Mastodawn

@T_X use an lts kernel

if [ "$(date +%m-%d)" = "04-02" ]; then
echo "========================================"
echo " 🎂 Happy Birthday Phil! 🎂 "
echo "========================================"
fi

Negative Earth Apr 1

Jamie is running an absolute clinic on #jeopardy tonight. Not sure I’ve seen anything like it

Negative Earth Mar 17

internetarchive Mar 17

New post from Joe Mullin, EFF's Sr. Policy Analyst: Publishers say they’re blocking the Internet Archive because they fear AI scraping. This is a misguided notion: it won’t stop AI, but it will erase the web’s historical record.

@eff has the story ⤵️
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/blocking-internet-archive-wont-stop-ai-it-will-erase-webs-historical-record

Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record

Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months. The Internet Archive—the world’s largest digital library—has preserved newspapers since it went online in the mid-1990s....

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Negative Earth Mar 14

RE: https://mastodon.social/@negativeearth/115749021180040803

Actually I did build my NAS!

And RAM is even worse now!

https://negativeearth.net/blog/20260228-nasbuild/

Negative Earth Mar 14

RTFM

Negative Earth Mar 4

@hobbs also noticed this, I know they recently acquired Depop, which had a “repop” button. Unsure if related but seems coincidental.

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Negative Earth Feb 23

@robin_wren I was wondering when mistakes would start being embraced as evidence a human created something. Seems like it’s starting :)

Negative Earth Feb 18

Doing stuff to my house #diy #books #blog

https://negativeearth.net/blog/20260215-houseprojects/

Recent house projects

My undiagnosed ADHD has finally decided it’s now time to work on house stuff instead of Linux stuff

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Negative Earth Jan 31

I wish we could have a real discussion instead of just saying “LLM bad”. I think there’s real potential to take back control in some ways.