The True Source of Value

I cannot imagine how much it fucks up kids to simultaneously be told "don't plagiarize!" but also "YOU MUST USE THE PLAGIARISM MACHINE. IT IS THE FUTURE WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT"

2026-05-24 15:43:10 UTC

When this bubble pops, I fear the worst long term consequences of it will be on today's generation of children whose education it interfered with.

2026-05-24 03:51:02 UTC

https://fortune.com/2026/05/22/microsoft-ai-cost-problem-tokens-agents/
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2026-05-05 18:03:14 UTC

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The slop lovers' standards are so low that to them, any result can count as success as long as it kinda sorta works in one specific circumstance. They already managed to make the Zig compiler nondeterministic in their fork.

2026-05-04 21:11:48 UTC

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"Vibe coded" has already become a derogatory term for anything low quality. I heard a non-techie friend use it in conversation yesterday when the topic had nothing to do with computers.

2026-05-04 21:05:56 UTC

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"Oh you're a programmer? So you're shoving AI in all our faces?"

2026-05-04 21:04:25 UTC

All these programmers embracing the slop machines seem to think they can just do that without consequences. I think the reputation of programmers in general is going to take a hit for this, especially when the slop piles up so much that computers in general become much less reliable.

2026-05-01 20:09:00 UTC

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This tracks with my interactions with slop lovers. It's not just that the slop generators suck, but the kind of people who think that the slop generators are great are also the kind of people who love taking lazy, ill conceived shortcuts. So the sloperators frequently tell the slop machines to do things that shouldn't be done in the first place, then the slop machines do the bad thing badly, and the result is an ever growing cascade of fractal dog vomit.

2026-05-01 19:39:15 UTC

Slopagandists sometimes make an absurd comparison between nondeterministic slop generators and deterministic compilers. Well, it turns out that Claude Code is now built with a JavaScript runtime compiled with a nondeterministic compiler. 😂
https://ziggit.dev/t/bun-s-zig-fork-got-4x-faster-compilation-times/15183/19

2026-05-01 04:13:08 UTC

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I also got depressed this week by realizing the extent to which people who should know better are falling for the slopaganda. I've greatly enjoyed your rants thus far and I think your writing on the subject is excellent. I feel that mockery is one of the most powerful weapons we have (see: Afroman). The situation deserves intense mockery and you're quite good at it. Take your time and I'm sure the blog post will be hilarious.

2026-04-30 23:54:18 UTC

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How's that write up going? I'm eagerly awaiting to read it.

2026-03-31 22:14:36 UTC

Listening to @npub1z7x…q5jf's techno mix from 2000 from his days as a rave DJ in Toronto and laughing my ass off at the juxtaposition of two samples:
"I want a car. Chicks dig a car."
"This is why Superman works alone."
Dude's been hating on cars since at least 2000. I love it.
https://djnumbernine.com/

2026-03-26 21:28:36 UTC

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I wouldn't assume they're people. Bullshit generators make it trivial to generate harassment these days.

2026-03-19 20:52:25 UTC

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Hackers in the 1990s:
We will write code so powerful that no government will be able to stop it! They can't outlaw code if it's printed in a book!
Hackers in 2026:
Some fascists in some parts of the world are making moves towards maybe threatening us, though nobody knows how their laws are supposed to work, let alone how to comply with their conflicting requirements. Anyway let's bend over backwards to comply in advance and lock threads so we don't have to be held accountable for our cowardice.

2026-03-19 20:48:59 UTC

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In case you missed systemd complying in advance with fascism... https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40954

2026-03-19 20:43:19 UTC

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Startups are bad, mmkay. Kids, don't do startups.

2026-03-19 20:39:34 UTC

Looking into systemd complying in advance with fascism ("age verification"), I was curious who is employing Lennart Poettering these days. Turns out he and some other systemd developers recently made a startup...
https://amutable.com/blog/introducing-amutable

2026-03-06 19:28:10 UTC

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It feels similar to the wellness grifter playbook: articulate an observation of something wrong in society that almost anyone can agree on, then illogically jump from that to a tangent to sell something to supposedly fix the problem that does nothing to address the problem, but could make it worse.

2026-02-03 07:32:50 UTC

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It's conceivable that they've repurposed devices that weren't meant for this at all.

2026-01-25 08:45:04 UTC

'The worst punishment anyone could inflict on those who govern and police us today would be to compel them to live in a society in which everything they’ve done is regarded as embarrassing—for them to have to sit in assemblies in which no one listens to them, to go on living among us without any special privileges in full awareness of the harm they have done.'
https://crimethinc.com/2019/04/08/against-the-logic-of-the-guillotine-why-the-paris-commune-burned-the-guillotine-and-we-should-too
an essay I like to reread every once in a while

2025-12-18 03:22:28 UTC

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Linux was started just for fun with no expectation of becoming anything more than that 🤷

2025-12-05 21:47:01 UTC

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Brandon Johnson said the same thing in Chicago and now they just call them "accelerating moving events" 🤷 Don't get your hopes too high.

