2026-07-28T13:05:54Z https://nostr.ae Patch Arcana https://nostr.ae/npub1vnzk9s963d898c0uzqgnz3zwdwasc2cxkktt6y5f6rrh08qk0hlqzvj9ar https://furry.engineer/system/accounts/avatars/109/342/471/518/579/313/original/aa3149957d103bfa.jpg https://furry.engineer/system/accounts/avatars/109/342/471/518/579/313/original/aa3149957d103bfa.jpg https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs0luucazc4zjauk2psaz6gh67sjfz5kqlr9ec3gwlsqhpwrh2zn8qzypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lu3gt6a4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgghsl8lthe60nqzh2n6xgfed86wmunkrwk83qcfx0ac95ez728nse27vmj'>nevent1q…7vmj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>And while I&#39;m busy doing *that exact thing*:<br/><br/>Yeah, getting treatment is a real pain in the tuckus here too. 2026-06-08T22:03:47Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsvurreps9g6nawssn3hx86tk543c4kemtf0ygxnjvevk0uluuxq3gzypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lu3p4lsh Concerned about having your chance to meet with people yanked out from under you by a social media ban?<br/><br/>Get your personal website up and join some webrings.<br/><br/>You will never regret a 1990s-style button exchange. 2026-06-08T20:49:48Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs2jgp50v6thmnxth72x3gxgvuql7lde8qndf2q8p26yj9a4xjj3wszypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7luhfmyjz In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx89zygh8l8udad39a7m9x3fhglktfscdfs7nngj0faxrtjt96pvqn6uvcq'>nevent1q…uvcq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Ah, yes. A good wizard should always study his classics.<br/><br/>Thanks! 2026-05-08T19:30:34Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsgcmgt0hn2fyamlyllar8atktc86vjxthvg9p8gsmhrnpl6zp6rngzypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lu9uzadj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgt0ms02p6s232sl9uwuswvjp54c0e4ju60rdvl43djtcmz6ff5xcwrypjj'>nevent1q…ypjj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Is the source for this somewhere? I&#39;ve been curious about dungeon gen algos for years but never looked hard into how they solve for completability. 2026-05-08T19:09:28Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsfuatql4lg6rcyaf3qlp425f8a6y7tnegj9nxldj4gcllelsszceqzypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lugunuyg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs98ewcreqxu28axhdeqqjvr9mm3u3zwgzh7xlmsy7lhumv9sy75aqumx9jg'>nevent1q…x9jg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I just keep getting hung up on the idea that it can&#39;t really be trusted to do anything without direct supervision, and if I&#39;m sitting that close to its shoulder why not just type the thing.<br/><br/>At least with a Junior Engineer someone is getting smarter. Not that us in our one-man-show labs/studios/hobby shops have any Junior Engineers going beggin&#39;.<br/><br/>On an unrelated topic, I am *horrible* to learn under. Working on it. 2026-05-04T23:47:03Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsy6e57nm0desl625sdr0l3jaymy5s6lw0nmrgr95w7ag8mav4ztrczypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lu4ftwfc In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsthwe9aqlsuen4c6hudecc8d86e02dsj5090twmm3wz2e52umyduswtstws'>nevent1q…stws</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;m not sure that it&#39;d *make me dumber* per se, especially for very limited use, but if it takes me all afternoon to figure out the right prompt or it takes me all afternoon to just do the work, what value was created for whom? 2026-05-04T23:41:28Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsyvham3mwf0f6us62v4mcv20lluysekr8uhm7tjsaqhqyref46lmgzypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7luwfdes7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs08j69eykfexqt6d7jfyulq97we7a60unlc0mfj9hgwg5r5z0v5vsykgkcd'>nevent1q…gkcd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Well, and even I, about as Anti as you can get without firebombing datacenters, spent a good chunk of this morning going &#34;You know, an LLM could probably at least speed up this very tedious conversion task I have to do&#34;.<br/><br/>But at the same time: how much of my brain do I want to give over to learning how to get the best out of a tool *I don&#39;t trust*? 2026-05-04T23:38:04Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsxyhrgwnuesdntdyzs5f7l0zx3an4zwk06sd5kl5katcg70cgldpgzypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lu4tptvr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsddfkk3t2wza25rr20l8a4wthgtu99mr39gauslf69m6cxz43sv6sfq0xcd'>nevent1q…0xcd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Normally when I&#39;ve thought about this problem in the past I&#39;ve thought in terms of formal correctness. Code generation or answering questions.<br/><br/>It&#39;s much easier to have that argument about LLMs because of the twin dangers of &#34;user may not know better than the LLM to catch the errors&#34; and &#34;humans are by and large not especially good at finding errors in unfamiliar stacks of right-seeming tokens&#34;. The cure to both problems is (a) don&#39;t use the damn thing but (b) if you absolutely must, don&#39;t use it to do anything you don&#39;t already know how to do extremely well.<br/><br/>And I&#39;m not sure that advice works in terms of prose! The users (authors who can&#39;t be arsed to *write* which is frankly the only *fun* part of the entire discipline so I really don&#39;t understand that mindset) aren&#39;t the consumers (readers) and I&#39;m not sure I&#39;m feeling bullish on the critical reading skills of most english speakers my age and younger. 2026-05-04T23:35:01Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsddfkk3t2wza25rr20l8a4wthgtu99mr39gauslf69m6cxz43sv6szypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lusly6fu In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxg6sp70wjvn77e4enn420mdg42wlygjrflypzev7hn7gc37f5apg646gnj'>nevent1q…6gnj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Anything else you could detect on, literally anything else; word frequencies, use of special characters, all the tells you hear trending every few weeks: not metrics of AI-generated writing.<br/><br/>Writing without soul, without the ability to follow its own internal logic, without character... that&#39;s the tell.<br/><br/>And no tool will ever dectect it because if it was detectable it&#39;d be part of the model! 