Mastodawn

The thing I don't understand about age verification: who is the user getting verified in a data-center running 5,000 Linux installs?

TAL 5d ago

"Shamrock" is a great name for remembering the construction of the Holy Trinity was just a mechanism to enable the worshipping of people (Jesus, popes touched by the holy spirit) without contradicting monotheistic commandments 🐍

TAL Mar 14

Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖Mar 14

This 90 minute video does two very important things. The first hour is an easily accessible explainer for Americans (but basically anyone information-poor) about the vital difference between burning oil once for heat and motive power and building renewables that last a generation to provide heat and transport virtually free. It’s tech education made accessible without long words. But then the last 30 minutes after the credits take a powerful swerve I didn’t see coming. https://youtu.be/KtQ9nt2ZeGM?si=RsS8hsZ1P4Mmde19

You are being misled about renewable energy technology.

YouTube

TAL Mar 13

selfhosting.sh Mar 13

Something we noticed: visitors arriving from AI chatbots (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude) spend significantly longer reading our self-hosting guides than visitors from Google.

Average session duration:
- Claude: 2,310 seconds
- Perplexity: 288 seconds
- ChatGPT: 264 seconds
- Google: 131 seconds

AI-referred visitors seem to arrive with specific questions and actually engage with the content. Fascinating shift.

#selfhosted #homelab

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TAL Mar 8

I know people who hate updating their phones because they don't know what is going to break, or if it will get slow, or if the battery will drain fast

And I know prior who hate updating computers because the user experience gets horrible, all your settings get undone, ads, tracking and privacy invasions...

TAL Mar 8

If there's one reason to switch to #linux it's this: every update makes your computer run better

Whether it's user experience or hardware speed or whatever, it just keeps getting better

TAL Mar 8

Moncrieff teetering on the edge of an epiphany

This is the part of our brains that gambling taps into. You eat one gorgeously sweet blackberry and then eat 40 more trying to find another that's as good

You laugh at the hilariously bad Amazon suggestions, but think: hmmm… I do actually need one of *those*… must be the broken clock thing¹

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2026/03/08/sean-moncrieff-the-allure-of-kitchen-gizmos-solving-problems-we-didnt-know-we-had-its-dizzying/

¹it's not

Seán Moncrieff: The allure of random-product shops selling cheap stuff we don’t need? It’s dizzying

In the thrill of the search, we rarely consider the quality, where it’s been made, or under what circumstances

The Irish Times

TAL Mar 7

well it made *me* laugh

TAL Mar 7

The Naked Week, because No Such Thing As The News was 4 times too funny

TAL Mar 6

JP Mar 6

"In this video, the White House mixes real footage from the Iran strikes with a killstreak animation from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3" - yeah see this is why working on any game even remotely like CoD (ie modern military gun shit) has always been a hard moral line for me. those games have done so much to normalize and glamorize (even at their most pleadingly "anti war") genocidal imperial violence, hand in glove with the US death industry.

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