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kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
If 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.
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kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
LLMs will replace our ability to think in much the same way as television replaced our ability to read.
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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.
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kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
Good job on the election, Québec. I'm not the biggest fan of the PQ but seeing the CAQ get wiped out is a relief.
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kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
50 viewers and nobody's chatting. Just another sign of the decline and fall of social media I guess.
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kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
Did anyone else notice that food prices started going up in 2006 and never went back down?
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kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
For a minute there I couldn't remember what the word "thurible" means. My Catholic upbringing is wearing off.
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kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
How 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 […]
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kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
What 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 […]
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kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
I made 36 metric pints of apple sauce.
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kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
Wait a minute, that's not right. When you've got the munchies, anything will do.
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kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
It seems just about as whimsical as conventional English orthography.
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kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
I'm just a casual follower of the news but it does have a feel like it's the beginning of the end for the world financial system that's prevailed since 1971 or whatever. I'm expecting it to be an agonizingly slow process, so maybe that means it will be alarmingly rapid and chaotic.
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kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
Exciting times in the treasury bond market! Well, exciting relative to what was normal for the bond market from the 1980s through 2020. The way it looks to me, ten-year yields at 5.0 is just the expected continuation of the trend that started a few years ago. Maybe all the zany stuff the US […]
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kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
This author has chosen to make their posts visible only to people who are initiated into the Erisian mystery cult.
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kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
There 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.
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catfishing - the Wikipedia guessing game
Guess the Wikipedia article from its categories. 10 interesting people, places, and things to guess every day.
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kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
* Tesla Cybercab is fun for the whole family * Tesla Cybercab rarely breaks down or gets stuck * Pushing Tesla Cybercab out of the road may result in electric shock * Do not push faster than 5 mph * Tesla Cybercab must be "caged" before interacting with it * Not every high voltage […]
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kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026
2026 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.
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kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026
Think locally, act globally.
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kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
Taskmaster stream is due to start on youtube. I haven't seen a chat move like this since the heyday of twitch dot tv.
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kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
I 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.
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kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026
In 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
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kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026
I program my home computer Beam myself into the future
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kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026
If you want an antecedent bubble that compares with the current one I think you've got to go back to the tulip mania of 1637. This shit is insane beyond anything that anyone alive today has lived through.
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kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026
If the hype about expert systems counts as an "AI bubble" of a sort, I'm pretty sure it wasn't the first one. McCarthy did the work he's famous for thirty years ago and it has very little to do with the stuff they're now calling "AI". But the current bubble overshadows everything that came […]
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kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026
Did I just accidentally find out how to do line breaks in markdown? After so many years of not knowing. Does it work here?
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kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026
(glances nervously in the direction of Willie Nelson)
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kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026
... I dunno, maybe it just needed a firmware update.
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kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026
Corporate_Memphis Although Wikipedia reports that its popularity has fallen off, I'm still seeing fresh examples of it far too often.
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Corporate Memphis - Wikipedia
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kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026
Listening to Pergolesi's Stabat Mater and pondering the latest VNC Resolver screenshots.
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kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026
The confusion seems to come from veganism being popular enough on the Internet that people have come to confuse it with vegetarianism in general. If you want to be somewhat vegetarian-ish but still eat shellfish that's been a thing for thousands of years and you may already be a pescetarian.
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kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026
Super-Duper El Nino and the Bigger Problem (pdf) The latest from James Hansen. Things are heating up.
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kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026
People 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?
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kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026
Sacco and Vanzetti Today is the 99th anniversary of the deaths of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.
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Sacco and Vanzetti - Wikipedia
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Bill @sempf.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026
If you have not watched the video of Cliff Stoll at Defcon stop whatever you are doing right now and watch it.
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kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026
The government of Turkey officially suggested it a couple years ago I think.
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kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Beuys
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Joseph Beuys - Wikipedia
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kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026
Until today I could still look at it, which I did once in a while just to be reminded of what I was missing. That's one more giant platform consigned to obscurity by its own bad choices.
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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.
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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 […]
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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.
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kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026
amdgpu 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 […]
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kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026
Critical thinking: Ideally it's not just for scientists!
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kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026
You 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".
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kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026
Listening to the soma.fm reggae channel, they're singing "Johnny was a Baker," and I'm starting to love Jamaica
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kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026
climatereanalyzer.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.
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Climate Reanalyzer
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kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026
I prefer to stick with the much healthier habit of addressing my mental remarks to "chat" as if I'm streaming on Twitch which I haven't done in years.
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kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026
2044, huh. I don't know if I'll still be around or capable of travelling half way across Canada by then but I saw my first total solar eclipse in 2024 and it was by far the most amazing thing I ever saw in the sky, UFOs included. So much so that it's sort of fun just to be reminded of it.
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kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026
Laundry, 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 […]
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kbal @kbal.fedia.io.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026
For 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.
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