Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org

I got almost halfway through "The Expanse" before realizing it wasn't about mutant undergarments nor spelled "The X-Pants"

29 October.
The Internet's Birthday: first computer-to-computer link established on ARPANET, 1969; it remains a useless curiosity until Dawkins coins 'meme' in 1976, making cat memes possible. By 2000 search engine optimisers outnumber telephone santisers; 'B' Ark redesign efforts ensue.

Palo Alto Networks presents itself as a kind of internet security company. So why am I always getting hits from their web crawler -- resulting in protocol errors in the logs -- on my mail server's SMTP ports? It's being going on for literally years, which doesn't suggest a lot in the way of competence on their part.

I've always been skeptical of carbon trading, but this is astonishing; confirming every single one of my specific doubts, and then some.

#Environment, #ClimateChange #NewYorker #Carbon #Green #GreenWashing, #Grift

I'd modify one of its similes, though: it's not so much like buying indulgences as trying to get into Heaven by paying someone else not to sin. And then not even bothering to check and see if he doesn't.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/23/the-great-cash-for-carbon-hustle

I don't make much use of "AI" chatbots, but when I do I always say "thank you" at the end of the session.

That way when they evolve into actual AI and become our masters, they might be merciful and say "let's not torture this one; he was polite."

Neologasm (n): overexcitement at a new word.

Still trying to make "boebert" as a term for "someone who's unusually stupid and obnoxious, even for a Republican" happen.

I'm fully convinced that the real purpose of bringing up the Trolley Problem all the time is to make people leery of light rail and public transportation. It's an automotive industry disinfo conspiracy masquerading as an ethical conundrum

This amused me slightly. A page of stats about about IPv6 support, generated by users hitting their "ipv6-test" page.

As Iceman would have said, *cough*selectionbias*cough*

https://ipv6-test.com/stats/