2026-04-27T23:57:47Z https://yabu.me rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually https://yabu.me/npub1mzgdzx4fqpwgsrdl3qkksaghs4awqcnjyw3j4rh7ggta8xmftepqu0l2g4 https://mastodon.well.com/system/accounts/avatars/112/576/890/080/816/603/original/0f84c73e63efb281.jpeg https://mastodon.well.com/system/accounts/avatars/112/576/890/080/816/603/original/0f84c73e63efb281.jpeg https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9z9u4pjza2n556qus0ks28hvl8erjtfunnpcc6zu66hxz7pfx47gzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yy4cntpq <a href="https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-gold-statue-golf-course-pastor-b2972303.html">https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-gold-statue-golf-course-pastor-b2972303.html</a><br/><br/>“Let me be clear: this is not a golden calf,” he said. “This statue is a celebration of life. It is a symbol of resilience, freedom, patriotism, strength, and the will power to keep fighting for the future of America.”<br/><br/>If not idolatry then why idolatry shaped 2026-05-09T14:29:19Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswepjpw458464e3l2rtpyz0myqna05f2lc9qvh9fjnu7lj7m29zpqzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yyzqj8u7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxraq5tk6jz45atllmnxwvxkcpq5p57m9sar4nfwkhumlh7nv6j9syqf9e2'>nevent1q…f9e2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Huh, lemme take a look at Linode. Haven&#39;t looked at them in a while. 2026-04-20T21:24:37Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgm4wgknw00675rg8vdww23vqrp6rfgwds2u3uwa97shr32csl95qzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yyt3p33v I want a simple Linux VPS. I don’t need much:<br/><br/>- 2GB RAM<br/>- 25GB<br/>- Bandwidth will be minuscule but I don’t want it metered lest someone hammers my box and costs me $1000<br/>- Latest Ubuntu LTS<br/>- 2FA web console<br/>- Doesn’t require a copy of my passport (when did this become a thing?!?)<br/>- Priced fairly<br/><br/>Hetzner and OVH want my passport. Gandi is ancient Ubuntu LTS. All the US providers want to do per-minute/byte pricing. Fly.io has no cost caps on bandwidth. AWS is expensive.<br/><br/>What do<br/><br/>#linux #hosting 2026-04-20T21:15:03Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsys7le3k2erdk5enadcd6w866cgjwyhalw6mkspgv0nqdfdpzf20czyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yy5emc9k The existence of Godzilla Minus Zero implies the existence of Godzilla Plus Zero and the use of one of several possible numeric encodings that provide for signed zeros. Depending on the underlying representation used, increasingly inaccurate sequel designations can be expected as more Godillza films are produced. If midquels are made, it is possible inaccuracy can appear much sooner (for example, Godzilla <br/>0.30000000000000004). In this essay I will<br/><br/>#math #godzilla #shitpost 2026-04-15T03:06:27Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0l9rqkh2rdzh8sgvd9kl5u5rnyh3jl6tl8mgzepw3e0m4zp50t8gzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yy5l56ry Realized we had nothing ready to prep for dinner. A little taqueria near our house was open. <br/><br/>Abuelita (to my wife): You are so pretty. <br/><br/>Wife: Aw thank you. <br/><br/>Abuelita: Okay your total is $xx. (To me) next! How can I help you?<br/><br/>Wife: We’re together. <br/><br/>Abuelita: Really.<br/><br/>🥲 2026-04-06T00:22:16Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstqq02a7q7cnr36af97xjauv8u5w0jk000n6hqxhhsr9qwd8jvvkczyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yykea3d2 My little embedded scripting language is like 95% done. The only thing stopping me from releasing it is that there’s bits of code that aren’t pretty and I want them to be pretty or else everyone will point at me and laugh. <br/><br/>Plus I context-switched to like two other projects since I last touched it and now my brain is page faulting and I’m dangerously close to a triple fault and rebooting. <br/><br/>#programming 2026-04-04T16:27:22Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0j7nxsfutlzxhu3j08zcctxde667r0anvm0uz0tvc62u8ayn9geszyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yyde0py8 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx36kcks36eh9adjwafwqfxpjkhddujvnjphljw2rvs3duc7arykshphh99'>nevent1q…hh99</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The NES was slightly faster and the PPU was magic. 2026-03-21T21:57:00Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2a87kmekrwvyx22e36clf6f76dcq8jkasx6eveqq880cgmcyq79gzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yyyzyut2 fsck<br/><br/>#unix 2026-03-18T22:58:49Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdt0lc9w7w5tw5npq8suwpzfhjyg5ukfw6dp0qspgtmnquup7ytcqzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yy27ee24 I am reminded of a time about 10 years ago when I was at my usual bar and my wife had just left. The bartender was like “no offense, but I didn’t expect you’d have an attractive partner.” And I still don’t know what to do with this information. 2026-03-14T19:04:12Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrymngywgjqyestnlm5as7ueezlky70h8g5xzh5ac6puwt4kxncfqzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yyemjvd5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgj9zfs6u2c8nwdpyj568fag5l9su7r7ua6a4rv7pakmphjaryqqgw97n3c'>nevent1q…7n3c</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I think it was Brave New World where this word was used in the sense of “spirited”.<br/><br/>My high school honors English teacher didn’t know this meaning, and explained to the whole class that it meant the character in question was sexually like a piston. <br/><br/>Good times. 2026-03-11T16:53:30Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfpe6lgdph7ghhtr4lmdf725zrnf8k0dj0kds5mlgzm6vv0pulx5qzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yyem6l74 Could I write a script that given a Japanese verb poops put a graphviz/dot DAG of the agglutination patterns for the verb?<br/><br/>I mean. I can do the scripting part. I just don’t know if Japanese verb conjugation/agglutination is that regular.<br/><br/>(Also I regret to inform you that I am back on my bullshit.)<br/><br/>#japanese #programming 2026-03-07T19:50:47Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsr9hrjj00q9dmtmcrudh90lf6zmg63xnt8kw7423zasxt6smjdzagzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yyhan65r Kids used to have folders that came home every Friday and we went through them. <br/><br/>Now we get 3-4 emails a day from the school. They don’t include the information in the email, it’s just “please click here to log into MySchoolBubbles/ClassMint/SkoolBux to read an important announcement” and 90% of the time the important announcement is completely irrelevant, but God forbid you don’t read it because the one time you forget it’s “sign this document or your child’s project will explode”<br/><br/>#parenthood 2026-03-05T02:31:45Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsyhmxmevrhfztsu863adfc8j7648squ7ghkngvfl5xmy30ga0n9lczyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yyqu4ha7 Young people these days! We had 5KB of RAM, a keyboard that destroyed your wrists, a power supply that was a fire hazard, and a display that was a wobbly fuzzy old black and white television!