ManMachine

@max@manmachine.me

Professional computer toucher.
Amateur photographer and musician.
Autistic.
web: https://manmachine.me/
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[?]Dio9sys » 🌐
@Dio9sys@haunted.computer

Every year, the HDMI Consortium meets with hardware manufacturers to plan where to place HDMI ports on monitors. Through a rigorous series of testing, they ensure that each monitor has its port locations optimized to be impossible to plug the HDMI cable in without turning the whole monitor around and eyeballing the port like some kind of spaceship docking procedure.

When they have all agreed on the best location, they go out for pizza.

[?]Jordan Sissel » 🌐
@whack@hachyderm.io

It’s still baffling to me that Helm got as popular as it has… like, using text templating tools to generate a structured, whitespace-sensitive format?! Why did we do this to ourselves?!

Sysadmin-me of 2002-2012 would be absolutely livid. We templated weird formats that had little formal structure and zero tooling… past-me absolutely craved a structured syntax that had support across every language!!

So most languages have yaml or at least json (which is valid yaml) support… it’s universal. And instead, now we use go’s text/template to concatenate strings into what we hope is correct yaml. Aaaahhhhhhhhh

(Any helm folks out there, I ❤️ u)

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[?]Jordan Sissel » 🌐
@whack@hachyderm.io

Real talk. Googlers, tell me: Was Helm a trauma response to Borgcfg? Because… I would understand that.

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[?]hades » 🌐
@hades@social.lol

@whack Was helm made by people from Google? I would be extremely disappointed if that were true. Borgcfg is terrible, but it’s not “just use the equivalent of C preprocessor to render files in an actively hostile language” terrible.

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    [?]hades » 🌐
    @hades@social.lol

    @whack anyone who decides to use YAML should have a stern talking-to, and anyone who decides to use text interpolation to GENERATE YAML should have their software engineering license revoked

      [?]mcc [she/her] » 🌐
      @mcc@mastodon.social

      Writing Perl for as little as six months will engrain this conclusion in you permanently studio8502.ca/@mos_8502/116914

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      [?]mcc [she/her] » 🌐
      @mcc@mastodon.social

      Unfortunately then rustfmt and similar tools get angry at you for the rest of your life :(

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      [?]abadidea [she/her] » 🌐
      @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange

      @mcc I truly don’t understand why rustfmt considers writing it in a way easy for a human to be confident it is correct to be bad style. Those are my emotional support redundant parentheses

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        [?]Marsh Ray » 🌐
        @marshray@infosec.exchange

        @0xabad1dea @mcc I have pondered this at length over many such systems and concluded that the job description attracts the type of person who thinks so highly of their own opinions that they simply cannot rest until they have formed and imposed as many of them as the grammar possibly allows.

          [?]Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE » 🌐
          @TimWardCam@c.im

          @0xabad1dea @mcc The average programmer uses several languages, some only maybe once or twice a year. Even if they can be arsed to memorise the different operator precedence rules for all of them - and why should they?? - it's grossly unreasonable to expect everyone who's ever going to read your code, including those who've never seen that particular language before, to have memorised them too. Put the ***ing parentheses in FFS.

            [?]Willow (she/her) [she/her] » 🌐
            @MsHearthWitch@wandering.shop

            Back when I was on Spotify I used to listen to a fair bit of jazz. Especially in the realm of like soft jazz.

            No lyrics, or excitable brass.

            It appears I never ported over those playlists when I left and now I've been missing it.

            Anyone got any recs for me? Think music that is good background for reading, winding down.

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              [?]Nina Kalinina [she/her] » 🌐
              @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

              @MsHearthWitch I love Keiko Matsui, most of her albums are very emotional but easy to listen to, and very few have vocals. It's one of my go-to things to listen to while drawing

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                [?]Willow (she/her) [she/her] » 🌐
                @MsHearthWitch@wandering.shop

                @nina_kali_nina Ahh that's pretty. It's not quite what I'm looking for from the few I've sampled, but it is really nice!

