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2026-07-03 03:48:30 UTC

Current status:
Uninstalling KITTY MADE WITH SLOPCODING,
installing WHOLESOME PERFECT KITTY THAT LOVES ME
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/853/994/314/992/759/original/cdb7cafd22cc937b.png

2026-06-28 21:04:20 UTC

Unexpected consequence of the AI era*: Various tools with network calls that normally would run so quickly there is no need for a progress bar or status indicator now hang for minutes at a time trying to reach network with no sign of whether the tool has locked up
* Here "AI" means "various commercial entities are performing a DDOS on every website, but there are no legal consequences, because if you call something 'AI' it becomes legal, like doing it through a hole in a sheet"
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/829/750/264/094/855/original/a757da6f6e91a6a4.png

2026-05-23 22:39:46 UTC

If you're still using the penis, you're going to get left behind
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/626/289/942/559/256/original/08c4b1f13953fac7.webp

2026-05-12 21:52:37 UTC

Looks like Chromebook is being replaced with something called "Googlebook" and it is full-scale Microsoft-style Surveillance PC. Apparently anytime you "wiggle your cursor" anything that is underneath the cursor gets fed into Google's surveillance AI https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/platforms/android/meet-googlebook/
One of these things that makes me consider detecting the platform from my webserver and blocking it entirely because the probability of whatever I wrote becoming an LLM input is too high

2026-04-16 18:34:30 UTC

Bluesky is down today. "Hah", I think, "since I use a self-hosted PDS for posting and Blacksky for viewing posts, I can go on using the service just fine".
Blacksky can't show me my own posts. I can make them and they show up on my PDS, but my profile shows none more recent than last night.
I wonder if Blacksky is coincidentally having server problems, or if Blacksky has a still-undisclosed dependency on Bluesky services. (It *does* have disclosed use of Bluesky moderation; maybe that's it.)

2026-04-10 21:13:19 UTC

The problem I've got right now is I can write software at any level of the stack— programming languages, webtech, GUI, graphics programming, I can actually make my own CPUs, not good ones but I can make them— *except* operating systems, that is the one thing I haven't had the chance to learn. And that's the thing I most want to be able to do rapid work on right now because I am desperate to either replace Linux or fork it from just before they adopted this policy https://docs.kernel.org/process/coding-assistants.html

2026-04-06 21:08:56 UTC

The guy on the Artemis keeps complaining that after he's been looking at the moon it's hard to adjust his eyes to the relative dark of the capsule and I wish I had a way to get a message to NASA because y'all this is a solved problem, this is literally what pirates invented eyepatches for

2026-03-30 00:08:16 UTC

*Company makes my life worse through their product*
I will boycott this product
*Company continues making my life worse, now through externalities*
How do I boycott an externality

2026-03-25 03:02:09 UTC

So there's this guy who made a tool where someone punches in their bluesky or mastodon credentials to his website, and it auto-crawls their feeds and produces an LLM summary of everyone it finds posting there. He was asked what people should do if we don't want to be mulched as content for his summary feeds. He said we should block him. I replied, I can do that, but that only stops *you* from running the tool on me, how do I prevent *your other users* from running your tool on me? He blocked me.

2026-03-24 20:50:09 UTC

Is this bullshit. Sincere question, I can't tell
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/286/120/895/042/527/original/65c3fb000419583e.jpg

2026-03-24 01:29:15 UTC

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@nprofile…nhxp "NetBSD was never really high on my list" it's the one I've been told has a rigorous anti "AI" policy and "AI" was both the reason I switched Windows->Linux and the reason I'm switching Linux->BSD. I'm so far beyond the luxury of choosing solutions based on merits.

2026-03-24 01:14:19 UTC

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@nprofile…nhxp I am planning to attempt a NetBSD move for this reason but given the purposes for which I use my computer I expect this to go very badly :(

2026-03-24 00:44:11 UTC

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@nprofile…nhxp Mastodon Ruby as far as I know is, as a project, strongly anti-"AI". The problem is my Linux distribution. Linux is harder to switch away from than a Fediverse instance.

