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New account on a fresh smol instance — now checking out snac2 on an olde PowerPC machine.

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2026-03-23 12:33:41 UTC

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So, disabling inactive (no devices connected) Bluetooth with rfkill and explicitly bringing down also already inactive (no cable plugged in) wired network interface with "ip link set down dev (interface_name_dreamt_up_by_poettering)" enabled me to reset BD_PROCHOT (unrelated to prosciutto, it means "bi-directional processor ♨️" in Intel-speak) in MSR, which Mac EFI sets if when you boot the thing without battery — to prevent it from crossing the threshold of power input that adapter is able to provide and avoid unexpected shutdowns.
And what can I say, now I can run this i7 clocked at 2,4 GHz — its designated frequency! This is what I observe over SSH session — yes, I've made a "hardware performance monitor" out of feces and sticks (continuous reads from /sys with cat 🫢), all of its real cores and their HitlerThreading-spawned evil twins run at 2400MHz, and its both fans went slightly beyond their limit of 5500 RPM. I'm not sure how accurate powertop readings are, but CPU power consumption is currently at ~28W, I've seen it go as high as 32W while building GCC — still not even close to its theoretical limit, which according to Intel datasheet is 45W. Perhaps due to the fact that I have TurboBustier👙™ disabled — I'm not sure sacrificing stability for the option to have these single-core "bursts" is a good idea. Another contributing factor could be the fact that its display is off and I believe that power draw of its integrated Intel GPU is accounted for in CPU TDP.
First lesson to learn here is that life without battery and infamous BD_PROCHOT hard-locking frequencies at 800MHz is possible! Playing back 4k videos for which it doesn't have hardware decoding capability can still cause it to power off. Contributing factors could be integrated GPU activity, audio output, slightly different CPU workload and even something as obvious as display backlight 😏
But normal workloads are okay: I've already built Firefox for three architectures and currently in the process of cross-building LLVM for Big Endian 64-bit PowerPC — seems very stable!
And the second one, again I'm not sure how accurate PowerTop readings are, and maybe integrated Intel ethernet adapters are better in this regard, this MacBook has a Broadcom one handled by tg3 kernel module.
But wired interface without any cable even plugged in drawing almost as much as panel backlight at medium brightness, substantially more that wireless adapter connected to a network and actually transmitting data — wow, that's some exceptionally bad power management! 😲
Instead of improving it — making it even remotely as good as it is for wireless networking, they just got rid of integrated wired network adapters in most laptops! 😩
https://nosh0b10.m0xee.net/m0xEE/s/post-a5c703e6534a9724c0334ac56925a612.png

2026-03-20 10:10:07 UTC

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> weird how they're the only company who has to throttle devices to stop them from fucking themselves up
I have an old Lumia phone and with its original battery which is very old by now, the phone just shuts off randomly on power surges — taking a long series of photos, recording a video, running CPU-intensive software. I have a newer replacement battery with which this does not happen. The phone has a user-replaceable battery, so it's much less of a problem, and yet, if I was given an option to update it and have throttling — I would very much prefer that to random reboots.
Of course I can't be sure that Apple's actual motivation wasn't fucking people over, what I can say is that the problem is very real and not Apple-specific. Of course they could've handled it better — informing their users or adding a user-facing switch. Then again, Apple isn't exactly famous for giving their customers choice, I'm also not sure adding a switch is a good enough solution — because in the most severe cases it might prevent the system from loading, so you could turn throttling back on, and it would be like:
— Do you want your phone to be slow?
— Of course not!
— Boom! Now you can't turn it on anymore without visiting SC — even to back up your data (power bypass wasn't a thing in phones at the time, the OS was either able to start on battery power or not at all).

2026-03-15 06:25:20 UTC

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TBH I don't remember too well myself how exactly it is (was?) broken 😅
I used to have a file somewhere to demonstrate it, but I'm not sure I still do — because later LLVM got broken on PowerPC and later even GCC, and I ultimately lost interest in making modern shit work on this machine, so I have never acted on this issue in Nim.
Having everyone check it on their end would probably be more correct, but it's unrealistic. Nitter had a couple of "problematic" dependencies which I replaced with ones that offered near-identical functionality, but relied of C code and which were basically just bindings for C code in Nim — and Nitter started working for me.
I no longer use Nitter, but I like this little text web browser in Nim — Chawan: https://git.sr.ht/~bptato/chawan
It's really cool, with CSS support and all. And some web page elements are rendered very narrow on a 32-bit PowerPC, but I never run into this issue on neither my 64-bit Intel machines, nor even on a 32-bit ARM one — and to me this appears like that old issue again. I've written down commits between which this issue appears, but then I became a lazy ass and never narrowed it down further — down to particular code. It would make more sense for me to learn Nim properly first — I mean of course I can read some of it, which was enough to replace dependencies in Nitter with others, but most of the time, looking at Nim code I'm more like: WTF does this shit mean?! 🤪

