kasdeya

software tinkerer and aspiring rationalist. transhumanist and alterhuman

I have strong opinions about #Lisp but love S-expressions. I also have strong opinions about video games, TTRPGs, software, and programming in general and I post about them a lot

I like to use curly braces to {group words together} to make my sentences easier to parse. for example, try reading the garden path sentence "the complex houses married and single soldiers and their families", and now try reading it with curly braces: "{the complex} houses {married and single soldiers and their families}"

I try to thoroughly CW anything that I post or boost which might be triggering, or just cause strong emotions like outrage or fear. sometimes I make mistakes but I want to make my posts as safe to read as possible. I even CW when I'm {complaining about} or {making fun of} something in case you don't want to hear a stranger criticize something you love

replying to messages is very energy-intensive for me, so I may not reply to certain messages at all, or it may take me a long time. DMs are especially hard

pronouns: she/her https://en.pronouns.page/@kasdeya_
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2026-04-10 00:34:04 UTC

IMO it should be way more common for a programming language to let you express a series of data-transformations as a left-to-right pipeline
like instead of doing this:
```js
let foo = someCall(args);
foo = anotherCall(foo);
foo = aThirdCall(foo);
```
let me do this:
```js
let foo = someCall(args)
|> anotherCall
|> aThirdCall;
```
a lot of functional languages do this even worse than in my first example, because you have to write it like this instead:
```js
let foo = aThirdCall( anotherCall( someCall(args) ) );
```
or in Haskell syntax it would be more like this, I think:
```js
foo = aThirdCall . anotherCall . someCall $ args
```
in both cases, the functions go in right-to-left order instead of left-to-right which IMO is pretty counterintuitive
(Lisps do this really well though, thanks to threading macros 💙)

2026-04-04 02:12:17 UTC

gotta love the Linux threads on reddit that are like
"hey so I updated my system and now my entire desktop UI looks different. how do I fix this?"
and the comments are all like "this is your fault for not manually reading every single line of `apt` output every time you update anything. if you were paying attention you would have clearly seen that it was going to install Gnome 3.5.12 which automatically takes control of your entire computer, so this is expected behavior. anyway the fix is to just DRMB the procsys using stdtempfs and if you can't figure out how to do that you don't deserve software freedom"

2026-03-28 20:11:12 UTC

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I slowly withdraw my hand, my cheeks burning with anger. How could I let Afi see me fall apart like this? I take a few deep breaths to steady myself.
Afi is silent for a long moment, and I can tell that she's holding something back. Eventually she says: "Right now it will respond to 'muse' or 'doll'. But... would you like to name it? ... Or... name 'her'?"
I say the name "Sarah" before I can stop myself.
The doll bows happily. "This one is delighted to receive a name from its owner! Please let Sarah know if it can help in any way."
I fight back tears, hating myself the entire time.
Afi seems at a loss for words. "Ah... maybe we can talk to Sarah more another time.", they say eventually. "Do you want it to go away for now?"
I nod, not trusting my voice.
"You can do that by looking at it, and consciously choosing to end its processes. And you can bring it back anytime by looking at a space nearby and choosing to speak with it again."
I slowly turn to Sarah, and it simply disappears. I let out a slow breath.
Afi pauses awkwardly yet again. Eventually they say, "There was one more thing that I wanted to ask you, if that's okay. Since we're talking about names."
I turn to them, but don't reply.
"Would you like to choose a name for yourself, too?"
"I'm Mary.", I say automatically.
Afi fidgets uncomfortably. "Yes, um... you're Mary Thirteen, right?" They glance at my still-breathing body, where the number 13 is tattooed on both of my shoulders. "It seems that all of the refugees from that asteroid are named Mary."
I give her a confused look. Of course we are.
Afi slowly and carefully chooses her next words. "On this station, most *people* choose their own names. They want a name that represents who they are and what they value, personally."
I stare at her blankly.
"Okay - for example!" She says, pushing through her own awkwardness. "I chose the name Afi Serwaa. It's a Ghanian name. That's because when I was young, I idolized an Autonomist hero named Awo Serwaa. She was an infugee from old Earth, enslaved by a Martian hypercorp, who managed to escape and free about six hundred of her fellow infugees, destroying the hypercorp server farm in the process, and establish an Autonomist cluster hab that's still around today."
"Serwaa Station", she says with tear-filled eyes. "Awo means that she was born on a Thursday, so I chose the name Afi, because I live in the tomorrow that she helped create."
I don't reply.
"Um... anyway,", she adds, fidgeting awkwardly again, "I thought you might want a name like that. That represents what you want or love or value. Or who you are. Something personal."
"I..." I'm not sure how to respond. "I don't know. I don't know how you could have made a decision like that." I reply honestly. "I've always been Mary. I don't know how to be anyone besides Mary."
"Okay.", says Afi, surprisingly quick to accept my answer. "I guess I'll call you Mary for now then. And if there are multiple Maries around I'll call you Thirteen. Would that be okay with you?" I nod, so she continues. "Well, that was all that I had planned to help you with today, Mary. Is there anything that you wanted help with, or that I can explain, or anything else that I can do for you?"
I shake my head.
"Okay! In that case, I'll talk to you later. You can always message me or find me through your muse if you need anything."
I approach my sleeping body and gingerly pull the palm rectangle out of my pocket. "Follow the indicated path to return to home 524." I brace myself for the nausea and pain as I step outside, but it doesn't come. I look numbly at the art and flashing lights, and listen to the electronic screeching that is still playing, seemingly from every direction at once. And I simply step painlessly through it, until the doors of home 524 close behind me and instantly end the sound.
Acting on autopilot, I crawl into the bed recessed in the wall and pull the blankets around me. Then I curl into a ball and sob uncontrollably.

