Quick programming tip for newcomers: your text editor/IDE does /not/ make you superior—your experience does. Use the right tool for the job, and use the tool that enables YOU to do your job. Or you know, disregard what I said and just use MS Paint. That works too. ms-paint-i.de

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For all the good and bad times—let this year illuminate us as we head toward a new horizon. Happy new year, folks! Thank you for being here. Cheers, to all of you! (Art by my mama, @yushaainari.bsky.social. Thank you so, very much! Now you get to see my off-camera look…) #VTuber #ENVTuber

Even as we live through each day, there's nothing further from us than understanding those days. It's not until we look back that we see those days telling us the way forward—and how grateful they were, for us that always move forward.

I might have uncovered the PHP 3 project I wrote not too long ago.

I’m glad I asked people about what their Windows to Linux pain points are because every tenth answer was someone replying “no joke there’s actually a non-annoying replacement for that now” or “they actually fixed that”, and that shit is money.

Welcome back artists!🖌🎨✨️ Quote Post with an old piece that you still like! This one!!

This is a hot cauldron to step into, but it's quite relevant as is: as someone that studied machine learning, it's an /absolute/ shame to see a then-novel and fascinating field be clawed to tatters due to its association with generative AI.

Jodie gently pushed the accelerator, feeling the air ruffle her unkempt hair. She took one hand and squeezed Jia's as the wind made it difficult to hear. "Ah promise." Her heart thumped. "Yer not gonna die." "What?" Jia said, ducking her head slightly toward Jodie to hear her better. "I promise!"

I've had some people question the little rubber duck in my set. As a #VTuber, I strive to have a set consistent with my themes: the duck represents the magnified horrors of working as a developer. His name's Arthur. Be kind to Arthur. He will give your linter a splinter if you don't.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Remember to pay attention to your heap of presents! xkcd.com/835/

Christmas CC #immergination #hololive #fanart

カマソッソ #FGO

Kernel Graphics Driver Changes Already Begin Lining Up For Linux 6.20~7.0 - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-DRM-Misc-Next-Post-6.19

According to Discord on Reddit, this is "not intended as a long term fix" (see: www.reddit.com/r/discordapp...). However, I can't help but wonder if there are more underlying issues at hand here; I'm not the only one that thinks 4 GB of RAM for a /chat/ app is a lot. www.pcworld.com/article/3005...

As the topic of Game of the Year comes around, I'm reminded that I've barely played games this year. Except for Morrowind. But I can't keep making Morrowind my GOTY.

Woah, I came back to an influx of new followers. I don't know /what/ happened while I was away though!

A new year is coming, now comes yet another reminder to check on your personal backups. Are they still accessible, have you synced them, and how many storage mediums are they stored in? Remember to use tiered backup. More importantly, have you made sure to feed the cerberus that guards them?

Am I confident that I will be able to record anything this week? No. Will I try anyway? No. However, will I rot in bed with my fever, thinking about recording a video? Yes, that's precisely what I am doing.

In the RPG community, statements that shouldn't be controversial in any way -- like "you should read the rulebook before playing the game" -- are instead seen as radical and unreasonable because D&D's core rules are 900+ pages. It's like everyone's first board game was Advanced Squad Leader.

Ad block as a whole has evolved from a method of rejecting advertisements to a tool to reclaim what little usability is left on the modern web. Therefore, means to reject ad block are, curiously, a fantastic way to hasten the ruin and deterioration of the web.

There's a part of me that, as a new YouTuber/VTuber, is glad to receive a fairly-earned dislike on my videos. Please, if you dislike the video in any way, a dislike is warranted--that's what the button is for, yes! YouTube might /not/ show it to you, but a dislike it still shown for the creator.

It's Monday, which means that it's as good of a day as any to test out Wayland again on this aging and dying 2012 laptop.

In the LTT x Linus Torvalds video, Linus T. spoke of fragmentation of distros in a very nuanced—albeit brief—manner: it /is/ terrible for app developers. Major distros know this and they /wish/ they're THE distro that unified everyone. Advancements like AppImage alleviate this, but it's not a cure.

Linux 6.18 Released With Many New Features, Likely This Year's LTS Kernel - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.18-Released

Intel Finally Posts Open-Source Gaudi 3 Driver Code For The Linux Kernel - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Gaudi-3-Open-Source

the risky loaf

it pisses me off SO MUCH that pattern recognition in images or multivariate correlation characterization or whatnot is now lumped in with the most useless thing ever, statistical text generation, and not only lumped in but apparently Sam's stupid text model is the standard bearer for all tech now

Sure, VNC. That might as well be the height of this resolution.

Whilst figuring out a Git commit title and commit message can be perplexing, and for a personal project I couldn't care less, sometimes I wish people can employ more thoughts than "asdf" or "fix" -- I love reading your thoughts as the developer for why you did those things; I can learn from you!

In the future, I may upload videos with code that I'd like to share. I genuinely thought about writing those on a Google Docs--figuring that they will simply be snippets--but that part of my brain has been thoroughly smacked with a folding chair. So, to #Git and #Codeberg I go!

Although invoking print() is in no way a professional method of debugging, there is something oddly cathartic in doing so.

freezing cold take: open sourcing software when it gets discontinued should be common practice

"It's difficult, but it's worth it" are words to live by. We don't create because it's easy—art is a product of blood, sweat, and tears—but because we know the effort is what lets us express our thoughts and ideals earnestly.

We're tanking this one, boys --- When you see this, post an image from your gallery to describe your mental health.

Let's wind down a bit and play something more soothing.

I thought it fascinating how smartphones have exploded in capabilities within the span of 15 years -- it took us nearly 10 years to jump from the 486 to the P3, but even then the gap /that/ created didn't feel as massive as a jump from MSM7225 to SM8450, for example. Technology is incredible!

a game to learn (or teach) how to use standard commands in a Unix or Linux shell. GameShell is available in English, French and Italian. github.com/phyver/GameS...

That's my mama! <3

the frieren trendoo #frieren #fanart

Thanks YouTube, very cool. I was going /mental/ trying to decipher why the video I uploaded sounded worryingly terrible, even after re-doing all the mixing and mastering. YouTube, I'll be very frank: I'd prefer an /opt-in/, not /opt-out/ for features that alter /MY/ content.

Service Outage xkcd.com/3170/

The idea of having a TTS screaming out my entire boot log sounded like a good idea in hindsight. Unfortunately, I didn't take into account the fact that UUIDs are supremely verbose, especially when you have more than one drive attached.

lawler's noob tutorial for installing linux to gtfo of windows as quickly as possible republished from a long winded reply to a thread 🧵 Please read ALL directions before attempting. Feel free to ask questions if needed! Disclaimer: I am a linux noob. #envtuber | #vtuber | #eldenwood | #linux

Peak Linux desktop

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

linux distro that only plays The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind

Linux Patches Improve Intel Nested VM Memory Performance Up To ~2353x In Synthetic Test - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Nested-VM-Faster-Memory

With so much cruft on the Internet these days, wouldn't it be nice to get a little guidance?