Stuart Langridge

I told you, you can have an ice cream when we get there.

Website: https://kryogenix.org
TTRPG stuff: https://tabletop.social/@sil

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2026-04-20 22:15:18 UTC

You know what I fancy? Bread pudding. Nobody sells it any more.

2026-04-08 10:36:56 UTC

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I remember when she died, on Twitter things were roughly evenly divided between people posting "ding dong, the witch is dead", and a selection of dreams that people wanted to do, with the hashtag #nowthatchersdead and then a bunch of people responded with "OMG Cher is dead?!"

2026-03-29 22:13:56 UTC

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bah. I was worried about the forced encroachment of AI bollocks. Do not want.
I think phones stopped getting better in about 2016. Since then they’ve just got bigger (which I don’t want) and got more features I don’t care about. This makes me irritable. Someone please make a phone company that makes a modern iPhone 5s and a modern Sony Z5 Compact and that’s all.

2026-03-29 22:07:25 UTC

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Alternatively, what do we think of the Pixel 10?

2026-03-29 15:43:43 UTC

What do we think of the Google Pixel 10a?

2026-03-22 23:31:22 UTC

because I hate you all, I curse you with the new and terrible knowledge of https://100jumps.org

2026-01-22 08:59:27 UTC

I couldn't believe that PC Gamer headline was a proper reflection of what was said, but... it was.
The thing which most annoys me is that they seem to believe they have a right to do a damaging thing (which they acknowledge is damaging) in the hope that they might find something impactful to do with it (which they acknowledge they haven't, yet) because there's currently a lot of hype about it, and the only time limit on this is "find something before the hype runs out".
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/937/926/541/867/936/original/60219362b67a58c3.png
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/937/926/530/741/216/original/190d5dc1bf4323dd.png

2025-11-27 21:51:49 UTC

RE: https://toot.cafe/@nolan/115622706069488954
Those of you who are not web devs (good choice) may not quite appreciate what this means.
You know how websites are loads slower now, and don't work without JavaScript? Well, one of the big (dubious) arguments made in favour of this transition was that you download a bunch more code first, but then it'll make everything faster once you're there. It's front loading.
What @npub1pf4…pgxq has shown is that this is not relevant, because people don't stay on the sites long enough to get the benefit.
#note1p5e…tvxh

2025-10-27 18:29:54 UTC

Saw a share of this about disabling Gemini in Google Drive settings > manage apps, did it (Gemini was set to "use by default"), and it works.
Also, Google decision makers, screw you for opting this app that I do not want into my files.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/447/548/614/246/821/original/07cce7ec6a1115ee.png

2025-10-27 17:38:39 UTC

Quite proud to be a Python user today.
https://fosstodon.org/@ThePSF/115446659188615376

2025-10-21 08:01:37 UTC

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perhaps not: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svuUs6jBy5U doesn't have it, from a few months ago

2025-10-20 20:55:37 UTC

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The point is: ad people used to make up whole songs that you learned the words to, to advertise their products. (“A finger of Fudge is just enough to give your kids a treat!”, “just a-one Cornetto!”, etc)
But (a) they were almost all for food or drink (b) nobody does this any more and hasn’t for forty years. Everyone (my age) knows the words to the Shake’n’Vac song or how Kia-Ora is too orangey for crows, but there aren’t songs for products now.
Are we wrong and there are loads we’ve forgotten?

2025-10-20 20:51:09 UTC

Last night’s discussion with darling daughter, which I would be interested in thoughts on: does anybody make advertising jingle songs any more? Did they ever for non-edible things?
The rules here are:
* a signature short bit of music (like Intel’s doo-DOO-doo-DOO) is not a jingle song
* neither is a short phrase sung, like “maybe it’s Maybelline” or “Washing machines live longer with Calgon!”
* “any more” means: it hasn’t been standard since I was a kid. No Flake song, or Shake-n-Vac

2025-10-18 21:25:54 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.online/@nikitonsky/115379677276345667
not 100% sure I'm sold on this, but it sounds plausible so I'm certainly sold enough to give it a try for a bit. Alabaster added to Sublime Text.
#note1juh…v59k

