Daniel O'Connor
@darius.dons.net.au
Software engineer, beer lover, general nerd. (He/Him)
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Christmas dinner, getting it ready for the oven
December 25, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Christmas dinner, getting it ready for the oven
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Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
![[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org>
5:43 AM (4 hours ago)
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)
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December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
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The comments on this are all about how sweet it is and I feel insane. Using AI to make fake memories of your grandma with dementia and telling her they happened and then filming her reaction
December 26, 2025 at 3:23 AM
The comments on this are all about how sweet it is and I feel insane. Using AI to make fake memories of your grandma with dementia and telling her they happened and then filming her reaction
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Less insult that roast but “if I kill you, do all the other nerds die?”
What's an insult you'll never forget?
December 26, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Less insult that roast but “if I kill you, do all the other nerds die?”
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Want some avocado-pineapple-celery-cranberry loaf? Chunks of all four bound together by a mix of creme cheese and mayonnaise. Call this thing the Gross of Xmas Past.
December 26, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Want some avocado-pineapple-celery-cranberry loaf? Chunks of all four bound together by a mix of creme cheese and mayonnaise. Call this thing the Gross of Xmas Past.
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I’m from Whoville, and I say kill the Grinch!
December 25, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I’m from Whoville, and I say kill the Grinch!
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My adorable five year old niece calls it "Cake Pop Demon Hunters."
December 26, 2025 at 2:11 AM
My adorable five year old niece calls it "Cake Pop Demon Hunters."
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merry christmas, my gf got us a print sub to @theonion.com and gave it to me like this
December 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM
merry christmas, my gf got us a print sub to @theonion.com and gave it to me like this
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Got my wife a prosthetic leg for Xmas. Not as her main present, of course, just a stocking filler.
December 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Got my wife a prosthetic leg for Xmas. Not as her main present, of course, just a stocking filler.
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Jesus, can you hear me? Good, the comms are working. Now, you're gonna need to run if you want to evade those Roman soldiers. Hold down A to sprint. Go ahead and try it. ... Good work! You just might be the savior yet. Now pick up that AR-15 and let's do some target practice.
December 24, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Jesus, can you hear me? Good, the comms are working. Now, you're gonna need to run if you want to evade those Roman soldiers. Hold down A to sprint. Go ahead and try it. ... Good work! You just might be the savior yet. Now pick up that AR-15 and let's do some target practice.
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Maybe it's time we talked about congestion pricing for the Sydney CBD
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
December 23, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Maybe it's time we talked about congestion pricing for the Sydney CBD
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whether or not you use AI personally, it is making computer Worse and there’s nothing you can do about it
December 24, 2025 at 12:07 AM
whether or not you use AI personally, it is making computer Worse and there’s nothing you can do about it
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Scientists have developed a robotic hand exoskeleton that can passively train expert pianists to play faster keystrokes and overcome the ceiling effect in motor skills.
Read more in #ScienceRobotics: https://scim.ag/3N3bJil
Read more in #ScienceRobotics: https://scim.ag/3N3bJil
December 23, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Scientists have developed a robotic hand exoskeleton that can passively train expert pianists to play faster keystrokes and overcome the ceiling effect in motor skills.
Read more in #ScienceRobotics: https://scim.ag/3N3bJil
Read more in #ScienceRobotics: https://scim.ag/3N3bJil
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Donald Trump, or as he’s known these days, ██████ █████
December 23, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Donald Trump, or as he’s known these days, ██████ █████
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I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
December 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
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2025 Headline of the Year nominee (April)
December 23, 2025 at 12:16 AM
2025 Headline of the Year nominee (April)
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From the 1966 Sunset Magazine “Sunset Cook Book of Breads”
December 23, 2025 at 1:05 AM
From the 1966 Sunset Magazine “Sunset Cook Book of Breads”
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Yes that was entirely the goal of this all, and for some bizarre reason academics were framing this whole thing in the context of rubrics and whether the paper deserved an A or B or whatever.
Congratulations on playing the transphobes’ game so well.
Congratulations on playing the transphobes’ game so well.
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university
Graduate instructor who gave failing grade to Samantha Fulnecky no longer teaching at OU
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university.
www.koco.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Yes that was entirely the goal of this all, and for some bizarre reason academics were framing this whole thing in the context of rubrics and whether the paper deserved an A or B or whatever.
Congratulations on playing the transphobes’ game so well.
Congratulations on playing the transphobes’ game so well.
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In Andrew Bolt's infamous 2018 "tidal wave of immigrants column", he specifically singled out Jewish communities as 'part of the problem'
The idea that the far-right, anti-immigration parties and xenophobe media are going to protect the Aus Jewish community is absurd
archive.ph/sDmhO#select...
The idea that the far-right, anti-immigration parties and xenophobe media are going to protect the Aus Jewish community is absurd
archive.ph/sDmhO#select...
December 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
In Andrew Bolt's infamous 2018 "tidal wave of immigrants column", he specifically singled out Jewish communities as 'part of the problem'
The idea that the far-right, anti-immigration parties and xenophobe media are going to protect the Aus Jewish community is absurd
archive.ph/sDmhO#select...
The idea that the far-right, anti-immigration parties and xenophobe media are going to protect the Aus Jewish community is absurd
archive.ph/sDmhO#select...
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I feel like this story needs to be added to the Crazy Archive Stories thread. Not every archive is in An Archive and all kinds of cool data can be found in surprising places.
NEW: Organ tuners have been leaving temperature and humidity records in little-known books for decades. 🎹
They reveal how temperatures inside churches have changed over time due to climate change and increased heating.
A new scoop for The Reengineer!
www.thereengineer.pro/p/church-org...
They reveal how temperatures inside churches have changed over time due to climate change and increased heating.
A new scoop for The Reengineer!
www.thereengineer.pro/p/church-org...
Church organ tuning records mirror our warming climate
The records appear to reflect climate change, as well as the increased heating of churches in winter
www.thereengineer.pro
December 23, 2025 at 3:26 AM
I feel like this story needs to be added to the Crazy Archive Stories thread. Not every archive is in An Archive and all kinds of cool data can be found in surprising places.
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perhaps one of the larger issues with AI is the utter lack of guardrails around it as it is being essentially forced into everything we use & no way for opting in or out to consent to any of this
and then shit like this happens again, despite it being a constant concern for years
and then shit like this happens again, despite it being a constant concern for years
December 22, 2025 at 10:55 PM
perhaps one of the larger issues with AI is the utter lack of guardrails around it as it is being essentially forced into everything we use & no way for opting in or out to consent to any of this
and then shit like this happens again, despite it being a constant concern for years
and then shit like this happens again, despite it being a constant concern for years