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v2_final_final
about 9 hours ago
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snake eater era snake (naked?) was on my train tonight š¤
6 days ago
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graphemes. whyād it have to be graphemes?
7 days ago
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Amtrak *please*
8 days ago
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bet on your beliefsā¢
8 days ago
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maybe itās just me, but I find it really grim for folks to say āno one can dispute LLMs show signs of sentienceā out one side of their mouth and āLLMs are useful tools for doing workā out the other
8 days ago
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will I ever learn the lesson, ādonāt work on things with a migraineā? only time will tell
17 days ago
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need WALLOPS? no problem whatās that, this server only has not-quite-WALLOPS? (& this other one, but not the rest?) thatās fine, letās get that sorted neatly so, how do other clients sort it? in the server buffer? alright that makes sense, itās WALLOPS-esque. oh, wait, this one puts it in the [ā¦]
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https://mastodon.social/@andymandias/116305342659184547
19 days ago
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sometimes I do feel really pretty terrible at writing software then I use other software, and also feel like⦠you know, weāre all in this together
23 days ago
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another day, another unnecessarily hostile GH interaction š¤·
30 days ago
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it is okay to just not care for something without cobbling together a rationale for why itās objectively bad actually
about 1 month ago
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irc: when you send a message itās necessary to append some metadata to it to relay it to other users; make sure messages you send are short enough to have the metadata appended me: oh, okay! and I can use this spec to check when that metadata changes? irc: thatās right me: ok great, will it let [ā¦]
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Original post on mastodon.social
https://mastodon.social/@andymandias/116168735732603704
about 1 month ago
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RE:
https://posts.rat.pictures/@hannah/116135248010986254
growing up in Palo Alto I learned the same things as a kid
add a skeleton here at some point
about 2 months ago
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looking a commit message āPolish reaction UI spacingā¦ā and wondering if thatās where you put the side keys all at the end of the line
about 2 months ago
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Adrianna Tan
about 2 months ago
Relooted: a South African video game about taking back artifacts from colonialist museums
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/feb/21/south-african-video-game-artefacts-western-museums
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Relooted: the South African video game where players take back artefacts from western museums
Creators say theyāre offering Africans a āhopeful, utopian feelingā of retrieving objects looted by colonial armiesA new South African video game lets players take back African artefacts held in western museums in a series of heists, amid a growing...
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/feb/21/south-african-video-game-artefacts-western-museums
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another Halloy release, another crop of bugs discovered shortly after š š®āšØ next release will have some major feature additions š¤ (in addition to QoL and fixes)
about 2 months ago
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itās dark and the bed is cozy what I would give for an album of lullabies by DMX
about 2 months ago
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I have a feeling itāll soon be time to prepare some more upstream contributions
about 2 months ago
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ā§ā¦Catherineā¦ā§
about 2 months ago
i use goguma/halloy on the client side and ergochat on the server side. wasn't too fussy to set up although the server side especially is not very beginner-ircop-friendly
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RE:
https://fosstodon.org/@drdrang/116042829042083618
both readings work
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https://fosstodon.org/users/drdrang/statuses/116042829042083618
2 months ago
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every time I test the āmachine that will eventually replace all knowledge workers (but not me)ā I come away so thoroughly unimpressed that I canāt help but feel like most proponents just want an obsequious butler š¤·
2 months ago
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ā§ā¦Catherineā¦ā§
2 months ago
hey check this out
sfw]! [https://e-flesh.com/
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eFlesh: Highly customizable Magnetic Touch Sensing using Cut-Cell Microstructures
eFlesh is a highly customizable touch sensor, than can be adapted to robot parts of varying form-factors with a tool to also tune sensor response.