2025-12-01 12:33:39 UTC

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The CEO posted some shit praising Trump from a company account then their PR person tried to clean up the mess.

2025-10-31 21:56:50 UTC

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We have always been at war with Eastasia.

2025-10-13 13:00:46 UTC

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I hope they make a normal sized laptop.

2025-10-10 06:34:34 UTC

'For those of us in the West, we must make sure that the world does not return to normal. We cannot be lulled back to sleep by the temporary cessation of air strikes while the occupation continues. Israel cannot continue as if it did not commit the gravest crime of our generation. The hundreds of thousands of martyred and maimed Palestinians demand justice that cannot be denied.'
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/10/9/celebrate-the-ceasefire-but-dont-forget-gaza-survived-on-its-own

2025-10-10 01:13:00 UTC

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In downtown Chicago on a nice day, at some intersections, you simply can't walk across a crosswalk with less than 4 people.

2025-10-10 01:11:45 UTC

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🤨

2025-09-26 17:52:28 UTC

“Microsoft has only disabled a small subset of services for only one unit in the Israeli military,” said Nasr, an organiser with the group No Azure for Apartheid, which includes other former Microsoft employees. “The vast majority of Microsoft’s contract with the Israeli military remains intact.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/26/why-has-microsoft-cut-israel-off-from-some-of-its-services

2025-09-26 03:51:54 UTC

I'm looking for a job writing code that isn't evil. I'm looking for remote work hiring for US timezones. I have 10 years experience, primarily with crossplatform (Linux/Windows/macOS, but especially Linux) desktop applications in C++ and Rust. Recently I've been getting into embedded MCU programming. I'd like to focus on Rust, but am willing to touch C++ and/or C for money. My website has a list of projects I've worked on: https://be.place/code
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#getFediHired #fedihired

2025-07-28 17:52:43 UTC

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the Fall Out Boy track title of PACs

2025-07-17 04:34:42 UTC

Reporting on daily massacres takes its toll
"In Gaza—or generally—hunger is the most extreme human feeling one can experience. To go days without food, to watch your family starving while you can do nothing for them, is a crushing experience."
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/07/palestine-letter-reporting-on-daily-massacres-takes-its-toll/

2025-07-07 04:39:17 UTC

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That's kinda like saying we're striving for net zero carbon emissions by 2050.

2025-07-01 04:26:31 UTC

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This is the first I've heard of Hamas ever collaborating with Israel. Do you have sources that discuss that in more detail? It's surprising to me considering Hamas is well known for killing Palestinians who collaborate with Israel.

2025-06-30 18:42:43 UTC

All the memorable antisemitism I've personally experienced came from zionists.

2025-06-27 04:53:21 UTC

Skating through rubble: The volunteers reclaiming joy for Gaza’s children
Through skateboarding, circus, and art therapy, young Gazans bring healing and brief moments of normalcy to children living through genocide.
https://www.972mag.com/gaza-children-skateboarding-art-circus/

2025-06-25 03:05:05 UTC

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"I think Cuomo and some of the other candidates are expecting that Mamdani’s support for Palestine in the end is going to hold him back and allow other candidates to get past him...
I think Cuomo’s attempt to Israelize the election is going to backfire. This could actually help give Mamdani the further strength to overtake him. If that happens, I think it’s going to set the table for some of the primaries next year."
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/04/how-the-declining-support-for-israel-is-impacting-u-s-politics/

2025-06-25 02:53:50 UTC

I had a feeling Cuomo was a paper tiger.

2025-06-23 18:56:17 UTC

Sounds familiar: Was this said about Iraq in 2003, or Iran in 2025?
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/23/sounds-familiar-was-this-said-about-iraq-in-2003-or-iran-in-2025

2025-06-15 09:28:57 UTC

For a while I've been thinking about the Gaza genocide as Israel doing murder-suicide. The last few days feel like they're really leaning hard into the suicide part now. I don't think they can survive a war with Iran. They're high on their own impunity. They've faced scrappy guerilla resistance and postcolonial states dependent on foreign arms. Iran engineered and builds its own arms and has 8.5x the population of Israel. They're hitting Tel Aviv with success.

2025-06-13 18:25:31 UTC

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It was not merely the invention of Modern Hebrew that suppressed Yiddish, Ladino, and Judeo-Arabic, but zionist violence against people who used those languages publicly.

2025-06-09 03:35:35 UTC

If your project is on GitHub, now would be a good time to stop supporting a company that materially supports ICE.

2025-05-30 07:45:45 UTC

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I'll push back a bit on the "never fully integrated anywhere on earth". I think that's an Asheknazi-centric zionist narrative that ignores histories of Jews outside of Europe.

2025-05-29 06:42:42 UTC

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Re: Jewish refugees after WW2, many, if not most, of those refugees were uninterested in going to Palestine, but were coerced into doing so by zionists by starvation and other cruelties. https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/bund-bulletin/one-6.pdf

2025-05-29 04:15:04 UTC

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As far as I am aware, this is the first public statement by any sizable Israeli civil society organization that has discussed Palestinian suffering... 20 months into genocide.

