For all the Mouse's deep flaws, the mass transit system at Walt Disney World is sterling proof of just how good our cities could be if we stopped worrying about keeping the nice services away from the brown people.
The parks are super walkable, and getting anywhere across the southern part of the property (Epcot/Animal Kingdom/Hollywood Studios) Just Works™ in a way that most municipalities could easily replicate if they didn't have to fight property owners for every cent of taxes.
You are a 16 year old in 1993, which of the following would you get if money was no object?
But really, who are we to judge?
For our lives as well are often spent in pursuit of the virtual instead of the real
Happy International E- waste day.
...Also happy Microsoft end-of-life for Windows 10 day.
It's estimated that 400-600 million computers still run Windows 10, and many of those don't meet the higher specs required for Win 11, which in addition to more RAM and a faster CPU includes having UEFI bios.
For those with some level of tech literacy upgrading to Linux is an obvious workaround, but the sad truth is that enormous volumes of ewaste will be generated by this unnecessary act of corporate greed.
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![a screenshot from a Wired article, which reads: "Altman is aware, however, that some people might not like this. "I've spoken with environmentalists," he said. Then, he offered a suggestion. "Maybe we put [data centers] in space," he said. "I wish I had, like, more concrete answers for you, but like, we're stumbling through this." Now, the idea of hurling data centers, the largest of which can cover over a million square feet, into orbit may seem impractical. But Altman's not alone in considering it. Jeff Bezos and Eric
Schmidt are also betting on the idea."](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/713180 "a screenshot from a Wired article, which reads: \"Altman is aware, however, that some people might not like this. \"I've spoken with environmentalists,\" he said. Then, he offered a suggestion. \"Maybe we put [data centers] in space,\" he said. \"I wish I had, like, more concrete answers for you, but like, we're stumbling through this.\" Now, the idea of hurling data centers, the largest of which can cover over a million square feet, into orbit may seem impractical. But Altman's not alone in considering it. Jeff Bezos and Eric
Schmidt are also betting on the idea.\"")
jackhopkinsnow.com/p/hold-the-…
Hold the F*** On!
The Hidden Clause That Could End Checks and Balances in America
The Jack Hopkins Now Newlsetter #595: Monday, October 13th, 2025.
this was written by AI. This is exactly how it phrases these "wow, shocking!" type of conclusions to things
edit: there's at least one stanza on each page that is 100% a clear sign of this being AI even if you ignore the obvious "AI bolded this for emphasis"
Jack isn't doing his best work, or any work at all I guess
LMAO this is AI too
I guess if you're paying to subscribe to this Substack you're wasting your money
I don't care where the screenshots came from, Jack didn't write that. Some AI model did.
I know. I use them too. This is exactly how they phrase things.
If you want to know where Microsoft’s head is at,
they’ve added Copilot usage into their Connect (yearly performance review),
told sales people their performance is only being based on how much Copilot they sell,
and added Copilot usage to Viva Insight so companies can see how much Copilot usage there is in the org and how it compares to industry peers
Basically, only KPI that matters for orgs now: how much you feed the Copilot god.
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/10/13/mic…
Microsoft Viva Insights “helps people and businesses thrive with data-driven, privacy-protected insights.” It’s workplace spyware for your boss. [Microsoft; Microsoft] Viva Insights now has an exci…Pivot to AI
I found the solution to global warming.
If we just turned everyone into the Incredible Hulk we don’t need cars to travel and people can carry cargo vast distances at enormous weight.
That will dramatically reduce carbon.
From My Blog:
30 Days With Dolphin Screen Reader:
Day 0; Introduction
davidgoldfield.wordpress.com/2…
A few weeks ago, I learned that Dolphin Computer Access is offering a 50% discount on their Supernova products for users who have a JAWS, Zoomtext or Fusion license who are willing to switch from t…Thoughts from David Goldfield
Every time I try to use an LLM, it always gets things terribly wrong. Nvlist binary format is undocumented. Ask an LLM for it and of course it gets confused with OpenZFS similarly named nvpair, and talks about that (don't know if it's correct or not, but probably isn't from what I briefly saw).
I really don't understand how anyone uses this stuff for work.
@feld
I expect it to have FreeBSD's source code from anytime in the last 10 years in its corpus.
If I have to hunt down and provide source/docs for it, I might as well look at them myself to understand it and not depend upon an LLM to do so.
I even tried a 120b model, and it still gave me the incorrect response.