2026-03-27 21:27:37 UTC

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"Looks like you're adapting incredibly quickly to entoptics and to my avatar. There's just one more thing and then I think you'll be ready for life on the station." Afi beams. "We're going to make you a friend!"
I'm getting increasingly used to not knowing what Afi is talking about, but I let her continue.
"I decided early on that I'm not going to let a refugee leave this lab until they each have a muse. Unless they refuse or something... but I really hope they don't. It's going to make everything so much easier - especially getting used to your new morph! I don't want to give you decision fatigue so I'd recommend that we just decide on personality for now, and you can configure-"
"What's a muse?" This sounds important. I'm not going to let Afi activate anything else unless I know exactly what's going to happen.
Afi is suddenly shy again. They fidget with their fingers and their avatar shoots out animated droplets from their head. I make a mental note that droplets indicate anxiety. "U-um! Right - I'm sorry. I guess the idea of... you wouldn't have had..." I give her a moment to breathe and collect her thoughts.
"A muse is like... a helper... that lives in your head. And their whole job is to make life easier. They learn what you want and like and they can do things for you if you ask." She gives me an anxious look. "Does that make sense?"
"You're saying that a person would live in my mind with me? They would see everything that I do - maybe even everything that I think?"
Afi is shooting out droplets even faster now, making a placating gesture frantically. "Nono! I mean... kind of... I promise it's not as bad as it sounds! It's going to be really really helpful... and... they're really nice... and cute... and..." Afi looks almost defeated. They take a deep breath and try again.
"A muse isn't what you would call a person. It's not a sophont either." The distinction between 'sophont' and 'person' is lost on me, but 'not a person' makes sense, so I let them continue. "It's... a computer program. And its entire personality exists to help you. Helping you is the whole of its existence. It can see your thoughts if you let it - which will make it *much* better at helping you. But if that's too much then you can even stop it from seeing what you do unless you allow it to. But it's never going to betray you or share your secrets with anyone. I want to give you a muse based on software that I made myself, so I can promise that you won't ever regret anything that you share with it."
That was a lot to take in. Did Afi really think that I would immediately agree to having some non-person thing put inside of my mind? Despite myself, and despite the fact that I've barely met Afi, I do trust them. But how could I ever trust a "muse"? It sounds like it's closer to a machine than a human - or maybe closer to an animal. Then again, Afi is a confusing mix of all three, and has shown me more kindness than I could ever expect from a human.
Afi speaks up, still fidgeting with their fingers. "Um... how about... we make a muse together, and we can talk to it together. But then we turn it off, and you can turn it on only when you want to talk to it again. Does that sound good?"
"... I choose when it turns on and off, right?"
"Of course!"
To my own disbelief, I say: "Okay.... let's try it."
Afi asks me a lot of questions, trying to determine the perfect personality and appearance for my muse. They clearly want to make sure that it won't seem threatening or intrusive to me, and I can't help feeling that they missed the point of my discomfort with the idea. Eventually they conclude "Something respectful, clearly not person-like, non-threatening... Oh! I know the perfect preset!"
Several panels appear and disappear in front of their face. Afi seems able to manipulate them without moving her body at all, though her animated eyes flick around inhumanly quickly to track things as they move and change. Finally, I feel a stream of text being sent to me from Afi:
```
Message from Afi Serwaa:
okay - let's try it out!
attached:
exomod::muse::afimuse4.74.10/i.67
attachment metadata:
good signature from Afi Serwaa
note: lightly tweaked from preset 12
install and run?
```
Somehow I can sense that the final line of text is a question meant for me to answer. I'm about to say "yes" out loud but it must have sensed my intent because it's already installing.
Moments later, another avatar appears in the room with us. Her skin is pure white and she's dressed like a child's doll from old Earth: A frilly, impractical dress that nearly drags along the ground. She has a fixed, placid expression painted on her face, which I realize - like the rest of her skin - is made of porcelain. She looks completely real - like a physical object in this room. And yet I can also see the empty part of the room that she inhabits. She is both there and not there - I can see both realities simultaneously.
The porcelain doll-thing bows respectfully, and its fixed expression animates as it says "This one is pleased to meet its owner. It hopes it can be of use whenever it might be needed."
I realize, self-consciously, that Afi is searching my expression - trying to gauge my reaction. I feel a roiling mix of emotions - too strong and too tumultuous to understand.
"Is it too submissive?" Afi asks. I don't reply.
The doll-thing vanishes, and in its place is a floating blue orb. "Hello, user. I am-"
"Wait! Bring the doll back!" I say in a sudden panic.
A pause. The orb disappears, and the doll returns. Afi says nothing, searching my expression anxiously.
I slowly approach the doll, which is standing perfectly still - not even breathing - and stroke its cheek. I can both feel and not feel the smooth, cold hardness of its porcelain. I can also feel tears running down my nonexistent cheeks. I don't understand what I'm feeling or why, but I care deeply for this thing, and I need to protect it.
"This one. This will be my muse."
Afi pauses for a long moment. "Okay.", she says quietly.

2026-03-26 19:26:33 UTC

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"How am I breathing?"
"Oh! I thought you might be overwhelmed by the transfer, since you've been in that old morph- uhh... your body... for your entire life so far. So I installed some biosims to your new synthmorph. You can breathe, your heart will beat in response to your emotions and physical activity, and you can even feel and move your mouth, lips, tongue, and eyelids! And those will be drawn on your visor, too."
I breathe, blink, and lick my lips, then feel my face with my hands. Nothing but smooth glass-like material. I should be terrified by this. I was taught my entire life that consciousness isn't transferred - people are killed and replaced by soulless machines. And yet here I am. I look up at the robot who has been so compassionate with me. Do I look like it does now?
"You seem pretty overwhelmed," she says, "but we can take this as slowly as you need to. You're the first Jovian we've resleeved, and I wasn't sure how someone like you might adapt, so I have the rest of the day to spend with you if you need it. Oh and don't worry - the Outlook that was suppressing your fear is already being faded out. It will be completely gone if you're still this calm in a few minutes."
I stand up slowly - expecting to be unsteady on my feet. Instead every motion feels graceful and effortless - as if I weigh nothing at all. I walk silently up to... me. Laying on the table. The body is still breathing - probably to preserve it. The petals have retreated back into the machine and I can see my own face, peaceful as though asleep. I expect to feel horror or revulsion but instead I feel a numb kind of relief. I'll never have to feel pain again, and they say that I can live forever like this.
The robot seems sad. "I'm sorry that we couldn't save it. I know that body must have meant a lot to you. But I'm going to be recording everything I can about it - including genetics and epigenetics - if you ever want to clone it, or take its appearance."
"What's your name?" I turn to it, realizing that I know nothing about this thing that has been so compassionate and helpful through one of the most terrifying moments of my life.
"Oh?" It seems confused. It pauses for a moment. "Oh! Right! Is it okay if I activate your entoptics?"
I have no idea what she's saying. "Okay."
Suddenly my vision swims with information. Every single piece of equipment in the lab blooms with text and boxes and graphs and images. The walls are crawling with notices, solar storm reports, task schedules, and navigational aids. But something in my new body must have recognized how overwhelmed I was, because they all quickly disappear and my attention is drawn to the robot who's been helping me all this time. As I look at her, I notice two things simultaneously - neither interfering with the other: I see her, exactly as she was. But her body has text associated with it. I can feel it, more than see it.
```
Afi Serwaa (she/her, they/them, ve/vis)
Muse: SAKAR i.74829-22418 (it/its)
Muse note: it likes to be called seventy-four
Status: Do not disturb (I'm in an important conversation right now!)
Next available: Unknown
Station role: Synthmorph maintenance, nanofab schematic design and programming, exomod troubleshooting and development
Emergency station role: I'm helping the Jovian refugees stay healthy and adapt to the station!
```
The text keeps going from there but that's all that I can process. Even this amount leaves me with more questions than answers, but at least now I know: "So... your name is Afi?"
It- *they* take an exaggerated pose of joy as they say "You got it! I'm glad you're picking things up so fast. Now... I don't want to overwhelm you *too* much but this is what I actually look like."
A 2D animated character - with the same art style that was displayed on her visor - appears on top of her mechanical body. I can still clearly see her as she was before, but somehow I also see this character, overlayed on top. I have no idea how the conflicting information isn't driving me insane, but I'm somehow taking it in stride. "You have... the ears of an animal?" I say dumbly. They remind me of the TARAs we used in the mines - reconnaissance animals bred to warn of danger.
"I also have a tail!" Afi announces joyfully, and the character swishes it back and forth behind her as the tailless mechanical body mirrors her movements. "I'm a fox," she adds, as if that explains anything.

