Notices by Rob Landley (landley@mstdn.jp)

@r @dalias In SMP it's hard. In UP less so. (And they already had it _working_. Deciding they no longer wanted to support SMP on 486 is very different from dropping support for the architecture entirely.)

Although https://www.osnews.com/story/142343/linux-removes-support-for-the-486-and-now-im-curious-what-that-means-for-vortex86-processors/ is probably still more annoying.

(As patents expire old designs become available for open hardware cloning. Removing support for those old designs is a form of proprietary lock-in.)

Oh goddess they've invented link-time templates.

https://github.com/android/ndk/issues/1771#issuecomment-2878664850

Since the start of the trump administration, google has secretly installed two new system apps on all android phones, even old ones (going back to android 10).

"Android System Key Verifier" reads all your local encryption keys, and "Android System Safety Core" scans your photos for nudity.

No really.

https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/what-are-android-safetycore-and-key-verifier/53171/

The dot-com crash happened when George W. Bush fumbled the economy (and balanced budget) Bill Clinton handed over.

The 2008 mortgage crash was 8 years of W's deregulation coming to a head.

The pandemic was trump telling people to inject bleach and snort horse paste, arguing over masks, faceplanting container logistics...

And now he's back doge-ing federal services and tariffing penguins.

Republicans are terrible for the economy, ever since Reagan invented the modern deficit.

Tesla refuses to take "cybertrucks" as trade-ins, is forcing its customers to go through the "lemon law" process to get repairs or refunds on defective vehicles, has a $200 million backlog of unsold cybertruck inventory, and even its own spin admits sales dropped 13% in Q1. And all that was before the tariffs.

https://www.masslive.com/business/2025/04/report-cybertruck-owners-want-to-return-their-vehicles-tesla-says-no.html

Note: people use tax refunds as a down payment on a car, so sales are usually the highest in Q1 that they'll be all year.

Spam Altman does the same marketing BS for each OpenAi ChatGPT release that Felon Musk does for each new Tesla Swasticar.

https://youtu.be/i0-Ok000vzs

Each one is the greatest thing he's ever seen because he never mastered object permanence.

The US capital may move from DC to NYC ~10 years from now.

https://mastodon.social/@Karen5Lund/114116013752504593

Burning the library of alexandria probably destroyed a smaller percent of roman historical data than Amazon's e-book DRM is going to for future generations.

We do not have a single digital preservation format with a proven track record of surviving fifty years, let alone a hundred. Microchip fab depends on supply chains and trade secrets with a thousand failure points.

The Internet Archive is great, yay cheap terabyte backup disks, but you can't blacksmith a USB-3 interface.

Where other than Target sells light bulbs locally in Minneapolis?

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/target-drops-dei-initiatives-learns-175652237.html

At what point does the US dollar stop being the global reserve currency?

If our courts can no longer be trusted to resolve financial disputes equitably, we don't make anything, no longer protect international shipping, and abandon our allies to aggresors, why would anyone want US dollars?

@dalias And the most explicable: https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/txt/rsa.html (I wonder if @b0rk has seen that...)

I don't remember if the key Microsoft Github has was rsa or dsa, but something like this is probably why I'll eventually remove my repositories from that site shortly before losing access.

https://mastodon.social/@emaste/113980746669642103

See https://github.com/landley/toybox/commit/35663d6bfc49 for backstory. (Yes that is a shell script to close issues without web access.)

If ultimatums worked on me I'd be using faceboot from windows. You have FOMO, I feel I've dodged a bullet. First one's free, like credit card offers in the mail...

Russia is burying its "missing" soldiers in mass graves.

https://youtu.be/HWBgAyrrbvw

In case you missed it, the Most Divorced Guy Ever tried to use his money to convince GamerGate he was good at Diablo IX: Even Diabloier, and it did not go well.

https://youtu.be/8Ui4h0J1mIQ
https://youtu.be/wlCCtrOCvu0

The beardy basement dwellers are PERSONALLY OFFENDED by this. Reaction videos reacting to other people's reaction videos, with half a million views each.

https://youtu.be/MKJQGasI0Nw
https://youtu.be/6N-WW0UDrVQ

There's a "you come into MY house" vibe to this...

https://youtu.be/zTyIvPJ-aLc

Because they diverted all the budget to the LAPD, yes.

https://youtu.be/UzCcnFX3y6o

The calls to "defund the police" were always about there being better things to spend the money on. More important. More effective.

But no, rich white politicians wanted all the money to go to ever-escalating autoimmune attacks on their own citizenry. The beatings will continue until morale improves, more police more obedience.

Boomer media is now blaming the fire department chief, when LAPD stole their budget.

It's billionaires. It's always been billionaires. https://mstdn.social/@Npars01/113782648812749787

I'm not motivated by money. I'm sometimes motivated by a lack of money, but just to make it stop bothering me. Basic income would be ideal for me, because I could get to work.

I care about creating value, not making money. Converting the value I create into money has always been a janitorial task.

Just some thoughts listening to https://youtu.be/xvZB93rnq4Q (where he said he's not motivated by having money but is still motivated by making it), and being reminded of https://youtu.be/u6XAPnuFjJc

In ancient times they read sheep entrails, or tea leaves, or watched pythia huff volcano gasses. These days they ask chatgpt.

@dalias Over the years, "am I doing more harm than good here" has gained increasing weight in my decision-making process.

And I've watched a lot of my theoretical allies succumb to divide and conquer "let's you and him fight" diplomacy, in multiple contexts.

You make very different decisions than I do on both counts. Oh well.