Microsoft: I have made Notepad✨

Security researchers: You fucked up a perfectly good plaintext editor is what you did. Look at it. It's got RCEs.

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-20841

(these are all actually the same advice)

Kiddo did the pattern; I blasted it out 😁

My kid's summer camp is powered by a massive solar array. Underneath is a pen with chickens and a goat. The area is surrounded by wind turbines, farms, and rolling hills, and just generally looks like the backdrop from a Studio Ghibli film.

Solarpunk-ass nonsense. I love it.

I like Mamdani but ngl this seems kinda ominous

I love how much you can tell about chip manufacturers by how they name their products.

Intel's latest workstation CPU is called "Emerald Rapids", evoking a pleasant - if perhaps at times bumpy - ride through a beautiful forest.

AMD named theirs THREADRIPPER 9000

#NotTheOnion

"‘Nowhere on earth is safe’: Trump imposes tariffs on uninhabited islands near Antarctica"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/03/donald-trump-tariffs-antarctica-uninhabited-heard-mcdonald-islands

This was such low hanging fruit. It was literally right there.

(also, upon googling: @NanoRaptor evidently got there before I did, so hat tip to her for being first lol)

It's me.

Hi.

I'm the solution, it's me.

When I described the meme I intended to create, my wife pointed out that my code still generates the boilerplate, but deterministically, in the compiler.

Which I am 100% okay with.

The setting in my mobile client was a bit buggy; I had to try to turn it off a couple of times before it took, but the difference was SHOCKING in terms of how much loudness it had been adding to quiet videos.

Love the love that this thread is getting, but giving money to indigenous people is way better than liking or boosting a post.

For my Seattle, WA peeps:

https://www.duwamishtribe.org/donate
https://www.realrentduwamish.org/

If you want to do a thing online (and I do not care what that thing is) you can finance it in one or more of exactly five different ways:
1. Advertising
2. Subscriptions
3. Selling shit
4. Donations
5. Crimes

If your organization is large and would like some measure of stability, you're really limited to the first three.

This post is a general statement about the world, but also it is not *not* a post about the Mozilla Foundation.

Honestly, California is moving very quickly in the same direction.

We're only a few years from having massive publicly-sanctioned shantytowns in our major cities, with increasingly severe penalties for anyone caught sleeping or loitering outside them.

The options are:
1. Accept that kids are just gonna get randomly shot in school.
2. Construct and operate our schools like prisons.
3. Stop giving everyone guns.

If we were any other country, the answer would be both immediate and obvious.

The fact that the police and FBI knew about the kid, his mother called the school to warn them the day of, there were at least two armed cops (sorry, "resource officers") stationed at the school, and somehow a 14-year-old still managed to walk in with an assault rifle, kill four people, and injure a bunch more suggests that the "we need more cops", "it's about mental health not guns", and "let's arm school officials" people may all, in fact, be incorrect.

Hear me out:

VICE PREISDENT GRITTY

"What if men don't see value in including women tho?"

Then you will miss out on half your potential talent pool and produce an inferior product. Also we will all laugh at you because you are smelly nerds.

the clusivity is kind of odd; it's "I'm addressing everyone *except* the person I'm talking to" which kind of straddles the line between second and third person