Boycott Intel products.

When you buy Intel products, American fascists earn money now.

Don’t fund fascism. Don’t buy Intel.

Irrelevant Nazi still making noise instead of hiding in shame in a dark corner, like any decent human being who done what he done did should be doing.

The AI bubble really is fit to burst.

I can write 100k lines of code a day too, even without AI, and it will be the shittiest code you never saw.

And that’s not counting the millions of workers who have no choice but to keep their job to make a living, and are forced to surrender their privacy working with ultra-privacy-invading corporate Microsoft cloud shit all bean counters in all companies in the world go for because the short term cost is lower.

Fuck Microsoft.

It’s almost like corporations are psychopathic in nature, and Tesla’s CEO is notoriously psychopathic to boot.

Same here. Luckily I’m old enough that I’ve never had to deal with this automated shit - and hopefully never will - and I’ve always managed to find a job without having to post my resume on LinkedIn or any other privacy-invading job listing site.

Fuck companies that make money out of people’s necessity to work - chiefly Microsoft, and now all the life-sucking AI companies slowly creeping into every workplaces.

And yeah, one thing is for sure: if your company finds it acceptable to interview potential employees with machines, it sure as hell isn’t a company I’d want to work for.

Most “apps” today are browsers disguised as native applications running a pile of web 2.0 crap locally. A dead giveaway is the sheer amount of disk, memory and CPU they require.

An example of this most people are familiar with is Teams, which is nothing more than a glorified IRC client but requires gigabytes of disk and RAM.

But it’s not limited to sloppy, hateful companies like Microsoft: FreeTube too is an Electron app, and while it is a favorite among open-source enthusiasts and Google haters, it is also a resource hog.

The point being, if it runs in a hidden browser you can’t control, you can be certain it does everything it would do in YOUR browser if you didn’t install NoScript and uBlock Origin, and configure it for security and privacy. In other words, if the app maker is adversarial like Microsoft, it’s almost certainly spyware, and you’re indeed better off running the app off their website with your regular browser instead.

Not to mention, if your browser is already open and burning tons of RAM by itself, why open a second one?

Here’s a very good resource to track the state of fascism in the US:

https://www.realtimefascism.com/

And here’s a tool to track the activities of the American SS:

https://www.openice.org/

“Vibe coding”…

Just like with other things in life, as a older man, I refrain from saying “Today’s music is shit” or “Kids these days!” because I’m keenly aware that this is not my world anymore, my world is stuck in the past and whatever set of values and knowledge I grew up with belong squarely to that past.

But seriously. Vibe coding?
This world is seriously fucked up…

Anyway, if you vibe-code, don’t come to me to fix it: you can vibe-debug it yourself.

If it was, the timing was terrible.

The way this happened couldn’t have been timed more perfectly to send a loud and clear message to Trump that it’s his turn to scratch Paramount’s and Skydance’s back.

Reminds me of an old joke:

Masochist: Hurt me!
Sadist: No…

I tried Evolution Mail iin an effort to find a leaner email client than Thunderbird and ended up ditching it because closing it leaves a bunch of Evolution processes running in the background for no good reason, and that don’t sit right with me.

Reading this makes me glad I did.

The important bit here is that it’s carbon they’ve taken in in the form of food. It’s not fossil carbon.

Sadly, most foods are grown with fertilizers, which ARE made from petroleum. So in effect, most foods are fossil carbon…

Because it’s bad value?
Because it’s bad for business when your customers hate you for replacing workers with AI to provide worse service?
Because workers hate being replaced by AI?
Because everybody hates slop?
Because of the environmental impact?
Because it turbo-charges big data theft, monetization and corporate surveillance?

I’m not sure who Mamdani is and what his proposals are in details. But I’ll tell you what he has going for him: he’s successful and he gets under the skin of the MAGA fascists more intensely than anybody else. Just for that, he has all my sympathy.

Not in Trump’s America.

uBlock Origin in expert mode, Librewolf’s Resist Fingerprinting and Libredirect ensure that Google knows as little about me as possible - be it on DDG or anywhere else.

Fuck Google - if this clarification was needed.

Oh and yeah, fuck Google. Because it bears repeating.

Wow nice. Thanks!

This pairs perfectly with the Real Time Fascism tracker.

Oh…

Reading the title, I thought it would be about some hare-brained multi-billion dollar scheme to bring up the ISS to a higher orbit to save it, not about photographing it.

But it’s cool too. At least, that’s doable 🙂