2025-10-08 20:38:52 UTC

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people who only learned how to build web apps with frameworks, when they learn how to build web apps with the web
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/340/471/775/758/962/original/a1a24cf4dcbf8eec.mp4

2025-10-04 10:01:06 UTC

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https://crookedtimber.org/2008/10/17/those-stupid-bankers-and-their-stupid-stupidity/#comment-255924
"If two million people are out of work, then a logical consequence of this is that George Jones will be out of work. But while nobody sensible would think to suggest that two million people being out of work is George Jones’s fault, everyone tends to assume that George Jones being out of work is George Jones’s fault. They are wrong"

2025-10-03 07:09:27 UTC

People have been doing delivery vegetable and recipe boxes for years, but I’ve only just discovered that they do delivery meat boxes as well! That seems like a thing worth trying. Anybody got any recommendations for or against people who do this in the UK? Bonus points if it does deli meats (charcuterie cooked stuff) as well as uncooked. Feel free to drop a referral code if you have one!

2025-09-18 19:51:09 UTC

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ya. But I think a technical definition isn’t all that helpful here, maybe? I think of this like the (apocryphal) US Department of Defence’s definition of “trust” as “someone who can break your security”; it’s what it actually means, rather than the surface appearance. So is an agent “something which you trust to do things in your name”?

2025-09-18 19:44:10 UTC

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I mean, that’s a true definition, but surely that’s because it’s almost uselessly general? I mean, doesn’t it apply to one of those robots that assembles cars on a production line?
This is not, at all, to demand a million exceptions and caveats to the definition; that’s just irritating pedantry. But… what’s the point in having that definition? Surely the reason to have a definition is to be able to exclude some things from it? And that hardly does.

2025-08-18 10:49:16 UTC

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I don't think so, because cinema attendance in the city has fallen too, and to a first approximation I feel like most people going to cinemas in the city are themselves in the city and don't have to travel for a long time. (I have no evidence for that; it might be wrong!) Quite a lot of ways this could happen; it'd be an interesting project for someone to dig into the data on this!

2025-06-04 14:02:28 UTC

So, here’s a question. I keep all my condiments in my fridge. Jars of mustard, mint sauce, jam, bottles of ketchup and salad cream and brown sauce. When I was growing up, all that stuff was in cupboards, not the fridge. I don’t remember being told to change, but I did. Why? We all seem to have done.

2025-05-17 20:10:30 UTC

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And now Latvian Toto Coelo. Rubbish. This is background music for an ashram. Next! #eurovision

2025-05-17 20:08:14 UTC

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“Join my #eurovision party on Roblox”?
Picture me withering into dust like I’ve drunk from the wrong Grail

2025-05-17 20:04:50 UTC

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Icelandic Jedward, you are class. Vote for this! #eurovision
That was fun. First song I’ve actually liked. What does Vaeb mean?

2025-05-17 20:01:17 UTC

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Austria. Austriaren’t. No. #eurovision
Also hysterically overblown staging

2025-05-17 19:57:22 UTC

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Ok,UK, not too bad! I reckon you three are like a stage-trained version of All Saints or something. This is like a song from a musical. And not the big song you remember, but one of the incidental ones #eurovision

2025-05-17 19:54:50 UTC

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It’s us. Not heard this. #eurovision

2025-05-17 19:48:04 UTC

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Ukraine is basically Let’s Dancing Funky from that Map Men video. This is really bad #eurovision
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/524/923/594/097/072/original/efc5c3aad25e1b52.png

2025-05-17 19:44:19 UTC

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Spain enter a very Spanish song indeed, which we can’t really complain at. Indistinguishable from all others. But you do you, Spain. Cool outfits, not that that’s surprising. Stop with the strobe lights though #eurovision

2025-05-17 19:39:40 UTC

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This is dreadful shoegazy rubbish from Lithuania. If I wanted a Smiths song I would… well, I would not want a smiths song, ever. Or this. Begone. #eurovision

2025-05-17 19:36:41 UTC

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Ok this is pretty good! Ballads never win though. This sounds like the sort of song France always do, which is why I like it. However, Israel, who should not get points. Good effort Israel singer : wish you were from somewhere else #eurovision

2025-05-17 19:32:24 UTC

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Now we address my first unpopular #eurovision opinion, which is that I don’t like songs that explicitly take the piss. Obviously the whole thing is done with tongue in cheek, but you aren’t supposed to make it obvious. So, Estonia, nul points

2025-05-17 19:26:41 UTC

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Ok Luxembourg, this is a very #eurovision song indeed. Sadly it is also bobbins. Next!