https://e-flesh.com/
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I do feel like there are strong, self-defeating currents in the left where any sort of consideration for effective praxis is seen as an active harm & other strong, self-defeating currents that focus on the annoying rather than those in control of the levers of power I donāt know how to address [ā¦]
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https://mastodon.social/@andymandias/115974774638162678
3 months ago
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become ungovernable
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3 months ago
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if you think you might like Red Spectacles and have the opportunity to watch the 4K restoration, I recommend doing so
3 months ago
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if you really think new sapients are about to be or potentially have been created, then it seems odd to focus on āpeople are mad at them (about the harms theyāve been enslaved to enact)ā over the enslaving and the enacting harms parts unless what youāre [ā¦]
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3 months ago
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Prof. Sam Lawler
3 months ago
I'm sorry to see obituaries for Dr. Gladys West this morning:
https://thezebra.org/2026/01/18/dr-gladys-west-mathematician-whose-work-made-gps-possible-dies-at-95/
She was brilliant and did a lot of incredibly important scientific work, a lot of which was hidden/uncredited early on, because she [ā¦]
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https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/115928109486913648
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⨠Apple Intelligence āØ
3 months ago
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the latest, anime adaptation of ALL YOU NEED IS KILL is my favorite version of the story another banger from Studio 4°C
3 months ago
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nono, itās great, I just threw up a little bit in my mouth because I love it so much I want to feed it like a baby bird
3 months ago
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XVII.āFAITH, HALF FAITH AND NO FAITH AT ALL. from Fables by Robert Louis Stevenson In the ancient days there went three men upon pilgrimage; one was a priest, and one was a virtuous person, and the third was an old rover with his axe. As they went, the priest spoke about the grounds of faith [ā¦]
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Original post on mastodon.social
https://mastodon.social/@andymandias/115884567453905184
3 months ago
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originally decided to give this album a try because of the album art, wound up being one of my favorite albums of the year
https://jamiepaige.bandcamp.com/album/constant-companions
3 months ago
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important calls werenāt making it to the family phones so we finally updated to iOS 26 last night in the hopes thatāll fix things ⦠had to āforce quitā messages since the back button would just run an animation and do nothing else everything is slower or [ā¦]
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3 months ago
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making lists for ethical consumption is not my jam, but calling it a witch hunt has bigāassassination coordinatesā vibes
3 months ago
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https://youtu.be/lERS4kJIQR8
3 months ago
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race āscienceā consists of lies and ineptitude, and the propensity of rats to entertain/embrace it is one of the (many) glaring indicators they should not be entrusted with hundreds of billions of dollars
https://davidbessis.substack.com/p/twins-reared-apart-do-not-exist
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Twins reared apart do not exist
The shaky science of genetic determinism
https://davidbessis.substack.com/p/twins-reared-apart-do-not-exist
3 months ago
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big awoo notation
4 months ago
The two hardest problems in Computer Science are: 1. Getting up in the morning 2. Going to bed at a reasonable time
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my Darter Prp developed a spicy pillow mid December, and after I wasnāt able to convince System76 to let me replace the battery myself I was *sure* it wouldnāt be back before the new year @system76 got it back within a week, somehow fitting the repair in before the holidays glad I picked them [ā¦]
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Original post on mastodon.social
https://mastodon.social/@andymandias/115782509465832079
4 months ago
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this was like watching ninja fail to slice bread, except in this case the consequences are distributed
https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/115773646542458622
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Attached: 1 video Adin Ross is 25 years old, has 7 million subscribers on Twitch, 4.5 million subscribers on YouTube, and livestreams daily to hundreds of thousands of people. **This is him finding out what fascism is.** Chat, are we cooked?
https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/115773646542458622
4 months ago
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was in bed with a migraine all day yesterday, so it was the perfect opportunity to return to & finish silksong (only 90% completion, but I think I got all the major endings) overall pretty enjoyable, wish it had more (and more challenging) platforming, but itās not really about that
4 months ago
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There are also so, so many great block pushers (each with its own twist, all available for free) in Hempuliās Covemount series
https://itch.io/c/4014684/tiny-block-pushers
https://itch.io/c/4764095/tiny-block-pushers-2
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@ravindra/115704109052964361
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Tiny block-pushers - Collection by Hempuli
A collection by Hempuli
https://itch.io/c/4014684/tiny-block-pushers
4 months ago
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adding AI water use to my list of things I see way more people complaining that people complain about than I see people complaining about given that weāre still hearing about plastic recycling tech being cost ineffective, Iām guessing weāll be hearing about AI water use being overblown for [ā¦]
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https://mastodon.social/@andymandias/115692162885433865
4 months ago
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the program I use to manage launchd services has a new update that lists a new āAI chat viewā as its main (and nearly only) change do people who are super into AI want this? I was never eager for there to be a Google search box in an app like this, is that not roughly the same appeal? add in [ā¦]
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https://mastodon.social/@andymandias/115527205266080433
5 months ago
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Glyph
6 months ago
In light of the PSF's recent loss of an NSF grant and attendant funding shortfall, I will be matching donations up to $5000. Send me your receipts. Very happy if you've already donated for similar reasons but the point is to motivate *new* donations so be sure the timestamp is after this toot š.
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lots of people believe our system selects corporate leaders that are the most intelligent, strategic, ruthless but whenever it comes to how craven and unprincipled they are, thereās always a refrain of āyouād do it too if you were in their positionā maybe, and maybe the system weāve got [ā¦]
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https://mastodon.social/@andymandias/115453213259244604
6 months ago
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I take a perverse pleasure in learning the basic taste of most snobs youāre condescending about kpop demon hunters? letās see⦠oh, you think the epitome of musical quality is *green day* š¤£
6 months ago
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Nikkolas Smith
6 months ago
after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you allšš¾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more⦠all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. ššššš šššš. šš šššš ššš.
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