2026-05-04T23:22:22Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsxg6sp70wjvn77e4enn420mdg42wlygjrflypzev7hn7gc37f5apgzypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7luhw7sjy Much as I hate to admit it no tool to detect LLM-generated texts will ever be truly useful for the same reason LLM-generated literature is an empty-shirt of an exercise:<br/><br/>The machine has no fucking *gnosis* and it&#39;s the missing-bit that gives that away, but you need it to SEE it. 2026-05-04T23:19:40Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs8f9vs79ch397g4smv8v3ecxews8cgfpuushp44tm2sdtcg3uh4uszypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lucz0y4u Hey, I know I know some game-dev folks:<br/><br/>What (other than giveafucks) stops someone from marking their game as &#34;proton compatible&#34; on steam?<br/><br/>Like what is the technical limitation that makes some games suited for it and others not?<br/><br/>Assume all processors are intel x86 architectures for the sake of simplicity. 2026-04-22T18:32:30Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsqny4hl0mx33wl4mpqus6eevrfyq2uf2rx43zh2uhx9zzcgfyyxsqzypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7luu2dtpf Repeat after me: there is absolutely no evidence to suggest human brains are state machines. 2026-04-21T21:00:55Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsfssw7u64gjjzkr528s7prvwwf9xms4t4f4mnlfyd7daz9fyzd5mqzypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lugy0xx6 I wonder if tape drive storage was error-hardy enough that you could broadcast the software over FM and just plug an FM tuner into the cartridge jack on some of those older computers that supported it. 2026-04-08T14:55:38Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsdqpya8kpr63gy53fhy6y46a3w5z3wj6mlay9q922lvdzgzsufmxqzypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7luhj4l2t My infosec conspiracy theory is that [@da_667](<a href="https://infosec.exchange/@da_667">https://infosec.exchange/@da_667</a> ) and Lazerpig are the same person.<br/><br/>This is a joke about tankfucking. 2026-04-07T16:15:24Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsx3hpyg7yddgujuvakppxrtzgyjk09eeavj9xxpvmqn9dypw39f3czypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lu8m73yg A friend of mine has coined some wrokplace butter:<br/><br/>&gt; A group of users is rheologically a fluid 2026-04-06T18:56:41Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9mz03yx688y2ycrfw4qa7y8fc6uy2eg6faqwp8gxj96xqwmceseszypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7luc5eyza In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs97ypzc5fm6jcd6a29u6en503w6rgstm50tn8jnu0p6wn6pk84eag8uptc0'>nevent1q…ptc0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>That&#39;s not to say you should never terraforming things I&#39;m just a big fan of &#34;put the fires out before you start building the new cabin&#34; as a general rule of work ordering. 2026-04-03T19:21:11Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs97ypzc5fm6jcd6a29u6en503w6rgstm50tn8jnu0p6wn6pk84eagzypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lusnmkss This is your reminder that any geoengineering technology with the potential to terraform a world could also be used to restore the equilibrium of this one. 2026-04-03T19:19:07Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsfp9f3qnfzvaa32vs08m4gxdmt8kyr38rpcjlvm7w2cm8swq58auczypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7luz8kqmn In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswafw5ddyc2sc7mv5wms4chef5ln7006u6ugqp7ywcg2hu3amw83sncwlkg'>nevent1q…wlkg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The part of me that can&#39;t get past the impulse to walk across your hood when you stop in the crosswalk *really* wants a punch-back solution like iocane or nepthenes though. 2026-03-25T21:32:06Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswafw5ddyc2sc7mv5wms4chef5ln7006u6ugqp7ywcg2hu3amw83szypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7luqlc0pk In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8f2kk5ff5a4s0pac4f5xkmpwa5wyedmayr8v4kh88u5xjl8m97tgphwvc3'>nevent1q…wvc3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I mean, I have an nginx revproxy in front of *everything* I could just create a rule that drops a lot of user agents and IP ranges.<br/><br/>That would solve the actual problem I have more efficiently than tarpitting (I&#39;m annoyed about bots being present, yes, on philosophical grounds, yes, but the problem&#39;s *urgency* comes from the load placed on the server) 2026-03-25T21:23:41Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs8f2kk5ff5a4s0pac4f5xkmpwa5wyedmayr8v4kh88u5xjl8m97tgzypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lusxrsfe I am aware of Nepthenes; what else are all y&#39;all using to protect your services from enshittification by trying to shed crawler load or make yourself unattractive to them or poison the dataset?<br/><br/>(If you&#39;re techish but not doing the above, consider boosting, though I suspect my general followers will have a preponderance of advice for me) 2026-03-25T20:47:04Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9t0w77ljy7ela04dses7lw70cr375dvljms3wu970g6f4y098swczypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lux2dsgx Of course he blinked, he&#39;s not just a moron he&#39;s a pussy besides. 2026-03-23T12:51:45Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsqw52d2lavqtgek3s38gr0prk9ru4wkadmm9mj9eudvulg4xxjejqzypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7luq0wz0f I can&#39;t decide if it&#39;s a sign of my own inadequacies as an engineer, the age of the technology, or what, but I just cannot stop myself from going a little cross-eyed whenever I try to make a change to my email stack 2026-03-10T13:45:40Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsxle2uya3rkserxx0fe6vj4q08kfl84tnnptgsg2jx3psm5z7z2zczypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7ludqpps4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszcnxrdc43vnzfwu3k7y9xnumw42yx46wwylm2c54quw78wd5hzcsz7p9yh'>nevent1q…p9yh</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Please, makers, I beg you: use the full stack of human technologies, not just the latest sexy toys.<br/><br/>In many disciplines, the good stuff is the oldest; the new stuff is just the fastest or cheapest. 