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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well, this explains 2026 and the car-crash issues Windows 11 has been facing. www.windowslatest.com/2026/09/05/m... In the meantime, I'll be over here on CachyOS, hoping the Linux kernel doesn't follow suit, now that Linus has opened the gates for LLM-contributions. Vibe-coding? Slop-coding.

windowslatest.com

Microsoft engineer says "typing code is absolutely over," and Windows 11 is already being built that way

Microsoft Distinguished Engineer David Fowler says typing code is over as agentic AI, Aspire, and Project Zenith reshape software development.

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Nearly tripling your operating loss in one year is breath-taking. But when the original loss being tripled was $3B... ...you don't get to value your "company" at $2T. Right? ... RIGHT!?!

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A new low for America. And that bar is on the ground already. 1970's-style slurs from one of their most incompetent, bigoted scumbags. He probably ran the speech by his Signal buddies for their approval.

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Disabled quote posts and replies, because of course they did. Whine whine whine. Maybe they asked CoPilot how to install Linux. Sorry. I'm not usually this negative, but this head-in-the-sand-stuff really gets my goat.

Screenshot of a user whining about something to do with Linux that probably didn't happen, but who knows, because replies and quote posts are disabled.

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Jonas Sandstedt @jonassandstedt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Godot Editor running natively on the Steam Deck 😮 (not this has been possible on Quest too, but having a full blown Linux Desktop is so much easier for actual development)

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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Netherlands joins Europe's gradual migration from Windows to Linux on government PCs share.google/jDB1yRhA3xuN...

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Really exciting ideas on the possible future of desktop UX design. Well worth a watch, this one!

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026

“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”

orlandosentinel.com

Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’

The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

What a wildly shallow view on genAI. Anti-AI don't care about its novelty. They do care that it's built on stolen, pirated creative output with no attribution, let alone compensation. AI, ML, neural networks? Fine. LLM/genAI built illegally, loss-lead on the cheap to create dependency? Shite.

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

One of the creepiest, most original horrors I've ever played. Exceptional. Would be showing its age now though, so I hope they do it justice if it goes ahead.

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

No surprise that the well-off conservatives would vote this down, after stalling it out last year in the House of Lords. They're rich enough to fly out to Switzerland, if required. The rest of the plebs just get to suffer. Disgusting. www.bbc.com/news/live/cq...

bbc.com

MPs vote against fresh move to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales - follow live

The bill would have allowed adults with fewer than six months to live to apply to be given help to end their own life, subject to certain safeguards.

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Good grief. If they really "take feedback seriously", they'd clearly address how their support of a fascist's pet project isn't, in fact, a direct attack on everyone DHH wants to eradicate. Talk about tone deaf.

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Feeling this more and more. Techbros are insufferable.

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John O'Connell @jdpoc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is bang on. #Linux #Technology #Privacy.

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Dead Man's Online @spadetheskeleton.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Heads up windows 11 users, microsoft now has this setting enabled by default. Be sure to disable it :]

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

How embarrassing is Trump? This embarrassing. First the Gulf, now this. He's like a toddler. Also, WTF, Google?? I guess it's all about money. And brown-nosing. But mainly money.

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I knew that genAI scrapers were bad, and I certainly know that the companies behind them are reprehensibly unethical. But this is next level. I'm off to check my Smart TV settings... people.kernel.org/monsieuricon...

people.kernel.org

Creepy crawlies

You've probably heard me complain about the "AI crawlers" before, but now I actually have some hard numbers I can put up to show their im...

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Leclerc is "doing a Leclerc", aka, "being selfish & petulant". Hope he gets a slow pitstop.

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IGN @ign.com · 19/08/2026

The Steam Frame seems to be on the horizon as unboxing and setup videos leak online. bit.ly/4zmYKvH

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

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+ All the people who are anti-Al or want to slow Al progress, I have one question:
If Al disappeared tomorrow, could you still get through an entire workday without ChatGPT, Claude, or any other
Al tool?
Imagine Al was suddenly banned.
Would you actually be willing to give it up?

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Great recommendation, even if Cradle isn't LitRPG (as the article itself acknowledges, oddly). If you need more LitRPG/Xianxia recs, check out my own article. www.scaine.net/site/2025/07...

scaine.net

A look at LitRPG – Scaine.net

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11/04/2026

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Some wild Stockholm Syndrome shit here. Dunking on the entire O/S because of you found a bug in a gnome tool... a bug you've already worked around. A bug that would affect a tiny proportion of normal users. Probably an NTFS drive too, given I've never, ever experienced this. Calm yer horses.

