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Emmanuele Bassi @ebassi.bsky.social · 8d

Also today, I’ll present the work I and my colleague Martin Lahaye did on integrating systemd sysupdate with Yocto Linux for seamless OTA updates: cfp.all-systems-go.io/all-systems-...

#allsystemsgo #igalia

Yocto’s hidden gem: OTA and seamless updates with systemd-sysupdate, by Emmanuele Bassi, on October 1st at 16:45 in the Gallery room at All Systems Go

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Emmanuele Bassi @ebassi.bsky.social · 8d

The second day of All Systems Go is about to start. Today, my colleague Alberto Garcia is going to present his work on Dirlock, a tool to manage encrypted file systems: cfp.all-systems-go.io/all-systems-...

#allsystemsgo #igalia

Dirlock: a new tool to manage encrypted filesystems, by Alberto Garcia, on October 1st at 14:50 in the Gallery room at All Systems Go

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 17d

the bone farmer, revisited | patreon.com/lubchansky

PANEL 1: A guy sporting a pin shaped like a monster leans over to a big glass tube full of skin in the close foreground.
GUY: Hey Geoff. I see you're not wearing a Bone Farmer memorial pin?

PANEL 2: GEOFF, the skin pile, starts to talk, over the shoulder of the GUY.
GEOFF: I mean, it'd be kind of tough to–
GUY: It's bone farmer memorial day.
GUY: We're all remembering all the good stuff he did.

PANEL 3: The GUY dabs away a tear.
GEOFF: Like what? Name one thing.
GUY: Shh! I'm remembering it all right now. Silently.

PANEL 4: THE GUY, dialing a phone.
GUY: It's like you don't even know the rules of the day?
GUY: I'm going to call the cops.

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Tim Krief @timkrief.com · 23d

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 23d

Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers

the cast of Hackers (1995) posing in a series of adjacent phone booths

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Ezra Mechaber @ezra.im · 24d

really good day to rewatch Margin Call

Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 24d

Happy Lehman Day to those who celebrate

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Emmanuele Bassi @ebassi.bsky.social · 25d

"Don't make me tap the sign" [the sign being Eco's ur-fascism essay]

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 26d

we passed this point long ago. the Christchurch shooter murdered more than 50 people for the memes. if you don't realize that was part of the point for him you don't understand this stuff.

Andy Vitek @avitek.bsky.social · 26d

The prospect of large scale violence committed, more or less, for the memes, is terrifying. And if we're not there already, we are rapidly speeding towards it.

Graham Marbles @grahammarbles.bsky.social · 26d

If this was straightforward internecine conflict of fash-on-fash violence, that would be a difficult concept to swallow for most people.

But the idea that young disturbed men are using "normal" political categories as accoutrements to their abyssal anti-logic... where do you even fucking start?

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 27d

"the shooter was a trans antifa left winger, I'm sure"

"the shooter was a right wing groyper accelerationist, I'm sure"

the shooter:

ancient meme image: four panels depicting a large head saying "how many layers of irony are you on" to which a squiggly guy replies "like... maybe 5 or 6 right now. my dude." The large head replies "you are like a little baby," with eyes now glowing, "watch this." In the final panel the large head visually dominates the image in a psychedlic manner, with the word "SUCC"

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · Sep 2

Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.

Google AI search result for “was 2010 fifteen years ago?” returning: “No, 2010 was 14 years ago, not 15 years ago. The current year is 2025, and to find the number of years ago 2010 was, you subtract 2010 from 2025, which equals 14.
Current Year: 2025
Past Year: 2010
Years Ago: 2025 - 2010 = 14 years”

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kViN @yuyucow.bsky.social · Aug 31

Keiichi Arawi is an all-timer cartoonist, but episodes like #09 show CITY's team (including himself!) attempting to best him. The magnetizing effect of consecutive spreads becomes one (almost) single cut that draws you in just as much, even more packed with chaotic energy than it was before. Insane

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · Aug 8

Well, damn. A true American icon.

