Sqaaakoi :flagEnby:
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I'm a weird internet user with dumb hobbies.
Also, I'm probably obnoxious, maybe annoying. and definitely queer.
Sometimes I share opinions. If there's […]
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Also, I'm probably obnoxious, maybe annoying. and definitely queer.
Sometimes I share opinions. If there's […]
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Dear "Just pipe this script to bash" application installer developers,
Do provide detailed installation instructions as well. It's not that I can't read/inspect your bash script, it's that I hate doing it.
You force me to inspect your bash script, because I use my own methods at home to keep […]
Do provide detailed installation instructions as well. It's not that I can't read/inspect your bash script, it's that I hate doing it.
You force me to inspect your bash script, because I use my own methods at home to keep […]
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cloudisland.nz
December 2, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Dear "Just pipe this script to bash" application installer developers,
Do provide detailed installation instructions as well. It's not that I can't read/inspect your bash script, it's that I hate doing it.
You force me to inspect your bash script, because I use my own methods at home to keep […]
Do provide detailed installation instructions as well. It's not that I can't read/inspect your bash script, it's that I hate doing it.
You force me to inspect your bash script, because I use my own methods at home to keep […]
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Jeff Geerling, the affable and adorkable raspberry pi guy, was a misogynistic forced-birth tradcath extremist from at least 2009 to 2013, and as far as I know, still is today. Do not link to him and do not support his work. This is a matter of record on his own website […]
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mastodon.social
December 2, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Jeff Geerling, the affable and adorkable raspberry pi guy, was a misogynistic forced-birth tradcath extremist from at least 2009 to 2013, and as far as I know, still is today. Do not link to him and do not support his work. This is a matter of record on his own website […]
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November 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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i still think social media with linear timelines should have like a "incase you missed it" mixed in that is solely based on how infrequently an account posts
November 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
i still think social media with linear timelines should have like a "incase you missed it" mixed in that is solely based on how infrequently an account posts
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monday rhymes with book
November 22, 2025 at 3:45 AM
monday rhymes with book
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user with 537 tabs and documents open on three 4k monitors: why do computers these days use so much ram? this never happened when I had one single Internet Explorer window open on a 800x600 monitor
November 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
user with 537 tabs and documents open on three 4k monitors: why do computers these days use so much ram? this never happened when I had one single Internet Explorer window open on a 800x600 monitor
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I saw a post that reminded my once more why I hate microblogging. It's based on the idea that anything you post is broadcast to anyone with little you can do to stop it, and this leads to a whole lot of problems. I wrote about my misgivings in the past:
- How it fucks up our interactions with […]
- How it fucks up our interactions with […]
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icy.wyvern.rip
November 20, 2025 at 8:31 AM
I saw a post that reminded my once more why I hate microblogging. It's based on the idea that anything you post is broadcast to anyone with little you can do to stop it, and this leads to a whole lot of problems. I wrote about my misgivings in the past:
- How it fucks up our interactions with […]
- How it fucks up our interactions with […]
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do remember: "will be open sourced soon" and "will be upstreamed soon" are both shorthand for "fuck off you aren't getting source and we'll shut it down before then"
November 19, 2025 at 8:58 PM
do remember: "will be open sourced soon" and "will be upstreamed soon" are both shorthand for "fuck off you aren't getting source and we'll shut it down before then"
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tom scott used to be wild
https://web.archive.org/web/20110426103554/http://www.tomscott.com/warnings/
https://web.archive.org/web/20110426103554/http://www.tomscott.com/warnings/
Journalism Warning Labels « Tom Scott
Making newspaper reading that much safer.
web.archive.org
December 13, 2024 at 1:23 AM
tom scott used to be wild
https://web.archive.org/web/20110426103554/http://www.tomscott.com/warnings/
https://web.archive.org/web/20110426103554/http://www.tomscott.com/warnings/
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ive heard people say stuff along the lines of "adblocking is an essential security tool", but i havent realized just how fucking _true_ that is for normal everyday people until now. in the back of my mind i interpreted it as sort of true but exaggerated, to defend the use of adblockers for just […]
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booping.synth.download
November 18, 2025 at 10:23 PM
ive heard people say stuff along the lines of "adblocking is an essential security tool", but i havent realized just how fucking _true_ that is for normal everyday people until now. in the back of my mind i interpreted it as sort of true but exaggerated, to defend the use of adblockers for just […]
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we need more just ad-hoc networks and computer systems on the net
people just having a VPN into their computer, a public user that can read some project files and blogs, and tunnels into other machines and such
a dispersed network of loosely connected systems that are off the net; you can ask […]
people just having a VPN into their computer, a public user that can read some project files and blogs, and tunnels into other machines and such
a dispersed network of loosely connected systems that are off the net; you can ask […]
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masto.doskel.net
November 17, 2025 at 10:36 PM
we need more just ad-hoc networks and computer systems on the net
people just having a VPN into their computer, a public user that can read some project files and blogs, and tunnels into other machines and such
a dispersed network of loosely connected systems that are off the net; you can ask […]
people just having a VPN into their computer, a public user that can read some project files and blogs, and tunnels into other machines and such
a dispersed network of loosely connected systems that are off the net; you can ask […]
