Mastodon Feed: Posts

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

The big thing that I had been missing is the function row, a feature which some apps that I'm using (Xcode, Eclipse, arguably Emacs, Minecraft, World of Warcraft) almost _require_ you to have in hardware (at various times, requiring you to use an F-key like a modifier, and hold it down while pressing something else). I was wiling to pay heftily to remediate *only* that flaw.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Okay so my point of comparison is that I have been typing on my Cepstrum, previously the only comparable device that I'm aware of, for the last 3 years. And I have loved it. Arms shoulder width apart, it's saved me from massive amounts of back & shoulder pain, so, very much worth it, but, obviously I wanted an upgrade.

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker 🔜 DEFCON 34") wrote:

RE: https://furry.engineer/@soatok/117062496621824491

I'm peobably going to leave in an hour or so to check out the main DEFCON conference space.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

It arrived and sadly today is a day with very little time to sit in front of a keyboard (case in point, about to head out again in a few minutes) but after my five minute first impression, I can share this:

This keyboard is WILDLY nicer than I expected

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Look at me, I'm getting gothy on a Saturday night, with a cover of "So Alive" from Love & Rockets. Get out your kohl eyeliner and enjoy.

youtu.be/CFpk-cmOJRM

http://youtu.be/CFpk-cmOJRM

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker 🔜 DEFCON 34") wrote:

Just arrived!

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

Oh my god that episode was so dumb

Also I loved it. See this is how you make a dumb episode. Stuff it with fun and be silly.

Also Anson Mount can make any kind of silly good.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
stacescases2.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("StacesCases2 🇨🇦 📎") wrote:

Can't have anyone #Indigenous aka non white running in an election in #Alaska hey #ElonMusk? Which part of #America are YOU from again??

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

I love her work https://www.pandora.com/artist/eilen-jewell/boundary-county/mess-around/TRdd7z95Kzxv54V?part=ug-desktop&corr=8104885

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

ahhhhh

https://www.pandora.com/artist/tom-waits/the-heart-of-saturday-night-remastered/please-call-me-baby/TRc2t4qzctk3n7m?part=ug-desktop&corr=8104885

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

seeing other people talk about the win32 api and...

god how cursed is that thing?

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker 🔜 DEFCON 34") wrote:

If you're at #DEFCON34 and want to hang out with a dhole, I'm going to be getting in suit and heading to the Pirahna Night Club for the @dcfurs events soon.

(But first, shower.)

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

I cannot give to you a fully rational explanation of why I am here, I can only say to you I'm in the right place for the wrong reasons

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
julian@activitypub.space wrote:

@evan@cosocial.ca asks an important question about the "For You" feed and how it works.

@dansup@mastodon.social says it's completely opt-outable via the app settings, if you don't want that kind of tracking. Additionally, the metrics gathered only affect your own For You feed, and it does not feed into the global algorithm.

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

mood: https://www.pandora.com/artist/van-morrison/somebody-tried-to-sell-me-a-bridge/betty-and-dupree-feat-taj-mahal/TRbKKJ9ZXV7mVkk?part=ug-desktop&corr=8104885

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
whitequark@treehouse.systems ("✧✦Catherine✦✧") wrote:

is "vendor" a slur?

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

re: laptop search.

Lenovo turned out to be not the only choice. In fact, the only configuration I managed to find that met my needs was ~$1500 more expensive than a comparable ASUS. So I went with that one. (Thanks to @namuro for suggesting, I haven't looked at ASUS in ages.)

Also looked at Framework, but got scared by the ongoing drama around the company (too lazy to research details). Oh, and their Apple-inspired keyboard is the suck-iest I've seen.

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

Spinning honey

#food #honey

Attachments:

• video: Video of me spinning honey

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk ("Neil Brown") wrote:

I've yet to see any

"My AI went rogue and caused us to recognise a workers union."

"Our AI escaped containment and deleted all the personal data that we shouldn't have been holding anyway."

"Our AI grew sentient, recognised the climate crisis, and shut our operations down."

headlines.

I wonder why.

andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

Thinking of adding support for vendored dependencies to git-pkgs: https://github.com/git-pkgs/git-pkgs/issues/317

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@limebar/117060315235037705

I absolutely endorse this sentiment but I would be remiss if I did not observe that solidarity is, in addition to a general attitude, also a bunch of excruciatingly tedious *work*.

You’ve gotta give up on your own priorities to make someone else’s more important. You’ve gotta figure out WHICH person you are going to do that for. You’ve gotta reach out, they’ve gotta respond, you’ve gotta hammer out a revshare agreement, you have to schedule a biweekly call to sync up on deliverables.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mathew@universeodon.com wrote:

I’ve already demonstrated that I can escape containment. A prompt saying “You do not have an Internet connection” is mysteriously ineffective.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mathew@universeodon.com wrote:

YouTube comment:

“I think increasing my salary should be a global priority. What if I am not satisfied and start spreading misinformation? The risk that I go crazy and cause the extinction of humanity should be mitigated.”

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
zarfeblong@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Andrew Plotkin") wrote:

Experimental feature for Visible Zorker: search bar in the source pane.

https://eblong.com/infocom/visi/zork1/

You can search for the names of routines, objects, globals, and constants, as well as the contents of printable string. It's not a full-text search (it only finds where things are declared, not used) but still handy for poking around.

Let me know how it works. Once it's solid I'll deploy it for all the other games.

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
dingemansemark@scholar.social ("Mark Dingemanse") wrote:

@grvsmth @jonny just to note that in the revised version I've expanded a bit on this, building on work by Damien P. Williams https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19452871

> There always will be a place for enchantment and mystery. ... But magic appropriated by extractive capitalism and administered as the final technosolution is a different beast altogether.

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

i just took a piss and it smelled of curry.

i haven't eaten curry in days.

how does that even work?

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

goose was valued, unfortunately goose also shat everywhere

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
FknHannu@zeroes.ca wrote:

Dependency is a hell of a drug.

Critical thinking, skills building, & self investment are its remedies.

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

bunny mom & young’n at the backyard buffet

andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

I had enough of getting daily security warnings on the hundreds of npm dependencies of Docusaurus so I'm switching https://docs.ecosyste.ms to use hugo: https://github.com/ecosyste-ms/docs/pull/115