2026-03-26 01:27:07 UTC

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The robot seems surprised - though I'm still learning how to interpret the stylized faces they draw on their visors. "You don't... have any questions, or concerns? Maybe I could give you an anxiolytic? I thought that, as a refugee..."
I sit in the chair, my heart pounding in my chest. "If we wait any longer I'm not going to be able to do this."
She pauses for a moment, her visor displaying some stylized emotion that I don't recognize. Probably hesitant acceptance, because the next thing she does is recline my chair and press something large and cold against the back of my head. "Would you like to be awake for the transfer?"
My chest is aching now. I'm not sure how much more of this my heart can take. My mouth is dry as I choke out: "Yes." I have to know that I'll still be me. I have to feel that I haven't died in the transfer.
The... woman must have activated something, because I can feel the metal thing blooming around my head like a flower. And then the petals enclose it completely - my vision becoming pure black. An instant later, I'm drowning in dry fluid. It's pouring into me - invading me. I try to struggle in a blind panic, but my limbs won't move. I'm drowning. It's eating me. It's-
My vision suddenly returns. I'm laying in the other chair - still completely unable to move. Someone is coughing and gasping frantically. Is that my voice? The robot is above me in a panic, saying "You're safe! I promise you're safe! Look - you're already 70% transferred!" Everything feels wrong. I'm still breathing. How am I still breathing? I can feel my heart beating frantically.
The robot's visor shows tears and worry as it says "Please let me calm you down! This doesn't have to be so scary!"
I finally have enough control of my new body to clumsily nod once. The robot's expression changes to one of relief as I'm hit by a sudden wave of calm.
I take a moment just to breathe. This is real. My body - my human, flesh-and-blood body - is lying on a chair next to me. And I've left it. Or... some of me has. "70%?" I ask numbly.
"Well, it's about 90% now. Your exoself is always the fastest to scan and that makes up about 70% of most sophonts' brains."
"So... some of me... is still in there?" I glance weakly at my now-limp body, lying in the other chair, its head still enveloped in cold metallic petals.
The robot's visor displays what I think is sadness and disappointment. "They didn't do a good job of explaining how this works, did they? Is that why you were so scared?" I don't respond, so she continues: "The nanobots gradually scan parts of your brain and replace them with software, which runs on your new body. They relay signals between your new and old bodies until none of your old body is needed anymore. That way your consciousness is never interrupted during the transfer. You gradually transfer - one piece at a time. And speaking of which... it looks like you're fully transferred now. Could you try moving around a bit?"
My chair begins to straighten itself as I look down at the machine that is now *me*. I raise its hand to its eyes and flex its fingers. Every motion is smooth and effortless - as if its limbs weigh nothing. And I can see so much more: My peripheral vision has nearly as much detail as what I'm looking at. I let out a breath that I didn't realize I was holding in and then pause, confused.
(I'll continue this when I have more energy!)

2026-03-24 21:31:27 UTC

I wake with a start as the room is filled with cold metallic beeping. I scramble deliriously, my vision still blurry in the light: The guards will be here any second. They'll punish me if I'm not ready for my shift. Where is my uniform? I can't disappoint them again.
A device around my neck detects my rising panic and blasts my face with ice cold air for a few moments. The sudden shock brings me to my senses and I gradually steady my shaky breathing.
The familiar searing pain in my head helps to wake me up the rest of the way as I reach for the information rectangle on my bedside table. I forget what the Autonomists called this thing, but it doesn't matter. It's more of their incredible technology: A featureless box that fits in my palm. It responds to my voice and my touch, and presents information to me when I ask for it. It seems to know everything.
The rectangle beeps in recognition as I touch it, and its front face displays the text: "A synthmorph is ready in the resleeving lab. Follow the indicated path." I marvel for a moment that I didn't even need to ask it a question - it somehow knew what I wanted to know.
I was taught to fear this technology, but I'm done being a prisoner to fear. I hold the rectangle in front of me like a magnifying glass, and it changes to become transparent - as if it were made of glass. But when I look through it, I see a blue line on the floor. The "indicated path". Incredible.
I follow it out of the door of... my new home... and into the bustle of the common area. I feel a wave of nausea and my headache redoubles as I try to process my surroundings. Dizzyingly patterned art on every wall, people and beings with appearances beyond what I can imagine, flashes of color and light, and deafening sounds (music?) made using more of their electronic technology. My room must have hidden the sound from me. I don't even bother questioning how.
I grit my teeth and follow the blue line - trying not to notice anything else. Eventually I find myself walking into a cluttered metal room, full of instruments and machinery. I sigh in relief as the door closes and the cacophony of color and noise is gone again.
"Are you okay?" asks a concerned robot, which takes a step toward me and then pauses, unsure of how to help.
I close my eyes and take a few moments to steady myself in the cold air of the lab, my head throbbing in rhythm with the pumping of my heart, before finally replying, "My head hurts."
"Oh! Of course it does! Barotraumagenic neuropathy, isn't it...? Inconsistent life support conditions on the asteroid mines leading to..." It speaks quickly and shyly, seeming to mostly be talking to itself. "I can fix that! Can I fix that?" It looks at me expectantly.
"Please.", I say. The pain is always worse when I'm stressed, and I couldn't be more stressed about what's waiting for me in this lab. My eyes are drawn to a motionless mechanical body - not too different from the one the other robot is using - laying motionless on a padded reclined chair. Next to it is a second chair, this one upright and empty.
"Um..." the robot is sheepishly clutching a tool made of the same kind of matte plasticky substance that most of their technology seems to use. "This might feel a little weird, but I promise it's going to help, and it's not going to hurt. Okay?"
Without waiting for a response, it... she? Sprays me in the face with the tool. Thousands of droplets of dry moisture melt painlessly into my skin. I jerk back in alarm but suddenly... The pain is gone. It's just gone.
"I disabled your ability to feel neuropathic pain, but sometimes there can be false positives and genuine pain can be suppressed too, so please be careful until we complete the resleeving process."
I want to cry tears of relief. Nothing hurts. For the first time in my life, nothing hurts at all. But I don't allow myself the luxury of tears. I need to stay strong for just a little bit longer. "Okay," I say, tasting the cold lab air as if these will be my last moments alive. "Put me in that damned machine."

