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   Oblomov (oblomov@snowfan.it)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Oct-2026 18:11:33 JST Oblomov

   in reply to

   @afewbugs

   so, the first time my father tried to make sparkling wine, I was still living with my parents.

   One evening, I was just minding my own business in my room, when I suddenly hear my father call me name with a tone of desperation in his shout, «come, quickly!»

   I get to the kitchen, that was on the other side of the house, and my father was completely *drenched*, and the entire kitchen, walls and ceiling were painted with that classic purple color that you get when you stain something with red wine.

   Wine had covered literally every surface, and my father was standing there, wine dripping from his glasses and clothes, arms wide but pointing down, you know, like you do when you are the victim of a surprise water bomb. Or wine bomb, as the case may be.

   In front of him, one of those 2L Coke bottles that we often reuse for water or, as in this case, wine. Except that the bottle was almost completely empty, maybe one last finger of wine left in it, because the rest of the wine was *everywhere else*.

   Apparently, the website where he had taken the instruction from had a typo, and the proportions of must (wort? not sure what the name is in English; the thing that you ferment to make wine) to wine was wrong by a factor of TEN (this was way before LLMs ruined the Internet BTW, but errors still happened of course).

   So he *had* succeeded in making sparkling wine, except that the amount of CO₂ in it was *explosive*, and the moment he unscrewed the cap, the pressure just made the whole thing *blow up*.

   This was a very instructive experience about things such as the amount of effort that it takes to clean a whole kitchen sprayed in wine, but also on the mechanical resistance of the 2L Coke bottles.

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   Tinker ☀️ (tinker@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jul-2026 18:49:56 JST Tinker ☀️

   Damn. This quote from Linus Torvalds is... well... damning.

   In response to a discussion around use of generative AI as it relates to contributions to the Linux code base, Linus (creator and lead contributor to Linux) firmly states that AI contributions are welcome.

   But then he goes on and concludes with this:

   "The kernel project has been and will continue to be about the technology.

   Sure, the social angle of working on open source is important and often a very motivating part of the project, but in the end that's a side benefit, not the _point_ of the project.

   This is *NOT* some kind of "social warrior" project, never has been, and never will be.

   In the kernel community we do open source because it results in better technology, not because of religious reasons.

   And so we make decisions primarily based on technical merit. Not fear of new tools.

   Linus"

   A lot of us are on Linux specifically because of the social and political positives. Closed source is control. Open source is democracy.

   Linus doing the typical tech-bro "i don't think of politics, I only think of tech" harkens back to any number of "science without ethics" atrocities.

   Linus is and has always been a tech-bro (or proto tech bro). He has his throne of power and is happy where he is. Other tech-bros want money and influence. They're all the same.

   But Linus is wrong.

   Tech is politics.

   And his stance and guiding influence with Linux is wrong.

   Linus just made a political statement and has shifted the politics and societal approach of Linux.

   Source: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/CAHk-=wi4zC+Ze8e+p3tMv8TtG_80KzsZ1syL9anBtmEh5Z40vg@mail.gmail.com/

   #linux #solarPunk #Linus #AI #openSource

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   LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 17:02:35 JST LisPi

   in reply to

   @lanodan Indeed, the last leg handover program doesn't need much smarts, it's purely there to isolate between the 3rd-party data parser & the rest of the system.

   The player itself could be that program if the parsing part happens in a subprogram. I don't think threads can be isolated that way so subprogram it'd be.

   In retrospect, yes I see what you mean, trying to shove invalid bytes in something that expects a sequence of arbitrary byte triples/quads can't really do much of anything. It'll just get displayed/played wrong/right. Validation doesn't make sense in this case.

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   Madeleine Morris (remittancegirl@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Mar-2025 03:57:22 JST Madeleine Morris

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   One day, long after I'm dead, historians well mention Trump and Vance and Musk and Putin in the same breath with Hitler and Stalin and Mao.

   Those awful smug, ignorant, pitiless white men - they wanted to be famous. They will be.

   In the pantheon of history's most monstrous men.

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   Dave "Wear A Goddamn Mask" Cochran :donor: (dave_cochran@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 15:15:42 JST Dave "Wear A Goddamn Mask" Cochran :donor:

   in reply to

   @mekkaokereke 1) I would like to point out for the record that I never said so much as a word about gladiator 2 - not just because i suspected that it would suck, but ALSO because i haven't seen it.

   2) You gotta watch "Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles". It's shockingly good, shlocky fun. Far, far better than you or I would ever have expected it to be.

   In fact, here's how sure I am that you will enjoy it (assuming you approach it from the "good shlocky fun" mindset and not the "high cinema" one): I will donate $20 to the charity of your choice if you don't think it earned at least 4 stars.

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   AnarchoNinaWrites (anarchoninawrites@jorts.horse)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2024 11:49:53 JST AnarchoNinaWrites

   Called home and the news isn't good. Doctors are saying "within the year" and "nothing we can do." My mom is a wreck. And I've too fucked up for a myriad of reasons to write to support her. Not out of money to do so yet, but if I don't get writing soon, I will be.

   In short: fuck cancer and fuck me for not being made of granite.