tk https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2026/08/29/digital/sony-ending-disc-production-digital-sales-video-games/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #life #digital #videogames #sony #playstation #grandtheftauto

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Back in: Megalodon (both the clams and the sharks)

Excellent!

tbh, IMHO I think "time sharing" was also an anti-pattern that those in our past explored due to budget and limited resources and attempting to maximize what they had available.

I sincerely wish more individuals got to use things such as Amiga Workbench when it was still being actively developed. Having pre-emptive multi-tasking, without user abstractions? Was glorious! Users exist outside of computing; the entire realm of "privilege escalation from standard user to root/admin/etc." is a class of vulnerabilities which fundamentally: do not exist on OSes like Amiga Workbench.

Yet, we'll keep dragging the dead horse of UNIX and Linux and timesharing multi-user concepts into "the future" apparently?

The UNIX Hater's Handbook, as far as I understand, was largely written by Lisp Machine users. Maybe now that https://www.symbolics.biz/ is supposedly open sourcing Genera for non commercial hobbyists, we'll see some of its yesteryears' wisdoms elsewhere as well? Despite LaurieWired's recent YouTube video on it, their name of a "Lisp Machine" was a misnomer, and they ran more than Lisp; there were C compilers (plural, e.g. Symbolics C, Zeta-C), some of which apparently flagged and alerted on out of bound memory access attempts and other programming languages available for Lisp machines as well. Supposedly many of X Windows' early bugs were identified and remediated thanks to Lisp Machine users. The hardware? Was prohibitively expensive. Heck, the last time I saw a CD-ROM of (Open)Genera on eBay it sold for at least $5000 and IIRC required a DEC Alpha to run (though others created a shim layer to emulate such things on Linux systems on AMD64; it seems as if contemporary Genera can now run on AArch64 and more).

Xous' paradigm of memory allocation and access seems fascinating too, though so far I have mostly only read about it; not attempted to run it.

"So I absolutely think we still have the need for unions and collective bargaining. Particularly in those industries where workers are at a disadvantage, compared to the negotiating power of the business itself.

But we would also like to see a shift in the way we do business. Where business owners ... are incentivised to give the best possible terms to workers, because that's what creates the best outcomes for the business itself."

#QuilaeWong, 2026

https://www.publicinterest.nz/left-wing-or-right-wing-qiulae-wong-on-vested-interests-inequality-and-what-opportunity-really-stands-for/

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so remember the arch linux guy who backdoored linux module checksums for "reproducibility" and his website is literally vulns.xyz?

[but he could not overcome the gnu automake maintainer's sheer love for the tarball, the one he serves to all his most satisfied users like ratatouille?]

anyway the evil guy created this backdated TRADEMARK_CONSENT.txt document

which reportedly has a transcript of a conversation between him involving moxie and a signal representative claiming their code is GPLv3 and not AGPLv3 as it has always been

Hello,

I consulted with our attorney and despite the language in our Terms of
Service related to various IP rights, the Signal code is explicitly
licensed under GPLv3. As long as your company complies with the GPLv3, your
use and distribution of Signal Desktop is explicitly permitted under GPLv3.

We do ask that you use reasonable efforts to make timely updates to your
repository to the most current version of Signal as it becomes available.

Please let me know if you have any questions. All the best to you and your
organization.

Thanks.
-aruna

Aruna Harder
Signal Messenger

anyway it's not a big puzzle about how this arch linux fuckboy managed to get a google DKIM signature for whatever he wanted to write

@Gina. Elixir/Phoenix is a supremacy-free alternative to Ruby on Rails (with many additional advantages!) and I hope your new employer will consider migrating to it. What we tolerate, we encourage.

https://www.phoenixframework.org

https://vulns.xyz/2022/01/debian-missing-version-string/ look at how he automated shaming maintainers way back in 2022

@rayckeith I've heard that this is actually a possible foot-shooting. That is, that GOP voters are less likely, given the rules, to go to a polling place, and more likely, given the rules, to do a mail vote anyway.

I’m just absolutely stunned by the rural Idaho sky. It sits at 2 or 3 on the Bortle scale for measuring dark skies, a vast difference from Brooklyn’s light-polluted Bortle 9. You leave the house lights and walk out, before moonrise, right into a sea of stars, the Milky Way overhead.

And oh, the moon. In a city you forget how brightly Luna can shine. Here, looking out on a field brilliant with moonlight and crisp shadows, you know exactly who owns the night.

#photography #stars #milkyway #moon

@TheBreadmonkey

am trying to find a carefree nice plant for the front garden that looks good despite the fact it sits on sand in full sun and hardly gets any water or rainfall 🏜️

@kitten_tech Same cover with a new schematic that isn't gibberish.

@kitten_tech Well well well, I want to come back here and tell you that I hadn't checked that the cover was gibberish schematics. Thankfully it has changed now and I will post the new cover right here and what it represents. Thank you for asking these questions.

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

#BloomScrolling #flowers

#TGIF
Summer is still here as clouds boast they're not done, but leaves have other ideas.
Have a good evening and a great weekend, everyone.

#dog #dogs #DogsOfMastodon #AdoptDontShop #rescuedog #photography #FujiFilm #Pixel10Pro #leaves #tree #autumn #summer #sky #clouds

Well of course, the story of my adult life on Climate Change "Not Right Now", and still Labour smugly come back with this shit, I hate them for their cowardice.

#ClimateCrisis #UKPol #UKpolitics #DataCentres #Labour #ButlerianJihad

@Sempf DaFuq, man, cuz that take is *legendary*.