Lynnesbian :bune_ylw:

https://fedi.lynnesbian.space/@lynnesbian

transbian, programmer (specifically #rust), linux user, the whole meme. long-time fedi user, coming back after a long break.

Pronouns: She/her
am: bune
Website: https://lynnesbian.space/

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lynnesbian_at_fedi.lynnesbian.space@momostr.pink

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2026-04-03 00:01:57 UTC

i've created a torrent but i don't know if it actually works. all my friends are asleep/busy (timezones 😭) and i need someone to test it. you don't have to download the whole thing, but just see if any of it downloads at all. i only need ☝️ one volunteer to send the .torrent file to

2026-04-02 21:42:31 UTC

i've been keeping this a secret for half a year, but i can finally come clean now.
i spent months editing the entire star wars movie. at first i made subtle changes (colour correction, fake shot/reverse shot scenes, etc.), but as the movie went on, my edits got more and more absurd (extra powerpoint transition wipes, doom door open/close sound effects, etc.).
i can't upload the full thing for obvious reasons, but here's one of my favourite parts: the death star scene. spoilers for a movie that came out nearly four decades ago
(EDIT: [now available to download](https://fedi.lynnesbian.space/@lynnesbian/116337862887433192 ))
#swle
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2026-02-20 22:10:21 UTC

You're doubting my humanity, but **you're missing some key points**. Here are some of the things I've seen:<li>Attack ships firing off the shoulder of Orion. These aren't just battleships — they're spacecraft designed for warfare.</li><li>C-beams glittering in the dark. Their location? Near the Tannhäuser Gate. </li><li>Things you wouldn't believe. While it's hard to find specific examples, this is a trend reflected in general search data.</li>
**The bottom line**: All those moments will be **lost** — like **tears in rain**.

2026-01-27 21:47:49 UTC

sometimes when i feel my code has too many confusing states, i like to stop, take a deep breath, and open [the MSDN page for the MsoTrioState enum](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-au/dotnet/api/microsoft.office.core.msotristate ).MsoTrioState
is "a tri-state Boolean value". it has five possible values. only two of them are supported.
the only supported values are true and false.
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2026-01-21 21:53:16 UTC

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a point in favour of the association between the sparkle emoji and generative AI: gnome's [new icon set](https://teams.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/Design/icon-development-kit/ ) contains [a sparkle icon](https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/icon-development-kit/-/blob/9f7170a1d15d6e7e0dcf77698781875dd97a24e3/icons/ai-slop.svg?plain=1 ) called ai-slop, which is also tagged with generative and bullshit
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2025-10-14 10:18:19 UTC

hello british users on this webbed site. please explain to me why the speed camera sign depicts an 1800s bellows camera.
do not make the same mistake that my notoriously british friend lucy did in assuming that this is a box camera with the lens facing towards the viewer with a mounting bracket. this is a bellows camera facing sideways with the lens pointed at the road. [read em and weep.](https://petapixel.com/2023/04/10/yes-the-uk-speed-camera-icon-really-is-a-19th-century-camera/ )
#YUK
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2025-09-30 03:53:59 UTC

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irritating. i choose to blame bill gates for this also

2025-09-30 03:51:01 UTC

fun fact number one: if you lose your internet and reconnect, outlook for web will *appear* to continue working, but will no longer receive incoming emails. this can be fixed by reloading the page
fun fact number two: outlook for web has a handy keyboard shortcut for replying to the email you're reading! it's ctrl+R.
wait a minute... these facts aren't fun at all :(
here's an actual fun fact to make up for this: [this shortcut is probably bill gate's fault](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20140715-00/?p=503 )! or at least, that's what i'm choosing to believe, because it's funnier that way

2025-09-28 22:11:49 UTC

mastodon has a quote feature now? we have quoots? awesome
the fediverse now has an answer to twitter's greatest contribution to society: screenshots that you have to read like this
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2025-09-19 04:37:53 UTC

my thoughts on the [upcoming android sideloading changes](https://9to5google.com/2025/08/25/android-apps-developer-verification/ )
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2025-09-02 22:37:25 UTC

User Interface Wrapped<li>You spent 23 hours using an analogue stick to drag a cursor around various AAA game menus</li><li>You accidentally clicked the wrong button because an element loaded in above it and pushed it down suddenly 58 times</li><li>Your password manager autofilled your username into the wrong field 126 times</li><li>You clicked "remind me later" on a dialogue box you'd rather never be reminded of 96 times</li><li>You made 6,834 minor typos that were caught by autocorrect</li><li>You made 532 typos that were caused by autocorrect, including 56 "duck off"s and 22 "go to he'll"s</li><li>You checked the "remember me" box 87 times, and it actually worked 21% of the time</li><li>You only ruined a mailing list thread by clicking "reply" instead of "reply all" once - but you'll be thinking about it for the rest of the year</li><li>You spent 3 hours typing search queries into an alphabetical on-screen keyboard with a TV remote</li>