<br/><br/>Still, we were happy though. 2026-03-04T20:27:38Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrfre958jm85sfude2n5sak24kqka0fqrf8l8hzaezxuxwc8x8rgczyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yynuaqx5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsd7xpez30dqq9uezwxqpz2zxrl88cvcq6tuxpklz53c35z0ttsrxcsf5ku2'>nevent1q…5ku2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Man why does science gotta ruin everything 2026-03-03T21:40:05Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsw98rf4c30g9wdc55zqlqa26p97zsxxs8g6xrvldp3usa3kn8ax7gzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yycrq07u In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsv3pm6swp843l6x2fs05tr0x6yrj2fkh3y47rg992zdlerj7kr3pss9zmrt'>nevent1q…zmrt</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The optimist sees the glass as 1/2 full. <br/><br/>The pessimist sees the glass as 1/2 empty. <br/><br/>The Excel user sees the glass as the second of January. 2026-03-03T19:39:32Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2kukqsej5ktg593u9sexgn6guwkwcf8yrqusdq842y383t34aktqzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yywcadlw Given that the ability to retain heat is proportional to the ratio of surface area to volume, would an infinitely thin sheet of aluminum foil that was infinitely large cool down infinitely fast?<br/><br/>In other news I burned my hand a bit making a tuna melt for lunch. <br/><br/>#physics #food 2026-03-03T17:44:55Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0aunxvgerxwvmgay8l94l49l0gseaw5t05tzgym3ge67uu3l0qlczyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yymycdw9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszldmap5hj63avrnk27qs85whq435mna5zets7zzeu4dy9ka9sj6sk0n8zp'>nevent1q…n8zp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>“I can track marking via linked list reversal and some XORing!”<br/><br/>*ruffles hair* You sure can buddy! 2026-02-27T00:40:58Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszldmap5hj63avrnk27qs85whq435mna5zets7zzeu4dy9ka9sj6szyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yy9734jf “There are all sorts of garbage collection algorithms.”<br/><br/>Are they all basically reimplementations of the classic tricolor algorithm?<br/><br/>“Some of them are generational copying algorithms and there’s a wealth of research around cache-coherent parallel GC on multicore architectures!”<br/><br/>Oh cool, does anyone use them?<br/><br/>“…no”<br/><br/>(Don’t at me with your Go and your super fancy JVM shit here I’m being funny for a shitpost.)<br/><br/>#computerScience 2026-02-27T00:37:56Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsghzfwu7xs804at685gnppp3l3wguh5wmg79m562vnurv7pxsqwtgzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yyuhp46j In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspgpprdnafwtw8k68vh00tvnhyrs647x6v5n7ucv0req3qs8tqz3gp22ykq'>nevent1q…2ykq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>When I was young I thought once a computer could pass the Turing Test I would literally be fighting for their civil rights. Now I’m of the opinion that we should move the goalposts, not because we’re wrong about consciousness but because we put the goal posts in the wrong place. 2026-02-26T22:51:51Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvz2cvd3mq97scj2xg0999xtp09yrhl2kh8x5tgdd5s8nz3f0m90gzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yyfn3r6l In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw7qc8ycc2xk35u3esty7katuszfee67kgdcfykerxmss9sy7qr0cfc55wa'>nevent1q…55wa</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Marshall Brain’s novella “Manna” talks about this problem exactly. 2026-02-24T00:30:17Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0f6zrj9r20rh2yfzg9rq45ezpzywyj0cmm7qlqwfpz85u0p5j2ygzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yysmt533 Your first Linux distro<br/><br/>#linux #shitpost 2026-02-19T19:46:52Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvzxysu8nkwhsyvl9gxrljuwuts86ht6x8c9kz7x9hwyz25h093tczyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yymqsrge Best UNIX desktop environment<br/><br/>#unix 2026-02-16T17:57:46Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvtu4tdt29nhcz3uleuen6u0h6j4ankx8yuceyg69u06r9fjvc8kszyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yyf8ft5y Can someone explain to me the kerfluffle around curling? The curlfluffle? <br/><br/>#curling #olympics 2026-02-15T20:37:02Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswnylputgpdk5r3pv5emx6t9g2ny7krsfhu7wm8placrly0wfcregzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yygtz3wj Has anyone ever really used `pax` instead of using `cpio` or `tar`?<br/><br/>(I don’t remember the last time I used `cpio` outside of RPM packages and even then that was probably over a decade ago.)<br/><br/>#unix 2026-02-04T05:42:23Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfke0474q5wru9f725a7yc0vwe6tqlewnft8mfazgv7e7vxgm86xszyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yyldj32c In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsp7k555nl64smp5x5t47llr4yplwwsa2k60ffm2ast4gw72mc0vwqg8sm72'>nevent1q…sm72</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The problem with programmers these days isn’t that they can’t fit a line printer driver in an unused 47 bytes near the top of memory, it’s that they won’t even try. 2026-02-03T21:35:16Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszq8a9pljpag320exwx4eqez5cudndz863w3taptclhnxr39r44yszyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yyv3hvxj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswcmx7c87jexy00rm49dtrynnuql659wnnrd665yf9aknmmyz9z7c3d8tmn'>nevent1q…8tmn</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Haiku solved the major issue with BeOS’s Interface Kit. The classic IK didn’t do font-sensitive layout (or really any auto layout) so changing font sizes would break everything. <br/><br/>Haiku added a lovely constraint solver thing. For older examples, MUI is nice. <br/><br/>Windows back in the day based everything on a metric of like “half letter-X height/width” so dialogs were font size sensitive but raw windows stuff wasn’t, IIRC. 2026-02-03T17:59:45Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsf3r7nzrre277c2tkx774ela922mgx5xn2ysnwa2m7l0ecffupr3czyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yy8cl0gr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqfzkflyplh68lmzxkeahx4k2wtx4rgz3sqx8vhep4f4c8g3gksmgunas3u'>nevent1q…as3u</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>So anyway. The only good GUI API was NeXT/OPENSTEP but reading the classic Be Book (in lovely HTML) about the Interface Kit gives you an idea of an attempt to write a graphical operating system that wasn’t terrible.