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  In 50 years of microwave use I had not seen a failure like this. The turntable or keypad fail at some point. It is scary because, while it may be a form of safety glass, the cracking has gone all the way through the inner layer and very small glass fragments are flaking into the microwave. Unsafe to use even if the EMF shielding is intact, which I am unsure of and can't measure. If cracking went from the upper-right of the photo as seems plausible, it still does not explain how the crack...

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  Tonight I came up with a fabulous Idea for measuring how smart "AI" has gotten: hand management of the circular "AI" funding mechanism over to the "AI"s themselves! If they are as smart as all that, they should be able to manage Complex Financing Mechanisms much better than run-of-the-mill Wall Street grifters!

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  @mattblaze@federate.social But to our dismay The render target was RGB*A*

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  @pleia2@floss.social Fun! Reminds of our student computer group as an undergrad in the early 80s with a new VAX/VMS system. One of our stated goals was to defeat RMS (Record Management System), which was, roughly speaking, the file I/O system for VMS. Calls routinely had 13 parameters or more. File were structured in many ways, none of them relevant to us. Unsurprisingly we mostly programmed in C using libc under a Unix V7 emulation layer written by Interactive Systems.

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  @cstross@wandering.shop reminds of when I subluxed my left knee and while recovering, read some books on knee surgery. Recalling a particularly evocative X-Ray of a downhill skier who jammed his ski in a tree trunk and consequently found his patella on the *back* of his leg.

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  @LilPecan@mastodon.social they're going to be really disappointed when they learn about the online replay loop of Samuel Pepys' Diary.

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  @yetiinabox @quixoticgeek but I use WindowMaker.

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  @stux@mstdn.social like how oil production costs keep getting higher and higher. Hopefully in the not too distant future, the profit margins will be so low as to help move demand to electrification.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@MAKS23/116329279784174087 Every time someone mentions the Epstein files, the Orange Blight adds another couple of dimensions to his brain!

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  QEMU + virt-manager was a bit painful to setup, but that done, significantly better than Virtual Box which is infinitely better than VMware. All this so I can check out books from the LAPL, and perhaps run some tax software once/year.

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  TIC what I think might be a neologism, TOTLA. Both non-"AI" and regular Google shitsearching do not find evidence of its prior usage as an acronym AFAICT.

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  All my life I was fascinated with space and loved NASA. The Orange Blight has destroyed that. I could not give less of a flying fsck what happens with Artemis, because NASA is now run by Nazis. (One could reasonably say that NASA was run by Nazis early on with von Braun, as well, of course.)

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  @stux@mstdn.social Perhaps they are trying to drive the admins into exhaustion and giving up, so all the instances can be run by "AI". We appreciate you!

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  Elon Musk announces "Terafab" - "It will be at least 1,000 times more Fraudulent than my Gigafactory!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv2phd0tzZU

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  It only took Paul Krugman nine years to steal my talking point that "the default assumption must be that anything that this administration says is a lie.” Glad to see him on board!

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  Is refusing to shake hands across an open door a Canadian superstition, a finance industry superstition, or something broader I've never heard of before? Because the landlord sent an Canadian friend to inspect some water damage today, and that's the first thing he did on arrival. Naturally I did not actually invite him in, just backed off from the door to see if he could enter freely and of his own will.

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  Electricity is starting to become "too cheap to meter," as breathless nuclear fans predicted back in the 1950s. At certain times of day in very sunny environments, like Australia and California. But the power is coming via solar panels from the big fusion reactor in the sky, rather than nasty uranium fission plants being used to boil water to drive turbines. The part not too cheap to meter will remain transmission, given power company tendencies to burn down forests and towns...

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  @cstross@wandering.shop @otolithe@mastodon.social @ainmosni@social.ainmosni.eu see the classic bit in _First Lensman_ series where Virgil Samms goes to Rigel and the first bond between the species is... ignoring billboard advertising. Ref chapter 5 in https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/49525/pg49525.txt

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  @cstross@wandering.shop Tooth calculus is bad enough, especially for math phobics.

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  @cstross@wandering.shop I installed Debian 13 a couple of months ago in Lisbon and did not experience this. Sounds like a minor installer bug in the recently released 13.2.0, likely to be fixed in the next update.

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  @cstross@wandering.shop you mean they are already extracting refugees' gold teeth? Surprised.