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"Ugh, we really should move off Discord. Let's try _" (two people leave for a day then come back) (conversation repeats six months later)

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Also, worth noting that at the time I could have a dinner made of oreos and surge, play Ultima Online until 3am, wake up bright-eyed and guilt-free, and with a plan to do it all again the next night. Someone should bring that back, too.

a solemn day to memorialize the anniversary of half a dozen black colleges going on lockdown because of charlie kirk-related death threats

ASN: AS14962 Location: Peachtree City, US Added: 2026-08-31T15:20 #shodansafari #infosec

I remember learning in kindergarten that HOMES was a useful acronym for remembering the five great lakes. A bit on the nose to change it to SHAME, isn't it?

I don't like the blanket vilifying of small business owners. I have worked with some absolutely amazing clients, especially in the days when I was charging far too little for freelance work. It's important to set expectations and limits. Maybe I was just lucky, but there are good people out there.

when METR used GPT Sol to analyze the transcripts of the attack, it would claim that the attack was fine because *the agent message board* had approved it.

Shodan Safari album art generator at it again

And people say AI can't replicate human behavior

getting confused and shitposting into microsoft teams instead of bluesky and accidentally getting promoted for my wisdom

For many designers, however, this would mean that their managers begin provide far more details about what they actually want, and lower their bar for expectations while raising their opinion of the worker 🫠

Numerous studies, including from the FBI itself, show that invasive mass surveillance tech like Flock and Axon's automatic license plate readers don't help police fight crime. Surveillance is not safety.

Okay no. No no no no no no no no no. WHY are we rebranding Vote Blue No Matter Who right now? WHY are we saying "we need to be against fascism" when the reason we have that fascism is because everyone is too scared to say affordability? This is just going to repeat the cycle. I hate it here.

Here's the thing about Tim Curry: Everything he did, he did with gusto. He was all in. He decided to do a thing? Then he was gonna do the ever-loving HELL out of that thing, whatever it was. Shakespeare or FMV video game, didn't matter. You got his full effort, always.

i don't have a sleep disorder. my employer has an expecting me to be awake too early in the morning disorder

If you think we've fucked up climate mitigation, just wait until you see how bad we fuck up climate adaptation.

More than 100 water systems were hit in July cyberattacks

They keep bragging about their lack of cybersecurity risk management

Ads? On MY Shodan Safari?

the main function of IoT is to give the malware ecosystem a substrate to thrive on that's not our personal computers. by making boatloads of laughably insecure devices, we can coexist in harmony with malware by giving it an easier target that nobody really cares about

The big story is Chinese AI chips. By restricting GPU exports to China, we effectively handed Chinese chipmakers a captive market. GLM-5.3-Flash - Natively multimodal with a 1M-token context window - A 320B-A18B model released under the MIT License - Running entirely on Chinese AI chips

Today on Volts: data centers are typically seen as large, inflexible loads that grids have to build around, which is why it takes them so long to connect to the grid. Emerald AI makes a data center's compute, & thus its power demand, flexible & controllable. I talk with the CEO about how it works.

clue is free (with ads) on youtube

this hypothesizing about a more "fully automated" near-future, this positing of "creating new jobs" as the answer to existing jobs no longer being necessary betrays that the logic of labor relations is fundamentally not about necessity: it is something that must be *perpetually kept necessary*

I can't believe that I recognized this scene even though I haven't seen it in, like, a decade? Of course, now I have this song stuck in my head

i’ll take a good person over a smart person any day, and it’s interesting how many americans disagree with that

One thing that becomes very clear, very quickly when you get the screen/app that comes with solar is that the idea of “vampire appliance” is total nonsense

the best thing about jpegxl being available on all browsers soon is that images will download faster on dial-up

Nitter no more? X sends in the lawyers to shut down open source project

'android in the bios' is approaching escape velocity, I've seen it three times out of context on the internet now

imagine how fast he could go if he was willing to push himself so hard he caught fire and died

it's irresponsible to have events in the united states of america

Here’s what Dolly Parton can teach us about B2B software sales (1/347)

Having contractors at your company talking to contractors at a vendor is part of the corporate initiative death spiral

Before Dolly Parton had her own homepage - before Sony had anything but a one-line file in a single directory listing the name of an upcoming album - Dolly Parton's radio station WDLY was online in '1996.

the english language is pretty disgusting but at least we don't say cars are boys and bicycles are girls

It's depressing how much wasted potential there is here. Streaming could be so much better.

We really have to understand that decades of being told "Turn off the water when you're brushing your teeth!" was kinda bullshit. Folks we are failing to comprehend the SHEER VOLUME of water agriculture uses. ALL urban water use in the CO basin? Is ~1/3 of what the farms there use.

The ag lobby really, really, really, really, really, really, really wants you to think AI is the reason reservoirs are going empty. It's not. It's agriculture.

If you care about profligate use of fresh water, your top villain should be ... agriculture. If you care about conversion of pristine land to industrial use, your top villain should be ... agriculture. If you care about corrupt corporate subsidies, your top villain should be ... agriculture.