<br/><br/>The Plan 9 panel library is also kinda neat. <br/><br/>The Amiga Magic User Interface library was also beautiful. <br/><br/>Okay. So. That was way more info than you wanted. Sorry!<br/><br/>Fin. 2026-02-03T17:55:40Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqfzkflyplh68lmzxkeahx4k2wtx4rgz3sqx8vhep4f4c8g3gksmgzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yy7unese In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxsyqz869wv7q6qjukl63pj490k05fx3rw02kzw9nqgkhdtejdn4syt9l4v'>nevent1q…9l4v</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Anyway classic X was limited: draw string here, move bitmap there. More and more extensions got added, including ones that weren’t network transparent (SHM, etc). Xt was limited and kind of a pain to use, and inherently not portable so toolkits eventually just started hitting X directly and supporting different backends for cross-OS use. <br/><br/>So now GTK is platform independent and draws its own decorations and is quite convoluted. <br/><br/>(Almost done) 2026-02-03T17:52:47Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxsyqz869wv7q6qjukl63pj490k05fx3rw02kzw9nqgkhdtejdn4szyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yywf9pt2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstd9xzmj36ry48yfylxlwf42yu504shu0xpn03jq0lfss735274wc4eu9u4'>nevent1q…u9u4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>In classic X there were no widget sets, not really. Instead there were the “X Toolkit Intrinsics” that let you do low-level stuff like set message handlers and properties and attributes on windows. Toolkit developers would then use these intrinsics to make toolkits; widgets were just windows, and Xt let you tell them how to behave. <br/><br/>Motif was the big one, but there was also the Athena widget set (from Project Athena, which helped create X), and OpenLook and others. <br/><br/>(Cont) 2026-02-03T17:50:07Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstd9xzmj36ry48yfylxlwf42yu504shu0xpn03jq0lfss735274wczyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yy6nrt5g In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsze4yczqae2af25l66spqa4gm6pfqycsa2a3656n3kkhztlrujuxcdtg85a'>nevent1q…g85a</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Windows can have KV pairs, called properties. Conventions exist as to what properties are looked at by the window manager, etc. For example, the Motif window manager had a convention that let windows set properties that the manager would then use to add menu options to the window’s menu. <br/><br/>The big conventions are ICCCM, Motif, and EWMH.<br/><br/>(Cont) 2026-02-03T17:47:08Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsze4yczqae2af25l66spqa4gm6pfqycsa2a3656n3kkhztlrujuxczyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yy5894my In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8dcgjv9swmvfeyw4ahrv7a6utltsrn4ulfcfxh6l4kp03vvwztcqck4am8'>nevent1q…4am8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>That distinguished client is the window manager. In the classic X workflow, it was responsible for drawing window decorations. That’s not built into the protocol, and GTK for example now draws its own decorations on client windows. <br/><br/> But traditionally the window manager drew decorations and reparented client windows into this hierarchy of decorations. <br/><br/>(Cont) 2026-02-03T17:45:29Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8dcgjv9swmvfeyw4ahrv7a6utltsrn4ulfcfxh6l4kp03vvwztcqzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yyqluh78 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstjv3u3rg6k53594p90x3f5ne3aq775czu3ewu20g2gykgrhsznmsg6xmhs'>nevent1q…xmhs</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>(Forgive me if I tell you things you already know.)<br/><br/>X was all about “mechanism not policy) because it was a bunch of different vendors. The grand idea was network-transparent windowing, with an event-driven architecture and the server controlling the screen and input devices. <br/><br/>The X server of course only knows about windows and font IDs and bitmaps and drawing instructions. One client can request that certain events be forwarded to it, and it can modify/intercept them. <br/><br/>(cont) 2026-02-03T17:43:16Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstjv3u3rg6k53594p90x3f5ne3aq775czu3ewu20g2gykgrhsznmszyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yyt7tl26 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsguehrleed6r0v50v58dlq5eq93885yjs3rp6ssg2yx9nqmcyhk9s9wsxna'>nevent1q…sxna</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>So, turns out GUI programming has always sucked terribly. One of the reasons Windows won back in the day was because as bad as it was, its API was significantly better than most of the other options out there (Mac classic had a bunch of weird global variables and fixed point thingies, Intuition on the Amiga was so bad, the primary GUI API ended up being a paid-for third-party library).<br/><br/>For X, as someone who’s written a couple of window managers… (cont) 2026-02-03T17:41:07Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswl2thgqjy4m9w6d92k7q34tcfkq9xjnf6py9k85qdklzwqyqjudqzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yyzrz7ac Holy shit. TIL that Janet Jackson is the only Grammy-winning artist with a CVE.<br/><br/>CVE-2022-38392 indicates that playing Rhythm Nation near certain hard drives will cause a crash, because the song contains a resonate frequency with a 5400RPM spinning disk of a certain diameter and construction. <br/><br/>Neat. <br/><br/>#music #infosec 2026-02-02T17:34:58Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsphe9zk3mvvmul8hus32njfp2cdvr7yl2djlwqggyecrcfhrgr64qzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yy09zy00 Today is the only day it will be 26/26/26 for another thousand years. 2026-01-26T15:48:14Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8xrgaxmgp6dt83gmmr5yt4le5rvngqr2cz6yswp5spl36e2tkeegzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yy0cadwr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst46jrtlfrhkqe5wnyaxmwht7u5vyn9wppkul6yrgdl8zmjeyp84sx9uhed'>nevent1q…uhed</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>So for example, RM620 will be pronounced “milliem six cent vingt”<br/><br/>I’m trying to figure out what the “milliem” is. I think it’s an artifact of the French speech synthesis reading some internal English abbreviation in the map metadata that is explicitly marked by the English speech synthesis to be replaced with “RM”<br/><br/>My thinking is it’s saying “Mile M”? Like reading the English word mile and the letter M? It’s not reading “èr èm”.<br/><br/>Anyone involved in digital mapping ring in too please!