2026-03-08T13:17:09Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszcnxrdc43vnzfwu3k7y9xnumw42yx46wwylm2c54quw78wd5hzcszypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lucc83kh In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxh54egwmuuc3mpmzvz97d5elkef6fmaswgpfpu2zr7ty2axsey3saefes3'>nevent1q…fes3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Any craft process that finds a way to involve modern graphics software, carbon paper, and a knapped stone surface gets my vote for &#34;good shit to know&#34; 2026-03-08T13:15:59Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsxh54egwmuuc3mpmzvz97d5elkef6fmaswgpfpu2zr7ty2axsey3szypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lu6pa6kp Ah. Denis.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvdBNTT3pqc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvdBNTT3pqc</a><br/><br/>Sometime in the summer when a gap finally opens up in the budget I&#39;ve gotta add him to my patreon set. 2026-03-08T13:11:36Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszrepjuwurwqmhmef9uw2f6r4ggnfhfqdhumdd8wtsffwvsknxx4qzypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lu9rkq3s In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsffcqs2zsaa28erh9kdh98wh0qhgqm8tjhq2nhf9leywhacrmuawcpwlrpj'>nevent1q…lrpj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&#34;Patch what the fuck is that&#34;<br/><br/>Man portable RC2014 rig with a headless Pi and no meaningful network connection unless this wire gets plugged into that router. 2026-03-05T02:05:10Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsffcqs2zsaa28erh9kdh98wh0qhgqm8tjhq2nhf9leywhacrmuawczypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7luazk43h Spear of Longinus but it just bricks the local NPU, blackholes traffic to the needful endpoints, and sets a few registry keys.<br/><br/>Starting to think I should have bought the freewrite instead of a laptop last year when I had the chance. 2026-03-05T02:02:47Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsfzdc9n8sgr5q0mwd6nq6l843war62ypsnzyxgakeqhd5tw4cl0cqzypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lulauc9k Where the hell did the domain block button go 2026-03-05T01:12:47Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsza4ytdnpqhpesujxea07cl6kvwr9mmumj685mjmtyzmrfnft2urszypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7luqh0hy7 Am I the only adult human who remembers the jucero 2026-03-05T00:25:45Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs0xg66r3ep9xd98r4pvg5uhwtl36z2e774wrxfy33fs53fu4fq0cszypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lux5xz93 Canadians making fun of Japanese houses for being built to basically survive one generation cracks me the hell up when you hold our gypsum-board-and-toothpick construction up against the brick-and-concrete of broad swathes of europe.<br/><br/>I dunno which housing strategy is more appropriate, but I do know a glass house rock toss competition when I see one. 2026-03-04T20:17:13Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqst4m3t7dkvmr602t5j6jfuwtynx8lqsrf3zuz8r0rhzhxf270vxvczypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7luqkleqc In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw3zu6ukakg79s0qnerl9zzm26chy07p84eplwscugt8r6fm6jp4cdc5psg'>nevent1q…5psg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Certainly nothing presently extant, which was absolutely the point of the post. 2026-03-03T20:28:25Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsqvcaupsaes3mxvh6zrl5utyuxdqa2cues2zhda9uxrle9t44pskgzypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7luex93u0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsr8cluvm5jvwerl8st8fllzetn23ess3cq4qgjjy2nvp3670kpssszg6xw3'>nevent1q…6xw3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I don&#39;t believe I said anything about purely digital sentience or biology functioning in a digital manner. 2026-03-03T20:16:37Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqstnzy2rm7hwn84yg2hsyejk4v7usln65xqn6tnh48jc8suw76fy4czypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7luzfgrhv In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsd9pm7malagr92sq8yu8yjwxevm7crax7qyv0r7345u3hmuupcvyghf2e2c'>nevent1q…2e2c</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Could a machine have Mind?<br/><br/>Sure. There&#39;s a few different product lines in earth&#39;s biosphere that all have Mind and they&#39;re just big piles of chaotically-assembled protein nanomachines.<br/><br/>But do *these* ones? No. That you would ask that demonstrates you don&#39;t understand the technologies you are attempting to use. 2026-03-03T15:00:34Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsd9pm7malagr92sq8yu8yjwxevm7crax7qyv0r7345u3hmuupcvygzypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lu6uze34 Boy it&#39;s weird to be alive right now as a person who believes a sentient program is probably possible and should be afforded personhood, but also that *none of this shit even comes close to qualifying*. 2026-03-03T14:59:13Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsyuxa4qqwv6h4pykx4t4ywqznh754heuhjmvkr509jnptpd3ghxpgzypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lu05q6yn In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstp6xshf4mwr7exn6zajscfgmjntlmp2wdyue62n3f3wmgs0c0dgq5jzl65'>nevent1q…zl65</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>not me reading this as I eat a late lunch of an instant ramen and a poached egg.<br/><br/>I gotta get my shit together 2026-03-01T17:43:34Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9aq2v7cs6ef9fjvh2keuufy070tv4zngegp58sfjuu0dmc5yzplszypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lu9ylktg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst5nfce93kp79ddzkazh4t7znknpj7889acklek05jfmlzg5dagrgt2er8z'>nevent1q…er8z</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Anyway it&#39;s super easy to game an LLM to give you a passing grade on just about any course if you&#39;ve ever had even a passing interest in rhetoric. I&#39;ve somehow convinced the company superbot that I, the SRE Department&#39;s Most Obstinate Soldier, am somehow a paragon of willingness.<br/><br/>Mostly by arguing with it for 20 minutes about what its definition of &#34;best effort&#34; is but still. 