Flutterby™! (short)

Ugh. After some pain, updated this server.

Very much feeling like I should move to BSD, if nothing else just go get away from systemd. It is very uncool to tell me that a service failed to start, and then have nothing in the logs, and make me go into the application-specific tools that would be be run in the init script to get the output that tells me what's wrong.

(Other thing: No idea why www-data can no longer write into my user directory, even when the subdir us 777, but... fucking opinionated package maintainers.)

OpenAI CEO says it's 'quite terrible' for your PC to have RAM — Sam Altman says data centers offer better utilization.

It's quite simple, the long-term implications are that we rent our compute from the people who bought up all the chips that they'll never have the data center capacity to actually deploy, so that they get all our money, because their vision for the future is so much better than ours.

Controversial “Musk” Documentary Pulled From Almost Every One of 472 Theaters After One Week by Newly Sold Bleecker Street Films

“Musk” was released by Bleecker Street Films, which was sold in the last week to ebay founder Pierre Omidyar — not considered a friend of Elon Musk, but a billionaire nevertheless.

Just as it was starting to get momentum, yoinked by the eBay founder.

Y'all have upgraded your ADHD to AD8K, and I'm sitting here stuck on ADNTSC...

NPR: Why the urban legend of contaminated Halloween candy won't disappear

"I have data going back to 1958, and I have yet to find a report of a child that's been killed or seriously hurt by a contaminated treat picked up in the course of trick-or-treating," said Best.

What *will* kill your trick-or-treaters is drivers.

Halloween trick-or-treating encourages creativity, physical activity, and neighborhood engagement. Trick-or-treating should not be abolished in a misguided effort to eliminate Halloween-associated risk. Instead, policymakers, physicians, and parents should act to make residential streets safer for pedestrians on Halloween and throughout the year.

Some people, when faced with the problem of CMake and Ninja, think "I'll add Pixi!"

Now they have 3 problems...

(Also, fuuu..., when did the differences between gcc and clang get so annoying? And when did gcc get ahead on features? And WTF is Dan doing solving build errors on a Friday night?)

Financial Times: Anthropic may not secure investment-grade rating after IPO, Blackstone tells investors (paywalled).

India Economic Times: Anthropic may not secure investment-grade rating after IPO, Blackstone tells investors: Report

Stock Market Bloodbath Spikes Fears of AI Bubble Bursting

So somehow whatever I'm currently playing on my phone is showing up on Charlene's phone's lock screen. I have cleared caches, disabled services, removed permissions, and yet what I'm playing continues to be broadcast.

This feels like a massive security issue.

Trying to figure out where I read "LLM coding agents are to app development what Geocities was to the web".

(I'm still trying to figure out how I feel about that analogy.)

To install the Conda package manager for Python on the Mac, please either install the super annoying desktop application, or run:

conda install anaconda::conda

in the terminal. What sort of bullshit recursive thing is this? The actual answer appears to be:

brew install --cask anaconda

Reader, the answer was not, in fact, that. At least not directly. Feels like another situation like Qt where the goal is to make the command line use as annoying as possible to rope people into the additional telemetry of the GUI tool.

Shannon Prickett @Binder@petrous.vislae.town

Oh, that's a good idea. We should nationalize the Federal government so it'll be responsive to the people.

Chat, is it a good sign when you find:

from shlex import _find_unsafe

at the top of a Python file?

(Despite importing shlex, and using this deprecated method to tell if it should be escaping the string, it then manually escaped the string...)

Marisa Kabas at The Handbasket: I talked to Tom, the viral ‘Jonestown’ Trump rally guy.

If you haven't seen the clip yet, I think his delivery is perfect. He sounds like a decent dude.

Men Who Eat More Plant-Based Protein Have Higher Testosterone Levels.

Via.