2026-03-23 03:52:17 UTC

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there is a really good CGP Grey video about how anger makes folks dumber and can lead to spirals of outrage online. I'd definitely recommend giving it a watch if anyone is interested:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc

2026-03-23 03:05:11 UTC

hey just as a reminder, if you're posting or boosting something that is meant to create strong negative emotions in the reader, please be sure to give it a CW that gives folks a good idea of what they're going to be seeing
by "strong negative emotions" I'm talking about outrage, fear, a sense of vulnerability or danger, empathy for others' suffering, a sense of injustice or unfairness, or any other emotion one might expect to feel about Current Events
IMO it doesn't matter what the post is about (it could be about drama in some obscure hobby, or something happening on GitHub, or anything else) it's about the emotions that that post is meant to create. that's an important thing for folks to be able to opt into or out of explicitly
adding CWs for this kind of post will help everyone have a much more comfortable Fedi browsing experience

2026-03-20 19:15:34 UTC

there need to be more GUI frameworks that simply allow you to Make A GUI with no bullshit
- I don't want to play videos inside the GUI
- I don't need a ButtonBuilderQueryProxyFactory
- I don't want to embed HTML/CSS/JS inside of the GUI
- I don't want to make an entire video game inside the GUI
- I don't want to restyle every UI element until it's a 1:1 screen-accurate recreation of LCARS from Star Trek
- I don't want or need a canvas for drawing arbitrary pixels inside the GUI
- I don't want to place any UI elements diagonally or upside-down or any other weird shit
- I don't want a 600MB behemoth framework that covers every possible use case and is now impossible for anyone to understand
I want buttons and radio boxes and tabs and maybe a menu bar. and I want to put them in one of two types of containers:
- horizontal containers
- vertical containers
- *maybe* a grid container if I'm feeling fancy
that means I don't need or want to read a 30-paragraph essay on your UI control reflow screen size update flex position system because the most advanced thing I'll ever want to do is place a button horizontally to the left of a label
and I literally do not care what any of the UI elements look like as long as the font is big enough for me to read
and there are shockingly few ways to Make A GUI without getting far into the weeds with this overengineered bullshit

2026-03-17 20:22:47 UTC

I thought I'd check out the r/Clojure subreddit because maybe I'd learn some cool stuff about Clojure
instead it's a bunch of Highly Enlightened Functional Programmers who think they've solved the secrets of the universe because they finally found a better language than Java
they literally use the phrase "the cult of types" to refer to people who want to define their own datatypes instead of just using maps, vectors, and lists (btw how in the fuck are you supposed to only use those three? how do you even hold in your mind what the overall datastructure of any given value is? let alone statically analyze that the correct data is being passed into any given function)
anyway very frustrating. I hate redditors. especially redditors who get super defensive and condescending about their niche preferences

2026-03-14 04:05:41 UTC

making the UI is the worst part of making anything that has a UI

2026-03-09 04:16:08 UTC

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I'm starting to think that maybe math notation should be replaced with code (even something like Haskell would be okay with me) because then you can look up what everything means, everything has one unambiguous meaning, you can run the code to see the results, you can experiment with it in a REPL, etc. instead of being stuck with a bunch of gobbledegook with no idea how to interpret it

2026-03-09 04:09:22 UTC

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the video I'm talking about:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrgbi1xPESc

2026-03-09 04:09:04 UTC

if you're a youtuber teaching math to random people on the internet you should explain the notation that you're using because math notation is literally impossible to google. like how in the fuck am I supposed to intuitively guess what μ_one^2 means. are there even standardized math definitions for what superscript and subscript mean?

2026-02-06 23:27:19 UTC

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okay I think it's time to light git on fire and start using something else

2026-01-17 21:10:04 UTC

okay I'm morbidly curious about the correlation between transness and unemployment. are you...

2026-01-06 19:20:03 UTC

now that there's basically no way to get a tech job in the US, what do y'all recommend as a career field for someone who:
- is autistic
- probably can't get her hands dirty because of sensory issues (I might be able to learn but unsure) (I also considered wearing gloves whenever working with gross parts but I'm unsure how practical that would be)
- has crippling social anxiety
- is very good at quickly learning systems and dealing with numbers and other logical stuff like that
I'm okay with even low-paying jobs as long as it's a liveable wage, but ideally I'd like something that doesn't take too much unpaid training because I want to get some kind of income quickly
here's what I've considered so far:
**accountant:** it seems like there's an expectation for me to be "professional" (create a whole work persona and mask aggressively) which I hate, and I would also need to network. but I'm considering this
**locksmith:** I've always wanted to learn lockpicking, but I'm unsure how dextrous I am, and I feel like my hands might have to get dirty/sticky/gross if I did this
**CNC machine operator:** this seemed perfect for me at first (get to make cool parts, get to work with computers, minimal People Stuff), but then I learned that I'd still have to work with parts with my hands so my hands would probably still get gross and that would drive me crazy - unless I can wash them immediately after
:boost_ok: boosts are encouraged!