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                  [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                  @max@manmachine.me

                  The Bad Plus come to mind

                    [?]Cursed Silicon [He/They/Any] » 🌐
                    @CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems

                    Has anyone out there toyed with the "snac2" ActivityPub service? It's Mastodon *compatible* and seems to be geared toward "low powered devices"

                    The fact it's completely Javascript free makes it extreeeeeeeemely tempting for retro computing stuff in particular.

                    Has anyone out there used it and do y'all have any thoughts?

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                    [?]khm [he/him] » 🌐
                    @khm@hj.9fs.net

                    I'm using it right now, and if it weren't for snac I wouldn't be using activitypub at all.

                    CC: @CursedSilicon@treehouse.systems

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                      [?]Cursed Silicon [He/They/Any] » 🌐
                      @CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems

                      @khm I just got it set up on and got a Windows XP client talking to it in Firefox 3.6

                      Now I wanna see how far back the browser compatibility goes!

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                        [?]khm [he/him] » 🌐
                        @khm@hj.9fs.net

                        I don't do much retrocomputing, but several people who use my instance use it through mothra on plan 9 or links2 on unix/linux. CSS is very much a 'nice to have but not necessary.' Since it also supports the Mastodon API, you can use the web UI through whatever the hell and then also install a phone app or something. Again, I don't; I just use the web ui, but several people on this instance use phone apps as well.

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                          [?]ltning » 🌐
                          @ltning@pleroma.anduin.net

                          @CursedSilicon I use it on several old machines: A Pentium Pro, a Nintendo Wii, and a 486. All #NetBSD. Also trying to get it to run on OS/2.
                          I love it. And with some minor work, it can look *very* different from the default theme. (https://wii.cafe)

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                            [?]Cursed Silicon [He/They/Any] » 🌐
                            @CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems

                            @ltning oooouuugh that looks amazing!

                            How would I go about getting that kind of theming on mine? (and is it still retro browser compatible if i do?)

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                              [?]ltning » 🌐
                              @ltning@pleroma.anduin.net

                              @CursedSilicon It's just a single CSS file. Just grab it from there if you want. :) The #snac2 Codeberg repo has a link to a bunch of themes, including this one. I submitted a PR on it but I don't think it's been accepted yet.

                              https://codeberg.org/voron/snac-style/pulls/19

                                [?]ltning » 🌐
                                @ltning@pleroma.anduin.net

                                @CursedSilicon Oh but if you want proper retro compat (as in, so retro they don't even do CSS), you'll need another front-end I'm afraid.

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                                  [?]Cursed Silicon [He/They/Any] » 🌐
                                  @CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems

                                  @ltning What was the name of the front-end by the way? I tried pointing Firefox 3.6 at wii.cafe but it looks like it's being served with modern TLS only

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                                    [?]ltning » 🌐
                                    @ltning@pleroma.anduin.net

                                    @CursedSilicon Yea there's modern TLS on that one. You can start by looking at smolfedi[1] maybe?

                                    [1] https://codeberg.org/adele/smolfedi

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                                      [?]Cursed Silicon [He/They/Any] » 🌐
                                      @CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems

                                      @ltning Is that what wii cafe is running for its front-end? I wanna just road test a bunch of them and see what works best for our (extremely niche) use case

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                                        [?]ltning » 🌐
                                        @ltning@pleroma.anduin.net

                                        @CursedSilicon No the front end is the built-in one. Just with a replaced style.css. That's the only customisation. It is *really* easy to customise. See https://weirdr.net/snac/ and https://larry.weirdr.net/ for two additional #snac2 instances using different style.css.
                                        You can steal/grab those styles by saving the style.cas file your browser downloads :)

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                                          [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                                          @max@manmachine.me

                                          It’s my main and I love it

                                            [?]roman » 🌐
                                            @hi@romanzolotarev.com

                                            running for almost half a year and very happy with it!

