Some very exciting honkdev news. I just finally figured out the trigger condition that makes going back display the wrong thread sometimes. I may even be able to fix it.

haha, what, I thought CEO of mastodon was a joke.

Year of the Linux desktop.

But Bazzite was sunk by the same kind of bugs and edge cases that often chase me away from Linux operating systems when I try them. The main issue was that periodically, the system would boot up into desktop mode without asking (usually this seemed to happen when the Steam client software needed an update, but I can’t say for sure). Restarting the system would usually boot it back into the SteamOS interface—but I’d need to log in all over again, and the OS would switch Bluetooth off by default. Not only am I having to dig out a keyboard and mouse to solve this problem, but I’m needing to use a wired keyboard until I could get Bluetooth turned back on.

By the time this had happened twice, I was sure it wasn’t a fluke; by the time it had happened four or five times, I was determined to blow the entire operating system away and try again.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/ive-already-been-using-a-steam-machine-for-months-and-i-think-its-great/

World's smartest AI advisor here to save everybody lots of time.

https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMw_d7bf061f-2999-46b6-a7fb-585d19b57bef

"Omg NFLX is down 90% the bubble is bursting!!11one"

In contrast to the chatgpt glaze conditioning, Google apparently trained their bot to maximize reply guy energy. Every search starts off by correcting my apparent confusion.

He would spend hours crunching potential price adjustments manually, based on the expense of raw materials. Now, he does it every three weeks with the help of OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

But why? This is a textbook optimization problem.

Restaurants are using AI to schedule worker shifts.

But why? This is a textbook optimization problem.

Once a customer asked if the school would travel and host a class at their house: The school doesn’t do house calls but AI drafted a reply saying it would.

Value add!

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/these-small-business-owners-are-putting-ai-to-good-use-f790d5a9

Would you rather be a lonesome winner or a winsome loner?

Just as cryptocurrency aimed to wrest control of the money supply away from the fiat of governments, Empathium aimed to wrest control of the world's supply of compassion away from the expertise of charities.

"Deadline Extended. Don't Miss Out. Vote QQQ Today."

Fuuuuuuuck. I was clinging to hope that these bastards would stop harassing me after the promised deadline, but they've changed the rules.

Epstein emails are swinging back from hoax to smoking gun. Hard to keep track of whether they're real or fake day to day.

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-calls-for-investigation-into-democrats-named-in-epstein-emails-83dbe8db

Chase having to pay for Charlie's defense gives her another bite at the fraud apple. I guess once you've identified a sucker, just keep draining them for all they've got.

https://www.wsj.com/finance/charlie-javice-billed-hotels-and-cellulite-butter-as-legal-fees-jpmorgan-says-7bd75ab3

AI skeptics claim the rate of advancement is slowing, and yet we now have a chatbot that doesn't always use em dashes. Checkmate, haters.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/11/forget-agi-sam-altman-celebrates-chatgpt-finally-following-em-dash-formatting-rules/

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Yo, first time I've seen that on wikipedia. Of course, nobody is going to do anything about it, the warning will just hang out on top of the article until the basilisk eats us all.

Still, part of the problem for the shortage of manufacturing jobs is the lack of education and training, according to Farley. He noted, for example, learning to take a diesel engine out of a Ford Super Duty truck takes at least five years.

lol, fat chance I'm dedicating five years of my life to learning how to take the engine out of a ford.

Never tell a gabefan that the switch 2 has sold twice as many units as the steam deck.

Tough month for the basilisk builder.

Choose your fighter.

Did Assassin Creed steal the ubisoft results?

The copium is amazing. "I like Valve so I bet it has a socketed CPU."

I love that we spent the last six months crying that 8GB VRAM is obsolete and wholly insufficient for gaming, but now Valve has solved the problem by releasing an 8GB system and magically that's enough.

Government may still be shut down, but at least we're getting new Epstein emails.

I'm playing FF8 for the first time and I can't decide which of my three girlfriends I'm supposed to like.

Herr Liebling glanced up, annoyed at Eddy's computer-assisted gaze. Eddy dropped his spex back onto their neck chain. A practiced gesture, one Deep Eddy used a lot—hey, didn't mean to stare, pal. A lot of people were suspicious of spex. Most people had no idea of the profound capacities of spexware. Most people still didn't use spex. Most people were, in a word, losers.

Starting the season off with some more new weather: snowspouts.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/11/11/chicago-snowspouts-warning-lake-storm/