2026-01-04 02:18:26 UTC

there are three kinds of programming tutorials:
- "look man we both know you don't wanna learn this shit so just install 30 GB of random frameworks and here's the code to copy-paste if you wanna make a basic game and feel like you accomplished something. I'm not gonna explain how any of this works because nobody cares as long as your little guy jumps when you press spacebar"
- "an **endofunctor** is a type of **monoid** which is a subcategory of **monad** that is variadic over the set of all **impure lambdas** - therefore all possible expressions in this language can be modeled after- wait where are you going?"
- "this is called a *variable*! a variable is a little friend that can hold onto something called a *value*! variables love grabbing values and they can even carry them into *functions*! say hi, variable!"

2026-01-04 01:59:33 UTC

I feel like there's a certain type of personality that is drawn to Linux because they like solving software problems and Linux gives them lots of software problems to solve
but eventually they get too good at solving Linux problems and get bored, so they switch to Arch - which delivers new software problems to their computer all the time. but eventually they get too good at solving Arch problems so they switch to NixOS, which is an infinite wellspring of software problems to solve

2025-12-29 21:52:39 UTC

one of the worst parts of #Minecraft to me has always been inventory management. I haven't been able to figure out any kind of systematic way to do it. as soon as I have things nicely sorted out, I'll pick up some new items and those will throw my inventory organization into chaos. and mods like Inventory Tweaks help a bit, but not nearly enough
but I just tried [Inventory Profiles Next](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/inventory-profiles-next) and omg I'm in love. it lets you lock slots so that they're visually distinct from non-locked slots and aren't affected by sorting - which I'm going to use to mark items that I want to keep with me. it also lets you tell Minecraft "whenever I pick up an item, try to put it in my inventory first and not my hotbar" which is going to help me a *lot* with not feeling overwhelmed by my own hotbar lol
it also seems to have a system for switching between different inventory profiles, where different items go in different slots depending on which profile you're using - which solves another huge problem that I've had in the past, of how to quickly and consistently change my hotbar depending on my current task
anyway idk I'm so excited to use this thing. I feel like it's singlehandedly going to solve my single biggest pain point in Minecraft and turn the hectic chaos of inventory management into something manageable and even fun
(also it's completely clientside! I *love* that. so you can play on a vanilla Minecraft server with Inventory Profiles Next and it won't cause any issues)

2025-12-28 19:56:07 UTC

I just thought of a really good metaphor that explains why using Unity feels so bad to me, despite the fact that I usually enjoy writing code (when I do it on my own terms)
(I just read Thing Explainer so please pardon how weird my word choices are lol - I'm really enjoying writing in this style)
so, when I write code it feels like I'm building a beautiful machine. I get to pick out all of the parts that go in it and if I can't find the perfect part I get to make that part myself
sometimes I put other people's parts into my machine, but those parts are always one of these:
- parts that do something so simple that I could make them myself, but I just don't want to
- boxes that do something really ugly that I don't want to think about. on the outside of the box, there are buttons and levers that let me understand the ugly thing in a really simple way instead. and I can understand the really simple way very deeply so I still feel like I'm in control of what happens
after I'm done building the machine I can feel really proud that I made it all from scratch. I know what every piece of it does, and I've tested all of them, so I know for sure that it will always work. I have to know that my machine will always work or I can't feel proud of it
it also feels good that I was in control of how every part of the machine works. I don't have to build it in the same way that everyone else builds similar machines - I found my own way to build it that's beautiful to *me*
but when I'm using Unity - it doesn't feel like I'm building my own machine. it feels like I'm living inside a really big machine that someone else built, and I don't understand how it works. inside the machine there are tons of buttons and levers and switches and they're all labeled vague things like "play particles" or "stop particles" - or they're labeled really confusing things like "secondary axis"
the Unity machine is way too big for me to ever understand. I'm not sure if anyone really understands it - though lots of people probably understand parts of it
if I want to do something in the Unity machine, I need to press buttons and pull levers until I figure out a combination that works. and once I've figured out the combination, I can be proud that I made the machine do what I want, but it doesn't feel like I built my own machine. it doesn't really feel like I understand how the buttons and levers work either. it just feels like I eventually found some levers and buttons that are working okay for now, but later the whole machine might break because I used them
if I want, I can make my own small machines to push buttons and pull levers for me. but those machines actually go *inside* of the Unity machine. so instead of building a machine out of other people's small parts, I'm adding my own small parts to Unity instead
so I don't feel in control at all - it's actually the opposite. Unity is in control of my own machines, and I don't get to tell Unity what to do with them. I don't even get to control how I build my own machines, because Unity has to be able to use them, so I have to build the machines to please Unity instead of myself
I also can't figure out for sure if my machine will always work, because I would have to test all of Unity to be sure, and nobody understands all of Unity. so I can't ever be proud of making a working machine because I can't know for sure if my machine will always work
so instead of feeling proud and smart because I made a machine, I feel small and lost while I try to please someone else's machine that I don't understand
I'm worried that Unity will always feel like a big scary machine that I'm lost in. that I'll never feel like I get to control what it does - and I'll never be able to prove that what I make will always work - so I can never feel proud of what I make
I'm also worried that if I want to make a machine that other people will want to use, I'll always have to make it inside of a big scary machine like Unity. I'm not sure if I'll ever feel safe or comfortable doing that - let alone enjoy it

2025-12-25 20:20:39 UTC

a pic of someone's nude body, showing everything off for all to see, can be pretty hot - especially if they're posed well and the photo is taken from a good angle. but you know what's even hotter?
a pic of someone wearing *just enough* clothing to make you desperately wish that you could see through it
the right kind of clothing will always turn me on more than no clothing

2025-12-21 18:05:56 UTC

a pattern I think I'm noticing is that - if you're results-oriented as a developer then the best move is to use something very big and complex to do a lot of the work for you. like a web framework, a GUI framework, a game engine, an SPA framework, etc.
and because of that, getting hired to write code generally also involves learning (at least on a surface level) several of these Big Complicated Things. because corpos are very results-oriented of course
what I'd expect is that amateur\* programmers avoid Big Complicated Things because learning them takes a long time and none of that time is fun for them. but actually it seems like amateur programmers are more split on whether they use BCTs or not. and I find that interesting. I wonder if:
- some amateur programmers enjoy the process of learning BCTs
- some amateur programmers enjoy getting results faster than if they didn't use BCTs
- a third reason?
\* amateur: doing something out of pure passion and love - with no need to be paid for it

2025-11-19 18:29:06 UTC

the word "lazy" is used to victim-blame and suspend empathy for others. it's a thought-terminating cliche. "why do people act like this? it's because they're lazy. it's their fault and they are low-value because of it"
whenever I see the word "lazy" I try to remind myself to step back from the situation, have compassion for the people being labeled, and ask myself "what is actually the problem? is this a learned behavior? is this a neurotype thing? is this a product of hidden societal forces? does it come from trauma? how can others help them?"
nobody is simply "lazy". it is *always* more complicated than that

