I started a new helper tool to shove lore lists directly into gmail using the gmail API.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/korgalore/korgalore.git/about/

It's bare minimal on the features right now -- I'll let it run in a screen session and see what bugs I catch.

I am yet again flabbergasted how mind-blowingly difficult it is to upload a message to your own gmail account using Google's Gmail API.

I shouldn't have to create a developer account just to do this.

There's burnout, and then there's "any improvement to technology that I help create will likely just make fascism more effective."

Elon Musk is having a very bad week.

The man who bought Twitter for $44 billion to secure unaccountable power over public discourse
is discovering what unaccountable power actually looks like when wielded by someone who understands dominance even better than he does.

Trump just stripped SpaceX of a government contract and handed it to Jeff Bezos.

Musk’s response?
Rage-tweeting at Trump officials, including the immortal question
“why are you gay”
—the rhetorical sophistication we’ve come to expect from the richest man-child on the planet having a public meltdown

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/22/elon-musk-discovers-what-hierarchy-actually-means/

Start calling it the Epstein Ballroom. Pass it on.

"Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show."

Terry Pratchett

A funny case study of the 21st “software engineering” at its best.

As result of #AWS failure, a number of commercial products stopped working that relied on AWS hosted services. Such as the Eight Sleep Pod beds.

Yes, physical beds for sleeping relied on AWS to work. And it was not some kind of extremely sophisticated “AI” processing, but simple schedule “make warmer”, “make colder”, “raise/lower” etc. All that was controlled through AWS.

When AWS stopped working users started complaining that their beds got stuck in weird positions and users were unable to control them. So yes, a bed say in Netherlands stopped working because it could not retrieve instructions from US server which were sent there by the person physically present on said bed.

And the bonus: each bed sent 20 GB of telemetry data to AWS each month.

Source: https://x.com/zimm3rmann/status/1980491408948572167 (on Twitter, sorry)

breaking: city of hague offers to host the meeting of putin and trump

Ben & Jerry's needs a "Punking ICE" flavour this fall.

Asshat service of the day: spfbl.net

Not only do they have asinine requirements that privacy protection is removed from the DNS record, they want $2 for each delisting request.

Do not use.

"The manufacturer had the power to remotely disable devices and used it against me for blocking their data collection."

https://codetiger.github.io/blog/the-day-my-smart-vacuum-turned-against-me/

...and people wonder why I resist having that kind of stuff in my home...

Just imagine how badly our IT infrastructure will fail when datacentres start being *deliberately* attacked by drones.

A war criminal and a convicted felon plan to meet and discuss law and order. They will meet in Budapest, the birthplace of the Budapest memorandum, which both sides have violated.

Not only did a permanent member of the UN security council attack a clearly marked UN humanitarian convoy with FPV Drones, they also proceed to proudly share the footage of their appalling crime on the internet.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/10/1166099

New akkoma, who dis?

/me ignoring email threads on Thanksgiving

🇨🇦🦃

If "Audio format not available in my region," then maybe you shouldn't let me register and pay in my region, since you know for a fact that it's not going to do me any good?

le make oldconfig && le make

Bienvenue.

Officiated my last baseball game of the season. You probably have never felt the depth of self-loathing that I did tonight for having to call a start-and-stop balk on a poor 12-year-old pitcher to walk in the winning run of the game. 😮‍💨

Hanging up my umpire face mask until May 2026.