Woo!

If these fuckers want to Steve Jobs themselves then I say go for it. But leave the rest of us out of it.

https://thenextweb.com/news/andreessen-doctor-chatgpt-better-than-doctors

Ok, njal.la looks ok, it's by one of the pirate bay founders. ccrypto.org also looks good but only has like 6 servers.

In case you're wondering, the choices for ethical and competent VPN providers are shrinking. The only ones I can find are:

* IVPN
* AirVPN

There's also Perfect Privacy but they seem to have disappeared off the internet, which doesn't bode well.

TIL about `udm=14` and https://udm14.com/ ; basically degoogled google-search. And holy-shit it is _fast_.

Anguilla must making a fortune off all these `.ai` domains.

#showerthoughts

The fact that the company is spamming the replies with a boiler-plate non-explanation really cements their reputation with me now.

RE: https://det.social/@lostgen/116820546568940358

Oh ffs...

https://britmonkey.com/2020s-political-compass/

Hell yes!

8,000 beads, 3.5Kg, in case you were wondering.

Maree made me a weighted blanket for my birthday.

This is what he wants; the "Cancelled!" gravy-train beckons...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-24/karl-stefanovic-tommy-robinson-podcast-interview-taken-offline/106834832

Also, I found out yesterday that this shit-fight is why I can't get Yorkshire tea in Australia anymore (it comes via the UAE). Fuck you Trump, now it's personal.

Someone said this online and I had to check but: the Iran MoU funnels more money to Iran in one go than the all aid to Israel since 1948 combined, including military aid.

Mildly interesting; a local-LLM powered graphical text-adventure engine: https://github.com/newideas99/open-dungeon

"Interesting" because I've been vaguely wondering about something like this recently; early text-adventures (Spectrum/C64 era) spent a lot of effort on (and bragged about) their natural language processing engines. LLMs are the ultimate incarnation of that technology (but still can't handle ambiguity a lot of the time). I wonder how many of the old Infocom/Melbourne House/etc developers are still about an what their reaction to LLMs must be?

I saw a guy on one of those one-wheelers rocket past just now with a very shiny helmet and an impeccable three piece suit, and I have to admit he looked exactly like we thought the future was going to look in 1994.

I'm watching The Hobbit / Lord of the Rings. It's essentially a punch-up between gangs of early-1980s goths, new romantics, and metal heads. But somehow The Wurzels win.

It is okay to release a F/OSS project where the expected set of users is you.

It is okay to declare that a F/OSS project that you maintain is feature complete and stop.

It is okay to stop writing new code in a F/OSS project and just review patches from other people.

It is okay to stop reviewing patches once other people are familiar enough with the codebase to do so.

It is okay to admit that a F/OSS project that you created has so much technical debt that people would be better off reimplementing it than depending on it (especially if you write down the lessons that they should learn).

It is okay if your F/OSS project doesn't meet the requirements of some potential group of users, as long as no one applies pressure to force them to adopt it.

It is okay to tell a company that depends on your F/OSS project that it's unsupported and they can pay developers to contribute if they really need it.

It's okay to say 'I created this F/OSS project to meet my personal needs, but someone else made something that meets those needs better and so I'll use theirs instead'.

It's okay to say 'I made this F/OSS project as an experiment, and the result was that I learned that this approach is a bad idea'.