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Weird AAF SDK observation for the day, it has 256 character file name limits baked in all over in the code I am looking at because it allocates a fixed size buffer for swapping between 8 bit strings and 16 bit wide strings in pretty much any function that handles path names in the file.
January 14, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Weird AAF SDK observation for the day, it has 256 character file name limits baked in all over in the code I am looking at because it allocates a fixed size buffer for swapping between 8 bit strings and 16 bit wide strings in pretty much any function that handles path names in the file.
Weird obscure little AAF SDK archeology tidbit of the day... Why the hell is aafdump so slow? Oh, it reads a bunch of stuff literallty one byte at a time for no reason. Maybe half a reason? It seems afraid that reading a stream will fail part way through, and it […]
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January 14, 2026 at 12:33 AM
Weird obscure little AAF SDK archeology tidbit of the day... Why the hell is aafdump so slow? Oh, it reads a bunch of stuff literallty one byte at a time for no reason. Maybe half a reason? It seems afraid that reading a stream will fail part way through, and it […]
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It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
January 12, 2026 at 10:56 PM
It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
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Go poop a turd out your fartblaster.
January 1, 2026 at 6:39 AM
Go poop a turd out your fartblaster.
How weirdly obsolete is the most recent version of the official AAF SDK? It declares pointers as near/far like 16 bit DOS programs did.
https://github.com/dneg/aaf/blob/master/Utilities/aafdump/MStructuredStorage.cpp#L36
No wonder this nightmare format doesn't actually work for crap in modern […]
https://github.com/dneg/aaf/blob/master/Utilities/aafdump/MStructuredStorage.cpp#L36
No wonder this nightmare format doesn't actually work for crap in modern […]
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January 10, 2026 at 12:25 AM
How weirdly obsolete is the most recent version of the official AAF SDK? It declares pointers as near/far like 16 bit DOS programs did.
https://github.com/dneg/aaf/blob/master/Utilities/aafdump/MStructuredStorage.cpp#L36
No wonder this nightmare format doesn't actually work for crap in modern […]
https://github.com/dneg/aaf/blob/master/Utilities/aafdump/MStructuredStorage.cpp#L36
No wonder this nightmare format doesn't actually work for crap in modern […]
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Here's a tracker of all the people (40) ICE has shot, including someone celebrating New Years by shooting his gun who was killed by an off-duty ICE goon.
www.thetrace.org/2025/12/immi...
www.thetrace.org/2025/12/immi...
How Many People Have Been Shot in ICE Raids?
The Trace is tracking gun incidents connected to Trump’s immigration crackdown. Know of one? Please be in touch.
www.thetrace.org
January 7, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Here's a tracker of all the people (40) ICE has shot, including someone celebrating New Years by shooting his gun who was killed by an off-duty ICE goon.
www.thetrace.org/2025/12/immi...
www.thetrace.org/2025/12/immi...
It's January 6th, and the US currently has a head of state sitting in jail facing charges today. So, that's a thing we can do, we just pick and choose who and when. So that's depressing in a depressing world.
January 6, 2026 at 8:32 PM
It's January 6th, and the US currently has a head of state sitting in jail facing charges today. So, that's a thing we can do, we just pick and choose who and when. So that's depressing in a depressing world.
Is LinkedIn going to add a specific category for Enshittification Engineers? Because that seems to be that actual growth job category in tech. No matter what you read about trendy buzzwords in white papers, Enshittification is absolutely booming and businesses all over are looking for people […]
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January 5, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Is LinkedIn going to add a specific category for Enshittification Engineers? Because that seems to be that actual growth job category in tech. No matter what you read about trendy buzzwords in white papers, Enshittification is absolutely booming and businesses all over are looking for people […]
Why the hell is making scrollbars hard to see such a cornerstone of modern UI design? I just spent like two hours faffing around with my IDE, and apparently it's just kind of impossible to see the scrollbars with a dark theme even if you hack around in XML files to theoretically make them bright […]
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mstdn.social
December 30, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Why the hell is making scrollbars hard to see such a cornerstone of modern UI design? I just spent like two hours faffing around with my IDE, and apparently it's just kind of impossible to see the scrollbars with a dark theme even if you hack around in XML files to theoretically make them bright […]
"I'll just update this *one* thing," he said, like a moron, five hours earlier.
