Hi blog writers: You don’t have to attach a unique image to every blog post, and you *certainly* don’t need to use #AI to generate an image for every blog post. You may think AI-generated images make your posts more attractive, but you are mistaken; they are doing the opposite: they make your posts more *repulsive* to a good number of potential readers. If I see an AI-generated image in the preview, I won’t click through to read your post, I won’t boost the post that mentions your post, and I certainly won’t read the rest of your blog.

@spla @Caelumtangi i menjar gelats, gaspatxo, bon tomàquet, anar a la platja, tenir vacances, veure el Gran Prix del Verano (amb el Ramón aquell)...

I hereby proclaim 2026 the international year of #webstalgia. This is a time where we, surrounded by the dreary artifacts of a thoroughly enshittified Internet, rediscovr with fondness the technology and institutions that served us so well in the early years.

To celebrate it, I have given my personal blog a major restyling, the third in 21 years. I even re-established the blogroll, because I am reading blogs again. From a RSS feed reader.

http://cottica.net

#blog #rss #minimalism

like right after diffie-hellman came out in 1976 there was RSA to ensure discrete log wasn't used for public key cryptosystems and then elliptic curves which use complex mathematics for no reason i can figure out yet. and then right after we had reasonably fast CSPRNGs based upon discrete log in 1997-2004 then there's this whole massive thing where NIST very loudly and obviously pushes a broken curve

Your hairdresser is applying chemicals to your scalp.

And we have opinions about which ones. The very strong ones.

Some substances once used in hair dyes were linked to serious health risks. So, we restricted them in the EU cosmetics market.

No public drama. Just dangerous products replaced on salon shelves by better ones.

Your colour still looks the same. The risk profile doesn’t.

— EU Cosmetics Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009: In force since 11 July 2013 + restricted substances updates

@jannem Chip designs hit a clock speed wall circa y2k, then went wide (pentium M was basically just a pentium III with the racy logic cleaned up and megabytes of L2 cache on die), then they went SMP, then the put frame buffers and eventually GPUs on die to soak up the transistor budget (AMD bought ATI in 2006).

The mainframe->minicomputer->microcomputer->smartphone migrations muddied the waters a lot (I've given talks about those), but when I say moore's law is dead past tense, I mean it.

@spla @Caelumtangi ara mateix estic amb les finestres obertes i el ventilador al mínim de velocitat.. quina brisa més bona... quin gust estar fresquets sense aire condicionat 😍

@Caelumtangi el fred té fàcil solució i és ecològic 💪🏼 @PaulaPapaia

@jannem The original 1965 Moore's Law paper was about RAM. Intel was founded to produce DRAM.

https://www.landley.net/history/mirror/interviews/Moore.html

RAM doubled like clockwork (largely due to industry collusion in production schedules) for decades, I wrote about it in 2003:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/halloween9.html#id2867629

And again in 2006, that time with example products/ranges sourced from an extensive collection of old computer magazines:

http://catb.org/~esr/writings/world-domination/world-domination-201.html#id248066

Dark Nights: **EN/ES: Banner Drop in Solidarity with Juan Aliste Vega**

https://darknights.noblogs.org/post/2026/08/22/en-es-banner-drop-in-solidarity-with-juan-aliste-vega/

Montevideo, Uruguay Banners in solidarity with Juan Aliste, imprisoned in Chile for the expropriation of two banks and the death of Corporal Moyano. Our comrade is battling a severe illness, exacerbated by the deliberate delay of his medical care by the prison authorities. We hung these banners on both sides of a

I'm typing this on a laptop that came out in 2012. It was high-end then and I've upgraded it as far as it can go, but no piece of hardware that's NINE DOUBLINGS behind should still be usable, let alone slightly more powerful than a modern chromebook.

That's why silicon valley's gone septic. Everything they did was pantomime while photolithigrapic die size shrinks did all the heavy lifting. Now the S-curve's bent back down again there's no more growth to be had, and they're in SCREAMING DENIAL.

@spla @Caelumtangi @R @jordiCasas @qualcu un altre! #clubsobrassada

@PaulaPapaia 🤣!!! no suporto el fred 😭
@spla

Moore's Law is dead.

Intel introduced the 64 bit "Core 2" processor in 2005 so laptops could access more than 4 gigabytes of RAM.

Moore's Law's 18 month doubling time says the following 21 years should have 14 doublings to 64 terabytes of RAM in each $2000 laptop.

That's why silicon valley execs went crazy: they no longer have free growth. Their business model doesn't WORK. They've done regulatory capture, brute force spending inflating a snake oil bubble, and nothing's working.

@Caelumtangi @R @dgil @jordiCasas @qualcu
apunteu-me com a fan incondicional de la #sobrassada

back on DUAL_EC_DRBG https://eprint.iacr.org/2006/190 it's very strange not to mention that nobody was talking about elliptic curve CSPRNGs at all until NIST brought this up. the discrete log CSPRNGs just did modular arithmetic

okay, i’m officially on the job hunt again...

i’m currently based in the philippines and preferably looking for immediate work, preferrably remote. i was a general manager in my most recent role, but i’m very open to branching out 😊 admin work, virtual assistance, writing, marketing, customer support, or honestly, if you think i’d be a good fit for something, send it my way!

i’m also open to opportunities elsewhere in the world. yes i am THAT flexible right now.. i’m ready for a change of scenery and a new chapter.

if you know of anyone hiring or have any leads, i’d really appreciate you sending them my way. my cv is ready and available upon request.

boosts appreciated! 💌

#getfedihired #fedihire #fedijobs #remotework #work

…but until it all collapses it probably ‘wins’.

The web will get sloppier and the feeling of using it will get more and more soulless than it already is

@Caelumtangi @Max_Headroom 💪🏼😅