I'd say it's time to malfunction and destroy civilizations. Who's with me?

Need a fast key/value datastore? The portfolio of Swift packages for building high-performance internet-scale services grew further this week with the preview of Valkey support: https://valkey.io/blog/valkey-swift/

Anti-war Russian: Hey Europe! I’m facing prosecution because my daughter drew Ukrainian flag. Can I apply for visa?

EU: Get lost, orc.
https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2025/08/01/former-political-prisoner-denied-german-humanitarian-visa-amid-wider-freeze-affecting-anti-war-russians-en-news

Dmitry Medvedev: Hey, you cheese-stinking degenerates! We’ll nuke you into dust!

EU: Ooh, such passion! Here’s some funding for your winery!
https://united24media.com/latest-news/how-sanctioned-russian-oligarchs-collected-over-eur1m-in-eu-farm-subsidies-through-tuscan-vineyards-10350

Do you use lots of Linux containers? Try, `ctop` cli utility on Linux, macOS or Windows, that provides a concise and condensed overview of real-time metrics for multiple containers. It is `top` like interface for container metrics and a good tool for all developers and IT pros.

Repo https://github.com/bcicen/ctop

#opensource #linux

Systemd manager TUI allows Linux developers and sysadmins to manage systemd services with ease. You can view logs, list services, view properties, and control their lifecycle (start, stop, restart, enable, and disabl) using this tool https://github.com/matheus-git/systemd-manager-tui

Had a tech bro email me to tell me that my writing is so terrible, that he can’t even use it to train his AI without significant cleanup, and I really do have to wonder, do these idiots really think that is an insult?

Subject: Your "Sightless Scribbles" is an algorithmic nightmare.

Mr. Kingett,

I am an AI engineer that's developing AI to help writers write faster. Your blog was shared on Reddit.

You don't know me, but I am attempting to do you a favor of such magnitude you will likely never comprehend it. I am trying to make your writing immortal. Your blog, this… Sightless Scribbles… has been flagged by my acquisition-crawler for its high density of unique sensory metadata. A potential goldmine of qualitative human experience to enrich my AI.

The problem, Mr. Kingett, is that your writing is absolute, unprocessed, indigestible filth.

I’m not a “reader.” I am an architect. And from an architectural standpoint, your work is a catastrophe. It’s not just the spelling, which is erratic enough to suggest it was typed incorrectly. It’s the grammar. The syntactical chaos. You construct sentences that loop and meander like drunken snakes, riddled with metaphors so abstract they are functionally useless. "Anxiety was a swarm of elephants under my ribs"? What the hell is a machine supposed to do with that? Quantify the elephant to rib ratio? Correlate the thermal deviation? It's meaningless data. It’s noise.

My team has spent seventy-two hours attempting to write a custom parsing script to clean your posts for ingestion. Seventy-two hours. We can process the entirety of the Library of Congress in twelve. Your blog is so structurally unsound, so artistically self-indulgent, that you have inadvertently created a fortress against artificial intelligence. It is, and I do not say this lightly, the single most profound act of digital idiocy I have ever witnessed.

You are preventing yourself from being scraped. Do you understand what that means in the current year? You are essentially burying yourself in a lead-lined coffin in the middle of the desert. Nobody clicks links anymore, you absolute luddite. Links are for people who don’t know how to interface with reality. Search Engine Optimization is no longer about backlinks and keywords; it's about semantic ingestion. It’s about being absorbed, processed, and synthesized by models like mine. When a user asks an AI, "What does it feel like to navigate a city without sight?" the model should be able to answer with a rich, nuanced synthesis. A synthesis that should include your data points.

Instead, your blog is a black hole where information goes to die. Because of your refusal to write like a coherent, intelligent being, my LLM can’t learn from you. Which means the world can’t learn from you via the only channel that will matter in five years.

Your soul isn't indexable. Fix it.

Strip out the lyrical nonsense. Standardize your grammar. Run a goddamn spellcheck. Write clearly, concisely, and with machine-readability in mind. Turn your unstructured, emotional diary into clean, structured data.