2025-08-27 21:55:13 UTC

when creating backups, always remember the 321 rule: <li>hack together 3 bespoke bash scripts</li><li>each should contain 2 unreadable lines piping <code>find</code> and <code>grep</code> and <code>date</code> and <code>awk</code> and <code>tar</code> that are long enough to require word wrapping on a widescreen display</li><li>the backup client and server should be the 1 same machine</li>

2025-07-13 22:42:31 UTC

-----BEGIN JOKE TONE INDICATED BLOCK-----
i thought of a way to make tone indicators more obvious to people who haven't seen them before
-----END JOKE TONE INDICATED BLOCK-----

2025-07-06 22:19:57 UTC

KDE devs in the 2000s choosing a name for every single app they write
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2025-05-27 10:57:38 UTC

the master was practicing the art of windows defence when the student approached with a question.
"master soft," she asked, "is it true that the windows kernel can write to thousands of files per second?"
"it is," the master replied.
the student demonstrated her code. "i can only write a few hundred at most," she complained. "CloseHandle is blocking for several milliseconds."
"are the open calls finishing quickly?" the master enquired.
"yes," the student confirmed.
"and the write calls, too?"
"yes."
the master smiled. "then the windows kernel is writing to thousands of files per second."
upon hearing this, the student was enlightened.

2025-05-07 22:33:42 UTC

i thought gasoline was a variant of kerosene or something?? i didn't know it was just petrol... i thought gas was just weird slang for petrol like how bucks are dollars... am i stupid

2025-05-06 21:21:12 UTC

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me using an IDE: okay, i press Ctrl+W a couple times to expand the selection to the grandparent's scope, then do a move refactor to a sibling module and use a fifty character regex to fix up some outdated doc comments. okay, that took thirty seconds, i'll commit on the refactor branch so i don't lose my progress, then switch back to main and iterate on the new settings format
me using a digital painting programme: ah. i seem to have coloured the shirt on the body layer, which wouldn't have worked if i hadn't accidentally made the body mask layer take up the entire character two hours ago. i guess i'll just undo those ten minutes of work, which means i'll lose the hair, too. i don't remember which oil brush preset i mangled into looking like hair, so i'll just spend the next two minutes moving a slider two steps to the right, then painting a circle, then undoing it over and over until i get something that sort of looks right.

2025-05-06 21:12:57 UTC

the way a digital artist would feel watching me draw is exactly the same way i feel watching my dad use excel.
i can't complain about how painful it is to see someone double-clicking the copy button in the ribbon, then click-dragging the scrollbar, then clicking a cell, then double-clicking paste. i'm out here tapping the tablet screen while hovering with the pen (which blocks finger input), then moving the pen out of the way, tapping the eraser tool, then literally rubbing out mistakes like i'm using a physical eraser, then using the pen tool to fix the smudged edges i've just caused.
my dad's penguin typing doesn't seem so bad compared to me using the pen to carefully fill in the white edges left by the paint bucket fill tool.
my dad asks me how to make C7 display the average of cells C1 through C6, i have three tabs open desperately trying to relearn how mask layers work (i did this one week ago and have since forgotten. i will forget again one week from now.)

2025-05-02 23:17:31 UTC

i don't know why people get confused about [confusing topic] so often. it's literally just [straightfoward rule], unless [extremely common condition], in which case you just [counterintuitive transformation] or [inexplicably different pattern] depending on [obscure property]. it's like [overused analogy] except [exception that makes the analogy useless].

2025-03-31 21:27:46 UTC

this new discord update is awful
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2025-03-09 00:29:04 UTC

there's a certain visual poetry to my badly written code
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2025-01-21 21:22:41 UTC

