I'm kind of worried. I think most people my age are dead.
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XP guy. ronjeffries.com/articles/bio
Old, programmer for more than six decades. Early XP learner / proponent. Manifesto author.
I try to be helpful, and funny. Sometimes succeed. If something I say troubles you, I probably meant to be amusing. Call me on it. I want to learn.
Pronouns he/him go best with the beard. I'll try to honor yours, and am fallible.
Fascinating and thought-provoking!
https://drinkwisely.substack.com/p/i-was-wrong-about-barack-obama
https://drinkwisely.substack.com/p/i-was-wrong-about-barack-obama
Per AxbomIf you are considering the Kagi search engine, there are aspects you should be aware of from an ethics perspective.
https://khevans.com/2025/08/21/kagi-ethics.html
”A portion of your fee goes towards Yandex, indirectly funding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Vlad, the CEO, has stated that 2% of their total costs in 2024 goes towards Yandex. He has also stated that there is no intent of changing this.”
”At least other search engines like DuckDuckGo have halted their partnerships with Yandex. Kagi’s refusal to do so and Vlad’s firm support of Yandex is quite telling. If others have ceased partnering with Yandex, why can’t Vlad?”
”It’s worth mentioning that Kagi previously listed the sources they used in their search. It seems that they’ve now hidden that information on that page, seemingly contradictory to their “commitment to transparency.”
”A portion of your fee goes towards Elon Musk’s xAI, of X/Twitter, to support Grok in their AI assistant. Indeed, you can simply not use this assistant, however all paying users are effectively subsidizing the cost of the Grok API calls. There is no way to opt-out of this.”
https://khevans.com/2025/08/21/kagi-ethics.html
”A portion of your fee goes towards Yandex, indirectly funding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Vlad, the CEO, has stated that 2% of their total costs in 2024 goes towards Yandex. He has also stated that there is no intent of changing this.”
”At least other search engines like DuckDuckGo have halted their partnerships with Yandex. Kagi’s refusal to do so and Vlad’s firm support of Yandex is quite telling. If others have ceased partnering with Yandex, why can’t Vlad?”
”It’s worth mentioning that Kagi previously listed the sources they used in their search. It seems that they’ve now hidden that information on that page, seemingly contradictory to their “commitment to transparency.”
”A portion of your fee goes towards Elon Musk’s xAI, of X/Twitter, to support Grok in their AI assistant. Indeed, you can simply not use this assistant, however all paying users are effectively subsidizing the cost of the Grok API calls. There is no way to opt-out of this.”
jd 🌍🇪🇺🇭🇺🚀 & 👍🇺🇦🇵🇸+🇮🇷🇨🇺dangerous radical revolutionary message of the day....
John C. Varner III🚨 Trump is now single handedly responsible for 28% of the national debt. Dramatically more than any President in American history.
U.S. national debt officially hits $39 trillion—adding approximately $5 billion a day since October
https://fortune.com/2026/05/20/us-national-debt-officially-hits-39-trillion-milestone/
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
Notice: Slight delay on eastbound line.
Cause: Gigantic kitty on the tracks.
Cause: Gigantic kitty on the tracks.
Elle CordovaA classic locked-document murder mystery that only Detective Question Mark can solve
WraitheAltText added
“Al is data, and Data can only look backwards. Creativity looks forwards.”
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:37gmtzu6cd2e2lv2ggapg2py/post/3mmkm4v5jns23
Conspirador NorteñoIn recent months, Facebook has been flooded with U.S. state-themed AI-generated images posted by suspiciously similar accounts with names such as "Life in Nevada" and "Utah Life". Despite the theme, the accounts in question appear to be run from Bangladesh.
www.conspirator0.com/p/life-in-us...
Life in <U.S. state>, accordin...
Life in <U.S. state>, accordin...
Gabriele SveltoRegarding the Raptor Lake bug I received a couple of messages from confused users that had read articles on Tomshardware and Neowin. They asked about erratas and microcode updates which puzzled me, because that was part of my early investigation into the bug and we know that the failure is not caused by a known errata and microcode updates cannot fix broken CPUs. So why did they ask? As it turns out it was slop. Both articles are 100% slop full of confusing and inaccurate claims.