Jeebus Fried Chicken. Big AI has learned NOTHING. The sense of entitlement among the people building these tools is breathtaking. NO MEANS NO, you goddamn digital rapists.

jonny (nonvenomous)@jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 13h ago

As a consumer product, muse must be able to browse the web to do all the things it promises that magical "agentic ai" can do. Meta needs Muse to work, badly, because it has 2 trillion dollars on the line and is a laughingstock in the AI race. Problem though, there have been crawlers and bots for […]

FML.

I had to test ePubs from @weirdfictionquarterly to see how well they played with the new Xteink 3 reader. It turns out, pretty well! #Xteink3 #EReaders #EPub #WeirdFiction #WFQ

FUCK. RIGHT. OFF. Do you know why AI alignment will fail? Not because of the bots, but because the humans BUILDING the bots are CLEARLY not aligned with the rest of humanity or common decency. OpenAI is "Fuck You, I Got Mine" incarnated as a fake non-profit. #OpenAI #PHP2Shell

Every generation gets its own beautiful Heartbleed moment. #php4shell

If any Chicagoans have any questions about voting, post a reply or send me a DM - I've been working elections as a poll worker for over a decade and can either answer questions you may have or point you in the direction of someone who can. #ChicagoElections #Chicago

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Chicago 2026 General Election: Everything You Need To Know About Voting Nov. 3 https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/10/21/chicago-2026-general-election-everything-you-need-to-know-about-voting-nov-3/

Today is basically Judgement Day on the Internet. https://www.huntress.com/blog/php2shell-leaked-critical-php-vulnerabilities I moved off creating new PHP sites a decade ago, but I'm still supporting a ton of legacy sites. FML. (And FYL as well!) #PHP #ComputerSecurity #PHP2Shell

Rapid Response: php2shell, Leaked Critical PHP Vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 & CVE-2026-109619) | Huntress

Two critical PHP RCEs, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, leaked before the patch. Learn what's known, who's exposed, and how to prepare now.

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Just discovered ODPS playing with the tiny Xteink 3 reader. I HAVE SO MANY IDEAS... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Publication_Distribution_System #ODPS #EPub #EReader #Publishing

Finished "Tau Zero" by Poul Anderson. I'm about 20% through my re-read of "Daemon" by @DanielSuarez.

As someone (now) in both ecosystems, I can't speak for "real people", but what is refreshing about both of these (Xteink and MeshCore) is that they're not locked down platforms, and there's some room for enthusiasts to cook up a custom firmware that turns the devices into what the USERS want […]

Added an Xteink 3 to my reader collection. (Not pictured: my original Sony reader and various generations of Kindles.) Flashed it with the Crosspoint firmware as the Chinese app and firmware didn't work for me out of the box, and I have some public domain ePubs […] [Original post on omgwars.com]

Another Ian Fleming factoid: During the war he was with Naval Intelligence and met Alan Turing. Captured codebooks were critical to continuing the code-braking at Bletchley Park: Fleming devised “Operation Ruthless,” a plan to have a team dress up as […] [Original post on social.bau-ha.us]

This is one of my holy grails. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSbokTHinOg #Macross #Takatoku #SDF1 #Robotech

I didn't make it to the movies this weekend, but if this doesn't land at my Alamo this week, I'm going to break something. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uWURriiVIM I read this novel over COVID and it was WONDERFUL. By the same author - Kazuo Ishiguro - that gave us "Remains of the Day" […]

Weekend Report Card Grade: B. I got some much-needed rest. Spent some time with amigos yesterdays watching the Bears win. Got some project work done for a client or two. FINALLY nuked my HP Omen laptop and got a local AI environment set up for testing smaller models. Installed an RF filter […]

It's working.

Bootstrapped an installation of LocalAI on a 2020 laptop with an Nvidia GeForce with 6GB of video RAM. I was pretty impressed what it could do, even under those constraints, esp. when paired with my local Home Assistant installation. That said, the Docker image didn't persist downloaded models […]

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Notes from the Void

Musings from the keys of Chris J. Karr.

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This looks like too much fun. Pick up a phone and talk to the house. https://www.home-assistant.io/voice_control/worlds-most-private-voice-assistant/ #HomeAssistant #VoiceControl #Analog

World's most private voice assistant

Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server.

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Neat. We use the cribs as points on some of our Wednesday beer can sailing races. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFHEmniiooo #Chicago #LakeMichigan #Sailing

Ended up purchasing a used PlayStation 4 this morning to play Bloodborne. Got a decent price and I have it integrated into the home entertainment system. I still have yet to beat the first monster, but I've already died 4 times trying to box a wolf monster. Time to GIT GUD. #Bloodborne […]

Imaging having been cleaning your apparent for days until it is all shiny and you've polished every surface and detail you can think of. Spotless. Perfect. Then your friends arrive. One by one they all leave you a list each of about 7 different things you missed, forgot or did a bad job with […]

After a bit of a literary detour - including a false start on Jane Austen - I'm finally getting around to my reread of @DanielSuarez 's "Daemon". I remember it blowing me away a decade ago. I imagine it has even more to say today.

I was wondering where the car was getting the thrust to maneuver - it's compressed air tanks. Fun toy, but a likely death trap for anyone not specifically trained to drive it. The Darwin Awards await! https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a74145531/tesla-roadster-revealed/ #Tesla #Roadster #FlyingCar

Revealed! New Tesla Roadster Takes Flight and Does Barrel Rolls with the Help of SpaceX Thrusters

The Roadster prototype also hit 60 mph in less than one second, just like Elon promised.

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Just ordered one of these. Excited to try it as an e-reader AND to use it as a device to learn programming the ESP32 platform (also used in some of my MeshCore and home automation devices). If the form factor works (it has physical page turn buttons!), it may replace my decade+ old Kindle […]

R.I.P. mythical Free Lunches.

“Fast tech is the blind spot of the e-waste world. Black Friday and Christmas will bring another enormous wave of electronic toys, decorative lights, mini gadgets, chargers and other inexpensive electronics into our homes. Their low price doesn’t mean they have no environmental cost. We need […]

A challenging day has unfolded MUCH saner than I had any reason to expect it to, and I caught myself doing The Tyrion Dance just now.

I picked a GREAT week to double-down on Rocket Lab! (/s) In all seriousness, while the stock is down significantly, the recent announcement of the Neutron delay is a good signal in my book, because it shows that the company is taking its engineering seriously […] [Original post on omgwars.com]