Rob does toybox and mkroot, writes linux docs, worked with j-core.org, long ago co-founded Penguicon and Linucon, wrote for Motley Fool, taught at ACC, etc. Trying to learn Japanese and make Android a self-hosting development environment.
He/him. Answers to "they/them" just fine.
Every problem she lists would be solved by guillotining enough billionaires.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBZv0_MImIY
Billionaires can voluntarily stop being billionaires at any time, they're the ones who insist it can only happen over their cold dead bodies. I lobby to change the law to acknowledge their position: hoarding an offensive amount of capital should be a capital offense, with due process of law, ending at a guillotine. Taxes are a wishy-washy compromise position nobody takes seriously.
The reason "AI" data centers are so loud: https://gizmodo.com/this-viral-data-center-sounds-like-satans-buzzsaw-2000791122
And terribly polluting: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/pollution-musks-unpermitted-xai-power-project-hits-hardest-black-communities-2026-07-14/
Is real gas turbines are backordered for SEVEN YEARS: https://www.spglobal.com/energy/en/news-research/latest-news/electric-power/052025-us-gas-fired-turbine-wait-times-as-much-as-seven-years-costs-up-sharply
But most of the aircraft grounded over the pandemic stayed in boneyards: https://www.airplaneboneyards.com/grounded-airliners-in-storage-due-to-covid19-2020.htm
So the sleazier AI scammers turned old jet engines into terrible turbines. Specifically the old clapped out engines the airline industry didn't think worth it to refurbish:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzqJRGGOWc0
Note to self: the trick to properly flexible um̈lauts is echo -e 'm\xcc\x88'
(Which is, admittedly, a 10 yard penalty for abuse of explicit utf8 to create unicode combining characters. The ref gives you a purple card if they catch you.)
While loading a webcomic site, firefox just popped up a dialog to save a zero byte file called "about:blank" if you're wondering how the vibe coding is going.
"Sex addiction" and "porn addiction" are not real medical diagnoses.
https://www.scarleteen.com/read/sex-sexuality/facts-porn-sex-addiction
They're just more made up Project 2025 pearl clutching and scaremongering from prudish assholes.
Africa installed more solar power in the first half of 2026 than in all of 2025, and is on course to triple last year.
https://www.africa-energy.com/live-data/article/african-2026-grid-solar-additions-surpass-those-2025
This is what S-curves look like.
California AB 1856 is attempting to at least partially unfuck Gavin "spyware" Newsom's mandatory OS age discrimination before it kicks in on the 1st.
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVersionsCompareClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1856
Maybe I _won't_ have to delete all my software off the internet on December 31 to doge Blue Maga's version of Texas' abortion bounties?
(Yeah I lost access to github's web UI when @landley@mstdn.jp came for me in 2025, but I can still force push an empty repo.)
Sadly, projects have lifespans. I'm experiencing that with Linux, and now Wikipedia[citation needed] is succumbing to capitalism:
@davidgerard@circumstances.run
Which explains @PatrickWirth@mstdn.ca
According to @pluralistic@mamot.fr when Uber̈ used surveillance to stop passing surge pricing through to drivers, they created "bizarro world marxism" where you pay according to your ability and they work according to their need.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dAIJRjb-Bw
(I still say capitalism is the new religion. Churches->banks, priests->bankers, sin->debt... but it's just as made up. Money isn't real, it's a social construct. When people stop believing any given currency collapses. Star Trek was financially atheist.)
I've been listening to a lot of Rory Sutherland's talks. He's an old marketer who pushes back against stupid financialization of business. (Number go up is Goodhart's law.)
A developer is creating a firefox fork removing tens of thousands of lines of "AI" features. @sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social
The Electric Trucker is posting videos translated to english again (from German). He just got a lightly customized electric semi built to take on a world tour to show _everybody_ has charging infrastructure now, and Phineas Fogg can go around the world in 80 megawatts.
He'd previously (understandably) given up on the English speaking world.
I started today with eight fairly high priority time sensitive todo items, and have done two of them.
I'm going to take the win.
I met the linux/arch/hexagon developers at ELC last week, and I'm trying to get their target properly working in the next mkroot release. They actually have a qemu-system-hexagon they say linux boots under now:
https://github.com/qualcomm/qemu/tree/hex-next
I still need to build their forked qemu and their forked kernel, but things are progressing upstream and they have actual documentation:
And they've just added the -cc symlink to their llvm+musl toolchain:
Pop culture references aren't a new invention. Cartoons' "Which way did he go, George" referenced a famous 1939 "Of Mice and Men" movie starring Lon Cheney.
The same channel also described how hayes code censorship ended Betty Boop.
Checking ID in bars was _also_ the thin end of the wedge.
No matter how well-intentioned your "we know better than you" patronizing, it's _going_ to serve fascism eventually. But the ends justify the means THIS time because we're so horrified by Thing We're Against:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_emergencies_in_the_United_States