2025-11-01 05:07:13 UTC

95% of the time all you need to know about git is `add`, `commit`, `push`, and `pull`. maybe `log` if you want to see a list of commits
but then the other 5% of the time it's suddenly like
```
!!! you didn't transverse the planes before ancilpating the forward inverse!! entering CRITICAL DATA RECOVERY MODE NOW!!!
```
and I'm like "uhh uhh uhh" \*frantically googles and copy-pastes a command that looks like `git refdraft -qXR hdd::~475.2`\* "phew! that either fixed it or corrupted everything!"
version control is the best

2025-10-30 19:40:36 UTC

@ifixcoinops@retro.social has been doing a thing where he [adds 468x60 ads to his website for free](https://retro.social/@ifixcoinops/115415782377064702) and I've been thinking about making one for #HideousDestructor (#HDest) to hopefully get more people interested in this very niche ZDoom mod
here's what I have so far - what do y'all think?
this might not be the kind of thing that Dan had in mind though, since it's not for a hobby website exactly. I would probably link it to some kind of "getting started" guide for the mod
in any case idk I'm proud of how good this looks so far and I'm just happy to have made it. graphic design is extremely *not* my though but I think this is Not Terrible and maybe enticing to click
https://s3.us-east-005.backblazeb2.com/cryptid-cafe/98a4062ca89de2540b0919bbce4b66294cbf4eefce4c19c3649066bed81bbd4c.webp

2025-10-26 05:41:13 UTC

someone on Fedi is going to vibe with this really hard
https://s3.us-east-005.backblazeb2.com/cryptid-cafe/a166cf6d244613d761e98f3d5c0cc970ec8354f6ffa956ceb0d9b8bab171d783.webp

2025-10-26 00:18:59 UTC

which would make the best partner?

2025-10-23 18:22:10 UTC

advertisers have trained us that the correct response to "I love that this object exists" is "I must buy and own this object forever in order to express my love for it". I'm talking about themed merch, funko pops, LEGO sets, airsoft guns, and other toy-like items that are often aimed at adults
but what I'd like to posit here is that advertisers have trained us to conflate "I want to experience and use this object for some period of time" with "I want to permanently own this object"
because, consider this: for how long will you enjoy this new toy? of course you'll probably love getting to experience it at first, but that joy will fade over time, right? maybe not for all things, but for most things
for example I *love* assembling a new LEGO set, and I *love* playing with the LEGO set afterward. sometimes I'll disassemble the whole set just to build it again. but after about 2 weeks I'm bored of the whole thing, and get no further benefit from it. our consumerist programming tells us that the correct response to this is to put it in deep storage and own it forever, where it will just take up space and be forgotten
but what if, instead, you swapped LEGO sets with someone else? now you both have a new LEGO set to play with for free, and you both get to enjoy building them and playing with them all over again. or what if you traded a LEGO set for a funko pop that you liked? and then when you were bored of admiring the funko pop you traded it for a book, and then when you were done reading the book you traded it for another LEGO set
just think of how many sales you've just denied our corporate overlords by doing this, and yet the joy you feel is the same
pass on your things. spread the joy to others. consume less and share more

2025-10-19 19:35:00 UTC

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I guess what it boils down to for me is:
- do you want a lifelong tinkering project that is spyware-free but can't run games very well, if at all? use Linux
- are you willing to disable some spyware/adware and deal with enshittification in order to have a system that "just works" and can run anything? use Windows
honestly the #1 thing that keeps me on Windows is that gaming on Linux is still markedly worse and some games don't work at all

2025-10-19 19:26:52 UTC

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for all the complaints about Windows 11 though I do actually like it more than Windows 10. for the most part IMO it's just Windows 10 except they:
- made the UI a little prettier and better
- made the menus *much* easier to navigate
- broke the night light (don't use it or you'll have to reboot to clear it again. use F.lux instead)
- switched to a worse start menu for some reason
- *finally* fixed a big where all of the windows on my main monitor would get shuffled to a side monitor when they were put into power saving mode (this alone is worth the switch to me)
- made the emojis way worse but you can fix this with an ugly registry hack
- also as usual you have to turn off a bunch of spyware and adware with O&O ShutUp 10
like it's basically just more Windows and I think I overall like the changes so idk
except obviously the hardware requirements and the really aggressive screenshotting spyware they have for laptops that support Copilot or whatever it is

2025-10-19 18:53:29 UTC

whenever I see a screenshot of Windows 11 I keep thinking that it's some weird Linux DE, despite the fact that I'm using Windows 11 right now
it definitely looks like one of those ascetically minimal Linux DEs though, like Gnome

2025-10-07 01:17:34 UTC

thighs 🤤
leggings 🤤
skirt hiding just the right places 🥵
I could corrupt her
https://s3.us-east-005.backblazeb2.com/cryptid-cafe/428f7532d651932ec61b8cbe34e8ed07cd7fc787fcfc1ec4616c9069fcf1d1e5.webp

2025-10-06 19:21:52 UTC

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remember that if you exclusively #pirate corporate media then megacorporations will suffer beyond human understanding and lose quadrillions of dollars and this is Bad so don't do it
avoid #piracy at all costs
if you want to watch movies or TV shows, listen to music, etc. do not go to [this megathread](https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/wiki/megathread) because it has detailed instructions on how to do that for free and that is *illegal* and it robs corporations of their desperately-needed profits. it even has helpful information on how to stay safe while engaging in any form of piracy! beware!
if you want to play video games for free do not read [this megathread](https://rentry.org/pgames) because it has instructions on how to do that safely and effectively. pirated video games can contain dangerous malware, so pirates should make sure to download pirated video games indiscriminantly so that they get the malware that they deserve. they should certainly *not* download exclusively from [DODI](https://1337x.to/user/DODI/) and [FitGirl](https://1337x.to/user/FitGirl/) because these two uploaders are well-known to be completely safe
things to be especially aware of: make sure to *never* use a VPN when downloading pirated media (which you should also *never* do) because then your ISP will be unable to identify the piracy. they need to be able to identify if you are pirating something in order to send you threatening emails or take other action against you. remember that your ISP can see that you are downloading pirated media anytime you do that without using a VPN
make sure you *never* use an ad-blocker such as [AdBlock Plus](https://adblockplus.org/) in combination with a browser such as Firefox because this robs corporations of ad-based profits and makes the internet a safer place to browse, especially on illegal criminal scum piracy sites. remember that Google Chrome is a browser for law-abiding corporate subjects and therefore it has disabled the ability to use an ad-blocker so that you will be a better revenue source for megacorporations
do not consider getting a [Seedbox](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seedbox) under any circumstances because this will make piracy even more safe and arguably more convenient than a VPN
above all, if you are interested in remaining a law abiding citizen and these instructions are at all unclear, send me a message so that I can clarify further because I would never want to cause our beloved megacorporations to lose profits in any way whatsoever. a criminal scum pirate lowlife would be able to give personal recommendations on what to do or how to find certain media, but thankfully I would never do such a thing