2026-03-15 05:47:41 UTC

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I hope they fixed bit shifting operations on PowerPC 🥺
And likely other Big Endian architectures — which makes a lot of shit break.

2026-03-14 20:32:05 UTC

Transmission Bittorrent software 4.0.6 has this "tracker flooding issue" on dual stack systems having both IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity — it keeps making requests when tracker url isn't reachable on either of its addresses.
https://github.com/transmission/transmission/issues/7078
Some trackers go as far as banning 4.0.6 explicitly. Okay, so I build older 4.0.5 and downgrade to it…
The issue gets a fix, but no version gets released with the fix. Until one day 4.1.0 gets released — and I update a bunch of libraries it depends on, so that won't have to touch it in the near future and just let it be…
Turns out it still has the issue — and the code causing the issue was contributed by the exact same person as the last time 🤦
https://github.com/transmission/transmission/pull/8631
It's not as bad as 4.0.6, but it can't be considered a proper fix, and considering it a long-term version to upgrade to might not be the best idea!
FFS, the poor 32-bit 1,5 GHz PowerPC machine with only a gigabyte of RAM on which this instance is hosted had to build all those libraries in vain 😩
https://nosh0b10.m0xee.net/m0xEE/s/post-0c3d25d0f93d2524df5aaee7492e1724.png

2026-03-14 13:31:26 UTC

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You are not my mom!
…or are you? 🤔

2026-03-14 12:22:01 UTC

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*xzibit.jxl*

2026-03-14 11:29:20 UTC

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Jeanne d'Amion 😝

2026-03-14 10:47:42 UTC

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Of course! Updating dependencies and pulling in updated translations 😏

2026-02-03 12:02:02 UTC

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I'm also doing this on an olde 17" MacBook Pro with one of those early quad-core mobile Core i7 CPUs. Four cores, eight threads, but laptop's battery got too puffy — I had to remove it, so it's currently clocked at 800 MHz. Let's see how many *days* this would take 😅

2026-02-03 11:59:10 UTC

Building Firefox with link-lime optimisations sure is entertaining, ld.lld resident RAM usage is at 10.5 Gb and rising 😲

2025-12-03 16:55:54 UTC

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This was good, thank you!

2025-12-02 15:17:00 UTC

Samsung World War Z Flip-Flop Galaxy Ten-Fold 🫠

2025-12-02 11:55:51 UTC

Never update anything!
Stealthy browser extensions waited years before infecting 4.3M Chrome, Edge users with backdoors and spyware: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/01/chrome_edge_malicious_browser_extensions/
And uninstall stuff you think it would be neat to use, but you never do.

2025-12-02 09:47:31 UTC

Ok, what the hell is Ghettotech?
I'm not exactly new to EDM, but I don't think I've encountered the term in the past, nowadays however I come across the tag quite often on Bandcamp 🤔

2025-11-29 21:03:36 UTC

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I agree: if it's not that bad of a cold — not worth it.
I know that for my body it would require less effort to break up animal fats and it would likely appreciate it — but if you're generally fine with plant-based diet, going for something different when you have a cold won't make a notable difference — if any at all.

2025-11-29 19:08:34 UTC

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I doubt you can find that — too many external factors to take into account to make such data verifiable. I think it's as good as any other warm liquid would be when you're ill — because it keeps you warm and hydrated 🤷
And it's easy to digest for your weakened body, being nutritious is also good.

