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SA’s biggest data centre ‘monster’ set to consume 25% of Durban’s electricity Durban is pressing ahead with plans to build a massive 400MW artificial intelligence data centre in partnership with a South Korean power consortium. It would be South Africa’s biggest digital data ce...

What the fuck? Why the hell do we want a fucking AI data centre here?

www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

05.03.2026 08:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It appears that Microslop have stopped adding any new features to VS Code unless it's related to AI Slop generation. Maybe it's time they change its name to VS CodeSlop...

05.03.2026 05:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

CoD. 😏

01.03.2026 07:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Fibermaxxing Is a Diet Trend Even Nutritionists Can Love Fiber-boosted sodas, mac and cheese, and even candy are showing up on supermarket shelves.

Oh we doin shitmaxxing now

26.02.2026 15:53 👍 196 🔁 29 💬 21 📌 18

I'm correcting people who misspell "afternoonclub". 😬

21.02.2026 18:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

A new season of Scrubs is starting on Disney+ on Thursday, with all the same actors! 😱

21.02.2026 16:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Relooted: the South African video game where players take back artefacts from western museums Creators say they’re offering Africans a ‘hopeful, utopian feeling’ of retrieving objects looted by colonial armies

Relooted: the South African video game where players take back artefacts from western museums

21.02.2026 11:09 👍 275 🔁 96 💬 5 📌 13

It turns out that "misconduct in public office" is not nearly as interesting as "misconduct in A public office". 😏

20.02.2026 06:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So commoner guy Andrew was arrested for "misconduct in public office" and not for being a pedophile? 🤔

20.02.2026 04:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I was 3 days early. 😂

bsky.app/profile/paul...

19.02.2026 16:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Let me get this straight - a slop PR submitted by an AI agent doesn't get merged, it gets morged? Did I get it right?

18.02.2026 11:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The retro pixel art aesthetic in video games is so last year - the new in thing (according to me, so it's legit) is the segmented LCD style, like the early Nintendo Game & Watch handhelds.

17.02.2026 06:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I found out about this when I saw a post about "fixing people's accents" - people can't seem to appreciate the effort non-English speakers go to in order to provide content for people who think there's only one spoken language. 🤬

17.02.2026 04:04 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

Ah, thank you, this is what I want - the ability to turn it off on MY content, as well as any content that I watch.

17.02.2026 04:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

OMG - Lemmings is 35 years old. 😲

16.02.2026 16:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I suppose large projects could have a list of regular trusted contributers and any PR from someone not on the list goes into the low priority list. It sucks for first time contributers, but LLM slop is spoiling things for everyone. Or, we give Godot more money to hire more people to work on it. 😃

16.02.2026 11:36 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Listen idiots - if you don't like web components don't use them and move along. If you're a framework author you don't have to support web components if you don't want to; just move along and stop whining about it.

16.02.2026 05:53 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

South African yes, but he's not an Afrikaner.

15.02.2026 17:49 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The placeholder logo for a game called "Biovania: Origins" showing the game name in gradient text surrounded by gooey red tentacles and some mech thing.

The placeholder logo for a game called "Biovania: Origins" showing the game name in gradient text surrounded by gooey red tentacles and some mech thing.

Sneak Peek!

15.02.2026 07:16 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

It's interesting how nobody really cares about Pluralsight anymore...

14.02.2026 16:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm not a sane person, btw.

14.02.2026 06:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The first episode will be - "Why a sane person should never try to create a metroidvania". 😂

14.02.2026 05:14 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Sadly, that will never happen - when profit is the only motive and funding comes from investors there is zero artistic freedom. Luckily indie game developers have found that sweet spot that appeals to gamers and Steam does an amazing job of supporting the indie market. 😊

14.02.2026 04:16 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm seriously considering making a YouTube video series on my metroidvania game development progress...

13.02.2026 16:00 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

Sadly the ST was never available in South Africa (that I know of) - only the classic consoles made it here.

13.02.2026 03:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It's been downhill ever since the Amiga 500, tbh.

12.02.2026 18:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It makes our Zuma years seem normal.

12.02.2026 18:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The bench looks like it was left in the sun in Durban for 10 minutes. 😂

09.02.2026 18:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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BREAKING | John Steenhuisen to withdraw from DA's leadership race Reports indicate that DA Federal leader John Steenhuisen will not contest the upcoming leadership race.

Hahahahahahahaha 🤣🤣🤣

iol.co.za/news/politic...

03.02.2026 13:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

One thing I really like about the Godot game engine is the fact that they simply refuse to add any AI integration bullshit to the core product.

03.02.2026 12:27 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0