Winning feels weird doesn't it? Good job everyone https://apnews.com/article/jimmy-kimmel-suspension-supporters-94b79634a19b2c4ce70a2b4195ef1175

This is it. I'm setting up #vim at work. Wish me luck

Seems like I mostly have LazyVim (n I'm) set up for #godot dev. Still have to learn a few things like what keyboard command shows the diagnostic messages from the LSP, and I still need to figure out my debugging workflow. And learn to use #vim efficiently, of course. But I already feel like such […]

fascism is a moral error which leads to intellectual errors, not the other way around.

I'm still kind of mad at the pediatrician for being SO SURPRISED that my baby likes pickled herring. When I was a baby I liked pickled herring too, homemade pickled herring was like the number one treat snack at home growing up. Kids here like what, Takis? If you had showed me a Taki when I was […]

My problem is that 1. I don't really enjoy working within the #godot architecture. I feel like I'm fighting it all the time instead of working together. Scene nodes are great for showing things on the screen but I really don't want to hold the logic in them, I'd be much more comfortable in an […]

Back in the late 1990s I got my first computer. It was an already venerable 75mhz 486 with 16mb of RAM, with the turbo button. It had a tiny 200mb hard drive and my friend's dad installed a pirated Windows 95 on it, which hardly left room for anything else. So I compressed the hard drive—we […]

This is funny. I have a friend I talk to about uspol and we are now in the habit of referring to "the precious bodily fluids people" 🤓

🌿 MOSS: The Tiny Climate Warrior We've Been Ignoring WHAT SCIENCE SHOWS ABOUT THIS HUMBLE PLANT: 🌎 CARBON CAPTURE CHAMPION - Absorbs 4X more CO₂ than trees by volume - Captures pollutants from air and rainwater - Continues photosynthesis when trees are dormant - […] [Original post on aus.social]

https://eurweb.com/africa-just-built-its-own-internet-and-its-a-nightmare-for-google-and-the-west-watch/ Hell yeah 🔥🔥🔥 "Coupled with the African Digital Protocol (ADP), the CIX establishes rules for data sovereignty—ensuring that African data remains […] [Original post on mastodon.gamedev.place]

Oh boy I've become the new guy who joins a team and starts reviewing PRs and the review is "you should add unit tests"

My kid's is installing Windows 11 on their Linux box, anyone got a good article for me to send them about why maybe they should reconsider?

The investigative newsroom I work for, @ProPublica, is raising money right now. This is the last few days of our pledge drive. We report on abuses of power in the public interest. We reported on who works for DOGE and revealed Clarence Thomas’s conflicts of interest. It was the first outlet to […]

So I just read with my French teacher an article on Radio Canada about the fascist demonstration in Toronto last Saturday, and man it's almost like reading Unicorn Riot minus the suspicious obsession with Israel. If only there was mainstream media like that in the US, I might not be learning […]

I always love it when there's a report about something "anti-semitic" in quotation marks and I have to wait for the archive.today to download the damn thing before I can find it what happened

Lately I have been spending a lot of time at work doing things like discussing solutions with colleagues, writing technical descriptions in tickets, reviewing PRs, and helping colleagues with questions. However, management wants STORY POINTS. So now I have to meticulously document everything I […]

Does anyone know what's going on with archive.is?

I'm convinced that in the history books we'll credit BitTorrent for having preserved a significant chunk of humanity's cultural production

I want to move the behavior trees and state from my actor nodes to the autoload. Gotta figure out a few things like the schema for the data, the format for the node IDs, what data I'll need to copy from the nodes themselves to the state resources. Does anyone know if there's a way from […]

I know I'm having a bad evening when I can neither study, nor do the dishes, nor even work on my project

I'm afraid that the babies are apparently learning to swear in Russian 😬

[Linux/Debian software q, boost ok] Is there a good minitube replacement for Debian Linux? Minitube has apparently been taken out of trixie/newer, IIRC because it uses an ancient version of qt.

/4 But it’s perfectly reasonable to point out that the people who will wave the bloody shirt over this — the people who support Charlie Kirk — are evil hypocrites who endorse and excuse violence every day. Refraining from celebrating doesn’t mean tolerating bullshit. bsky.app/profile/thre...

/3 We can also call out who has encouraged and normalized political violence and made it government policy. We can note the irony of it in many cases. But celebrating it — yelling “hooray” — is like celebrating going to war. People will die and it won’t be fun.

/2 We can, and should, discuss whether political violence is inevitable, or whether we’re fooling ourselves because we’ve been swimming in it for a long time. You can note that political violence against the Left (like Melissa Hortman) is treated differently than political violence against the right

Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.

