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mixxit··on The Normalization of Inexplicable Failures
Amount of APIs failing for no reason and the answer is just retry these days is insane

I don't mind doing it but why is this the norm

mixxit··on GitHub has not removed malicious imitation software after 3 weeks
grindr has been dishing out popup virus and phishing ads for two years and multiple support requests to Google play and Grindr support are like it's a third party ad provider
mixxit··on Microsoft agentically ports Copilot runtime to Rust for $120K
I'm slowing moving everything to kubuntu and have for some time has it in my non work life

Really nothing works anymore as great a product full fat visual studio and windows 7 was I don't have time to deal with your bugs

mixxit··on Copyright does more harm than good and should be abolished
It's interesting that we stunt ourselves while we sit in the dust as other nations steal ip
mixxit··on Gambling with our lives: AI researcher quits Anthropic with warning about safety
Feels like a marketing stunt honestly
mixxit··on Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative
Screw you elon
mixxit··on Stop Killing the Internet: No Digital ID and No Age Verification
Stop letting regular people know they are engaging with bots

Only massive data gatherers should be able to track and know everything about people

mixxit··on Notes from tired Egyptian whose job is explaining that humans built the pyramids
i laughed at that for five straight minutes thank you
mixxit··on Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything
Went to Kubuntu long into win11 thanks for the memories Microsoft
mixxit··on Linux security mailing list 'almost unmanageable'
I feel like the ability to speed up finding bugs will exceed your ability to fix them and/or review ai PRs

It will almost likely find issues that require fundamental design changes to even fix some of these

Dangerous waters ahead for data security and vital infrastructure

mixxit··on Online age verification is the hill to die on
Id rather we focused on human Vs bot verification given the state of social media influence right now
mixxit··on Ubuntu 26.04
Kubuntu has way easier integration for windows people migrating and expecting similar mouse and touchpad interactive and intertia

Something gnome could do well to learn

mixxit··on UK Biobank leak: Health details of 500k people offered for sale on Alibaba
Just tell me how I check my name
mixxit··on French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data
We are going to leak everything from our sexual health records to our HR files

It's the age of the leak and the sooner we accept, no matter our efforts, we live in a security free world and design around that - the better

mixxit··on SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
Is this to force cursor to use xAI
mixxit··on AMD will bring its “Ryzen AI” processors to standard desktop PCs for first time
I can use this in OpenWeb on Unraid? Save me buying a pascal card?
mixxit··on Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule
Good
mixxit··on AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it
Do you remember that time that openclaw scanned the darkweb and face matched the head of the British civil service and sent a black mail email to him demanding he push through constitutional changes that led to Britain and all of nato into a forty year war against the world that led to an AI controlled Indo European Galactic Empire
mixxit··on Linux is good now
Deluding ourselves here it's nice to think the day has finally arrived but it hasn't

We need to address the problems rather than pretending it's already great

Shutting down your laptop and having to wait five minutes for systemd to shutdown because of some timeout when you need to get your flight is just one of those reasons you end up going back to windows

mixxit··on AMD entered the CPU market with reverse-engineered Intel 8080 clone 50 years ago
Gordon should have stuck to the symphonic
mixxit··on John Giannandrea to retire from Apple
Meanwhile android demanding I use Gemini and then telling me my Google account has no Gmail to turn on Gemini to add a calender entry

And then my exchange business plan telling me copilot is here over and over in a giant popup screen and then saying - it's not available yet

mixxit··on EU Council Approves New "Chat Control" Mandate Pushing Mass Surveillance
Great we need this
mixxit··on Jeff Bezos creates A.I. startup where he will be co-chief executive
Everything from A to I
mixxit··on $1T in tech stocks sold off as market grows skeptical of AI
Does this mean I will stop being greeted by a different ai robot with a whimsical friendly name everytime I log into a new site
mixxit··on Samsung makes ads on smart fridges official with upcoming software update
Sometimes I wonder if developers are exempt from responsibility much like a soldier for following orders
mixxit··on How can England possibly be running out of water?
How many workplace pensions take profits from privatised water company investments?
mixxit··on EverQuest
i remember doing the staff of the wheel quest as a newbie level 16 wizard who had barely seen any of the world

i met so many people who helped me get into some really scary places (lguk at 16 is terrifying) as i wondered in all sorts of climates and places, what a fantastic place!

looking back the world felt so different and huge and alive with life

i will never get that experience again

mixxit··on BBS: The Documentary [video]
one of my favourites along with the net - unibomber
mixxit··on AWS Lambda standardizes billing for INIT Phase
Let's hope it's not a part of many increases to come

We locked into FAAS on AWS way too long ago

mixxit··on The Case for Centralizing Authorization
i came to a stark realisation after abandoning youtube premium that i may one day be banned for adblocking

due to nearly all of my authentication being done through google i would lose nearly all my digital content

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