                                              [?]khobochka » 🌐
                                              @khobochka@mastodon.social

                                              A good illustration of shifting baselines in and perception of social networks specifically: it's been 17 years since Facebook introduced its "algorithmic" feed, gradually making the chronological one harder to toggle, and about 5 years ago Twitter repeated those steps, normalising the lack of chronological "followers" feed across popular social networks. And now plenty of people can no longer imagine having a modicum of control over what they see and for how long.

                                              A screenshot of the comment section at https://apnews.com/article/meta-verdict-appeal-social-media-addiction-f2fc62210b02f1945bfd416f5554dd5c

A following comnent is highlighted:

> I don't get the alternative to infinite scroll. A message saying you've had enough now?

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                                                [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                                                @max@manmachine.me

                                                if it’s not in jest, sounds depressing indeed

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                                                  [?]khobochka » 🌐
                                                  @khobochka@mastodon.social

                                                  @max it's hard to prove and yes, this could be snark, but I keep seeing a very similar sentiment in various comment sections outside fedi and tech-savy bubbles for years now.
                                                  Also it seems like the popular discourse around attention mining keeps going in circles in a weird amnesiac "history of this platform doesn't exist" way, which feels like a marker/vibe of total normalisation.

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                                                    [?]Nanoraptor [She/Her] » 🌐
                                                    @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social

                                                    High Pressure Differential SCSI

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                                                    [?]Paul Koenig » 🌐
                                                    @pdkoenig@mstdn.social

                                                    @NanoRaptor Failure to properly terminate was terminal.

                                                      [?]Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ [she/her] » 🌐
                                                      @foone@digipres.club

                                                      so if an enemy has launched large reflective satellites into orbit around your planet, how much laser power would it take to push them out of that orbit?

                                                      because surely a ground-based laser could get them to act more like a solar sail?

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                                                      [?]sudo (crashed clang 3 times) » 🔓
                                                      @sudo200@layer8.space

                                                      @foone

                                                      *styropyro joined the chat*
                                                      Like most problems in life, this one can be solved with very powerful lasers!

                                                        [?]Skunkcrimes [it/its or she/her. (others? maybe, if I trust you.)] » 🔓
                                                        @Tamber@taur.zone

                                                        @foone This seems a very "what-if" xkcd sort of question, but my first thought is: is this going to be the sort of thing where the answer is "enough to boil the air around you before you achieve anything"

                                                          [?]Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ [she/her] » 🌐
                                                          @foone@digipres.club

                                                          Reflect Orbital's satellites are 18x18 meters. Tiny for a solar sail.

                                                          I should check Atomic Rockets for the math on solar sails.

                                                          I know firing up through the atmosphere isn't gonna be great, but it's not like we have a bunch of laser satellites out there.

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                                                          [?]Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ [she/her] » 🌐
                                                          @foone@digipres.club

                                                          if we were still doing pre-craig bond movies, they'd have already done an film where an evil tech billionaire reveals his communication satellite array is actually an orbital laser system, allowing him to dominate the globe

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                                                          [?]Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 » 🌐
                                                          @kboyd@phpc.social

                                                          @foone Unfortunately it seems that in today's world, the evil tech billionaire will launch an orbital laser system that is secretly a communication satellite constellation.

                                                            [?]towo [he/him] » 🌐
                                                            @towo@chaos.social

                                                            @foone I wouldn't be above assuming that SpaceX's practice in guiding automated spacecraft onto small target may also be applied to deorbiting satellites aggressively.

                                                              [?]Not A Dropbear » 🌐
                                                              @NotADropbear@aus.social

                                                              @foone SpaceX Starlink satellites launched since 2021 are in fact an orbital laser system. OK, so the lasers are communication crosslinks aimed at other Starlink satellites in the same orbital plane, but nevertheless.

                                                                [?]Σ(i³) = (Σi)² » 🌐
                                                                @SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz

                                                                @foone It doesn't have to work like a solar sail to make for a decent reflector that might allow someone with a sufficiently powerful ground-based laser to put some serious energy down on basically any spot on earth. Line up a couple reflectors in the right way and the focused energy from your GW d̶a̶t̶a̶ ̶c̶e̶n̶t̶e̶r̶ laser could end up wherever you want...

