If I were to host somewhere that wasn't Hetzner, what's cheapish and as reliable? Assume UK/Europe location. Feel free to shill for your mates.

motherfuckers really will run an AI-critical blog post through an LLM that flags every moderately complex piece of writing as slop, then post some shit like “Key Takeaway 👉: This author isn’t just pretending to hate LLMs, they’re misrepresenting their own work.” without batting an eyelash

@decay it's the OAuth2 school of protocol design: nothing's actually required but the shape of the framework, and "on its own, this specification is likely to produce a wide range of non-interoperable implementations" in the standards documents is taken in stride instead of an admission of failure

@jonny @davidgerard

@jonny @davidgerard afaik the problem with doing this is that the activitypub spec, in all its sprawlingness, ends up being "there's an object with some stuff in it" at the end of the day. the schema is actually just a post-it note with "lmao" written on it

i want to use ffmpeg's vp9_vaapi encoder, but I can't get the right incantation to send the input to the CPU for -vf eq before it goes to the GPU for encoding.

e.g. this works without the eq section but not with it:

ffmpeg -vaapi_device /dev/dri/renderD128 -i VID_20260626_183128.mp4 -vf 'format=nv12,eq=gamma_b=1.01:gamma_r=0.99:contrast=1.1:brightness=0.03:saturation=0.85,hwupload' -b:v 50M -an -c:v vp9_vaapi test.webm

vainfo: VA-API version: 1.22 (libva 2.22.0)
vainfo: Driver version: Intel iHD driver for Intel(R) Gen Graphics - 25.2.3 ()

any ideas?

EDIT: solution - end the -vf string with "format=nv12,hwupload". cheers to @tyzbit

our dishwasher that was sitting on a shelf doing nothing for three years has been hooked up again and

it washes dishes

\o/

i block the "trending" bots on sight, and if there's a whole server full of bots boosting posts i'll defederate from it. they have no right to insert themselves into my social fabric #tagsPub

much of the fediverse is "public" in the same way a conversation between friends at the beach is public. sure you can hear what we're saying as you walk by and even join in, but if you sit silently beside us with a tape recorder to transcribe everything we say for further dissemination you're still being a creep

Tips to deal with climate change caused heat waves:
* drink enough water
* stay in the shade
* bring down the capitalist system
* put wet cloth on your neck, hands and legs

An IKEA blahaj 🦈 video 🏳️‍⚧️ from 🇪🇸

> yo mamma so fat her regex is an xlex

- SubG, SA

NEW INVESTOR PITCH DECK JUST DROPPED: EAT IT UP:

Paté de foie Softbank

> A Mad Hatter and a giant rabbit sit around a table discussing an A.I.
start-up. This is normal behavior around the Bay Area these days.
> Mr. Karunaratne, 29, figured his Alice in Wonderland homage — which took
two days to film and included actors, a live white rabbit and a $2,000
rental fee for that costume head — would pay for itself as long as it
attracted just one new customer.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/technology/ai-startups-videos-marketing.html

so many issues caused by not taxing these bozos until the pips rattle

nobody compresses goose value harder than I do. my goose chain is so short I honk before I honk. soft hat should hire me to deal with red bank

I'm re-reading Neptune's Brood by @cstross and this quote hits a bit harder nowadays than when it was written in 2013, in the era before the slop engines:

"As I said, these things bore only a thin veneer of intelligence: Once you crack the ice and tumble into the howling void of thoughtlessness beneath, the illusion ceases to be comforting and becomes a major source of irritation. (Which is why I prefer my tools to be less conversational and more functional; there is less scope for self-deception if your spreadsheet is too dumb to massage the figures until they show you something pleasing rather than that which is actually there.)"

[setting up my nativity scene] riiiiide in tooooo the Manger zone

I'm not saying it's hot here, but there were some tiny humanoids on my roof, and one of them tossed a weird ring through my open window.

I'm not saying it's hot here, but I've just noticed some people in weird suits riding a big worm.