2025-05-17 19:21:29 UTC

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Norway. Outfit: yes. Choreography: maybe. Set: oof. Song: no. This sounds like some random song from the charts. Bored. Stuff like this never wins, and that is a good thing #eurovision

2025-05-17 19:13:34 UTC

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Super duper drumming #eurovision

2025-05-17 19:09:35 UTC

Iiiiiiiit’s #eurovision ! Got a beer, let the fun begin

2025-04-17 06:46:41 UTC

I wanted to put a video on my website, but I wanted it to adapt to the viewer's bandwidth and screen (you know, how YouTube does, where you get the narrow 240p version if you're on a rubbish mobile connection, but you still get the video). After a bit of research, I worked out how (thank you to Scott Jehl about responsive video via CSS, and mux.com for HLS and ffmpeg instructions) and wrote a quick note in case anybody else needs the same.
https://www.kryogenix.org/days/2025/04/16/serving-streaming-video-that-adapts-to-bandwidth-from-your-own-website/

2025-04-07 07:17:49 UTC

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screenshot from iOS Safari, which suggests that it’s not working there at all unless I’ve done something wrong
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/295/456/885/000/920/original/bbe46bc546e94c24.png

2025-02-22 17:19:39 UTC

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I am fairly sure you'll have already read this, and I am entirely sure you already know all this, but I only discovered https://www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/ today and it was, I thought, a pretty good exposition of this hugely wide-scale problem

2024-12-27 19:31:15 UTC

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on my blog? no broken links at all! how implausible!
this is, of course, because I'm using @npub1kgk…puzv's rather cool https://unrot.link/ :-)

2024-12-08 11:54:15 UTC

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if you're feeling investigative, I'd be interested to know whether anybody actually did the "a map with a growing red line shows the route taken" travel montage thing BEFORE Indiana Jones. It feels like something that they took from a thousand previous instances as homage, but I think they might have invented it. They certainly codified it. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TravelMontage lists a few previous instances (Apache from 1954, frex) but I dunno whether that's the same as the iconic Indy image.

2024-11-22 08:55:14 UTC

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November 22nd, 1993 - I pass my driving test. It's all connected, man

2024-11-19 15:57:05 UTC

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sure, but the MPs are verifying themselves against their own personal websites, right? I mean, that's better than nothing, but it's not *that* hard to register kemi-badenoch.biz or whatever, if you're looking to fake people for a few days as recently :)
I agree it's like Parliament email addresses, but they already exist. Convincing them to set up subdomain verification for all MPs sounds like it willl take a while, so doesn't help now. (No reason not to start today, though.)

2024-11-19 15:46:08 UTC

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plus, there's a pretty big tension between "verify the person" and "verify the role", right? this may be hurtful but I mostly care about, say, my MP in her role AS my MP, so she'd be verified as shabana-mahmood.parliament.uk or similar. But then if she leaves Parliament, she has to give the account up, along with all followers etc. (Unless she renames it and loses verification? Although then she can rename it to her own website and verify that? that might work.)

2024-11-19 15:42:15 UTC

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I mean, domain-based verification is fine and all (I've done it!). But I think the Venn diagram of "people who are famous enough that verification is truly important" and "people who connected enough to the tech team at their employer to get them to create a subdomain or DNS fiddling" is quite close to being two circles. It's very useful if you're me, or if you're an org rather than a person. But the institutional inertia required to get it set up if you're a journo or MP feels hard to me

2024-11-06 08:33:49 UTC

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yeah, I just never tear myself away from phanpy, this is true :-)
It is annoying that you can't see how much space a PWA is using, I agree. Literally the only way I know is to check the size of the .webclip in a full backup, which is very awkward. I have filed a feedbackassistant, but we never find out if that gets acted on. Can you know inside phanpy how much space it's taking up? I'm not sure. I can use the dev site to test if that would help; where's that?

