Pico
@mrpickles.co.za
Software engineer: Python, Linux, Nix, Vim
Creator of sarcasm
South Africa
Creator of sarcasm
South Africa
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if you are not happy single, you won't be happy in a relationship.
true happiness comes from chaining together obscure `sed` and `awk` commands to parse a log file, not from someone else.
true happiness comes from chaining together obscure `sed` and `awk` commands to parse a log file, not from someone else.
August 27, 2025 at 6:34 PM
if you are not happy single, you won't be happy in a relationship.
true happiness comes from chaining together obscure `sed` and `awk` commands to parse a log file, not from someone else.
true happiness comes from chaining together obscure `sed` and `awk` commands to parse a log file, not from someone else.
Are you brave enough to run
kill -9 1
it does nothing, trust me bro.
kill -9 1
it does nothing, trust me bro.
April 30, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Are you brave enough to run
kill -9 1
it does nothing, trust me bro.
kill -9 1
it does nothing, trust me bro.
Nix and SCons are not friends
April 24, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Nix and SCons are not friends
I don't think I can live like this
www.androidauthority.com/youtube-larg...
www.androidauthority.com/youtube-larg...
YouTube is testing giant homepage thumbnails, and people really hate it
The latest YouTube UI test involves huge thumbnails that only fit two or three on a row. The internet reacted exactly how you'd expect.
www.androidauthority.com
April 22, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I don't think I can live like this
www.androidauthority.com/youtube-larg...
www.androidauthority.com/youtube-larg...
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I would too.
Pope Dies After Meeting JD Vance
There are no coincidences.
www.thegodpodcast.com
April 21, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I would too.
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“something i don’t like happened on signal, so therefore signal shouldn’t be trusted and is bad”
im not surprised but still find it hard to believe this is what many people are taking away from this lol
use signal
im not surprised but still find it hard to believe this is what many people are taking away from this lol
use signal
Signal Messenger: Speak Freely
Say "hello" to a different messaging experience. An unexpected focus on privacy, combined with all of the features you expect.
signal.org
March 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
“something i don’t like happened on signal, so therefore signal shouldn’t be trusted and is bad”
im not surprised but still find it hard to believe this is what many people are taking away from this lol
use signal
im not surprised but still find it hard to believe this is what many people are taking away from this lol
use signal
Signal is awesome. Probably not for classified information but it's the gold standard in private communication for ordinary citizens.
Right now there are a lot of new eyes on Signal, and not all of them are familiar with secure messaging and its nuances. Which means there’s misinfo flying around that might drive people away from Signal and private communications. 1/
March 26, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Signal is awesome. Probably not for classified information but it's the gold standard in private communication for ordinary citizens.
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If you damage the businesses of the richest man in the world, his friend the President wants to put you in indentured servitude in another country.
If you trash the Capitol to overturn the election, its pardons and praise.
If you trash the Capitol to overturn the election, its pardons and praise.
Trump threatens to put American citizens on deportation flights to a slave prison in El Salvador
March 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
If you damage the businesses of the richest man in the world, his friend the President wants to put you in indentured servitude in another country.
If you trash the Capitol to overturn the election, its pardons and praise.
If you trash the Capitol to overturn the election, its pardons and praise.
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The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers
March 20, 2025 at 9:59 PM
The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers
A merge conflict in your flake lock seems like a bad way to start the day. Do people use git-attributes to set the flake lock to a binary file type?
March 19, 2025 at 1:40 PM
A merge conflict in your flake lock seems like a bad way to start the day. Do people use git-attributes to set the flake lock to a binary file type?
I know the pieces fit because i watched them fall away
March 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I know the pieces fit because i watched them fall away
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The world's richest man stole food from the world's poorest children. Now they are beginning to die
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 9:34 PM
The world's richest man stole food from the world's poorest children. Now they are beginning to die
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Really neat new blog from Planetscale that includes explanations and interactive visualizations of kinds of storage media and how writes/reads and sequential/random performance is based on physics constraints.
Reminds me of A Bartosz Ciechanowski blog a little bit.
planetscale.com/blog/io-devi...
Reminds me of A Bartosz Ciechanowski blog a little bit.
planetscale.com/blog/io-devi...
IO devices and latency — PlanetScale
Take an interactive journey through the history of IO devices, and learn how IO device latency affects performance.
planetscale.com
March 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Really neat new blog from Planetscale that includes explanations and interactive visualizations of kinds of storage media and how writes/reads and sequential/random performance is based on physics constraints.
Reminds me of A Bartosz Ciechanowski blog a little bit.
planetscale.com/blog/io-devi...
Reminds me of A Bartosz Ciechanowski blog a little bit.
planetscale.com/blog/io-devi...
Today I'm the noob who learnt that resist fingerprinting browser setting breaks your dark mode site preferences.
March 3, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Today I'm the noob who learnt that resist fingerprinting browser setting breaks your dark mode site preferences.
Yikes, this problem seems to be getting worse for MS every time.
We are 7 months away from Windows 10 EOL and Windows 11 market share is going down and Windows 10 going up amongst gamers, I don't know what there plan is but Microsoft better be thinking something up or they're in for some trouble
March 3, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Yikes, this problem seems to be getting worse for MS every time.
What are people using now that Firefox has joined the axis of evil?
March 2, 2025 at 10:20 AM
What are people using now that Firefox has joined the axis of evil?
LLMs can be the most insidious liars
February 21, 2025 at 9:31 AM
LLMs can be the most insidious liars
Wow, mystery solved bluetooth keyboard continuously reconnecting causes the entire app to refresh. I thought I was going mad.
Why are BlueSky feeds refreshing periodically like twitter 😭😭😭 Just me?
February 18, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Wow, mystery solved bluetooth keyboard continuously reconnecting causes the entire app to refresh. I thought I was going mad.
Why are BlueSky feeds refreshing periodically like twitter 😭😭😭 Just me?
February 18, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Why are BlueSky feeds refreshing periodically like twitter 😭😭😭 Just me?
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Google has removed its pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance. They have been, and continue to be, on the wrong side of history.
Google is on the Wrong Side of History
Google continues to show us why it chose to abandon its old motto of “Don’t Be Evil,” as it becomes more and more enmeshed with the military-industrial complex. Most recently, Google has removed four ...
www.eff.org
February 13, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Google has removed its pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance. They have been, and continue to be, on the wrong side of history.