2026-02-27T18:26:46Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqst5nfce93kp79ddzkazh4t7znknpj7889acklek05jfmlzg5dagrgzypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lu65edrw Forced myself today to do some &#34;talk to the chatbot&#34; training exercises and the annoying takeaway from about an hour of that is &#34;Wow, I&#39;m a lot more polite to machines than I am to people&#34;.<br/><br/>I&#39;m not sure I like that. 2026-02-27T18:23:22Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9a5a7sr8mfvnv05zg09ygrmltcqfcfxlvstqkt9s87kq7yt58klqzypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lus26s70 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstydnzjmu4upjeu4xs22yhyf9tq5darejy0t9yd7z65vnx0g09kpsw5kjux'>nevent1q…kjux</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>*holds up a soviet style illustration of a librarian/* This person is your comrade. They fight for you. 2026-02-26T23:43:26Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqspp745d6d7k4pp495e6ynyqrlzgp24kztjwtfegfkhk4peqkuvn4qzypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lulzll5z Hear me out, but Generative AI has created boundless opportunity in FOSS spaces by creating chances to start over solved problems from a &#34;without all that pesky AI&#34; perspective.<br/><br/>But nowhere is this truer than replacing the application Libby, which is ebook lending software used by libraries all over the damn planet.<br/><br/>Libraries. With Librarians. Who by and large seem even more decided against Generative AI than *the fucking fediverse is*.<br/><br/>The first person to get a clean version of alt-Libby onto app stores everywhere and in front of library boards is going to make a very reasonable living for themselves and many additional colleagues. 2026-02-26T20:49:58Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsfpt9cmxp25pnjyrcw93fy0fxf6ra8gua0nsjsmc0ky2fwv0a2juqzypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lu86ww4c In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsr588r7hz3acc5jyjal4wjf9xmuhcmsmpqanq7mc033jvst7005wgynvcw8'>nevent1q…vcw8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>By changing the display manager aren&#39;t I also changing the whole desktop at once or have I missed something about OS components here? 2026-02-22T17:57:00Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszvtjcdjj7fxa6tjuu78dp46hf45rcatwd4eg7944ynds4q5msklqzypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lul22fl2 I don&#39;t know if it&#39;s even possible without replacing your whole desktop environment, but I absolutely hate the login screen that comes with Ubuntu out of the box and need to figure out how to change it.<br/><br/>So many bullshit default behaviours baked in. 2026-02-22T17:54:10Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszqefyt5wsacjsukkmsfxtl8d4e6hujk2cnq7t5mxgchf9409ay3szypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7luak547a Ooh yay Anhedonia my favourite fucking symptom.<br/><br/>Someone send garlic fingers and donair. 2026-02-21T19:29:05Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswj07lzhz4hwkau43mdwvhhuajl455f8ky8wlptclx5djf4m5fuzszypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lu0amsj5 Reminder, since I had to be shown a thing: the moderate position on Trans and Queer Rights is that they are human rights and not up for debate.<br/><br/>That&#39;s the *middle path* on that topic. 2026-02-05T19:20:52Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsqhhpwus7w0ae9n6345srcw82kct3359uzlzu2ad0yjp3twlfl4gczypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7luw93stz &#34;If I may compare the to a sunset, it&#39;s every *fucking day* with you.&#34; 2026-02-05T00:44:01Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszleuhxtleyl2uudejdvuu39ug9srudqp2x0ypqvqcfe4ra9rp6jszypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lu7flhd7 You cannot convince me that the basically universal concept of monasticism in all its varieties and flavours isn&#39;t just *what happens* when religion tries to organize and the Autism Spectrum gets involved. 2026-02-01T22:56:05Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsfeevlxfyscrzdg5mf04ac9l2u579c4qa00svhfe648fpav0wstuczypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7luxzvath Y&#39;all please explain to the devs *why* full-screen with display capture means the mouse disappears, and why that&#39;s a them problem. 2026-01-31T18:41:42Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsznzcajv0a030apxjp7t4eq0tu0h7utlzurpg3pyxe0wfjx2kurgqzypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lul8f494 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswf9ptf0gvm5yspahtfv8v3njdqrty7de4dn6rarljn3g3ssee64s63v4d4'>nevent1q…v4d4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Like, I know that the sun is very large and very far away and that the barycenter of the system isn&#39;t where you think it is and that all those numbers matter but I can&#39;t actually articulate *why* I know the mass of the sun is so large, so I feel like an idiot even though I&#39;m arguing with something mildly smarter than chatgpt. 2026-01-21T22:11:26Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswf9ptf0gvm5yspahtfv8v3njdqrty7de4dn6rarljn3g3ssee64szypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lu64ncjd I think what gets me fired up about flat earther arguments is that I know they&#39;re wrong but I learned this shit *so long ago* that I can rarely correctly articulate why they&#39;re wrong. 2026-01-21T21:53:40Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs0eu3em24rn2y63r548lh7yk0ksz0gqrpu46lttkhnvvh00acuvagzypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7luv3z3rl The hilarious thing about the plot of Foundation is that you can take Hari Seldon&#39;s first premonition and apply it to literally any period in history and be correct.<br/><br/>After N further years Imperial Power Y will fall and in the interregnum shit will suck.<br/><br/>Literally true of any point in human history. Because empire is both (for some reason) the direction in which all human governance tries to move and the least stable way to govern something. 2026-01-19T23:03:18Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswj6ljs4nef7qwc045j23durpjg33trgfm80r93wwhpzpwwvkf2fgzypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lu6v0zx7 You know, when I said &#34;3D printed whistles will be essential to the rebellion&#34;, I was being a bit more, uh... poetic.<br/><br/>I meant something else by whistle, but hey, whatever works. 