Loren Grush @lorengrush.bsky.social · Aug 8

Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell has passed at 97 www.nasa.gov/news-release...
One of my early young journalist memories was getting to interview him and Ron Howard on a red carpet in Austin for a screening of Apollo 13. I bragged about it for a while! (I'm the mop of brown curly hair)

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Jul 27

Now Anthropic is strongly considering weekly limits on Claude Code. Users making it clear they won't accept this or pay more than $200 a month. I am confident this happens because as my analysis suggests they are losing tons of money on each user!
www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode...

Weekly limits are coming...
Join
I was recently invited to participate in a brief Al-moderated interview by Apthropic which I completed because they were offering a $250 Amazon gift card.
I was invited because I am supposedly "one of our most engaged Max 20x users" which was surprising to me. 1 log some pretty long hours and hit limits almost daily with CC but I wouldn't consider myself a power user at all. I don't even use mcp servers... Just a vibe coder building ai slop projects I probably have no business trying to build.
Anyways, the reason I am posting is because I was disappointed to learn that they are strongly considering or have already decided they will be implementing weekly limits.
Meaning you could, depending on your usage, max out your limits by Monday or Tuesday, even on the 20x plan and then be locked out for a week or need to upgrade or purchase additional utilization.
I voiced my concerns in the interview and let them know how I felt about that. But I haven't seen anyone else talk about this and I feel like more of you should be able to let Anthropic know if you support this or not.
I do apologize for not screenshoting some of the questions it was super early morning when I did it and wasn't really expecting them to talk about changing the limits in this manner. I can share screenshot of the email if anyone doesn't believe but I don't think it's that serious.

dolmdemon • 5h
No way in hell Im shelling out more than $200/month. That's already more than my electric bill.
I think we need to push back here. If they get CC to stop doing stupid ubercoder throw all the things at the codebase shit, we wouldn't need so much token usage wrangling it.
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Medicaided OP • 4h
yeah $200 is my limit too I really can't justify more. Let alone more than a car payment which I imagine some of the next plans will be.
It would be cool if they could adopt a model kinda like google workspace where its lower cost for personal accounts and more for businesses. So average people can build ideas for lower costs, and businesses who are gaining real serious value from Al, can pass that Al cost (or savings) on to their customers and afford to front the cost of Al.

Better-Cause-8348 • 5h
Yep, I'll be cancelling if they do this, as I'm sure many others will as well. I've already downgraded from 20x to 10x and may even go lower, because the quality is still horrible. I'm constantly having to explain things so in-depth that I might as well do it myself.
I can barely get 10 minutes into anything before I have to stop. No, this is what I mean. No, this is what you need to do. No, that's not what I said at all. No, did I ask for that?
The crazy part to me is that it's probably costing them far more money now that they're running a more quantized version than if they'd left it the way it was and simply rate-limited or imposed stricter limitations. Now, it might take me four or five back-and-forths before I can get what I need, if I can get what I need, whereas before, it would have happened on the first try.
And yes, I get that others aren't having any issues and it's rainbows and unicorns for them still, happy for you. Don't be a dummy and assume you're experience is the only one, there are PLENTY of others on here saying the same things again and again, clearly there is an issue somewhere and it can't always be the user.
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Medicaided OP • 4h
I find myself priming the convo until I have probably 20-30% context left before I let CC fix anything. Then as soon as the fix is over I need to do it again for the ne to maintain decent project alignment and remove an, over engineering

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Emmanuele Bassi @ebassi.bsky.social · Jul 23

Considering the mess Holo made with Ina's visa in the past, I'd contend that it'd be better to *not* have them involved in the process…

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Emmanuele Bassi @ebassi.bsky.social · Jul 17

We are a week away from GUADEC 2025, and I'll be there alongside other Igalians from various teams. We have presentations covering a diverse set of topics, but we also enjoy talking about what Igalia does, so feel free to have a chat with us.

events.gnome.org/event/259/ov...

