Suitably ballyhooed @antifuchs@weirder.earth

Pronunciation tip: my last name is pronounced like "books" with an F.

But (secondary pronunciation alert!) in english, I and most people I talk to say it Foo-gs. Either works! Whichever is easier.

I won't be mad (but correct you) if you say it like "fucks" either, I honestly find it kinda amusing.

A subtle sick burn: Prepend "reputable" to a person's name.

AI-integrated ping(1) program, happily hallucinating ICMP ECHO replies from nothing

Slack: you have an unread message
Me: the one I’m looking at right now?
Slack: yes, it is unread over there in the Threads view, see?
Me: …
Me: [sees message come in on that thread]
Slack: you have an unread message

TIL that FIDO2 (the "webauthn" protocol spoken by yubikey 5 series) isn't necessarily superior for second factors... if you add a yubikey 5 to a microsoft or apple or facebook account, they'll prompt you for a PIN that you're likely gonna forget... leading to the bottom 50%+ of the following page: https://support.yubico.com/hc/en-us/articles/4402836718866-Understanding-YubiKey-PINs

Anyway, read The Dawn Of Everything, it’s real good and worth it

Me? Oh, I’m a paleoconservative ultraliberal. I want everyone to have the freedoms our ancestors had, as documented in the historical record:
1 - the freedom to defy authority
2 - the freedom to change their society
3 - the freedom to leave

He used to be a goaltender, now he’s a goat lender

Wake up babe, a new level of tacticool just dropped https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6kerHZWKaw

Bratislava? No, lover is brat

We Can Re-Member It for You Wholesale

Gotta give ‘em that Kraka Toa, spit ash on that thang

A: are you still listening to that bizarre medieval band?
B: absurd-lutely

A pal made this site, listing the many historical laws governing chattel slavery across the americas: https://slavecodes.org/blog/welcome/

I appreciate that these documents are available translated to the main languages of the Atlantic slave trade (English, French, Spanish, Portuguese). If you (like me) had heard of the brutal restrictions the French code noir placed on enslaved people, this is your chance to read the text (and surprise, it’s even worse than summaries make it out to be).

Remember that game where you try to group two languages together that share superficial syntax characteristics but where users of either language get super upset at being grouped together with the other language? Like Lisp/Scheme, C/C++

I have a new contender for the best one: move over, Python/Makefile. It’s time for nixlang/TeX

First stage of 3d printing is the honeymoon phase: it feels great to be able to create physical objects with just some computering.

Second stage of 3d printing is waging psychological warfare on inanimate objects, and the objects are winning.

Ohio? Doesn’t sound very gozaimas to me.

Looking at German character collation rules, I really appreciate how unhinged the characters get as you go down the list:

Sure, there’s the U, there are umlauts, accents, then their sidewalls bend. Those get accent marks. All these are reasonable. And then suddenly, hovering businessman U! Sideways U! Hovering businessman sideways U!

Nobody tell the manosphere about the existence of the Greek final sigma character

OH: “yeah I run a hyperconverged NAS/SAN compute grid. Or as we used to call them, a server that has disks and daemons on it.”