Emacs Unofficial

gimmick blog run by @aDivineDragoness pronouns: she/her tends to reblog a lot Blog not affiliatet with the FSF or the GNU Project

[emacs-unofficial]

From where I post

[fuck-customers]

[magnetictapedatastorage]

I Watched a 55-Year-Old Law Break the AI Hiring Industry — And It Was Overdue

The Eightfold AI lawsuit exposed what happens when companies treat employment decisions like ad targeting — and why the fix requires enginee

a bit more context

[nyancrimew]

maias Club 27

i turn 27 years old in less than a month!! to celebrate my last year as an it girl i am putting on a big party at klub kegelbahn in lucerne. come join me and the following fantastic lineup in the night of the 7th of august (starting 23:59)

nyancrimew

kalixys

asselqueenz

alan walker boymoder

this party is RSVP only, so rsvp here to be a part of it (please be aware that this is an in person event in lucerne, switzerland. only rsvp if you are confident you can make it)! entry is pay what you want and can <3 the event is 18+ since it is happening at a club

note: parts of this event will be filmed for a documentary, attending is not automatic consent to be in the film and you can opt out from appearing in any of the footage. more information about this will be available at the event.

Club 27 RSVP

RSVP to maia arson crimew's IN PERSON 27th birthday!! wow !! crazy stuff really

[nyancrimew]

RSVP NOWWW!!! THERR ARE STILL MANY SLOTS BUT LETS FILL THE CLUB!!!

[witchofanguish]

[mahead-ithurt]

Always remember that the EU did a study in 2013 about the effects of piracy on media publishers and found that there is no correlation between piracy and sales! (And then they tried to hide that study bc that's not the result they wanted)

So piracy is at worst not even a problem, and at best it's free advertisement.

Source: (the link to the actual study is in the article)

EU withheld a study that shows piracy doesn't hurt sales - Engadget

In 2013, the European Commission ordered a €360,000 ($430,000) study on how piracy affects sales of music, books, movies and games in the EU

[rabbitindisguise]

Plus this one:

Study Again Shows 'Pirates' Tend to Be The Biggest Buyers of Legal Content

A new report out of the UK once again deflates the common narrative that pirates are exclusively looking to obtain free stuff.

[visenyaism]

Honestly fuck AI for making me have to go on and on defending the dignity of toil like I’m some kind of protestant

[galileosballs]

Let's say I really wanted to reduce the number of children who die in car accidents. Car accidents are really bad, right? Nobody disagrees about that. And it would be much better for both the environment and the kids' health if they spent more time walking, or taking the bus. Perfectly reasonable. More cars off the road, safer roads, fewer kids getting hurt, healthier kids. A win-win!

Therefore, let's ban children from traveling by car and require all cars to have a scanner on the door that scans the government ID of everyone who gets in the car to make sure no kids are in there. After all, kids get hurt in car accidents all the time! We need to ban this right away!

[bugged-ubuntu]

Does anyone I follow or who follows me watch LTT still in 2026?

I just kind of can't stand the channel anymore, and I've been done with it for a while. All of the recent layoffs and quits from the channel would have sealed the deal had it not been sealed already. They're so out of touch with any demographic I can conceive of, they recommend shit too expensive for the tech novice/entry enthusiast, and too shitty and tacky for the tech professional, it feels like they cater to the PC equivalent of the car guys who spend $10,000 more on a car for a chrome badge with the letter "s" and an exhaust system that makes their car 40dB louder.

What really gets my goat is Linus's insistence that adblockers = piracy. If I asked a friend to black out the ads in a magazine with a sharpie, would that be piracy? Is pressing the left arrow key five times at the start of a video or clicking onto another one before the end-credit ad rolls piracy? Is muting my audio, or turning my head, or throwing something on the stove during an ad piracy?

If I couldn't use an adblocker I wouldn't use youtube. Even with one I'm kind of over the platform. I own an LTT screwdriver, and in high school I had a WAN show t-shirt (haven't owned it in years, thank god), and if it weren't for adblockers I wouldn't have purchased either. If they could really convince me that adblockers = piracy, I'd gladly take a $90 refund for the screwdriver and tshirt and mail them a check for the $0.68 lost from me not contributing to their ad revenue.

[rubylang-official]

I stopped around a year ago. Mostly cause I started being bored by their videos, not seeing any new insight or anything, just videos.

I did also stop after seeing how strange their company can be with the layoffs and the stuff said on WAN, but generally it was just the boringness of it all.

