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Gabriele Svelto
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Old school nerd
Knows things about computers that would drive you insane
Hacks on Firefox at Mozilla

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My mother-in-law deleted her Facebook account because she was pissed of all the spam, bots and scam accounts pestering her. The importance of non-tech users dropping commercial social networks cannot be underestimated.
December 29, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Reposted by Gabriele Svelto
Re:Sound asked for my favourite gig photo this year. Picked this one of Sister Madds playing HouseGuest in April.

Was a great gig but really liked the community aspect of it, theres like 5 really great bands from Glasgow in the front row, everyone supporting each […]

[Original post on toot.cafe]
December 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I bought a second hand Nintendo 3DS with Pokemon Sun for my son, as a Christmas present. It was quite cheap in spite of being in good condition, so I wondered what the catch was. It turns out the battery doesn't hold more than a couple of hours worth of charge... Which is actually a good thing […]
Original post on mas.to
mas.to
December 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@atoponce/115787010150256693

I swear I read "shitting velocity" instead of "shipping velocity" the first time around
fosstodon.org
December 26, 2025 at 10:57 PM
An elephant was born today at #artis zoo in #amsterdam and he's making the funniest WTF-where-am-I-OMG faces
December 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Reposted by Gabriele Svelto
December 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Reposted by Gabriele Svelto
Lately I have noticed that when you purchase a ticket you don’t get a static PDF/PNG anymore.

Increasingly often, you get a .pkpass file, which is supposed to be opened in wallet apps (like Google Wallet or any 3rd-party).

Since I don’t like to share information about the events I attend with […]
Original post on manganiello.eu
manganiello.eu
December 24, 2025 at 11:21 AM
If your big ass AAA videogame studio is now scrambling to contain the gigantic PR damage caused by your potential use of genAI, please consider solving the problem at the root by not using genAI in the first place.
December 22, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Reposted by Gabriele Svelto
I wonder if Imagine Dragons has a support band, Consider Kobolds
December 22, 2025 at 7:38 PM
It's that time of the year again!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KvWwJ6sh5s
December 22, 2025 at 1:30 PM
just one more USB port bro. i promise bro just one more port and we'll plug all the dongles bro. just one more port. please just one more bro. one more port and we can fit all the peripherals bro. bro c'mon just one more port. bro bro please just one more
December 21, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Reposted by Gabriele Svelto
Just had someone leave feedback on my F/OSS project saying “maybe that's fine if a product is focused on your Chinese community.”

I'm Korean. Every single piece of documentation is in English. There's nothing in Chinese anywhere in the project.

This kind of microaggression is exhausting. As a […]
Original post on hollo.social
hollo.social
December 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I told the kids to sort their libraries - which were a mess - and dust the shelves before putting the books back in. They didn't want to do it, so it took a while to convince them. Now they've done most of the work, but we're stuck again because they found some interesting books they forgot they […]
Original post on mas.to
mas.to
December 21, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Reposted by Gabriele Svelto
Only on extremely rare occasions do I tend to repost posts from other platforms, but there are exceptions and this is certainly one of them as I feel this message is worthy to be spread as far and wide as possible.

I was going to post link to the full article on […]

[Original post on retro.pizza]
December 20, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Reposted by Gabriele Svelto
The attempt to read the UNIX V4 tape is underway!
December 19, 2025 at 7:19 PM
RE: https://mastodon.social/@chainq/115745849095156671

Do you wanna know what art is? This is art
mastodon.social
December 19, 2025 at 1:24 PM
GenAI users Larian forced to build Divinity around RAM shortage caused by GenAI
The ongoing RAM shortage (and subsequent and pricing explosion) is imposing a wider range of grim effects than even the Great GPU Famine of 2020. First came the death of one of gaming hardware’s most reliable memory and SSD makers, and now... uh... Larian’s new Divinity game is going to be more optimised for PC than it otherwise would have been? That’s what Larian CEO Swen Vincke (clearly on a media tour – here’s him discussing Divinity with our Edwin) told TheGamer, anyway. Vincke notes that because the lack of affordable RAM options is making it harder to predict the horsepower of future PCs, "we already need to do a lot of optimization work in early access that we didn't necessarily want to do at that point in time." That doesn’t sound especially horrible to me – higher performance on lower-end rigs ultimately means more players can join in – though nowhere in the full interview does Vincke acknowledge that the shortage is being directly caused and sustained by demand from data centres that power generative AI, a technology that Larian are using in Divinity’s production, and that Vincke himself is defending the use of. Read more
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December 19, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Hot take: writing new code is often a bad idea. For every problem we face in programming it is very likely that someone came up with a solution already, and made it generic enough to be useful to everyone. Their domain-specific knowledge might also mean that their solution is going to be better […]
Original post on mas.to
mas.to
December 18, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Hey fedifriends, has anyone tried reading books from HumbleBundle on a Kindle? Is it possible? Is it a good experience? My wife has one but before spending the money to gift her a bundle I want to make sure it's not going to be a PIA.
December 18, 2025 at 8:10 AM
I too will be sharing my Christmas Cthulhu
December 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Reposted by Gabriele Svelto
Ran into a problem in prod?
Just generate a fake cloudflare error page and blame it on them - gives you time to fix.

#foss #devops #cloudflare #infosec
December 16, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Reposted by Gabriele Svelto
A completely unhinged post from the head of Norway's oil fund: to hunt down the "leaders" of groups resisting AI implementation in companies and "remove" them

archive.ph/r0u2r
December 16, 2025 at 11:06 AM
RE: https://newsie.social/@Tendar/115729476302051877

The Russian regime is speed-running what will happen to all fossil fuel companies: increased costs, higher breakeven point, lower prices. It rapidly gets to a point where fossil fuel extraction and handling becomes a failed business. The […]
Original post on mas.to
mas.to
December 16, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Reposted by Gabriele Svelto
December 15, 2025 at 9:40 PM