@neil i really wish i could buy a nice big oled dumb screen. I don't even want a tuner as we don't watch broadcast tv. But i don't have the space for a projector.

The Splay is a subpar monitor but an exciting portable projector
Splay can be a monitor and takes a lot of the stress out of projectors, too.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/the-splay-is-a-subpar-monitor-but-an-exciting-portable-projector/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Red Sprites and Circular Elves Lightning over Italy

Image Credit & Copyright: Valter Binotto

Explanation: What's happening in the sky? Lightning. The most commonly seen type of lightning involves flashes of bright white light between clouds. Over the past 50 years, though, other types of upper-atmospheric lightning have been confirmed, including tentacled red sprites and ringed ELVES. Although both last only a small fraction of a second, sprites are brighter and easier to photograph than their more common electrical-discharge cousins. ELVES are rapidly expanding rings that are thought to be created when an electromagnetic pulse shoots upward from charged clouds and impacts the ionosphere, causing nitrogen molecules to glow. Capturing either form of lightning takes patience and experience -- capturing them both together, since they usually occur separately, is rare. The featured image is a frame from a video recorded from Possagno, Italy late last month above a distant thunderstorm over the Adriatic Sea.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap251223.html #apod

A problem I have with every "I tried Linux for two weeks and could never make it work" video thing is that folks position themselves as the default, everyday computer user.

But they're not! Jeeze folks! They're already knee deep in Windows/Mac software if they have a YouTube channel where they make videos on Windows/Mac!

These folks have production workflows that they don't want to change. If that's not you, you can disregard their rage-bait!

The problem with saying "Linux doesn't work" is that it's incorrect.

Folks are always surprised to hear that I've been doing music, videos, and gaming on Linux for decades.

Biggest thing is that I *only* buy hardware that works on Linux, and I *only* use software that works on Linux.

What you mean when you say "Linux doesn't work" is that "Linux doesn't work for me." But that's not rage-baity enough to attract attention.

Oh no. Chris Rea has passed!😟

RE: https://techpolicy.social/@ericgoldman/115758771102887176

When articles breathlessly announce that AI will mean the end of the legal profession, I am not sure they envisage it ending like this...

@neil I want to cry. More and more UK is moving to a surveillance state. My neighbourhood has a cctv car doing the rounds and recording everyone.. and surely doing facial recognition.

Banning VPNs, encryption, apply age verification to everything plus software recording everything one does on their phone.. this is worse than most cyberpunk dystopian scenarios imagined.

Stealing someone else's toot to add alt text and attribution.

"Wombat Architecture Critics" by Chaz Hutton https://www.instagram.com/instachaaz/

Any day where floor(unix epoch seconds / 86400) is prime should be "Prime Day".

Today, for example, is day 20441 of Unix, which is prime, and therefore today is Prime Day.

My response to anyone asking me to do anything for the next two weeks starting Monday

I am pleased to announce my new AI-generated musical, "Little Slop of Horrors".

Mozilla right now.

#firefox #mozilla

"Hello, We're Firefox, The Only Browser That Hasn't Hit Itself In The Dick With A Hammer. For years now, folks use us because of our un-hammered dick. Now, you may be wondering why today we've brought this hammer and pulled out our dick. Well I'm glad you asked--"

My issue with firefox soft forks is that even in their most ideal form, they can only be reactive harm-reduction, and any reasonable fork necessitates compromises that introduce some amount of risk (delayed security updates, compromised trust anchors etc.)

Perhaps that is the best anyone can do within reasonable costs.

Perhaps the only affordable proactive actions we can take is to reinforce that front against future inevitable assaults.

Perhaps that must be enough. I wish it were not so.

Oh dang, Buck Rogers died. This show wasn't particularly good but I sure watched the hell out of it as a small child, so this guy is part of my childhood. RIP.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/gil-gerard-dead-buck-rogers-25th-century-1236452804/

When Your Avian Intelligence Agrees a Little Too Much

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

George Osborne - the man who gave us austerity - has gone to OpenAI. His experience at the British Museum is invaluable, combining their long tradition of exploiting the cultural artefacts of marginalised peoples with failing to secure the contents of the museum.

Also he was pushing crypto nonsense up until about a week ago. Perfect.

Mozilla has a new CEO who:

- Has been at Mozilla for less than a year
- Has no prior open source experience (but well in "fintech" and "real estate")
- Has a MBA (aka "brainworm diploma")
- Is all-in on AI

That’s exactly the kind of bingo profile the whole community has been waiting for.

Bye there #Mozilla,

Hope your CEO and your AI have a good time together because soon they will be the only ones left using any Mozilla slop 🤖

I was wrong for thinking we could have a nice browser, silly me..

@mozilla