<br/><br/>2/2 2026-01-11T21:21:24Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqst46jrtlfrhkqe5wnyaxmwht7u5vyn9wppkul6yrgdl8zmjeyp84szyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yyqrg76a Okay this is a weird deep dive into something quite random. Native French speakers help me out here.<br/><br/>I live in Texas. My phone’s language is French. When giving directions while driving, the speech is in French. <br/><br/>Texas has “Ranch to Market” (RM) roads; they’re a specific class of road, but they often go through cities and such. I regularly drive on RM620. <br/><br/>When my phone says the name of one of these roads it says something like “milliem” for the designator. <br/><br/>1/<br/><br/>#french #cartography #speech 2026-01-11T21:17:20Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstp2dlu3ph0cmattesefetzq3jemls5japwfckytjvc6t8ca424cszyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yyd3utrl If you were writing a bignum library in C what would you call it?<br/><br/>This is a quasi-serious question.<br/><br/>The working name is “Rx” for internal reasons. I’ll stick with that if I can’t get something better. <br/><br/>#programming #math #c 2026-01-03T03:30:30Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspva6y8vyyrmcmr80k6j2sey3ycqwc3k4dftzxupslj7dgvev9kyqzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yy6twywj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyk7zr4n6ah74l5a7j7gt7zw8u7gem028gts6a3c3pj9x8wljdtxg2japtg'>nevent1q…aptg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>His writing of heterosexual men definitely fell into the “how do you do fellow straight manly men?” territory, like Holt on Brooklyn 99. <br/><br/>But yes, when will we get a true Rendezvous With Rama movie? One that isn’t somehow turned into a action-packed romp? 2025-12-27T23:37:29Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9gw7qu2r2u58fereynxdtqmlh29k7c5el7990xx7q3n6c99mh5tczyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yygl83dc I wanna make a delicious cassoulet but it’s difficult to buy duck, much less duck fat, in Austin and if I don’t do that the French will be mad at me. 2025-12-22T06:04:40Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsd2gd3wkvdmka09a5p20uqczkv22704f95ktj6t5nc5l0sc6n4v0gzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yylmfc9a Look at this asshole. <br/><br/>#cat #caturday<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.well.com/system/media_attachments/files/115/713/178/676/357/207/original/c8bf963e03bf8c54.jpeg"> <br/> 2025-12-13T16:24:08Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspq8r7fl6ssvqrqvalyqrh9u5fzcym7vaady042gk6lsf58qra6aczyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yy9k96kn In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq8axafv7aac66rtyr855g4gelfeer7ysr3grtytzy0hzmzxtdxsgru78rm'>nevent1q…78rm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/><a href="https://folklore.org/Disk_Swappers_Elbow.html">https://folklore.org/Disk_Swappers_Elbow.html</a> 2025-12-08T07:30:54Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2lfn3texj0ysllwgkrt9snfuzuf7cs9ayyha6puk0jme6wr06gzczyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yyfsm7w9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs93jy9lpjmygk07kdfqkyl7yh74js2tx5cfnuv35mqclsvnzpt7vsud64zv'>nevent1q…64zv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>A friend pointed out that this version of minimalism also only works if you don’t need accessibility help and speak a language that doesn’t require anything more than single characters laid out left to right, which is a good point. 2025-12-07T21:35:33Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsyheg5kjnjcw9w7r9uvaxg6nwc5v7l9h3t04rkevu2rlmul0wafygzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yy6vvstn In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfv8tqft35ltyz9t4hvxknz5h0kv2u9lcx5dj9s2lvzsysdm20wcg3tz90x'>nevent1q…z90x</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I contributed to suckless many years ago (a patch to dwm). I hadn’t really participated in the community up until then. <br/><br/>Yeah once I started actually poking around I haven’t been back. There’s a weird overlap between extreme minimalism in software and regressive, fashy politics, I’ve come to learn. 2025-12-07T21:28:20Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2dje6vc3kfqpaau458y4q69g8mlv3lj9l579m5h9567uutn6axkczyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yy9xe4vy humans unix <br/> 🤝<br/>using ps to find cat<br/><br/>#unix #caturday 2025-12-06T16:15:04Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdyc3nmx78mpacyzlle7pckqschzw258g70g4xmdyffkkdd3x3ykszyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yy05nkl4 As a reminder, just because an algorithm is O(n) doesn’t mean it’s practically fast if n is often huge.<br/><br/>This toot brought to you by “things making my life difficult today.” 2025-12-02T21:28:28Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqvsndykdw5kvmkf5c3us5xusjt0evufjgh5jnuwdlkvfn9my3epszyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yyj6x9qf After the Deluge, Noah is checking on all the animals. They’re all doing great, multiplying and filling the Earth, except for this one group of snakes.<br/><br/>“What’s wrong?” asks Noah.<br/><br/>“Cut down some trees for us,” say the snakes.<br/><br/>Noah does so and goes off to check on other animals.<br/><br/>A few weeks later he comes back and sees that there are snakes everywhere!<br/><br/>“Wow, how did cutting down trees do all this?” Noah asks.<br/><br/>“We’re adders,” say the snakes, “and we need logs to multiply.”<br/><br/>#math #dadjoke 2025-11-21T03:18:17Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgum7s7x908skstwq6g3qessqw9wqmq6a3sau39uh4wsl95qqkfvgzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yyrtwqt8 I am an IEEE 754 NaN value. You are an IEEE 754 NaN value. We are not the same. 2025-11-11T21:10:53Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs23hjjv0xy56hws2mf0vymycfe32pjhwjdxdy3nt0zkqk4nz57tpqzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yywpn7va How hard would it be to adapt a wave-function collapse or other constraint-based procedural generation algorithm to produce tiled maps that were wrap-aroundable? That is, you could treat the map as a sphere or a torus. <br/><br/>Not 100% of the time, obviously. I mean in such a way that after at most a few attempts you get a usable map almost all of the time.<br/><br/>I’ve thought about this for all of 15 seconds so the answer is probably “it’s already been done” or “no, never.”<br/><br/>#graphics #proceduralGeneration 2025-11-10T17:59:40Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsptl62h4e5zalp4kp0td8f8s9qdhfn6e72u6mmqpd6kftkf0jzw3czyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yyc4zk69 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspwc5uh4wveus48fw5u94nrna4jq83q6wjz07g77m3t7dawsngu8cka2cl3'>nevent1q…2cl3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Two thoughts: fast typists are likely to be the primary audience, and also the primary audience might find ghost presses charming. 