Well, I hacked my local #Purescript spago to get a complete build, and opened an issue. I wonder how much traction my "support NetBSD plz" issues are really going to get. An older version of spago is available from pkg_src, but I need something from the current major (1.x) version because the […]

Hype: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-sO_dp1fkE

4.61mi. in 1:02 #running

Revisited my NetBSD laptop (been playing games and dreading the lack of right-click), and got #Idris installed via pack, by using the "micropack" and messing with CPATH. I'm still trying to find a terminal that has keyboard commands to copy/paste since xterm in notably lacking them. I used to […]

I'm impressed to see IBM's Granite LLM model, which is open source, with open weights, trained exclusively on non-copyrighted text. I'm running it on my M5 MacBook Pro right now, for a big text-summarization project. No ethical concerns, either in training or in operating…I think I've found an […]

Remember to tell everyone you know that the site Votesafe.org Is an Elon Musk scam that will steal everything it can about your personal information including which toilet paper do you like. The site you want to go to regarding your registration is Vote.org

As an adult, I've replaced "Saturday Morning Cartoons" with my own Saturday day morning media consumption: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyXkTO0G21c and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWhnytD3QoA Currently, both channels have had a pretty consistent Saturday morning release for months.

I know I've asked this before. Is there a way to not see self-boosts on my main feed? I like this persons original posts, the first time. I like the boosts they propagate to my feed from other sources. But, I find their self-boots, whether it's from 6 hours or 6 months ago, to be a waste of my […]

Good news or bad news depending on your POV: Usenet archives are suddenly easy to dig through, thanks to a new service. It’s built by a big data guy, and it’s packed with every awkward thing you ever wrote in a newsgroup in 1997. My deep dive […]

"Unity doesn't mean uncritically supporting a government agenda. It means supporting one nother and pushing the government to do the same." Rachel Gilmore is onto something. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeYAfY0GN_o

A police department in Texas that arrested a local resident for complaining on social media about their city’s contaminated water supply has been ordered closed after failing to prove it provided any benefit to the community. State officials stepped in to investigate after Jennifer Combs spent […]

Folks! Don't forget: ➔ Android's new "verified apps only" policy comes into effect this month. And, the clunky workaround is here: Thanks, @dangillmor https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/117222646052609496

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Fsck. Using this laptop with netbsd is painful. Multiple keyboard smashes and screams of frustration this morning. Anyway, has anyone got #nvm working on #netbsd ? It _seems_ to be installed. But, when I attempt to pull down the latest stable node.js with `nvm install stable`, it fails […]

Does anyone know how to make zero-button trackpads not suck under #X/#NetBSD ? Two-finger and three-finger clicking (right- and middle-click respectively) don't seem to be working at all, and there aren't any physical buttons / the whole pad is one button. Debian has "just worked" so long for […]

If you travel with a wheelchair I will build you a shock recording black box for free. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-11/qantas-backflip-to-replace-broken-wheelchair/107111812

Qantas changes tune over broken wheelchair after ABC questions

Qantas has backflipped and says it is now planning to replace an expensive powered wheelchair broken beyond repair on one of its flights, after questions from the ABC.

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I'm starting to try to learn orca in Debian, and one problem I'm having it that when I'm using the browser, it keeps scrolling the browser to the top of the page. Is there a way to disable orca's scrolling of the browser window?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/10/august-joint-hottest-month-recorded-globally But guess what, folks? No government is going to bother even *trying* to do something to cut emissions.

If you see ads pointing you to votesafe.org to check your voter registration, read this first. VoteSafe is run by America PAC, Elon Musk's super PAC. It is not a government site. Its own footer says "Paid for by America PAC." It also doesn't register anyone. The flow ends by telling you to […]

I fucking hate how many jobs require a degree and then don't even use it. it's just a class barrier

The human face of the Autistici/Inventati affair, “Canceling Emilyh”: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/09/08/Emily-Got-Canceled “The wastrels in Washington can reach across the ocean and silence a Canadian creator on an Italian website. With no prior […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

This Is Just To Say I have trained on the proofs that were on our servers and which you were probably saving for publication. Forgive me I can't rule out that your proofs improved our models but burning $15m on a $1m prize so lean and so slop

Shocker, the deskilling machine successfully deskills school kids - to the tune of them being a full year behind their peers who are "left behind" by *checks notes* actually learning! Students who don’t use AI are ahead on every measure […]

It's so so important as software developers we don't forget that we aren't working on a production line - what we do is creative work, is art, and artists are our siblings in persuit.

We don't need AI to determine how to preserve the environment or end world hunger; we've known how to do those things since before I was born. The reason that argument has so much traction is because the people pillaging our natural resources and hoarding them HAVE to believe there's a loophole […]

I'm posting to say I'm really liking Atypical. But, feel free to tell me why I shouldn't in the replies. I'm sure the dialogue is unrealistic to the extreme, but I've always liked Sorkin-esque writing that way. I can see aspects of myself or people I know in all the of characters. So, the bad […]

As of today, I believe NetBSD is one of the most important operating systems to consider for your deployments. With hardware costs rising dramatically, portability and efficiency have become more important than ever. If prices do not come down, we will probably have to adapt and create new […]

Is there an existing paper I can read about Scott or Church encoding in a graded / modal setting? It seems to me that even for trivial sums like Bool, the inhabitants have different grades, but I'd love to read a paper that has thought deeply about it, instead of my idle musings. I know "A […]

Gloria Steinem, feminist icon, has died at 92. #gloriasteinem #feminism https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/sep/03/gloria-steinem-groundbreaking-feminist-campaigner-dies-aged-92

Gloria Steinem, groundbreaking feminist campaigner, dies aged 92

Famous for the 1963 exposé in which she worked as a Playboy Bunny, her books and journalism took on many varieties of discrimination

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