ssh is an obscure but widely-deployed command. It stands for Secure Snake Home and was made in the 90s to securely play snake online I made a massively multiplayer backend for it with support for thousands of concurrent snake players ssh snakes.run to join!

Hey, so we got a trojan horse ag.ny.gov/press-releas...

fat grub friday

Smack Studio has OCs pt.4 here it goes:

And as far as I’m concerned, all EVO events are off the table from now on. We saw the largest fighting game tournament on earth go from community ownership to corporate ownership to corrupt oligarchic ownership within the span of about a decade. This is not the FGC. This is brand rehab for monsters.

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As always and as ever: the grifts and excessive promises of AI are annoying, but the bit that's really going to deal damage is its use to justify unsubstantiated layoffs and crunches on the workers who remain

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

I "love" how the blurb calls it a "chatbot", while if you read the text then of course it's a super-complex harness (including digital twin validation) that used Claude as essentially a symbolic reasoning ML pipeline predicting new inputs based on several years (!) of logged data

"Why do you make art" when I'm making something and I've truly hit my stride I can feel the energy emitting from me like I'm a gurren lagann character and there's no feeling like it in the world

idk man my current barometer for whether LLMs are creating order-of-magnitude increases in programmer productivity is this website, where the staff all post almost exclusively about Claude and yet they haven't shipped a meaningful feature in forever

This kind of explainer is bloody wonderful, and I hope it can become a model for other government sectors. So much good, invisible work is done behind the scenes, and so little of it gets the attention it deserves. The tricky bit is distribution, though; few offices have platforms of Mamdani's scale

Geoguesser, but you’re shown code and asked which software it’s for. “It’s React, but is it a desktop app??”

brb contemplating moving to an island and becoming a sheep

This is one of the most fundamental underlying problems of perspective with many, if not most people who play fighting games. “People just want to be good at something automatically” is not correct. It’s factually inaccurate. People don’t expect to be “good.” They just don’t like being vaporized.

you should all be silly bugs i promise its fun

snowmen are old news, how we feeling about snowsnail

some of the posts bsky users make to help twitter users get accustomed to the different posting culture lowkey read like “you can add tags onto your post to help your discoverability! this isnt like the bad app where adding tags turns you into a pool of blood”

This reads like something out of a sitcom, genuinely insane

People always want to use ADCs for things you don't need ADCs for. Instead you can just use time constants. The CH572 has no ADCs but that doesn't stop me from measuring battery voltage and the pressure on some silicone buttons. github.com/cnlohr/cnhar...

I wrote more words about how it feels to be a translator watching the games press report on AI and labor, coming from a field that's fought these battles for decades. It may look like I'm beating up on one outlet, but it's not about them; I've been trying to write this for me and my peers all year.

this is why representation in games matters

TypeScript is a psychology experiment designed to see if you can read "the JavaScript API you know and love, but with the safety of strong typing!" and get so distracted by how much you like strongly typed languages that you forget that you do not, in fact, neither know nor love the JavaScript API

I really do not get the general urge among online academics to dunk on X area for discovering what Y area has known for decades. There are many reasons why this is unscholarly. To name a few: 1. Most scientists don't perform interdisciplinary research because it's explicitly disincentivized.

ronaldinho soccer

I once asked a very skilled and experienced rower how people who make every boat they are in better do it. He said that he'd known two people like that, and they weren't the fastest or stronger rowers, but their superpower was adding stability where the boat needed it. Not something you'd see ...

happy snom

winged pikmin! lots of pink 🩷 #pikmin #pikminbloom

@'ing the majority of Fighting Game Community pros & content creators who keep accepting money from the Saudi government for the sake of "esports & hype", completely disregarding their own queer & female peers

she bounce

I cannot overstate how important it is, right now, to think of information as a) something you transmit and pass along instead of just receiving; b) something that is more useful to others when passed on for its own sake than when wrapped in media or Discourse criticism.

you have to be bold enough to steal a characters full name

Cubaris Isopods

I hate when people make bad arguments for the sake of good conclusions because we can just make good arguments for those conclusions instead but everyone acts like it doesn’t matter

I've been told a couple of times in tech to not use the term "empathy" because some groups dislike it which is hilarious because that's asking me to....have empathy.....

public transport bugs

I swear to god I'm going to end up with a t-shirt of this quote -- it's come up basically every other day since I first saw it, including in non-computing contexts 😭

A lot's been said about indie devs being discouraged by Silksong. I don't want to invalidate those feelings, especially in such a stressful time, but I do want to quickly speak to another side of it. (1/)

In order for your design to be successful, you have to get me to log in. Designers who don't understand that the job is to change behaviors will build the product first, get upset when no one is using it, and bully the user into it after the fact. It will be bad UX by definition.

"you just gotta push yourself even harder and commit more to the grind, no taking breaks" heh, nice try, but I can TELL that you're a WWI biplane that came back from combat full of bullet holes

speaking of things i like. i like water why pay for juices and soda if i can just have, water that aside, you should drink water or at least keep being hydrated, you know!

Asbestos as a metaphor for where I suspect we might be going with LLM tools: rapid push to shove it into everything as a "modern solution," then an eventual "oh shit" walkback.

Question for people with #atproto knowledge: can DM timestamps be spoofed in the same way as timestamps for regular posts? I just got a bit of (otherwise very typical) DM spam, but interestingly, it showed the sent date as 10 days ago. Rather mean trick for creating a sense of urgency if so

I haven't told this story in a while, and I don't think on this platform at all. About 10 years ago now, when I was still in deskside support as one of the team leads, we had a two-tech site down a tech and the other heading on a 2 week cruise, and coverage is contractually required.

I've learned that in CS if your first instinct to solve a problem is "we'll maintain a banned list!" there's a good chance the problem is intractably hard to solve beyond like 80% of cases, and you should prepare to spend your entire life trying to solve it lol