2025-11-03T20:02:34Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsx05fgcp3l6vrdf0rx7nfhgwvktjc0tcjlyu5u6qkn2tsd4cl7twgzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yyc0psa3 I often go a month, maybe even two, without remembering that C# and .NET exist. <br/><br/>#microsoft #programming #clr 2025-10-31T00:24:59Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsp4kdxqn97jylm3w9gqwwle2sgl57kj8e25sc5sg654nxs6yyl0hqzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yyn4nquy #unix #2038<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.well.com/system/media_attachments/files/115/443/394/946/572/745/original/2ef64607bbb84aa3.png"> <br/> 2025-10-27T00:54:21Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2zv6tmn88n7pfnrydrw4cny3varzewvcrpps8cchgdj8j7vam3qgzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yy4v5g3x I mentioned that I needed to get serious about losing weight. <br/><br/>I wake up this morning to 14yo having made breakfast, with an entire meal plan for the day including calories and nutrient amounts. <br/><br/>Breakfast was mashed avocado on rye toast and a protein shake. Lunch will be a salad with grilled chicken. <br/><br/>Afternoon snack is a protein shake. <br/><br/>Chips and beer are, quite sadly, prohibited. <br/><br/>I know he wants to be a lawyer but honestly I think his heart says chef or nutritionist. <br/><br/>#cooking #diet 2025-10-26T14:50:26Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsyw9537rgsfrfsprasfdtnn7djx4r5pfccvkpllsvv8nrcke46jngzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yy3j5n8j In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsv8sx0eqaz8p2q6pdcpmwgt9m5jdg87fr38ndpyc80rral6mxefrsmfetf6'>nevent1q…etf6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>One of my favorite CS books is “Databases, Types, and the Relational Model: The Third Manifesto”<br/><br/>I actually have a (ginormous) dead-tree copy that doesn’t fit on any shelf but it’s available in PDF format as well: <a href="https://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~hugh/TTM/DTATRM.pdf">https://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~hugh/TTM/DTATRM.pdf</a><br/><br/>(I realize I’m preaching to the choir here, but anyone who happens to find this toot gets to read one of my favorite books!) 2025-10-23T15:17:49Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsx9ytzalz572en24cd8ur0u52kl5d25zgjr5awatdh5ezys7zz4gczyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yy2c5y7n According to the US National Library of Medicine, approximately 65% of the adult human population is lactose intolerant, and in east Asia that number goes up to 70-100%. <br/><br/>But I’ve eaten a whole lot of ice cream and cheese and such in Japan and there seems to be no shortage of ice cream parlors in Tokyo and all sorts of cheese and milk-based confections there.<br/><br/>So, I am forced to conclude that I either do not understand lactose intolerance or that a lot of Japanese folks are masochists. <br/><br/>#milk 2025-10-22T04:16:34Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvsag03rh7dffa4m3eaemjkmvhskxckzpcrexw00cphpgwf66uw2gzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yycx25zu At dinner. <br/><br/>10yo: You know how my birthday is next month. <br/><br/>Me: Yeah. <br/><br/>10yo: You know what *else* happened in November. <br/><br/>Me: What?<br/><br/>10yo: The Nuremberg Trials. <br/><br/>Me: That is…not what I was expecting you to say. <br/><br/>10yo: And also the Mexican Revolution!<br/><br/>Me: Yes…<br/><br/>10yo: Do you want to know more November things?<br/><br/>Me: I do, yes. <br/><br/>#november #learning 2025-10-22T00:39:22Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstz2r0jmxwj8d4xwxhff8wfjfzkmtzghvjlsv75j0t3snhkm4advszyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yycn2scg Then: The Internet is designed to route around failure. <br/><br/>Now: The Internet is five companies and one of them is broken. <br/><br/>#aws #programming #networking 2025-10-20T13:56:48Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2p7vsrd6z5n8ms4ncqcc69nvz9a4k6z949fc5xdx5wnan3qsyjdqzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yyltljgu Which nation-state actor is behind the F5 breach?<br/><br/>#infosec #shitpost 2025-10-15T23:30:34Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsry2n5rskn995vm45xa3za3d9hzr6nvust3yryqtjjujl0yvu67vszyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yyks87xs In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstvpfdxr3kgvep6x5l2z244ydjakcyjg6dpwnw0lk5hgg5ue2gwuqkhxkvm'>nevent1q…xkvm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Last time we were in Tokyo the Godzilla Cafe was closed. &gt;:( 2025-10-11T04:01:34Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdalqk45ja42yzgald9pfylsqe9ln2y2j637p6k5yjscq6ldvnmcczyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yyuztcpy What was this display technology called? It was used on all sorts of devices, especially points-of-sale and printers. Is it a type of VFD? It occurs to me that I’ve seen them thousands of times but I don’t actually know. <br/><br/>EDIT: Looks like it is a VFD. <br/><br/>#technology #retrocomputing<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.well.com/system/media_attachments/files/115/346/852/438/913/399/original/6f506ddb2e9695c8.jpeg"> <br/> 2025-10-09T23:42:08Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2y62glvdv26e9vg6e4zvz869ehanxtnnd25sq2eqzx8e6rvg83tqzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yyv5wk2u Humans are also stochastic parrots:<br/><br/>#ai #philosophy 2025-09-21T18:56:59Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9ln67asfat7p9d7kn3vgdma3cny2ltme2lwpnuuf3dycdjkacjpgzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yy6m86fy In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstcgsamsl4njtregvs06pw2jtltz9qdxtt6w4mjgf5u797dwzxdwsl546k2'>nevent1q…46k2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I read the other day that one of the standard Rust TCP crates has an implementation of TCPStream in user space. Like it has its own TCP implementation, in user space. Oh and it sends two end-of-option headers so it’s trivial to fingerprint. <br/><br/>Like…why are you implementing your own user space TCP stack. <br/><br/>(I have not confirmed this; it was a conversation at work, but if the EOO header thing is true, then it’s gotta be writing its own TCP packets…) 2025-09-14T23:45:33Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswdr7qn6c5gkw0p7xk2pf6ks4qjtyzggrs5tuzgx775gfgwqw6zvgzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yyla6xfd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrdr7gy7wwxmm2tj4xrdvfvtydcgltq0p4lcnvurdzz4xrhacad0c4fdjpz'>nevent1q…djpz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I am way (whey) out of my area of expertise here, but this is how they make Greek yogurt, right? At least what’s called Greek yogurt here in the States. 