I've been unemployed for a few months. I now set myself pretend jobs to prevent the rot setting in. My son thinks this guy is funny, which is a good enough excuse to make something. Any requests?

[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.

Open Social — overreacted The protocol is the API.

i wrote about atproto and why it matters

Same here. 500.

find <etc> -print0 | xargs -0r <oof>

Similarly reassured. May I enter into evidence this one that I use all the time:

find . -name '*.jpg' | cpio -pld ../jpegs

Adjust the find to taste - the magic is that whatever else cpio does it can also take a newline delimited list of filenames and make a sparse, hardlinked subset of a directory

Zapheap Two teams, two batteries, one junkyard - what could possibly go wrong?

Robert Llewelyn, a junkyard, 2 teams - creating electric cars - and many biscuits! Please help make this a reality!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/zap...

Do you know your penis age? Bryan Johnson does

I'm amazed he even knows who I am tbh.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water… 

From the latest Private Eye, in shops now.

The Generative AI Con It's been just over two years and two months since ChatGPT launched, and in that time we've seen Large Language Models (LLMs) blossom from a novel concept into one of the most craven cons of the 21st ...

Newsletter: Generative AI is a marketing con perpetuated by Sam Altman and Dario Amodei through a mixture of lies and half-truths carried by a tech media that fails to ask the right questions. Outside of ChatGPT, generative AI companies barely get any traffic at all.

www.wheresyoured.at/longcon/

A medley of Suicide is Painless and Creep on the piano by @thinkythoughthead.bsky.social. Now it feels like Christmas.

I'm still waiting for another Blue Nile album. It hasn't been that long by standards.

Every time my boss mentions something about his lunatic right-wing politics and/or conspiracy theories, I stop working for hours/days at a time to make it feel like I'm stealing from him.

John Peel Roulette Listen to a random moment from a random John Peel show. What musical delights will you discover?

Ooh, lovely. For more Peel: www.monkeon.co.uk/johnpeelroul...