Notices by Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)

I'm so done with tech. We all deserve to lose your jobs

@becomethewaifu @ariadne The system is designed around constraints of being cheap and not blowing up bottles in people's faces. 😂

When I did carbonation with dry ice, I'd just weigh out an appropriate amount (I think it was about 1-2 g for 2L), drop it in the bottle, seal the cap, and refrigerate. There should be a way to do the same starting from a gas using a cap with a valve, that would not require any recirculation or waste any. And you'd get hundreds of liters out of a 450g canister, rather than the advertised 60 (less in reality).

@becomethewaifu @ariadne Oh, I don't mean the canister leaks. That would be bad and probably violate some safety regulation.

I mean some of the bottles for carbonating beverages don't have properly sealing gaskets, so they go flat unless you use them right away. And the injection system seems to vent excess pressure to the air rather than regulating flow to limit the pressure to the bottle.

Hey, what about heads on pikes? Just thinking out loud here.

@aud @PhoenixSerenity Yeah. Like there is nothing harmful whatsoever about using cardboard for that.

@maxine Oh, I see it now too. I thought last time I'd checked it looked different tho.

@ariadne I might try to put together something that works better at some point, but I had an old unit already, so 🤷

@ariadne One way in which their stuff is garbage is that it intentionally leaks and doesn't hold pressure, so that you waste a lot of the CO2 and have to buy even more from them. 🤡

But this doesn't matter so much if you're not paying them for it and not paying their loss-leader markup.

Price comes out to about 10 cents per liter of beverage, I think. Unlike Sodastream which costs about as much as buying carbonated beverages at the grocery store. 🤡

@maxine Oh maybe so. I thought he'd blocked me.

There are setups to run a hose and adapter from a large cylinder to a Sodastream or similar station, but I actually like the compact cylinders and not having to worry about hose leaks etc., just not the ridiculous loss-leader price tag or paying a company aligned with genocide.

Instead I got an adapter to refill the small cylinders from the large 5lb (10 or 20 works too) one, and it's very easy. Takes less than a minute if the recipient cylinder has been pre-cooled in freezer.

@hipsterelectron No problem. Maybe he'll want to read it and unblock. 😁 🤷

@hipsterelectron @davidgerard@circumstances.run For some reason he has me blocked so he might not be able to read it. 🤷

Finally got a workflow for home beverage carbonation that's affordable and without paying Sodastream (subject to BDS) or anyone else for overpriced proprietary cylinder refills. 🎉

Walked into the local Roberts Oxygen to ask if they could refill before buying a proper cylinder, and walked out with a 5lb (2.3 kg) one for $109 including tax, swappable for $20 when it runs out.

OH HELL YES
https://writerbeware.blog/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Anthropic-Prof.-Lea-Bishop-Objection-to-Motion-for-Final-Approval-of-Class-Action-Settlement.pdf

I have no way of knowing the reach of the Iranian AI Lego propaganda videos, but if these are actually being seen by lots of people, Iran is *definitely* winning the propaganda war.

One of the newer ones is called "Losers First" & the very catchy chorus goes:

"Your government is run by pedophiles
They ordered you to die for Israel
They ordered you to die for Israel
They lied to you all"

This shit is like candy. Not just candy...the exact candy Americans are hungry for right now.

Oh. I just realized something.

What do you want to bet the Trump regime was expecting Iran to respond to the initial attack with demonstrations of scary Muslim anger where they would burn effigies or something that could be broadcast to Americans to tell us we should be terrified of them?

Of *course* these racists didn't think Iran would respond with catchy songs & funny videos suggesting to the American people that we & Iran on the same side against the Epstein monsters.

I feel like discourse would be way less... wild if instead of trying to misappropriate Audre Lorde, we collectively thought more deeply about "the street finds its own uses," and what that implies for whether or not we should resist awful things.

Anyway, this is what I tend to think when I see observations that I agree with, like that React is a tool that is developed to make adtech easier. Adtech isn't the tool, JavaScript tooling is what we melt adtech into to make new not-adtech tools. Because you can't use adtech for good, it's not tool-shaped but weapon-shaped.

https://hachyderm.io/@SnoopJ/116381775625425760

"The street finds its own uses" doesn't presuppose that the thing in question is useful, or even tool-shaped. AI isn't a screwdriver in the wrong hands, it's not even tool-shaped. It's product-shaped, it's subscription-shaped, but not tool-shaped.

For the street to find its own uses, we need to dismantle the not-tool, melt it to scraps, and make tools out of the remains. Like, what parts of infrastructure, *if any* can be repurposed to not-AI things?