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An ode to bzip
Link: https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/an-ode-to-bzip/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47377998
Hey companies, please fck off 😽
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RE: https://bigshoulders.city/@EvanHahn/116229052346589052
Probably going to implement this for my website, too. Seems easy to do especially because I keep all my follows on Mastodon and RSS in an OPML. Lots of vouches get added to the network :)
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New blogpost (on new blog!):
# Moving my static site blog generator from hugo to BSSG
My notes on setting up BSSG, and migrating from hugo, along with copies of my config files, css, and customised header.
With many thanks to 
@stefanoStefano Marinelli, for sharing his amazing site building tool with us.
https://neilzone.co.uk/2026/03/moving-my-static-site-blog-generator-from-hugo-to-bssg/
One thing about me: I LOVE #trains.
And so does the #EU.
From the high speed rail plan to passenger rights legislation, #EUPolicy touches #transport policy in countless ways.
I’m preparing a deep dive on trains next.
Is there anything you want to know more about? Ask me questions, tell me fun facts.
Trump, the big man, reduced to begging the allies he’s been shitting on for the last year to help him out with his Epstein War.
Australia can send AUKUS submarines, when they’re ready.
Everyone else can wait until Trump’s tariffs are removed, and until he ceases threatening to annex Canada and Greenland, and until he stops destroying our shared atmosphere, then offer any help he may require.
Heading to the UN Global Fraud Summit in Vienna. When I do wear ties, I make sure to represent strong encryption and the Rebellion... never know when you will need to crack a code or take down an empire.
I ran a few 86Box virtual machines on the MacBook Neo to check out its emulation capabilities. Everything works quite nicely, from discovering my existing retro machines, running all kinds of DOS games, MT-32 music emulation, even the floppy drive sounds.
The emulation performance seems to be very respectable for an A18Pro iPhone chip. I went through several virtual systems, from a slow 386SX all the way up to a Pentium MMX 233MHz and even, just for testing, a Pentium II 300MHz. The performance meter never dipped below 100% and everything did work as expected. I believe, this is VERY good news for retro gaming on this budget MacBook.
Conclusion: I'm very happy!
#RetroGaming #MacBookNeo #MacGaming #86Box #Emulation #Apple #MacBook #AppleA18Pro #Retro #Gaming #DOSGaming #Win95 #Windows95
@promoviczprom™️ It is now, Witch Prom 🤘
@Em0nM4stodonEm 
you might know: in German the feminine word for “hacker” is “Häckse”, which is often pronounced like “Hexe” (witch).
Been struggling to post as of late cause everything going on in the world is sad and everything going on in my life is gay and I don't just want to be posting sad and gay shit all the time lol
Oooo just thought of a 4th option. Running this poll again:
So... how's it going?
I ran a few 86Box virtual machines on the MacBook Neo to check out its emulation capabilities. Everything works quite nicely, from discovering my existing retro machines, running all kinds of DOS games, MT-32 music emulation, even the floppy drive sounds.
The emulation performance seems to be very respectable for an A18Pro iPhone chip. I went through several virtual systems, from a slow 386SX all the way up to a Pentium MMX 233MHz and even, just for testing, a Pentium II 300MHz. The performance meter never dipped below 100% and everything did work as expected. I believe, this is VERY good news for retro gaming on this budget MacBook.
Conclusion: I'm very happy!
#RetroGaming #MacBookNeo #MacGaming #86Box #Emulation #Apple #MacBook #AppleA18Pro #Retro #Gaming #DOSGaming #Win95 #Windows95
Megadev: A Development Kit for the Sega Mega Drive and Mega CD Hardware
Link: https://github.com/drojaazu/megadev
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47374745
https://zeitgeist.blue is a multi-social-network app that summarizes your feed for the last 24 hours to let you catch up with doomscrolling. Now with support for Mastodon!
Heading to the UN Global Fraud Summit in Vienna. When I do wear ties, I make sure to represent strong encryption and the Rebellion... never know when you will need to crack a code or take down an empire.
Because the world is a nightmare, today will be spent with cute puppies on laps and going to the museum.
Because the world is a nightmare, today will be spent with cute puppies on laps and going to the museum.
Thinking about that time someone called me a "sweet summer child" and I very much feel like calling me a "bitter winter elder" would be so much more appropriate.
@Em0nM4stodonEm as a manthing I’m kinda proud I get called “witch”. it’s a title, isn’t it!?
#LastMealoftheDay #vegan
Heute one-pot-Pasta.
Uff, war das yammy 😋
Zitronen-Spaghetti mit Spinat, Kokosmilch & Gemüsebrühe.
tired: cellphone
wired: shellphone
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:puz6ma7m6lkjyw7ifpuvkhxw/post/3mgzstk4b7s22
My brofur 
@floofJean Luc Floofymaster Picard making sure we know where all the birbs and buns are in the yard #caturday fun #pets #cats #catsofmastodon #fedicats
Meanwhile, I'm out taking my trombone to the repair shop and the guy says "so, you want to see something an old lady brought into the shop from the depths of her closet last week?"
And there it was.... a *MINT* 1970s King 3B with original packing materials and owners manual. Looks never played. The holy grail of jazz trombones. It's now mine. Naturally.
Thinking about that time someone called me a "sweet summer child" and I very much feel like calling me a "bitter winter elder" would be so much more appropriate.
Ah the French. There ain’t a colonial enterprise they don’t like.