2025-09-10T00:11:20Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrjraptygw0n96xlqault3fy4jcx5raphqrwztq438qr8q5q26nhgzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yyy04cmz In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs94k3juzr8zss72jlnh6mvgr6e9r2u8ly35ep6dtk8mzuaqv8tpfgw7lnuh'>nevent1q…lnuh</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>One of my favorite literary stories was from an interview with Heller. <br/><br/>Interviewer: Why haven’t you written anything as good since Catch-22?<br/><br/>Heller: Who has? 2025-09-07T21:59:11Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsx47kgl0aetu6j42d094sd2350sx4yufgsypw6kefpsrq0kp9ax6gzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yytck9we “Major Major&#39;s father was a sober God-fearing man whose idea of a good joke was to lie about his age. He was a long-limbed farmer, a God-fearing, freedom-loving, law-abiding rugged individualist who held that federal aid to anyone but farmers was creeping socialism. He advocated thrift and hard work and disapproved of loose women who turned him down.“ - Joseph Heller, Catch-22<br/><br/>#uspol #books 2025-09-07T21:56:41Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsyvmcqy2x5azpwh0e6az7mdcng23dq8k5dpfq429xy05g90w8wahgzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yytczy2w In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrurnlfztltcmm8t3mau7wx3net0xr9uv995wklv2eyuydgxclj9qxvr2kn'>nevent1q…r2kn</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>You people have no idea how hard you had to squeeze and how practically invisible the little line was. 2025-09-03T17:59:36Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2u5y5hcnfy6jtw5zw54tzetdy697u3qlymq6y7fga80f5fdj2hhgzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yy5c6kh6 Buddy of mine is looking for work. Been in #infosec longer than I have, worked with truly old school folks, worked for enormous orgs in high positions. <br/><br/>He’s hit a rough patch the past two years, divorce, depression, layoffs. It’s getting to the point that he’s going to need to move in with a mutual friend to keep above water.<br/><br/>If you need an absolutely brilliant infosec person in a leadership role, hit me up. <br/><br/>EDIT: Austin area or remote; gotta be by his kids. Thank you!<br/><br/>#GetFediHired 2025-09-02T00:58:19Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsy7l8wtusjf39nrs0eetqh3mk3ua3ytxfn66kgycvcnvregl7dq7szyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yyq2ylj7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9kva5qzzeg2ypks99flup54yv0lj4c35gzjhqd5uu8q52t2np89sjdjw6l'>nevent1q…jw6l</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Is Pete…human? 2025-08-29T04:30:35Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsy23tl56gtt4vslpecck8f9sl7knkpj6kjmkr7ku3lgat0ujgpufqzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yysr3mdy For tonight’s Monsterdon I propose a thought experiment. If you watched Swamp Thing and then went walking through a swamp and were killed by a bolt of lightning that simultaneously rearranged some nearby atoms into a perfect copy of you and that copy went home and saw the Swamp Thing DVD and thought “there is the Swamp Thing DVD I watched earlier”…is that a meaningful statement?<br/><br/>🤔<br/><br/>#philosophy #shitpost 2025-08-24T23:15:47Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqycahm4xnynhqwyug8y5z4h9cujeaxyzfmf8tuqa89znsk0caajszyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yy7h7h97 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvcu4tt9s32rh9m0f8sjw3kut2uuuuyakw7m6dx4pykwlyk4dc3uc4eapts'>nevent1q…apts</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>This is how religions start. 2025-08-16T16:43:50Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvpr6jrpx2mdfttyg42dw5e0cpxq2lqjws8ydew8vczjmuguaj2eszyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yyd6wf4s In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs260rh9ck9223jpptfyhte3lpq2cq0he0xtpwcm2sp689g0kyzl4g738u49'>nevent1q…8u49</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Yep. Structure of the vacuum. Thank you. I guess it becomes a philosophical question at some point, why is there something rather than nothing. 2025-08-01T15:08:58Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8d8gym9frdvn0uy8dp93mpe8uvguwn2fhffadhgtnumcmw5m67tczyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yynf9f4x In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8ztre9wh3ymnjs6uscgw5mafg74dvvpd4ce9wvufndmwmpt548qct9jmy4'>nevent1q…jmy4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It’s a naive question but what do we consider the “empty” space between the various ions and stuff? The various quantum fields? I guess when a cosmologist says “the fabric of space” what’s the fabric? 2025-08-01T15:01:26Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8ljgum24l2qe3696gp87ztjra90jag2dn6m6wquv5fgq04n2e62szyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yykge4fu I truly do not understand the #stockMarket <br/><br/>I have shares in a company that yes, is pre-profit, but has met or exceeded every announced deadline, has 2 years of cash on hand, is producing a real product with real demand, and just had a great earnings call that announced they were months ahead of schedule and reduced their burn rate even more than predicted. <br/><br/>Their stock is down 5.6%.<br/><br/>I suppose they’re not shoving an LLM into something that doesn’t need it, that probably explains it. 2025-07-31T18:56:21Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxaae8lg22wrdynay9ss3flu48kl9hvna32vnvjcsdktq2eaw9pzczyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yy3x34zw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxm8dhxugrrxthujfhphkhh75yumjj0k3n58wecm4h09ty4q64g9sm5ez64'>nevent1q…ez64</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Modern computers have long surpassed the level of complexity that could be understood by a single human in its entirety. <br/><br/>Think back to when home computers had honest to god schematics and block diagrams on their manuals, a list of ports and device registers, and maybe even the source code for the monitor printed in the back. <br/><br/>Contrast this with, say, ACPI…or don’t, for there lies madness. 2025-07-19T20:00:10Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsft4qlg5nlkgghrcnr8g7ey4dpd564z6me6z8gjfv59225rvfupsczyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yysqktp0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgfm5egd23cqm55lwtlhy0wakv0j54y3qqfy4uua06xa7xrffl6wgy0p69f'>nevent1q…p69f</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>*cut to Geordi filling out paperwork with a Starbase engineer*<br/><br/>Geordi (going through checklist): Alien baby thought ship was its mother, check. Ships computer became sentient, check. Holodeck character *also* became sentient, check and check. Hm. What about when an ancient mask turned the ship into an ancient temple, is that just an “other”?<br/><br/>Starbase engineer: Second page. <br/><br/>Geordi: Ah, sorry. Aaaand check. Thanks! 