"Culture is not a buried essence waiting to be dug out. It is plural, alive, messy. However, the contemporary “decolonization” vogue treats it otherwise: something to be purified, cleaned of imperial traces, and narrowed into a single mold — an excuse to teach the ignorant “the truth,” to demand […]

Whatever gut reaction you have towards immigration, you have to recognize that most immigrants take on a ton of risk: financial, social, even political to come to your country. Several of my former students from China are trying to get their PRs after finishing their degree here. One of them […]

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צה"ל, בגיבוי מדינת ישראל, סופר "רק" 905 נופלים. צעירים שעד לפני שנתיים היו לוחמים עזי נפש ועכשיו מתאבדים שבועות אחרי סבב מילואים בשדה קרב זה סתם ביש מזל, לא קשור לכלום. גם אין לצה"ל שום קשר למגיפה הקטלנית של מחלת הילדים "נמחץ בהריסות" המסתורית בעזה. ובכלל אין הוכחות שזה קורה, הD9 לא נתקל בגופות.

Hmm why was the service crashing? Oh it spawned 70,000 goroutines and shut down due to thread limit Haha Anyone knows how to do a thread pool in #go?

So I got tired of mysterious crashes, uncooperative debugger, and learning this fractally arcane language. So I am taking a break from #cplusplus, going back to GDScript for my #godot project. Making lots of progress. Maybe later (much later...) I'll redo everything as a GDExtension, because I'm […]

Recently there has been a lot of discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol which has been quite dividing and heated. Yesterday at the Social Web CG meeting (the group that maintains the ActivityPub and related specifications), I proposed releasing a statement that counters the narrative that […]

I am getting really frustrated with #vscode and #jetbrains stuff because they are slow and (especially the latter) full of unhelpful and obtrusive LLM stuff. I tried #zed but it doesn't seem ready for production (small things like I can't figure out how to search terminal output, medium things […]

Please excuse the Substack link, but given that "84% of developers now use or plan to use AI tools"*, it is interesting to see measurable proof that this does not translate to increased productivity. "We should be seeing apps of all shapes and sizes, video games, new websites, mobile apps […]

Does anyone have that #microfiction bookmarked where devs are talking timezones with interstellar travel?

I'm celebrating my promotion to Senior Dev by trying to push back against the agency looking for velocity data in JIRA to assess our performance instead of just asking the client for feedback. I wonder if it's going to get me in trouble

Good: Pritzker calling BS, unambiguously and forcefully, on Trump’s planned invasion of Chicago, correctly identifying it as blatant rights violations based on a pretext. Bad: How much it stands out to see a leading politician do that, rather than go along with the BS, treating the pretext as real.

Schrödinger: I don't know if Option<T> is Some(T) or None until I unwrap #rustlang

"Why aren't there more protests in DC?" I've seen and gotten this question a lot. The people of DC are organizing, but we are organizing each other. In a hundred different ways you mostly can't see. We are building relationships that will last. We are refining skills and tactics. I see the […]

l’IA di oggi non è come è raffigurata in Star Trek :startrek: ma vive di previsioni e probabilità. Invece di ‘capire’, ipotizza. E spesso sbaglia con troppa sicurezza. Siamo molto lontani dalle intelligenze sintetiche di star trek e il gruppo @tecnologia ci […] [Original post on mastodon.uno]

I see tech enthusiasm as something of a horseshoe pattern vs tech knowledge (in broad generality, obviously tons of exceptions) People who know nothing about technology tend to distrust and avoid it, using it as little as possible. People with moderate knowledge get very excited about new tech […]

I just ran across a new way that the AI boosters are poisoning open source commons, and I want to roast it. It's a new low, even more absurd than the last round of boosterism, but I just don't even have the energy. It's all so, so, so vapid. So instead, I'm going to post the AI hater post and […]

@thekitmalone Quote boosted to go on a tangent without hijacking the thread. "There'll never be a time when it's expedient to stand up for us. We're unpopular, a bit insular, and there aren't many of us. We'll always provoke conspiratorial mythmaking." Well put. And... You could have been […]

Trans equality has always been politically inconvenient and that's why we're never going to just play ball. There'll never be a time when it's expedient to stand up for us. We're unpopular, a bit insular, and there aren't many of us. We'll always provoke conspiratorial mythmaking. We have to […]

[Minnesota shooting] I really wish there was more focus on the shooter being a neo Nazi than there was on the shooter being trans.

What's the best #android keyboard app for functionality and #privacy?

From Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases formal resignation letter: "...Having worked in local and national public health for years, I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation […]