Some middle-aged guy on the Internet; Seen a lot of it and occasionally regurgitate it, trying to be amusing and informative.
Lurked Digg until v4.
Commented on Reddit (same name... at the moment) until it went full Musk.
Now I'm here.
Other Adjectives: Neurodivergent; Nerd; Broken; British; Ally; Leftish
School leaders warn of ‘full-blown’ special needs crisis in England (www.theguardian.com)
10 years without an increase in funding for SEND pupils is outrageous. Austerity is very much alive and well.
why does noone inprove bash such that you can write a normal foor loop with whitespace in file names?
I know that there are ten different alternatives. Why don’t we simply improve the basic stuff?
Where to "practice Linux" terminal commands
I’ve been using Linux for about 7 months now and have become a lot more comfortable using the terminal but I feel like there is more that I can learn....
GNU nano 8.0 Released with New Options and Various Improvements (9to5linux.com)
Elon Musk publicly dumped California for Texas—now Golden State customers are getting revenge, dumping Tesla in droves (finance.yahoo.com)
Catholic 'media ministry' defrocks AWOL AI priest after it told faithful you can baptise babies in Gatorade and that, sure, it can totally perform your wedding (www.pcgamer.com)
The villain [Sarah Anderson] (lemmy.world)
x.com/SarahCAndersen
China unveils video of its moon base plans, which weirdly includes a NASA space shuttle (www.space.com)
The China National Space Administration (CNSA) has released a video of its concept for a lunar base to be developed across the next couple of decades....
𝕐: What Comes After 𝕏? (y-after.social)
A nice, concise overview of the reasons to move away from social media, and how to do it, including the Fediverse and POSSE.
Rightsholders Want U.S. “Know Your Customer” Proposal to Include Domain Name Services * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.today/post/10026267...
Royal Mail waives £5 penalty charge for fake stamps (www.bbc.com)
Disability benefit claims can’t be made on ‘unverifiable assertions’, argues Sunak (www.independent.co.uk)
Behold (slrpnk.net)
IBM sues a Zurich-based startup over 'unlawful' use of mainframe technology (sifted.eu)
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No more 12345: devices with weak passwords to be banned in UK (www.theguardian.com)
What's the worst imminent death simulator you've experienced ?
A moment were you had the false impression you were close to death....
Hey good news guys!
I found the last bug in my program!
Why haven't I heard calls for sanctions on this abominable regime yet? (www.theguardian.com)
Generative AI could soon decimate the call center industry, says CEO (www.techspot.com)
For first time in a billion years, two lifeforms have merged into one (www.independent.co.uk)
‘The first time it happened, it gave rise to all complex life,’ scientists say