Maybe that's what we're actually experiencing now.

Unit testing democracy. Maybe more like stress testing.

EFF is Leaving X After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue.

I’m actually surprised it took this long!

Link for others learning about this for the first time: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance. But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain. He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again. He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”

What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

Nice! I barely recall seeing that now. Totally addresses my issues.

`nix-shell` really should only be used for debugging derivations. It just got overloaded with so many other applications it wasn't the best at. But now we have better options.

At least you're okay calling it abuse. I hate the hacks required to make `nix-shell -p` work at all. I don't know that there is a `nix run` equivalent.

Videos Show Moments in Which Agents Killed a Man in Minneapolis Federal authorities said the slain man, Alex Pretti, had approached agents with a gun. But videos show Mr. Pretti was holding his phone, not a weapon, when they pulled him to the ground.

Videos verified by The New York Times show Alex Jeffrey Pretti, the man federal agents shot and killed in Minneapolis on Saturday, was holding a phone, not a gun, when the agents took him to the ground and shot him. In total, at least 10 shots appear to have been fired within five seconds.

Done. I just rage fast-forwarded through that bloated self-important ending. 1.5x wasn't fast enough. Had to additionally 10-sec skip through it. It was so bad.

I should be more careful of which pop culture things I track moving forward. My nature is to complete things I start.

There is supposed to also be this D&D angle as a hook. But D&D games aren't actually fun to watch unless the players have a lot of charisma. I mean, a lot.

Otherwise, D&D adventures are just the bad writing by bad authors. A comedy sketch exclusively of inside jokes.

And this style of 80's nostalgia is particularly annoying. My childhood memories are more than toys and other material items.

And all this 80's romanticism is pretty much how we got Trumpism.

This is the kind of nostalgia imagined by an out-of-tough white suburban kid with one black friend.

Just limping along to get through Stranger Things because it seems like a cultural phenomenon. Also, a sunken cost. I'm on the last episode. But It's just terrible writing. I just don't care about these characters.

we reproduce asexually, releasing clouds of spores at certain points in our lifecycles, like some species of fungi

[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation External Inbox Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org> 5:43 AM (4 hours ago) to me Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village) IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.

Just fuck you. Fuck you all.

I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.

Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment.

They are openly saying this.

Who would want to live in a country that works like that?

I'm begging all engineers … BEGGING … to stop creating codenames for internal engineering projects

It's a huge architecture smell because it causes most engineers to turn off their brains because they think about solving everything in terms of frameworks instead of ordinary and simple code

something i have tried to explain a few times, when people see crashes (panics, asserts, segfaults, whatever) as "bad":

when you have a bug, your program crashes if you're lucky. If you're not lucky, your program keeps running, but it is now a different program than you think it is. That's worse.

PayPal HATES IT when you

- Have sex, or
- Use Linux

a lot of the benefit of programming in a functional language is not actually the language itself, but rather the community of like-minded people who actually *want* to do things in a functional way and don't have to be cajoled to do so

We interrupt your doomscroll to remind you that public media always plays music free of charge – and free of algorithmic involvement.

Though NPR has lost federal funding, we're committed to keep bringing you the arts because it is core to our mission.

To stand with us, donate here: n.pr/47jpe4d

Just a reminder for all the people voting in the upcoming Nix Steering Committee election:

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I'm bothered by musical expression as competition.

It's pathetic in the form of electric guitar god territory.

Why should classical piano get a pass?

Interpretation and emotional response is incredibly subjective. This is just humans dehumanizing themselves without realizing the scope of it.

“NO KINGS” is more than a slogan; it’s the foundation that the United States of America was built upon. We wouldn't be a country if the founding fathers didn't believe that.

As such, the people peacefully protesting today in the streets across the country love the premise of this country.

No hate.

just a reminder i am a nixpkgs commiter and am happy to merge your PRs if you ping me or request a review

reminder its time to vote for the nix SC, you have 2 weeks

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

Boss: I have an idea

it's kinda weird that all the software i am expected to use for work are all written by distributed teams, go, python, postgres, linux, chrome, k8s etc

and despite being told "the best teams work in an office together" i don't know of any software i use that's actually written that way

zeldawilliams 20m From Create Mode •• Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want. To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, , just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

im working hard and hardly working at the same time