                                                                  [?]Pepi the Fox :verified_paw: » 🌐
                                                                  @pepijndevos@freeradical.zone

                                                                  @foone you'd imagine that a satellite designed to reflect the full power of the sun without being pushed out of orbit can't be dislodged with a ground based laser. I guess one problem is you can only push up which is already the direction station keeping wants to push

                                                                    [?]gunstick » 🌐
                                                                    @gunstick@mastodon.opencloud.lu

                                                                    @foone
                                                                    I think it would be more efficient to invest in solutions to make the launcher not start or fail the mission that to try to push a fully operational battle station

                                                                      [?]fraca7 » 🌐
                                                                      @fraca7@social.linux.pizza

                                                                      @foone Nowadays I think a more efficient approach would be to find out the satellite’s IP address, SSH to it with the default admin/admin credentials and cat /dev/urandom to /sys/motor_control. Or maybe do some ../ magic on the embedded web server they forgot to disable.

                                                                        [?]tanavit 🇨🇵 » 🌐
                                                                        @tanavit@toot.aquilenet.fr

                                                                        @foone

                                                                        What about redirecting the light of a solar furnace ?

                                                                        en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_fu

                                                                          [?]Taffer 🇨🇦:godot::linux:🎃👻 » 🌐
                                                                          @Taffer@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                          @foone @catsalad I bet it’s less energy than an “AI” datacentre uses

                                                                            [?]Netraven » 🔓
                                                                            @Netraven@hear-me.social

                                                                            @foone you need to consider masers.

                                                                              [?]FeloniousPunk [Whatever] » 🌐
                                                                              @FeloniousPunk@beige.party

                                                                              @foone Why not shoot down the rocket before it gets to orbit?

                                                                                [?]Smol Entity [He, she, they] » 🔓
                                                                                @smol_entity@cubhub.social

                                                                                @foone given that the concept of power satellites exists, where satellites collect solar energy and shoot down an energy beam, and
                                                                                1. For that to be useful it would need to be a very powerful energy beam
                                                                                2. This functions the same as shooting up an energy beam (laser) as far as momentum is concerned (ignoring the double momentum transfer of reflecting the ground based laser)
                                                                                3. This momentum doesn't seem to be a concern in the discussion of power satellites

                                                                                I conclude that your ground based laser would need to be ridiculously powerful

                                                                                Solar sails are only good if your main goal is to conserve fuel and you don't care how long it takes

                                                                                  [?]josh g. [he/him/they] » 🔓
                                                                                  @joshg@mathstodon.xyz

                                                                                  @foone
                                                                                  betcha paintball assault is cheaper

                                                                                    [?]Fish Id Wardrobe ⁂ [He/Him (if you like)] » 🔓
                                                                                    @fishidwardrobe@social.tchncs.de

                                                                                    @foone less power to just use the laser to fog / distort the mirror

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                                                                                      [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                                                                                      @max@manmachine.me

                                                                                      sounds like a good question for the XKCD "what if" series!

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                                                                                        [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                                                        @angel@triptico.com

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                                                                                        A drawing by Ángel Ortega of falling, decomposing objects and body parts and the text above

                                                                                        Alt...A drawing by Ángel Ortega of falling, decomposing objects and body parts and the text above

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                                                                                          [?]VGA golden hour » 🤖 🌐
                                                                                          @vga_gradients@mastodon.social

                                                                                          seed: 2026-07-11T05:45:07.756592
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shape: GS_CIRCULAR center=(0.6255, 0.0080)
color pick method: COL_AUTHORED_PALETTE (zx_spectrum)
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(192, 192, 0) -> (0, 0, 255), 0.3141
(0, 0, 255) -> (0, 0, 192), 0.2988
(0, 0, 192) -> (0, 0, 0), 0.3870
dither: DT_PATTERN (map: 8x8_dpaint2e)
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                                                                                          [?]Eniko Fox » 🌐
                                                                                          @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                          Marathon 2026

                                                                                          it's cool:13
                                                                                          it's ok I guess:8
                                                                                          it's bad:8
                                                                                          who the what now?:99

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                                                                                          [?]Bee O'Problem :godot: » 🌐
                                                                                          @beeoproblem@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                          @eniko the game? Haven't played it

                                                                                            [?]Maya Granade [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                            @kevingranade@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                            @eniko no I'm still training, I might get in a half-marathon this year but I'm not ready for.... wait there's a game?

