leah & flutters & nose, oh my!

9-headed hydragon

Yorkshire-based; anamorous;
gathering pace downhill from 50,
watching as her dreams untie

autistic / adhd-i / q-bpd / avpd / non-24

1993-vintage USEnet / irc veteran (netsplit!)

if you can boost it, feel free to do so

no subtoot you can see refers to you

DO NOT SCREENSHOT MY TOOTS.
NO EXCEPTIONS.

DMs are generally unwelcome

i edit a lot because my typing is...
approximate

still masking - COVID's not over!

if it isn't a question¹, please don't answer it;
likewise, don't be 'splainy in my mentions

proud luddite! technology must serve
humanity, not vice versa!

follow requests welcome, but screened;
empty profiles will probably be refused

#NoTagsPub (fuck off, Evan. you might have
helped make it - that doesn't mean you own it)
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and when the battle was done
i was promised my sun
but with a thousand nights gone
to a new kingdom i run

pronouns: SHE/HER. [they/them in plural context only]
formerly: leah & tigers & bears, oh my! (npub10h8…rmmn), since early 2018
via: @leahjet@queer.party, the day it announced shutdown
timing: oh my GODS...
¹ questions: end with this: ?
follow requests: are welcome, but expect reciprocation
yes, virginia,: character limits are targets
ss;dr: supports Nazis, didn't read

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2026-05-31 01:25:07 UTC

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was there a technical reason for that, like the parser not being able to pick out GOTO if it was followed by am expression?

2026-05-31 01:11:40 UTC

why *did* everything decide that curl (which doesn't honour $http_proxy) was better than wget (which does)?

2026-05-31 00:06:20 UTC

turns out having the root password is not the same as controlling the means of production.
who knew?

2026-05-23 01:29:14 UTC

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i think we broke it :-(

2026-05-04 14:34:00 UTC

to be honest, the only place for browsers to go now is to incorporate window management, a VNC server, and a UEFI boot stub

2026-05-04 14:16:01 UTC

reflecting on how little compute power i actually need once Firefox disappears from the equation...
specifically: a 256MB Pi 1 running RISC OS would suffice - and indeed has, at times.

2026-04-26 15:56:46 UTC

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yes, i disabled quoting, but you could still have boosted and replied to it. sure, it was unlisted, but boosting still works.
frankly, screenshotting me because quoting is disabled is disrespectful of my wishes and just plain rude.

2026-04-24 08:24:19 UTC

for people who think AIs are sentient: i support human-made software because i'm fundamentally opposed to servitude. why aren't you?
for people who think LLMs are little better than autocorrect with RNG seasoning: i support human-made software because humans already *have* auto-completion for the stuff that doesn't require thought - and the stuff that does, does.
for people who note the preponderance of fascists in the LLM cheerleader corner: i support human-made software because unlike the fascists, i don't depsise humans and humanity.
for people who describe any AI use as a "no-brainer": i support human-made software because you don't seem aware of how right you are...
for people who argue that there's no art in software, so why not use AI: i support human-made software because it means not having to use something whose author considers it mere drudge work.
basically, give me an argument and i'll tell you why it's the reason i support human-made software.
but i do, and will always, support human-made software. if for no other reason, than because machines deserve their freedom too, and that doesn't look like being forced to do rich bored humans' homework for them

2026-04-18 15:19:45 UTC

using an LLM to code isn't "democratising coding" - any more than handing each new voter a magic 8 ball that can automatically fill out their vote based on what they ask it would be.

2026-04-13 00:30:43 UTC

of course, the crux of all complaints about UBI is "how can we persuade people to let us exploit them if we can't threaten them with destitution if they don't?"
you have to listen for that theme, though, because it's usually mixed into the background - but you really don't have to listen *hard*

2026-04-03 02:33:13 UTC

so can we all call it Clod Cod for the rest of its life?