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I might be burned at the stake for this but people making Obsidian plugins for everything remind me of people living inside emacs
November 15, 2025 at 11:43 AM
I might be burned at the stake for this but people making Obsidian plugins for everything remind me of people living inside emacs
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You can only choose one, but never both:
1. A footer at the bottom of your site
2. Endless scrolling which appends new content when you reach the end of the list
1. A footer at the bottom of your site
2. Endless scrolling which appends new content when you reach the end of the list
November 12, 2025 at 7:10 AM
You can only choose one, but never both:
1. A footer at the bottom of your site
2. Endless scrolling which appends new content when you reach the end of the list
1. A footer at the bottom of your site
2. Endless scrolling which appends new content when you reach the end of the list
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The official Lego fire piece for Lego Minecraft in specific
November 6, 2025 at 11:07 PM
The official Lego fire piece for Lego Minecraft in specific
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BFDI now has a wikipedia article. in other news, hell has frozen over
November 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM
BFDI now has a wikipedia article. in other news, hell has frozen over
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you used to be able to make interactive word documents with C# in visual studio
![Microsoft Word 2010 window with an open document showing the text "Hi :3" and a button now labelled "my cool butt[on]", in the foreground is a standard Windows 7 dialog box with the text "Hi there :3" and an OK button.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7rfssi44thh6f4ywcl3u5nvt/bafkreicnqqkoxte5otyjtvbwwv4sysizuc7wcud2lpvs2chrcbc7sbui5q@jpeg)
October 31, 2025 at 9:29 PM
you used to be able to make interactive word documents with C# in visual studio
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the worst part about signal is that i can't mess around with reflashing my phone as long as I'm using signal and i need to keep that single point of trust alive
October 31, 2025 at 7:07 PM
the worst part about signal is that i can't mess around with reflashing my phone as long as I'm using signal and i need to keep that single point of trust alive
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Probably the first time since we switched to GitHub back in 2010.
October 30, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Probably the first time since we switched to GitHub back in 2010.
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it's weird how you can buy a video game for $25 and get thousands of hours of content and a decade of free updates or you can buy a video game for $120 and get eight hours of content
October 30, 2025 at 5:00 AM
it's weird how you can buy a video game for $25 and get thousands of hours of content and a decade of free updates or you can buy a video game for $120 and get eight hours of content
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My friends bullied me into making an aztec/qr code barcode fusion.... yes both decode correct!
October 29, 2025 at 8:13 PM
My friends bullied me into making an aztec/qr code barcode fusion.... yes both decode correct!
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in Nix, a store object can depend on another store object at runtime. this means two things:
a) the store object contains the path to the other store object. usually, in the form of a symlink, or as an absolute path to a binary in a shell script, or in the library path of an ELF executable […]
a) the store object contains the path to the other store object. usually, in the form of a symlink, or as an absolute path to a binary in a shell script, or in the library path of an ELF executable […]
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gaysex.cloud
October 27, 2025 at 8:31 AM
in Nix, a store object can depend on another store object at runtime. this means two things:
a) the store object contains the path to the other store object. usually, in the form of a symlink, or as an absolute path to a binary in a shell script, or in the library path of an ELF executable […]
a) the store object contains the path to the other store object. usually, in the form of a symlink, or as an absolute path to a binary in a shell script, or in the library path of an ELF executable […]
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@whitequark
And to add to the horror, all of the cars and chargers are in the same physical powerline broadcast domain, so when another car is plugged in, it needs to broadcast ping and measure the response signal strength(*) to find out which charger it's […]
[Original post on chaos.social]
And to add to the horror, all of the cars and chargers are in the same physical powerline broadcast domain, so when another car is plugged in, it needs to broadcast ping and measure the response signal strength(*) to find out which charger it's […]
[Original post on chaos.social]
October 23, 2025 at 12:46 PM
@whitequark
And to add to the horror, all of the cars and chargers are in the same physical powerline broadcast domain, so when another car is plugged in, it needs to broadcast ping and measure the response signal strength(*) to find out which charger it's […]
[Original post on chaos.social]
And to add to the horror, all of the cars and chargers are in the same physical powerline broadcast domain, so when another car is plugged in, it needs to broadcast ping and measure the response signal strength(*) to find out which charger it's […]
[Original post on chaos.social]
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Advent of Code will be running fewer puzzles per year from now on, due to the effort involved being unsustainable.
It will also be removing the global leaderboards (private ones remain). People were definitely always super toxic about the global leaderboard, but I have to assume that people […]
It will also be removing the global leaderboards (private ones remain). People were definitely always super toxic about the global leaderboard, but I have to assume that people […]
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infosec.exchange
October 23, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Advent of Code will be running fewer puzzles per year from now on, due to the effort involved being unsustainable.
It will also be removing the global leaderboards (private ones remain). People were definitely always super toxic about the global leaderboard, but I have to assume that people […]
It will also be removing the global leaderboards (private ones remain). People were definitely always super toxic about the global leaderboard, but I have to assume that people […]
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I think some of y'all might appreciate the aesthetics this new CSS property unlocks, so I whipped up a super quick visual guide.
October 20, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I think some of y'all might appreciate the aesthetics this new CSS property unlocks, so I whipped up a super quick visual guide.