2024-11-05 23:54:23 UTC

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just to follow up on this, I checked my backup size again and phanpy was back up to 1.5GB. So I removed the home screen bookmark and added it again, which only took about one minute, but I wanted to report back; you may still be working on fixing this and if so no worries (as I say, it wasn't hard to recover from!) but I thought you'd like to know it's still going on in case you were thinking it was fixed already.

2024-11-04 17:10:31 UTC

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Don't grieve.
Anything you lose comes round in another form.
Rumi
It's a famous quote according to a quick search, although I'm sceptical of internet quote searches. Rumi's real, though.

2024-11-01 21:59:08 UTC

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yes. Sadly, though, Hofstadter’s law applies: this trick doesn’t work if you do it deliberately. It only works when you don’t think it’ll work.

2024-10-10 21:03:46 UTC

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https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/load-data.html LOAD DATA is pretty fast for importing CSVs, I've found, if your CSV is set up for it?

2024-10-07 14:18:53 UTC

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not any kind of actual help with the problem, but I poked at your table a little bit to show the number of years old each Android version was and that made scanning down the table quite a bit clearer: you can see that lots of them are very old and a few are not-that-old. Might be a useful thing to do to help people grasp the table more intuitively (especially if done a little more prettily than this quick bodge I did)
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/266/572/092/550/039/original/476700ded0b0520b.png

2024-10-04 12:54:53 UTC

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in addition... there is currently no very good solution out there for the majority of people for transferring your active OTP codes between devices, or between OTP apps, or between the phone you dropped in the bath and the new one you've bought on ebay. I am v reluctant to even have non-technical users such as my parents switch from SMS auth (which they get) to an OTP app (which may not be backed up usefully), let alone to only use OTP so if you lose the code your account is unrecoverable

2024-09-20 21:06:34 UTC

https://osspledge.com/
Two rules (from @npub1jet…smwu who started this):
1. Give money to the open source projects which are probably 90% of your code base. $2000 per developer on your staff, although you can and should do better than that. (@npub1hhf…qrnt are doing better than that.)
2. Report every year on whether and how you did it.
This seems like a good idea today, and a thing where non-participation should feel weird tomorrow.

2024-09-20 09:55:50 UTC

is there some sort of docker management GUI app for Linux? Not Docker Desktop (it can't manage docker stuff created before it was installed). I feel like there ought to be some more convenient clicky version of "docker image list", a GTK app or whatever, where I can click stuff to delete it.

2024-09-18 07:37:03 UTC

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no worries. I removed the app and re-added it, which took about one minute, and that reduced the size. Good to hear that the underlying size is being fixed though; a gigabyte is a lot of storage to be using! So thank you for that!

2024-09-17 22:25:22 UTC

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https://www.kryogenix.org/days/2024/09/17/on-ios-home-screen-web-apps-are-part-of-your-icloud-backup/ written to preserve this info for posterity!

2024-09-17 21:33:44 UTC

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https://feedbackassistant.apple.com/feedback/15158244 filed if any Apple dev people look at this. I don't think this is a Safari problem; Safari is doing absolutely the right thing here. This is an iCloud Backup Settings problem, and it's not exactly the only one, since "why is my iCloud Backup bigger than it ought to be" is a common question. Still, this is very useful to have found out. Also, it might stop me playing Wordle every day, although I can doubtless re-add it now!

2024-09-17 21:25:35 UTC

HA HA HA HA HA HA I have found out why my iPhone iCloud backup was larger than 5GB but there was no way to reduce its size!
Turns out... if you bookmark a web app to your Home Screen then its data is included in your iCloud backup. This is very good! Nice one Apple.
But it doesn't show up in the "Backup Details" list of apps in your iCloud Backup settings, so you don't know where the space is gone. This is not as good. I shall file a bug.