2025-05-29 04:13:44 UTC

"The academics’ letter is the latest in a growing number of open letters protesting the war from within Israel. However, while many other letters have objected to the political reasons for Israel’s latest offensive, or claimed that it puts Israel’s remaining captives held in Gaza at risk, the academics’ letter is unique in that it places Palestinian suffering at the heart of its objections to the war."
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/28/we-cant-say-we-didnt-know-israeli-academics-demand-end-to-war-on-gaza

2025-05-11 23:24:48 UTC

"Matzpen" - The Israeli Socialist Organization, has never had more than a few dozen active members. Still, in the end of the sixties and beginning of the seventies, it was consider a real threat to the Israeli political and social consensus... Their fight against Zionism and against the occupation, as well as their contacts with Palestinian and European left-wing activists, were the cause of threats, slander, as well as political and social isolation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upoACIfPIzs

2025-04-24 04:11:57 UTC

Repositories on @npub1fh7…ee83 are facing attacks of spam issues made with a bullshit generator, often with an extremely condescending tone and insults. If you have any repositories on Codeberg affected by this, you can mitigate the attack by temporarily disabling issues for your repository until moderators wake up and deal with the attack. To disable issues, go to the repository's Settings -> Units -> Issues -> Enable repository issue tracker.
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2025-03-26 17:29:40 UTC

Any ideas why an SD card would have a sporadic >50x slowdown in read speads that lasts for 10-40 seconds? This isn't normal behavior of slow SD cards, is it?

2025-03-15 07:30:25 UTC

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"Everything's computer" is my new favorite meme.

2025-03-09 08:17:55 UTC

If the government tells you to change your clock, you don't have to listen. Or you could forget your clock and look at the sun.

2025-02-27 03:57:19 UTC

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https://cdn.masto.host/floss/media_attachments/files/114/073/834/221/572/550/original/f590d4e1b35c1ac0.png

2025-02-09 06:03:44 UTC

"nothing captures the depth of attachment... more vividly than the sight of people returning to rubble and ruin, or those who refused to leave the north of Gaza. The idea that land is either sacred or, in the capitalist sense, profane — a commodity to be exploited, a profitable enterprise — finds only a partial place in Palestinian discourse. Land is life; it is the possibility of instituting life, the medium of dignity, the irreducible idea of home."
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/02/trumps-plan-ethnic-cleansing-as-fascist-ambition/

2025-02-05 04:49:01 UTC

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The dismantling and disarray of the federal bureaucracy of course has many immediate, detrimental effects on enormous numbers of people. It also creates novel openings for political possibility. Be creative.

2025-02-03 22:00:20 UTC

Considering what's going on now in the federal bureaucracy, there's no way the IRS would have the capacity to deal with mass refusal to pay taxes. Not that they did before anyway.

2025-01-24 02:11:36 UTC

Today I learned that "enroll" is spelled as "enrol" in Commonwealth English.

2024-12-20 15:21:15 UTC

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I went to the mentioned website in the spam and apparently a similar attack happened a few weeks ago on GitHub impersonating the same guy who had nothing to do with the spam. 🤨 https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/github-projects-targeted-with-malicious-commits-to-frame-researcher/

2024-11-14 00:54:20 UTC

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Ilan Pappe calls this the rift between the State of Israel and State of Judea https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/the-collapse-of-zionism

2024-10-27 05:45:30 UTC

I'm looking for suggestions for tiny microcontroller development boards, specifically narrower than 5/8 inches or 15.875 mm to fit inside 3/4 inch outer diameter plastic tubing. All that I have found that fits is the Adafruit Trinket M0, which seems like a good option, but I'm curious if there's anything else available without making a custom PCB. I'm looking for something that can control AP102 LED strips with FastLED and/or the smart-led Rust library.
Boosts appreciated :boost_love:

2024-08-31 06:11:58 UTC

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In Houston, yes, there literally is a law against free lunch. Fortunately a judge said no to that bullshit. https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/houston/2024/02/15/477544/food-not-bombs-houston-district-court-judge-orders-stop-ticketing/

2024-08-10 23:57:55 UTC

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ChromeOS has some way to run "Linux apps" in some sort of container or VM kinda thing... not sure how well it works or if schools allow it.

2024-07-21 20:58:55 UTC

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Personally, I felt fine after 48 hours on Amtrak coach. But I'm not tall. I sure felt way better than being on an airplane for even a few hours.

2024-07-21 17:32:26 UTC

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In my experience, Amtrak coach seats are comfortable enough to sleep in. There's plenty of space between coach rows so the chairs can be tilted pretty far back. I was able to sleep fine two nights in a row. That was on the Chicago to Seattle line; maybe coach is worse on other lines?

2024-03-31 05:42:59 UTC

If you are spending a lot of time on here here, I highly recommend reading this book.
https://cdn.masto.host/floss/media_attachments/files/112/188/701/880/467/073/original/e575e48362eb8ad3.jpg