@cwebber I'm all for it! The people who use this kind of shit deserves what they get, let it all burn!

@maryjane I think those were about the Logout button!

Oh no, is GNOME taking away the suspend button too now!? *rage*

Daily Maverick: "New data centres set to swallow 34% of Cape Town’s current electricity supply"

I'm really annoyed at the arrogance of the companies who are deploying these, treating the city's bylaws as "mere formalities" that can be skirted sideways, while everyone else has to abide by it. I hope it gets shut down fast.

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-04-28-new-data-centres-set-to-swallow-34-of-cape-towns-current-electricity-supply/

@soapdog And then they have the gal to complain when the Chinese use their models to train their models

@GyrosGeier Same! And it's a long weekend here!

@nuintari Where does the "Hazard" come from? That's not one of the canonical Daxes?

@nuintari Dax at the ocean, he's happy when he's a wet dog.

@nuintari Heh, just checked out your profile and noticed your dog's name. My dog's name is Curzon Dax!

I find it amusing that people are only freaking out about Open Source Software when it comes to Claude Mythos. You do realise that LLMs can just as easily read binary files as source code, right? Sure, they'll be missing out on a few helpful things like comments, and some logic might be obfuscated/optimised, but I'd even go as far as to bet that this is going to be significantly more of a negative impact on proprietary software than it will to free software.

@nuintari @fellmoon Although, I suspect that perl doesn't have many (or any?) proper web frameworks and you use CGI? That probably opens you to a world of injection attacks that you won't get on for example, a flask app that runs on wsgi. I'd still recommend Python for something like this for various reasons, but if it works, it works!

@nuintari @fellmoon I won't! Perl is still quite sane compared to many new shits like nodejs!

@nuintari @fellmoon This is still the best kind of software you can write today, and it *is* possible with modern html, postgres, python, etc. I even through some htmx in the mix for some nice ajaxness.

@david_chisnall If you think that's bad. I use one Outlook account for work about once a year. I had a page of read mails and literally couldn't figure out how to get to my unread mails. Even logging in was a nightmare full of dialogs that asked questions that made no sense. It's just slop all the way through.

@hailey Wow, that's a nice piece of software engineering there! Doing anything on Windows 95 is generally such a pain, I'll try it out over the long weekend on my Pentium!

It's frustrating how greed and exploitation is killing music. There's just more and more music that disappears from streaming services all the time. We need to work harder to seek physical media and archive it all.

@susankayequinn @Talia I felt like that when watching the Handmaid's Tale because how the story started there is literally what's happening in places like the US right now... and somehow everyone is ok with that? WTF? We need more angry women in the world, I salute you!

Excellent piece of journalism here where Ars Technica deep dives into the dark world of HEVC licensing:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/lawsuits-licensing-and-royalties-are-complicating-4k-video-support-in-gadgets/

@maxleibman "Linux is *sometimes* the answer." - yeah people forget that FreeBSD and NetBSD is amazing too!