Ernie Smith

@ernie@writing.exchange
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Editor of Tedium, an offbeat newsletter that’s been rocking since 2015. I complain on the internet a lot, and I accidentally made a search engine.

Support what I do here: https://ko-fi.com/tedium

Interests: #writing #news #history #technology #retrotech #weird #geoworks #freelance

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Ernie Smith15h ago
Ernie Smith15h ago
So I guess we bomb Iran now. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Israel-Iran live updates: U.S....
Israel-Iran live updates: Trump says key Iranian nuclear facilities ‘totally obliterated’ in U.S. strikes

The B-2 is the only U.S. aircraft able to carry the bunker-busting bombs thought to be capable of penetrating Iran’s Fordow nuclear enrichment facility.

The Washington Post
Ernie Smith18h ago

Hey quick correction on this piece: Peri Fractic’s next video on the Commodore saga is expected to hit June 28—we initially said July 28.

Sorry about this, it was unintentional on both sides of things.

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Ernie Smith (@ernie@writing.exchange)

Recently, you may have heard that Peri Fractic, a YouTuber, announced he wants to acquire the #Commodore brand. You might be thinking, “How serious is he?” Based on my conversation with him: Pretty serious. https://tedium.co/2025/06/19/peri-fractic-retro-recipes-commodore-profile/ new @tedium@social.tedium.co

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Show threadErnie Smith21h ago
@ismh86 But we would get so many decorative birds and DIY tables
Ernie Smith21h ago
Ygor22h ago

Looks like Randall is trying to disprove @pluralistic's theory by imagining a scenario in which interoperability contributes to enshittification 🤣

https://xkcd.com/3105/

#xkcd #comic #interoperability

Interoperability

xkcd
Show threadErnie Smith22h ago
Getting mad at people because they don’t do things as you would is just so counterproductive. Go get a hobby.
Show threadErnie Smith22h ago
Leaving this here so others know about this guy and that you should block him.
Show threadErnie Smith1d ago
@patrickhills (Also, appreciate it.)
Show threadErnie Smith1d ago

@patrickhills I wasn’t even initially rude about it. I just said that it was OK if it wasn’t for you. But that wasn’t enough for the person so it degreded from there.

I mean, udm14 is subtle marketing for the very same point—Google has gotten worse, and you have to do stupid things like load a random guy’s website to get an experience that looks somewhat like the one you had in 2006.

Show threadErnie Smith1d ago
@paul Interesting, I’ll look into this some more. Sounds super troubling.
Show threadErnie Smith1d ago

@alisynthesis yeah, I have invested a lot of time in self-hosting and gave up on Adobe, which I even shocked myself with.

But gradual shifts are more effective, and if a user makes their next move away from a big tech direction and has a good experience, that will likely be a win in the long run.