we're back guys

to be clear, i think the policy direction is OK but the way the government are selling it (to stop illegal working, somehow) is completely wrong

@zackpolanski.bsky.social you should consider adopting a shorter version of this breakdown when going against reform youtu.be/UfC4-FDp7co

bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/no... I really think we can still do digital id for convenience as long as it's done well. There is economic benefit in speeding up people IDing for 18+ spaces and shopping, for example. Plus it's more convenient than carrying around your drivers license everywhere!

im still trying to work out the difference between Your Party and the Green Party - YP says its going to be internally democratic but the greens already are, etc. I'm a member of both but I have a feeling they are gonna end up targeting different seats with essentially identical policies lol

when I was a kid I upgraded my computer to Windows 8.0 and I hated the start menu screen so much. I installed Fedora and haven't looked back since

"So long, King Bowser!" www.theverge.com/news/786068/...

dear diary, today i tried to debug an issue in a test. it turned out that the test was provoking the error deliberately. so there was no issue!

i just made a cool video

Trump: "MMR... the mumps, measles... and, uhhhh, all three should be taken separately"

whenever i watch someone else search, i cringe at how their eyes reflexively dodge the ad result, breeze past the unhelpful ai response, ignore a site they hate, and get past the popular-but-not-what-they-wanted result... just to arrive at the first result they would've received from @kagi.com

google just served me a youtube ad that included a deepfake of the prime minister talking about some scheme to get free money. i try to report the ad and get a "Something went wrong" toast. Awesome

all ontological arguments are the same argument really

ℹ️ Did you know? In the hit Nintendo Wii classic, Super Paper Mario, there is a secret cleverly hidden in the "World of Nothing," presumably as a practical joke by the "developers" at "Intelligent Systems." It is a Honse,

longjmp implies the existence of floatjmp and doublejmp

Since it looks like nobody's talked about it here, Animal Crossing decomp hit 100% game code! It's been about 6 years we've been at it, based on my old GitHub repos github.com/ACreTeam/ac-...

thank you to google for bringing splatoon 3 back up

GCP wanted to see if they had customers so they did a scream test

GCP, AWS, and Cloudflare having outages all at once was not on my bingo card

why does one of the Eurovision presenters look like Sam from Wendover

is there a way i can adblock any news article about the royal family

figured out how polyphony (playing multiple notes at once) works in Paper Mario’s music format and uhhh monophonic = 1, duophonic = 5, triophonic = 6, quadraphonic = 7. 0, 2, 3, 4 are buggy. anything over 7 gives you ✨random polyphony✨ by reading garbage ram

Post a photo of a bus from your camera roll

WOAH MY GDC TALK IS AVAILABLE ON THE VAULT (for everyone to watch for free, holy heck i'm SCREAMING) gdcvault.com/play/1035068...

everybody is talking about silksong when they should really be talking about playable cataquack in mario kart

Arbitrary code execution being possible in SMB2 was not on my bingo cards but here we are! (Inputs up to 4th room are by HappyLee)

Every achievement is just someone spending a huge amount of time on something. You can become a wizard if you spend enough time being a wizard. “Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.” - Teller allenpike.com/2024/an-unre...

Musk wants to establish a colony on Mars. We can do that, eventually, sustainably. But, as a megalomaniac, he wants to see it during his lifetime. That means going to Mars at the expense of Earth and every living being on it. If we expose the ego in his plan to the public, all this can stop.

severed mario

i understand the ai hype now. in a decade every consumer device will have a tensor coprocessor. the TPU predicts ‘what the user will do next’. this will be game changing for operating systems: you did X, you’ll probably do Y then Z next. cross-application interaction prediction will be sick

open8 is now running on the Nintendo 3DS. I should really get one someday.

if you create new NPCs in the Toad Town harbour, they appear as the whale, so in my online hack other players look like whales on this map

i do understand why, but it is silly that rust's Vec<T> holds a RawVec<T> which holds a RawVecInner which holds a Unique<u8> which holds NonNull<u8> which holds *const u8. hope the pointer feels cozy being wrapped in 5 structs

needs nixos socks

24 player Mario Kart means dedicated servers

I'm still waiting for Nintendo NX

here's a demo of Paper Mario with peer-to-peer networking! how? by writing a separate application that talks to the emulator (or your favourite flashcart) over the GDB remote serial protocol. the game makes an RPC call (e.g. "move me to this xyz"), and it is broadcast to all peers over WebRTC 🤯

🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁 We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

a selection of policies from Andrew Tate’s new “BRUV party”: - cut foreign aid budget to zero - NHS will refuse to treat foreigners - zero tolerance on crime for foreigners- instant deportation - turn away every small boat, killing them - mens boxing and wrestling in schools - withdraw from WHO, UN

whenever I play a game and see some cool element of polish, I suddenly put down the controller and find myself implementing it into my game. help

Paper Mario DX now takes a single command to install (or two, if you're on Windows)! ⭐️ bates64.github.io/papermario-d...

currently having decision paralysis over which project to do... - learn how to write VST/Audio Unit plugins (for Mamar) - create a local-first romhack database website (for Firelight emu) - convert papermario-dx to nix flakes and set up cachix (for an eventual 'easy installer' / modding IDE)

I'm playing the game Eastward for the first time and I just discovered it has a cute RPG *inside* the game? on a fantasy arcade cabinet?? so cool !!! colour me: ✅ surprised, and ✅ delighted!

adblocking is an accessibility feature

annual reminder to use: - a password manager, Bitwarden is free - with different passwords for each account (PW Managers make this easy) - 2-factor auth for every website, that is not tied to your phone number and instead uses an auth app it will save your ass

someone posted this fanart on the 'paper mario: wish upon abyss' server and it's literally me

just fumbled a dd command and wiped my work laptop, AMA

Reminder: don’t use placeholders instead of labels. They disappear when users start typing, placing unnecessary strain on memory, causing confusion, and making it hard to identify or fix errors. This is even worse for people with accessibility needs.

found a rustacean

i downloaded Balatro at 8pm and it suddenly turned 2am. heed this warning!