Is the bulletin of atomic scientists doomsday clock inflation adjusted? Declining real wages mean that a 1950 minute and a 2025 minute are very different.

Heat dome reminder: if you're hot, your phone is hot. Give it a rest and stop doomscrolling.

Hahaha, Elon admits he isn't actually playing Path of Exile.

"Mr. Musk does not use a computer."

The stream was faked!

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.433688/gov.uscourts.cand.433688.183.0_1.pdf

Will 2025 finally be the year that web developers master the skill of HTML escaping strings one time and one time only? Halfway through, it's not looking good.

Is this communism?

It requires companies to add high-contrast labels in a “prominent and reasonably visible” spot stating “WARNING: This product contains an ingredient that is not recommended for human consumption by the appropriate authority in Australia, Canada, the European Union, or the United Kingdom.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/06/23/texas-maha-warning-labels/

Heat dome beelzebub status update. Went outside for my walk, and would describe conditions as FullHD.

Gandalf wrestles the balrog into submission in the heat dome beneath Moria.

We got this question about adding support for the NETRC environment variable to #curl - because it currently does not support it.

Curious about the prevalence of this environment variable in existing tools I decided to, yeah, Google it...

In light of the NWS dereliction of duty, I've decided to name this heat dome Beelzebub. So far though, I think it's underperforming expectations. It's actually quite comfortable walking around. Smash and subscribe to your number one most trusted source of heat dome news on the honknet.

If the US no longer goes to war against countries, but goes to war against programs, does that mean Yud was right the whole time?

I'm reading some short stories by Borges and Chiang, and I got to the point in "Arrival" where Chiang references "Book of Ages" by Borges, so I flipped over trying to read it, and only after a lengthy google search did I find he made it up.

Hedom the gentle giant holds the door shut to keep his friends cool and safe from the heat dome.

Yeah, that's right, everyone gets a PhD now. Persistent heat dome.

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/climate-environment/heat-dome-wave-record-temperatures-565d6d13

Amongst other things, there's an open source software supply chain story here.

This Android library with 174 stars and one maintainer has taken down Monday.com, Eventbrite (!!!), UPS, Kraken, Lowe's, YBS, IKEA, Agibank, iFood, PagBank, pago.ro, and Udemy.

Again, this is the same failure mode that caused outages in 2023.

https://github.com/appmattus/certificatetransparency/issues/143#issuecomment-2993753426

Good news, the Tuscolo CT logs are now "Qualified" (meaning that some of your certs are/will soon be using our CT log!!)

The bad news is that by including our new logs in the well known list of CT logs, some stuff now instantly crashes (seemingly because the array of non "Sunlight" (aka next gen) logs is empty).

Impacted things seem to include:

1. 80% of the food delivery app market in Brazil
2. Lots of banks in India
3. Lowes????
4. Basically any app that uses appmattus/certificatetransparency

Suboptimal.

More info:

1. https://github.com/appmattus/certificatetransparency/issues/143
2. https://github.com/google/certificate-transparency-go/issues/1712

Change.org petition to get the NWS to name the heat domes.

Zombie superyacht rises from the deep, eager to kill more tech billionaires. It hungers for their stonks.

https://www.wsj.com/world/sunken-superyacht-bayesian-is-raised-off-sicily-ef59aab0

It has been 13 years since the city recorded an official reading of 100, the longest 100-less stretch since the early 1900s.

Retvrners reioice.

https://www.inquirer.com/weather/heat-warning-philadelphia-emergency-100-20250621.html

DZ: no elevator

In case you thought there was a magic elevator in the manhole, there is not. Or perhaps the sign means use the hole, not the elevator elsewhere. Unclear.

Freshly paved streets are extra sticky today.

$4 dozen eggs
$500000 custom cabinets

Somebody help me balance this budget!

Conservatives: it's an economic crisis travesty that I can no longer afford milk for my family.

Also conservatives: I just spent half a million on custom cabinets to hold my paper towel collection.

https://www.wsj.com/style/design/family-spent-500000-on-cabinets-for-costco-runs-f1e2cb14

There's an implicit assumption that software written by humans is a necessity. If the future finds that software written by computers is more profitable then that's just what it is. The universe doesn't owe us value on human-written software.

Big Pump Six energy.

It's called Time Machine because no other machine will waste so much of your time.

God, this bubble burst is going to be so brutal

Reminder that imgur is not an image hosting site and if you put a <img src=imgur.com> link in your post, it will look like trash, and who knows what horrors will be inflicted on anyone who tries clicking the link. Just don't.

c.f. https://piefed.social/post/955570

About once a year, I found myself wrestling with an impossible trolley problem. Do I spend three hours looking up the apt incantation to upgrade a single package that this debian has pinned in the stone age and then try to deal with the inevitable fallout, or do I simply muddle along with the old version because the new option wouldn't save that much time anyway?

@tedu that's a lot of feet for something that generally doesn't come onto land

On one yacht, O’Shannassy, the captain, learned to communicate in code with the helicopter pilot who regularly flew the owner from Switzerland to the Mediterranean. Before takeoff, the pilot would call with a cryptic report on whether the party included the presence of a Pomeranian. If any guest happened to overhear, their cover story was that a customs declaration required details about pets. In fact, the lapdog was a constant companion of the owner’s wife; if the Pomeranian was in the helicopter, so was she. “If no dog was in the helicopter,” O’Shannassy recalled, the owner was bringing “somebody else.” It was the captain’s duty to rebroadcast the news across the yacht’s internal radio: “Helicopter launched, no dog, I repeat no dog today”—the signal for the crew to ready the main cabin for the mistress, instead of the wife. They swapped out dresses, family photos, bathroom supplies, favored drinks in the fridge. On one occasion, the code got garbled, and the helicopter landed with an unanticipated Pomeranian. Afterward, the owner summoned O’Shannassy and said, “Brendan, I hope you never have such a situation, but if you do I recommend making sure the correct dresses are hanging when your wife comes into your room.”