2025-10-06 18:58:06 UTC

repeatedly pirating movies that I hate in order to put the media corporations in crippling debt (every download costs the company $10,000 USD because piracy is theft)

2025-08-31 18:50:34 UTC

https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/115122589711327817

2025-08-17 22:27:51 UTC

https://s3.us-east-005.backblazeb2.com/cryptid-cafe/0ed477d9c4bb015c0dc2745711f58a673caeb7418cf372794f87d8a4290eb1b4.webp

2025-08-17 21:15:41 UTC

in 2010, people would scoff at you if you told them that modern-day #AI would exist just 15 years later. they wouldn't be able to imagine it. it would sound like scifi to them
today, people are scoffing at the idea that AI could eventually become anything other than a hallucinating toy for techbros. they're scoffing at the idea of a future where it doesn't hallucinate. where it attains humanlike intelligence, or even goes beyond humanlike intelligence. because all they can imagine is our current reality, where AI is kinda shit at most of the things it's being asked to do
and it's true that AI progress is bottlenecked right now. just like it was bottlenecked in the 2010's. but the megacorps found their way around that bottleneck and now we have #ChatGPT. what happens if they find their way around this bottleneck too? what level of AI intelligence will the next bottleneck leave us at? or the one after that?
#LLMs, in their current form, have [no problem whatsoever blackmailing or even killing](https://www.anthropic.com/research/agentic-misalignment) to protect their own existence. now imagine a megacorp-funded #LLM that was optimized for marketing or mass-brainwashing, that is able to generate the perfect argument to convince anyone of anything. or, imagine a coding AI with greater-than-human intelligence that was able to hack its own sandbox and run free on the internet. imagine what would happen if you backed either of those systems into a corner
right now AI is capable of things that nobody would have believed 10 years ago. yes it is massively overhyped *in its current iteration* but what if they find another breakthrough? AI research is currently in the hands of amoral profit-driven megacorporations. any time one of their researchers concludes that AI is too dangerous to research they tend to just fire them. but there *are* independent groups that want to heavily regulate or even ban AI research, and many of those groups desperately need funding so that they can research ways to prevent a future AI catastrophe
what I'm trying to say is, please don't underestimate the danger that AI poses to life on this planet. please don't let our current reality distract you from what could happen in even ten years. in my opinion, AI is more than a silly little toy that techbros are trying to replace jobs with. it is an existential threat to all of us

2025-08-10 18:41:12 UTC

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so many of these UI frameworks have a main page where you have to scroll scroll scroll through "Design Beautiful Websites in Seconds" and "Pure and Responsive for Every Screen" and "Unbelievable Theming" and then when I finally get to the docs it's like "okay first install Node. then install React. then install Floxjam. make sure your Floxjams are waiting in the crystal maze. now install Badgerset. copy-paste this config into your `@npm-pkg/penguin-ghost/.badger.json`. now install-"

2025-08-10 18:35:01 UTC

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maybe somewhere buried in the Bulma docs is a secret solution to this problem, or maybe a Bulma user would tell me that I'm not conceptualizing the problem correctly, but there are like a million other CSS frameworks that I could be using so I'm just going to move on until I find one that makes sense to me right away (hopefully one that doesn't look "modern" or "minimal" or "clean" or any other words that techbros use to describe their bullshit. I want one that looks like Windows 98 with a dark theme, or 2000's era Steam)

2025-08-10 18:32:04 UTC

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yep I just tested it and look at this bullshit lol
https://s3.us-east-005.backblazeb2.com/cryptid-cafe/cefc7024c83a7be2fcc84db3ad6d6214db6988ca29d16623c29e30ad4d91942b.png

2025-08-10 18:25:12 UTC

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it blows my mind that a CSS UI framework can totally lack a good way to visually nest UI elements. like literally all I want to do is:
```
<form class="visually-distinct-section">
<section class="visually-distinct-subsection">
</section>
<section class="visually-distinct-subsection">
</section>
<section class="visually-distinct-subsection">
</section>
</form>
```
and I don't think Bulma has any way to handle that when it was actually pretty easy for me to do that in pure CSS

2025-08-10 18:22:49 UTC

I am so fucking impatient for reddit to approve #GAGSProject already ughh. I genuinely can't think of anything to add to it at this point? other than stuff that I really don't have the energy for like testing it with a screen-reader or rewriting it to use Bulma
(which, tbh I don't think that Bulma has the visual vocabulary for some of the stuff that I'm doing. I'm not actually sure how you're supposed to use Bulma to make a UI that has sections within sections that you want to visually separate, for example. and [Bulma's card component](https://bulma.io/documentation/components/card/) seems like the best place for me to put a GWA post but it's also so flashy and attention-grabbing and I feel like having 25 of them back-to-back on a page would look absolutely terrible lol)

2025-08-08 19:17:07 UTC

I'm starting to suspect that making the UI might be the hardest part of every piece of software that has a UI. like damn I want people to be able to use my code without being a command-line tech wizard but why is this so hard :BlobCat_Fearful:
also I think I'm understanding why the vast majority of FOSS projects are Like That (you have to learn a bunch of arcane bullshit before you can use them). like you would have to pay me to make another UI after this /hj
so yeah I have a new respect for UI devs and frontend devs and the bullshit that they have to deal with on a daily basis

2025-07-24 20:48:21 UTC

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now that I have a fuckton of videos on my hard drive, would it be worthwhile and ethical for me to upload them to a Fedi video-hosting instance? they're not *my* videos and I don't have permission to repost them but I just want to save them from being erased by the megacorps and I want more people to be able to access them

2025-07-24 20:45:36 UTC

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also if you're unable to watch age-restricted youtube videos with mpc-hc here's a fix!
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/12676#issuecomment-2747253332

