Michael Rutter
@m-rutter.com
Should be operated at 291°K to 294°K for best performance.
Software engineer and philosophy phd dropout that loves programming languages. Board games, video games, coffee, politics, philosophy and programming.
London-ish UK
https://m-rutter.com/
Software engineer and philosophy phd dropout that loves programming languages. Board games, video games, coffee, politics, philosophy and programming.
London-ish UK
https://m-rutter.com/
@magic.cardmarket.com Is there a reason why the site uses such short-lived cookies for auth? Could you not extend the life of the cookies to something more reasonable like 1 week to 1 month and just gate important stuff like money withdrawal behind additional login + TOTP 2FA checks?
November 1, 2025 at 12:52 PM
@magic.cardmarket.com Is there a reason why the site uses such short-lived cookies for auth? Could you not extend the life of the cookies to something more reasonable like 1 week to 1 month and just gate important stuff like money withdrawal behind additional login + TOTP 2FA checks?
Well I'm glad to have been an honorary resident of the Republic or Ireland or the Netherlands each time a service has tried to get ID out of me: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
ID photos of 70,000 users may have been leaked, Discord says
The platform says hackers targeted a firm that helped to verify the ages of its users.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Well I'm glad to have been an honorary resident of the Republic or Ireland or the Netherlands each time a service has tried to get ID out of me: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Team Cherry told me that Hollow Knight has sold 15 million copies, making it one of the biggest indie games of all time.
What's really wild is that in February 2019, when Silksong was announced, Hollow Knight had only sold 2.8 million copies.
The full story: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
What's really wild is that in February 2019, when Silksong was announced, Hollow Knight had only sold 2.8 million copies.
The full story: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Why ‘Silksong’ Took Seven Years to Make
The highly anticipated indie game has been in production for so long that it’s become an internet meme
www.bloomberg.com
August 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Team Cherry told me that Hollow Knight has sold 15 million copies, making it one of the biggest indie games of all time.
What's really wild is that in February 2019, when Silksong was announced, Hollow Knight had only sold 2.8 million copies.
The full story: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
What's really wild is that in February 2019, when Silksong was announced, Hollow Knight had only sold 2.8 million copies.
The full story: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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ask me anything about Lean (theorem prover / programming language)!
caveat: i’ve only been learning it for a few months so i’m at a stage one could call “an inspired amateur”
caveat: i’ve only been learning it for a few months so i’m at a stage one could call “an inspired amateur”
August 6, 2025 at 8:39 PM
ask me anything about Lean (theorem prover / programming language)!
caveat: i’ve only been learning it for a few months so i’m at a stage one could call “an inspired amateur”
caveat: i’ve only been learning it for a few months so i’m at a stage one could call “an inspired amateur”
I am now a resident of the Netherlands, Ireland, France, Sweden or whatever is most convenient for most https traffic purposes.
July 25, 2025 at 10:42 AM
I am now a resident of the Netherlands, Ireland, France, Sweden or whatever is most convenient for most https traffic purposes.
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UK users when the website asks them where they're posting from today.
July 25, 2025 at 7:10 AM
UK users when the website asks them where they're posting from today.
I hope with these back to back heatwaves there are some ministers at home sweating puddles writing an email to their departments asking why we effectively ban AC in new builds and block air to air source heat pumps from government subsidy.
July 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I hope with these back to back heatwaves there are some ministers at home sweating puddles writing an email to their departments asking why we effectively ban AC in new builds and block air to air source heat pumps from government subsidy.
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It's very hot today so I wrote about the UK's anti-air conditioning policies and why getting rid of them could be the secret to getting us to install heat pump.
samdumitriu.substack.com/p/legalise-ac
samdumitriu.substack.com/p/legalise-ac
Legalise AC
Clean energy abundance should mean sweating less indoors
samdumitriu.substack.com
June 30, 2025 at 2:33 PM
It's very hot today so I wrote about the UK's anti-air conditioning policies and why getting rid of them could be the secret to getting us to install heat pump.
samdumitriu.substack.com/p/legalise-ac
samdumitriu.substack.com/p/legalise-ac
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british fan chat
![cartoon for the guardian by Stephen Collins - script as follows:
[Scene is a darkened LOFT. Amongst the boxes and junk are FOUR KNACKERED OLD FANS - three tower fans and one circular, with cracked grey plastic and buttons missing. One fan, TOWER FAN 1, is a bit taller than the others, and is addressing them]
1
TOWER FAN 1:
Right lads, get ready.
2
TOWER FAN 1:
This is our time.
3
TOWER FAN 1:
The time when we remember who we are, and why we’re here.
4
TOWER FAN 1:
We are the four crap fans in a British person’s loft,
and we are here to make absolutely no difference whatsoever.
5
TOWER FAN 1:
I know what you’re
thinking, lads:
6
TOWER FAN 1:
Surely this will be the year they finally replace us?
7
TOWER FAN 1:
Our plastic’s gone all brown... I haven’t oscillated since 2018...
8
TOWER FAN 1:
Dave here sounds like a spitfire and blows like a sad cat’s sigh…
TOWER FAN 2:
Cheers mate
9
TOWER FAN 1:
But no. These people are British, and every year, they forget the sun exists.
By the time they remember,
new fans will cost *four million pounds* on Amazon.
10
TOWER FAN 1:
So we’ll be back down there... shovelling thick air across the moaning faces of a species that cannot comprehend the concept of air conditioning, or even just closing the curtains when it’s hot out...
11
TOWER FAN 1:
...while they incessantly bang on about normally hot countries which this country is now temporarily a bit hotter than.