#guadec2025 #igalia

GUADEC 2025

Welcome to GUADEC 2025 GUADEC is the GNOME community’s largest conference, bringing together hundreds of users, contributors, community members, and enthusiastic supporters for a week of talks and wor...

events.gnome.org

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Erika Ishii @erikaishii.bsky.social · Jul 13

Most games already have a “Gore Slider” so you can reduce the amount of bloodshed but Sucker Punch really said “but… would you LIKE to have viscera cinematically sprayed everywhere? 🥺”

Sucker Punch Productions @suckerpunchprod.bsky.social · Jul 12

Miike Mode 🗡️

We've partnered with Takashi Miike, the director of 13 Assassins, to bring you Miike Mode:

🎥Closer Camera
🩸More Blood & Mud

This mode puts you in the driver seat of a classic Miike film and delivers a more intense lens of Atsu's journey

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · Jul 13

Ok so when Microsoft was making the first Xbox I was doing Flash ads for them and they had an 800 page brand standards binder and when I used a green that was, and I quote, 6% off, I got my ass chewed out. Fucking losers now. Have some goddamn self respect.

Nash @radiodeadair.com · Jul 13

The fucking head of fucking XBox Graphics used a fucking "AI" slop image to hire new engineers but couldn't tell that the fucking screen on the fucking monitor is facing backwards.

Linked In post from Mike Matsel, Principle Development Lead, XBox Graphics:

"The XBox Graphics team is hiring folks with experience with device drivers, GPU performance, or related validation or engineering system experience. If the positions are closed and you want to apply, please message me!"

And below it is an "AI" slop that reads in white on green "XBOX GRAPHICS IS HIRING" and an image of a woman in a green sweater wearing earpods typing on a computer, except the "AI" has put the screen on the back of the monitor.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · Jul 10

this is the best single-image encapsulation of how modern conservatism works

Mr Halloween @jarjarfan69.bsky.social · Jul 10

Texas can't adequately warn people about deadly floods, but it can immediately let me know that a cop got hurt 250 miles away from me.

A "blue alert" from the state of Texas for an injury to a cop 250 miles away from where I live.

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GNOME Foundation @gnomefoundation.bsky.social · Jul 7

The Oregon State University Open Source Lab (@osuosl) has supported major open source projects for over 20 years. 🖥️🌍

Now they need your help to keep going.
Learn more and consider donating: osuosl.org/blog/osl-fut...

Future of OSL in Jeopardy | OSU Open Source Lab

A nonprofit organization working for the advancement of open source technologies.

osuosl.org

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kViN @yuyucow.bsky.social · Jul 6

Day 1 of living in a world with CITY: The Animation

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Ken Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · Jul 3

"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'."

MBA-brain is real.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Jul 3

They’re literally advertising it.

CEOs Start Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud: AI Will Wipe Out Jobs

Ford chief predicts AI will replace “literally half of all white-collar workers.”

www.wsj.com

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AC @wellgoshacs.bsky.social · Jun 28

the Star Tribune just called me and told me they would not be publishing the obituary I wrote for my father as it is “unfair to him” and “in poor taste” so here it is and fuck the strib ✌🏻

Charles Dudley Krenz, 72, died from complications of bile duct cancer on May 29 at his home in Winston, Oregon.

Charles spent the majority of his life making poor use out of every opportunity and privilege awarded him and attempting to make everyone around him as miserable as he was. Bright but lacking curiosity, confident but devoid of empathy, Charles was given second, third, even fourth chances throughout his life, but squandered them with a predictable consistency that borders on deliberate.

At the time of his death, he had alienated himself from almost all who cared for him.
Those people will not be surprised that there was no deathbed change of heart here. Chaz remained unpleasant until the very end.

Charles is preceded in death by his partner Jacquelyn Sullivan, whose warmth and good graces provided a reason for others to tolerate him for 27 years until her death from ovarian cancer in 2017. He is survived by his two children, AC Sullivan and Hank Sullivan, who, in the years since their father stole a bunch of money from them and skipped town, have been both relieved and dismayed to learn that breaking generational curses only really takes a modicum of personal effort.

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Star Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social · Jan 26

Star Trek Voyager scene. We're outdoors on a brick street in a future version of San Francisco. Civilians and starfleet officers are walking to and fro past a tram/subway type station with a sign that reads, "Mission District Line, Express Stop, Trans Francisco."

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Xe @xeiaso.net · Jun 20

Rolling the ladder up behind us

https://xeiaso.net/blog/2025/rolling-ladder-behind-us/

Rolling the ladder up behind us

The newest post on Xe Iaso's blog

xeiaso.net

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