https://www.nbcchicago.com/investigations/government-admits-water-system-cyberattacks-were-worse-than-first-reported/3980961/

I’ll be on NBC Chicago talking about the recent water (and other stuff) cyberattacks this evening. All the way groggily from Australia.

My parenting failure 😭

We've been getting a lot of questions about how the Internet Archive digitizes books.

The short answer: page by page, by hand.

You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it.

Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: https://blog.archive.org/2021/02/09/meet-eliza-zhang-book-scanner-and-viral-video-star/

@CatsOfYore Let those who have never fiddled with scraps of tinfoil on rabbit ears sit down and shut up about their wifi dropping in bandwidth.

This is what we gave up for flatscreen TVs. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

how do you pronounce “VOIP”?

"For other people's jobs AI is fine, but for mine it's shitty"

Fuck off with this.

Can confirm.

@Possiblydrew "this must be hell"
"how can you tell?"
"first thing i need to do is scan a QR code"

@arrjay YAML: Yet Another Major Letdown

YAML: Write Never Read Once

This is getting nuts. @davidgerard #NoAI

https://youtu.be/usq1Nu5wqAk

meme voice Stop Using CSV

printable characters were never meant to separate values

wanted to separate values anyway for a laugh? we had a tool for that: ␟

"Oh yes, please give me a row that gets written to disk as 2,1783,"Ohio, US",,," — statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged

I have, like, four more days where I can text my male child to do stuff for his mother so she can think he thought of it. Then they go to college, & I need to do that shit again.

World humanoid robot games show runners breaking records, bursting into flames

Record-breaking robot races are less substantial than household chore challenges.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/world-humanoid-robot-games-show-runners-breaking-records-bursting-into-flames/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

beavers are just otters with an engineering degree

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