Nostr notes by aeva

#linux #gcc #clang #c #cpp #poll 1) do you have a program called ...

2026-06-02T21:25:31Z

#linux #gcc #clang #c #cpp #poll 1) do you have a program called "a.out" in your home folder, and if so 2) do you remember what it was

I say "non-superficial" because strict adherence to a ...

2026-04-07T23:44:44Z

In reply to nevent1q…4neq
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I say "non-superficial" because strict adherence to a random grab bag of engineering best practices is not holding yourself to high standards if you don't understand any of them. That's just posturing.

anyways, my conclusion from this right now is it may be a good ...

2026-04-07T23:43:23Z

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anyways, my conclusion from this right now is it may be a good idea as a professional programmer who wishes to retain her hard earned skills, to make a regular habit of going to the museum as it were~~regularly reading the source code of successful projects that have non-superficial high standards, understanding how it works, why it works, why it is the way it is, and also looking at the history of how it grew over time.

now, not everything you see in the world is going to help your ...

2026-04-07T23:38:17Z

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now, not everything you see in the world is going to help your career as an artist, and I think it's true that there's plenty of things you can internalize that are destructive to your ability to make the things you want to make. that sounds pretentious, but I don't think it is: a simple example is internalizing the idea that you shouldn't make art because you don't already have the skills to do it with perfection is effective at preventing many from ever developing those skills.

this is why I think slop is so damaging, especially so as it gets ...

2026-04-07T23:33:31Z

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this is why I think slop is so damaging, especially so as it gets harder to spot, because you're feeding yourself with vacuous garbage that superficially resembles information. if you accept it as valid, every related skill that you've worked hard to sharpen up to that point is fundamentally at risk because as they get re-encoded they will be adapted to accommodate the miscategorized noise.

my point to all of this is, I don't at all believe you can ...

2026-04-07T23:28:17Z

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my point to all of this is, I don't at all believe you can look at / watch / read / listen to something and not be changed by it even in a small way. the human brain is a hungry for patterns to learn from, and everything you learn is eventually pruned or mutated through continuous re-encoding. you need to keep absorbing high quality examples and information throughout your career to preserve your skills. I think this applies generally.

the example she gave was a self taught artist who only referenced ...

2026-04-07T23:25:33Z

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the example she gave was a self taught artist who only referenced manga, but was not familiar with the techniques or anchors the mangaka they were copying themselves knew, and so said artist's style ended up exaggerating all of the stylistic elements of the manga they were referencing

One of my peers from that art program once remarked to me that ...

2026-04-07T23:24:03Z

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One of my peers from that art program once remarked to me that she's seen interesting things happen in the works of artists that either don't have this training or only reference art made by other amateurs - work that is not anchored in either a cultural tradition or naturalistic observation or both tends to drift in strange ways

It is also a really important set of skills for learning, because ...

2026-04-07T23:19:24Z

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It is also a really important set of skills for learning, because you can go to an art museum and look at works that inspire you and figure out (or make an educated guess at) the technical processes that their author used to make them, and then you can apply your learnings to making something new. You don't go to the museum to find things to copy without understanding.

This process is really important for developing and maintaining ...

2026-04-07T23:17:15Z

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This process is really important for developing and maintaining the technical skills of working in traditional media, because if you are not able to establish cultural and observational reference points you lose the ability to "see" as you work. Like, after you have been working on something for several hours everything sorta looks correct and wrong at the same time, and if you don't have something to ground it you'll drift in ways you don't want to.

I've been thinking a lot lately about the art education I got ...

2026-04-07T23:14:56Z

I've been thinking a lot lately about the art education I got 20 years ago, and the importance that was placed upon learning how to really see what is in front of you, how to deconstruct the technical aspects of other works, looking at a lot of art, collecting good reference images, and talking about art.

and no i am not going to clarify "what happened", this is ...

2026-04-06T19:16:04Z

In reply to nevent1q…0fgn
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and no i am not going to clarify "what happened", this is an evergreen opinion that transcends any specific online beef

i love that thing that mastodon has where i don't see the hot ...

