Pär Björklund
@paxxi.delusional.nu
Dogs, IT, gardening, home improvements, chickens. Swede. he/him
And this is the problem with block lists in a nutshell. They may start out well intentioned and suddenly it's full of people the author dislikes
it's misuse of your lists to mark it as "right-wing propaganda and followers" and "homophobe/transphobe" though. even if you believe Laurelai and Doll should be blocked, forcing that decision on others on a list that clearly says that it is for some other category of thing is a violation of trust.
Reminder that doll is actually laureli Baily and should be reported blocked and all lists made by her or her alt accounts should be removed from your use.
December 12, 2025 at 5:53 AM
And this is the problem with block lists in a nutshell. They may start out well intentioned and suddenly it's full of people the author dislikes
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Treat anyone wearing these mass-surveillance loser glasses as if they're holding up their phone camera a foot away from your face
Glassholes were driven from polite society. It could happen again.
Google unveils plans to try again with smart glasses in 2026
It is a significant turnaround for the tech giant after its first attempt - Google Glass - was pulled in 2015.
www.bbc.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Treat anyone wearing these mass-surveillance loser glasses as if they're holding up their phone camera a foot away from your face
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I've built a text adventure game engine on top of the C++ Standard. Why? I have no idea. But it's a learning tool with quests and time travel and artifacts and NPC's and XP and ... well, you just have to check it out!
cppevo.dev/adventure
cppevo.dev/adventure
C++ Standard Adventure - cppevo
Explore the C++ standard as an interactive text adventure game. Navigate between C++ eras, collect knowledge, and learn the language.
cppevo.dev
December 12, 2025 at 12:22 AM
I've built a text adventure game engine on top of the C++ Standard. Why? I have no idea. But it's a learning tool with quests and time travel and artifacts and NPC's and XP and ... well, you just have to check it out!
cppevo.dev/adventure
cppevo.dev/adventure
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If it didn’t say “read by the author” I never would have believed it. This is STUNNINGLY bad holy fucking shit she doesn’t sound like a human. She sounds like a human trying to sound like AI trying to sound like a human.
Okay, I think I figured out how to turn the audio sample into a video that can be uploaded to Bluesky. Here are the first 3 minutes.
December 12, 2025 at 4:51 AM
If it didn’t say “read by the author” I never would have believed it. This is STUNNINGLY bad holy fucking shit she doesn’t sound like a human. She sounds like a human trying to sound like AI trying to sound like a human.
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The more CSS focuses on typography the more we can convince designers that it's the best design tool for the web IMO.
Love to see it.
Love to see it.
CSS text-decoration-inset landed in Firefox 146! Here's how it works:
December 11, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The more CSS focuses on typography the more we can convince designers that it's the best design tool for the web IMO.
Love to see it.
Love to see it.
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I hold my tongue about a lot of things in our news cycle, but you'll never get me to shut up about this point: Never be afraid to handcraft what you might see as "bad" art or writing, because I guarantee you it's better than anything the water-guzzling plagiarism machine can churn out. #AI
If the future really is AI slop, does anything even matter anymore? When nothing is real or human-crafted? I have never hoped more that this bubble bursts, taking down all the tech bros and executives that invested so much money into degrading the quality of, well, just about everything.
December 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I hold my tongue about a lot of things in our news cycle, but you'll never get me to shut up about this point: Never be afraid to handcraft what you might see as "bad" art or writing, because I guarantee you it's better than anything the water-guzzling plagiarism machine can churn out. #AI
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Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.
December 11, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.
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LOLOL. @dfriedman.bsky.social found that the Goodreads page tied to an email of a key Whiskey Pete advisor: it sandwiched Whiskey Pete's book between books about wife swapping!
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
December 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
LOLOL. @dfriedman.bsky.social found that the Goodreads page tied to an email of a key Whiskey Pete advisor: it sandwiched Whiskey Pete's book between books about wife swapping!
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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a beautiful part of using content-addressed storage and deduplication everything is that you get snapshots basically for free
so i added `git-pages -audit-rollback` for manually reverting a site to an earlier state based on an audit record! git-pages.org/running-a-se...
so i added `git-pages -audit-rollback` for manually reverting a site to an earlier state based on an audit record! git-pages.org/running-a-se...
Running a server - git-pages static site server [WIP]
git-pages.org
December 11, 2025 at 3:52 AM
a beautiful part of using content-addressed storage and deduplication everything is that you get snapshots basically for free
so i added `git-pages -audit-rollback` for manually reverting a site to an earlier state based on an audit record! git-pages.org/running-a-se...
so i added `git-pages -audit-rollback` for manually reverting a site to an earlier state based on an audit record! git-pages.org/running-a-se...
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Double aside: which trade would you align with if you didn't have a cushy tech job is a great question!
Electrician/networking is too obvious so I disallow that.
I'd either do drywall or framing.
Roofing is out. Not because of fall risk, but because it is so hot up there! Did once. Never again.🙅🏿♂️
Electrician/networking is too obvious so I disallow that.
