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> What is something the internet has completely ruined?

Privacy

The Castle of Tomorrow doesn't look like a castle anymore. Sun-Times architecture critic Lee Bey looks at how fast food chains are abandoning architectures that once defined their brand for generic replacements.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/architecture-design/2025/10/29/white-castle-renovation-restaurants-chicago-water-tower

There are no rap songs in the US Top 40 for the first time in 35 years.

https://www.stereogum.com/2328218/there-are-no-rap-songs-in-the-top-40-for-the-first-time-in-35-years/columns/sounding-board/

#music

Thanks, autocomplete.

When juice boxes were new and needed explaining: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhhRfHTvv_w

Dead Can Dance - “The Host of the Seraphim”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGCWVuzzrSQ

Not a music video per se, but a segment of Baraka (1992).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baraka_(film)

#music #DeadCanDance #Baraka

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i should be given a portable machine that teleports me to my bed so i can take a nap

mastodon.social is not authenticating connections to @guardianfirewall's Zurich region.

Weird.

Switched to Milan.

:neocat_box:

Once again another "I'm in the wrong field" paper:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098222500507X

✨ A Sprinkle of JoyousJoyness ✨

The void's face omgggg!

Have a JoyousJoyfulJoyness day!

#happy #cat #cute #joyousjoyness #gingercat #blackcat #repost

#text first please

Shit. Someone call the Koons. Their dog got loose again.

Sanchez Street, 5:07 p.m.

#photography #StreetPhotography

if i win the lottery, i won't tell anyone

...but there will be signs...

dale p'atrá

“You want to put that inside Elmo?”
“Yes.”
“And Elmo get twenty dollars?”
“That’s right.”
“Elmo want to see money first.”

Many Unix tar programs leak uninitialized data into unused portions of the file. This is not unusual for C programs (unfortunately). The leaked data is usually just repetition of earlier files, so it wasn't obviously useful for anything.

Until I noticed that optimizations to tar programs tended to change _which_ earlier data was leaked.

Turns out, you can use this behavior to fingerprint the tar implementation pretty precisely in some cases.

the former maintainers of Bundler and RubyGems have a proposal: we want to move Ruby forward https://andre.arko.net/2025/10/26/we-want-to-move-ruby-forward/