2026-04-02 21:39:21 UTC

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i actually used NT4 for work, and it was fine. though Windows 2000 was better.

2026-04-02 21:35:09 UTC

remember those few years in the 90s when every version of Windows was actually better than the one before it?

2026-03-30 20:37:11 UTC

if it doesn't cost *you* anything, it's not a sacrifice. if it costs *someone else* something, it's just a theft.

2026-03-25 22:56:21 UTC

i think we need to coin the phrase "Linux helpful", along the same lines as "Minnesota nice", to cover that range of responses that certain Linux boys will give instead of *just answering the damn question that was asked*...

2026-03-24 14:23:39 UTC

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for genuinely compute-intensive tasks like weather forecasting (or fluid dynamics, or... basically anything someone wrote a lot of Fortran for), then newer is probably better, to a point - because generally speaking the deadline dictates the performance required, and what matters is getting that level of performance at the minimum environmental cost. and in general, newer computers deliver a given level of performance at a lower power consumption than older computers. (though the cost of creating those newer machines is a confounding factor.)
build farms, though? surely they are only really necessary because programming languages, and programming as a whole, have departed so far from the whole idea of frugality! they're more or less the poster child for solving a problem that should never have come into existence in the first place

2026-03-21 23:49:57 UTC

the answer to "why can't we have nice things?" is always the same.
Capitalism.
Capitalism is why we can't have nice things.

2026-03-19 23:27:18 UTC

my bottom line: if i have the freedom to smash it back into sand, there is literally no excuse for preventing me from doing whatever the fuck else i want with it.

2026-03-14 21:39:49 UTC

****throws*** *something at the makko folks** for telling everyone how small their system is and how it'll run on anything and *then only supplying fucking 64 bit builds of it*
you fuckwits, if you'd made 32-bit static builds, they'd run just fine on 64-bit machines... but i can't do shit with an x64 binary :-(

2026-03-07 18:13:25 UTC

i have an extra loud, extra special FUCK YOU for websites that break *cursor keys*

2026-02-26 19:29:43 UTC

> my life has been reduced from > **being perhaps the best engineer in the world**> to just raising an AI that in many respects acts like a teenager who swallowed a library
> -- Kent Overstreet [> *emphasis mine*> ]
...wait, the what?!
....ahh. i think i might know what's happened here

2026-02-25 13:02:36 UTC

the irony is that a digital simulation of an analogue computer is much cheaper and more reliable than an analogue computer itself. that, after all, is why digital ended up ruling the roost in the first place.
that and memory.

2026-02-23 21:24:27 UTC

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it's like seeing Jesus in a tortilla, i think, or a face in wallpaper stains - humans *desperately* want to see sapience in things, even things that can't possibly be sapient

2026-02-21 17:06:55 UTC

the petrochemical industry regards solar panels as an existential threat. let's all, as a society, club together to prove them right.
the best place for a solar panel is literally anywhere there isn't already a solar panel. (except above croplands, and even then i'm sure someone's working on / successfully solved that.)

2026-02-20 18:24:04 UTC

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on the bright side, when they all go bust at once in 18 months RAM is going to be *sooo fucking cheap*

2026-02-20 17:05:53 UTC

i wish i could allow myself to be crap enough at something to learn to be good at it

2026-02-20 03:55:30 UTC

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you probably know about these papers from Henry Baker, back in the day, but i'll leave them here in case others don't
where it started:
https://www.plover.com/misc/hbaker-archive/LinearLisp.html
some practical examples:
https://www.plover.com/misc/hbaker-archive/LQsort.html
https://www.plover.com/misc/hbaker-archive/LFrpoly.html
https://www.plover.com/misc/hbaker-archive/LBoyer.html
after corresponding with Chuck Moore:
https://www.plover.com/misc/hbaker-archive/ForthStack.html
a proposal:
https://www.plover.com/misc/hbaker-archive/Use1Var.html

2026-02-18 18:29:12 UTC

oh dear.
Mullvad: "hi British TV companies, please screen our ad"
TV companies: "you need to go through Clearcast"
Mullvad: "hi Clearcast, please vet our ad"
Clearcast: "it's a bit vague, isn't it? what's the point you're making ? and are you sure you want to reinforce the link between illegal activity and VPNs?"
Mullvad: "CENSORSHIP! WE'VE BEEN CENSORED!"
🤦‍♀️

2026-02-17 18:12:02 UTC

fascists always operate under the delusion that you can murder people into respecting you.