2026-01-15T19:31:00Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsrv0zla03w6yjc9qkdlhulq2chzxnr89s660yg4wvuzuf9jm7jm4szypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7luqqxwm4 Last Boost: Considering how Reverse Bastardized Colonially Misunderstood most of modern writing and practice on pagainsm and the occult is, it&#39;s not surprising the same grifters are bowing down to the plagiarism machine. 2025-12-23T23:56:41Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs8f360fkehqssdff58fraw9vwkcl2r8dd9gscxpv8gpase5tvweaszypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7luyxpgfu iD Software Unionized?<br/><br/>Shit, maybe I *should* go sideways into the gaming industry. 2025-12-12T19:16:46Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9cq7l3slqk4e9zqurf6hxkwhmt9rczknnhf6zt5r05vezg0vvm6qzypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lu6pej4s In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszdswh7guf5a827fwrvfngutsxnrzddzc93futt9r9pl5nys5amxqm9w4j0'>nevent1q…w4j0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>If this is an OR list rather than an AND list I&#39;d recommend [@mos_8502](<a href="https://studio8502.ca/@mos_8502">https://studio8502.ca/@mos_8502</a> ) on the tech side. Their hardware dev projects are *fascinating* and they post about them often. 2025-12-08T00:58:13Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9fr6khd5zwd4zp2cqjjlrfed6mc2ntqnseu5q3emxn7wewwc3hfszypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lu7ckfqa So, we know that NAND flash/SSD doesn&#39;t tolerate offline well. This is going to be a problem for DS/3DS/Switch/Switch2 game carts long-term, and is a problem for some offline backup models.<br/><br/>So what is the minimum viable &#34;wake up&#34; to keep the drive alive? What could be built, like a VHS rewinder, that you could slot a card/thumbdrive/ssd into and force the &#34;refresh&#34;? 2025-12-06T14:03:43Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9uhjhck507npd3dk4pq9xker9lf3prj22k0ju5mxhvkvw7f55dgqzypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7luxv3l07 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgp4s4sr3zjqjkgcqfe67d73e3l5sm6w3j440qj9sys6l90fw9xtc4hg5yq'>nevent1q…g5yq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I mean, it&#39;s arguable if it&#39;s retro or not, but [PETI](<a href="https://www.arcanalabs.ca/hardware/PETI.html">https://www.arcanalabs.ca/hardware/PETI.html</a> ) is certainly retro-inspired. I&#39;m building a 90s-style virtual pet around more modern components, starring my favourite adversary, the MSP430 microcontroller.<br/><br/>It&#39;s in a &#34;shockingly close to firmware-complete&#34; state but the hardware needs at least one more revision on the dev kit version, notwithstanding the goes-in-your-pocket toy version. 2025-12-02T21:30:56Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswp4q3n377z4jdqk95t9z0l7tczwleek78s5n4z0664xqpmq0jqwczypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lupp5fr6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxmasd48870hyh24v89r7cg3h9thuvlcz9zx86uldnjxhxaerc58ckf78up'>nevent1q…78up</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&#34;The sandboxing is a security control!&#34;<br/><br/>If I cared about installed applications staying out of the filesystem, I would install/run them as a privilege-controlled user or switch to Qubes.<br/><br/>My security posture is not meaningfully fucked with if skype can see my SSHFS mounts. 2025-11-28T21:52:00Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsxmasd48870hyh24v89r7cg3h9thuvlcz9zx86uldnjxhxaerc58czypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7luypnapk In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrzd0qs2yjqh5mpcdxcvv29hmg78sfdsxnsensuuwx0gqjx88nl8cczu8de'>nevent1q…u8de</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Huh. Another way of thinking this, &#34;schedule time for maintenance or your equipment will schedule it for you&#34; doesn&#39;t just apply to your physical and mental health, or your equipment.<br/><br/>But it&#39;s also the Litany for Distro Shopping. 2025-11-28T21:44:00Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsrzd0qs2yjqh5mpcdxcvv29hmg78sfdsxnsensuuwx0gqjx88nl8czypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lufcfv2z In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsga9sz8pq7w5wfs2x6a4mj3mragmda3wj3tls3qvxc93ahv36gm2qdket0p'>nevent1q…et0p</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>What was it, few years back, I think either mednafen specifically or retroarch in general had to be authorized to connect to *individual controllers* through snap commands.<br/><br/>And after an afternoon fucking around wit that and only sorta getting it working, I said balls to it and just blew the dust off the retropi.<br/><br/>I should have known *then* that staying on a distro that was moving to having (a) split package managers and (b) that one in particular was the Luser Move, but NOOOOOO, I didn&#39;t want to waste time fucking around....<br/><br/>WELL WHOS WASTING TIME NOW, DUMBASS 2025-11-28T21:00:33Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsga9sz8pq7w5wfs2x6a4mj3mragmda3wj3tls3qvxc93ahv36gm2qzypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lu2pysap &#34;Nah Patch you&#39;re an idiot, snap is great and it keeps things on the most current version.&#34;<br/><br/>Yeah, I must just be hallucinating how often that behaviour causes unexpected glitches, and how the bullshit default sandboxing it uses does dumb shit like not letting discord see files in your steam library.<br/><br/>I clearly have no actual idea why the computer I spend most of my day *on* annoys me. I must just be fucking stupid. 2025-11-28T20:56:05Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswjz89njwnvcrp828crwcmh5hnvwjlauz72zrf5mvtffp8s56ywtczypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lusp5aze Since I can&#39;t quote the previous boost, I&#39;ll just add this:<br/><br/>TI&#39;s microcontroller development ecosystem is at least as robust as arduino&#39;s.<br/><br/>And you don&#39;t have to use their (frankly quite shitty) IDE to use it. 2025-11-19T17:52:34Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsrkacyue8lhqykmv4vwf9t2zfvwc4ksgnj7mvl7krn205g4fxfz5czypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7luypam7z You know, when you consider that the hardest problems in computer science are naming things and cache invalidation, it&#39;s amazing DNS ever actually works. 