Heavy dose of nostalgia there. I remember the Sun SPARCstations at uni and changing my desktop environment every other week.

JPEG XL? It’s 2026 and I’m still waiting for JPEG 2000 to become mainstream

The very same

Oh, I thought it stood for Fuck Off, Miserable Osborne

The only good use of AI would be to use the heat from its excessive power consumption to keep our sausage rolls warm

A really nice essay, I agree with the sentiment of it. We don’t need European tech billionaires, we need government support for open source

If true, God spends a lot of time dreaming up scantily-clad, uwu-looking cat girls for an army of socially isolated believers

Lizard on a Grand Wizard

Your cables break every 3 days

Finally, some good AI news

The bat travelled 1,000 miles. It is not stated how far the car travelled.

Note that it was City of London Police involved. The City of London is quite distinct and different from the London that tourists know of. The City of London is owned by the corporations (mainly financial institutions) within its boundary, it is self-governing and has the right to set up it’s own police force which can take enforcement action in any part of the UK, not just the City of London. They are basically an enforcement arm for corporations and are very interested in things like enforcing intellectual property claims.

In tonight’s headlines, man with red front door paints it blue. Contents behind front door remain unchanged. More at 6.

Time to go all Wilford Brimley on his ass.

Yeah, because it stinks

More like the Conservative government spent in the region of £700m on the scheme, and sent only 4 people there.

Reminds me of the first time I worked in a newsroom in the early 2000s. When the repeated slamming wasn’t enough, the whole phone would go flying across the office. I, unfortunately, had the desk by the wall, in the prime firing line. My reflexes became boss in those first 3 months.

The dread and despair is so real.

Gives Event Horizon vibes

It has high integration with both the Capcom Hyper Advanced Intensity Rig and the Sony Optical Firmware Adapter