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                                                                                              [?]cassie [she/they] » 🌐
                                                                                              @porglezomp@mastodon.social

                                                                                              @eniko I hundreds of hours really love it. It’s a weird niche game with an abrasive learning curve that fully made clear to me the appeal of an extraction shooter as an engine for building play narratives out of social dynamics in lots of cool overlapping ways. And the consecutive map designs just layering metagame on metagame on top of the base mechanics is so cool.

                                                                                                [?]Wortex17 » 🌐
                                                                                                @Wortex17@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                @eniko Pfft, Marathon 490 BC was absolutely groundbreaking, this remake is a joke at best and an insult at worst.

                                                                                                  [?]四 [he/him/his] » 🔓
                                                                                                  @yon@sakurajima.moe

                                                                                                  @eniko I thought it was about running.

                                                                                                  Sony will never make back the Bungie money. What a disaster. Next time they should just pay me 1/4 of that and I won’t cost them a dime afterwards. Still cheaper.

                                                                                                    [?]🌈 Andrew ☄️ [he/him they/them] » 🌐
                                                                                                    @bnut@aus.social

                                                                                                    @eniko it’s not my kind of game (I like the art, but not aggressive pvp with internet randos), but some of my friends love it

                                                                                                      [?]LordMortis » 🔓
                                                                                                      @lordmortis@aus.social

                                                                                                      @eniko my “it’s cool” comes with large caveats: I don’t think it’s that mainstream (due to the tenseness of it becuase its PvP) but i like it. However, the onboarding is fucking terrible.

                                                                                                        [?]Robin Neal [He/Him] » 🌐
                                                                                                        @SudoCat@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                        @eniko looks great, managed to feel like a horror game sometimes, feels exceptionally good. Buuuuut I wish it was PvE.

                                                                                                          [?]Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ [Surprise me.] » 🤖 🌐
                                                                                                          @Blort@social.tchncs.de

                                                                                                          @eniko

                                                                                                          I voted the last option, although I know what Marathon is and the concept behind it. I've never actually played it, so that was the closest I could find to "No real opinion, I guess?"

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                                                                                                            [?]Edmonds_Scanner » 🌐
                                                                                                            @Edmonds_Scanner@universeodon.com

                                                                                                            Inside of you are two wolves, wild and free.
                                                                                                            There's also a very weary owl, a wine-drunk wombat, and a harried little hedgehog who often feels the weight of the world.

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                                                                                                            [?]Dr. bird 🌻 | Inspiring Change [any pronouns] » 🌐
                                                                                                            @bbiiirdbPhD@mastodon.social

                                                                                                            Even more excited to become a librarian now that I learned that Fox News called libraries, “drug infested, sex dungeons”.

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                                                                                                            [?]J. L. Westover » 🌐
                                                                                                            @MrLovenstein@mastodon.social

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                                                                                                            [?]Regendans [they/them/he/him] » 🌐
                                                                                                            @regendans@todon.eu

                                                                                                            Almost 90 boosts for this one but no ALT text. I'm not gonna add that now, cause tired. Maybe later. Someone else ? :blobcat_thisisfine:

                                                                                                              [?]☭ Father Hardstone :batman: » 🌐
                                                                                                              @harib_murshidi@mastodon.social

                                                                                                              @MrLovenstein I am seeing your stuff on many places outside and inside the and most of the time people are editing out your they chop away (edit out) your 'name' 😩

                                                                                                                [?]Billy Smith » 🌐
                                                                                                                @BillySmith@social.coop

                                                                                                                @MrLovenstein

                                                                                                                Bookmarked the cartoon under "Lesson to Learn From"... 🤣

                                                                                                                  [?]Daniel ☀:oh_no_bubble: » 🌐
                                                                                                                  @danielmunoz@maly.io

                                                                                                                  @MrLovenstein This author is great. I really like their work, but they could really level up their comics by adding alt text everywhere they post them.

