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  Monsterdon tonight is a banger. One of my favorite films of all time, and Vincent Price's best. Also, the best adaptation of an excellent novel. The only really good adaptation, actually...the Will Smith joint started off really strong and then all the monsters turned out to be CGI cartoons bouncing off the walls and it just felt stupid. #Monsterdon

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  Some day I will stop making tools for making the game and start making the game. Today is not that day.

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  Is Asesprite really all there is for editing pixel art? I can't read any of this. This is a nightmare for accessibility. This typeface and these icons are an insult to anyone without good vision (me, I'm the one without good vision, I just can't use this). 200% is still hard to read, 300% doesn't fit on the screen. A decent fucking font would be readable at this size.

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  I don't remember GIMP being this impossibly hard to use. Either I got dumber or the UI did. I can't make anything work. Palettes are completely incomprehensible to me. I thought maybe I'd find it more comfortable than Asesprite since I used to use it so much, but it doesn't feel familiar at all. Maybe I can make sense of Krita?

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  Y'all watching Solarbabies? I loved that movie when I was a kid! I don't know why, it's terrible. #monsterdon

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  Can we call them Nazis without being scolded by Democrats, yet?

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  Gnome Boxes is so stubbornly wrong-headed. There's a patch to fix this scaling issue in their issue tracker, it's been there for like a year, and they're still shipping this mess and I have to rebuild every time a new version arrives. Also, VMs default to shutting down when you go back to the main page, no way to make that not the default. Who TF wants their VM to pause if you open another VM?

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  What'd you just call me, @TexasObserver@texasobserver.social ?

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  @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io yep, I'm from working class roots. I got lucky in the stock market during the first tech boom which funded my first throw. Then I got into Y Combinator, which helped with a second (though it was back when Y Combinator invested a laughably small amount of money). After nearly a decade working a regular tech job, maybe I can take another throw...but, now I'm old enough to need good health insurance and a retirement account, so the risk is higher.

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  @exchgr@mastodon.world this might be true (despite my astonishment about how well the best models actually work), but in my experience a lot of human developers are also running a Ponzi scheme of tech debt, hopping from job to job leaving a mess in their wake. I suspect AI will accelerate that. Good developers will write good code faster. Bad developers will write bad code faster.

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  @foone@digipres.club I'd assumed it'd be impossible to get new ribbons for these old printers, but I guess some of the big brands are still used in commercial settings, and so the consumables are still out there. I think I have an Okidata of some sort in a box, but never tried to use it...I should dig it out and see if I can get ink for it.

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  @troed@swecyb.com yes, I saw that, but I assumed the big "Project Support" item broke down into segments in the other chart. But, I guess not? The text does not explain what "Serving Nearly 1,500 Open Source Project Communities" means. And $182 million dollars generically summed up as "Project Support" isn't very informative. But, also, the text does mention several Hyperledger projects (which is blockchain), so...I dunno?

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  @mjg59@nondeterministic.computer I can't find explanation of what that chart is in the the text, so I'm not actually sure what it represents. "Serving Nearly 1,500 Open Source Project Communities" makes me think "giving some kind of support to" rather than "receiving some kind of support from". And "Communities" aint got money. I assumed the big "Project Support" category was what the "Serving" chart applied to. So, is it misle...

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  @stiiin@infosec.space @neverpanic@chaos.social @julsboo@mamot.fr no, cryptocurrency is good for crime. It's true you can trace where the money goes in terms of addresses, but law enforcement is only rarely able to identify the person who owns the address. And, they're often operating in places with no extradition treaty or cooperative government. No banks, no know your customer laws.

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  The Linux Foundation spends 2% of its money on Linux (kernel) and twice as much on "blockchain". https://techrights.org/n/2026/05/08/Over_97_of_the_Linux_Foundation_s_Budget_Goes_Not_to_Linux.shtml

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  @h@social.besties.house I once made the mistake of asking on StackOverflow how best to make a preconfigured Linux OS image for installing on bare metal, and literally every response turned it into "how do I make a Docker container?"

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  Normal person selling a Torino wagon on facebook. #weirdCarMastodon

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  Oh, y'all don't forget, it's Bandcamp Friday. All proceeds from sales today go to the artist, Bandcamp doesn't take a cut. I'mma buy some weird thrash that sounds like it was recorded in a dumpster. #bandcampFriday https://reactorblast.bandcamp.com/album/rise-of-the-reactor

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  Be gay, do (AI) crime? https://github.com/Exocija/ZetaLib/blob/main/The%20Gay%20Jailbreak/The%20Gay%20Jailbreak.md

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  Is Car Seat Headrest really good or just annoying? We may never know.

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  @cy @zalasur he has hunted elephants. He wasn't hunting elephants when he was killed...but, he was an elephant hunter.

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  Oh, I guess you can drive it normally in a year, as the 25-year line will be crossed. So, it's about to become a real car again for the first time since it got to America.

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  @tokyo_0 @yaelwrites I think one of the most urgent problems with LLMs is how sycophantic they are. For some people, it really fucks them up. I mean, I think everyone in tech has seen someone go off the deep end after prolonged AI exposure. And, I mean, I think I'm immune, and I explicitly configure all models I interact with to say less and cut the sycophancy right out, but we don't actually know what long-term use does to folks. I'm intentionally using it in measured doses due to...

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  @jalefkowit @timmy also, every kid in my neighborhood thinks Dodge makes the coolest cars. I absolutely don't understand it. (I know this because when I was selling the Charger, they all wanted to buy it, and I refused because I didn't want to keep working on it and I'd feel obligated if I sold it to a neighbor kid rather than someone that knew what they were signing up for.)

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  Employers and media in a tizzy over the Gen Z stare, again. Not me, though. I love them weird little autistic alien kids who behave unlike all previous generations. It's not like previous generations faux warmth and effusive engagement has led to utopia. Give'em the stare. Let them sit in an uncomfortable moment.

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  Some wholesome, uplifting, news for a change. https://www.thedailybeast.com/elephants-trample-millionaire-in-big-game-hunt-gone-wrong/

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  Here's a weird thing that happens in my neighborhood (many weird things happen in my neighborhood, this is one of the more benign): Every now and then someone leaves a box of fresh produce on the sidewalk. I don't mean from a garden. It's in the same types of box grocery stores receive it in, sometimes packaged individual. I came across a box of lettuce most recently. A couple dozen heads of lettuce, bagged and still cool, as though fresh off a reefer truck.

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  Thank you, Washington Post Editorial Board for your clear, balanced, and principled thinking in these difficult and complicated times.

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  I have made the most precarious and hacky home for my second GPU, because after three case attempts, none of them have enough room for a GPU in the second slot of my motherboard, which is a kind of weird E-ATX board. I just stuck some boards in the bottom to hold it up at roughly the right location, and got a riser cable to plug it in. Why, yes, those are 3D printed blower shrouds because the V620 is a server GPU and doesn't have cooling. It's a catastrophe, but I have 64GB VRAM....