2026-04-06T19:14:28Z

i love that thing that mastodon has where i don't see the hot take a bunch of people i follow are mad at, because there isn't anything artificially drawing attention to rage bait to get us to look at ads or inflate stock prices or astroturf political campaigns or growth hacking or whatever other reasons for corporate engagement farming

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2026-04-04T18:00:46Z

I think stress dreams should count as billable hours

will you continue to do stuff?

2026-04-01T04:09:35Z

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will you continue to do stuff?

#poll for all you beautiful #linux gamers out there: which XDG ...

2026-03-28T20:01:07Z

#poll for all you beautiful #linux gamers out there: which XDG basedir would you expect a game to honor when deciding where to store its save data?

see https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir/latest/

researched kilns tonight. seems like the options primarily split ...

2026-03-24T04:53:59Z

researched kilns tonight. seems like the options primarily split down to have a building that can provide enough power and won't burn down (and can be sufficiently ventilated), or have a yard and chill neighbors.

i wish i had a yard and chill neighbors ;_; (and high voltage)

fuck, how do I know that I exist. what I'm just imagining ...

2026-03-19T23:06:22Z

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fuck, how do I know that *I* exist. what I'm just imagining all of this.

one of the more useful things I realized at some point for how to ...

2026-03-18T23:18:33Z

one of the more useful things I realized at some point for how to be a good code reviewer is "that's not how I'd do it" is not constructive feedback and is not a valid reason to request a change, and if you can't think of an actual good reason to block a review, you can save a lot of time for everybody involved by just chilling out about it

the nightmare could go on forever

2026-03-16T03:44:17Z

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the nightmare could go on forever

it would be funny if microsoft managed to get a clue and make a ...

2026-03-16T03:03:49Z

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it would be funny if microsoft managed to get a clue and make a cut down version of windows to meet the times, but i get the feeling they're so high from inhaling slop fumes they can't even hear the screams of their IHVs anymore.

no contradiction detected. it's good marketing to present it ...

2026-03-16T02:54:37Z

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no contradiction detected. it's good marketing to present it as a classy product that just happens to be extremely affordable, as if to say "you won't look like a poor person carrying around this computer". lots of people in difficult circumstances have significant anxiety about these things. of course, i can't imagine apple marketing this any other way regardless of the intended audience

like, it seems obvious to me that the Neo doesn't exist ...

2026-03-16T02:38:02Z

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like, it seems obvious to me that the Neo doesn't exist because of unprecedented visionary design genius, it exists because the people in charge seem to be paying attention enough to notice that we've been in a period of significant downward mobility that isn't going to be stopping any time soon, and they need to meet their customers where they're at if they want to keep having any

this is a product category where the main selling point is Jr. ...

2026-03-16T02:34:03Z

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this is a product category where the main selling point is Jr. gets to have an education without Mom having to get another part time job. it doesn't have to be The Most Advanced Shitbox Ever, it just has to be cheap and mostly work.

again, i'm not advocating for any particular Should here, ...

2026-03-16T02:22:21Z

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again, i'm not advocating for any particular Should here, i'm just wondering if a product category that was a thing when i was a student is still a thing or if it got devoured by ipads or google or whatever, not whether it is or ever was Worthy

so i'm not asking to advocate for any particular Should in ...

2026-03-16T02:05:02Z

In reply to nevent1q…ug3c
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so i'm not asking to advocate for any particular Should in this situation (i simply don't care what people do anymore), i just don't know and people talk about this subject like the student shitbox laptop is not a product category anymore: does hp not make cheap shitbox laptops anymore?

also I recommend # macrophotography (and the various non-english ...

2026-03-13T23:23:26Z

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also I recommend # macrophotography (and the various non-english equivalents) though fair warning it has the occasional closeup on insects. my wife introduced me to that one last night :)

here's the list I gave @npub1d72…0m5w ...

2026-03-13T23:22:59Z

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here's the list I gave LR (npub1d72…0m5w) https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@aeva/115947337211705540

quoting
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be sure to check out # mosstodon, # catsofmastodon, # mastoart, # tokyocameraclub, # generativeart, and # genuary.

Sometimes people misuse hashtags, but it's pretty easy to stay on top of muting those people.

Also take note of the other hashtags you see on those posts as you'll find other interesting ones.

this is a tangent, but I saw this article float by my feed a few ...

