very easy, you figure out how to upload it to the couple megs of web space that your ISP gives you (the instructions are on their website), you visit your site in your browser and everything's fine and the site's readable and everything looks the way it should
🦝 "Wow, if it's this easy in 1998, I bet it'll be even easier in 2026" you think to yourself for some reason
„The chaos is resolved when the Sorcerer reappears and asserts control over the situation, glaring at the apprentice for his foolishness. This seems like an apt metaphor for the AI era: you want to be a sorcerer and not an apprentice. And a sorcerer has to understand the code.“ https://htmx.org/essays/code-is-cheap/ #links
Now you can keep track of how many billions the AI companies are losing on AI. (Red is spending, green is revenue.) https://isaiprofitable.com/
The new JPEG XL image format support was activated today in Firefox Nightly
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/2040074
This is tragic, the fall of Bitwarden: https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-quiet-renovation-at-bitwarden
So many good points! “The State of Design”
🙄 @lobsters removed my submission of Killed by Apple as being off-topic even though I checked beforehand and it permitted Killed by Google 6 years ago. Both are interesting computer history.
https://killedbyapple.theden.sh/?ref=activitypub
> The cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees: Nvidia exec
https://fortune.com/2026/04/28/nvidia-executive-cost-of-ai-is-greater-than-cost-of-employees/
If your AI use costs less than what it would take to pay a human to do it, then you're what's called a "mark" in the "pre rug-pull" phase of the grift
When they start passing those costs on to you, you will graduate to being the "bag holder"
So think hard about whether you want any "load bearing" tasks to be handled by an AI
In related news, Microsoft is offering thousands of its most senior employees an early buyout plan to get them off the payroll.
... only a few months after announcing to everyone how their new focus is QA and making sure everything works the right way, every time, reliably.
I'm sure there won't be any downsides to THAT.
A Fediverse experiment! an "Exquisite Corpse" collab with artist @prahou (left), and me (right). Fun fun!
Full original thread: https://fe.disroot.org/notice/B5c8qmENlmX1kjRXMm
RE: https://mastodon.social/@blacktop/116517770852842822
“iOSInEUOriPhoneInBrazilOriPhoneInJapanRegion” 😂
Did you know you can pass a bill that states 1 + 1 = 3 ?
Like. Your legislature can propose, vote, and pass a bill that doesn't follow the rules of math, science, etc. Representatives don't have to understand tech, or numbers, or computer protocols. Or really anything. It's just words on paper (or a screen) that more than half of their body voted for.
And it's law.
Who knew.
Anyways, here's a fun article to read: https://www.tomshardware.com/software/vpn/utah-becomes-first-us-state-to-target-vpn-use-with-age-verification-law
This has been on my mind for *weeks*. I've been saying for a long time that it's possible to have an AI that only uses consensually-gathered content, is open source + open weights, runs on your own machine, and is designed to empower creators instead of exploit them. Well, we've finally got one. https://www.anildash.com/2026/04/28/one-good-ai-is-here/
2016: every line of code is immediately tech debt, the most important design paradigm is simplicity, I maintain a curated personal blog about minimalism
2026: haha I just have my stochastic labubu generate tons of code all the time, I don't even look at it. More is more. I regularly have nervous breakdowns about what it all means on all social media platforms
The cal.com project announced they're going closed source, with the reason stated that open source is risky due to AI vulnerability scanning 🤔
Like with mass firings, I think we'll see other VC-backed "Commercial Open Source" projects use AI as an excuse and opportunity to close their code now that AI is reducing the cost to entry for competitors, and for bypassing licensing or limitations in open core.
The licensing for cal.com was always questionable anyway: