Apropos of nothing, more billionaires should live in fear of being pulled off their private jets and arrested.

Them: complains about "sunburn" from arc welding
Me: It's not sunburn unless the UV comes from the sun, otherwise it's just sparkling radiation burn

Butch and Suni will return on Crew-9 in February. Boeing Starliner will return uncrewed.

An un-noted cause of death up to about t minus 2GYa is "smashed to death on the rocks by the incoming tide"—when the Moon formed it orbited about 30,000km up with a period of a few hours and the Earth's day was under 6 hours, leading to hundred metre high tides sweeping round the planet every few hours. (Tidal drag gradually lengthened the day and widened the Moon's orbit to their current duration/radius.)
https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/113017124213616899

The advent of LLMs masquerading as artificial intelligence has made the notion of an absurdly powerful computer, constructed at great expense, and given unseemly resources to answer a meaningful question, only to return the answer “42”, feel more and more prophetic.

i think the internet would be better if "web designers" were banned from having internet faster than train wifi

In German Linux distributions we don't use the 'sudo' command to gain root privileges. Instead, we have the