2026-03-23 20:32:25 UTC

My desire to use Mastodon is basically at zero now because post-"Claude", hanging out here means inevitably I'm going to have a conversation with someone who tolerates, or even uses, "generative AI". And what's the point of being in a community where that's a risk. Interestingly* there is absolutely no chance of this on Bluesky, because there are artists there
* And oddly, given how "AI"-brained the *admins* there are

2026-03-03 23:45:42 UTC

*Implements a feral in-place bool startsWith(const std::string &s, const std::string &prefix) function for probably the thirtieth or fortieth time in her life*

2026-02-27 15:32:26 UTC

Do you ever daydream about the incredibly wild optimizations a garbage collector could do if it had the direct control over virtual memory layout an operating system does

2026-02-24 04:06:41 UTC

So I use the "Pleco" flash card app and around the start of the year it just sorta… lost all my flashcards, all of them, on my tablet. Frustrated, I fell off 中文 practice for a month or two, then last week made a new set of flashcards for just the things I need to remember this week. Today I open Pleco up and discover my flashcards from the end of the year are back, but my flashcards from *last* week, the ones I specifically need this week, are missing. I am delirious with frustration.

2026-02-22 17:26:56 UTC

By the way, if you go to https://github.com/claude and "block this user", every Github repo you visit containing code credited to Claude will actually have a warning sigil
CF
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/115/451/116/370/911/original/ad8056ce2afbfc7c.png

2026-02-22 01:47:31 UTC

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@nprofile…pfuj maybe it's for the ice cream shops birthday not yours

2026-02-07 03:46:52 UTC

Could you successfully communicate the "This is not a place of honor" long-term nuclear waste warning message using only emoji

2026-02-06 17:33:00 UTC

Interesting… just saw a sidebar on a YouTube video for a fundraiser being run by the channel. Was legitimately surprised to see YouTube doing product development to further YouTube itself as a revenue center instead of just treating YouTube as a site for investor storytime about how Google is adopting "AI"
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/024/851/807/134/877/original/ad4b7b9e21d4058f.png

2026-02-02 23:31:12 UTC

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@nprofile…3q9y u could learn flash for purposes of making an independent reimplementation

2026-02-02 19:17:37 UTC

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As someone who was a true devotee of FutureWave Smartsketch (which became FutureSplash Animator, which became Adobe Shockwave Flash, which became Adobe Flash, which became Adobe Animator) my sorrow is incalculable. Every day I long for software I had in the 90s which I can't find anything as good as today.

2026-02-02 19:08:12 UTC

You don't use open source software because it's better (it usually isn't).
You don't use open source software because it's freer (it only sometimes is).
You don't use open source software because it's got better politics (it isn't always).
You use open source software because *it is the only option*. In the long run, if it isn't open source, it doesn't exist.
image source: keithstack.com
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/002/630/691/708/770/original/0033f1f66f5f98b5.jpg

2026-01-09 19:19:20 UTC

They're a lot more popular than the store that sells the other kind of bikes
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/866/753/046/251/188/original/68827315ed7a177f.jpg

2025-12-29 19:27:05 UTC

The Second-Order Streisand Effect is a social phenomenon where if a party makes an effort to censor information, discussion and news about the censoring attempt paradoxically leads to an increased awareness of Barbara Streisand, a musician whom most Zoomers would probably have never heard of if not for the Streisand Effect

2025-12-16 22:07:01 UTC

My opinion is that there should be one big button labeled "opt out" and when you click it it should opt you out. Just in general.

