Behind the scenes

We had created 3 phased and then run out of time and therefore left the site open ended. People discussed in forums that there were still level 4.5.6 and 7 to be discovered on the site. The narrative of donniedarko.com has created its own legend. We produced a lot of satellite sites to enhance the online experience - which has become one of our trademarks. So we faked malfunction and received emails to the "Webmaster" which we then answered as characters from the film…

The schizo foid seems fun:

Why i@am shadow banned. I show and expose truth 👾 alien flying part 1 pic.twitter.com/EWrPicPkBq

— Niurka Lopez (@NiurkaLope84627) January 1, 2025

Most of the time on rDrama (I think only when replying to a comment?) on this shitty tablet, the bar where it shows the suggestions for the next word instantly shrinks down to a sliver a few pixels tall. Then as soon as you scroll it disappears completely.

So I guess I'll fiddle with the zoom settings but if that doesn't work, it's not really practical to have a conversation. I can still send postcards from the grippysock jail.

It won't suggest the next word. At least it wouldn't until that last sentence.

• The Follow limit ratio doesn't work. You cannot follow any accounts outside of initial setup, the error message says you need to add a phone number but that doesn't fix it.

• Even if someone follows you, you can't follow them back

• Too much engagement with others, even likes, will get you permabanned for "inauthentic activity".

• Ban appeals go straight into the void, you don't even get email confirmations anymore

• You cannot deactivate suspended accounts, despite this being very illegal in the EU and other markets

• While the For You page is full of bot spam and FB-tier slop, the only bots being banned are normal users

Not only is this happening to me, this even happened to a boomer relative who just wants to watch Tucker.

Whatever Elon worshippers and pajeets are left only care about working on new features like X Money and let basic maintenance slip to the point where it's basically impossible for new accounts to actually engage with their platform. Musk is a fricking r-slur.

Can you imagine these puppies were just $120k a few weeks ago? Look at how cheap they still are!

Cloudflare is responsible for one of the worst security disasters in internet history[1]

We tried to use your product and had non-stop incidents and had to move off.

We mitigate DDoS attacks you proxy to us daily (you’re slow).

Despite your constant cheap shots, we’re…

— Guillermo Rauch (@rauchg) March 22, 2025

Just to make it concrete, you might tell a coding agent something like, "Here is JIRA ticket #<number>; please go fix it." That is all you would need to say. The agent would first try hard to get access to the JIRA ticket: it might look for the JIRA command-line tool, maybe even asking you if it can download it. It could even write a throwaway program for itself to fetch the ticket fields programmatically. We see them write throwaway programs pretty often.</number>

Once the agent can read the ticket, it uses cowtools on your machine, examining your code just like you would, to track your bug down. It asks you for permissions for each tool – one of the biggest slowdowns in the process today. Once the agent finds the bug, it will propose a fix, write tests to verify the fix, run those tests, and make any other changes necessary to get the tests passing – all in a loop without needing you, for the most part.

These new coding agents can solve huge issues, create even bigger messes, and generally behave like a supernaturally fast human developer who's always flying a little blind and a little behind schedule.

A junior dev with no context who can frick up our codebase with supernatural speed? Just what I've always needed!

To put it more bluntly: Software development is now a pay-to-play bullet train. If you can't afford a ticket, you risk getting red-shifted away from the pack.

As long as it's still called Gimp, it will never have a place on my laptop. Grow the frick up, Linux nerds. Names matter.

The program's full name is GNU Image Manipulation Program. What else do you suggest we call it you woke snowflake?

If I was a woke snowflake, I wouldn't object to it being called GIMP. It's only Linux that has this much trouble going through puberty; and the only reason they get away with naming things like a sniggering teenager is because the product is free. If it cost any money at all, nobody would buy it.

!bharatiya nobody likes you

Google forgot to donate Trump $10M

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1jiezw6/google_must_divest_the_chrome_browser_doj_renews/

Phoronix cooments

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1jhcfbj/reactos_0415_released/

https://old.reddit.com/r/reactos/comments/1jgupb5/reactos_0415_released_with_tons_of_enhancements/

https://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/104804643

#ReactOS 0.4.15 is released!!!
Read the announcement and download here:https://t.co/YjokCMr2VN

— ReactOS (@reactos) March 21, 2025

ReactOS 0.4.15 Released For This "Open-Source Windows" OS With Tons Of Enhancementshttps://t.co/BVm5yB9WJ9

— Phoronix (@phoronix) March 21, 2025

!poll_voters !codecels !reposters !rottingcorpses !peakpoors !millenials !bluecollar !ebayers

surely this will have no negative effect on literally everyone in the world

Where it started (I think?), note the incrementing user names:

Random sperging before the flood:

He's now up to bschmidt1003.

They say: "... it would be inappropriate to make any change without clear evidence of a direct issue"

However, the threat is real:

"Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government"

- Executive Order, January 20th 2025

French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found

- The Guardian, March 19th 2025

The IETF Administration LLC has decided to continue to hold meetings in the US, in spite of significant threats to the safety of the community in traveling there. As an Internet community we strive to include everyone. Holding a meeting in the US is incompatible with our values. We call on the IETF community to refuse to travel to the 127th IETF meeting, to be held in San Francisco.

I understand the sentiment that the Trump administration is draconian, especially for people traveling from abroad considering the new border policy. But, pardon me, how is that executive order about sex a "threat"? Listed as the top issue undermines the credibility of this petition I think.

This website mixes some very real and very big problems (erosion of basic freedoms and rights in the US) with some entirely hallucinated ones (concentration camps for people with ADHD, and torture? I'd certainly want to learn more about that than a passing mention).

https://9to5mac.com/2025/03/19/plex-price-increase-remote-streaming-changes/

What is ACARS Drama?

A question I've been asked a few times since I took a little project I had for a year or so operating privately under my desk, and turned it into a social media bot.

When an aircraft is flying overhead, various radio signals are being transmitted and received by said aircraft constantly. Some examples of the radio signals, of course, are voice communications between pilots and air traffic controllers, that most people are familiar with. These are, of course, critical for safety, and ensuring planes are at the right altitude, going in the right direction, and at the right speed.

In addition to voice, there are also a boat-load, well, plane-load I guess, of data signals. Amongst these data signals are the two types of signal that feed the bot's insatiable thirst for drama. They are ACARS and VDLM2.