People will do anything to avoid installing a secure messenger app.

Taxonomy of yachts.

If it has a crew working aboard, it’s a yacht. If it’s more than ninety-eight feet, it’s a superyacht. After that, definitions are debated, but people generally agree that anything more than two hundred and thirty feet is a megayacht, and more than two hundred and ninety-five is a gigayacht.

The High Council of Honk Information Truthiness Subcommittee has been summoned from its summer adjournment to deal with a pressing matter. There are some unfounded rumors being spread about the nature of the honknet. Here is our report on our fact checking mission.

The Sin of Overwhelming Complexity: Instance Selection Paralysis

"You’re confronted with a cryptic list of servers, each with a name that sounds like a cross between a startup pitch and a medieval tavern."

I experienced zero hesitation selecting a honknet instance.

Verdict: Completely false.

The Sin of Inconsistent Navigation: Timeline Turmoil

"Three timelines. Not one. Not two. Three."

There is only one feed tube on the honknet.

Verdict: Completely false.

The Sin of Remote Interaction Purgatory: Federation Gymnastics

"Want to reply to a post from a different corner of the Fediverse?"

That's what the honk back button is for.

Verdict: Completely false.

The Sin of DM Disasters Waiting to Happen

""Direct Messages” live right alongside public posts in the same composer, the same timeline view, sometimes even with mostly the same visual styling. You can toggle visibility to “Direct”… but will you notice you didn’t? Will you check? Will the UI save you? Spoiler: It will not."

Spoiler: yes. Everyone knows what happens when you click the "it's gonna be honked" button.

Verdict: Completely false.

The Sin of Ghost Conversations and Phantom Follower Counts

"Follower counts of remote users become carnival mirrors: someone shows “800 followers,” you see 12."

The reason you only have 12 followers is because that's all you deserve.

Verdict: True, but misleading.

The Sin of Invisible Discovery: The Content Mirage

"So new users end up wandering along, stumbling across interesting people and conversations only by sheer luck. It’s charming - but only in a 19th-century explorer way."

As it should be.

Verdict: Correct.

The Sin of User Discovery Hell

"“I know: like on every other social media platform, I can find cool folks that my friends follow and follow them.” Yeah…no."

Actually, yes.

Verdict: Completely False.

Final report: Some truth, but poorly presented and overwhelmed by lies. We award it 4.5 Sean Spicers.

As a reminder, "guy on the internet" has not been selected by the High Council of Honk Ministry of Truth as a reliable source of information. Reader beware.

In the movie Easy Rider, the characters Wyatt and Billy are vibe coded.

I am generally skeptical of books like “The Haves and Have-Yachts.” Speaking of wealth and extravagance, there is no justification for charging people $30 for work that is already widely available, and collections made up entirely of previously published essays are rarely cohesive, even when the individual pieces are excellent. The only part of Osnos’s book that has not been published before is an introduction that is not even 10 pages long, which feels a bit like cheating.

All ten essays are now safely stored as PDFs on my hard drive...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/06/18/have-yachts-ultrarich-evan-osnos-review/

Alright, honkers in need of even more reading material, new change dropped.

If you stick a post in the xzone importer, we will now refetch it to look for changes and replies. It is somewhat cumbersome to use, because that is the honk way, but ideally, if somebody you follow asks a question, you should be able to paste the url into the xzone and get all answers some time later.

(The search box acts the same as before, only fetching unknown posts, and otherwise speedily returning the existing entry.)

AC status is fully operational and the air of freedom is circulating throughout the house.

I know it was a great post, but this seems excessive. Times a few thousand more.

51.77.122.82:48107 1.382015ms honk.tedunangst.com [2025/06/14 03:57:15] "GET /u/tedu/h/hv5gv3Vj1TH8jHpmJ4 HTTP/1.1" 200 818 "" "http.rb/5.1.1 (Mastodon/4.2.17; +https://mastodonapp.uk/)"
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51.77.122.82:25757 902.428µs honk.tedunangst.com [2025/06/14 04:01:02] "GET /u/tedu/h/hv5gv3Vj1TH8jHpmJ4 HTTP/1.1" 200 818 "" "http.rb/5.1.1 (Mastodon/4.2.17; +https://mastodonapp.uk/)"
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And yes, I do have heighten pattern recognition, btw.

Honknet users, please contact your instance administrator to obtain a full copy of the terms of service. Read and review, sign in triplicate, then store in a safe place. You won't need it today, but someday you will, and boy howdy will you be glad to have it then.

lol.

The losses were priced for restitution as of Oct. 4, 2022. That’s when Higgins’ First State Depository and related businesses, its vaults, and the framed picture of Russian leader Vladimir Putin near his office desk were seized by federal agents and turned over to the receiver.

https://www.inquirer.com/business/robert-leroy-higgins-sentenced-wilmington-depository-20250617.html

Today's astonishing programming discovery: printf("%02x", n) and printf("%20x", n) format rather differently.

Philadelphia Maximum humidity level: Extreme

And, wait for it...

And there’s more to come. A second, stronger surge of potentially dangerous heat and humidity is expected this weekend into next week as a heat dome is likely to form.

There it is!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/06/17/extreme-humidity-heat-city-forecast-maps/

Looks like we may be getting a little heat dome as a treat.