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The reason I was installing.. normally when you're on a command line, typing something like 'dotnet --list-sdks' or 'cmd.exe /c ver' will simply produce its output on the command line.

Except on one machine. Where either of those commands opens a new window that instantly disappears, so you can never see the output (this is not just annoying - it breaks unity for example).

Figured it was a busted windows update, flattened and rebuilt the machine.. same behaviour.. so completely stuffed.

They'd have got away with it, if it wasn't for those meddling kids.

RT: @theleftbible Deafening applause as Zack Polanski tells Zia Yusuf that people's concern over immigration is because he spends all his time spreading misinformation and fear.

Let’s make this go viral 👇

My home-hosted mastodon server has been quite busy. Now admittedly this is a text only toot; no media. But it has coped fine with this that went a bit viral. Almost 2000 boosts, over 2000 faves, 1300 quotes. And the traffic graph on my line for this specific traffic has seldom gone above ten meg. Mostly below five. So home hosting (on this narrow basis alone) for the win?

Cloudflare continues to push the worst shit combination of centralization of the internet and genAI bullshit but congratulations, they've hit a new combo so bad I didn't even consider it possible https://blog.cloudflare.com/agents-stripe-projects/

That's right! Your agents can now provision servers, spend money, and do everything for you!

You don't even need to hand them a credit card!

What's that? Why's that?

Because they've teamed up with Stripe! Why yes, if you've signed up with Stripe Atlas (don't "shrug" this Atlas off, friends!), which is Stripe's "launch a startup for you" company-to-make-companies, they'll give you $100k of FREE credits!!!

That first hit! It's free! Hey!

I bet all the future hits will be too, right? And uh, who will be left holding that bill after you've established this nice dependency?

Vibe coding? That's nothing! Time to go all in on Vibe Founding!

I've got folks in my comments speculating about what specifically is happening with Canonical/Ubuntu right now.

This speculation illustrates my point: they should be transparent about what's happening. We shouldn't have to speculate.

I can appreciate that uptime is hard and a DDoS is also hard, but they've been blogging about other topics. That feels like misplaced priorities if you ask me.

i have a phd in ~language models~ and with the full gravitas of my expertise, ppl need to stop talking to chatbots

The coreutils Rust rewrite story is pretty funny.

Coreutils are tools like rm, mv, mkdir, etc. Unlike binutils, this isn't a fertile ground for memory safety bugs. But, the rewrite was completed, and in the spirit of progress, Canonical decided to switch.

But do you know what coreutils are a fertile ground for? Race conditions around file creation, deletion, permission setting, and so on. The original code accounted for decades of hard-learned lessons in that space. The Rust rewrite did not:

https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2026/q2/332

PS. I'm not dunking on Rust. It's just that... starting over from scratch has its hidden costs.

Iran claims and the US denies that Iranian missiles struck an American warship trying to traverse the Strait and drove it back out into open water.

I know who I find more believable.

RE: https://flipboard.com/@mercnews/top-stories-1g1nt4e5z/-/a--ngDQ2hbRMamlaFmDkjo3w%3Aa%3A2034191127-%2F0

i had to read this 3 times because i thought i was misreading it; but no: Gamestop is in fact interested in buying Ebay.

i can't even. these days we’re way past opposite day.

Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags
The retracted study on ChatGPT in education was already cited hundreds of times.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/influential-study-touting-chatgpt-in-education-retracted-over-red-flags/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

BREAKING: Supreme Court restores access to mail order abortion drug (for now)

Are y'all following Mat Duggan? Cause you should totally be following @matdevdug

He wrote this and it made me laugh out loud. Granted, I'm an easy target for a geeky laugh, but still...so are most of you. That's just one of the reasons I love you.

https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/

Did you watch Silver Bullet for #Monsterdon tonight?

Not the worst Stephen King adaptation...

For me one of the worst is the 90s TV mini-series "The Langoliers"

Which is why it is so great that the re-work "Timekeepers of Eternity"
by Aristotelis Maragkos exists

https://vimeo.com/866783910

it uses the tv series as source material, edited and printed then re-animated into a great 62 minute long film

Well worth checking out

#Horror #StephenKing #Langoliers #FanEdit #ReWork #RePurposedFilm #Film #Monsters #Animation

X: SPD, Greens, and Left Party bid farewell (again) to microblogging service

With identical statements, the SPD, the Greens, and the Left Party are shutting down major accounts on X. For the SPD, this is already the second attempt.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/X-SPD-Greens-and-Left-Party-bid-farewell-again-to-microblogging-service-11280219.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Bluesky #IT #Mobiles #Politik #SocialMedia #Twitter #X #news

@neil fun story: when I was 15 I registered askjeves.co.uk, copied the site and made it respond with “Piss off, I’m busy” to any question. They threatened to sue my parents, I was obviously terrified so immediately transferred the domain. Their lawyers later confessed it was the funniest thing they’d seen. I was not popular with my parents for a while.

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