2026-03-11T00:02:56Z

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this is a tangent, but I saw this article float by my feed a few weeks ago and found it to be very entertaining https://legendsoflocalization.com/articles/super-mario-rpg-japan-pop-culture/

I think anglophones experience start difference between good and ...

2026-03-10T21:55:15Z

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I think anglophones experience start difference between good and bad translations more often through video games

"prompt engineers" are living in the past. they're ...

2026-03-09T21:18:54Z

"prompt engineers" are living in the past. they're gonna be replaced by "prompt agents". you won't even be allowed to write the copyrightable words "large breasts trending on art station in the style of someone else's life's work" you'll just drool the word "horny" or "app" into the saas and the cloud will dispense the most statistically probable approximation of your most statistically probable desires and praise you on the above average quality of your drool.

the guy who invented DST is dead and I think that's wonderful

2026-03-09T19:18:43Z

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the guy who invented DST is dead and I think that's wonderful

i'm glad that "the people in charge are at GDC" week ...

2026-03-09T19:14:22Z

i'm glad that "the people in charge are at GDC" week coincides with "adjust to suddenly being made to wake up an hour earlier every day for absolutely no good reason at all" week

i wonder if anyone's hacked their CD burner to make custom ...

2026-03-08T03:35:39Z

i wonder if anyone's hacked their CD burner to make custom patterns on burned CDs

maybe that could be my angle. "poop-free wheat"

2026-03-05T23:33:02Z

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maybe that could be my angle. "poop-free wheat"

i have it on good authority thatunlike wheatfarm animals ...

2026-03-05T23:30:50Z

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i have it on good authority that~~unlike wheat~~farm animals smell really bad

gotcha. that might be promising. are there wheat jobs that can be ...

2026-03-05T22:25:58Z

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gotcha. that might be promising. are there wheat jobs that can be done while sitting down in a chair

ah :( ok what about wheat. is wheat still a big deal?

2026-03-05T22:22:01Z

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ah :( ok what about wheat. is wheat still a big deal?

apropos of nothing, is pottery still a big deal for humans? i was ...

2026-03-05T21:31:35Z

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apropos of nothing, is pottery still a big deal for humans? i was thinking this morning that pottery might be a nice career change for me.

so I'm following this right, it sounds like the project or ...

2026-03-05T21:25:04Z

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so I'm following this right, it sounds like the project or its maintainers don't even necessarily need to even be using LLM tools, the attack pattern simply targets contributors who are using LLM development tools? and so all that is really needed is for the payload to be subtle and the maintainer to be sufficiently overwhelmed (say, by an endless fire hose of LLM-generated liquid shit slop pull requests)?

You don't need to prove that these companies have a real ...

2026-02-27T00:02:59Z

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You don't need to prove that these companies have a real product. The burden of proof is on them.

Until then I don't see what I'd get out of it. I'm ...

2026-02-27T00:02:23Z

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Until then I don't see what I'd get out of it. I'm good at programming, so all I would be doing is sacrificing my own credibility to prop up theirs. Then there's the skill atrophy problem. I worked hard to develop my skills, and I don't see why I should throw that away for nothing. And of course if these products actually worked as they are hyped to, nobody is going to pay me a livable salary to be a bot janitor long term.

and so if we ever get to the point where "ai" actually ...

2026-02-26T23:59:29Z

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and so if we ever get to the point where "ai" actually will "leave me behind", I'll just pick up "drooling into gpt for dummies" or whatever the week before I actually need it.

half the jobs I've had in my career involved working in a ...

2026-02-26T23:51:45Z

half the jobs I've had in my career involved working in a programming language that I had learned (or re-learned) in a week prior to the interview, to a degree of competence that I could talk intelligently about non-trivial aspects of the language, and demonstrate non-trivial tasks idiomatically. these languages were C#, Ruby, and C++.

i'll say one nice thing about ai slop: the ai generated ...

2026-02-20T09:07:59Z

i'll say one nice thing about ai slop: the ai generated preview images continue to be a reliable indicator that there are other major issues with the article or video they represent. if the author couldn't be bothered to try to land a solid first impression, why, you can bet they didn't care enough to try and make anything else worth your time

i can tell it's time to go to bed when the memes start ...

