@mjg59 for the most part, it went from being an absurdist show with a spy theme to an actual spy show with a few absurd characters, and that's not what people started out watching.

@mjg59 fwiw, the 2nd season is not nearly as good. We stopped watching around then.

@mjg59 there's a lot of antifascist sentiment in it, so maybe that's why?

@yura you should follow me, ScouterK!

@oleksandr жыве Беларусь

@epilys this is already natively supported by lei.

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

@aeva Stru-cat-sky?

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.

@voice a war drone hits a datacentre. When the fire is put out and it is retrieved from the wreckage, its analysis proves fruitless. It's made out of cheap components made in EU, Taiwan, China, and US. The Houtis claim it was them, but so do half the other shady terrorist orgs. Who do you bomb back and will it prevent the next drone attack?

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...