kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026If you put the temperature controls for your refrigeration system on the outside of the building, protected only by the secret password "1234" and then someone comes along and sets the temperature to 50°, it just goes to show that hackers are super dangerous. 000
kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026> Browser not supported / Your browser does not support the security verification required by www.phoronix.com Phoronix fully blocked by cloudflare now, not even the front page will load. Oh well, I'll miss it. 000
kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026Good job on the election, Québec. I'm not the biggest fan of the PQ but seeing the CAQ get wiped out is a relief. 000
kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/202650 viewers and nobody's chatting. Just another sign of the decline and fall of social media I guess. 000
kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026Did anyone else notice that food prices started going up in 2006 and never went back down? 000
kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026For a minute there I couldn't remember what the word "thurible" means. My Catholic upbringing is wearing off. 000
kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026How much of conventional economics implicitly depends on the law of one price"? Now that it's so thoroughly obsolete and forgotten — often irrelevant in practice since well before this latest "surveillance pricing" nonsense — we're going to need some new justifications for capitalism. Maybe […]fedia.ioOriginal post on fedia.io 001
kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026What is going on with the mystery author of "Go Cafe", the foxwq client that's appeared on github? There's a "source code" tar file which tricked me into thinking it was open source so I tried out the app. It's quite nice, but the sound doesn't work. That file does not contain any actual source […]fedia.ioOriginal post on fedia.io 000
kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026Wait a minute, that's not right. When you've got the munchies, anything will do. 000
kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026This author has chosen to make their posts visible only to people who are initiated into the Erisian mystery cult. 000
kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026There were a few questions I didn't care for on today's catfishing but I'm pleased with myself for knowing something in the category of 9th-century fictional cross-dressers.catfishing.netcatfishing - the Wikipedia guessing gameGuess the Wikipedia article from its categories. 10 interesting people, places, and things to guess every day. 000
kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/20262026 brings us another cinematic attack on Robin Hood. Yet another "dark re-imagining" of the story. It starts to look as though it's a deliberate campaign to destroy the legend. 000
kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026Taskmaster stream is due to start on youtube. I haven't seen a chat move like this since the heyday of twitch dot tv. 010
kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026I didn't think downvotes were possible on mastodon but I just saw a comment from a mastodon user in a mastodon thread with a -1 score. Maybe it's a thing on piefed or something? It was a comment about "AI" of course. 000
kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026In hindsight I wish that "we'll form a committee to study the question as the situation evolves and come up with proposals to vote on next year" had been among the options. It would've been better than being stuck with the policy of having no policy. #debian 000
kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026I program my home computer Beam myself into the future 000
kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026Did I just accidentally find out how to do line breaks in markdown? After so many years of not knowing. Does it work here? 000
kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026Corporate_Memphis Although Wikipedia reports that its popularity has fallen off, I'm still seeing fresh examples of it far too often.en.wikipedia.orgCorporate Memphis - Wikipedia 000
kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026Listening to Pergolesi's Stabat Mater and pondering the latest VNC Resolver screenshots. 000
kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026Super-Duper El Nino and the Bigger Problem (pdf) The latest from James Hansen. Things are heating up. 000
kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026People often say that history is cyclical. After 25 years of waxing totalitarian surveillance nightmare world, isn't it about time the cycle turned the other way? 000
kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026Sacco and Vanzetti Today is the 99th anniversary of the deaths of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.en.wikipedia.orgSacco and Vanzetti - Wikipedia 000
Reposted by kbalBill @sempf.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026If you have not watched the video of Cliff Stoll at Defcon stop whatever you are doing right now and watch it. 012
kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Beuysen.wikipedia.orgJoseph Beuys - Wikipedia 000
kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026> Log in to use old Reddit As of today, reddit has at last gone dark for me. I will not be logging in to use old reddit. 100
kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026"Warning / 2026-08-14: After two and a half years, Bethesda has announced an incoming update to Skyrim. Please be prepared." I started with modded Skyrim just before that previous update and wish I had got such a warning before it happened. It's pretty easy to keep a copy of your current […]fedia.ioOriginal post on fedia.io 000
kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026#Mozilla please hire someone to replace Aris before CustomCSSforFx stops working. It's fine for now (the way I use it at least) but I'm dreading the first major UI update where he won't be around to fix everything. 000
kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026amdgpu is crashing again on Linux 7.2.0. It wasn't happening on rc7 and it failed twice so far today with `page fault (src_id:0 ring:24 vmid:7 pasid:n)` on two different processes when I was doing nothing special. If it's a bad release for amd it won't be the first time. Or it could be my gpu […]fedia.ioOriginal post on fedia.io 100
kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026You know, even if you know nothing else about the guy who posted a picture of the cards he printed up which say DO NOT TALK TO ME ABOUT "AI" you should probably not take that as an invitation to start a conversation with him about "AI". 000
kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026Listening to the soma.fm reggae channel, they're singing "Johnny was a Baker," and I'm starting to love Jamaica 010
kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026climatereanalyzer.org/clim/seaice_d… I don't know what's going on with antarctic sea ice this week but expect a flurry of headlines about it soon.climatereanalyzer.orgClimate Reanalyzer 010
kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026Laundry, vacuuming, figuring out how to get money to pay the bills, learning the Rust programming language — not done. Re-acquainting myself with the use of a hand drill in order to put a small hole in a piece of wood so that it might serve as a spacer for attaching the bell to my bicycle with […]fedia.ioOriginal post on fedia.io 000
kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026For search queries that aren't suitable for Google Scholar I find myself starting with Wikipedia a lot of the time, now that search engines suck. 000
kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026Beautiful weather today. Slightly overcast, no rain, not too hot, not too windy, perfect for bicycling. Number of bicycles seen on the local road: Zero other than my own. Number of vehicles powered by infernal combustion engines: About three million, only two of which gave the impression that […]fedia.ioOriginal post on fedia.io 000
kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026200 hours into my 2026 Skyrim playthrough, I've made it to level 33. 000
kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026My plan for regulating LLMs: Make copyrights expire after 40 years. Allow only training data from 40+ years ago. 000
kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/20261970s: Marshall McLuhan was a prominent celebrity, everyone was talking about his studies of media. 2020s: Most people no longer know what the word "media" means. 000
Reposted by kbalWill Dormann @wdormann.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026So, uh, Bugtraq is back?lists.securityfocus.comBugtraq is back - Bugtraq - SecurityFocus Mailing Lists 4114
kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026Yes I am once again starting to learn this programming language. Just had to take six months to rest my brain first. 010
kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026> the size for values of type `str` cannot be known at compilation time Yes compiler that is a very good error message for when you type `println!("{}", s[0..n]` instead of `println!("{}", &s[0..n]` the ten minutes I spent figuring it out was definitely good for me. 000
kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026> "Artificial intelligence systems, given consciousness and unbiased decision-making capabilities, hold key decision-making positions. They ensure fair and impartial distribution of resources and uphold justice. [...] Political borders fade as communities no longer define themselves by […]fedia.ioOriginal post on fedia.io 000
kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026With data from alt text on social media we can now calculate exactly how many words a picture is worth. 000
kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026That feeling when you haven't seen a word used for like ten years ("distaff") and your brain suddenly wants you to look up its etymology. 000
kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026Anarchism is like democracy: An ideal to aim for, not a place we'll ever get to. 000
kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026I've seen more than one person saying that "the wrong people are getting rich." It brings to mind the famous saying — the love of money by the wrong people is the root of all evil. 000
kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026In today's news: If you have an education system where students are motivated to care about their grades and then you give them a "take-home exam", they will cheat. Why are people pretending to be surprised by this? 000
kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026"Is social media harmful?" is completely the wrong question. Some social media are harmful, others are not. 100
kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026Merrymounten.wikipedia.orgMerrymount Colony - Wikipedia 000