Notices by God Emperor of Mastodon (mms@mastodon.bsd.cafe)

https://michal.sapka.pl/2025/how-did-microsoft-start/index.html

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/aws_outage_amazon_brain_drain_corey_quinn/

This, Jen, is the US-EAST-1

@jae Do you use it with your email server or some chatmail? I am intrigued!

@jae wait, it's chat-over-email?

@jae xmpp is *all* about standards ;p

Also: TIL about delta chat

Is anyone using any #linuxphone as their only phone? Is it usable now?

#Linux

Im starting to think that books are the best way to spend pass time.

i can't run script using `xclip` via dmenu and I have no idea why

@jae This! I'll try when back at good computer

if my `mpv "$(xclip)"`, I will be happy ;p

Remember when the movies were about real men? Before /woke/?

♬ Let's do the time warp again ♬

@david_chisnall it’s not only how much the writers will earn. Part of the whole fine system is that it should give a strong message to others, it should scare away others from doing the same. 1.5bln is small potatoes in their overall costs. Will that stopping Samuel Altman or mark Zuckerberg from doing the same now? They can laugh at this sum. It’s nothing for them.

@feld @SlicerDicer Amazon wasn’t solely responsible for all stock growth nor required recreation of us electric grid. They were small potatoes

https://futurism.com/ai-far-away-profit-experts-warn

"The AI Industry Is Still Light-Years From Making a Profit, Experts Warm"

♫ It's getting cold in here ♫

I've pkgbasified my freebsd. Only after that I've learned how annoying is to update the OS. In Fact, I have no idea now as "env ABI=FreeBSD:14:amd64 pkg -r /tmp/up install -Fqy -r FreeBSD-base -g 'FreeBSD-*' " doesn't work ;-)

#ScummVM, we don't deserve you.

The greatest thing in gaming ever, bar none.

What is the piece of software you use but hate with a passion of a million burning suns? Just one, the worst. Can be a sass of course.

Or boost. Whatever you prefer :-)

@GossiTheDog it certainly makes them productive in saying how productive they are. They simply won’t shut up about their prompts and how many learning opportunities it saved then from.

https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/appeals-court-confirms-that-tracking-based-online-advertising-is-illegal-in-europe-223714124.html

Appeals court confirms that tracking-based online advertising is illegal in Europe

#ads #europe #privacy

There's a new sndctl(8) util comming to #freebsd

ok, I'm hyped.

https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=9a37f1024cebfb89dcfa15c23bb287a5d09a9ae7