@xabean You're welcome, and thank you so much in turn!

@lina Like Ben Eater, kinda?

@Kels_316 *nods* the other team has a bigger budget

No, I can't make fun of Trump's weird "put a point on it" hand gestures because I am an unrepentant and wholly irredeemable hand talker. Admittedly, there's something way more snotty about the way Trump does it, but I have absolutely had people lose focus on what I was saying while they stared at my hands like I'm trying to karate chop them. I talk like Tom Cruise's character in court during A Few Good Men and it's not always endearing.

True Rate of Unemployment

https://www.lisep.org/tru

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49530989

#HackerNews #TrueRateOfUnemployment #UnemploymentStatistics #LaborMarket #EconomicAnalysis #JobMarket

My goats love their straw bale playground equipment. And Goatzilla says "yes, these apples you poured out for us are very nice, but can you please hand-feed me instead? I am very spoiled."

Also, my goats would like to tell everyone that genAI fucking sucks.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@stux/117198423593786284

Forget personal data (I mean…don't) but what happens when Trump signs an EO that states that all trans people must be referred to by their sex assigned at birth and their deadnames. Or an EO that states that "antifa" can't own smart phones or be allowed cloud acounts. Just how far will these companies go in the name of "doing business" Don't tell me, I already know, IBM paved the way.

@401matthall oh yes! and of course it needs emphasizing: what you’re getting is a free trial for identity protection, usually for like a year

so this thing you’re getting really is just a sales pitch and some spam you more than likely disposed of without reading

it is *fucked* that they can pretend this is compensation

After last night's stream I think I want to do a handcam stream teaching digital logic with real logic gates... and I realized that good digital logic demo/learning kits just don't seem to exist any more. Nothing like what I had when I was young.

I might have to design my own...

@Wyatt_H_Knott I hope you enjoy it! 🫎

@stevegis_ssg didn't really need another sign it's time to get out of tech, but here we are

Xcoders Social Sep. 3: https://xcoders.org/2026/09/01/xcoders-social-sep.html

@zzt

Now, that I've seen before it just failed to occur to me that in addition to 'offering' protection what actually took place was a sale of a list of customers who might _need_ id protection in the immediate future (because the _selling_ company leaked their clients personal info).

That's... Dark.

We should be burning buildings and rioting in the streets.

@kewball ha! 😀

That is funny. I have done weeks of video editing, weighing multiple solutions to every scene, tuning every detail. But that I did not see.

It does look kind of odd.

@dan Happens to the best of us.

Two decades ago, I had a colonoscopy, and they gave me fentanyl. For the next three days, I just kinda sat in my chair, saying, "Ya know, life is good."

@zzt the closed source "would you like to eat glass? [yes] [later]" vs the open source "we removed everything but glass from your fridge"

Six Takeaways From the Massachusetts Primaries
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/us/politics/massachusetts-primary-election-results-takeaways.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Politics @politics-newyorktimes

it’s uhh notable that password managers all have to do this weird fucking dance where they manage your clipboard and try to auto-insert just the right password into just the right field on the page, and absolutely none of the android vendors or apple offer the option to just fucking emulate a keyboard and have your phone fill in passwords for the rest of your devices

don’t post in this thread about how actually passkeys are really good if you never change phones

don’t ask me “what should we do instead”, we live in a world where we can’t make a good password manager for some reason without fucking it up

if either of these things make you angry, go make a password manager that’s worth a damn