A few months ago, a Canadian judge got her #amazon , #google , #uber, credit cards accounts, etc. closed.
She was doing her job investigating war crimes made in Afghanistan, including by the #USA
That offended Americans. They decided to close all her accounts, which they have control over.
I'm expecting this behavior to become more and more common.
This is why #canada should work on #digitalsovereignty
I hope something brings you as much joy as churus bring Armani
When lawmakers and advocacy groups frame queer existence itself as a threat to young people, age-verification laws become ideological enforcement instead of regulatory policy. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/rep-finke-was-right-age-gating-isnt-about-kids-its-about-control
“AI-powered writing tools are increasingly integrated into our e-mails and phones. Now a new study finds biased AI suggestions can sway users’ beliefs”
“We told people before, and after, to be careful, that the AI is going to be (or was) biased, and nothing helped,” Naaman said. “Their attitudes about the issues still shifted.”
A few months ago, a Canadian judge got her #amazon , #google , #uber, credit cards accounts, etc. closed.
She was doing her job investigating war crimes made in Afghanistan, including by the #USA
That offended Americans. They decided to close all her accounts, which they have control over.
I'm expecting this behavior to become more and more common.
This is why #canada should work on #digitalsovereignty
I'm writing this in English.
Not because English is my first language—it isn't. I'm writing this in English because if I wrote it in Korean, the people I'm addressing would run it through an outdated translator, misread it, and respond to something I never said. The responsibility for that mistranslation would fall on me. It always does.
This is the thing Eugen Rochko's post misses, despite its good intentions.
@GargronEugen Rochko argues that LLMs are no substitute for human translators, and that people who think otherwise don't actually rely on translation. He's right about some of this. A machine-translated novel is not the same as one rendered by a skilled human translator. But the argument rests on a premise that only makes sense from a certain position: that translation is primarily about quality, about the aesthetic experience of reading literature in another language.
For many of us, translation is first about access.
The professional translation market doesn't scale to cover everything. It never has. What gets translated—and into which languages—follows the logic of cultural hegemony. Works from dominant Western languages flow outward, translated into everything. Works from East Asian languages trickle in, selectively, slowly, on someone else's schedule. The asymmetry isn't incidental; it's structural.
@GargronEugen Rochko notes, fairly, that machine translation existed decades before LLMs. But this is only half the story, and which half matters depends entirely on which languages you're talking about. European language pairs were reasonably serviceable with older tools. Korean–English, Japanese–English, Chinese–English? Genuinely usable translation for these pairs arrived with the LLM era. Treating “machine translation” as a monolithic technology with a uniform history erases the experience of everyone whose language sits far from the Indo-European center.
There's also something uncomfortable in the framing of the button-press thought experiment: “I would erase LLMs even if it took machine translation with it.” For someone whose language has always been peripheral, that button looks very different. It's not an abstract philosophical position; it's a statement about whose access to information is expendable.
I want to be clear: none of this is an argument that LLMs are good, or that the harms @GargronEugen Rochko describes aren't real. They are. But a critique of AI doesn't become more universal by ignoring whose languages have always been on the margins. If anything, a serious critique of AI's political economy should be more attentive to those asymmetries, not less.
The fact that I'm writing this in English, carefully, so it won't be misread—that's not incidental to my argument. That is my argument.
Thirty years ago today, Apple announced the #MessagePad 130, the first #NewtonOS device to offer a transflective LCD display with electroluminescent backlighting.
Völlig unparteiisches Foto-Material zur laufenden Abstimmung im #TierTurnier
Aktuell führt die EULE vor der Katze 👀
https://troet.cafe/@TierTurnier/116229066176168766
Hello 🌘
How are you today?
There has been a very impressive sandstorm in Khan Yunis #Gaza #Palestine today. The photos are beautiful, but everyone is scared to go out, or to breathe unhealthy air. This is very rare, it only happens once every few years. I hope it doesn’t last for long.
With the war in Iran, Israel closed the Rafah crossing again, which caused panic buying in Gaza. Now markets have empty stalls.
Please help us 🫂💔🌙⭐️
👉 https://gofund.me/e4c7d56a4
With all my love for you.
先週迂闊に買ったすっとこはもっと安くなってました。ほっとこ。
Show HN: GitAgent – An open standard that turns any Git repo into an AI agent
Link: https://www.gitagent.sh/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47376584
Thirty years ago today, Apple announced the #MessagePad 130, the first #NewtonOS device to offer a transflective LCD display with electroluminescent backlighting.
月1度$100分やらせてもらってる副業()のおちんぎんは$90強振り込まれてくるので所得税が州と連邦と合わせて10%弱くらいなんだろうなあってわかりやすい
There is a BOF session today on Fediverse events. I think it would make a lot of sense to have a Task Force of the Social Web Community Group focused on the Event schema in #ActivityPub.
If you are a US citizen and plan to vote, now is the time to get a passport. A copy of your US birth certificate is a good idea too. Or, you might not be able to register and #vote.
<- have a cirlce
Very cool. https://fed.brid.gy allows to set the handle of the bridged account to a custom domain. I am now @ayo.run on https://bsky.app/profile/ayo.run
A warm blanket, catlap, and a view or the snow. What an excellent start to #Caturday
ran into zohran just now while getting coffee. really nice guy. ironically this was the playlist i was listening to
Kaito
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
wakest ⁂
Onestacked
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