realised today I'd never actually seen raiders of the lost ark, very surreal experience watching a film you've already seen referenced to death, which is why you thought you'd already seen it

"all hands on the bad one" is a christmas album

you will be visited by three spirits

all my uncs chopped

free product idea: tiny tim tams

there a lot of valid reasons for a story to reference something else but a couple recent examples have irritated me by using a reference to just straight-up tell you what the thing is going to do or be about: the ricky jay poster in "wake up dead man" and the "left hand of darkness" ref in pluribus

pretty sure this is a chapter of ulysses

maybe usb4 will be better

I have just zeroed out the drive from my old pc and all the files are still on it

update: this has now resulted in one of my partner's xmas gifts being spoiled

today in heisenbugs: - usb drive starts connecting as soon as I start watching dmesg - office chair stops squeaking as soon as I go to buy wd40

at some point I missed that JS string iteration goes by unicode codepoint so you don't need to deal with surrogate pairs any more

played "year walk" via the simogo legacy collection. really enjoyed the general vibe but found some of the necessary inputs somewhat obtuse on a controller. not helped by guides not making sense because a bunch of content was changed or cut from earlier versions it seems

probably could have figured this out on paper first but turns out zeroing out a 2tb disk over usb2 takes a looong time

chrome, it's not a popup if I've explicitly requested that a link be opened in a new tab

I can be trusted with the lathe owing to the simple expedient that I never sleep

bari weiss you would love running a british newspaper

clearing out a bunch of old computers and hard drives at the moment; what does it mean if you plug in an external hard drive and it doesn't show up? not just doesn't mount, but doesn't show up in /dev

a small and pretty fast constant time base64 codec in javascript github.com/escodb/buffe...

youtube is absolutely lousy with "<work of fiction> explained" videos that literally just read you a plot summary and don't offer any analysis or interpretation. who is this content for

a small and pretty fast constant time base64 codec in javascript github.com/escodb/buffe...

I wanted to get a new abacus but they're way too expensive now after the local haruspex bought up all the beads to invent a new method of scrying

noticing an uptick in the number of clout farming resistlib follow-spam accounts following me for some reason

jesus christ kibty.town/blog/mintlify/

I'm out here writing a constant time base64 decoder for my hobby project encrypted doc store while Big Serious Company Products have the most trivial security flaws you have ever seen in every single layer of their stack. make it make sense

jesus christ kibty.town/blog/mintlify/

can anyone tell me if this runs better on a macbook air than the steam deck

oh god

the genAI code assistant landscape is really messing with my "can't tell things apart when the have the same first letter" thing. copilot claude code cline cursor these are all the same to me

hauntology is when there's ghosts

who the hell decided it was ok for substack authors to subscribe whoever they like to their mailing list. cursed platform, stop using it

doing the "it's impossible to say" meme about millions of people not being able to afford basic sustenance

question for people who play games: was the witness ground breaking when it came out? hard for me to tell b/c I didn't play a lot of games at the time and picked it up due to a bunch of programmer friends being into it having now played a lot more games, the pedestal jblow's been put on is baffling

this is what OpenID was originally before it eventually led us towards "log in with facebook"

same. sounds life changing tbqh

seen this post in passing several times today and only just clocked who wrote the article. incredible stuff

btw I hope the success of citizen sleeper gets more attention on gareth's earlier game "in other waters" which I think is a good example of breaking out of this pattern and not having the player be the main character of reality

the fact that it's so common for videogames to have the player identify with the protagonist, in fact making the protagonist an avatar for the player, really limits what they can do as a storytelling medium, and I really appreciate when games break out of that pattern

roman abacus operators freaking out when modus ponens gets invented

who called it a bank vault and not a crypt o' currency

I hate when something "augurs poorly"

reactionaries: the west should be like the roman empire (complimentary) leftists: the west *is* like the roman empire (derogatory)

I love to buy something from what I believe is an independent retailer and then find out it's just amazon wearing a scooby doo disguise

why is chrome's downloads UI so terrible. it's barely perceptible that it's even doing anything any more so you end up with 3 copies of the same file in ~/Downloads, which good luck knowing that's where your file is

brokencloudstorage.info missed a chance to title itself "not my storage, not my privkeys"

onclick="this.value &= 0"

cannot emphasize enough how much this stuff does not belong in a security critical application like a browser. putting intermediaries between the user and the websites they visit should get you classed as malware

does this chart imply blue prince is a metroidvania

I see

speaking of reminders: I think open source authors should have the absolute right to withdraw their work and personal information from circulation, and no argument about "supply chain security" overrides this bsky.app/profile/stev...