2025-07-14T00:52:17Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs067n3dnay9xpurcj3fq3nzy88k28yh9zshx7c70ajapfy66yvmngzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yyh3p3jc In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0fu3rvz502f290sfynts9xsm3254se79h9p8e2hhupzwdwk8jvvgpqug8v'>nevent1q…ug8v</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Not that I don’t have fond memories of all those systems but I feel like Commodore and Amiga fans have been particularly targeted by nostalgia snipers. <br/><br/>(I’m reminded of the “official Amiga keyboard” from a few years ago, which was just a cheap generic PC keyboard with an Amiga logo officially licensed by whoever currently owns the corpse of the Amiga trademarks.) 2025-07-12T21:07:27Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfl3eqs37qhkvs2x2rc20m2a8ral2w9gr6pyqa66r262m8ssg2t5szyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yyse50tc I don’t know if it’s doing it in English, but for some reason Apple Maps is prefixing “zero” to a bunch of numbered highways when announcing directions. <br/><br/>Like Highway 183 is just 183, but my phone will say “prenez la sortie pour rejoindre zero cent quatre-vingt-trois.”<br/><br/>Like, am I mishearing it? It seems to happen very consistently, but not 100% of the time. Notably it doesn’t seem to happen with roads designated by four digits. <br/><br/>#french #apple 2025-07-03T04:36:28Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstfwwzwk6tt2g0y092cxsyq9xcz2ulgwjm8q55l04ne7np33zl4pczyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yygz9sgj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs93zw0548c33tuftjmrrrym48e20jryxlw6pvza93nd5stq3kh50gm9mmwe'>nevent1q…mmwe</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Any router is a firewall if you configure it badly enough. <br/><br/>#networking 2025-06-29T23:19:14Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9gex255rplgkp3v5yyfpqqdna92ekugz9weqn4lkwglls38w789gzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yy9n4e7x In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsykyzr58gz66jlvu5zc3y0hglgqllp5dguazh9r8099al2h8lyj8sgt3ray'>nevent1q…3ray</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>“Peut-être nous pouvons tutoyer maintenant.”<br/><br/>“…si vous voulez.” 2025-06-23T19:06:31Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsr5yk83wn08sa74xhlqqtrv0qyszhv5e7p84y9p5dzcwg5vyevk4czyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yydgl03j In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsttqa92an2rfse9vmhkp27delh5gfw6pzzmppgju5yq6yem8g3dhgv55kay'>nevent1q…5kay</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>This is a real thing, I was reading about it the other day. Better nutrition, spending more time indoors out of the sun, and not smoking, makes our skin look much better for longer. 2025-06-23T18:35:51Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsv95u55z4fsw3snd8xwtjr5dps6asm88wajmg4g2hlfgr6spdwjkqzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yyxcfk5l In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxhyjkjzp54t3m2dkevh0hpc5c35aljkzxrcqafktzjd2420s33rq7yt9c3'>nevent1q…t9c3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I contributed to dwm many years ago (the swallow patch), but my non-software opinions have pretty much been constant. After I wrote the dwm patch and started digging around more on their site I was like “oh…oh no” and haven’t been back since. 2025-06-23T15:30:43Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsy3f22slfmalds30edjrewzsxl3h8wasu0nk6ljdtknlsuexhjm6gzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yycxqrqk In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2gf9qwjxdz2e7vlsz0sd3p377wf8slvpqe9vj95tnhtkf9wtekfcs4seep'>nevent1q…seep</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I contributed to suckless many years ago (the swallow patch for dwm), and my port of sam is linked on cat-v.org, but I never quite realized how far right the culture of those projects were; once I did I was quite frustrated. 2025-06-23T15:23:27Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2gf9qwjxdz2e7vlsz0sd3p377wf8slvpqe9vj95tnhtkf9wtekfczyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yyfqltme I’ve noticed that there is often an alignment between extreme minimalism in software and edgelordy falling into the libertarian trap that goes full Nazi, maybe accidentally. <br/><br/>Xlibre, sure (blatantly), but I remember for a while the 9front hone page had a photo of Auschwitz “as a joke.” The docs at cat-v.org (which is associated with 9front/suckless) has a “libertarian” manifesto filled with straw men<br/><br/>It’s frustrating because I like minimalism in software and I hate Nazis 2025-06-23T15:21:20Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxf4rx93plwg2hnqktqw92mk6rs93kd9cxytje5yky88j60ld35ygzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yyrdj7h0 I’m going to adopt my cat’s strategy of sitting in the middle of the kitchen and screaming until someone else solves my problems. <br/><br/>#cat 2025-06-18T15:21:26Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2m4ktu6ajnyzt6052d6faxkx3rr89ns4jta7g6lgaapgjs2jwt2czyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yyr49zf9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszr4dw58t3pdcu9thqcnrqr4nek87nfp2q9r8k255l2tq0qae77uqej4g9u'>nevent1q…4g9u</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I love my country. Just like loving your children, “love” doesn’t mean “blindly support whatever happens,” it means correcting things so they/it can be the best person/country possible. <br/><br/>This nuance is apparently lost on a lot of people, where the symbol has become the substance. 2025-06-14T18:28:08Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspfdfrpmzwg6s0jg4mwq5un8v8z7m3gq762y6jsutfsh3p0nanfkszyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yy7cf7ex I’m going to be completely honest here, I 100% thought Brian Wilson died a while ago. I think maybe I’m conflating his dementia diagnosis with a death announcement or something. 2025-06-11T20:03:12Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8dqdhcewesxq5en6cytn6zvcnku9v4p68gaz2mwk70s86c8swfmgzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yyj0jqpu 13yo broke his wrist at summer sports conditioning camp. He’s okay, though he’s bummed that he’s out of camp for the rest of the summer. <br/><br/>At the orthopedist, after he was feeling better.<br/><br/>Nurse: Okay now we’re going to measure you for your cast. *takes out tape measure*<br/><br/>Me: You know, ${13YO}, your arm can’t possibly be more than eleven inches long. <br/><br/>13yo: Ugh, here it comes. <br/><br/>Me: ‘cause then it’d be a foot!<br/><br/>Nurse: So you’re his dad, I’m assuming. 