lirnril vlqc
@lirnril.bsky.social
if i had a nickel for every time fomo made me sign up on a jack dorsey website etc etc
he/him
he/him
was in the midst of wordsmithing an elaborate reply to someone who probably didn't want to hear from me about a topic that likely didn't need my input and then my laptop just randomly shut off. failing hardware has got my back.
December 10, 2025 at 12:45 AM
was in the midst of wordsmithing an elaborate reply to someone who probably didn't want to hear from me about a topic that likely didn't need my input and then my laptop just randomly shut off. failing hardware has got my back.
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Spending two years trying to get a save game file for The Hunter out of Nvidia's cloud gaming platform, and finally succeeding by changing item names in a loadout to their own name and address so it was classed as personal data, then filing a GDPR Subject Access Request to get hold of it.
Twice.
Twice.
September 25, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Spending two years trying to get a save game file for The Hunter out of Nvidia's cloud gaming platform, and finally succeeding by changing item names in a loadout to their own name and address so it was classed as personal data, then filing a GDPR Subject Access Request to get hold of it.
Twice.
Twice.
my current xscreensaver unlock routine is ctrl-alt-f1, log in on new console, systemctl --user restart xscreensaver, ctrl-d, ctrl-alt-f7. I'm sure someone will fix the pam thing but in the meantime I've never felt more in tune with the unix philosophy
July 1, 2025 at 12:48 AM
my current xscreensaver unlock routine is ctrl-alt-f1, log in on new console, systemctl --user restart xscreensaver, ctrl-d, ctrl-alt-f7. I'm sure someone will fix the pam thing but in the meantime I've never felt more in tune with the unix philosophy
"browser.urlbar.scotchBonnet.enableOverride" what the hell is a scotch bonnet. why are they putting them into my url bars. i hate change so much.
June 29, 2025 at 1:20 AM
"browser.urlbar.scotchBonnet.enableOverride" what the hell is a scotch bonnet. why are they putting them into my url bars. i hate change so much.
seems like another all-to-understandable clash of expectations between the "sharing what I'm tinkering on with others on github is fun!" crowd and the "surely everybody else in the world is also getting paid six figures to ensure five nines on my app" crowd
June 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
seems like another all-to-understandable clash of expectations between the "sharing what I'm tinkering on with others on github is fun!" crowd and the "surely everybody else in the world is also getting paid six figures to ensure five nines on my app" crowd
prompt injection? yes please i dont have all day
May 27, 2025 at 7:12 AM
prompt injection? yes please i dont have all day
i think if you fail a captcha there should be a button where it rings up a live google engineer who you get to drag into a completely pointless argument about what it means for a square to have a traffic light or a bicycle
April 25, 2025 at 10:36 PM
i think if you fail a captcha there should be a button where it rings up a live google engineer who you get to drag into a completely pointless argument about what it means for a square to have a traffic light or a bicycle
as much as i enjoy reading the commentary by lawyers in long bluesky threads, i cannot emphasize enough how dearly i wish i wasnt seeing as much commentary by lawyers in long bluesky threads
April 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
as much as i enjoy reading the commentary by lawyers in long bluesky threads, i cannot emphasize enough how dearly i wish i wasnt seeing as much commentary by lawyers in long bluesky threads
I really wish it was a whole label saying "brought you to by <verifier>" instead of just a checkmark
April 22, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I really wish it was a whole label saying "brought you to by <verifier>" instead of just a checkmark
spent enough time being low key frustrated at a firefox thing today that a half remembered quote eventually burrowed to the forefront of my mind and i had to download some scraped dump from archive dot org to make sure i had it right
February 15, 2025 at 12:37 AM
spent enough time being low key frustrated at a firefox thing today that a half remembered quote eventually burrowed to the forefront of my mind and i had to download some scraped dump from archive dot org to make sure i had it right
half hoping for bsky to turn to shit soon so we can stop talking about how the app that's still in the happily-burning-money phase is less user hostile than the desperate-for-profitability incumbents
November 30, 2024 at 5:55 AM
half hoping for bsky to turn to shit soon so we can stop talking about how the app that's still in the happily-burning-money phase is less user hostile than the desperate-for-profitability incumbents
is there a polite way to be like "hey i noticed ____ doesn't post on the discord anymore, did they just like drift away or did i miss the formal excommunication for fucked up behavior"
November 22, 2024 at 10:24 PM
is there a polite way to be like "hey i noticed ____ doesn't post on the discord anymore, did they just like drift away or did i miss the formal excommunication for fucked up behavior"
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Someone is looking for a game they wrote for c64
November 8, 2024 at 1:11 PM
Someone is looking for a game they wrote for c64
it's probably somewhat damning of the trajectory of my mental state that pretty much since they invented 3d printers ive been going "i can think of so many useful things i want to print, i need to get around to that as soon as im doing a little better"
November 11, 2024 at 1:07 AM
it's probably somewhat damning of the trajectory of my mental state that pretty much since they invented 3d printers ive been going "i can think of so many useful things i want to print, i need to get around to that as soon as im doing a little better"
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Companies trying to roll back work from home policy
November 9, 2024 at 4:09 PM
Companies trying to roll back work from home policy
i'm still irrationally pleased that you can go to docs.new and sheets.new to make new documents in google drive. someone went out of their way to get some whole domains to cut like one pageload and two clicks out of a not so frequent workflow. but it feels so good.
November 5, 2024 at 1:22 AM
i'm still irrationally pleased that you can go to docs.new and sheets.new to make new documents in google drive. someone went out of their way to get some whole domains to cut like one pageload and two clicks out of a not so frequent workflow. but it feels so good.
random question to audiobooks enjoyers: do you ever listen to audiobooks together with other people. like on speaker or over streams or w/e, not just "roughly at the same time". is this a thing
October 25, 2024 at 3:32 AM
random question to audiobooks enjoyers: do you ever listen to audiobooks together with other people. like on speaker or over streams or w/e, not just "roughly at the same time". is this a thing
okay I get that people like starting off their fancy long form articles with some meandering story but I'm halfway through the post and we're still talking about late 19th century pet burials instead of string localization issues and-- oh I clicked the wrong link five minutes ago. thatd do it.
October 9, 2024 at 8:49 AM
okay I get that people like starting off their fancy long form articles with some meandering story but I'm halfway through the post and we're still talking about late 19th century pet burials instead of string localization issues and-- oh I clicked the wrong link five minutes ago. thatd do it.
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the windows "don't forget to back up your pc" popup is extremely optimistic about the importance of the files i entrust it with. oh no not my videogame screenshots.
September 21, 2024 at 12:09 PM
the windows "don't forget to back up your pc" popup is extremely optimistic about the importance of the files i entrust it with. oh no not my videogame screenshots.
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rustconf shirt rose to the top of the tshirt rotation and im feeling more impostor syndrome than ever
September 18, 2024 at 12:36 AM
rustconf shirt rose to the top of the tshirt rotation and im feeling more impostor syndrome than ever
do you think the enterprise-d runs kubernetes
September 3, 2024 at 8:38 PM
do you think the enterprise-d runs kubernetes
im like a million years old and i just learned a whole-ass new word
> withal
> withal
August 21, 2024 at 11:48 PM
im like a million years old and i just learned a whole-ass new word
> withal
> withal
good thing I went to bed relatively early, let me get in some reading before sleep. wait why is it 6am
August 20, 2024 at 1:09 PM
good thing I went to bed relatively early, let me get in some reading before sleep. wait why is it 6am