> If I have to hunt down and provide source/docs for it, I might as well look at them myself to understand it and not depend upon an LLM to do so.
yeah true, but when it's something without good docs or really confusing docs without examples, or projects where I have no idea what the structure is I find it very useful as it can read and find what I'm looking for faster than I can by grep-guessing
Do I know any people who know #rust pretty well? Do you dare speak up?
Why do I get the numbers I get here?
github.com/Spindel/tokio-timeo…
Comparing tokio's timeout vs. other solutions. Contribute to Spindel/tokio-timeout-compare development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
FreeBSD src tree (read-only mirror). Contribute to mekanix/freebsd-src development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
I was thinking we need to get more people active on the FreeBSD wiki too so at least examples, gotchas, and best practices are *somewhere* associated with the project and not just on random blogs and web comments, like this one from the other day:
More metro Phoenix home sellers have grown tired of demands from buyers and have given up.The number of canceled home listings is on the rise in the Valley as buyers continue to insist on lower prices, expensive remodel projects and interest-rate buydowns.
Trevor Halpern of Halpern Residential at eXp Reality said 35% to 40% of his sellers are pulling their listings if buyers won't give them the price they want.During the past few months, about 30% of Phoenix-area homes listed for sale were called off by homeowners, according to the Cromford Report.
hahahahaha good
A colleague is asking how many #Neuroscientists are here on Mastodon / Fedi. If you are one, could you make yourself known in this poll? Also, more specific comments about your field welcome! 🧠
please boost around if you don't mind
#Neuroscience #Academia #AcademicChatter
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Het fascisme is terug. Vind je dat overdreven? Dat is precies hoe het werkt.
Deze uitlegvideo van De Correspondent, van minder dan 10 minuten, wens ik een groot bereik toe. Met name onder mensen die mochten denken dat het 'allemaal wel meevalt'.
Beter en krachtiger dan deze korte en toegankelijke video valt het niet uit te leggen. Dat we even goed weten waar we staan.
youtube.com/watch?v=RVpE7gR46s…
Ja, het fascisme is terug. Vind je dat overdreven? Dat is precies hoe het werkt. Fascisme maakt extremisme normaal, waardoor waarschuwingen alarmistisch klin...YouTube
« Il y a deux ans, Dominique Bernard était assassiné devant son lycée, victime du terrorisme islamiste.
Assassiné pour sa vocation : enseigner, transmettre, éveiller les consciences.
Assassiné parce qu'il défendait son école, le savoir, ses élèves.
Assassiné parce qu'il incarnait tout ce que la haine, l'obscurantisme, l'islamisme détestent.
Jamais je n'oublierai ce 13 octobre et les jours qui ont suivi. Le choc face à l'attentat. La dignité des collègues de Dominique Bernard, le courage des élèves, la grandeur de la famille et de ses proches.
Nous rendons hommage à ce serviteur de l’École, à son courage, à sa passion de transmettre.
Nous pensons à son épouse, à sa famille, à ses collègues et à tous les professeurs qui, tous les jours, font vivre la République dans chaque salle de classe. »
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Il y a deux ans, Dominique Bernard était assassiné devant son lycée, victime du terrorisme islamiste. Assassiné pour sa vocation : enseigner, transmettre, éveiller les consciences. Assassiné parce qu'il défendait son école, le savoir, ses élèves.Telegram
I've been waiting for the new #Witcher book for many years. And today it's finally in my ebook reader. 😍
(I know it was released already last year, but the Czech translation was published just a few days ago.)
app.thestorygraph.com/books/dd…
#TheWitcher #books #Booktodon #book #kniha
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 16 updated and 1 added apps:
Unistroke Keyboard: Unistroke Handwriting Input Method, like Graffitty was on the Palm Pilot. This app is a fork of the seemingly no longer maintained original app going by the same name.
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo 
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).IzzyOnDroid App Repo
These things are all fluff and no substance.
You want to know how little we actually trust these post-quantum algorithms? So little that we're concerned that the NSA wants to formalize quantum-only crypto instead of hybrid crypto where we use current algorithms AND pq algorithms.
If we actually trusted this stuff worked, we wouldn't be afraid. But we are. Why is that?
blog.cr.yp.to/20251004-weakene…
RT: mastodon.social/users/arstechn…
Attached: 1 image Why Signal’s post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement New design sets a high standard for post-quantum readiness. https://arstechnica.Ars Technica (Mastodon)
someone is gonna say "but layers, security in layers!!"
ok so why don't we use AES and Twofish or Serpent together? Don't say performance, because that really shouldn't be a concern if security is that important.
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Good point