2025-11-28 14:25:14 UTC

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Last time I felt this good when I realised that instead of "My computer is old😩" I could start using "No, my computer isn't OLD — I'm into retro computing!😎"
As it turns out — now I have a mission too: ruining the economy 😈

2025-11-28 14:05:49 UTC

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I wonder what maps Witkoff's friends show Trump to make him think "If they don't make deal now, they are going to lose it all😱"

2025-11-28 14:03:32 UTC

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Nova goes boop 😹

2025-11-28 13:50:40 UTC

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Unless it's a swimming race — eagles don't exactly shine in these 😜

2025-11-28 13:42:44 UTC

Silo seems like a nicely made show, but I'm still not sure I like it: first of all, supporting characters' plot lines — they are supposed to make them relatable, but fall short. The way these characters exist for one episode and then get killed and thrown out of the window reminds me of Russian direct-to-TV shows, when they fail to make the main plot interesting enough and put more effort in individual episodes. For example when they are making a crime/detective/mystery show in True Detective's vein, they would have a different murderer every episode — making episodes self-sufficient in a way.
Second, the main plot… Excuse my ageism, but I'm not 13 anymore and I can't take this Divergent-style stuff: "Some people are special: they ask questions, they break the rules — and they are special because… they get born special".
It could work if it was a coming of age story disguised as something else, but main characters aren't teenagers either, which makes this trope misplaced.
Also, "a beautiful revolutionary" here is no revolutionary at all — he's a man on of state, but at least Lady Jessica is her usual self 😏
https://nosh0b10.m0xee.net/m0xEE/s/post-8c2b64c85e8bbd2b0e8fae98bfeef1e6.jpeg
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2025-11-28 13:02:46 UTC

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Most people don't get online to engage in any discussions at all — they just seek validation from the clique they consider their own, others seek evoking strong negative emotions in people they barely know, which is an even greater waste of time. But if those seeking validation choose to spend their time on interacting with the later, then they somehow deserve each other.
Pinning a "sealion" label on someone on the other hand is the best of both worlds: you can keep holding opinions you can't even explain in your own words AND it somehow places you above the fray, which gives you additional warm and fuzzy feeling 😁

2025-11-28 08:18:34 UTC

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I started exploring the topic of "ChatGPT hyphen" and… it's even more odd than I originally anticipated. Turns out that it originated with a video of two girls discussing a press release of some fashion brand that had lots of em dashes in it — they didn't even call it "ChatGPT hyphen" at the time — it was still a hyphen, but some other kind, attributing it solely to ChatGPT is a later addition 😆
Now the most bizarre part — they don't even dislike LLM-based chat bots, they consider them nice tools that are okay to use, they just think that making use of these tool too obvious is disrespectful to customers, so what they think the company should have done is *replace* em dash with minus or something in that vein.
Apparently the video became popular enough for some to start calling it "ChatGPT hyphen", those who think that using em dash is something out of the ordinary enjoy this kind of influence.
I have no idea how I would be re-joining the workforce with this kind of people around… 😅
Considering the journalists haven't made all of this up — I didn't go as far as fact-checking any of it.

2025-11-27 22:41:17 UTC

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What good is pizza without drugs 😈

2025-11-27 19:46:25 UTC

Say hello to Kailh switches! 👋
Cherry gives up German production and wants to sell core division:
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Cherry-gives-up-German-production-and-wants-to-sell-core-division-11092713.html

2025-11-27 16:27:33 UTC

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And I've been using em dash long before OpenAI existed — even in Windows there is a way to type it, and on mobile phone it's one long touch away — not a problem at all!
What does it have to do with ChatGPT? Damn, people sure are brain dead.

2025-11-27 15:02:36 UTC

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But it has to involve at least some wires — otherwise what would be there to pick interference 😏

2025-11-27 14:43:34 UTC

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My vote is for MM Mid 🤪

2025-11-27 09:28:47 UTC

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Jabberwocky? 🤔

2025-11-27 08:04:21 UTC

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There is a soviet-era anecdote about going to a gynaecologist appointment:
— OMG, you have a rose flower right… *there* 😱
— It's for you, doctor! 🥰

2025-11-26 19:36:10 UTC

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Happens to me all the time! Only sometimes I lose steam not having achieved it becoming a finished piece or fail to touch all the details I originally intended to and that seem important in the context and… It becomes another two-page-long text in my "drafts" directory 😂

2025-11-26 19:21:00 UTC

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AFAIR Live has this excellent "Collect all and save" thing — which places copies of everything the project depends on in project's own directory. Doing it all the time for WIP projects makes little sense because soon you might find yourself with hundreds of duplicates of stuff that is already in you instrument library — but it's a wise thing to do before archiving finished projects.
I have a few projects with missing parts myself, but luckily, I still have full hard disk images of my computers from two decades ago and the fact that all this stuff is theoretically there somewhere gives me a warm fuzzy feeling 😁