2025-06-10T01:19:57Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxxwqdejxmxm272klga7p9a28xmw9s8dcmwg6h73nd73tvem746xczyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yywecdea MTU stands for Mritish Thermal Unit<br/><br/>#networking 2025-06-06T20:53:26Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspl707vyaw9mmqzku8v9zjjzxzx4plxau3a443hlgqkx54jse5kxqzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yyt7xxr0 1000mg of amoxicillin twice a day for ten days to see if we can knock out whatever the fuck this is that just won’t leave. It’s progressed from laryngeal spasms to what is now likely a sinus infection. <br/><br/>Get it together, man! Get it together. 2025-06-06T00:07:20Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsw0qmfz90lnlwmklzpjf20lmljne4rqjtm6g5af7364crkc0t5evszyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yyucc50h I fell asleep sitting up in the chair in the living room. I woke up to the smoke alarm going off, but only for a second (it woke my wife up too).<br/><br/>Checked all over the house, no smoke, no fire. But then Biscuit T. Dog started staring from the living room into my bedroom and growling. He wouldn’t go in there. I threw his ball, he looked at me briefly and kept growling. <br/><br/>I went in there, nothing. <br/><br/>I can only assume that I (a) have ghosts and (b) they smoke. 2025-06-03T05:14:34Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs04cj0ezzztwtqmrmysnvqmparfa0kqhwdzh9tgrvpsjzvarygh3czyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yynq88xw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxcvdfjet7vktk5tpt9c4nl7tvg93djpu0qvuthwvpuw2a0nql9qqucj9ea'>nevent1q…j9ea</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Yep. I also got into an argument at a bar one time because someone didn’t believe me when I said “prophylactic” didn’t just mean “condom.”<br/><br/>(This was right before the smartphone era so we couldn’t just check, and well before the LLM era where we could get wrong information, but faster.) 2025-05-21T16:15:08Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszc3kjlhd3u96exujx8j6wm2av5qcqrsj6cl75xp0gxgf2gv8h22qzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yyy2uqhf In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfdydyddx37rkxck0crldz9430xz485qahkv7lt88k5d72runcw6qdk8x6f'>nevent1q…8x6f</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>There’s all these bake-offs and vendor comparisons in the industry where analysts are scoring products based on “best use of AI” or whatever and it’s like…what if your product doesn’t need to use AI at all in the first place*?”<br/><br/>There’s this manufactured consent via the implication “everyone MUST use AI, now it’s just a matter of seeing who’s doing it the best.”<br/><br/>*it almost certainly doesn’t. 2025-05-21T15:28:24Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqst0mcux4f3u3fycuglh5l4t84ecq0qmz6sazeg3m0y8w07z6mjf4qzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yywq38gj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst2g0n8sdyhr97w9nvwdm6jaec4u0arxuauxmtw7cccen4nxmdewgh3tm74'>nevent1q…tm74</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>He often moves at relativistic speeds yes. Also drugs. 2025-05-21T13:59:18Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsx3kzaxat5xk0r2rmwxzv8f5ysmxz8az8g6cejnc2r6chams7vm3gzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yygdaz0s My nephew (who is 19) really likes to investigate and dig into various topics. He’ll regularly text me things like “how much do you know about the Ebionites in early Christianity?” or “have you heard of a book called Slaughterhouse Five?”<br/><br/>Anyway he just texted me this:<br/><br/>#BeOS #haiku<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.well.com/system/media_attachments/files/114/495/394/576/611/955/original/5225633c9e38e0a0.jpeg"> <br/> 2025-05-12T14:45:31Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsw5f4qxfukcq4efuz6vrhzfxc7h9d8lckkr7h2na3y629fcxkzfpczyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yytvrg9c “So this is Lost Ruins of Arnak. We’re archeologists investigating these lost ruins to gather artifacts. We gather idols and occasionally encounter guardians thereof, whom we kill.”<br/><br/>…are we the baddies?<br/><br/>“…yes.”<br/><br/>#boardGames<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.well.com/system/media_attachments/files/114/458/517/115/930/723/original/74b8180cd6503b87.jpeg"> <br/> 2025-05-06T02:27:04Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsp3vqn504m6yjvfy3s49fczjpsdfw7hddjttwwczrx2lxty6zptxczyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yytsmss8 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszskdlngy67qa86wyanf6r8p4rdtsduj248lcun2lhs504wwesg2gh0qmeu'>nevent1q…qmeu</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Does it support ANSI escape codes for insert/delete line/char? And change-scrolling-region? If so, and they’re efficient, that opens up a lot of possibilities. 2025-04-29T00:20:49Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsylsfnscezgccj2y3g8up7l7wajrwygd6ku6gh8a7kham8tcycecczyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yysk8d32 Can someone on #physics Fedi explain to me how, given Noether’s Theorem and the fact that in a curved spacetime, energy is not conserved…how does that work for mass-energy equivalence? Like, if energy is not conserved in a curved Universe, does that mean mass isn’t either? Or is this one of those situations where rest mass becomes really applicable?<br/><br/>Please explain this to me like I’m a goddamn idiot. Thank you. <br/><br/>#science 2025-04-25T12:22:48Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0xu7k6ffy6z87vehfg29vlvmlyjehjugndt5vz50ghp6flksgwxgzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yyd2ragg #Japanese<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.well.com/system/media_attachments/files/114/379/659/394/764/849/original/f97f8a569bdfd241.jpeg"> <br/> 2025-04-22T04:13:48Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdcpwj5f82jh2366jw5wu3yv86cnka8j2de8unsu60dr8whg9e38gzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yykuway8 The US is too big and too powerful to be completely destroyed by a single President, at least I hope so. <br/><br/>But we are now the Byzantine Empire, not the Roman Empire. We still call ourselves the same thing, a lot of people see us as the same thing, but our power and prestige is still fundamentally diminished and likely unrecoverable.<br/><br/>We’re still one of the big kids on campus, maybe the biggest, and maybe even for decades or centuries more…but things are different now and will be forever. 2025-04-10T21:52:37Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswj0afu0ry4d4lqa4z94hz233wjutha0d3r9xlukggx6hv2suae8gzyrvfp5g64yq9ezqdh7yz66r4z7zh4crzwg36x25wlepp05umd90yyryzrne So I’ve been using vi for over three decades now, and vim was often the flavor of vi being used. <br/><br/>I just noticed that when editing a compressed file in vim (e.g. vim foo.gz), the implicit decompression step is entered into the undo log. You can hit u right after file load and get the compressed binary data. <br/><br/>Huh. <br/><br/>#vim #vi #editors 2025-04-02T19:31:35Z