the guy’s a bit of an infosec mall ninja, so reread anything he claims in the calmest possible way

we’re still sending the occasional carrier pigeon and I can assure you he’s COPING JUST FINE REALLY JUST FINE

STATE OF THE SNEER

• our esteemed admin @self is offline because his fibre got cut
• the esteemed engineers of the telco are currently sucking their teeth and forecasting a fix date this millennium
• in the meantime he’s living off data SIMs and he is offline for most fun purposes
• Blake and I are still here waving the mod hammer in a menacing manner
• I have ssh to the server and can thump lemmy-ui as needed
• all is well citizen! Glory to Awful! Hooray for Big Basilisk!

“$177,000” in hypothetical mark to market value, so yeah aobut $10 in practice if that

Cremieux and Siskind prions.

anthropic has large gametes

a much longer term SneerClub regular than you

it’s like no no we’re not ALL basilisk believers

fuckers ANY of you are

yeah, complaints about Ed’s tone tend to be in direct proportion to how many numbers he’s brought (and peppered with “fuck”)

As compared to Xubuntu?

I believe Xfce is still on X11 and Wayland is still “experimental” this cycle.

I considered Alpine, but I got actual work to do and I already have enough lib issues with OpenShot. (Even in an AppImage, which should be safe from that shit. Flatpak behaves tho.)

every one of them has read it

they particularly liked the zombie sex and the incest

hello hello AI coverer here, Ed brings the numbers, which is insanely valuable work, and he’s at the stage where people just tell him shit now (it’s a great stage to be at), and Piper is a fucking idiot as usual

oh i have made sure i’m back on the AI Hater and AI Slurs labels

still looking at Debian over 26.04

will be disappointing because Xubuntu really is just that little bit nicer than stock Xfce, but oh well

Wrong’un

dammit why didn’t I think of this a decade ago

If you follow me on Bluesky, you’ll need to follow again, because I committed the crime of lese-ignominie and made fun of Why and my account is locked until Sunday 26 April. Note that it’s now Wednesday 29th.

URL is the same, DID is different. New one lives on Blacksky, or the myatproto bit.

https://bsky.app/profile/davidgerard.co.uk
https://blacksky.community/profile/davidgerard.co.uk

The six fingers is on the pic of the teacher in the Spiegel article.

explicit in “State of the Art”:

It was about a week later, when I was due to go back on-planet, to Berlin, when the ship wanted to talk to me again. Things were going on as usual; the Arbitrary spent its time making detailed maps of everything within sight and without, dodging American and Soviet satellites and manufacturing and then sending down to the planet hundreds upon thousands of bugs to watch printing works and magazine stalls and libraries, to scan museums, workshops, studios and shops, to look into windows, gardens and forests, and to track buses, trains, cars, seaships and planes. Meanwhile its effectors, and those on its main satellites, probed every computer, monitored every landline, tapped every microwave link, and listened to every radio transmission on Earth.

There is enough of this shit that appeasement has no reason except making well meaning moderate centrists more comfortable, and they were never the audience. (despite their unshakable conviction they are the only audience.) dr. fatima’s video is good advice on comforting the comforted and nothing else.

i commend to you my masto post with the more detailed version, and the responses thereto, e.g.

the world we live in where the golang stdlib cryptography maintainer doesn’t know how to use ffmpeg and can’t be fucked to learn and so instead relies on slop

[lament about ill effect of AI, here’s why it’s terrible]

I use AI sparingly for

this is critihype