2025-11-26 18:55:50 UTC

Something weird just happened to my snac2 instance — its background thread seemed to keep working, but frontend stopped responding entirely.
Then it segfaulted two times in a row — this probably had something to do with me requesting my old notifications starting with notification number 6500 in portions of 1000 notifications, but you can never be sure 😅

2025-11-26 17:06:56 UTC

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Neat feature, PleromaFE does that, but originally this probably came from *key 🤔

2025-11-26 15:27:18 UTC

Now this is what pure unadulterated going to the gym with a forklift is: look, I did the exact thing others do to learn something new — building a toy OS, except — I did it with a thing that wrote all the code for me 🤪
Building a 64-bit OS from Scratch with Claude Code: https://isene.org/2025/11/SimplicityOS.html
This is simply priceless: it's like paying someone to do advent of code for you: you do not produce something that has practical value, you do not produce something new for research purposes, and you learn nothing in the process — the only reason why this could have been done is to produce marketing material for Anthropic, but even for this purpose it's not so good: "Look, it can do this too!"— well, of course it can, it's been done bazillion times before, it's literally textbook shit!
Well, at least it has FORTH — this is what cool kids like, right? Post-modern shit! 😩

2025-11-26 12:08:55 UTC

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> intel's svt can do real time but it will eat a 8-core machine to do it.
AFAIR it's also not very portable, no surprises here — but still.

2025-11-26 12:03:55 UTC

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Wasn't there some sort of a party even to celebrate this "end of the world"?
I remember seeing some promos for it on MTV — nowadays it seems like something from a different world 😆

2025-11-26 11:59:10 UTC

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You mean the one for which it doesn't take a week to encode a two minute video, is that theoretically even possible? 😜

2025-11-26 11:15:25 UTC

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That is how you acquire proprietary software licenses without paying a dime — you pretend you work for them for some time, even better — they are paying you! 2xWIN😏

2025-11-26 10:25:50 UTC

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So it's still an ugly endless XML stream, but now everyone has ugly sha1sum nicknames too? 🤩

2025-11-26 09:08:11 UTC

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…bu-bu-but outside work I'm actually a really nice person — I like cats and I donate to local charities 😏

2025-11-26 08:20:32 UTC

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🦉

2025-11-25 20:16:56 UTC

I pity the fool who eat sugary thing for breakfast!
https://nosh0b10.m0xee.net/m0xEE/s/post-aafd145084f4326248015ee006e43679.jpg

2025-11-21 19:05:00 UTC

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Himitsu no AiPri …I think 🤔

2025-11-19 13:58:52 UTC

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> “protected” website is now the default mode of deploying websites
We observe the same kind of behaviour when people put their static blogs behind Anubis "my website *has to be* protected with something" — but at least that is free and self-hosted.
Same with putting everything in a container, implementing CI/CD and reproducible builds for their projects consisting of two source files… All this contributes to the sheer complexity of modern technology — people are attempting to solve problems they don't even fully understand and they might never even run into, this introduces going for "enterprise grade" solutions even for tiny scale things 😩

2025-11-17 11:09:45 UTC

Pooteen gets a chance to collect another Pokemon: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/11/15/trump-maduro-venezuela-column-00652369
"Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and his closest aides should consider reading up on Turkey. Some Trump administration officials are talking about exiling them there.
Unless they agree to go to Russia. Or Azerbaijan. Or maybe Cuba"

2025-11-06 04:18:08 UTC

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Oh, thank you! I was looking for something .onion a few days ago to check if my proxy handles it correctly and routes such traffic through TOR, because even DDG .onion frontend was redirecting me to the clearnet one if I had JS disabled 🤪
Now I see that my proxy in fact works correctly and it's probably a DDG peculiarity.

2025-10-22 11:29:32 UTC

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All of these are real Apple products! Brilliant design, right? 😏
https://nosh0b10.m0xee.net/m0xEE/s/post-f2d322f858cfd5bd436d4ab9179ad7a4.jpeg
https://nosh0b10.m0xee.net/m0xEE/s/post-3ec8bbaa7f7dac2f3118375351ba4b5c.jpeg
https://nosh0b10.m0xee.net/m0xEE/s/post-1b125eba7afc25a57b15491d1a59ffec.jpeg

2025-10-20 10:38:22 UTC

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Yeah, it's only fun and games at the start of the road, but then you realise what you're in for and that messing with this stuff isn't the only thing you'd like to spend your time on.

