Painful lessom of today: reach out to that person you always wanted to get to know. reach out to that friend you havent talked to for a while. do not procrastinate it to "later" or "tomorrow", there might not always be a tomorrow for them.

@brouhaha I think of Ruby as a Less Obfuscated Perl its not a compliment. lol

@brouhaha there was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obfuscated_Perl_Contest

Have you ever noticed that there's not an Obfuscated Perl competition?

"why is my bootloader so larva-shaped all of a sudden?!" is a very strange emotion to experience

fun fact: i learned that the letters "grub" stand for "GRand Unified Bootloader" before i found out what "a grub". so i was like, 18 or something when i first google-imaged "grub". i was like 😨

hey don't be so hard on yourselves; it delivered oceans of sensitive government and citizen data to billionaires

I cannot sleep because the level2 hackerspace will be dead by end of the year. Please help. Do something Thanks 😭

🎵 Is life just a game where we make up the rules While we're searching for something to say? Or are we just simply spiralling coils Of self-replicating DNA? -- Monty Python

I don't know the precise date of the anniversary, but I've been programming for five decades. Professionally for four, with a few minor short gigs before that. I used to enjoy programming. Sometimes I still do, but it's become far less common. I still have a sense of accomplishment when I […]

me: [eating a pizza with anchovies] friend: Why are you waiting with baited breath?

A few days ago I got two tickets for Weird Al's 2026 tour stop at Red Rocks. I am going with a friend who is handicapped. He doesn't need a wheelchair, but is mobility limited. I was pleased that they offered a specific class of tickets for that, although somewhat disappointed that in less than […]

"Those in power recognized that oppression is best maintained by keeping the masses illiterate, and those oppressed recognized that literacy is liberation. To my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked […]

A year ago, I saw someone open a book lamp in a bar. It was a pretty expensive product. Since I combine electronics and paper crafting, I had to DIY it and develop an easy-to-use circuit template and instructions for it. This educational project is perfect for […] [Original post on chaos.social]

Pet peeve: people who buy things from walk up counter cafe's and do not tip. Not one of those people is adequately paid. If you can afford the luxury of having someone hand you coffee and a tasty treat (truly, one of my favorite things in the world) then you can afford to give them a buck. It's […]

One of the fun things about moving from the equator to somewhere away from it is, my threat model for food safety is basically ‘it’s bad if it’s out for more than 20 min’ (anything) and ‘food is inedible if it’s been outside for a little bit’ (100F sun and 90% humidity. And bugs.)

Small #retrocomputing bugbear/nitpick/PSA: #windows 3.11 was not otherwise known as "Windows for workgroups". The product was named "Windows 3.11 for workgroups", the reason being that there's also a regular ass Windows 3.11! There's also Windows 3.1 for workgroups! It was just super buggy […]

"Ukraine should be at the table, not on the table," - Anita Anand, Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs. #Ukraine #Russia #cdnpoli #USPoli

I'm pretty sure that none of the people saying that Ukraine should just give some of their land to Russia to appease Putin would be willing to give any of their own land to Russia.

On January 1, 1970, ACME was informed by its provider Weyland-Yutani, that its subcontractor, Cyberdyne Systems suffered a cyber coyote incident between the dates of December 31, 1969, and January 19, 2038. The forensic investigation being conducted by Cyberdyne revealed that im coyot. Based on […]

I'm working with household legislators to enact a Dad Congestion Pricing scheme. We charge a kid $0.25 for every "hey dad?". A white paper produced by the Dept of Annoyance shows that a modest fee structure could bring the rate of "hey dad?"s down to a rate of around one or two per minute, while […]

Positive adjectives are good, but comparatives are better, and superlatives are the best!

TIL that old 68k Macs can only boot from the first partition on a drive (guess who spent a bunch of time trying to make it work thinking it was something else that was wrong) #VintageApple #retrocomputing

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages James Iry; Thursday, May 7, 2009 1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruct a loom to weave "hello, world" into a tapestry. Redditers of the time are not impressed due to the lack of tail call recursion […]

USPTO about to make bad patents untouchable, says @eff https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/patent-office-about-make-bad-patents-untouchable

Next up on the CDC website: "The germ theory of disease is just a theory. There are no recent controlled studies to support sterilizing surgical instruments; this superstitious practice costs hospitals, taxpayers and insurance providers millions of dollars in needless expenses." […]

If anyone has proof of all of the messages I've force compilers to give me, I'd be prosecuted as an errorist.

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In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ... ... listen to Steve Wozniak.

Friend: What do you need to do tomorrow? Me: Nothing. Friend: I can do that in no time. Me (jealous): It takes me all day.

It's clobberin' time!

After 4 years of war with the Nazis, Stalin and the Russians had conquered Berlin. After 4 years of war against Ukraine, Putin and the Russians still have not taken all of Pokrovsk just 40 km from where they started their invasion. Russia is the one who NEEDS this "peace" deal.

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Only having iterators is terrible. There should also be heerators and sheerators. And for when you don't know which, theyerators.

Eww! I knew the disk in that old server was probably scuzzy, but it's ultra scuzzy!

Preserving code that shaped generations: Zork I, II, and III go Open Source "Today, we’re preserving a cornerstone of gaming history that is near and dear to our hearts. Together, Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office (OSPO), Team Xbox, and Activision are making Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III […]

The original Zork written in the MDL dialect of Lisp was already available: "This version of ZORK has been (slightly) changed from the original in order to run on the Confusion MDL Interpreter. https://github.com/whitten/MDL-Zork There's also this: 'This directory contains files related to […]

#OnThisDay Twenty-four high-ranking Nazis go on trial in Nuremberg, Germany, for atrocities committed during World War II beginning on November 20, 1945. The Nuremberg trials were conducted by an international tribunal made up of representatives from the […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

Swastikas, nooses, and the confederate flag are not hate symbols according to the Trump regime’s U.S. Coast Guard. ‘A Coast Guard official who had seen the new wording called the policy changes chilling. “We don’t deserve the trust of the nation if we’re unclear about the divisiveness of […]

@heidilifeldman One can only wonder what motivated this change in policy. Has the USCG had difficulty meeting its recruiting goals drawing from the non-nazi community? Or, more likely, this is intended as a message, proof of how much more anti-woke than thou they are in the race to total fascism.

@heidilifeldman The only place a swastika belongs on a US military vessel is in a little row on the side, to mark the number of nazi ships it has sunk.

Zoro I, II, and III have been relicensed as open source (MIT license): https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11/20/preserving-code-that-shaped-generations-zork-i-ii-and-iii-go-open-source #zork #interactivefiction

The Saudification of America is under way - Karen Attiah "In death, Jamal’s faith would prove to be misplaced. The Washington Post’s erasure of Jamal’s memory and the freedom he stood for has been brewing in the background. The global opinion section that Jamal wrote for was dismantled. The […]

Give grease a chance!

When you excuse or condone the killing of a “controversial” journalist, you’re not a 1A person. When you’re not a 1A person, you’re not a Constitution person. When you’re not a Constitution person, you have voided your presidential oath and are, therefore, impeachable. We knew all this, but […]

Sure, understanding today's complex world of the future is a little like having bees live in your head. But, there they are. — Firesign Theatre

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