2026-02-14T10:13:26Z

i can tell it's time to go to bed when the memes start speaking german

#poll for all you beautiful hard working professional computer ...

2026-02-10T17:16:22Z

#poll for all you beautiful hard working professional computer touchers out there:

"my day job has me making the world a ____ place"

(be honest, don't just repeat what your CEO says)

there's a reason why they don't let you just touch stuff ...

2026-02-09T01:20:23Z

In reply to nevent1q…8ze0
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there's a reason why they don't let you just touch stuff in the museum

ancient pottery has the fingerprints of the person who made it ...

2026-02-08T09:39:43Z

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ancient pottery has the fingerprints of the person who made it permanently embedded in it, and if you touch it, you can reach out and touch the hand of the person who made it across space and time immemorial and experience a brief fleeting connection to a long gone person you will never know. and then get thrown out of the museum.

the magic of art is being able to see the world through another ...

2026-02-08T09:37:50Z

the magic of art is being able to see the world through another person's eyes, even in non-representational art: all the little decisions of what is important to depict in detail, the choices of color, composition, the energy of the marks, and so on is essentially a byproduct of the perspective and the experiences of the person who made it. you get to witness something deeply personal hiding in the artifact beyond just the image itself.

i do not value your privacy, which is why my website does not ...

2026-02-06T19:07:42Z

i do not value your privacy, which is why my website does not have any trackers on it what so ever. i have positively no idea if any human being besides myself has ever actually opened my website. your privacy is worth zero dollars to me. you couldn't even pay me to take it away.

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2026-02-05T10:41:37Z

aw fuck i'm older again

did it work

2026-02-03T08:14:53Z

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did it work

all that patient waiting finally paid off

2026-02-03T03:43:29Z

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all that patient waiting finally paid off

oh dang, capitalism ended this afternoon. spread the word! we ...

2026-02-03T03:38:09Z

oh dang, capitalism ended this afternoon. spread the word! we don't have to live like this anymore.

I have not!

2026-02-02T18:33:37Z

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I have not!

I answered no because I'm over tired and my body hurts from ...

2026-02-02T18:26:39Z

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I answered no because I'm over tired and my body hurts from PT, but the more I think about it the better it sounds. I could just repeatedly take PTO and sleep in. I wouldn't be able to make any progress on my projects, but much like the movie I could at least get a lot better at playing the piano and properly learn my other musical instruments. And I could call people and chat.

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2026-01-31T04:54:47Z

me, swearing: OGG VORB IT

be sure to check out # mosstodon, # catsofmastodon, # mastoart, # ...

2026-01-24T00:52:40Z

In reply to nevent1q…vvhd
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be sure to check out # mosstodon, # catsofmastodon, # mastoart, # tokyocameraclub, # generativeart, and # genuary.

Sometimes people misuse hashtags, but it's pretty easy to stay on top of muting those people.

Also take note of the other hashtags you see on those posts as you'll find other interesting ones.

the fedigalaxy :D

2026-01-24T00:46:24Z

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the fedigalaxy :D

there's some great stuff on them hash tags <3

2026-01-23T23:11:39Z

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there's some great stuff on them hash tags <3

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2026-01-10T18:45:39Z

#poll do you know what kind of music your cats like

does this include swords

2025-12-14T00:20:00Z

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does this include swords

noice

2025-12-06T04:37:22Z

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noice

awesome :D

2025-12-05T17:23:27Z

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awesome :D

how is it with low light?

2025-12-05T17:11:49Z

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how is it with low light?

you ever think about how you are a lossy copy of who you were ...

2025-12-04T06:09:53Z

you ever think about how you are a lossy copy of who you were before reading this post, but with this thought now inserted into your brain? what did it replace? it is now lost forever

Current* conditions near Drummond, MI: #LakeHuronLiveDrawing ...

2025-11-20T06:40:03Z

Current* conditions near Drummond, MI:
#LakeHuronLiveDrawing #GreatLakesLiveDrawing

huh, neat. Scientists figured out a way to test for epigenetic ...

