Absolutely flabbergasted at Last.fm finally being independent again after a decade of neglect by CBS. Incredibly exciting. support.last.fm/t/last-fm-is...

it's outrageous that phone apps can detect when I'm taking a screenshot, let alone block it.

First time trying clonezilla in broadcast server config, it's pretty neat. Booted the golden image machine off clonezilla usb, into lite-server mode. It spins up a dhcpd+pxe boot setup. Fresh machines on the same isolated network netboot straight into writing the image. A++ would clone again 💯

Devastating news, Rob was one of a kind 💔

MetaBrainz@metabrainz.org · 7mo ago

It is with profound sadness that the MetaBrainz Board of Directors announces the unexpected passing of our Founder and Executive Director, Rob Kaye. Robert’s vision and leadership shaped MeB and left a lasting mark on the music industry and open source movement. blog.metabrainz.org/2026/02/24/r...

I'm also optimistic, not to mention amazed, at how useful ai coding tools are. many caveats, but still an incredible productivity boost.

antirez@antirez.bsky.social · 8mo ago

New blog post: Don't fall into the anti-AI hype. antirez.com/news/158

I don't understand why driving tests are transferrable.. just link the booked test to the provisional license used to book it? What am I missing here, it doesn't sound that difficult to stop touts when everyone has to present ID anyway.. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Driving test touts offer instructors £250 monthly kickbacks

Touts use instructor login details to bulk-book tests and sell them at a huge mark-up, the BBC finds.

bbc.co.uk

I set up policy based routing on my pfsense router at home, so now traffic to imgur egresses via tailscale on a cheap german vm. All that so the embeded screenshots load while i'm browsing minecraft mods.. The state of the UK internet is heartbreaking.

I'm getting hooked on Minecraft (because of my kids). It's fun. I know I'm late to this party. ⛏️

What's the least effort way of destroying a load of old hard drives? I don't want to power them up. Is there someone who will drive an industrial shredder to my house so I can toss them in?

trying to learn Minecraft with the 7yo is making me feel *old*

those of us who were born in 1982 grew up in a unique time and have had some really interesting life experiences, but what really makes me laugh is when people born before or after 1982 claim that they’ve also had life experiences. get serious. no you haven’t

I recently caught someone talking smack about how many people use MusicBrainz, and it made me go check. Just to reassure myself... To my delight, I was reminded that our editors are killing it!! ~700 releases added /day in 2020, up to ~1,800 in 2025: beta.musicbrainz.org/statistics/t... -a

Check out this excellent interactive blog post demonstrating bevy_behave, my #rust behaviour tree crate for @bevyengine.org Good use of compiling to wasm and embedding bevy in a webpage ⭐ www.hankruiger.com/posts/bevy-b...

Modelling Agent Behaviour with Bevy Behave

Interactive blog post about modelling agent behaviour with Bevy Behave

hankruiger.com

the 15th anniversary remaster cover for the fat of the land just adding more crabs is one of the funniest album covers I’ve ever seen. i think about it all the time

Replaced a faulty microchip-reading catflap. Didn't even have to grab that cat and shove him through to train it this time: used my Flipper Zero to read and then emulate his rfid chip, and configure the catflap while he was snoozing

Wrote a low-overhead behaviour tree crate for @bevyengine.org that does dynamic spawning for tasks. Here's the chase demo from the repo running 100k behaviour trees (second video in the README) www.github.com/RJ/bevy_behave

realised i had around 500GB in ~/src/*/target directories from random old rust projects.. very happy to reclaim that space.

Love getting dissed by the fancy AI code editor autocomplete suggesting: "// TODO: this is a bit of a mess"

I thought timezones sucked, but then I read about how astrophysicists represent time 😵‍💫 www.howtocodeit.com/articles/rus...

Rust In Space! How Rust is Powering Next-Generation Space Mission Simulators

Learn to model 13 billion years of time in Rust with an inside look at a European Space Agency mission simulator.

howtocodeit.com

fascinating review of goings on in database-land this past year

Andrew Lilley Brinker@alilleybrinker.com · 2y ago

This article is wild as a not-database person www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/...

hey chat, i need your help for a bit of fiction i’m writing. what would you say is the onomatopoeia of a modem connecting? please feel free to be as elaborate as possible.

Christmas Crokinole!

Rare opportunity right now to hire a Jonty

Jonty Wareing@jonty.bsky.social · 2y ago

So I've been notified that my role is at risk. Would anybody like to hire a me. I've spent the last 7 years as chief architect, which realistically meant doing every job from infrastructure to product and occasionally acting CTO. I am interested in everything, and curious to try new things.

every site needs a version of somethingawful's "we can just ban you" policy to use against bad actors who make a game of ruining the site while making sure to always stay 1% shy of violating the rules as-written

No one will ever know how many failed workflow runs i deleted from github. Obviously I got it right first time 😇

Wrote about my experiments selecting a netcode model for a multiplayer asteroids game, and how to deploy @bevyengine.org gameservers on Edgegap www.metabrew.com/article/rock... www.metabrew.com/article/bevy...

Quora was good, briefly. one day I flagged something for being easy to answer with a Google search, mods allowed it, last time I ever posted. Etsy was best when it was just handmade stuff by small creators. Many such examples.

Mare Pan@paarsec.com · 2y ago

The constant enshittification means that the only way to have decent platforms is hoping someone copies the *original* sentiment a company had before they got ruined by trying to achieve perpetual growth

hmm, need to check my list of domain names for novelty bsky accounts

Paprika, the best app ever, is having their annual sale www.paprikaapp.com

Bemused, flabbergasted, and bamboozled by whatever the github search thingamabob is doing here. I'm searching for a word, not doing a cryptic crossword.