I'd either do drywall or framing.
Roofing is out. Not because of fall risk, but because it is so hot up there! Did once. Never again.🙅🏿♂️
December 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Double aside: which trade would you align with if you didn't have a cushy tech job is a great question!
Electrician/networking is too obvious so I disallow that.
I'd either do drywall or framing.
Roofing is out. Not because of fall risk, but because it is so hot up there! Did once. Never again.🙅🏿♂️
Electrician/networking is too obvious so I disallow that.
I'd either do drywall or framing.
Roofing is out. Not because of fall risk, but because it is so hot up there! Did once. Never again.🙅🏿♂️
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If we were to increase the number of undocumented workers in the US construction industry by 100,000 people, the labor supply of fast construction workers would go *up*, and the cost to construct a home would go *down*.
Everyone knows this.
But racist people pretend not to know it.
It's silly
Everyone knows this.
But racist people pretend not to know it.
It's silly
December 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
If we were to increase the number of undocumented workers in the US construction industry by 100,000 people, the labor supply of fast construction workers would go *up*, and the cost to construct a home would go *down*.
Everyone knows this.
But racist people pretend not to know it.
It's silly
Everyone knows this.
But racist people pretend not to know it.
It's silly
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Notepad++ have published an update to fix the software being hijacked by threat actors remotely: notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v889-re...
This was being abused by threat actors in China, a blog from mine from a week ago: doublepulsar.com/small-number...
This was being abused by threat actors in China, a blog from mine from a week ago: doublepulsar.com/small-number...
Notepad++ v8.8.9 release: Vulnerability-fix | Notepad++
notepad-plus-plus.org
December 9, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Notepad++ have published an update to fix the software being hijacked by threat actors remotely: notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v889-re...
This was being abused by threat actors in China, a blog from mine from a week ago: doublepulsar.com/small-number...
This was being abused by threat actors in China, a blog from mine from a week ago: doublepulsar.com/small-number...
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ECMAScript excitement 😉
A highly comprehensive article on what will (and might!) land in ES2026 by @marypcbuk.bsky.social 🎉
Includes coverage on Temporal by Boa creator @jason-williams.co.uk who leads the Rust-based temporal_rs library, as used by Google's V8 engine, amongst others.
A highly comprehensive article on what will (and might!) land in ES2026 by @marypcbuk.bsky.social 🎉
Includes coverage on Temporal by Boa creator @jason-williams.co.uk who leads the Rust-based temporal_rs library, as used by Google's V8 engine, amongst others.
With ECMAScript 2026, JavaScript will get more precise about sums, errors, international dates and times — and it may finally be time for Temporal.
By @marypcbuk.bsky.social
By @marypcbuk.bsky.social
ES2026 Solves JavaScript Headaches With Dates, Math and Modules
With ECMAScript 2026, JavaScript will get more precise about sums, errors, international dates and times — and it may finally be time for Temporal.
bit.ly
December 9, 2025 at 11:57 PM
ECMAScript excitement 😉
A highly comprehensive article on what will (and might!) land in ES2026 by @marypcbuk.bsky.social 🎉
Includes coverage on Temporal by Boa creator @jason-williams.co.uk who leads the Rust-based temporal_rs library, as used by Google's V8 engine, amongst others.
A highly comprehensive article on what will (and might!) land in ES2026 by @marypcbuk.bsky.social 🎉
Includes coverage on Temporal by Boa creator @jason-williams.co.uk who leads the Rust-based temporal_rs library, as used by Google's V8 engine, amongst others.
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I was gonna do that thing where I repost this and just say "Oh". As in here is some important info that is fucked up but ultimately unsurprising.
Then I realized my neighborhood is actually featured in this piece. 😔
Then I realized my neighborhood is actually featured in this piece. 😔
"Big Tech and data center developers appear to be siting data centers in vulnerable communities...These locations show a troubling trend - they primarily impact working class and Black and Latine communities."
The Unequal Burden of Data Centers - Kapor Foundation
An examination of the Environmental and Public Health Impacts on Communities in California
kaporfoundation.org
December 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I was gonna do that thing where I repost this and just say "Oh". As in here is some important info that is fucked up but ultimately unsurprising.
Then I realized my neighborhood is actually featured in this piece. 😔
Then I realized my neighborhood is actually featured in this piece. 😔
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Also when many of the biggest names and companies in the field right now routinely express their technofascist leanings and desires to destroy democracy, social services and higher education etc, ‘AI’ will and should be associated with those contexts.
I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*
December 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Also when many of the biggest names and companies in the field right now routinely express their technofascist leanings and desires to destroy democracy, social services and higher education etc, ‘AI’ will and should be associated with those contexts.
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I 💯 prefer kids using their ingenuity to hack themselves a place on the regular web over most of the alternatives.
Cybersecurity is always talking about the «pipeline» of future practitioners.
So welcome, I guess.
We break stuff, we build stuff, we learn and we teach.