2025-12-15 04:33:17 UTC

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@nprofile…f4xf this sounds like something to file a bug on

2025-12-02 19:11:07 UTC

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@nprofile…yk2u Yes, but there's a problem, which is that the "product" *is* the chat-style interface, not the models. The models are only important insofar as they provide the illusion of the chat-style interface, which is the thing the customer wants. Perhaps the customer is even right to want it

2025-12-02 19:01:19 UTC

The thing that transforms large-language-model "AI"¹ from "a bad idea"² to "a fatal idea"² is "self-hosting"²: in other words, the idea the people making the AI can "program"¹ the AI by way of inputs to the AI.
This idea is foundational to the OpenAI approach, and it does not work, but the model tech is good enough at lying³ that in a formal QA setting it appears to work.
https://tenforward.social/@SeanAloysiusOBrien/115651339013408174
¹ Scare quotes
² Regular quotes
³ Yes, an unthinking object can lie. It just can't tell the truth.

2025-11-21 05:05:47 UTC

What you need to understand is getting into advanced mathematics is like hanging out with a bunch of stoners
MATHEMATICIAN 1: Hey
MATHEMATICIAN 2: Wha
M1: You know how like… in an irrational number… the digits after the decimal… they go on forever
M2: Yeah
M1: Like they just go on forever
M2: I know man
M1: Well what if they went on forever to the left
M2: What
M1: What if there was a number… and it went on forever after the decimal… and also forever before the decimal
M2: Duuuuude
M1: Duuuuude

2025-11-20 17:30:21 UTC

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@nprofile…nzck Oh hey offtopic but how do you feel about Ark so far

2025-11-15 23:41:25 UTC

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@nprofile…f4xf Hm. I'd wonder if you could make some progress by
1. Finding low-power radio stations that might not cover the event site well
2. Broadcasting on an even frequency

2025-11-15 23:28:48 UTC

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@nprofile…f4xf Would it make things [administratively] worse or better to broadcast FM and BTLE simultaneously?

2025-11-03 15:40:05 UTC

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@nprofile…mrzh ok, sorry— I understood this, but since I cannot help with the general problem (indistinct dictionaries), was making a suggestion on the specific problem (which dialect is this single noodle term?), which may not have actually been something you needed

2025-11-03 14:46:34 UTC

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@nprofile…mrzh maybe try researching the company on a conventional search engine rather than going after the language? There's an English listing for this product on the T&T website.

2025-11-02 22:17:53 UTC

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@nprofile…f4xf Hmm… clearly the solution here is to rewrite the entire X11 stack as a totally new thing which re-creates exactly 50% of the design errors but then adds a new 50% worth of design errors to compensate

2025-11-02 20:23:01 UTC

Boost this post if you are a HORSE and you want INSTANT NOODLES
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/481/965/268/491/899/original/e90d77b16adb958c.jpg

2025-10-28 18:01:36 UTC

I have never played Vampire Survivors. If I met a vampire I would probably not survive… I expect it would just kill me.

2025-10-28 15:39:34 UTC

Tfw people are not respecting Robert's Rules of Order https://mstdn.social/@ComicContext/115452505226769633

2025-10-26 01:59:53 UTC

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@nprofile…7lat ha ha I've been thinking of deleting all my posts because Reddit intentionally feeds them to AI and then cuts off scraping because they accuse everyone else of feeding to AI

2025-10-21 18:41:13 UTC

因为我的老师想让我提高造句能力，所以我要每周发一条中文在这里。

2025-10-16 21:23:17 UTC

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@nprofile…yxsj I use git-lfs because it can integrate with hosted services such as github and bitbucket. No other real reason. Does git-annex have this property?

2025-10-16 21:16:35 UTC

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@nprofile…yxsj I have not heard of git annex.

2025-10-11 21:17:39 UTC

BSD Bros vs SysV Sisters. Is this anything

2025-10-11 03:33:42 UTC

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@nprofile…ne93 @nprofile…d23x @nprofile…dpy5 Fuck off. We need our computers to work and currently they do not. The distros made a decision which brought our computers from a working to a nonworking state. That was the right decision from the project's perspective but it causes problems for the users and the projects knew that when they made the decision. If someone wants me to contribute code to make things better I can potentially do that but if you want me to pretend to be happy I will not

2025-10-11 01:02:14 UTC

So the good thing about Linux distros switching to Wayland long before Wayland is remotely ready is that contact with real-world users will make the "pain points" visible so they can be fixed. But the bad thing is. I do not actually believe the "pain points" will be fixed. Ever

2025-10-11 00:56:51 UTC

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@nprofile…d23x it's weird because when lenovo does this it can at least be justified with "well Windows works with 1.5DPI really well" but framework is supposed to be the linux company?!

