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2026-07-05 17:46:53 UTC

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gain knowledge for the sake of gaining knowledge
learn skills for the sake of learning skills
create things for the sake of creating things
live for the sake of living

2026-07-05 17:42:19 UTC

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people are pressured to do well in school so they can study, then they're pressured to pursue a degree so they can qualify to do certain jobs that pay better than “unskilled” jobs, which translates to being able to live a better life
the degrees they pursue tend to be those with the best career chances, not the ones they might be passionate about
at no point are they incentivised to learn for the sake of learning or appreciate the joy of it

2026-07-05 17:31:22 UTC

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really society went wrong all the way back when it attached socioeconomic status to knowledge and skills, then decided you need to acquire them in a specific way that is fundamentally inaccessible for a lot of us, then paywalled all of it

2026-07-05 17:22:25 UTC

on one hand, genai gives us autodidacts a lot of arguments to shut up people (especially germans) who want us to have a Real Official University Degree to be able to work, and also our own imposter syndrome
on the other hand, holy shit this is gonna be *bad* in so many ways

2026-06-22 10:50:39 UTC

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yea, because you generally use sourdough for that instead of yeast

2026-06-21 21:01:40 UTC

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note to self: don't spontaneously replace half the wheat flour in your recipe with rye
rye flour can't contribute any gluten, at least not if the dough is leavened with yeast
i even *knew* that, just didn't think about it when i was making the dough

2026-06-21 20:55:29 UTC

that was a mess :flopcat:
but it was a homemade, delicious mess~
https://mk.catgirlsfor.science/files/webpublic-3c9b4a96-2aae-4bef-a7d3-194158c45451.webp

2026-06-19 13:58:10 UTC

the annual panic of “where the fuck do i keep my meds when i'm not supposed to store them over 25 °C but not in the fridge either and i don't have a cellar or something”

2026-05-09 20:01:44 UTC

ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_ACTIVATE_CARGO_MOMMY_YIKES_MODE

2026-05-04 12:08:29 UTC

thesis: the amount of assholes doing videocalls and playing tiktoks on their shitty phone speakers correlates with the elimination of headphone jacks on phones

2026-04-15 21:37:29 UTC

“let's spend two days trying to automate the (hopefully) one-time setup of this single server, instead of spending half an hour partitioning and installing it by hand” – your brain on nixos

2026-04-12 18:01:26 UTC

> when creating a zpool it's important to set the `ashift` correctly. it should be set to the `log2` of the physical sector size, which can be queried with `lsblk -o +phy-sec`.
ok cool, the sector size of these SSDs is 512 bytes so i should set the `ashift` to 9 i guess
> also, SSDs often lie about their sector size for compatibility reasons. their sector size is usually 4096 or even 8192 bytes.
okay and HOW THE FUCK DO I FIND THAT OUT? :nkoAngry:

2026-03-20 00:52:14 UTC

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PTFE is fine for temperature controlled cooking methods tbh. a rice cooker shuts off around 100°C, an airfryer might reach 220, but PTFE doesn't degrade until somewhere beyond 250.
also good luck finding these devices *without* coating lol. most of my regular cookware is in fact stainless steel.
i don't own any ceramic cookware myself, but cooking in an unglazed, soaked ceramic pot [is actually pretty widespread](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_pot_cooking)

2026-03-19 23:59:14 UTC

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ethyl acetate might work too, and it's easy to find with reasonable purity, being a major part of nail polish remover
it might attack PTFE though

2026-03-19 23:31:40 UTC

wondering whether using acetone or isopropanol to clean sticky polymerised fat off cookware is a very good or very very bad idea…
i can imagine toxic impurities being a problem, especially if you get your solvents from the hardware store or cleaning supplies shop; but you can get them in food-safe/pharmaceutical-grade varieties too
i can imagine acetone destroying PTFE coatings, since PTFE itself is a polymer, but i don't have any PTFE cookware except my airfryer and rice cooker
what about other materials? stainless steel shouldn't be a problem. neither should glass, which includes emamel coatings. raw ceramic and cast iron might be a problem since they're porous, but then again, these solvents evaporate pretty quickly.