December 28, 2025 at 3:57 AM
"I'll just update this *one* thing," he said, like a moron, five hours earlier.
I've always found it a bit of a shame that Apple was always so belligerent to the "geekier" side of things because their history is full of interesting little tidbits and side stories that could have grown into something neat. In the 90's OSA (roughly speaking […]
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December 24, 2025 at 4:45 AM
I've always found it a bit of a shame that Apple was always so belligerent to the "geekier" side of things because their history is full of interesting little tidbits and side stories that could have grown into something neat. In the 90's OSA (roughly speaking […]
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December 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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‘Going full North Korean’: Internet erupts after Trump's new battleship announcement #USpol
www.rawstory.com/trump-battle...
www.rawstory.com/trump-battle...
‘Going full North Korean’: Internet erupts after Trump's new battleship announcement
President Donald Trump’s announcement that a new class of U.S. Navy battleships would bear his name quickly set off a firestorm across social media, as critics argued it was the latest example of Trum...
www.rawstory.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:09 AM
‘Going full North Korean’: Internet erupts after Trump's new battleship announcement #USpol
www.rawstory.com/trump-battle...
www.rawstory.com/trump-battle...
The US is so far behind the rest of the world on infrastructure investment. It's not like Vietnam is a super rich country that can afford stuff we can't - California has nearly 10x the GDP of Vietnam, and was the one we didn't bomb the hell out of. Tge way things are going, the world simply […]
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mstdn.social
December 22, 2025 at 7:31 PM
The US is so far behind the rest of the world on infrastructure investment. It's not like Vietnam is a super rich country that can afford stuff we can't - California has nearly 10x the GDP of Vietnam, and was the one we didn't bomb the hell out of. Tge way things are going, the world simply […]
The actress Noel Wells must get so overwhelmed this time of year.
December 22, 2025 at 6:53 PM
The actress Noel Wells must get so overwhelmed this time of year.
It always amazes me what a tiny percentage of economic activity is actually spent doing genuinely productive stuff.
December 15, 2025 at 6:47 PM
It always amazes me what a tiny percentage of economic activity is actually spent doing genuinely productive stuff.
Totino's pizza rolls just advertise themselves as "about ten for a dollar." They don't even bother with "are tasty and nourishing food."
I think that says a lot about where we are at. Just, "this is something you can consume and possibly afford."
I think that says a lot about where we are at. Just, "this is something you can consume and possibly afford."
December 15, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Totino's pizza rolls just advertise themselves as "about ten for a dollar." They don't even bother with "are tasty and nourishing food."
I think that says a lot about where we are at. Just, "this is something you can consume and possibly afford."
I think that says a lot about where we are at. Just, "this is something you can consume and possibly afford."
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i think we learned the wrong lessons from left-pad. maybe it would create a better world if any npm user could pull a "stop cord" for the entire silicon valley corporate environment
December 8, 2025 at 11:04 PM
i think we learned the wrong lessons from left-pad. maybe it would create a better world if any npm user could pull a "stop cord" for the entire silicon valley corporate environment
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In 1990, a $100,000 salary would be worth more than $250,000 in today's dollars.
Today, a $100,000 salary would be less than $40,000 in 1990.
$100,000 is the new $40,000.
Today, a $100,000 salary would be less than $40,000 in 1990.
$100,000 is the new $40,000.
In 1990, a $100,000 salary would be worth more than $250,000 in today's dollars.
Today, a $100,000 salary would be less than $40,000 in 1990.
$100,000 is the new $40,000.
Today, a $100,000 salary would be less than $40,000 in 1990.
$100,000 is the new $40,000.
December 5, 2025 at 2:34 AM
In 1990, a $100,000 salary would be worth more than $250,000 in today's dollars.
Today, a $100,000 salary would be less than $40,000 in 1990.
$100,000 is the new $40,000.
Today, a $100,000 salary would be less than $40,000 in 1990.
$100,000 is the new $40,000.
Expecting an LLM (that you know outputs incorrect text) to give you an accurate explanation or why it was wrong and what went wrong is like expecting a dog to write a good paper about the neuroscience of why it barked.
Just because the behavior happened inside the LLM doesn't mean the LLM has […]
Just because the behavior happened inside the LLM doesn't mean the LLM has […]
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mstdn.social
December 4, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Expecting an LLM (that you know outputs incorrect text) to give you an accurate explanation or why it was wrong and what went wrong is like expecting a dog to write a good paper about the neuroscience of why it barked.
Just because the behavior happened inside the LLM doesn't mean the LLM has […]
Just because the behavior happened inside the LLM doesn't mean the LLM has […]
#scribesandmakers 4. Tell us about your audio recording experience(s) (audiobook, podcast, music, recorded notes...)
Ugh, audio. The absolute bane of indie production.
On high end film productions these days, they'll literally just have boom mic operators and lav mics on collars in the shot and […]
Ugh, audio. The absolute bane of indie production.
On high end film productions these days, they'll literally just have boom mic operators and lav mics on collars in the shot and […]
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mstdn.social
December 4, 2025 at 8:58 PM
#scribesandmakers 4. Tell us about your audio recording experience(s) (audiobook, podcast, music, recorded notes...)
Ugh, audio. The absolute bane of indie production.
On high end film productions these days, they'll literally just have boom mic operators and lav mics on collars in the shot and […]
Ugh, audio. The absolute bane of indie production.
On high end film productions these days, they'll literally just have boom mic operators and lav mics on collars in the shot and […]
The ironic problem for everybody trying to sell NPU's chasing the AI hype wave for local AI on prem and in mobile is that a slightly different group of AI hyper chasers have taken all the DRAM for datacenters. (Llama's LLM takes over 800 Gigabytes.) So as long as the AI hype cycle lasts, nobody […]
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mstdn.social
December 4, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The ironic problem for everybody trying to sell NPU's chasing the AI hype wave for local AI on prem and in mobile is that a slightly different group of AI hyper chasers have taken all the DRAM for datacenters. (Llama's LLM takes over 800 Gigabytes.) So as long as the AI hype cycle lasts, nobody […]
Lockheed is running ads for Trump's "Golden Dome," and I'm not even sure which of the several layers of dystopian to complain about here.
December 4, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Lockheed is running ads for Trump's "Golden Dome," and I'm not even sure which of the several layers of dystopian to complain about here.
#writerscoffeeclub 03. Do genre conventions provide an essential framework or stifle original storytelling?
Genre conventions tend to get reinvented naturally through a sort of convergent evolution. So ignorance of them tends to lead to cliche, and awareness of them is the only reliable way to […]
Genre conventions tend to get reinvented naturally through a sort of convergent evolution. So ignorance of them tends to lead to cliche, and awareness of them is the only reliable way to […]
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mstdn.social
December 3, 2025 at 7:28 PM
#writerscoffeeclub 03. Do genre conventions provide an essential framework or stifle original storytelling?
Genre conventions tend to get reinvented naturally through a sort of convergent evolution. So ignorance of them tends to lead to cliche, and awareness of them is the only reliable way to […]
Genre conventions tend to get reinvented naturally through a sort of convergent evolution. So ignorance of them tends to lead to cliche, and awareness of them is the only reliable way to […]
A headline that serves as a rather tidy encapsulation of the fact that the tech industry simply isn't for people and users any more,
Micron Is Abandoning Consumer SSDs & RAM; Crucial Products Are Being Killed Off as the Company Shifts Everything Toward AI https://share.google/oy7T4Cn13mp4uUxRr
Micron Is Abandoning Consumer SSDs & RAM; Crucial Products Are Being Killed Off as the Company Shifts Everything Toward AI https://share.google/oy7T4Cn13mp4uUxRr
Micron Is Abandoning Consumer SSDs & RAM; Crucial Products Are Being Killed Off as the Company Shifts Everything Toward AI
Micron has announced its exit from the Crucial consumer business, marking a significant blow to consumers, especially gamers.
wccftech.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
A headline that serves as a rather tidy encapsulation of the fact that the tech industry simply isn't for people and users any more,
Micron Is Abandoning Consumer SSDs & RAM; Crucial Products Are Being Killed Off as the Company Shifts Everything Toward AI https://share.google/oy7T4Cn13mp4uUxRr
Micron Is Abandoning Consumer SSDs & RAM; Crucial Products Are Being Killed Off as the Company Shifts Everything Toward AI https://share.google/oy7T4Cn13mp4uUxRr