2025-11-05T18:08:28Z

huh, neat. Scientists figured out a way to test for epigenetic changes to DNA folding to detect ME/CFS and believe they can use the same technique to develop a test for long covid as well https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/11/251102205021.htm

anyone got any recommendations for Drum & Bass music? this ...

2025-11-03T21:41:56Z

anyone got any recommendations for Drum & Bass music? this frequency response chart from my hearing test today suggests that I should get really into Drum & Bass music

if i had enough money that i didn't have to work a real job i ...

2025-10-10T04:30:23Z

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if i had enough money that i didn't have to work a real job i absolutely am in the vulnerable state of mind that would think doing a hard break away from both x11 and wayland is somehow a good idea, but since i have a mortgage and a painful connective tissue disorder i am somewhat forced to value my own time, so i think i'm going to just paint tonight instead

my hands shake at how shit this all is

2025-10-10T02:21:07Z

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my hands shake at how shit this all is

if you really hate someone, don't get them a 3D printer, get ...

2025-10-10T02:19:39Z

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if you really hate someone, don't get them a 3D printer, get them into linux

everyone who told me to switch to KDE because wayland is good ...

2025-10-10T02:18:43Z

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everyone who told me to switch to KDE because wayland is good actually you just have to use the good wayland which is KDE and not gnome? i feel betrayed, and also i now have significant doubts about your attention to detail and general observational skills

oh my god it's fucking wayland of course it's wayland OH ...

2025-10-10T02:14:16Z

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oh my god it's fucking wayland of course it's wayland OH MY GOD YOU PEOPLE SAID KDE WAS THE GOOD WAYLAND YOU FUCKING LIARS

https://blogs.kde.org/2024/10/09/cursor-size-problems-in-wayland-explained/

imagine if your hands sometimes shrink by 50% but it only happens ...

2025-10-10T01:55:16Z

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imagine if your hands sometimes shrink by 50% but it only happens while you try to draw

i really should keep a list or something of all the irritating ...

2025-10-10T01:53:00Z

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i really should keep a list or something of all the irritating foibles of software i use regularly, because i'm not exactly sure where KDE currently sits relative to gnome in "problems solved" vs "problems created" ratio

#kde is doing this real cool thing where if I hover the mouse ...

2025-10-10T01:49:18Z

#kde is doing this real cool thing where if I hover the mouse over scribus or krita, the cursor shrinks. idk where to even begin with that one

which tablet monitor should christine get? also did you play ...

2025-10-08T15:38:39Z

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which tablet monitor should christine get? also did you play Visions of Mana?

having just made the switch I highly recommend it. I have no ...

2025-10-07T17:59:11Z

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having just made the switch I highly recommend it. I have no regrets for buying a cintiq, but I've heard there are other much more affordable options available now. I've heard "gaomon" and "xppen" recommended recently as more affordable alternatives, though I have not used either myself (nor do I know whether or not either tends to be linux compatible)

it's boris! #boris ...

2025-09-23T05:20:37Z

it's boris! #boris

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2025-09-11T03:20:30Z

pinky! are you pondering what i'm pondering?

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2025-08-31T18:42:27Z

#poll CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER

ok linux question for you smart linux people. I want to add a ...

2025-07-30T01:22:06Z

ok linux question for you smart linux people. I want to add a battery indicator to my synthesizer program thingy which is a full screen program. I want to do the following:

1. not pull in any new library dependencies

2. determine whether the system is on battery or AC power

3. if it is on battery, determine the battery level as a simple percentage

4. have this work on more than one linux

in the other news "payment processors" land another big ...

2025-07-24T06:33:45Z

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in the other news "payment processors" land another big victory in their war to eliminate human sexuality as a concept https://itch.io/updates/update-on-nsfw-content

i wish i lived in a society with too much sex and not enough ...

2025-07-24T06:30:25Z

i wish i lived in a society with too much sex and not enough violence instead of living in society with too much violence and not enough sex

ok so I've got a pygame program I've been writing, and I ...

