What if the crypto kidnap guy is running a reverse scam? Give me all your bitcoin or I tell the police you kidnapped me.

They killed WOT. https://www.theverge.com/news/673899/amazon-wheel-of-time-canceled

RTX 5060 FPS tanks from 30ish to 10ish on PCI gen3. But they saved a nickel's worth of copper by not running 16 lanes.

Does clicking no on youtube shorts do anything? I'm increasingly of the opinion this is a torment nexus sent back in time by big basilisk to condition me to mindlessly carry out its tasks. Click the X, human. Obey without question.

Hello usenet. I think it's working now.

If you've ever thought, man, I love honk in the terminal, but running lynx is just too bloated, you can now use tin and follow the alt.honk group. No fancy HTML, just plain text, gluten free.

Writing an nntp server and disabling isa on the same day. Restoring balance to the force.

"The way this diff works is that the undocumented PKCS8_encrypt() API uses the PKCS#5v2 code path when it's passed a NID of -1 and requires a cipher to succeed, otherwise it uses the PKCS#5v1.5 path. So pass in a sensible cipher, namely AES-CBC-256, and let layers of muppetry cascade to doing something resembling the right thing."

Statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged.

We tried running the prompt ourselves in Veo 3 and "Will Smith" was blocked by Google's content filters, but upon requesting "A black man eating spaghetti," we got a similar crunchy sound result (either Lopez had early test access without filters, or perhaps one of his prompts got around the filter, which happens sometimes if you try different variations).

People will be begging for the return of chatbot customer service after they experience unpaid intern on honknet customer service.

There should be a wiki of all the goods and services that one is morally entitled to pay what you want/can, so I don't have to resolve these dilemmas for myself before totally not stealing something.

Like if there's a bag of grapes and it's $8, but that unjustly enriches rent seeking capitalist oligarchs, I should only have to pay $5. But working out how much money to leave in the till in the middle of the checkout line really slows things down. There should be an app so I can just go through the self checkout line, scan things with the app, then deposit the appropriate amount before leaving.

private static long FFFFFFFF = Long.parseLong("FFFFFFFF", 16);

I had not considered the wisdom of giving my magic hex constants self documenting names. I shall have to put this technique to use.

The honknet to usenet bridge is coming along nicely. Going to cross the streams.

And yes, I do use arch, btw. (on my steam deck.)

Apple weather is telling me there's a 15% chance of rain. What is this sorcery? I've never seen a multiple of 5 before, it always scales by 10s.

Made it to the AI controlled drones episode of Castle.

lol, the big penny lobby is crying but what about the nickel.

Huge free speech victory. Paintings of donuts are legal again.

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/bakery-sign-new-hampshire-first-amendment-ed5d56a3

HN tells me chatgpt is going to revolutionize dating because your date can ask the chatbot for something interesting to say and then repeat it to you, and you'll never be bored again.

"OpenAI will acquire Ive's company "io" in an all-equity deal valued at $6.5 billion"

Feels like ZIRP never left.

Amazing stuff. Go Birds.

https://www.dbreunig.com/2025/05/21/chatgpt-heard-about-eagles-fans.html

Fun times, honk gang. Dropped the last annoyingly big dependency (gofeed) which was pulling in all sorts of bloat just to parse a wee bit of xml. Takes go.sum from 86 lines to 23 lines.

diff -r 51cacbe7a5cd -r e10334d4b7c0 go.sum
--- go.sum	2025-05-20 00:22:10 -0400 EDT
+++ go.sum	2025-05-21 18:24:10 -0400 EDT
@@ -1,86 +1,23

https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/honk/v/e10334d4b7c0

It was a very tight election, coming down to just two votes, but I'm pleased to report that freedom won and the tush can still be pushed.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45252032/proposal-ban-tush-push-nfl-fails-two-votes-sources-say

Rehomed my openbsd src mirror to a real computer so I don't have to flip open the lid on my laptop every time I want to sync up the other laptop.

I didn't want a 5060, and I still don't, but I am going to watch the review because Nvidia didn't want me to.

Who wants to sleep in Mulder's caboose?

"David Duchovny of ‘X-Files’ Fame Lists Malibu Estate for $12.5 Million. The Point Dume property includes a three-bedroom home and an old train car that acts as a guesthouse."

https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/luxury-homes/david-duchovny-lists-malibu-home-0a01f871

Why doesn't the ICC simply arrest Microsoft for stealing their email?

They should probably put fake names on all the ballots to eat the votes of people who just vote randomly.

Somebody forgot to apply the latest update and there were ineligible names on the ballot.

"I do use AI for background at times but always check out the material first. This time, I did not and I can't believe I missed it because it's so obvious."

Does anyone, anywhere, think this is actually the first time they didn't check? Just have your chatbot write the apology, too.

Iceland is stealing our heat dome!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/05/20/us-cool-temperatures-stormy-weather/

I have a joke tweet from the olden days that says eventually mobile photography will just involve an LLM transcribing what it gets off the sensor in great detail and then recreating the best version of that image. I figured I would see how close we are.

Ah, yes, the classic walking tour of #philly featuring the tastykake factory and slag pile.

Heh, well, based on the logs, it looks like mastodon might not load images with array of urls.

Bridge to the future.

I think we're ready for testing some new image formats. iPhone users rejoice, you can now upload heif (.heic) files, which should same some bandwidth and upload time. And images will be converted to avif for supported clients, saving bytes in the reverse direction. There's no new build dependency, it's optionally enabled at runtime.

For federation, images now have an array of URLs. The first is the same jpeg link as before, but avif will be added too.

Ideally you should see the beautiful bridge attached. If not, that's a bug. And if you see two bridges for some reason, double vision is also cause for concern.

What if Tegan and Sara but they only sing about science and call themselves Terra and Sagan?

I just saw the preview for Task on HBO, and there's a short clip of the Roundhouse implying it's the philly police, or even FBI, HQ, but that is not the case. They should have hired me as a local building consultant.

Server upgrade to openbsd 7.7 complete. New era of honkerization.

What do you call a string quartet with an oboe?

Hipsters in the park.

Gotta be honest. I cannot comprehend the decision tree that results in looping let's encrypt into the client auth workflow.