Chris Hanson

@eschaton
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I used to work on tools for people to do work. Now I play with old computers and do other retiree things.

Ed Zitron is right. Ceterum censeo LLMs esse delenda.

Websitehttps://eschatologist.net/
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Every so often, we get a little reminder that we actually *do* live in The Future.
Oh yeah, Digi also still makes the latest (2021) firmware build for the CM48 available, so they definitely have the infrastructure to make an archive containing the GPL-compliance content available.
You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

I CANNOT BELIEVE I HAVE TO SAY THIS:

the purpose of a voter identification card is not only to suppress the vote, but to TRACK the vote.

voter id laws in the United States have ALWAYS come down to fascists wanting to know who is voting AND FOR WHOM, so they can suppress those votes.

the SAVE Act is not only a voter suppression law, but it’s #MAGA #fascists wanting to codify that Americans do not have a right to a secret vote ―which is a HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION

#VotingRightsAct #USpol

So I have a Digi CM48 terminal server, it’s pretty cool and uses an embedded Linux. Unfortunately its embedded Linux is ancient.

What’s worse, though, is that Digi says it’s sufficiently out of support that they “can’t” give me a link to the source code they’re required to provide under the terms of the GPL.

#gpl #opensource #linux

How many people would be willing to pay $10/month for new episodes of “Star Trek” on an ongoing basis? If that number’s over 6.2 million, then Paramount is leaving money on the table by not publishing on the order of an episode a week all year across series.

#startrek

A white MAGA man shot & killed his daughter because she criticized Trump. Why is no one asking the questions they'd ask if he was Black, brown, immigrant, or Muslim?🧐

For example:
•Where was he radicalized?
•Why is their culture so violent?
•Is this what they call "honor killing?"
•Why won't they assimilate to our values?
•What radicalism are they teaching in their churches?
•Was he here legally from Europe or was he an illegal?
•Did you know they cite their Bible to command women to be silent?

Just so EVERYONE understands this:

Moderna has a flu shot. It works. It works well. It is safe. It is safe in people with compromised immune systems (like cancer patients!).

Trump’s nutjob at FDA, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., appears to have ordered FDA to refuse to even accept the application to review the shot for approval.

RFK wants to kill your grandma. Fuck RFK.

Among all the other things wrong with it, the effect of LLMs on the RAM and storage market have been terrible. How the fuck is a WD Blue 250GB SATA SSD now $75 when I got ten of the 1TB model a few months ago for $700?! Fucking slopmongers aren’t content with trying to ruin every creative field and the planet, they have to ruin the market for everything that isn’t directly contributing to their slop. #ai

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/ai-enters-operating-room-reports-arise-botched-surgeries-misidentified-body-2026-02-09/

Most allegedly involved errors in which the TruDi Navigation System misinformed surgeons about the location of their instruments while they were using them inside patients’ heads during operations.

I AM FUCKING SCREAMING I AM FUCKING SCREAMING I AM FUCKING SCREAMING