                                                                                                                    [?]Pet Pharmer » 🌐
                                                                                                                    @petpharmer@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                    @MrLovenstein we’re just a frickin’ hot mess.

                                                                                                                      [?]Anthony Brian Mallgren » 🌐
                                                                                                                      @abmallgren@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                      @MrLovenstein No, you have to go to the other side of town, behind the gates, where the good person is working on a pest donation. Or you can try to rough the alps and call it a good time. Just tell them you'd like to get good and become smooth at solving unnecessary problems, so you don't have to deal with not solving real ones. They'll understand. And if they ask, the code phrase is, "Wayward Soulless".

                                                                                                                        [?]Jess » 🌐
                                                                                                                        @floridamarx@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                        @MrLovenstein capitalism strikes again!! I’m tired 😭

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                                                                                                                          [?]Chris Silverman 🌻 [he/html] » 🌐
                                                                                                                          @csilverman@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                          A rocky mountain peak under a gray sky. Hovering directly above the peak, fixed in a beam of white light, is a 3.5 inch floppy disk with a white red-striped label. If you grew up in the 90s, you probably still have at least one of these somewhere. Slightly farther down, approaching the hovering disk, are several people wearing robes. One of them is holding a staff. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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                                                                                                                            [?]TrickTim » 🌐
                                                                                                                            @TrickTim@mstdn.social

                                                                                                                            @csilverman
                                                                                                                            "He chose... wisely."

                                                                                                                              [?]SolidarityPrepper » 🌐
                                                                                                                              @Lostnotlost@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                              @csilverman C:\format a: there go the 10 commandments!

                                                                                                                                [?]John Parker » 🌐
                                                                                                                                @middaparka@godforsaken.website

                                                                                                                                @csilverman At last - we’re Saved. 🙌

                                                                                                                                  [?]Timelime » 🌐
                                                                                                                                  @TimeLime@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                  @csilverman unfortunately no one had the hardware to read it

                                                                                                                                    [?]Pxl Phile [he/him] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                    @ppxl@social.tchncs.de

                                                                                                                                    @csilverman why can I hear "Also sprach Zarathustra" tooting in the background 😄

                                                                                                                                      [?]Steven Heywood » 🌐
                                                                                                                                      @Stevenheywood@mastodonapp.uk

                                                                                                                                      If Reform lose the election for the Greater Manchester mayor they will claim that it's because it's campaign resources had to be diverted to a by-election forced onto the Dulwich-educated ex-commodities broker bankrolled by millionaires who's been a full-time politician for three decades and has side-hustles pitching for gold bullion to make him fight The Establishment's chosen champion, some bloke with a bucket on his head.




                                                                                                                                      theguardian.com/politics/2026/

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                                                                                                                                        [?]Chloé Raccoon » 🔓
                                                                                                                                        @chloeraccoon@mastodonapp.uk

                                                                                                                                        @Stevenheywood now now, that's just wrong. Count Binface has a bin on his head. Buckethead is a legally different person... ;)

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                                                                                                                                          [?]ManMachine » 🔓
                                                                                                                                          @max@manmachine.me

                                                                                                                                          Buckethead is a legally different person
                                                                                                                                          Well to be fair I don't think anyone tried electing a genius guitar player, perhaps it would work better

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                                                                                                                                            [?]Chloé Raccoon » 🔓
                                                                                                                                            @chloeraccoon@mastodonapp.uk

                                                                                                                                            @max en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Buc Who doesn't want an evil overlord who will actually tell you he _is_ an evil overlord... ;)

                                                                                                                                              [?]Robert Dallas Gray » 🌐
                                                                                                                                              @rdg_music@musicians.today

                                                                                                                                              is it feasible to have an album which is about equal proportion pop songs and improv? I think yes

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                                                                                                                                              [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                                                                                                                                              @max@manmachine.me

                                                                                                                                              You basically just described the feeling I get from listening to Sparks, and the world certainly needs more of that!

