Anyway, I'd like to be able to follow things through a bit more because existential dread, I guess? This thread went a little off the rails...

Don't get me wrong, I live a very good life, but part of being human is only having a limited time on this earth to do things before we have to move on to whatever comes next. And while I'm somewhat scared by the exact nature of "whatever comes next" I'm even more scared by the fact the life I'm […]

Sorry for getting existential, but time just keeps moving faster as I get older. I have so many things I want to do in life and it's tough coming to terms with the reality that even under the best of circumstances, I won't be able to do it all.

And these are just my more "creative" interests, of course I spend plenty of time "consuming" as well. Playing video games, watching TV, reading books, etc. I have a lot of interests and between my job and my family (the latter which I love and the former which I need to do) I don't have very […]

Despite my recent post about how you don't need to be good at your hobbies, I do wish I was able to focus on mine a bit better. In the past few weeks I've decided I want to:

(1) Create an open source tool for 3DS virtual console injection
(2) Make YouTube shorts about various nerdy topics
(3) […]

Obviously it's generally more fun to be good at things than to suck at them, but when it comes to hobbies the goal is to enjoy yourself. If you need to be good at whatever you're doing for it to be enjoyable, fine. If not, also fine!

Rank terribly in that video game, make an ugly chair, knit a lopsided sweater, as long as you enjoy it, you're doing great!

The great thing about hobbies is, you're allowed to suck at them, it's OK.

screenshot of a reddit post titled "finally!! built a solution preventing yahoo taking over my chrome". the text reads: "so, i was basically annoyed by yahoo taking over my google search engine every other day, and i had to go to settings and change it every time. so i built this extension which prevents that, and you won’t even realize if your search engine gets taken over. what it basically does is redirect your queries to your selected search engine whenever it detects that yahoo has taken over. it does this automatically, so you don’t have to go into settings again and again. you can also choose the search engine according to your preference. requesting you guys to show some love. it’s completely free. i’m open to suggestions, criticism, or any improvements/features i can add. also, if you guys have any other problems or need a small tool that could help, let me know. i’d be happy to work on it." the image at the top also shows text including "yahoo tries to hijack. we silently stop it." and a counter showing "47 redirects blocked."

i’m fucking crying 😭 this guy installed a malware that keeps redirecting his queries through Yahoo, and vibe coded an extension that redirects Yahoo to Google, probably not understanding that he has malware 😭 😭

screenshot of a GitHub issue conversation titled "please wiiu version" between me and the issue author author, 2 days ago: "please, wiiu version of fediiverse" me, one hour ago: "i don't have a wii u" author, 43 minutes ago: "i have one"

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I still remember being mad at my friend who told me about MissingNo for but mentioning it would ruin my Hall of Fame. He said that didn't matter, but it mattered to me at the time.

I remember because afterward I encountered MissingNo in an attempt to duplicate items and my Hall of Fame got all messed up. This freaked young me out big time and I deleted my save to start a new one without the MissingNo corruption.

On my first ever playthrough of Pokemon Red, I somehow managed to beat the game essentially exclusively with my Venusaur. I didn't even know how to switch the Pokemon party order so I literally always used him. Somehow I still managed to defeat the Elite 4.

The little ketchup packets they give you in take out orders are essentially useless. I either throw them out or add them to an ever-growing pile of condiment packets I will literally never use.

me: [cooking, plunges hands into something goopy]

the podcast i’m listening to: we need to take a quick break

Company wide email last week: there is an emergency patch for some software you’ve never heard of. Please update manually NOW; if it’s not patched by Tuesday, your machine will forcibly reboot.

Me: o software management portal of my work machine, is this software even installed, that I might […]

The challenge with AI in open source security has transitioned from an AI slop tsunami into more of a ... plain security report tsunami. Less slop but lots of reports. Many of them really good.

I'm spending hours per day on this now. It's intense.

RE: infosec.exchange/@BleepingComputer/116317...

Oh no! Not Fortnight's FortiClient!

screenshot from Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream "Welcome Version": "Staten Island... Whoa. Cool name!"

No it isnt

I want to believe that most of the annoying commenters are just kids who don't know any better, but I'm not even sure that's true...

22.0.0 Support · Issue #2746 · Atmosphere-NX/Atmosphere Check list for 22.0.0 changes. Reverse engineer new kernel changes Update fusee/exosphere with new keydata/values Implement new changes into mesosphere Implement new changes into loader Implement n...

Thankfully the maintainers finally locked it down, but reading through this thread is pretty wild. So many people with just so much impatience entitlement for an open source project that they don't pay a cent for.

https://github.com/Atmosphere-NX/Atmosphere/issues/2746

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@evacide/116290921980047975

The government surveiling it's citizens? No, no, no, that would illegal. What they're doing is allowing the data broker industry to surveil the citizens with no legal guardrails and then buying that data from them using taxpayer money. It's […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116291344660860359

Really feels like Nintendo is trying to kill physical games without _technically_ killing physical games

People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop Windows 11's mandatory Microsoft Account requirements during setup Microsoft's big sweeping set of improvements coming soon to Windows 11 don't address its controversial Microsoft account requirements, but that might soon change.

People inside #Microsoft are fighting to drop #Windows 11's mandatory Microsoft Account requirements during setup

www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/peo...

#privacy

I know there are a lot of purists out there who don't want genAI touching their FOSS, but the vast majority of FOSS projects don't have the resources to match proprietary competitors unless they're relying on the upstream open source code from big companies like Google. I'd much prefer thriving […]

I've already noticed multiple FOSS projects I follow having faster release cycles and patching security flaws. Some have openly attributed this to genAI, others not, but it's almost certainly the catalyst.

RE: https://wetdry.world/@gunther/115923174285724444

For now, I'm standing by this call. While the frontier genAI models will continue costing more money and will likely soon be practically available only to businesses, the open source models are pretty decent and should be much more accessible.

#Google details new 24-hour process to #sideload unverified #Android apps

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/google-d...

#KeepAndroidOpen #privacy #cybersecurity

Fun fact: peanuts are neither peas nor nuts.

Ya, that's right, look it up.

Promotional art for "Ducky Ducky Literature Club" a fictional parody of "Doki Doki Literature Club"

[AI-generated image]

Why yes, I would be interested in playing Ducky Ducky Literature Club, thank you