2025-10-20 10:13:43 UTC

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Nah, my cloud (which is a 20 y.o. Mac Mini sitting on top of a bookcase) is fine.
It's just a pun on Signal being a secure messenger, but relying on third-party infrastructure.
Nothing wrong with relying on others' infrastructure per-se, I'm not one of those full-on paranoid types — but the founders of Signal probably are. I mean, now that they have added a third "post-quantum" ratchet, the data is resistant to being brute forced by quantum computers: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/10/19/0546205/why-signals-post-quantum-makeover-is-an-amazing-engineering-achievement
But this improvement itself assumes that earlier data IS vulnerable to store now, decrypt later attacks — from this POV using AWS is an awful practice, so relying on others' infra is bad according to them, not me 🙃

2025-10-20 09:20:51 UTC

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Of course they do, they are a secure messenger! 😏

2025-09-02 09:47:34 UTC

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Software development is the new art — you are getting paid generously for doing something that is hardly beneficial to the society, but it's emotionally burdensome to the point that some even commit suicide. Sometimes your "product" is so useless that it gets completely discarded in a few years.
My team created an app used by millions of stupid fucks, and yours are still beating themselves attempting to create something useful, har-har-har! 😈

2025-08-30 12:01:24 UTC

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As much as I hate the removal of SD cards and headphone outputs, I don't think it's a product of secret collusion among phone makers in order to sell more dongles. Look at midrange phones by Xiaomi: some of them are targeted at mobile gamers and have more powerful SnappyDragon chips — no SD, no jack; some of them have top-tier Mediatek chips and look — phone output and SD slot; some midrangers have SoCs that belongs in the same category — SleepyDragon 4/5/6, and they also have SD card slots and headphone out 🤷
I think it has something to do with top SoCs lacking built-in DAC capabilities or something — and no one wants to shell out extra for a dedicated chip. Sharp have been keeping this up and their flagships used to have everything — but even they are seemingly giving up.
I don't get why wired headphones are considered something cheap, all my wired headphones cost more than the bluetooth rubbish a lot of people use, but apparently, they are. It probably got revealed to some visionary at Qualcomm in a mushroom trip 🤪

2025-08-30 10:17:06 UTC

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I think that's pretty much the point — we have the luxury of using old supplies, which at the moment are plentiful, until someone comes up with a thing worthy of voting with our wallets for 🤷

2025-08-29 19:50:33 UTC

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That's even better!
Have they left Fedi *again*? 😲 The landing of their main page now has every single social media in the book — except for Fedi!
I only use their mail and VPN, most of their recent products are of no use to me, usually I don't mind — it probably helps them attract new customers and pay the server bills. But being a paying customer, seeing this and them abandoning Fedi still evokes a feeling deep inside — maybe I'm in with the wrong company? 😅
https://nosh0b10.m0xee.net/m0xEE/s/post-15b0c300db9de561c419cf8ef385e1cb.png

2025-08-29 19:29:10 UTC

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Isn't it at least easy to disable?
I don't use Proton's web interface and only know of its existence from the newsletter, I'm yet to discover what it's like 😅

2025-08-28 20:09:24 UTC

What is the point in making the power button accessible with closed lid if it doesn't actually power the laptop on unless you open the lid? 🤔

2025-08-13 15:33:05 UTC

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Exactly, they aren't even mutually exclusive, but those born in 80 or earlier tend to like SP more, those in 83-84 or older are more into NIN — I don't know why it's this way, just practical observation, but it seems right 99% of time 😁
I had a colleague born in 1980 and he had a friend with an identical taste in music, but she's a bit younger, and… Same! He's more into SP, her — into NIN 🫠

2025-08-13 15:01:49 UTC

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Cool! I'm more a Nine Inch Nails man myself, but I have friends who are head over heels about SP and I have a few CDs myself of course. I even like newer Pumpkins stuff: Monuments to an Elegy is great and Zeitgeist has good songs — maybe to old-skool fans it sounds different, but it's still good music.

