My favorite #pico8 game: "Into Ruins" this should be a playable nApp on current version of #amethyst ! 😁

As a Proton (paying) user I've been following the most recent drama and trying to be careful in discernment about it.... Andy Yen seems to have had some real "bad boss" energy in the leaked comments, and he's sort of owned up to that. On the other hand there is a very real and kinda dumb reflexive anti-AI stance among a certain culture in the FOSS / privacy tech space (just hop over to Mastodon to see that in action). I imagine a big chunk of Proton's workforce is sympathetic to this perspective.

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This whole thing is supes disappointing. I've been in the process of migrating to Proton for more things in my digital life and now it comes out that Andy Yen is a total turd towards his team. View quoted note →

RIP. 😞 The iconic Professor X, and of course the best Captain ever to helm the Enterprise. Stewart brought both gravitas and humanity to every character he inhabited. View quoted note →

VisionQuest is really good so far, one of the best things Marvel has done recently. To the subject of this article, I do enjoy a bit of subtle retconning about Tony Stark... A character who, when initially introduced in the 00s was compared, in a favorable light, to Elon Musk... And if his AI technology wasn't actually invented by him but bought "off the shelf" so to speak, that seems to make the comparison all the better... View quoted note →

The "Fortune 493" is the Real Economy

Shai-Haluuuoooooo Nurse 🥴 View quoted note →

Your Chats will go to the Highest Bidder... Count on it View quoted note →

Despite having used it that way for years, I've recently come to the Revelation that "laptops" shouldn't actually be used on laps... So then, what can actually be used in this form factor? like, a detachable keyboard with a tablet that's somehow floating at eye level?

Flying & riding trains, always makes me think: wouldn't it be cool if everyone in this plane/train were on #bitchat, and we could all have this ephemeral social experience together?

Walter Koenig, RIP 😞 -- portrayed not just Sulu but also the equally complex and villainous telepath spymaster Bester on Babylon 5 View quoted note →

Insightful essay asking the question: "who gets to own the future?" When I grew up "the Future" was for oddballs: "weirdos & beardos" to quote a certain trogdolyte. Science fiction authors, various academic outsiders, people on listservs. Nobody was rich and if they were it certainly wasn't from talking about the future. Now apparently your ideas about the future aren't valid unless you've got "tres commas" to your name... https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/magazine/how-silicon-valley-stole-the-future.html

A few months into desktop Linux, everything has been pretty good with the huge exception of Maps... GNOME Maps has a nice interface but is practically unusable... Map tiles frequently don't load, and search for say "florist" returns not only local florists, but *literally everything named "florist" in the entire world*... No way to limit it to your current map view, or at least within ~100 miles apparently. OpenStreetMaps at least has mildly serviceable Android apps, but still no live traffic. It's one thing to say "switch your gmail to proton", but it's *really* hard to give up on Google Maps and still function in society...

So Zuck's basically using the proposed CA billionaire tax as a negotiating tactic with the board... "keep me happy or I leave the state" View quoted note →

Hey is anyone tracking the big picture of the PHPocalypse? Seems like basically the whole internet is vulnerable...?

The Doomer progression: 1. "Doom is inevitable. I will prepare." 2. Builds bunker / wilderness compound / private island seastead 3. "Hey this is actually pretty nice, I'm King of my own little kingdom... But I still have to deal with pesky (alimony payments / local zoning board / CA State legislature) ... Wouldn't it be nice if it was just me in charge?" 4. Engineers Doom (Step 4 reserved for billionaires)

Buying insurance online, paying off credit cards, interacting with necessary government websites... I've had all of these things fail either silently or catastrophically because I'm using Brave browser and/or a VPN. Sometimes the transaction will just fail and say "something went wrong, sorry." Or it'll do something even worse like double-charge, or the captcha will fail, or it'll just hang... I'm in the "encrypt all the things" camp as much as anyone else here, but let's not kid ourselves that it's getting harder and harder to use network-level anonymizing tech.