2024-09-06 14:33:25 UTC

another Stuart Genius Move: my "how to promote to production.md" document is in the production branch of the repo, which means that I can't read it until I've already switched to production. Well done Langridge, you're amazing

2024-08-28 21:16:18 UTC

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ah cool! I didn’t realise this wasn’t a thing; spoiled by phanpy I suppose :) it’s really useful!

2024-08-23 10:10:16 UTC

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censor box! WHAT DON'T THEY WANT US TO SEE

2024-08-16 06:59:09 UTC

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no, and no, respectively. :) now off to look them up!

2024-08-15 19:51:22 UTC

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by these words I summon the presence of @npub19c6…ttya who would doubtless like to hear about any issues like that with quickemu so they can be fixed :)

2024-08-15 15:34:53 UTC

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second vote for quickemu (and quickgui to go along with it)!

2024-08-13 08:19:33 UTC

Now Stuart, try to learn this.
Tailscale: a VPN to connect all your own machines together that lots of your friends think is good
Tailwind: CSS framework which avoids the unmaintainable horror of style="color:red; width:200px" by providing maintainable forward-thinking utility classes such as class="color:red width:200px"
Tidelift: subscription service for companies to help maintain the open source stuff they rely on
You keep getting these names confused. Read this and learn and get it right.

2024-08-09 21:02:13 UTC

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yikes. I applaud the effort to attempt to emulate their look with decent semantic HTML. Keep it up :)

2024-08-09 20:57:55 UTC

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I mean, they use a million lines of JS to provide an embed, but there’s nothing stopping you using their same CSS so it’s indistinguishable

2024-08-08 20:34:48 UTC

Journalists: X (formerly Twitter) descends further and further into a land of fash arseholes
People: we agree. So why are you still there? Some journalists believe in what they write, and have left. You remaining ones, what’s your excuse?
Journalists: but Twitter is where news is made
People: no, the world is where news is made. Twitter was where it was talked about. Not any more.
Journalists: but Twitter is where news is made

2024-06-28 15:40:46 UTC

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Chapter 2: That Thing You Think Is OK? You're Wrong And Here's Why

2024-06-28 11:53:30 UTC

Well, America, having just watched that debate, if Biden doesn't drop out, there will never ever be a better chance for an actual independent candidate to run and win and stop the two-party system, at least a bit. It'd still be shockingly hard for them to win, but someone who can galvanise real people rather than nutters (and everyone under 50) and credibly claim to be and represent the best of America... I think they'd be in with a real shout, here, if they do it quick and do it right.

2024-06-24 13:44:57 UTC

Here’s the thing I don’t get: even if you’re a Tory who thinks rules only apply to the little people, and even if you know when the “snap” election is ahead of time, and even if you care so little for your public image that you think you can blow right through something as callous as cheat betting on the election date with insider knowledge… why would do you it? For five hundred quid? That’s a lot of money to most people but surely not if you’re an insider in a corrupt government?

2024-06-09 20:46:18 UTC

Fucking hell, France, what are you up to. The UK has leaned really badly towards the fash in recent years but, thank god, we seem to be leaning back again, and we might even be in for a Tory whitewash which would be excellent. The EU elections in general seem to suggest that people may be pulling back from voting for the fash, at least hopefully. But France… man, that’s not good, what’s going on there. Please don’t become the recent UK, or even worse.

2024-06-04 22:08:28 UTC

the word "barbarian" came from the ancient Greeks, who thought that everyone who didn't speak proper Greek was just making meaningless gibberish sounds like "ba-ba-ba". I always thought this was a bit off, and then I heard this song about Barbara's rhubarb bar and now I can't stop playing it. German is cool. (Turn on the closed captions.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYkBf0dbs5I

2024-05-22 16:29:08 UTC

Literally laughed out loud at my desk at this. Very strong.
https://mastodon.world/@CountBinface/112485661600596055

2024-05-09 18:48:14 UTC

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thought for a second there that you meant memory :)