*Googles*
Aha! TBH I am not much of a console jockey. I discovered the Unix shell in the 1980s & the novelty has long worn off by now.
Give me scalable antialiased fonts or give me... er... a monochrome screen, but I'm not going back to the terminal, TVM.
Vulture rediscovers RSS to dull the pain of the modern web
www.theregister.com/2026/03/09/r...
Feeds are alive, well and can help de-enshittify things
<- by me on @theregister.com
Linux, product and the art of essence
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< Latest from DedoIMedo… he has points although I don't agree with all of them...
LibreOffice learns to speak Markdown in version 26.2
www.theregister.com/2026/03/09/m...
Plain-text fans rejoice as Writer gains native CommonMark import and export
<- by me on @theregister.com
Title: "The Haters" panel 1. Two round characters sit in a cinema. Yellow blob "I hate this!" Red Blob "Me too!" Panel 2. They have left the cinema Red blob "I hated every minute of that film! It was nothing like the book!" Panel 3. "Did you like the book?" asks Yellow. Red replies "I hated it!" then asks "You?" Panel 4. Yellow blob "I've not read it. I hated the film purely on its own merits." Panel 5. Red blob "I'll lend you my copy." Yello blob"That's very kind." Panel 6. Caption: "Later" Yellow, reading the book "I hate this!" Red (happily) "I knew you would!!"
"the Haters" my books cartoon for this week's @theguardian.com
09.03.2026 14:30 — 👍 1397 🔁 369 💬 19 📌 34
The View From RSS
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What the web looks like when you subscribe to 2,000 RSS feeds.
<- this caused me to reconfigure 2 RSS readers (Thunderbird & NetNewsWire) for the 1st time this century. Good stuff. I'll report back if I keep using them…
"The Brand Age"
bit.ly/4sqc8uL
<- I learned quite a lot from Paul Graham's latest essay: about watches, branding, sales models, & more. Nothing much about computers. Makes a pleasant change.
musician Gary Numan, born March 8, 1958, aged 68
actor Gary Oldman, born March 21, 1958, aged 67
Happy Gary Retrograde everyone!
The next two weeks are the only two weeks out of the year when Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman
Some people are apparently claiming that Silicon Valley Tech Bros have consciousness, like normal humans.
As someone who studies these issues carefully, I can assure you that this is an utterly preposterous claim. Yes, they can mimic humans, but they are fundamentally incapable of original thought.
Oh, it *is* WINE, just an alternative way of packaging and using it, as I understand it.
08.03.2026 21:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I don't know what happened to the preview, but it goes to the right destination page for me.
news.cornell.edu/stories/2026...
Eggs-ACT-ley.
08.03.2026 18:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Yes, I've tried it. TBH I don't get the point.
ISTM the theory is that by keeping each Win app isolated, they don't interfere.
In practice, the way to get recalcitrant apps to work is to install real Windows dependencies, from ODBC to C/C++ runtimes etc. & you _want_ to share that stuff.
Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs
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<- new research from Cornell, supplying evidence to what many have surely known for decades
She Came Out of the Bathroom Naked, Employee Says
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Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta’s new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce, uneasy about peering into the most intimate parts of other people’s lives.
This #InternationalWomensDay, spare a nod of acknowledgement for the first country in the world to give women the vote in national elections: the Isle of Man, in 1881, a full 145 years ago.
tynwald.org.im/history/Wome...
FUBAR
Curated slop for dystopian audiences, to enjoy with your morning coffee. Updated daily.
PageMaker and Aldus founder, pioneer Paul Brainerd 1947-2026
blog.adafruit.com/2026/03/04/p...
<- a personal hero of mine. Aldus had more taste in design than Adobe ever could aspire to.
Re pubs, yes, me too. :-)
My very limited experience of octogenarians and hi tech is that a few of them take to it like ducks to water...
[ERROR 406i: AI_SLOP_DETECTED]
The Rejection of Artificially Generated Slop (RAGS)
406.fail
YOU JUST REVEIVED
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This post is dedicated to the nameless Vodafone employee watching over me and my family and blessing us with an abundance of free minutes.
It's really weird watching friends of mine, some younger than me, turn into Old People.
But you are of course completely correct in all respects.
Last year I asked a mate in Brno for a pub recommendation near my hotel in Manchester.
"What kind?" he asked, reasonably.
"Am old man's pub."
Georges Perec
This wild & crazy guy was born 90 years ago today
07.03.2026 10:44 — 👍 27 🔁 3 💬 4 📌 0Wounded man staggers into bedroom. Woman stuffs body into one cupboard. A different body falls out of another cupboard. Dog runs through room followed by a squealing maid. Dog has severed hand in mouth. Dog refuses to give it back.
07.03.2026 09:59 — 👍 25 🔁 6 💬 7 📌 1
The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying
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LLMs do something very specific: they allow individuals to make forgeries of their own potential output, or that of someone else, faster than they could make it themselves.
<- Steve "Acko" Wittens is good at explaining. This does it well.
This also involves the closure of Inveralmond Brewery. Another sad loss @rogerprotz.bsky.social wp.me/p15p2Q-ghr
07.03.2026 01:43 — 👍 16 🔁 7 💬 3 📌 0Oh, hey, @doctorow.pluralistic.net is now on Bluesky!
06.03.2026 20:40 — 👍 452 🔁 46 💬 25 📌 3
US state laws push age checks into the operating system
www.theregister.com/2026/03/06/o...
Bad legislation, but an especially big headache for FOSS
<- by me on @theregister.com
Global Warming has Accelerated Significantly
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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… after 2015, global temperature rose significantly faster than in any 11
previous 10-year period since 1945.
The years 2023 and 2024 have been Earth’s hottest on record.
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