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Silver Spook Games
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Reviews like this make the blood, sweat and tears working on this adventure game while being an underpaid social worker in the US ghetto worth it. And yeah, let's make cyberpunk PUNK again! store.steampowered.com/app/4611140/... #cyberpunk #indiegame #indiedev #SteamDeals
Training AI models on copyrighted works is "squarely what transformative use is," EFF’s Tori Noble told Reason - these are "general purpose tools" and "exactly the kind of creation that copyright is designed to foster.” https://reason.com/2026/09/04/doj-says-barring-ai-training-on-copyrighted-material-could-severely-hamper-tech-progress/
@eff oh, AI is transformative alright. it's transforming earth into a hellscape even faster than it already was.
who has access to everything they stole, anyway? if their stolen shit leaked, who would get in trouble? no one?
Hubert Chathi (he/him)
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The Mercator map projection keeps generating controversy, because it is completely fucked up. Greenland looks like it's the size of South America (it's about the size of Algeria). Antarctica looks like it dwarfs all of Eurasia (it's a bit smaller than Russia). Africa looks like it's a lot smaller than it actually is, and the centre of the world (at least longitudinally) is conspicuously Greenwich in England.
It has one redeeming feature (and all the aforementioned was *not* considered politically incendiary back in the 1500s!), and that is that a straight line on a Mercator map corresponds to a straight bearing on the actual globe. So it's incredibly useful for navigation - especially when this involved compasses and sextants and paper, rather than GPS trackers and satellites and computers.
But *because* it so greatly distorts the sizes of landmasses, it's probably not the best choice for eg. a school classroom world map, where it mostly creates misconceptions and its main quality has little use.
Here is my favourite alternative, the Dymaxion projection, which balances right on the knife edge between "utterly brilliant" and "batshit insane".
randomly just remembered one time when i idly mentioned to someone else working on pants who sucks how gnu has the policy of bumping the copyright year range when they modify a file (which i think is actually a really cute way to genuinely just summarize when the work was done, to give the reader an idea of whether the code in that file is stable) because it would be a great example of something an introspective build tool could do really well and it would be more appropriate than doing it in a text editor. and they started acting like i had proposed we institute the same policy for some reason instead of being a novel and interesting remark about what made our system so special and widely applicable
dude was a senior eng a decade older than me everyone was so fucking terrible to me because i genuinely loved the idea of solving boring infrastructural problems and it made them feel insecure.
whatever. if i can unfuck my usb-c port then i will have performed an act of wizardry and i will be unstoppable
it is possible that somehow the KDE clipboard is related to the fucking GUI stack since i think they just upgraded to qt6 everywhere but fuck idk. wil take a detour to rebuild emacs
for a period of perhaps two whole seconds i allowed myself to believe that mozilla accidentally had a good idea that i could appropriate to be shockingly subversive https://newproducts.mozilla.org/product/tabstack/ two seconds later i realized that's also what i used to believe about the rust programming language
Tabstack is a web execution and data transformation API. It’s built for developers whose AI systems need to reliably read and take action on the web.
i thought this meant like. recognizing that there are really basic fucking architectural approaches to web scraping that nobody does right nor cares to learn or understand. i thought this could potentially be a case of "doing something FUCKING USEFUL, like an engineer who accepts the blame if THE BRIDGE THEY BUILD BREAKS AND KILLS PEOPLE because their field has achieved a degree of confidence in how to achieve reliable systems of public infrastructure after LITERALLY THOUSANDS OF YEARS OF RESEARCH AND SELF-CRITIQUE"
but this is the internet, so (thanks to the bipartisan us congress and the telecommunications act of 1996 under bill clinton, as well as ronald FUCKING reagan) nothing can ever be done for the public good. anything that even seems useful is merely a ruse--what kind of fucking loser would waste their time on boring shit like infrastructure?
