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iris_meredith ("Iris") wrote:

My first article from Wellington: it's about some weird things I've noticed about tech people and their weird phobia of observation and empirical thinking.

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/tech%5Fempiricism%5Fproblem

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

so few people write about it that i wrote about it, even though i haven't had a blog in years.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

anyway, cross platform portability without sacrificing performance is very tedious. nobody writes about it, i don't think all that many projects take it seriously, probably because they've tried and the compilers and computers fought them.

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NanoRaptor@bitbang.social ("Nanoraptor") wrote:

The Ides of Mac.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

(context: it seemed hilariously unpossible and hadn't been encountered in my own testing and i was at the "reading the code through and guessing" stage until the issue author noticed something odd (as it ever is with these things))

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

this is actually a pretty hilarious bug if you're as much of a nerd as me.

totally my oops, i was using hardcoded flags to fiddle about for testing in qemu locally.

https://codeberg.org/jjl/bittricks/issues/4

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
lety@doesstuff.social ("Lety Does Stuff") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@annamam/116235222464114496

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EVERYONE I DID IT I CONVINCED A CUTE GIRL TO USE MASTODON AND I NEED YOU ALL TO FOLLOW HER ASAP

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

I love Florida Thunderstorm season.

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
norootcause@hachyderm.io ("Lorin Hochstein :verified:") wrote:

The three skills with a lot less overlap than you’d expect:

1. Ability to code.
2. Ability to perform well in a coding interview.
3. Ability to validate code.

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
blakespot@oldbytes.space ("Blake Patterson") wrote:

The announcement out of AwesomeCon has come.

Nathan Fillion and Crew Reunite for ‘Firefly’ Animated Series

https://www.thetvcave.com/post/firefly-animated-series-what-we-know

"Grab your brown coats and a very expensive bottle of Mudder’s Milk, because the impossible just happened. After two decades of "maybe next year" and enough fan petitions to paper the entire Verse, Nathan Fillion has finally stopped teasing us on Instagram and dropped the big one: a Firefly animated series is officially in advanced development."

The series takes place between the original TV series and Serenity, the film.

#IAimToMisbehave #Firefly #Serenity #AwesomeCon #nathanfillion #animation #animatedseries #entertainment #entertainmentnews #hollywood #SciFi #nostalgia #actors #spacemovies #ScienceFiction

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

RE: https://frogs.lgbt/@alyx/116232623564098477

Anyone in #BelieveInFilm interested?

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
sig@furries.club ("💫「mongrel mind」🛰️") wrote:

In case you didn’t know how big I am…

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
Edent ("Terence Eden") wrote:

Brilliant news! The UK's Labour Government are going to make "plug in solar" legal.

Grab some panels from Lidl, hang them off your balcony or out your window, plug them in to your mains. Done!

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-to-go-further-and-faster-in-becoming-energy-secure

#Solar

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Dead-eyed fucking losers 😭

Just absolutely rancid auras coming from this photo. Imagine being Elon's little data dog fuckboys. Couldn't be me.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
june@social.nouveau.community ("June") wrote:

"The most wildly successful project I’ve ever released is no longer mine. In all my years of building things and sharing them online, I have never felt so violated."

https://beyondloom.com/blog/onwigglypaint.html

Edit: I am not the author of this. Please go check out https://beyondloom.com/ for more of the author's work.

kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin") wrote:

The seals are on the prowl

#kitsap

Attachments:

• video: Video of seals swimming around in the ocean with birds flying overhead

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

Ooh, are we going in the (McClaren) P1?

No, we're going in the 1L transit ecoboost

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

a lot of people now use faraday pouches

this is an unusual definition of 'a lot', isn't it?

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mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

When I tell y'all how many people work for the NYPD, and that their budget ($12B/yr) is greater than the military budget of almost every country on earth, people think I'm exaggerating.

I'm not.

So when they say that they "Don't have enough resources," to pursue all the sex crimes or thefts? They are lying.

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

But it gets dumber: Someone apparently reported my comment as, uh, self-harm???

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

I know it's my own mistake for bothering with Reddit, but BlueAnon conspiracy theorists suck

https://old.reddit.com/r/MurderedByWords/comments/1rubv6a/it%5Fwas%5Fstaged%5Fand%5Fim%5Ftired%5Fof%5Fpretending%5Fit%5Fwasnt/oam4mpu/?context=9

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@swelljoe in closing, I could beat Casey Muratori in a fist fight

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

I want to know if this guy was an organic chemist, which might explain his appreciation of urea.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/15/how-to-kick-a-professor-off-campus/

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I guess what bugs me the most is that I am not _good_ at this. I don't have any resources to analyze markets. Spreadsheets make me tired. I should not be routinely able to glance at what passes for "professional" product reviews or market analysis and be yelling at the screen "you forgot that more than one person is going to buy a computer this year!!!"

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

the reason that this makes me annoyed enough to post about is not that I have any particular animus for "tech review" people. it's just that it's a very small but egregious example of the omnipresence in our culture of "analysis" that looks at metrics but ignores systems.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

the function knows where its going to call because it knows where it isn't going to call

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

unrelatedly, as an owner of a Macintosh Computer Book (Professional) with 64GB of RAM, I am _psyched_ that Apple has implicitly made a promise that its operating system will be usable with only 8GB for at least 8 more years. this is absolutely my favorite computer that I will never ever use

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

the entire video game industry rested on the Nintendo Entertainment System for an entire decade, a computer with 2 kilobytes of RAM when price-competitive home computers had megabytes.

the macbook neo is not a good choice if you are a competitive Valorant or a Cyberpunk 2077 streamer with a million dollars of annual brand deal revenue on the line. but it is going to change what "gaming" *is* for the actual public where game studios make their money.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

"Is the macbook neo good for Gaming" the Influencers howl, looking at multivariate equations including the price of RAM and the number of teraflops that a GPU can produce

you dolts, this machine is about to be in the hands of like ten million children. its price point means it is highly likely going to be The Computer for an entire generation. it already plays a huge catalog of casual games just fine. the demo units in the apple stores are all playing Apple Arcade titles with no difficulty.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

Called it:
https://archive.md/20260313093508/https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-03-13/the-ai-washing-of-job-cuts-is-corrosive-and-confusing

> A Resume.org survey of 1,000 hiring managers found that 59% say they emphasize AI’s role in layoffs because it “is viewed more favorably by stakeholders than saying layoffs or hiring freezes are driven by financial constraints.”