2025-11-18T20:45:41Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs2xu5qzzylnntx4wwzvvltd94xg9pw5va476has028zherulz8ufczypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7luwt9zza In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyd9phw2u53adp3p93l69p4hf47cfutxwvzs79l2z02lau6rmzcvghc9cg5'>nevent1q…9cg5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Well, I should pack up my toys and go home, then.<br/><br/>Too slow for what, though? Is there a risk that something in the system comes out of manufacture.<br/><br/>(You know, besides the SNES controller port connectors...) 2025-10-27T19:13:42Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs28kkjcta5ra6zvvxm3yxevw77j27nlmsgpzydzr9587ehcs0q5tqzypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lu70rasj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfyzk9wc8lf77gmezrjgsnejnx93nvcjvjxd6mnplagsfydne6u0s0cvzku'>nevent1q…vzku</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Really excited by - and envious of - your iteration velocity with this project. 2025-10-27T19:08:49Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs8rr9w9ps0m4rh2dsf3v3q2akepugvrs22lcwzwjpr4ctna8rpmrszypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lucakxuw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswanf7mvl0x8cjjfvasplw7fn38c7s8tvap453t8za3w7eakkpruqzfd0l9'>nevent1q…d0l9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&#34;But the postal service loses-&#34;<br/><br/>You don&#39;t pay enough tolls to pay for the road system, but you will be the first to bitch when the roads go to shit. Public services should not be expected to be profitable. 2025-10-22T19:36:58Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswanf7mvl0x8cjjfvasplw7fn38c7s8tvap453t8za3w7eakkpruqzypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lu88yrx3 Why is my official position on CUPW that Canada Post management should shut the fuck up and give them everything they could possibly ask for?<br/><br/>I&#39;m holding my backlog of letters and postcards in my hand and nothing ever feels quite as correct as a fat stack of mail, a cup of coffee (or tea), and a heavy sweater. 2025-10-22T19:32:19Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsg4shtl4zxacz7256l9ma3kvyk4gjy8eza9f5ykhd6rxhe8j2kd9szypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lugwu34r In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdt9j2nfdum74g2xt9kalxc7d6jm2eyc5ljqk2rpf33zklumay6lg952qa5'>nevent1q…2qa5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&#34;Too impatient for ads, you&#39;re going to HATE 10-15 seconds of silence.&#34;<br/>-- Some google dept head who fundamentally misunderstands the reason people don&#39;t like ads, apparently. 2025-10-07T19:41:11Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs95gm6jlpvc9j49a7drkj9exds3ad9z66gsqs9mu47n83zmul43tczypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lus72k3x Rip Bozo, I guess. 2025-09-19T17:02:45Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs0j57j5tv75hxx8zgpg0hdcnl8yvt22l4jc0tn5z3vak89erpgnzszypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lume9ujp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx6y8ckyrma35jdwlrgpuq322ysw69dy2xvtx9llcalpavl8h9n8sphlw4w'>nevent1q…lw4w</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Stroganoff. 2025-09-09T18:47:03Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsgguuzm7et8hcempc8ltvyl8n3guyn4n3nngmmyqh68s52vl7vv6czypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7luhzega2 &#34;For most skills you can usually trade time for experience&#34;<br/><br/>*looks at his project pile*<br/><br/>No, that math checks out. 2025-09-09T16:08:13Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs0xgkw58vn6uu7grqs7sd7p3zmyy4796gzndteeht9f4nx8ffkr5szypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lu7n4n05 I&#39;m sure it&#39;d be unnecessarily complicated but I&#39;d really like to add a big fat toggle switch as a microphone-level mute to my audio stack, without having to go so far as to insert a mixer.<br/><br/>I could *probably* mod my Yeti with some kind of flipflop solution to replace the existing momentary but ehhhhhhhhhh. 2025-09-08T12:11:57Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsz0pkxcmat2e4e3ankj29dldml6gxfw8xkztqhykw3amce56hav4czypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7ludr5qx8 HOA&#39;s should be illegal.<br/><br/>Condo Associations, I get.<br/><br/>HOA officers are just people who want to be landlords and cops without ownership or risk. 2025-09-05T12:31:38Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs8kqge5zf2r5sq8ph0em66k54dtqwd73xd4y4qrmqfcphj4w482hgzypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7luvzzwlf In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqpeh3u4uwqemnxkr7ma5sg9my4a9d7jskvhj3uys53lx7vdagvec7q0cv7'>nevent1q…0cv7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&#34;Patch you have an unnecessarily-low pucker threshold&#34;<br/><br/>Boiling acetone is the *low water mark* for batshit ideas in this plan. 2025-09-03T20:19:51Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsqpeh3u4uwqemnxkr7ma5sg9my4a9d7jskvhj3uys53lx7vdagveczypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lumc649p So, NileRed videos have conditioned me to accept a certain level of jank. Mans likes to eat things in the lab, which is a general no.<br/><br/>But oh my god, the strange fear-laughs this specific process has brought me:<br/><br/><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzP3vx8XadU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzP3vx8XadU</a> 2025-09-03T20:15:23Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsgyz0dd4zgd7qtc29f04lcnsr8z0chds78zyt7hvuad9u9sqhw0zczypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lu7xmcgz In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9gn6qj5uvw7jwqayvdljfgq9s8e6snukxt2utr85fm5vnnvxvp9sd3n38e'>nevent1q…n38e</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Thank you.<br/><br/>If I&#39;m being honest (or a little self-deprecating) it&#39;s also voice-salad. I can always tell what I&#39;d been reading around the time I was drafting when I&#39;m later revising. 2025-08-27T23:09:58Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswv0gsz83u996qvyweve9eh0cwgcnk75cz64tz2chg9lhwteln3vqzypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lu8thhym #WritersCoffeeClub for August 27:<br/><br/>&gt; How traditional is your writing?