2025-10-06 15:36:28 UTC

Bluesky is melting down and Mastodon will not (I believe) benefit from it, and one reason why is that the one single technical advantage Bluesky has over Mastodon— the ability to migrate instances without consequence— turns out to be an absolute showstopper.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/327/952/370/081/545/original/7c6cff527dfaaf65.png

2025-10-03 23:40:09 UTC

Have pity for me for now I must write CSS

2025-09-30 14:24:21 UTC

It's really frustrated the clock alarm in Android has switched from the snooze/wake slider to a button. This is a piece of UI by design I'm fumbling for an object while laying down, tapping a button precisely is very difficult. If I switch out Google for something on fdroid can I get the slider back? Is there an easy way to just downgrade Google apps? The only reason to run up to date apps is security but a clock app probably is unlikely to get vulns.

2025-09-29 23:09:44 UTC

Booted up Silksong and as it started I noticed that Steam said back in Toronto my wife was also at that moment playing Silksong and now I'm wishing I could draw well enough to draw Hornet holding hands with on the one side chibi Christine and on the other side chibi Andi

2025-09-07 04:41:24 UTC

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/161/172/468/062/693/original/d2a0df89419e5c9c.png

2025-08-26 20:35:05 UTC

Have you ever watched a bit of a TV show, and then years and years pass and suddenly you walk through a room and there's people watching the show, but they're on like season 8 or something and you have *no fucking idea* what is going on
https://masto.ai/@phoronix/115094693144668142

2025-08-11 20:52:08 UTC

The reason I don't use or consider using SourceHut is… well, look at it.
https://git.sr.ht/~bacardi55/houston
To me a site like GitHub/SourceHut/Codeberg has two functions, one is to actually host the VCS, but the other is to be a useful, inviting public presence for your project. People with little-to-no knowledge of source code should be able to get useful information out of your project landing page.
But every Sourcehut page is bewildering to *me* at first glance, and I've contributed code to DVCSes!

2025-08-07 19:48:11 UTC

*I HAVE JUST BEEN INTRODUCED TO HG*
Me: Oh, this is so cool, hg is just a Python module. So I can just install it however I install Python modules
*I HAVE BEEN USING HG FOR SIXTEEN YEARS*
Me: It really sucks how hg is a Python module, which means anytime something goes weird with my Python environment hg breaks
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/989/201/988/798/684/original/41073e120c8160c7.png

2025-08-02 16:36:43 UTC

What if instead of video game, someone invented… video work

2025-07-17 15:30:48 UTC

Important question: If I click the "Update and restart" button on my Windows copy of firefox right this second, will it force me into a mode where an AI-slop "link preview" is being displayed whenever you hold shift while holding the mouse over a link?
The Firefox docs describe this as an "optional" "labs" feature, but I heard from one person who this week got that turned on without consenting to it.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/869/282/609/812/932/original/ba38bcf700b7fc2c.png

2025-07-11 22:25:24 UTC

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@nprofile…056e This web page does not load for me.
When they say "using open-source training data", what is their definition of "open source"?
How is "respecting web crawling opt-outs during data acquisition" compatible with the claim training data was "open source"? I don't have crawler restrictions on my web pages, because I don't mind crawlers archiving my pages. But I do mind my published work (some of which is under open source licenses) being pulled into a LLM & used without license compliance.

