That’s what I was here to post.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/

The archive.is and archive.today sites have been caught changing text of articles to fit the Russian narrative.

I can’t say I know of an alternative.

Build the mass transit first, then the apartments make sense.

It also seems like somewhat reasonable anti-malware practices, for the most part. They want a government ID if you’re going to push kernel level drivers. They have a process for doing so.

Could have been smoother, such as allowing them to recover their existing account.

I’ve heard great things about Malazan. I should probably pick that up.

Sanderson is a great airport read.

I wouldn’t recommend it outside of that context. It’s nothing special.

This isn’t helpful.

They knew. Not all the details, but this much was clear.

How big of a hit was BttF in Russia?

I understand the intent, but this is not phrased well.

prevents your messages being spied on by Signal, but ironically they’re probably one of the most trustworthy actors in this whole chain, so the fact that it’s protected from them, while commendable, is not particularly valuable security

It’s extremely valuable security, because most companies, even if they don’t want to spy on you might be compelled to by court order. And those companies often think their security is sufficient because they have good intentions, and they expect the government to have good intentions when they’re going as far as getting a court order. (I also suspect more court orders are justified than not, but a few bad subpoenas spoil the bunch.) The fact that they physically are unable is quite important.

All your points about how things around that can fail are valid.

I will say that double posting is a completely reasonable solution. More orgs should be the gateway where they can be seen, and have the visibility of the big platforms, but they also offer Mastodon as an alternative. If enough orgs do that, it enables people to just… move.

It’s hard for users to move when 75% of their content is exclusive to X. And it’s hard for orgs to move when 75% of the users are on X. Double posting allows this to move to 10% X exclusive content, 60% content that’s available everywhere, and 10% exclusive to open platforms. After the orgs move the content, it’s so much easier for users to move, and after the users move, it’s easier for the orgs to move.

This should be a cooperative thing. And afaik it doesn’t take that much effort to post the content to two places.

The US would lose, no chance.

Maybe we haven’t been losing enough. Our losers might want to lose more bigly.

We’re getting away from “speak softly and carry a big stick.” We’re more interested now in yelling loudly while shooting ourselves in the foot.

Hopefully things are better in a year.

It’s likely they see it as one harmless comment and not the pattern and culture that it is.

Yeah, I don’t plan to leave in two years, so I’m motivated to not say “oh fuck” when I have to maintain the thing I built later.

Plus, you know, I don’t want people to groan when they have to work on my code.

You fucking idiot.

Is this referencing a specific game?

It’s almost like there should be a human in the loop to guide and review what the ai is doing.

The thing works a lot better when I give it smaller chunks of work that I know are possible. Works best when I know how to implement it myself and it just saves me from looking up all the syntax.

People have trouble with the middle ground. AI is useful in coding. It’s not a full replacement. That should be fine, except you’ve got the ai techbros and CEOs on one end thinking it will replace all labor, and the you’ve got the backlash to that on the other end that want to constantly talk about how useless it is.

I think he used to care more. I’d also say he was never a good engineer, but he was better at learning what his top engineers were trying to show him and pushing through answers that made sense.

He’s since lost any of that touch with reality. The engineers he listened to said no too much. He found right-wing grifters that are now teaching him, and they say “no” a whole lot less than the engineers did.

Would you enjoy being a garbage man or a plumber? Or is that work you’re saving for others to enjoy?

Doctors make good money and we don’t have enough of them because it takes so much time and dedication. You think getting rid of money would help there?

Do kids need to go to school? Five days a week?