Cybersecurity is always talking about the «pipeline» of future practitioners.
So welcome, I guess.
We break stuff, we build stuff, we learn and we teach.
A lot of kids in the 80s and 90s, who grew up to be hackers, had their start in hacking their school network, pirating and cracking games, hanging out on BBSs, forums and irc, hacking payphones etc
I guess a new generation will be forged by evading all of this.
As our saying is:
Hack the planet!
I guess a new generation will be forged by evading all of this.
As our saying is:
Hack the planet!
a man is screaming in a car and saying `` hack the planet '' .
Alt: a man leaning out of a car window and screaming `` hack the planet '' .
media.tenor.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I 💯 prefer kids using their ingenuity to hack themselves a place on the regular web over most of the alternatives.
Cybersecurity is always talking about the «pipeline» of future practitioners.
So welcome, I guess.
We break stuff, we build stuff, we learn and we teach.
Cybersecurity is always talking about the «pipeline» of future practitioners.
So welcome, I guess.
We break stuff, we build stuff, we learn and we teach.
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Last week I announced that we're finally killing off RC4 in the Windows Kerberos stack.
This has been a long time coming, so much so that we've been working on it for more than a decade, albeit off and on as we sometimes had to target other more pressing issues.
What does this mean?
This has been a long time coming, so much so that we've been working on it for more than a decade, albeit off and on as we sometimes had to target other more pressing issues.
What does this mean?
Beyond RC4 for Windows authentication
As organizations face an evolving threat landscape, strengthening Windows authentication is more critical than ever.
www.microsoft.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Last week I announced that we're finally killing off RC4 in the Windows Kerberos stack.
This has been a long time coming, so much so that we've been working on it for more than a decade, albeit off and on as we sometimes had to target other more pressing issues.
What does this mean?
This has been a long time coming, so much so that we've been working on it for more than a decade, albeit off and on as we sometimes had to target other more pressing issues.
What does this mean?
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I say this as someone whose entire job is finding the narrow use cases in which AI is actually useful:
All the fear about AI, all the reluctance to adopt it, is entirely legitimate, and a product of the fact that it's been foisted on the public with no consideration of its negative externalities.
All the fear about AI, all the reluctance to adopt it, is entirely legitimate, and a product of the fact that it's been foisted on the public with no consideration of its negative externalities.
I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*
December 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I say this as someone whose entire job is finding the narrow use cases in which AI is actually useful:
All the fear about AI, all the reluctance to adopt it, is entirely legitimate, and a product of the fact that it's been foisted on the public with no consideration of its negative externalities.
All the fear about AI, all the reluctance to adopt it, is entirely legitimate, and a product of the fact that it's been foisted on the public with no consideration of its negative externalities.
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I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*
December 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*
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Now imagine sharing your private fantasies with what you believe is a bot that cannot judge or remember. Just that, on the other side, is a man in a one-room home in Nairobi, pretending to be an AI companion.
That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy, by Michael Geoffrey Asia.
Imagine confiding your most private fantasies to what you believe is an unfeeling algorithm that cannot judge or remember. Now imagine that on the other side of that conversation is a man sitting in a...
data-workers.org
December 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Now imagine sharing your private fantasies with what you believe is a bot that cannot judge or remember. Just that, on the other side, is a man in a one-room home in Nairobi, pretending to be an AI companion.
That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
Me, a champion of diversity and inclusivity by accepting whatever default font word uses 🤣
Gotta admit "the font is DEI" is a stage of absurdity I could not have predicted
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
December 10, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Me, a champion of diversity and inclusivity by accepting whatever default font word uses 🤣
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Gotta admit "the font is DEI" is a stage of absurdity I could not have predicted
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Gotta admit "the font is DEI" is a stage of absurdity I could not have predicted
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citizen you have exceeded your pencil allotment this year. prepare to die
Trump: "You can give up certain products. You could give up pencils. Because under the China policy, every child can get 37 pencils. They only need 1 or 2. They don't need that many. You always need steel. You don't need 37 dolls for your daughter. 2 or 3 is nice. So we're doing things right."
December 10, 2025 at 2:48 AM
citizen you have exceeded your pencil allotment this year. prepare to die
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Can we talk about how the Minneapolis Metro stole Boston's T logo?
We rightfully stole that logo from Stockholm!
We rightfully stole that logo from Stockholm!
December 10, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Can we talk about how the Minneapolis Metro stole Boston's T logo?
We rightfully stole that logo from Stockholm!
We rightfully stole that logo from Stockholm!
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Programmers will debate endlessly the correctness of code implementing a “taser my genitals” button, its accessibility, and how to place it on the screen to minimise accidental activation, without ever pausing to ask whether frying the end-user’s balls is a good design or not
December 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Programmers will debate endlessly the correctness of code implementing a “taser my genitals” button, its accessibility, and how to place it on the screen to minimise accidental activation, without ever pausing to ask whether frying the end-user’s balls is a good design or not