2025-07-04 21:02:56 UTC

Oh, to be a tired woman accompanied by donkeys and snails
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/796/982/990/444/097/original/bea62143c3015c24.jpg

2025-06-26 00:46:57 UTC

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@nprofile…d23x Hm. Imo appropriate for the use cases Fedora focuses on…? Fedora seems to me to be a cloud/vm focused distro these days, whereas 32 bit support is mostly relevant for desktop/laptop/consumers who need to run old software. Or am I underestimating Fedora's strength on desktop?

2025-06-17 02:16:19 UTC

Using GNOME Software ("Flatpak"), I install "meld". I click the little GNOME software launchey menu. I type "meld" and hit return. Meld opens. I close Meld and open a terminal window. I type "meld" and hit return. Nothing happens. Why not?

2025-06-16 03:59:48 UTC

How normal are you capable of being. What's the most normal you can be

2025-06-12 21:09:04 UTC

Anyway if you're American and on the low politics news diet you should probably be aware of the newest red line we crossed today https://universeodon.com/@SrRochardBunson/114672298866993446
"Padilla" refers to United States Senator Sen. Alex Padilla of California, thrown to the ground and handcuffed while trying to ask the DHS secretary a question at a press conference

2025-06-09 18:30:37 UTC

To reiterate, what I want out of a phone:
- Headphone jack
- Square corners on screen, no rounded edges
- No holes in screen
- Smol like my hands
- Ability to install and distribute my own software
- Ability to turn off anything that bugs me
- Ability, when reading ebooks, to silence visual "noise" like clocks or navbars
- I want to neither monetarily nor in platform political power support a company that sells "AI"-branded features as part of their business activities
https://mstdn.social/@bit101/114654781011903274

2025-06-05 07:00:27 UTC

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/629/462/980/796/561/original/74b6e9b5bb6c4d53.png

2025-06-04 06:46:15 UTC

There are old jokes about, when you walk into an empty room, saying "Computer, End Simulation" or "I know you're listening!" just in case. But just now upon entering a new space I found myself saying "Hey Google, are you listening? Alexa, are you there?" and truly, this world we have built for ourselves is haunted

2025-05-30 01:10:51 UTC

I am always asking this question
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/594/111/971/398/009/original/011f542c52793171.jpg

2025-05-27 19:01:58 UTC

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I really believe this. We were told capitalist entities will act to minimize costs and maximize profit. But what corporations actually seek to do, for whatever reason, is minimize *labor* cost. They prefer to bear any other kind of cost. They will minimize labor costs even if it increases overall costs and/or hurts profits

2025-05-27 19:00:37 UTC

Airlines are like "instead of all those agents, we'll make a sort of assembly line manned by customers. Check in with one machine, drop your baggage off with another."
Then literally anything happens with the computer network requiring an elevated number of customers to need manual intervention, and suddenly you have an enormous immobile line while every single customer lines up before the two (2) remaining agents.
Corporations don't care about "efficiency" they just wanna fire people

2025-05-26 20:57:00 UTC

Documentation is a technology

2025-05-23 14:40:16 UTC

I stopped using Reddit because the company was feeding my words into a large language model, and I stopped using StackOverflow because the company was feeding my words into a large language model, and I will stop using Discord if the company starts feeding my words into a large language model
https://www.theverge.com/apps/673208/discord-ai-forums-anniversary-gamechat
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/557/662/332/248/048/original/9c0b1efb98fbae35.jpg

2025-05-22 00:53:59 UTC

Me, 1996: No, "Goodtimes" is a hoax, an email can't run computer code or give you a virus
Me, 2000, miserable: Microsoft did something weird and now emails can give you a virus. Bubbleboy is real
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Me, 2010: No, the "Enhance" bit from CSI is not real. There aren't algorithms that can add information to an image.
Me, 2025, miserable: Microsoft did something weird and now the "Enhance" button is real, but the details are fake. Law enforcement IS using it and innocent people will go to prison

2025-05-21 02:57:26 UTC

Anybody reading this ever used rust Reqwest? Is the Client object heavyweight? That is if I intend to do between 2 and 300 https requests, is there a reason to reuse a single client?