2026-03-16 23:01:41 UTC

duckduckfedi recommend me *some* invoicing software that supports zugferd/factur-x and works out of the box in nixos
(gnucash doesn't do the former, fakturama and similar stuff doesn't do the latter)
(if you're about to recommend something with tex/typst: how the fuck do i set up a devshell with that?)

2026-03-04 23:52:29 UTC

it's frustrating to see all the bullshit added to firefox all the time
and it's frustrating to see firefox bugs that have been open for 20 years
but viewed side by side this stark contrast is just infuriating

2026-03-01 12:33:26 UTC

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even if it did, it wouldn't start a fire as long as there is enough water. water takes a tremendous amount of energy to heat, let alone evaporate; a 100 Wh battery in 1 ℓ of water might bring it to a boil, depending on how warm the water was to start with, but not much further. buckets typically are much larger than that, and most lipo batteries in electronics are smaller.

2026-03-01 10:30:50 UTC

[puts on pedantry glasses] ackshually lithium (polymer) batteries don't cause lithium (metal) fires, since they contain lithium ions, not metallic lithium. a lipo battery fire can be extinguished with a standard class A extinguisher, whereas you'd need a class D one for an actual metal fire.
(single use [lithium batteries](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_metal_battery), on the other hand, *do* contain metallic lithium)

2026-02-07 17:15:08 UTC

two kinds of nix users:
- gay poly trans therian
- the worst dude you've ever heard of

2026-02-05 02:00:17 UTC

why does online shopping and shipping suck so incredibly hard lately

2025-11-18 22:17:03 UTC

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yes the tech exists
no it's not being used for cool shit like this, it's being used to force mentally ill people to take medication
look up “abilify mycite” if you can stomach it and the brand name doesn't already make you throw up

2025-11-18 22:08:54 UTC

swallowing a small pill containing a PCB and sensors that monitor your gut health and allow you to access the results via SSH:
server administration

2025-10-04 22:59:29 UTC

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not too much, most services i use daily are hosted in europe
with youtube and steam gone i'd need to look for other sources of entertainment, such as my huge backlog of books and webcomics (the ones that aren't hosted on stuff like webtoons, anyway). steam would obviously suck a bit, considering how much money i've given them over the years. bandcamp would be gone too but i've downloaded all my purchases. github being gone wouldn't affect me personally but would likely cause the mother of all 0days, because so many projects would suddenly be unable to release any security updates. losing signal would be pretty inconvenient. losing rsync.net would be a bit scary until i find another place to dump my offsite backups.
other than that i'd be fine i think

2025-10-04 21:56:01 UTC

can it print on anything other than kitchen towels
#note1exf…chdg

2025-09-19 12:55:53 UTC

girl who is learning lockpicking by locking her chastity belt with ever more secure padlocks she doesn't have the key/combination for

2025-09-09 21:38:38 UTC

i do wish programmable refillable implants that can inject any meds you want and monitor your blood levels were a thing
you wouldn't forget taking your HRT anymore and then wonder why you're suddenly depressed
you could have your ADHD meds continuously administrated, starting after you wake up. or after you had breakfast, which the implant can tell by looking at your insulin/glucose levels. and stop x hours before you want to sleep. or after you went to sleep, if you're the type that can sleep better on stims

2025-09-09 21:25:24 UTC

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reducing disk i/o is probably a good start, for instance by [relocating hot data to a ramdisk](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Anything-sync-daemon), especially [browser data](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Profile-sync-daemon). see also the rest of the advice on https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Improving_performance#Reduce_disk_reads/writes. a ram upgrade is always a good idea too, since it allows the kernel to swap less and keep more data cached

2025-08-21 21:04:58 UTC

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remember when pleroma really really wanted to implement polls, but couldn't, because mastodon was going to implement them and there was no fucking way they would look at preëxisting implementations?

