Never lose hope about the internet, for it can be a beautiful place. And it is on us to continue to make it so

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@samhenrigold/116216357692725093 a totally different view to think about the new macbook neo separate from all the reviews. I like the idea - personally because I think constraints forces you to thrive. Its kinda why I might be on a m1 macos26 fighting Finder but yearn […]

setting up 2FA using TOTP on an old account (because why not /shrug (its literally pixiv I use it to lurk occasionally but hey why not the setup is simpler than most bank apps)) (under the qr code to setup totp) "My 2D code won't scan" (i.e. click to do it manually) ok but now I'm curious to […]

>step away from macos for a while >come back to see crash reporter in the dock >don't remember anything crashing or having crashed before (except when I ran out of ram and had to kill firefox) >tried opening crash reporter: it is no longer responding aaaaa

A question for the PL folks in my timeline: do you remember a particular talk or paper (or perhaps unofficial video/sigbovik?) that essentially compares the different notations/symbols/syntax used in PL papers for representing operational semantics & often the same things (and how this "jungle" […]

TIL: https://me.com redirects to https://www.icloud.com

i checked up on OsmAnd and apparently they're doing some pretty advanced stuff for offline route calculation now! beyond A* https://osmand.net/blog/fast-routing/

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of unimaginably stupid shit every fucking day

unicode is a treasure https://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F600.pdf

(continued from ^) Google search doesn't work as well anymore because the results are full of LLM-generated articles? I hear about CEOs putting pressure on their teams to produce more faster because they've been told that AI will increase productivity? it feels sad. even though I find LLMs […]

"Package Managers à la Carte, A Formal Model of Dependency Resolution" preprint out today: a new package calculus to describe the cambrian explosion of systems that exist today https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.18602 lead by @ryan

Maybe we could idk abandon semver and switch to ISO 8601 for release versioning

>Open LinkedIn >Browser instantly struggles >System halts complaining that its run out of memory oh boi, well thats one more reason to not open it phew

today i learned that if you don't end a C file with a newline, the compiler is free to steal your apes

Yes, you may be killed by falling human made space junk, but the odds remain small(ish) that will occur. The (almost inevitable) #kesslersyndrome may also prevent future #space flights if all those #satellites in Low Earth Orbit start colliding, creating countless debris. However, we *ALL* have […]

TL;DR on the new EU regulation on railway telematics: all information on railway transport, including fares, ticketing rules, timetables, realtime positions, etc will have to be made available under EUPL or Creative Commons terms […]

>receive email about a subscribed github PR >github ui loads but then tries to fails to show files changed >error "sorry we went looking but couldn't find anything" phew. either this is my connection to or just github (probably both imo)

> Wanted to order little baggies for legal recreational use and had the thought that I should be able to design a tpu ziplock. After several iterations I’ve come up with something that prints easy and is 100% water tight […]

Last Week Tonight is back with a new season!! To celebrate, here's one of my favorite clips from last season about "uploading documents into online portals"

a year or two ago, I tried to, ahem, *obtain* a certain uncommon book, but I couldn't find a PDF anywhere. I just found it accidentally while trying to *obtain* an entirely different book. Which I can't find, so I assume it'll turn up in a year while looking for something only vaguely related...

This new book for children (with activities:) tells a story we should all know - over-exploitation, supply chains, migration and more https://thesalmonandthetomato.org/

days since I had an email stuck in spam: 0

Very often when trying to think about a problem I start wondering: "How does software X deal with that?" And 98.5% the answer is: they don't, they just let it fail. Often silently. Every time I keep relearning how low the standards usually are in this industry.

RE: https://mastodon.art/@mobydick/115988132020534427 Melville would like you to remember that COVID is not, in fact, past tense.

Scientists Found a Surprising Way to Track Falling Space Junk https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-found-a-surprising-way-to-track-falling-space-junk/

I'm #colorblind and I use https://xkcd.com/color/rgb/ frequently. Randall 'xkcd' Monroe did a survey of over 100,000 readers where he showed them random rgb colors and said "what would you call this?" and afterwards he did his best to sort the results into the most popular color names and the […]

me: _very carefully_ clicks on "Summarize" button in corporate Outlok copilot: immediately pops up because it wants to know my fucking location for some reason we live in hell of our own creation

Always interesting to hear about something, then look it up (for eg on Wikipedia), and realize you had previously visited the article! If only I could also always remember when that was...

Everytime I uninstall an app on my phone after realizing that it's probably not useful to me anymore, I end up needing it in the next few weeks!! It might just be that it helps jog my memory which then helps to remember it while doing something related to it (which I may have forgotten about […]

Looks like they added geopolitical news to the weather widget

"etm." can be jokingly used to mean "and shit" at the end of a list for comedic or informal effect. 😈

[POV: the year is 2006. you are watching "Crazy Frog — Axel F" on your Sony Ericsson K510i in a very crunchy 3gp file using its loudspeaker while on a break in high school] (i spent like 30 minutes going through codec settings to make this an […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]

i will pick a fight over stale bots in literally any community

Watching Static Canvas' essay video jam entry on Spelunky! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00Ldb-H04_8 Its soo good... It manages to express the joy of just playing Spelunky (any version of it!! from the pixel art classic to the latest Spelunky 2). I'd try to say the same things as the video in […]

Sometimes I'm glad I don't have to worry about Banking Infrastructure But sometimes I'm worried we don't worry more about Banking Infrastructure

If you like exquisitely high-resolution industrial photography and find yourself in NYC, go see the Christopher Payne "Made in America" exhibit currently at the Cooper-Hewitt museum. https://www.cooperhewitt.org/channel/made-in-america/

i should make a sticker pack with the "best of" from my pictures folder

creatur https://m.youtube.com/shorts/9OPZAW347sw

there are five hand problems in software development: 1 naming things 3 absolute ordering 2 cache in5 concurrencyvalidation ́4 exactly-once delivery 6 off by one errors 4 exactly-once delivery

me: creates new github access token, set to expire in 7 days. github email notification, via all 3 e-mails it knows about: GITHUB USER, I HAVE BIG NEWS. SEVEN DAYS HENCE, YOUR TOKEN SHALL EXP—

Man, NAPS2 is so good. How did I not find this sooner

today in "cross-language RPC": Rust and Swift have a different bit pattern for pi

It is the year 2025, no wait 2026!, and I am still not able to select a text I just entered and capitalize it on my phone. Why?! what am I missing ;-;

I eat like a raccoon. It’s either the $1.50 Costco hotdog, or it’s ’a really exquisite meal I spent four hours cooking’. There is no in between

> sbt (originally simple build tool, nowadays stands for nothing[4]) Thanks Wikipedia ...wait. oh. Oh no. @whitequark

Honestly, most people don’t understand immigration. To or from anywhere. Pity they get to determine the political climate for whether other people get to leave war zones, climate disasters, genocides, especially people who are in those situations because of the first group of people in the first […]