2025-08-13 14:41:40 UTC

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This isn't the first time he appears on the cover of a magazine with a rather silly Smashing Pumpkins reference, I suppose it's all part of a concept 😏
https://nosh0b10.m0xee.net/m0xEE/s/post-ae42913bc88eee08cd9e094d39f30b16.jpg

2025-08-08 10:16:04 UTC

Some of the cores of the olde MacBook Pro building Le Noops kernel for me are running at 100⁰C 🥵
I should be using this thing to make tea ☕

2025-08-06 20:47:17 UTC

By the way, this is what hosting your Fedi instance was like in the eighties!
For storing all your tooting into the ether on magnetic tape you could always donate your instance admin a can of dog food (seen on film).
And a hand of bananas — to keep them entertained 😊
https://nosh0b10.m0xee.net/m0xEE/s/post-4e01124b312b88e6e8a881c2a310aafa.mp4

2025-07-27 08:08:53 UTC

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Not only it is very simplistic, but also bullshit. Women not having to work and being able to spend all of their time with kids is a very American worldview, and also a pretty recent development. In less economically developed countries, especially in rural areas women always had to and still have to work — a lot! True, they don't have office jobs, but neither do men.
And choosing to have more uneducated locals to do unskilled labour is just cynical shite — truly cattle breeding, but with humans. Claiming love for your nation, but willing for some of it to become unskilled workforce is just wrong.

2025-07-24 20:26:49 UTC

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Considering who some of the members of his inner circle are, he probably has a VERY wrong idea what it is.

2025-07-24 12:41:25 UTC

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Those would be antitheists, are they not? Atheists are supposedly just indifferent 🤷

2025-07-23 20:59:12 UTC

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> Caturday
Captain, it's Wednesday! 😹

2025-07-19 10:18:28 UTC

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Me too, but websites target greater demographic and if it's something non-technical, most would likely be happy with such a default no matter what language they have set in the browser.
Web is already broken in more ways than one: some things get implemented for convenience, then get exploited and a hack appears to fix it. It carries all this luggage of legacy cruft based on practices that worked at some point and no one dares to throw this all away and start from scratch in a more consistent manner 🤷
@npub18js…jtgm

2025-07-19 09:58:29 UTC

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On the other hand — I think Accept-Language header is used for fingerprinting, so my Firefox likely sends "the default" en-US 😅
And as much I hate geoIP being used for… anything really, I have to admit: our older relatives probably appreciate that websites speak their mother tongue even in private mode.
Audodetecting language based on IP-address is minor annoyance I can live with, what makes me boil is this being used for security: "You are attempting to log in from a different city — you must have been hacked!" As we all know, no one but evil hackers uses VPN. They have to at least give users the option to disable this shit — yet neither Apple, nor Microsoft, nor, I believe, Google allow it.
@npub18js…jtgm

2025-07-19 09:18:32 UTC

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My studies of Luxembourgish started with picking a VPN exit node in Luxembourg — now all websites are speaking Luxembourgish by default (I still don't know a word of it 🥺)
In fact, I think it was you who made me realise they have their own separate language — yes, I'm *that* uneducated 😞
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2025-07-19 08:12:28 UTC

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Many Americans have this very wrong idea of what serfdom was, having the impression that there was some father figure taking care of you, when in reality it's literally being treated as an expendable resource. It is true, when you own something, you don't just destroy it, but in reality a lot of people are far from taking proper care of things they own — and same was happening to serfs. And of course no one was treating them as human beings — just as things that grow on your land, things you can buy and sell. Women, at least in Russia, weren't even accounted for and were just considered a nice bonus.

2025-07-15 08:01:39 UTC

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Elon Musk managed to turn even the Sesame Street creature racist: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/14/someone_hijacked_elmos_x_account/

2025-04-06 18:13:18 UTC

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Wasn't it revived as KaiOS?
By Google though — with all that implies 😩

2025-04-06 15:30:26 UTC

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Why is every post coming from FSE tagged as tesla-elonmusk, is this a prank of some sort?
Other frontends don't display it, but in snac2's web interface there are a dozen of tags under every post and it's mildly annoying 😅

2025-04-01 06:03:27 UTC

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Tell her you are thinking of the Roman Empire and how their reliance on lead lowered IQ of the whole Europe 🤪

2025-03-07 15:42:04 UTC

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I've downgraded Firefox to 115esr on all of my machines and put firefox package on hodl — I hope someone steps up backporting security fixes to that, I certainly don't any new *features*.
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