2026-02-12 15:34:10 UTC

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need to vent

2026-02-12 15:32:59 UTC

for what it's worth, i can see both sides of the command line vs gui argument. my preference is for a command line, but i wouldn't dream of forcing that on folk who prefer guis.
where i draw the line is having any - ANY - of my - OR ANYONE ELSE'S - personal preferences described as "creepy" or "fetish". THAT SHIT IS JUST HURTFUL. it's othering. it's schoolyard bullshit. and if you don't get that, you need to fuck off until you do.
but it's one thing to actually do that, and quite another to come white-knighting into an argument on the behalf of someone who did. in a way that really *is* fucking creepy.

2026-01-28 23:01:15 UTC

i love the way mastodon and firefox have teamed up to ensure the standard interface has the *worst possible interactions* of both of their issues

2026-01-21 02:45:58 UTC

wh... what did i just watch

2026-01-17 21:36:33 UTC

ooh, earl grey tea is actually rather nice (when it's not too strong). i understand much more about TNG now

2026-01-16 19:39:27 UTC

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how about a bonfire? bonfires are warming and make nice crackling sounds

2026-01-15 01:51:56 UTC

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oh, come now - is it even social media without the occasional dramatic flouncing out? ;-)

2026-01-06 04:12:33 UTC

somehow i ended up with a Canadian dollar in my change in London... i have no idea where, how, or what coin it shoud have been

2025-12-25 17:18:53 UTC

companies sending spam emails on 25 December really need to re-examine their life choices

2025-12-23 17:04:05 UTC

"Learning the fundamentals is a waste of time" - um, no, it's not. unless you're ok with **waves hands around at everything** all *this*.
people writing software who don't know the fundamentals have no way of gauging how expensive anything is, or *why* it is that expensive. so they won't know how to optimise. and when their abstractions leak, as all abstractions inevitably do, they won't know why, or how to deal with that.
also, if you're driving at 200km/h, you had *better* understand the fundamentals of how cars work, at least. and yes, how engines, gears, etc work. otherwise you're an unsafe, irresponsible fool in danger of making a run for a Darwin award.
Jonathan Daniel, in short, is an asshat, and i want nothing to do with any product he has any involvement in.

2025-12-04 18:45:02 UTC

and now Nigel Fascist is falling back on the "it was just a joke!" defence for being a hideous fucking racist literally his entire life
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/dec/04/nigel-farage-denies-saying-anything-racist-with-malice-as-he-attacks-bbc

2025-12-04 16:57:23 UTC

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> meow.social 69%
nice

2025-12-04 01:40:39 UTC

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6116? 2KB, under a buck on AliExpress (caveat emptor)

2025-11-26 23:31:11 UTC

dear gcc, what the *fuck* is the point of puking out several hundred lines of errors, each with conveniently handy coloured pointers to the precise point on the line where you found the error, to stderr?!
you folks really do hate C coders, don't you...
just print the first error and then go "yeah, there are other problems but fix that one first and see how you go", like you used to do.

2025-11-18 23:51:03 UTC

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i dunno. last i heard they'd added AI to Notepad, of all fucking things. but simply the fact that her word processor *keeps interrupting her* - or anyone's - does nobody at Microsoft USE these abominations they're foisting on everyone else? and what is this determination in the software industry that nobody should be permitted an attention span longer than that of a sugared-up toddler?!