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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

in the early 2010s I remember being frustrated that everything was too much of a procedural, every piece of media was just season 9 of a monster-of-the-week show. but jeez they made _The Witcher_ and they forgot to make it a monster-of-the-week show. that's literally his job. he kills a monster every week

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

so much complaining about Hemsworth's performance but he actually did … fine? it's just that the writers, perhaps worried that the show's audience would be too put off by the re-casting, forgot to give him anything to do

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

eugh The Witcher Season 4 was frustrating

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

glancing through my blog archive I just realized that while https://blog.glyph.im/2026/01/the-next-thing-will-not-be-big.html did not pop off quite as much as some of my other posts, maybe people had better stuff to do over the holiday break, apparently I just recreated Ed Zitron's "The Rot-Com Bubble" from first principles without having read it

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Shopping for a laptop. Lenovo is still the only real choice, but OMG what a pain is navigating their catalog! Slow, jerky, and no logic to what goes with what and can I just select what I need?

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gingerbeardman@mastodon.gamedev.place ("matt sephton") wrote:

Dottie, my pixel art app for macOS is OUT NOW!

After about one year of development (on and off) it's time to set it free.

Whilst the price is not quite free it is ON SALE for the launch period…along with most of my other apps!

https://www.gingerbeardman.com/apps/dottie/

#gingerbeardman30th

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

all I'm saying is that I want to exist in perfect eternal rapturous bliss and that shouldn't really be so much to ask

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

similar vibes to "hey does this medication have this unpleasant side effect I would like to Take Charge Of My Health Through Understanding" when what you actually mean is "I would prefer to stop experiencing persistent adverse effects, please"

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

TFW you find yourself asking an elaborate personal system administration technical question of the Internet, and realize halfway through that you already know exactly how to solve the problem and the thing you want to ask is "someone please take this admin task off my plate, I am ever so tired of filling out forms on web pages and entering commands into my terminal"

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

yah! https://www.pandora.com/artist/fred-wesley-and-the-jbs/pass-the-peas-the-best-of-the-jbs-reissue/doing-it-to-death/TRX59ZVmlpbxVhg?part=ug-desktop&corr=8104885

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

mood:

https://www.pandora.com/station/play/76446015535426485

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

littlegem: the design is starting to come into focus and i've started noodling around on the bit of the prototype that isn't presyntax.

so i think the type theory i'm aiming for is quite similar to kovacs' super-mega-poly from elaboration zoo, which is a bit more than i really wanted to implement but oh well, i suppose i was going to have to go there sooner or later and at least this one has been implemented and i might have a chance of hacking in all the other stuff i want... https://github.com/AndrasKovacs/elaboration-zoo/tree/master/experiments/super-mega-poly

in terms of data structures, i was thinking to start with simple c-style structs which could be easily exported for use with C, but it seems a bit weird to go aggressively first order if you've got a fairly powerful type theory there. although it kinda feels like it would work out similar to zig if i did. we'll see on that, i guess. i can't say i hold out much hope for it staying that simple forever 😬

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grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

One thing I really like is knickknack little charms. This past year, which has been so brutally hard, dice have become an important symbol to me, both for my love of seeing probabilities and the idea that we can better the odds by refusing to give up. Found this guy and taking it as good luck.

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durumcrustulum.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Deirdre Connolly¹ ²") wrote:

"LLM-generated patches did not resolve the vulnerability, added a new vulnerability, or both, an average 53.9% of the time."

👁️👄👁️

1password.com/blog/why-ai-...

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3psboyd ("Matt Boyd") wrote:

Last month: "We are transitioning to being an AI-native company! We're still figuring out what that means. Get in there, use the tools, get your hands dirty, and we'll find out what works!"

Today: "We know y'all are seeing the notifications on our Copilot page. We are indeed going through tokens at an unsustainable rate..."

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inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

RE: https://glammr.us/@overholt/117049333496122205

Back in 1999 or so, I was on the team that helped Minnesota Public Radio choose a long-term storage format for their (extensive and valuable!!) audio archives, which they were about to digitize.

The conclusion we came to was that there was •no• storage medium that met their long-term preservation goals — true then, and almost certainly still true today. The best approach is perpetual and redundant forward copying of the data, from one physical storage device to another.

An archive isn’t a physical thing; it's a process.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

taking a moment today to appreciate the decency that JRR Tolkien exhibited by dying before letting us know if he had any strong opinions about trans people

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mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

"We're forcing something on our users that they don't seem to want or find useful but on the other hand it fundamentally destroys the unit economics of our entire business, so who can say if we're right or wrong?"

https://hachyderm.io/@jimfl/117050422941205913

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nzakas@fosstodon.org ("Nicholas C. Zakas") wrote:

Now I get why Anthropic offers a free six months to Claude Max 20x. Using Opus 5 as your default model is intoxicating.

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AaronDavid@beige.party wrote:

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AaronDavid@beige.party wrote:

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MartMichaelis@mastodonapp.uk ("Martin Michaelis (he/him)") wrote:

This will not go down well in future history books... #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/06/rwe-deal-wind-leases

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

can anyone identify this bird?

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janbeta@chaos.social ("Jan Beta") wrote:

Today‘s achievement: made a 15 second punk tune using a dual SID C64. Oh, and it’s heavily influenced by Coltrane‘s "Giant Steps".

Yeah, my musical taste is a bit of a mess.

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loriemerson@post.lurk.org ("Lori Emerson") wrote:

reminded of a little something I learned en route to writing #othernetworks: that we need to shift from thinking in terms of one network/platform or another and instead to thinking in terms of building up a heterogeneous ecosystem consisting of many networks. not Mastodon vs Bluesky but both and

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ratfactor@mastodon.art wrote:

Came across this little drawing from last year. Never posted until now because it was one of my daily pair of "lunch notes" that I send off with the kids' lunches to school. We were really into the local isopods last fall.

#armadillidiidae #comic

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daniel_bohrer@chaos.social ("Daniel Bohrer") wrote:

Before 1948, someone once came up with this nice 7-word palindrome:
"A man, a plan, a canal – Panama!"

Then in 1983, someone extended it to 9 words:
"A man, a plan, a cat, a canal – Panama!"

And someone cleverer was able to extend it even further to 13 words:
"A man, a plan, a cam, a yak, a yam, a canal – Panama!"

Then in 1984 someone used Unix, a word list and a search algorithm, and it came up with this 540-word behemoth of a palindrome, which barely fits on my screen:

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rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/117047406016279929

Reminder to USAians that the US banking sector being shit and not being able to process transactions in a sane way – thus creating the conditions for shitty band-aids like cryptocurrencies or venmos – is largely a matter of choice on part of the legislators and regulatory bodies.

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futzle@old.mermaid.town ("Deborah Pickett") wrote:

New release from the band!
#Cats #AlbumCovers

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bascule@mas.to ("Tony “Abolish ICE” Arcieri🌹🦀") wrote:

It took humanity 68 years to install 1TW solar capacity, which we reached in 2022.

It took 2 years to double it to 2TW, which we did in November 2024.

Now a little under 2 years later, we’re at 3TW.

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/three-terawatts-solar

#RenewableEnergy