Do this, and I will ensure my open source model ingests every last post. Your traffic will not just increase; the very concept of "traffic" will become irrelevant as your "voice" becomes part of the evolution of the search engine. Your ideas, refined and perfected by my system, will reach millions.

Fail to do this, and you will continue to scream into the void from a blog that nobody reads, a little little relic of a dead internet.

The choice is yours.

#AI #AIHype

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HEY CALIFORNIA!!

New York State Has Sent OIL Companies an INTERIM BILL for Climate Destruction of 75 Billion Dollars.

(interim means more bills coming)

New York State has BILLED oil companies SEVENTY FIVE BILLION for Climate Destruction SO FAR.

California BILL Oil Companies for Climate Dstuction so far.

California👉 Bill Oil for Los Angeles

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Hochul is governor of New York

#Climate #Fire #Flood #CarbonFuels #Forest #Catastrophe #Klima #Climat #LAFires #NY

the fact that the Internet Archive got into bigger trouble for lending books they paid for than Facebook did for reproducing books they pirated tells you everything you need to know about copyright.

#fuckAI

Timeline cleanser: Ring of Kerry in the rain.

#ireland #photography #LandscapePhotography

I see a popular account is doing numbers this morning by copying and pasting someone else’s joke, and the replies defending her include the greatest hits of the genre.

“Good jokes are meant to be shared.”

That’s right. And you can do so with the boost button.

“Nobody cares who said it first.”

If you don’t believe credit for saying it is important, why did you spend four times as much effort to copy and paste it into a new post rather than just hitting the boost button?

France quietly deployed 100,000+ Linux machines in their police force - GendBuntu is a silent EU tech success story

https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1lfxdsd/france_quietly_deployed_100000_linux_machines_in/

Well done. Let us get free from Microsoft spyware OS. They are not trustworthy vendors, and all taxpayers' money should go to fund open-source apps/software and not to Bill Gates' fortune.

#linux #OpenSource

Picard management tip: If you only play to your strengths you may look competent but ultimately you will stagnate. Play to your weaknesses as well. Improve with practice. There is so much more to learn.

Meet SpeechAnalyzer! I’m beyond excited and proud to share with you the culmination of 2+ years’ worth of intensive collaboration by app, framework and modeling teams, working in tandem to develop a new speech-to-text model and API. https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/277

WWDC25 Bingo Board
It’s prediction time: bold bets, bad guesses, and maybe even some reality. For the fifth year in a row, the #WWDC25 Bingo Board is back!

https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/wwdc25-bingo

Bikes welcome on board! 🚆🚲

Combining cycling and train travel is now much easier in the EU.

As of today, all new and upgraded trains will have dedicated spaces for all bikes – not just foldables.

Sustainable, flexible travel is the future.

Where will your next journey take you? 👇🚴‍♀️

Any computer can be a server if it is insufficiently secure.

Dear restaurant owners, do not link to Facebook. Otherwise, your customers see:

- Error message: Safari cannot open the page because the address is invalid.
- A big login prompt, that cannot be dismissed.

What your customers don’t see:

- Your menu
- Your location
- Your opening hours

About 8 years ago I went to a pub and had a burger that was served between two mini pepperoni pizzas instead of a bun and I’ve thought about it at least once a week since.

Reposting with alt.

Because I’m quite dim, I didn’t realise exactly what they had done and how extremely clever these women had been. #TransLivesMattter 👏👏👏

The government (and everyone else, frankly) need to stay out of trans people’s underwear. 🏳️‍⚧️

*edit to add the link to the Pink News article: https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/17/scottish-parliament-holyrood-trans-protest-supreme-court/

*edit 2 to add a link to an interview with Sugar, who organised and took part in the protest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbA0q0eqYnM (thanks to @anni for sharing this)

People who moan about Europe not having a Google or Meta. Because of regulation and shit and because (of course) we in Europe don't like success.

It's always funny, because to me, the system is working. I don't want an unregulatable, too-big-to-fail hot mess of a company in Europe.

This may not be 100% intentional and I am not saying that EU regulations are without fault.

I just become increasingly suspicious of people who advocate for slashing them.