[thememedaddy]

[emacs-unofficial]

#“yeah; i shut my computer down every night.” #uptime: 1900 years <-prev

Windows "Fast Boot" does that. Stupid thing exists since I think early Windows 10, only putting the OS in hybernation when pressing shutdown.

[netscapenavigator-official]

Installing apps on…

macOS: I’m just a single isolated package! Just drag and drop me to your “Applications” folder to install me. Don’t want me anymore? Right click my icon and put me in the trash. All gone!

Linux: Want me installed? Ask the package manager. Want me uninstalled? Package manager. Got an AppImage? Just click it to run, then trash it to uninstall. Easy peasy.

Windows: I am going to infect your file directories and registry like the roots of a bamboo tree. You will never fully remove me. Go ahead and try the “uninstall” button in settings. I fucking dare you. You can remove the executable, but you will never fully remove me. I am infinite, and I will outlive Microsoft Inc. ten fold. Fuck you.

[sw360]

This totally checks out folks! * Windows Seems To Always Make Things....far...far more complicated then it needs to be.

[spinejackel]

I recently found my “gold” hammer after misplacing it. It’s my favorite tool ever because it looks like a regular hammer trying to be fancy,

but then you twist both halves and unscrew it to find a flat-head screwdriver in the middle.

BUT, if you twist the very end and unscrew that

you find a phillips screwdriver.

BUT DON’T THINK THAT’S ALL THERE IS! THERE’S MORE!! unscrew the very end again to find a smaller flat-head screwdriver!

BUT THAT’S STILL NOT THE END!!

unscrew the end of this screwdriver to find a final, teeny tiny, flat-head screwdriver

look at how cute it is!

it’s like a matryoshka doll of tools.

[xeno-lalia]

I have one of these and I keep it in my IT toolkit because that teeny little screwdriver is the right side for laptop casings, but because it lives inside a large object it’s harder to misplace than a standard tiny screwdriver. Also because the look on a client’s face when you bring out a brass hammer to fix their laptop is absolutely wild.

[brandinotbroke]

microslop is currently feuding with some nerd and it's the funniest thing ever

basically, some guy called nightmare-eclipse has found several zero-day exploits in windows and at first contacted microsoft about it but they kept ignoring him (even though they have a bug bounty program, so technically they have to pay him a grant for finding these)

so then he started posting them publicly whenever he found any in hopes of microsoft finally fixing them that way, but of course that leaves windows users vulnerable, because now not-so-nice hackers can see exactly how they can use those exploits. He has found FOUR so far and microsoft did nothing about it.

microsoft then deleted the guy's gitlab account and sued him, after which he said they should mark july 14th in their calender because he is done playing nice and is going to "shatter their bones"

[wuwojiti]

this blog does not stand for webp slander

[wuwojiti]

history will vindicate me

[saturniandragon]

A new method for bypassing face scan age verifications.

PrivacyPuppet — Interactive 3D Avatar

Real-time interactive 3D human avatar with face tracking, blinking, and jaw animation. Built by PrivacyPuppet.

Interactive 3D avatar viewer with real-time head tracking, jaw animation, and idle breathing. Built with Next.js, React Three Fiber, and Thr

This should work on any web browser.

Use your mouse to control the head angle. Press M to toggle mouth open/close.

Don't forget to press I in order to hide your cursor and the surrounding UI elements.

It may or may not work on all sites, but worth a try.

Stay safe.

[vergess]

(That's an uppercase i to hide the UI, not a lower case L)

[hypermediagirl]

HTML for People

HTML isn't only for people working in the tech field. It's for everyone. Learn how to make a website from scratch in this beginner friendly

if you're learning HTML for any reason, i can't recommend HTML for people highly enough. it's a fantastic introduction to HTML and CSS targeted towards beginners who aren't technically inclined, and it isn't patronizing towards the reader for that. it's a very relaxed and kind (but informative) resource that even i reference from time to time (and i consider myself pretty good with semantic HTML).

definitely check it out if you're interested in making a personal site, or working with HTML at all.

[dailyshowchica]

Oh, yeah, this is EXACTLY what I need!

[cutecipher]

the increasingly rare correct hacker news comment

[waistdeepcat]

I switched out a CPU today and took a quick picture. but the sunlight hit it just right so it looks really artistic

[glavilio]

*using mac* i'm a sleek corporate IT milf email whisperer with a microchip on my shoulder and a motherboard of gold. the glass ceiling has been shattered. we're a family. user centered design. i am steve jobs

*using linux* i'm a freakkyy goth hacker chick about to get my dick suxxed cyber style. superuser do me and she barely GNU me. i'm ready to put my therian life on-the-line for free and open source software. rawr

*using windows* i'm in hell