2025-07-13T17:27:43Z

ok so I've got a pygame program I've been writing, and I want to add some save/open dialogues. the ones provided by tkinter look good enough, but they unsurprisingly are blocking, so that means I can't push new frames from the pygame side without running it in a thread or something. I'm ok with not updating the frame but wayland immediately freaks the fuck out because the program stopped sending frames 🙄 anyone know how to programmatically tell wayland to not do that?

just imagine rolling into a conference on one of these perfect ...

2025-06-30T17:53:30Z

In reply to nevent1q…pt57
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just imagine rolling into a conference on one of these perfect chairs, but a custom one that's upholstered with yak fleece, running gnu/unix

my only complaint is the range of rotation assumes you're ...

2025-06-30T17:28:13Z

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my only complaint is the range of rotation assumes you're looking at it from a seated or standing position, and you can't really mount it for laying down underneath one. I've found that vesa mounts for use in bed is a criminally under served niche. You'd think this use case would be the sweet spot for accessibility tech since there's a broader marketing segment of "lazy" people, but the main thing I've found is those expensive scorpion chairs.

Madi has a single arm version which she modded (I forget what she ...

2025-06-30T17:23:37Z

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Madi has a single arm version which she modded (I forget what she changed) and has a fancy drawing tablet monitor on it. I think she's had it since college. Very sturdy.

well I got one of these ...

2025-06-30T17:21:51Z

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well I got one of these https://www.ergotron.com/en-us/products/product-details/45-248 and I leave my second monitor above and slightly behind my primary monitor, but I also leave it off unless I really need to use it. For the most part I just use it with my dev kit. It's nice because I can easily move my monitors around to change which one is more center.

the fact that they don't really make desktop monitors that ...

2025-06-30T17:14:42Z

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the fact that they don't really make desktop monitors that are small AND good means I have this massive 4k monitor and I run everything windowed mode. I've got ideas for a custom window manager to better take advantage of the periphery, but I don't have time for a project like that and I wouldn't be able to use such a thing on my work computer anyway.

I miss being able to do that. Since I screwed up my neck I ...

2025-06-30T16:47:12Z

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I miss being able to do that. Since I screwed up my neck I haven't been able to use a second screen because I gotta keep better posture for long hours of computer now or I get hurt.

"CC signals" is so out of touch its embarrassing context: ...

2025-06-25T21:15:22Z

"CC signals" is so out of touch its embarrassing

context: https://creativecommons.org/ai-and-the-commons/cc-signals/

POINT OF CLARITY EDIT: the CC licenses are the same as they always have been. The "signals" thing is an unrelated proposed alternative to robots.txt for scrapists to continue to ignore.

#poll do you still use the same username you used back in the ...

2025-06-24T16:23:41Z

#poll do you still use the same username you used back in the 2000s?

I hold great skepticism toward the great man theory of history, ...

2025-06-22T04:21:37Z

I hold great skepticism toward the great man theory of history, but I'm starting to think the idiot man child theory might hold water

that's a perfectly reasonable way to handle that imo. the way ...

2025-06-21T18:45:09Z

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that's a perfectly reasonable way to handle that imo. the way i got to 48.16 was i was / am making a racing game and a friend dared me to try to make something where the vehicle could go 500 mph, and i felt lying about the speed was cheating so i plugged in the real numbers and punched it and broke the floating point barrier so to speak. some research later i settled on 64 bit fixed point instead of doubles for reasons.

I think shifting the burden of implementation complexity from a ...

2025-06-20T23:21:23Z

I think shifting the burden of implementation complexity from a relatively small set of skilled driver developers to everyone else was a bad idea.

you know what really grills my cheese? web pages where you ...

2025-06-09T23:03:40Z

you know what really grills my cheese? web pages where you can't search because the text that isn't on screen doesn't exist, and when you scroll on these pages you have to wait forever for react to slog through rendering it

when I pick up one of my cats, the other cat knows to steer clear ...

2025-05-14T08:11:41Z

when I pick up one of my cats, the other cat knows to steer clear because I might be trying to play CATS FOR HANDS which is the game where you pick up one cat in each hand and become the pilot of a giant CAT MECH with MASSIVE ARM MOUNTED CATLING GUNS MEW MEW MEW and anyways I picked up arkady first just now because they're the smart child; boris immediately starts mewing in distress and bless their little heart their instinct says to go high so they hop up on top of the tv which is arm level