12
[The loft hatch opens and a person comes up the ladder]
PERSON:
APPARENTLY IT’S HOTTER THAN GREECE, LISA](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreidbpfu2ioghspjcg4xitzv655jzjwp5lgxk5hi3ag7sechgh222ze@jpeg)
May 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
british fan chat
BBC News putting latest only just released Doctor Who finale spoilers in their front page headline like its still 2005 and streaming doesn't exist.
June 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM
BBC News putting latest only just released Doctor Who finale spoilers in their front page headline like its still 2005 and streaming doesn't exist.
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Labour's immigration announcement today is a reflection of the paucity of honest debate by BOTH political parties over the last decade on this issue.
Labour has never made a counter-argument, or been honest about economic cost of immigration curbs, so it's stuck making Tory/Reform arguments 1/n
Labour has never made a counter-argument, or been honest about economic cost of immigration curbs, so it's stuck making Tory/Reform arguments 1/n
May 12, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Labour's immigration announcement today is a reflection of the paucity of honest debate by BOTH political parties over the last decade on this issue.
Labour has never made a counter-argument, or been honest about economic cost of immigration curbs, so it's stuck making Tory/Reform arguments 1/n
Labour has never made a counter-argument, or been honest about economic cost of immigration curbs, so it's stuck making Tory/Reform arguments 1/n
It didn't even take a day before the briefings started that it is apparently its Ed Miliband's fault. briefing against their only effective minister have begun: www.politicshome.com/news/article...
May 2, 2025 at 8:33 PM
It didn't even take a day before the briefings started that it is apparently its Ed Miliband's fault. briefing against their only effective minister have begun: www.politicshome.com/news/article...
Looking forward to the brains in No. 10 concluding from these elections that they need to double down on being ersatz Reform and randomly sack Ed Miliband for being too good at his job and making the rest of them look bad.
May 2, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Looking forward to the brains in No. 10 concluding from these elections that they need to double down on being ersatz Reform and randomly sack Ed Miliband for being too good at his job and making the rest of them look bad.
Clair Obscur is a good video game
April 26, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Clair Obscur is a good video game
New discord desktop client update might be one of the few times a product has a major UI update and I actually like the changes. Much better use of space
March 25, 2025 at 10:11 PM
New discord desktop client update might be one of the few times a product has a major UI update and I actually like the changes. Much better use of space
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The new native TS compiler is a stunning tech feat. A gift to the community. A thoughtful plan to preserve expectations. So reactions surprised me!
JS folk: Cool! An OSS project I rely on & don't pay for is now 10x faster 😍
Rust folk: Curious! Let's learn more about this choice.
C# spokespeople:
JS folk: Cool! An OSS project I rely on & don't pay for is now 10x faster 😍
Rust folk: Curious! Let's learn more about this choice.
C# spokespeople:
![[Kelly from the US Office TV show]
Yeah, I have a lot of questions. Number one: how dare you?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:w227epg3attqnssfdkx6ex6a/bafkreib2g67rfphpfqigylnld3oruqp2xvjipovgeykmo3rbkn6daqvlt4@jpeg)
March 12, 2025 at 9:56 AM
The new native TS compiler is a stunning tech feat. A gift to the community. A thoughtful plan to preserve expectations. So reactions surprised me!
JS folk: Cool! An OSS project I rely on & don't pay for is now 10x faster 😍
Rust folk: Curious! Let's learn more about this choice.
C# spokespeople:
JS folk: Cool! An OSS project I rely on & don't pay for is now 10x faster 😍
Rust folk: Curious! Let's learn more about this choice.
C# spokespeople:
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Pretty sure that under Braverman's lower bound of her de facto ethnocentric definition of "Englishness" I'm not English because my great grandparents were Irish Catholics. World is going mad and bad and all of the racists are coming out of the woodwork.
February 27, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Pretty sure that under Braverman's lower bound of her de facto ethnocentric definition of "Englishness" I'm not English because my great grandparents were Irish Catholics. World is going mad and bad and all of the racists are coming out of the woodwork.
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Btw if Europe is going to replace the US national security state, I also expect us to secretly sponsor subversive, avant-garde [but subtly neoliberal] art, poetry, philosophy, etc. around the world. Finally, a sustainable business model for Creatives.
It’s more important than ever for Europe to fund strategic open source projects for open, decentralized communication systems (like Matrix) and application platforms/the open web (like Servo). We all need to be in control of our own computers, and it makes sense to fund as defense spending.
February 25, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Btw if Europe is going to replace the US national security state, I also expect us to secretly sponsor subversive, avant-garde [but subtly neoliberal] art, poetry, philosophy, etc. around the world. Finally, a sustainable business model for Creatives.
Listened to r4's Today and hear Robinson in an interview with a CDU rep questioning the democracy of Germany because the AFD (a neo nazi party) won't be in government and ends his segment effectively rallying for the AFD at the next election. I was right to stop listening to this shit after 2016.
February 24, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Listened to r4's Today and hear Robinson in an interview with a CDU rep questioning the democracy of Germany because the AFD (a neo nazi party) won't be in government and ends his segment effectively rallying for the AFD at the next election. I was right to stop listening to this shit after 2016.
Time will tell if the British right will remember that they aren't Americans, but it's sure getting tedious atm
February 20, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Time will tell if the British right will remember that they aren't Americans, but it's sure getting tedious atm
Civ 7 is probably the best day one release experience of Civ I've had having played 4, 5, and 6 on release and being someone that strongly prefers 5 to 6. There are some rough bits and clear holes for future expansions/DLC, but the bones of it are in a word, fun.
February 16, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Civ 7 is probably the best day one release experience of Civ I've had having played 4, 5, and 6 on release and being someone that strongly prefers 5 to 6. There are some rough bits and clear holes for future expansions/DLC, but the bones of it are in a word, fun.