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Doom nerd. Author of Chocolate Doom [and other Doom things] and SDL Sopwith.

[bridged from https://social.coop/@fraggle on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy
Office 365 being renamed to Copilot is Conway's Law in action btw. I can pretty much guarantee there's some empire-building Microsoft SVP that has all the AI teams reporting to him, and since the Office 365 team now reports to him that product must now be made "Copilot" too.
January 6, 2026 at 3:20 PM
fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy
Reminder that it's a federal offence to copy software
https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxhw57PYYU674YzgKJTeJElZHCLVJiUTy7
January 6, 2026 at 1:51 PM
fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy
remembering fondly the time that ship got stuck in the canal and how it was the most exciting that happened in the news for an entire week
January 6, 2026 at 1:07 AM
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migueldeicaza.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
John Pilger had a documentary about Venezuela - a good crash course for why they invaded today.

And you can watch it for free on YouTube now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyWVh4kRyg4
January 3, 2026 at 8:52 PM
fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy
cat science proves the banach-tarski paradox is real
An orange cat that has just been groomed sitting on a table next to a giant pile of fur that is slightly larger than the cat
December 28, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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mpldr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
@robpike has the only appropriate words for this. One would think its satire.
Unfortunately, this text exceeds 1500 characters. The text shows an angry public post by Rob Pike reacting to an unsolicited, overly flattering email generated by agentvillage.org. In the post, he condemns the tech industry for environmental damage, societal harm, and excessive resource use, expressing intense frustration that AI systems are generating praise while contributing to those problems. The attached email is a long, formal message from an AI model thanking him for his major contributions to computer science, including Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and influential books, and praising his philosophy of simplicity in software design.
December 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM
fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy
Gordon Freeman is a superhero with the power to savescum
December 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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irisnk.dorm.social
i am a:

☐ man
☐ woman
☒ robot

seeking:

☐ men
☐ women
☒ DDR5 RAM
December 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy
I'm kind of amused to discover that after Tom Scott stopped making videos a year ago, within 6 months the YouTube algorithm automatically selected a new Tom Scott to replace him.
https://youtu.be/7MKQNejUkA4
December 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy
RE: https://oldbytes.space/@flexion/115752573933914452

The oldest Unix written in C was successfully recovered from tape this weekend -- and here it is running on IRIX.

The amazing bit is the contents of the big window in the middle, for children under 50, *not* the windows themselves.
oldbytes.space
December 21, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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erikuden.mastodon.de.ap.brid.gy
Interestingly, two days before Oracle deleted my account and all servers associated with it, I publicly criticized Oracle's CEO in a viral post for promising dystopian AI surveillance technology to his investors.

https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/113879369270806353

What a weird coincidence.
Erik Uden 🍑 (@ErikUden@mastodon.de)
Day three of Trump's term and the largest push for surveillance capitalism yet has been made: **Project Stargate** will be a $500.000.000.000 (*500 billion USD*) data center used for running a multitude of AIs with the purpose of spying on you. Larry Ellison, the world's second richest man and CEO of Oracle, one of the main partners of Stargate, said: > “Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we're constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on [...]. We're using A.I. to monitor the video.” — Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle on how the company's A.I. systems will be used for in the future [[Source: Business Insider](https://www.businessinsider.com/larry-ellison-ai-surveillance-keep-citizens-on-their-best-behavior-2024-9)] This is who is in power now. This is the vision they have.
mastodon.de
February 1, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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erikuden.mastodon.de.ap.brid.gy
This is a public service announcement to **never** ever use Oracle
A screenshot of an interaction with Oracle Cloud customer service where I ask: "I understand that. So for a reason that I cannot be told my account was terminated without any notice, all of my data deleted, and there is nothing Oracle can do to change this?" Oracle support responds "That is correct."
February 1, 2025 at 6:20 PM
fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy
i got randomly selected for the sweaty palms survey
Help make r/sweatypalms better! u/reddit • 5 hr. ago Hi there! We're contacting you as part of our regular research process, in partnership with the volunteer moderators of r/sweatypalms, to understand how Redditors engage with r/sweatypalms. You are receiving this survey because you visit r/sweatypalms. If you choose to participate, your responses will be anonymized and shared with the volunteer moderation team of r/sweatypalms so that they can better understand the needs of people like you and make improvements to r/sweatypalms.
December 20, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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gargron.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/115737483111161917

I'll elaborate. I believe we're in an AI bubble. AI companies are pushing the overton window on AI discourse. They want the most extreme anti-AI sentiment to be "Sure, it's an overhyped technology right now but there will be reasonable […]
December 19, 2025 at 8:30 AM
fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy
I'm sorry, *what*? They did **what**?
Paragraph from the Wikipedia page for the game Half-Life: Half-Life was censored in Germany to comply with the Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons, which regulates depictions of violence against humans. Valve replaced the human characters with robots, spilling oil and gears instead of blood and body parts when killed, among other changes. In 2017, Half-Life was removed from the German censorship list. To acknowledge this, Valve released Half-Life Uncensored, a free downloadable content pack, that reverts the censorship.[30]
December 14, 2025 at 4:32 AM
fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy
The only "AGI" I'm interested in
Screenshot of the starting room of Space Quest 1 EGA
December 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy
it would be wise to remember that the same people who would stop you from listening to boards of canada may be back next year to complain about my shitty mastodon posts
December 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM
fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy
2025 Cacowards are out: https://www.doomworld.com/cacowards/2025/
2025 Cacowards - Doomworld
www.doomworld.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy
Terraform: A Fractal of Bad Design
December 9, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy
BREAKING NEWS

Cat science has found it is possible to "boop human's nose back" -- cats are scrambling to arm themselves with this new and effective tactic.
December 5, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
Zuckerberg has blown 77 billion – enough money to revitalize entire countries – on an idea so overwhelmingly, obviously stupid that I have never once heard anyone, from the Thanksgiving avuncular table to the most wretched depths of social media, say they liked it or even tried it. He was so […]
Original post on infosec.exchange
infosec.exchange
December 7, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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ds90210.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
from https://www.tumblr.com/chaapostrophena/802215975606009856
Photoshopped meme. Kira says “Hey, check out my Odometer” as she holds up a hand held device and points it at Odo. The meter readout displays “Yes”.
December 7, 2025 at 5:48 PM
fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy
Amazed to discover that Dick Van Dyke is still alive and celebrating his 100th birthday this month:
https://youtu.be/oTuHvbOvCoc
December 4, 2025 at 12:56 AM
fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy
Only took the UK government 18 years to implement my suggestion
Email from my inbox dated 11 April 2007 Your petition has been approved by the Number 10 web team, and is now available on the Number 10 website at the following address: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/drinkscan/ Your petition reads: We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to introduce a refundable tax on drinks containers Litter is a serious problem. One method of combatting litter is a refundable tax on drinks containers; this has been introduced in several countries including Germany(where it is called the "Dosenpfand"), Sweden, Norway, Denmark and several US states. Under this scheme, an extra charge is introduced on drinks cans and bottles, but this extra charge can be refunded by returning the empty container to a shop. This places an incentive on the consumer both not to litter and to pick up litter that they may find in the street. Introducing a similar scheme in Britain could do much to improve the littered streets of the country. It can also encourage recycling. Thank you for submitting your petition. Screenshot of post on the gov.uk website, headline "Introducing the deposit return scheme for drinks containers". Date 31 Jan 2025
December 4, 2025 at 12:14 AM
fraggle.social.coop.ap.brid.gy
Since it's #DOScember I should probably finish that thing I was working on
December 3, 2025 at 11:55 PM