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The quote posts on this are hilarious and sometimes bizarre. Wall-E? The Matrix? The worst movie you've ever seen?? Lots of Star Wars and DC hate too. Love a good first-world problem, me.

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EdinburghMinute.com @edinburghminute.com · 14/07/2026

Breaking news: Princes Street 'to remain closed into August'. An update from City of Edinburgh Council is here: www.edinburgh.gov.uk/news/article...

edinburgh.gov.uk

Update on Princes Street closure

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💠 Evdog 💠 @evdogmusic.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Linux users every time their friend complains about Windows but keeps using Windows:

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Not speaking ill of the dead is the greatest crock of shit, and you know why? Nobody has to invoke it whenever someone beloved died, you'll hear outpourings from fans about how authors touched their lives, people reminiscence about their favourite actors' best roles, a celebration of their lives...

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Ribes @sanguineum.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Linux and electric cars have been similar: after I tried them I never wanted to use anything else.

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

What a startling, completely unpredictable outcome. 🙄

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

This takes away the skill the streamer brings to the equation. I watch excellent players play difficult games because I learn from them. Noita, for example, is so deep, I'd never have discovered even a fifth of what it offers without incredible talent like FuryForged.

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

GIMP is awful, but that second paragraph, bait it might be, sent me. SharePoint, Azure, Vista, the entire registry, context menus, driver updates, UAC, file explorer, the list is nearly endless. MS don't have to care about UI. Their customer-base are prisoners.

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Ultimate Pullahoko @pullahoko.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

This is what every game developer sounds like right now.

A chef insisting that his cake made with diarrhea is perfectly fine to consume.

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

What the hell is this headline?? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... "Woman dies" after "gunshots heard"?? Is it a coincidence? Did hearing the gunshots cause her to die? Or was she murdered by gunshot? Tragic coverage of a tradegy.

bbc.co.uk

Woman, 19, dies after gunshots heard at house in Finchley, London

Detectives say they were called to the scene in north London just after midnight on Monday.

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Brutal "marketing" we've come to expect from MS.

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

If only weapon degradation _was_ purposeful and not simply frustrating busy-work, like it is in nearly every game that features it. Once you realise Minecraft only has it to make you mine more, you really learn to resent degradation, not value it. 99% of the time, it's lazy game design.

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

AMD continue to drop the ball. First they break their own policy, donating $1M to political Super PAC MAGA Inc, continuing to brown tongue Trump. Then, they blacklist GamersNexus for their negative product reviews. Now this. itsfoss.com/news/amd-viv...

itsfoss.com

AMD Pulls a Bait-and-Switch on Linux Users with Vivado Licensing Changes

Tells Linux users to either pay up or get stuck on an aging, unsupported version forever.

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En @eninabox.art · 19/03/2026

Hi exciting update for those who follow me for CSP on linux. I finally finished putting together an install script that brings a bunch of fixes for Clip Studio Paint Linux users. Currently looking for people to test across different distros, thank you! github.com/parka6060/CS...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

one interesting thing so far about loudly hating AI is the way AI lovers are like "wow so you're just totally closed off to hearing another perspective??" as if their perspective hasn't been relentlessly pushed down our throats with no space to push back (particularly in professional settings)

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Pierre-Loup Griffais @plagman.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Proton 11.0 is now available in Beta!

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Krzak 🔞 @krzak0.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Screenshot of a poll on what appears to be Tumblr, 10,522 votes cast. It asks "Do you think Microsoft understands consent"? The first option is "Yes", it has 0.8% of votes, the other option, "Remind me in 3 days" has 99.2% of votes.

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Kotaku have a succinct summarisation of just how anti-consumer DRM is, right here. Especially for us Linux-only gamers. kotaku.com/capcom-resid...

kotaku.com

Capcom Cannot Stop Deliberately Breaking Its Games With DRM

The original Resident Evil trilogy arrives on Steam with the ruinous Enigma DRM

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Some days, 15 isn't enough. Then what?

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Meta really are utter scum. Knew exactly what they were doing, as did all genAI companies. One for them, another for the rest of us, huh?

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

"Immediately" disable. Not "eventually". But otherwise, spot on. The way the language is used to encourage guilt for using devices for longer... insidious.

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Was pretty excited for this, but it's Denuvo encumbered. Oh well.

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scaine.bsky.social @scaine.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Thief, but with slightly less Garrett. Can't wait to see more of this.

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