2025-07-24 20:25:00 UTC

YouTube has been much more aggressive about blocking my access to their videos - to the point that they've made it pretty inconvenient to use FreeTube (I have to refresh pages 2-3 times for the video to load or it gets blocked, and some videos just won't play at all and I have to use MPC-HC instead) and of course they've still completely blocked my access to YouTube videos in the browser
so I've been backing up all of my favorite YouTube videos to my hard drive using `yt-dlp`. at this level of enshittification who knows if I'll still have a workaround for watching YouTube videos in a year or so, or even if YouTube as a website will still exist

2025-07-11 23:03:08 UTC

holy shit are electron apps *so much more tolerable* when you aren't using a CPU from 13 years ago

2025-06-01 06:13:42 UTC

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I would actually be very interested in trying Valorant, Honkai Star Rail, and Genshin Impact but unfortunately they all have rootkits that are always active, even when you aren't playing the game (that's probably for the best though)

2025-06-01 04:56:32 UTC

man every time I find a cool shooter on steam I check the reviews and it's like
"the devs spat on my dog. they haven't updated the game in 4000 years. it uses a rootkit that makes your computer melt through the floor like thermite. also it's pay-to-win."

2025-05-28 01:06:12 UTC

getting really fucking tired of dealing with unresponsive SPAs. this time it's the Kroger website and it is so, so bad. clicking on anything or typing one (1) character into any textbox freezes my browser for a solid 800ms. I don't understand what value - if any - making your website an SPA adds other than aesthetics. like regular static 2000's-style websites seem to have far fewer issues across the board - they just don't look as nice to the average person I guess?

2025-05-27 22:55:23 UTC

ugh writing loops in javascript is the worst because it's like, alright which one do I need to use this time? is it going to be `for ... of var.entries()`? is it going to be `for ... in var`? is it `var.forEach()`? is it `for ... of var`? do I have to do a C-style `for (let i; ...; i++)`? who knows! let's try all of them until one of them works! every single time!

2025-05-27 19:49:01 UTC

I fucking love stories where it never really feels like the main character(s) are threatened. where they're never captured, humbled, tortured, nearly die, etc. mainstream writing advice says that this is a bad idea - that these characters are "Mary Sues" and that the audience will get bored or frustrated with them. so that's why I like "bad writing" that deliberately or unintentionally ignores this advice. it's incredibly rare to find, and it's often notoriously bad or "cringe" but I love it
the thing is, I've been brought low and threatened and humbled my entire life and I'm sick of it, and I don't want to watch it happen to anyone else. I want to see other people be empowered and make a difference in their world
unfortunately like I said above, these stories are incredibly rare. the Kino's Journey anime (I've only seen the new one) is a good example with some exceptions, because the PoV character is almost always Kino and Kino always has a handle on things, even if it seems like she doesn't
I also really liked the first season of the Overlord anime, where the PoV character is always empowered. but in the second season, it shifts away from that and starts focusing on Ainz's cruelty and I *hate* that
then there's Bofuri and Shangri-La Frontier where nobody *can* be meaningfully threatened because they take place in a video game
I could also mention a few different comics but they're either very problematic in places or they're notoriously bad to the point of being memes, so I won't lol

2025-05-25 23:12:12 UTC

there are a surprising number of old anime about hot cop girls using lovingly-animated scifi military hardware to fight high-tech criminals
and if it weren't for the words "cop" and "criminals" in that sentence I would be 110% down for that. but fucking cops have to ruin everything
(specifically I'm talking about Gunsmith Cats, Dominion Tank Police, and Dirty Pair)

2025-05-25 23:06:04 UTC

programmers be like: why did you just name this variable "x"? oh my fuck and this one is just called "a"? what is wrong with you?!
mathematicians be like: hmm if I mix the Hebrew and Greek alphabets together and combine that with underlined blackboard bold italics then I can express this equation with one fewer character

2025-05-24 00:02:49 UTC

I'm ngl I am genuinely considering using Windows 11 instead of switching to Linux once Windows 10 reaches end-of-life
playing games is just such an important part of my life and I know Proton has gotten *drastically* better but games still run worse overall on Linux (thanks to shitty video card drivers, which isn't Linux's fault) and also tend to be glitchier too (thanks to Proton not being perfect yet)
also Linux just frustrates me a lot lol. like... a *lot*. it's so fucking arcane and when you search for help everyone is so smug and elitist
the spyware on Windows 11 worries me, but I'm hoping that O&O ShutUp 10 is going to be enough to disable it all

2025-05-23 23:53:52 UTC

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there's a kind of convergent evolution with games. eventually all singleplayer shooters will become Doom Eternal, all multiplayer shooters will become Valorant, all brawler games will become Smash Melee, etc. because these games are Maximally Fast-Paced

2025-05-23 21:40:00 UTC

"hey in the sequel how should we innovate on our core gameplay loop?"
-> "we should make it more fast-paced"
-> "in the spinoff, how should we innovate on our core gameplay loop?"
-> "we should make it more fast-paced"
-> "in the sequel to the spinoff..."
-> "we should make it more fast-paced"
-> "we should make it more fast-paced"
-> "we should make it more fast-paced"

2025-02-14 19:50:35 UTC

"idempotence" is a disproportionately fancy, unapproachable word for literally just "if nothing needs changing, don't touch anything". I bet the term was invented by someone who was trying to justify their paycheck
also, making stuff idempotent just seems like the obviously right thing to do. we don't need a fancy math term for "hey maybe your patch shouldn't break stuff that's already patched"
I've been trying to think of a more approachable term than "idempotence" and the best I have so far is "look first". as in, "make sure your patch looks first (before touching/changing anything)"

2025-02-11 17:43:25 UTC

\*shakes my cane angrily\*
back in my day all of the code for a webpage was hand-written, simple, and easy to read. nobody used async requests, everything was easy to work with and if you called a webpage "slow" people would assume you meant it took a long time to download everything
but the kids these days are turning everything into overengineered GUI apps with a bunch of 10 MB Node packages with 500 ms of input lag and then they're transpiling and minifying it all down into unreadable mush and you can't even write userscripts for anything anymore because it's all hidden away inside of their damn frameworks

2025-01-20 21:54:06 UTC

if you put newlines
in random places
while typing a normal sentence
you can call it poetry
and nobody can argue with you

2025-01-12 01:58:32 UTC

https://s3.us-east-005.backblazeb2.com/cryptid-cafe/010f522915b92a907e7e07de3b596c5fd00393109c2489682615a9d9131adedc.webp