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Make Kasprzak 🐤🍁
@distraction.engineer
Engineer of Distractions; Pro/Indie Game Dev (1999+); IGF Finalist (2009); Retro, DIY, C64 nerd; AKA PoV, PoVRAZOR, VA3POV 🐖📻; Them; 🍁

Caretaker/co-creator of the @ludumdare.com online game jam; @facade.music

Empathy is punk! Trans rights! 🏳️‍⚧️💜🤘
Nah
someone should make a videogame
December 28, 2025 at 1:45 AM
The winners of the next crash will be home-labbers, and anyone with an actual use for excessive compute.

Example: A year ago I acquired server parts from 2017 (EOL'd in 2023) that let me build a dual CPU 40-core workstation that can compile Firefox from scratch in under 10 minutes (vs 2 hours). 🤯
in previous tech bubbles at least you could dumpster dive for some nice furniture at the end
December 27, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Throwback to the Xmas when I spoofed mobile game ads too accurately, and no one clicked on the video.
December 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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love that software developers are advertising AI functionality in every single app now and it's up to you to try to figure out if they mean "this has spellcheck" or "everything you create in this app will sync in real-time to sam altman's personal laptop" or something in between
December 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Are video games that actually push the limits of GPUs even a viable business anymore?
when AI crashes, will we able to use the leftover GPUs for games again? or are they so different from regular GPUs they’ll be useless? or will the chips be so burned out they’ll be useless?
December 27, 2025 at 6:53 PM
While I realize #39c3 (and future events) isn't Defcon, are people there worried about having their devices "pwned" given the vibe?
December 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I thought this was about the other ice.
Wetterupdate Serviceinfo: Beware of the ******-glatte Gehwege & Treppen draußen. Es ist spiegelglatt. #39c3
December 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Christmas gift for husb.
December 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
😍 ... I finally remembered the EU is a perfectly lovely place to visit. Been seeing some folks at #39c3 sharing some cool things.

The only downside is I only speak English...

Realizing I may need to pickup a bit of German to enable me to attend certain events. 🤔
December 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Something that hasn't been talked about much: Upgradable PCs have kind-of hit their limit. 😳

AMD's Ryzen Max+ AI CPUs demonstrate this best (ignore the AI part). PCs with these CPUs can only be purchased with the fastest memory if it's soldered. Slotted memory isn't reliable enough to go faster. 🫨
Weird tangent: has anyone running a PC with DDR5 truly felt their computer was orders of magnitude faster than a previous DDR4 computer?

To me, going from a laptop or Raspberry Pi with DDR3 to one with DDR4 felt like "night and day". The first DDR5 PC benchmarks I saw looked insignificant though. 🤔
Sister in law asked for MacBook Pro 2013 "tech support" for Xmas. My wife has been handling the software side, backing up files, nuking, and installing the latest MacOS. Me I just gave the machine an initial deep cleaning and surface clean. Screen was caked with gunk. Cleaned half to show how bad.
December 26, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Xmas should *also* be a day people mass-leave X.
We survived Xmas. 🎉
December 26, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Weird tangent: has anyone running a PC with DDR5 truly felt their computer was orders of magnitude faster than a previous DDR4 computer?

To me, going from a laptop or Raspberry Pi with DDR3 to one with DDR4 felt like "night and day". The first DDR5 PC benchmarks I saw looked insignificant though. 🤔
Sister in law asked for MacBook Pro 2013 "tech support" for Xmas. My wife has been handling the software side, backing up files, nuking, and installing the latest MacOS. Me I just gave the machine an initial deep cleaning and surface clean. Screen was caked with gunk. Cleaned half to show how bad.
December 26, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Tomorrow’s Boxing Day, my favorite part of Canadian Christmas, with its implicit permission to do next to nothing. Unless you feel like bargain-hunting when the shops are never more crowded.
December 26, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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I’m from Whoville, and I say kill the Grinch!
December 25, 2025 at 10:29 PM
We survived Xmas. 🎉
December 26, 2025 at 2:38 AM
A NAME SYNONYMOUS WITH QUALITY!
December 26, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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CEOs think AI can do their worker's jobs because it can do a CEOs job (make shit up)
December 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
My niece gave us a melted snowman for Xmas.
December 26, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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LP, LP, ➜, LK, HP. I went back redid my Homer Akuma. This time with synched mouth and tweaks.
November 15, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Merry Christmas to all, and
transgender for everybody
December 25, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Sister in law asked for MacBook Pro 2013 "tech support" for Xmas. My wife has been handling the software side, backing up files, nuking, and installing the latest MacOS. Me I just gave the machine an initial deep cleaning and surface clean. Screen was caked with gunk. Cleaned half to show how bad.
December 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Big shout-out to all those neuro-divergent folk that sometimes find this day, and the next to be extremely stressful. Its not just you! And yes, other people are infuriating, and yes, you can get through it! Don't be afraid to go find a quiet space for a while if you need it. And Happy Holidays.
December 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Merry Christmas🎄
#LittleShadowMonsters
December 25, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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"We invented a new license that lets us try to argue against people continually calling us out for closing source and yet somehow continue the swiss-cheezification of our foot"
We're open-sourcing the full CAD files of the CORE One and CORE One L, released under a new license we built for the maker community. Read more about it in Josef's new article: blog.prusa3d.com/core-one-cad...
December 23, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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NORAD Santa tracker is Woke
December 25, 2025 at 2:28 AM