@alex huh, longwave radio. Can you do that with 1700s tech, even if you know how? I know there were crystal spark radios that kids could make in the 1930s out of stuff they had, so it feels possible, but I don't know what you need to have decent broadcast power and whether you can do that with batteries you make out of clay jars and lemon juice

@scalzi That's a pretty huge potato, to be fair! Now all it needs it to appear in one of your stories. You could use it's number—nobody would work it out.

@inthehands it looks like Illinois and the city of Chicago are doing the same https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2026/01/12/illinois-chicago-sue-dhs-ice-cbp-tactics

@mhoye @ErickaSimone ohh yes good one.

@mitsuhiko I agree on the first, disagree on the second (location being important).

Twitter is predominantly a right-wing platform, destroy the planet careless crowd, pro-enterpreneruship, not necessarily innovation but pro-trying-new-fads.

Mastodon is clearly a majority lefty crowd, climate concious, hence by default against LLMs.

And I'm saying this as a lefty who uses Cursor to try ideas.

https://maikel.dev/i-tried-cursor-and-im-not-worried/

@mhoye
nice. i grew up on dos, so only learned cd and dir as kid.

for a file system level undo, you could sneak some git add and commit stuff into the shell prompt function; and then alias "undo" to go one back, like "git reset --hard HEAD@{1}" or whatever.

or it could have a save-game like interface. a git interface for kids could be a thing. i remember saves being helpful as a kid playing wolfenstein 3d and commander keen.

but of course there will still be no way to undo commands like "sendmail".

but they help their victimizers by remaining willfully and gleefully ignorant—ABOUT EVERYTHING!

Who wants to bet that @malikia_ismyname didn’t even know those books were on the banned list. Because she read some stupid meme on the internet and was just SURE it must be true becomes Moms for Liberty said so!

These people may be a kind of victim, …

https://stzl.ink/fuwm00

#fightforgood

Tim Sweeney is defending the production of CSAM.

Tim Sweeney is the CEO of Epic Games, the publisher of Fortnite.

Fortnite is a game targeted at children.

If the CEO of a game targeted at children is defending the production of CSAM, I have some -very- specific questions about his motivations in doing so.

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/epic-games-ceo-tim-sweeney-argues-banning-twitter-over-its-ability-to-ai-generate-pornographic-images-of-minors-is-just-gatekeepers-attempting-to-censor-all-of-their-political-opponents/

@kepano Is it practical to automatically delete notes when creating them and then not using them? I always end up with Untitled and Untitled 2 and Untitled 3 kicking about my inbox — "delete any note with a title matching /^Untitled( \d+)?$/ and no content" would fix that right up

@maikel England. About 30,000 homes in Sussex and Kent - including us - are without water, and have been for several days.

@RiversideBryan

Duck 1: Where did you get that dress

Duck 2: KFC.

@hedders what country is this?

@ErickaSimone Anthrax and Public Enemy took less than three minutes to define the next 20 years.

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#BBC Allen too good for Williams at Masters, Zhao also through https://w.st/voh33

#BBC Spurs set to beat Villa to £35m Gallagher https://w.st/9U6om

#BBC Police to no longer have routine access to rape victims' counselling notes https://w.st/EjQC7