2025-05-20 17:04:18 UTC

Even when you think there is "no algorithm", there is an algorithm https://ausglam.space/@kristina/114537678236762152

2025-05-19 21:40:54 UTC

Discovery: The "copilot" bot user that Microsoft will soon be flooding your github repos with garbage content from is implemented in some sort of special way that exempts it from the "block" feature you would normally be able to block other users/bots with
https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/159749

2025-05-19 20:43:35 UTC

Wait why is the GNU Smalltalk reference documentation written in the first person
https://www.gnu.org/software/smalltalk/manual-base/html_node/Collection.html

2025-05-18 19:44:15 UTC

Me: It's confusing to talk about programming sometimes because that "type" is a vocabulary word with special meaning but it's also a general word in English. I know, if I ever need to express a general category of things, I'll use the unambiguous word "kind".
Haskell: *About to play a hilarious prank on me*

2025-05-14 02:17:08 UTC

It's so weird to me that now normie social media has a trans girl thing called "dolls" and weird trans social media also has a trans girl thing called "dolls" but they're not the same thing

2025-05-13 23:40:21 UTC

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@nprofile…mmpy does the gdpr cover me, an american citizen living in canada using a website operated in america?

2025-05-13 23:37:51 UTC

This is super hilarious because the reason I quit StackOverflow is because they sold my posts to an LLM company in countervention of the license, and then when I tried to remove my posts they banned me because they say deleting my own posts violates the license
https://hachyderm.io/@shafik/114502582779559335

2025-04-24 23:45:25 UTC

Yeah so Bluesky has been down for like an hour. Anyone not on a self hosted PDS just gets a spinner if they open the app. I'm self hosted, so *I* can log in and post, and I can see my own posts, but because Bluesky uses the "it's not a blockchain, I promise!" relay system, I can't see anyone ELSE'S posts, not even if they're self hosted too.
https://hoosier.social/@thekitmalone/114395580996468044

2025-04-11 01:56:36 UTC

Hey
Which should I learn first
Fennel or Dylan

2025-04-04 23:20:21 UTC

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About The Nature Of Substance And Being

2025-04-04 16:08:40 UTC

People who have a specific interest in / capacity for exploring the undocumented features of the human brain.

2025-04-02 15:43:46 UTC

I think on the Canadian citizenship test they should just ask you if dates are written month/day/year or day/month/year, and then show an object and ask if it's measured in inches or cm, and if you know the answers to either of these questions they don't let you in. You're not ready to be Canadian yet

2025-03-30 21:05:42 UTC

Gonna invent some new thought-terminating cliches. Things like "God can't read your thoughts because that would be a HIPAA violation". That sort of thing

2025-03-25 04:23:15 UTC

There's this Rust library called Clap that is unbelievably powerful, but it has a downside, which is that it is unbelievably powerful. It is able to do so many things that figuring out how to do any one single thing becomes extremely difficult.
These two lines I wrote just now do something extremely sophisticated, they set off an entire range of behaviors, which clap interprets to the Nth degree of correctness. I am…uncertain how I wrote these two lines, exactly. Some form of divination I think
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/221/154/078/366/084/original/e4e3831c5331c7de.png

2025-03-20 16:02:40 UTC

Attention programmnters. I am making a programmmning language. I seek your opinion.
I am implementing my language such that the math operator functions (+, -, /) are variadic. So you can say
(+ 2 4)
but also
(+ 2 4 5 6 7)
The - and * and / functions are the same.
But then there's %.
I can't think of a reason someone would "chain" %s. I.E. ((x % y) % z). Who would do that? So to avoid mistakes, I intend to make % allow binary use only.
Does this sound right to you? Am I making a mistake?

