Until a few years ago in Poland there used to be a local bus line 666 to Hel, but the number was changed after Catholics complained 🙄
Now Flixbus opened a line 666 from Kraków to Hel, so it's finally back ;3
E.g. "Researchers are using AI to find new drugs" means that they're probably running a program that's closer to a linear regression than a chatbot in its scale and architecture to extrapolate from previously characterized molecules to other areas of research
This does NOT mean that a chatbot has helped to cure cancer in any way
And anyone who uses this as a justification for hyperscale data centre investment, LLM adoption, or "AI" generally is being deceptive through equivocation on purpose
Email Title: "Failed pipeline"
Email Body: "This pipeline has 0 failed jobs"
Hmmm
In the GitLab interface: it's green.
We truly have entered a new era, the Flaky Software Era.
*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.
Remember TOON, the JSON-killer for the AI Era™ that would Change Everything™ for sure?
Yes of course no one talks about it anymore, it was a revolution for a whole two weeks in November 2025 it seems.
Turns out it's a bit meh, as nobody could have guessed. https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.03306
Quake was re-released in 2021 as a very nice faithful remaster that runs perfectly on modern machines (including Steam Deck and ROG Ally). Updated engine and new content, check it out: https://bethesda.net/en/game/quake
Of course there's always the source code for your nerd needs: https://github.com/id-Software/Quake
Quake was released on June 22, 1996.
Happy thirty, Quake!
I just got reminded of the Grug Brained Developer.
It is essential reading for everyone who wants to write code.
I’m developing a game where you have to go back to assassinate Adam.
It’s a first person shooter.
All Protocol Observed
Welcome to Issue 244 of The Continent
Goons, les miliciens, baltagiya: different names, same job. Across Africa, muscle-for-hire helps politicians wield power through intimidation and violence – all while maintaining plausible deniability.
New Underworld song just dropped
npm install --ignore-scripts --plz-no-supply-chain-attacks --oh-god-when-will-the-horrors-end
How do people call the diagram below? What's the most famous/common name for it?
Edit: It's technically a "graph" but I am looking for a less generic/formal/math name.
"Mozilla built an AI kill switch into Firefox after its users demanded one. Only 1% have used it. Another 3% turned off some AI features selectively. The rest left everything on."
Poppycock. The people who turned off all the AI had already turned off the telemetry that measures this.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116752805722997877
Actual IT departments. Most places now only have "Big Tech Departments".
Sir Ian McKellen on calling everyone "love"
Speaking of building cool stuff, this project is coming along nicely.
Microsoft’s terms of service said Copilot was “for entertainment purposes only.”
An Nvidia executive said AI is more expensive than humans.
Google argued in German court that everyone knows they can’t trust AI.
The tech industry has bet a trillion dollars on something they know doesn’t work.
Here's some covers of Skyrim music in a soft jazz style. It's not much and if you just sit and listen to it you'll notice it's quite generic, but as background music for work it's really nice.
> Hundreds of millions of Pokémon Go players spent years filming the streets, parks, and buildings around them to earn in-game rewards. Those roughly 30 billion environmental scans are now owned by Niantic Spatial, and they helped train a camera-based navigation model that a U.S. defense contractor is preparing to put into drones and other military robots.
https://dronexl.co/2026/06/09/pokemon-go-scans-niantic-vantor-military-drone-navigation/