Tabstack can automatically transform raw web content into insights, summaries, or tailored structured data (including Markdown, JSON, or custom schemas) specifically crafted for your unique requirements.
it's THEIR fucking unique requirements. why the fuck would THEY ever want YOU to have a fucking OPINION on how they generate that, let alone DEMANDING that your fucking sloperating system receive the credit it deserves as the real innovation behind your users' fucking work?????
just a terrible, terrifying company
""tailored structured data (including Markdown""
i should do a kde connect that doesn't backdoor the user that would be slick
randomly just remembered one time when i idly mentioned to someone else working on pants who sucks how gnu has the policy of bumping the copyright year range when they modify a file (which i think is actually a really cute way to genuinely just summarize when the work was done, to give the reader an idea of whether the code in that file is stable) because it would be a great example of something an introspective build tool could do really well and it would be more appropriate than doing it in a text editor. and they started acting like i had proposed we institute the same policy for some reason instead of being a novel and interesting remark about what made our system so special and widely applicable
dude was a senior eng a decade older than me everyone was so fucking terrible to me because i genuinely loved the idea of solving boring infrastructural problems and it made them feel insecure.
whatever. if i can unfuck my usb-c port then i will have performed an act of wizardry and i will be unstoppable
Anyone who is surprised by EFF's latest pro-slop position should know that this is no sudden pivot.
Here's EFF in July, fighting against NY legislation that would legally compel AI scrapers to identify themselves with accurate user-agents:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/stealth-crawlers-are-not-threat-open-web-bills-targeting-them-would-be
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/eff-joins-18-civil-rights-organizations-calling-governor-hochul-reject-stealth
And don't miss this gem from June, in which EFF rails against IETF proposals that would empower website owners with scraper-blocking standards that might really work:
> [...] the AI Preferences working group is working on proposals to give publishers a way to express “preference signals” against crawling web data for AI-related purposes [...]
> Another working group [...] is pursuing efforts to protect sites from overly-aggressive bots that strain website resources [...] standards changes that would enable sites to cryptographically identify bots so that they can more easily block anyone they wish [...]
> [...] we are fighting back against these threats to open access [...]
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/free-and-open-web-under-attack-ietf
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Matt Blaze
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The scale of these wind farms is beyond what we're equipped to process in day-to-day human experience. They conquer the landscape in ways we can't fully comprehend even when they're in front of us. In a sense, they're abstract sculptures of themselves, mostly visible in fleeting glances from interstate highways or airplane windows.
Infrastructure is heroic.
Matt Blaze
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This was captured near the Tesla substation (no relation to the car company) near Altamont Pass with a DSLR and a 400mm lens, compressing the turbines in a way that made them resemble a histogram.
There's a *lot* of power being generated in those hills. There was an audible hum in the air and vibrations could be felt in the ground. In some spots, the camera rebooted from induced currents.
Infrastructure like this is easy to ignore, but has an accidental beauty that I think is worth examining.
Matt Blaze
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Wind Turbines, near Tracy, CA, 2010
All the pixels, no wind required, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/4491948497
@ozoned always happy to boost toot-ups! i'd consider going, but i'll be at hopscotch music fest that day/night. :)
@autumn@triangletoot.party well I hope you have TONS of fun there. I also hope we can meet up sometime soon! 😄
ozoned
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Did a fun podcast interview with @ozoned yesterday to run through the installation and setup of a new #PieFed instance.
It all went pretty well, thankfully!
Watch it at https://tubefree.org/videos/watch/f3bca0f0-24a4-426b-98a4-f6714c5539c5
Piefed - Rimu - E05
BEST TESLA AD EVER
@ai6yr Ouch
Putting crudely built games on the official White House website doesn't seem like the best security and anti-DoS strategy.
@lauren
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Polish people:
The local Polish shop has a large range of Cheetos. Another shop with a large range of Polish food has a moderately large range of Cheetos. The local Tesco put Cheetos in the fridge in the Polish section. Few other shops here sell Cheetos and the few that do have one, maybe two varieties. So, I have two questions:
- Is there some connection between Poland and Cheetos that I have somehow remained completely ignorant of?
- Do you folks really put them in the fridge, or is that just Tesco being Tesco?
@david_chisnall I seen them at work, working at cold logistics (5°c)..
Looked it up(gpt) and they are 2-30°C storage, which can not be guaranteed by normal logistics because they normally have curtain-side truck and can get easy 40-50 degree if they stand in sunlight.
Only chips I would enjoy eating cold would be Jalapeño & Lime..