2025-08-21 21:02:47 UTC

finally, mastodon has implemented quoteposts!
…in a way that is *absolutely incompatible with how everyone else does it* :blobcattableflip:

2025-08-20 19:19:54 UTC

wow this language is *incredibly* efficient to swear in
https://mk.catgirlsfor.science/files/db451c2b-3f5f-460b-a7b4-519ee3c4c8f4.png

2025-08-16 19:37:04 UTC

what's this new bullshit with youtube videos changing title and thumbnail all the time :blobcattableflip:
(yes i know what it is, youtube offering A/B/… engagement testing to creators and invidious/yt-dlp getting different versions all the time)
((it still fucking sucks))

2025-08-14 03:20:26 UTC

watching old citation needed episodes and they're talking about radioactive quackery and briefly mentioned homeopathy
anyway that's how i found radioactive homeopathy is a thing that exists :02notlikethis:

2025-08-10 23:14:56 UTC

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wasn't there some court ruling that european standards, at least, must be available for free?

2025-08-10 23:09:30 UTC

where libgen/scihub but for standards?

2025-06-25 23:25:39 UTC

turns out all it took for me to enjoy super metroid is [a romhack that fixes *a lot* of its janky controls](https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/4963/) :comfygamer:

2025-05-24 11:11:48 UTC

there was (is?) this tradition of leaving a book in the train or café or whatever, so that someone else could find and read it, and they too would leave it somewhere once they were done with it. these books would have a note inside explaining the entire concept, maybe even some website to track the book's journey
anyone know what that's called and where to find more about it?

2025-05-11 21:58:27 UTC

electronic engineers: you see, an electric circuit works a lot like a hydraulic one, voltage and current are just like pressure and flow rate
hydraulic engineers: you see, a hydraulic circuit works a lot like an electric one, pressure and flow rate are just like voltage and current

2025-04-27 01:29:32 UTC

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WHY DOES MY TERMINAL TELL ME I SEEM FRUSTRATED THAT'S FUCKING CREEPY

2025-04-26 23:26:11 UTC

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“to access anything on a luks/lvm/{btr,z,...}fs disk you have to run a linux VM and expose the filesystem via sshfs”
:blobcattableflip:

2025-04-26 23:24:19 UTC

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“to build the live ISO you have to run linux in a VM”
:02notlikethis:

2025-04-26 20:39:12 UTC

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“to install linux you first have to remaster the live ISO since you need unfree drivers to be able to use the keyboard”—statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged

2025-04-25 14:24:31 UTC

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i shouldn't have to go to stackexchange to figure out how to make a fucking keyboard shortcut to launch a terminal

2025-04-25 13:56:48 UTC

i've been lent a macbook while i have my own laptop repaired, it's my first time using macos, and
wow :nkoamazed:
this is fucking _frustrating_

2025-03-07 23:51:47 UTC

rust:
• has an ecosystem where many famous parts are named with a [metal](https://crates.io/crates/iron) or [decay](https://github.com/jameysharp/corrode) or industrial/engineering [(1)](https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/cargo/) [(2)](https://diesel.rs/) [(3)](https://github.com/Smithay) [(4)](https://rocket.rs) theme
• has a mascot whose name is a pun on “ferrous”
• has a bicycle gear for a logo
also rust: ackshually it's named after [these fungi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_(fungus))

2025-02-05 21:45:00 UTC

is it really an archive when you can't get anything out of it though :neocat_think:

2025-01-28 22:01:46 UTC

want touch :blobcatneedhug:

2024-12-27 09:42:43 UTC

i got hit by a truck and woke up in northern hamburg :neocat_scream_scared:
https://mk.catgirlsfor.science/files/webpublic-a3bf41e5-75b7-46cb-bbcd-705a89fc6b94

2024-10-30 22:10:30 UTC

#note16qz…eyez

2024-08-29 16:39:10 UTC

also “are you hacking something?” when you have a terminal/editor open

2024-08-29 15:52:45 UTC

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i want more railways to get built right besides a busy motorway
or ideally *inside* a motorway, taking two lanes away from it

2024-08-29 15:43:31 UTC

always satisfying to sit in a train zooming past traffic jams :comfy:

2024-08-29 08:41:58 UTC

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(TL;DR: a new PrEP medication was trialled which can be administered as an injection twice a year, instead of a daily pill, and it had *100 percent efficacy*)

2024-08-29 08:35:14 UTC

randomly stumbled upon this :nkoWhaaaa: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhiv/article/PIIS2352-3018(24)00217-0/fulltext