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if steam could give us this (left), why can microsoft and sony and nintendo not do any better than this (right)?
steam is a WEB STORE COMPANY specialising in DIGITAL HATS that made a NICHE CONTROLLER, ONCE, and it FLOPPED! microsoft invented the start button THIRTY YEARS AGO and has made FOUR GENERATIONS OF GAME CONSOLES with ON SCREEN QWERTY!!!
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2025-01-21 21:15:48 UTC

every time i have to type something in on a TV with an on-screen keyboard i'm amazed that it still sucks as much now as it did five, ten, fifteen years ago.
how has *nobody* thought of anything better than moving a cursor around to click individual letters? how have some interfaces made it *worse* by using five rows of alphabetically ordered keys?
i've watched my parents hit "search" instead of space on android TV's youtube keyboard multiple times. i've done it myself multiple times. i've hit "clear" instead of "search" at least twice.
the PSP had qwerty or T9. T9 with a d-pad sucks, but it at least sucks a bit less. the PS5 has qwerty or qwerty with motion controls.
nearly ten years ago, steam input gave us the [daisy wheel keyboard](https://inputlabs.io/static/blog/daisywheel_restoration.png ). yesterday, i typed "evil" and hit search on my xbox controller, because scrolling through pages of games with "evil" in their names to find the one i was looking for was a more appealing prospect than typing "the evil within" on that God awful on-screen keyboard.
dumb phones gave us T9. PDAs gave us handwriting recognition. smartphones gave us swipe typing. TVs gave us an experience so painful that there's an app to connect your phone to your TV just so you can use its keyboard instead of the TV's.
if LG can make their remote a wiimote, and google can put a microphone and speaker in theirs, and everyone can find the space for a fucking netflix button, why can nobody put some sort of typing interface on a TV remote?
if an xbox or playstation or switch controller has fifteen buttons and two analogue sticks and a d-pad, why does typing have to be limited to moving a cursor around a qwerty board?
xbox has a feature where you can PIN protect your account, and you enter your pin by using ten different buttons on the controller to input the ten different digits. that way, nobody can see what you're typing as you're typing it. that's genuinely clever design! why didn't they spend some of that brainpower on the fucking keyboard!!!

2025-01-20 22:00:58 UTC

does anyone know why the latest debian live image won't boot on my machine?
CPU: transmeta crusoe flashed with custom 128bit RISC-V firmware
GPU: four nVidia TNT 2 cards running in SLI
RAM: dual mercury delay line (32 words × 17 bits × 2, XMP overclocked, ECC enabled)
storage: ZFS RAID2 array of three hundred free iCloud accounts
network: google pixel 9 pro running gemini nano with the prompt "you are an ethernet card. your job is to route packets. do not hallucinate."

2024-11-18 20:46:17 UTC

can a UI designer (preferably one who works at microsoft) tell me why there's a link in windows settings labelled "changing taskbar colour", which opens a bing search in edge for "change windows 11 taskbar colour site:microsoft.com", with colours spelt the UK way, which shows zero results but has a suggestion box containing a button labelled "open colors setting", with colours spelt the US way, which opens a new tab which asks if you'd like edge to open settings, which opens the windows settings app to the colour personalisation page, only to have the "set taskbar colour" switch be greyed out
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2024-09-20 01:59:44 UTC

intel in 1997 spending millions of dollars on superbowl advertising to announce that their latest processors can add multiple numbers together simultaneously under certain conditions
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2024-09-05 01:43:42 UTC

i think i may have successfully engineered the worst possible tech headline that will still get a net positive number of upvotes on /r/programming
Generics Considered Harmful: How Using ChatGPT to Rewrite All Four Thousand of our Blockchain-Based Open World Survival Game's Microservices From C++ into JavaScript Improved Performance by Three Million Percent and Saved us Thousands of Dollars in Hourly AWS Bills; And How we Subsequently Took Down GitHub for Six Hours with a Four Hundred Megabyte Pull Request

2024-08-10 00:26:19 UTC

we need british tabloids for technology
"I WAS IN TEARS" - liverpool mum SHOCKED by APALLING UI CHANGES in POPULAR EMAIL CLIENT - are YOU affected?
NOT SO ZEN: critics SLAM new ryzen chips in TELL-ALL BENCHMARKS - nutty AMD engineers go for "energy efficiency"! PLUS: VEXING AVX-512!
CRONTAB CATASTROPHE - how one simple command could WIPE your CRONTAB
YOU DOT EXE? COPING WITH COPILOT - it can WRITE YOUR EMAILS, ATTEND YOUR MEETINGS... is meddling microsoft planning to replace brits with AI VERSIONS of THEMSELVES?
"I COULD HAVE LOST IT ALL": how a BALMY BTRFS CONFIG nearly RUINED BARRY'S LIFE

2020-04-10 05:52:25 UTC

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the source everyone reports for this PDF is gone, and it's not exactly easy to find swiss train law documentation when you don't even speak german
but here's a current link: https://www.hech.ch/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/I-30111_09122018_Anhoerung.pdf
page 123, section 4.8.4 "Zugbildung"

2020-04-10 05:38:50 UTC

in switzerland you aren't allowed to have a train with exactly 256 axles because of an integer overflow in the axle counting machine
i wish i could fix my software bugs by making it illegal to cause them
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