reading this RFC from 2022 that still uses the archaic term "big-endian" to refer to MSB byte order... that's a big oof, chief!

apparently some popu-fedi's chosen battle is to rage against CWs and photo descriptions, and i will just never understand the need of some people to take whatever little fame they have and use it to lash out at people [insert men/therapy meme]

knives out 3: 3 thumbs up

[me watching the latest episode of the gay hockey show] "wow i had no idea everyone in hockey is gay" [half an hour later] "being gay in hockey is the loneliest possible life. he has no friends."

Hell yes. www.cnn.com/2025/12/25/c...

the most vicious observation: "I don't know a single person using facebook threads. Nobody's even _complaining_ about it."

merry christmas to those who celebrate!

if you start "city of lost children" at just the right time on christmas eve, the mad scientist's oil platform will blow up at exactly midnight as one & miette row away ... so we did this but in retrospect i'm not sure "city of lost children" is the best xmas movie...

Yeah… I’ve been doing tech professionally since 1978. We as an industry really got it wrong. The US government also failed to regulate the industry… probably starting in 2005. But at the time, regulation and government surveillance went hand in hand. So, now we have a weakened government and […]

[uspol, samizdat] The Canadian broadcast of the bari'd 60 Minutes segment "Inside CECOT" is available on the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/3mam75w3oec2n Practice your samizdat, grab a copy. Seed the torrent if you're willing.

[slow clap]

happy solstice!

it's too bad the mouse & trackball haven't followed the trajectory of the keyboard, where artisans will now craft high-quality tools for professionals i would pay good money for a solid well designed trackball

Paris Buttfield-Addison’s Apple account access has been restored. https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/

that last episode of strange new worlds (S3E10) was a fucking mess and i really want to give the writing team a pep talk or something. - stop doing fan service. imagine that you may have viewers under 50 years old - if you don't have enough screen time to make a plot point make sense, CUT IT […]

it's truly amazing what LLMs can achieve. we now know it's possible to produce an html5 parsing library with nothing but the full source code of an existing html5 parsing library, all the source code of all other open source libraries ever, a meticulously maintained and extremely comprehensive […]

in honor of pkd's birthday, here's the quote i use to test graphics code on retro projects

this is my shocked face when a mastodon admin has a story that implies rails might not be good at limiting resource usage

50 problems with standard web APIs in 2025: https://lobste.rs/s/jm0sdf/fifty_problems_with_standard_web_apis

Gender-neutral bathrooms : A guide

NBC News: AI toys for kids talk about sex and issue Chinese Communist Party talking points, tests show New research from Public Interest Research Group and tests conducted by NBC News found that a wide range of AI toys have loose guardrails […]

🤪 accurate

Good morning

"this song's for all you modern-day troubadours out there... and i think i know who you are."

i wish i had nice things to say about the system76 laptops i've owned. they were loud & noisy, hot, seemed to be white labeled from some cheap manufacturer, broke down a lot, and had a mushy rubber keyboard that was shoved awkwardly all the way to the left side. fans have been begging them to […]

"how does google do code reviews?" ... i assume you just want to study it as a warning to others

hahahaha gee i wonder why nobody's talking about or reading this what could it be what could be the problem

“The next year there was a Goat war: the Southern Merchants understood the publicity value, and erected a huge goat; the Natural Science Club erected a smaller one in protest. The Southern Merchants had intended that their huge goat would reclaim the world record, but the measurement of the goat […]

In the _Starfleet Technical Manual_ , there is a throwaway detail of the LCARS user interface that when it is upgraded, users can still utilize the previous several versions. This is because their work is mission-critical and it is unacceptable to compromise the mission by forcing unfamiliar […]

this is a great summary of my working style too: https://lalitm.com/software-engineering-outside-the-spotlight/ it becomes most obvious when a big corp decides they don't value any work that isn't flashy, trash these teams, and then remarkably soon after, they are bought or collapse. you have […]

my test AP server has received over 25_000 posts from the fediverse over the past year, and exactly 1 was signed using FEP-8b32. (this is one more than i expected to see)

"All religious services of the various cults may only be practiced in their respective temples. Since the Republic recognizes no dominant or privileged religion, all religious symbols found on roads, in squares, and generally in all public places will be destroyed." ...bring back year 2 […]

A Nativity display at a church in Massachusetts is sparking a debate after swapping Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus for a sign that reads "ICE was here." https://www.wpri.com/new-england/massachusetts/ice-was-here-massachusetts-church-displays-message-in-nativity-scene/

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