2025-03-11 17:28:50 UTC

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@nprofile…0n93 oh i mean. i think there are some kinds of software that work like the thing i'm describing in this thread ("i shouldn't have to think, it should just conform to my intuition") and sometimes it works like you're describing ("models are powerful, the user should learn the model"). Maybe there's a synthesis where the software is "self-teaching", the user adopts a mental model without knowing it. Maybe that's what you were trying to say. I am spitballing here not attempting to produce Theory

2025-03-11 17:25:35 UTC

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@nprofile…0n93 I think you touched on a larger idea here. I think what I'd say is fundamentally there are two different types of software and sometimes a piece of software misunderstands which one it is

2025-03-11 17:19:42 UTC

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Often I complain about things in software and get baffled replies like, okay, but you can fix this arcane problem with [arcane solution], you know that right? And possibly I did know it but complain anyway because *I shouldn't have had to know it*. Your software shouldn't have needed a Theory of Operation. Your software shouldn't have required *learning*. Let me reserve my executive function for performing Useful Tasks and not like, configuring interface minutae. For a moment, let me be an idiot

2025-03-11 17:16:11 UTC

The most underrated skill in tech engineering is the ability, or maybe the *willingness*, to be an idiot. Sometimes the best way to debug a problem is to forget everything you think you know and re-test the most basic things from ground zero. Sometimes the only way to design a good interface is to look at what you've made through eyes that have no idea what they're looking at. You know too much. Your users don't know anything. Be a user. If you can't be a user how can you make a thing users want

2025-03-07 22:19:48 UTC

Taking a moment to affirm reality:
In English, the words "gender" and "sex" are synonyms.
If you are in a situation you need to decide whether to write "gender" or "sex": write "gender". If you write "sex", there is a risk of it being ambiguous whether you meant copulation.
If someone says anything different from the above, this means one of two things:
- They took a Women's Studies course between exactly 2005 and 2007 and overly internalized something the teacher said then. Or
- They're fash

2025-02-28 20:29:00 UTC

The github issue page now opens in a "lightbox" popup instead of being a page you can visit by itself. This is a war crime.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/083/398/596/249/361/original/c33b2e014e4e875d.png

2025-02-19 15:46:57 UTC

The sign I'm REALLY having a bad day programming is when I start on each build changing the color of something visible on screen or introducing a typo to some text visible on screen because I otherwise don't totally trust the code that is running is the code I built

2025-02-19 00:11:17 UTC

A thing I'm having increasingly intense problems with in Rust: in most languages, if I need to do a thing most naturally achieved with a recursive algorithm, I prefer not to use actual recursive recursive function calls. Call stacks can have surprisingly low limits and querying them is usually annoying or impossible. So I like to rewrite recursive algorithms to use a regular stack.
However! This is very difficult in conjunction with Rust's rules about shared mutable pointers :(

2025-02-09 18:55:31 UTC

#BabelOfCode 2024
Week 5
Language: TCL
Confidence level: Medium high
PREV WEEK: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/113906616486081430
RULES: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/113676228091546556
TCL is an odd language. I think anyone who's tried developing a programming language has probably at some point thought "what if I just didn't bother with types and did all operations as string transformations?". I think TCL is just that language.
Officially, TCL is supposed to be capitalized "Tcl". I will not be complying.

2025-02-07 22:22:30 UTC

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Please be very clear I am not saying not to use Signal, or saying that using Signal is pointless; I am describing a threat model which you should be aware of when using the application.
( This said I'd also recommend turning off "Apple Intelligence" on Signal. And also turning off "Apple Intelligence" on every app. And also discontinuing use of any device, application, or operating system which has the capability to interoperate with "Apple Intelligence" or "Copilot".
https://www.powerpage.org/apple-intelligence-reads-signal-messages-on-newer-iphone-models-privacy-concerns-cited/ )

2025-02-07 22:18:39 UTC

If you are using Signal, and you are doing something the government considers illegal, the way they are going to read your messages about it is they will arrest the person you sent the messages *to*, and make your counterparty show them the logs. We know this because this technique came up again and again in, for example, the Jan. 6 court filings.
There may, hypothetically, be other Signal exploits available to a government, but this is the one they will use, because it works.