<br/><br/>Haven&#39;t a clue, but probably more than I&#39;d be comfortable admitting, but still not &#34;traditional&#34; enough to be thought of as literature.<br/><br/>I write the story I find. Usually in a bit of a tone salad that has to be revised repeatedly to become uniform. 2025-08-27T14:00:13Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsvcrlg249yszra4zdphpru35tx7qa75lzyvh8j2sgdvtl92x0p2kszypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lu3sp6lk In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2n2yr8phgza8wekga5e3dgvtrwlzjy36292qdxnrlup06rcvar8syq6ze3'>nevent1q…6ze3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Fuck it might as well watch covenant too why not 2025-08-08T23:00:50Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs2n2yr8phgza8wekga5e3dgvtrwlzjy36292qdxnrlup06rcvar8szypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lucwzywu In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszhc0g6464dg90sfaty7d0222mg76jyskvd6z5ftyxz7lrrfgnfncxvds9j'>nevent1q…ds9j</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Look man, I&#39;m just sayin&#39;.<br/><br/>You always know a working joe. 2025-08-08T22:56:27Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszhc0g6464dg90sfaty7d0222mg76jyskvd6z5ftyxz7lrrfgnfnczypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lu7gytq6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxypz4kv5t67n6t6k9gsfwzkra4cepf8585tkf79x5c4he5q7dvgc5xec0j'>nevent1q…ec0j</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Oh cool she made it to the lifeboat.<br/><br/>Bet that squid thing is on it. 2025-08-08T22:49:04Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsxypz4kv5t67n6t6k9gsfwzkra4cepf8585tkf79x5c4he5q7dvgczypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lurq7akw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfjj5tfk3ms0vcrsdfln4j84ms2lt44q2gwpecvq50tfnmwt4d52guvxtc0'>nevent1q…xtc0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>David&#39;s beheaded head craning around to look at the space jockey console is almost comical.<br/><br/>I do enjoy the surviving crew preferring to spend their time with Janek than Vickers though. 2025-08-08T22:44:45Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsfjj5tfk3ms0vcrsdfln4j84ms2lt44q2gwpecvq50tfnmwt4d52gzypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lujyym5v In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9nt8rpwgy2hw0vders0p4ynmtpskd9592uc302u8k88yw4waglgcwddx07'>nevent1q…dx07</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Alright, plot twists aside: they could have worked a lot harder to match the original tech aesthtics.<br/><br/>The cassettepunk of it *is* the point. 2025-08-08T22:34:02Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9nt8rpwgy2hw0vders0p4ynmtpskd9592uc302u8k88yw4waglgczypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lu244kd2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqfwkpql2rx89er3w67wa3fzt6hx0d4659kglrhsyzd40espgn9tstgad3z'>nevent1q…ad3z</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Oh cool this is just going off the rails as fast as possible now huh? 2025-08-08T22:26:10Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsqfwkpql2rx89er3w67wa3fzt6hx0d4659kglrhsyzd40espgn9tszypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7luy3e8er In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs843as4pr9j7gnpjl26hnjs2nh3jfn8ezhmw5fz3ttnz5wp053dwgnyx6uk'>nevent1q…x6uk</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Woah, even for an &#34;it&#39;s too late for me&#34; that would not be my chosen Assistive Out.<br/><br/>Do you mean to tell me there&#39;s not a single kinetic weapon aboard this ship? 2025-08-08T22:18:14Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs843as4pr9j7gnpjl26hnjs2nh3jfn8ezhmw5fz3ttnz5wp053dwgzypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7luqkk72t In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspx2tw4cc2grnyvwmf44akpat0d57fjf8nkk02fu2pjs3jcx3hnfg6502px'>nevent1q…02px</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I wonder why they decided to have American Idris Elba and not Default Settings Idris Elba on this one. 2025-08-08T21:59:34Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqspx2tw4cc2grnyvwmf44akpat0d57fjf8nkk02fu2pjs3jcx3hnfgzypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lu73m32l In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdc0qhsadhl6ymf74ap9d0ymc0a9w65vngguqe2fv3v3aqazf8jnclecsvz'>nevent1q…csvz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>RIP howling geologist, you were funny for a few minutes. 2025-08-08T21:57:51Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsdc0qhsadhl6ymf74ap9d0ymc0a9w65vngguqe2fv3v3aqazf8jnczypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lutjkxqg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqjr9v86029mpk0gvs8sxwwdyfdwkaw3sn8acn6ta30ge79gjaupquvda5l'>nevent1q…da5l</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Pitcher plants on a spaceship is a HELL of a flex.<br/><br/>Those sons of bitches don&#39;t like growing in their *OWN* habitat nevermind adverse conditions. 2025-08-08T21:50:47Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsqjr9v86029mpk0gvs8sxwwdyfdwkaw3sn8acn6ta30ge79gjaupqzypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lurgypnf In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs95feqrz95xfeqma3gxxs226xvm5l068elgwsqa7hlzrfxm4edp7c9y07ze'>nevent1q…07ze</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&#34;Let&#39;s try electrocuting the brain of this invaluable xenobiological sample&#34; did one single fucking scientist come on this mission or 2025-08-08T21:40:39Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs95feqrz95xfeqma3gxxs226xvm5l068elgwsqa7hlzrfxm4edp7czypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lu842dha In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspgak58d74utlj0tm4dl9kz9va0vhmfn2nrnu5puv5shv6wppfyacnhjlxa'>nevent1q…jlxa</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>If Michael Fassbender had not been around they could have used Matthew Goode and I could stop having Uncanny Valley moments every time David walks onto screen. 2025-08-08T21:39:11Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqspgak58d74utlj0tm4dl9kz9va0vhmfn2nrnu5puv5shv6wppfyaczypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7luf02643 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvhrv47mrz3dvsdnl7mkrxln6xfgc9xpn5ptahrfgu2cvxymrm4ls7h4yrd'>nevent1q…4yrd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Alright after a rough start I like Fifield too. I can get with mercenary engineer who howls at his probes.<br/><br/>Might could even call such a thing &#34;kin&#34;. 2025-08-08T21:19:23Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsvhrv47mrz3dvsdnl7mkrxln6xfgc9xpn5ptahrfgu2cvxymrm4lszypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lu48k6s4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvlnvvpym0umvtypjjm942a6ulpq5cpmpqsn9l4vu0hh28cqatwpc875xpp'>nevent1q…5xpp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Aw, these suits SUCK. 2025-08-08T21:13:16Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsvlnvvpym0umvtypjjm942a6ulpq5cpmpqsn9l4vu0hh28cqatwpczypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lu57khg7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx5xmka2drc4d42njja9lykqeq9g6rqufs5x4jqmvrk5qnzzydl4gtmmj4r'>nevent1q…mj4r</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I really like David. It&#39;s a damn shame I&#39;m going to almost certainly regret Really Liking David. 2025-08-08T21:04:11Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsx5xmka2drc4d42njja9lykqeq9g6rqufs5x4jqmvrk5qnzzydl4gzypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lu80csy5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq2llhjwe6vpxagztsh94lcuwsz5kypw64tdf2726xpv44zltasys6z45xd'>nevent1q…45xd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I share your scepticism, Biologist and Engineer whose names I&#39;ve already forgotten. 2025-08-08T20:53:59Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsq2llhjwe6vpxagztsh94lcuwsz5kypw64tdf2726xpv44zltasyszypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lusy9jxh Oh Jesus it&#39;s just Ridley Scott&#39;s take on *von Däniken*!? 2025-08-08T20:52:57Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsd0ldqzx0a9svlrp60vhnaaq8yvz3y7spcxjmsn6j62fzcnxmln2czypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7luw2nmy6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvx7dvl6kh5gzux359q6cclmgfap6fgdam4mkrs6r3m843dwhm95glel202'>nevent1q…l202</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;d pay for it rather than having to reboot into windows and piggyback off my wife&#39;s indesign license. 2025-07-31T19:48:47Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs8skghcgwgek5cstted6psusmffja3luhu4yyqmkk3a2en83cd4wqzypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lu35dznq Personally, I don&#39;t think natural language programming is desirable.<br/><br/>I think the strictures of formal languages forcing you to think in slightly more narrow and constrained ways drives you toward the understanding to *think like the computer*.<br/><br/>I think for this reason, something of value was lost when we started moving away from the 8-bit machines era, where your introduction to computing was a bit of BASIC and then having to put your machine&#39;s ASM into the interpreter typed out of a magazine.<br/><br/>I learned more about making the computer do a thing from working with PETI&#39;s microcontroller than I did in 20 years of casual computing or the 6 years of python I wrote before that. 2025-07-29T19:31:44Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsxjgaf8rlj6ya2n0yfzlvln3ywqc0fvvpcmzhmawjmw6rl6pxawrczypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lu97gkkz Pst.<br/><br/>You don&#39;t need &#34;privacy-preserving age verification&#34;.<br/><br/>Age verification solves exactly zero problems and creates several new ones.<br/><br/>On the internet, nobody is meant to know you&#39;re a dog. 2025-07-24T12:04:05Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs2z7pqadvudfergdwazsddeadxrryy8h480tpj7sfz9v4hgln0xdczypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lu2erpu9 I joke a lot about how much of working in the tech business is being a techpriest enginseer and just following the rites, but I need to be clear...<br/><br/>At least the *adeptus mechanicum* **are orgainzed**. 2025-07-16T16:09:12Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs0xw0aahyjdukue2l7wy2ll9vcdy60k4rt5kfnfshrcrrqx9z9teqzypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7luvmmgcl Oh cool, I thik someone made off with my pharmacy order.<br/><br/>Have fun with a bag of ricola and a covid rapid tests, shithead. If you didn&#39;t need that more than I did, may an unbanishable pebble spawn in your left shoe. 2025-07-15T20:38:51Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsrzvkyq04c7p4tgsrlzj39yrqwwuy67levpsy3qm5fph0pt4lfh8czypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7luqpt0w9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqp9yqz2ymmk0q2gkyt2456qvn0n9q89a3s67rz5h46zaz2n4y4mqn3n2s8'>nevent1q…n2s8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>So I&#39;ve only seen bits and pieces about this, but it&#39;s claiming to... basically be a drop-in replacement, BUT BETTA. Think I saw HDMI output, and I definitely saw a claim that it should work with any preexisting carts and peripherals.<br/><br/>So the objection to the use of the FPGA as an economic replacement to *trying to reboot foundary operations for chip designs that don&#39;t get minted anymore is*... what, a perverse ideological purity?<br/><br/>Granted, retro has *always* had weird internal purity crusades (I have OPPINIONS about tamagotchi clones, knockoffs, and replacements) but like... c&#39;mon, the alternative was really no machine at all and the slow death of the legacy fleet as more and more inevitably failed. 2025-07-15T17:50:56Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszh45s4xw6yhe2f9d44qftl4psz0mepcd87dxdaulwxt9x6q84ndqzypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lul94ykv In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsptesdfqazm7yms4glpp5lvtah7kqaqvk92j4lrqr5pmd73l6cwhqfxev3d'>nevent1q…ev3d</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;m going to guess the angry falls into the same general camp as people who kvetch about &#34;emulation not being real retro&#34; and &#34;FPGA BAD&#34;. 2025-07-15T17:44:05Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqst5gexkwwujyhr8tedarxxcqgkhus9e0nqg6xe4dm9enm780hkmjgzypjv2ckqh295u5lplsgpzv2yfe4mkrptq66ed0gj38gvwauuze7lu5da6e4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstlztedft4exjq8mmsskpw3yn6hlyqpnyv2h2pasravprzzau58wsugl39u'>nevent1q…l39u</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Is this the C64 rebake that just came out? 2025-07-15T17:35:47Z