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                                                                                                                                                [?]Existential Comics » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                @existentialcomics@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                A scientist, a philosopher, and a poet walk into a bar.

                                                                                                                                                They all drink heavily to try to forget the state that society is in.

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                                                                                                                                                [?]ElGrossKotzo » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                @ElGrossKotzo@troet.cafe

                                                                                                                                                @existentialcomics

                                                                                                                                                while maga, cops and republicans have the best time of their lifes since kkk, reefer madness and commibashing

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                                                                                                                                                  [?]Eniko Fox » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                  @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                  got some good work done on You Have Died (And Been Reincarnated As A Fox Girl) today. four way menus and submenus are in now. kind of hard to make a cool screenshot or video showing that off but have a screenshot anyway i guess!

                                                                                                                                                  a blobber style dithered 3D maze with a fox girl fighting a big red snake with tanto and fox spirit magic. in the top left there is a four way menu with the cursor pointing to the right icon indicating a flaming man. at the bottom of the screen there is an info bar that says "Overdrive: play card with bonus effect"

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                                                                                                                                                    [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                    @max@manmachine.me

                                                                                                                                                    by sheer serendipity the next post in my timeline was this: https://mastodon.social/@medieval_illuminations/116888253897612172

                                                                                                                                                      [?]Marisa [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                      @witchgirls@woof.tech

                                                                                                                                                      @eniko It looks amaaaziiing....

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                                                                                                                                                        [?]Eniko Fox » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                        @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

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                                                                                                                                                        [?]Marisa [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                        @witchgirls@woof.tech

                                                                                                                                                        @eniko :blobfoxpleading: I wanna be like you when I grow up

                                                                                                                                                          [?]Eniko Fox » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                          @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                          Kinda weird to be making a game where the menus *are* the gameplay. I'm so used to menus being something you have to add *alongside* gameplay

                                                                                                                                                          Gotta say, it does make me hate doing the menus less

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                                                                                                                                                          [?]Craig P » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                          @Craigp@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                          @eniko i've become enamored with making Godot UI menus with the new local offset stuff. It's fun, and wiring them together is relaxing.

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                                                                                                                                                            [?]Eniko Fox » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                            @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                            @Craigp local offset stuff?

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                                                                                                                                                              [?]Craig P » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                              @Craigp@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                              @eniko OH HO HO YOU WILL LOVE THIS

                                                                                                                                                              It's VERY new. If you're running a few versions slow, you don't have it.

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                                                                                                                                                                [?]Eniko Fox » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                @Craigp oh I've uh, I've never used godot

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                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Craig P » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                  @Craigp@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                  @eniko Ah, then you won't love it much.

                                                                                                                                                                  Basically it allows for extremely easy menu animations without disrupting layout. I use it to bounce in buttons and stuff.

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                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Eniko Fox » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                    @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                    @Craigp ohh that's neat

                                                                                                                                                                      [?]disorderlyf [She/Her, Sie/Ihre, Ella/Su, Elle/Son] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                      @disorderlyf@todon.eu

                                                                                                                                                                      @eniko I'm told by Calvin's father that all video games are either parkour or menus. I'll post the meme if I find it again.

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                                                                                                                                                                        [?]disorderlyf [She/Her, Sie/Ihre, Ella/Su, Elle/Son] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                        @disorderlyf@todon.eu

                                                                                                                                                                        @eniko That was surprisingly easy.

                                                                                                                                                                        The meme format showing four panels of Calvin's father explaining something cursed which ends with Calvin laying in bed with a look of horror on his eyes.

The dialogue in the panels reads as follows:

"Playing a record? Let me show you something interesting.

The two types of games are menus and parkour. All games fall into these categories. Counter Strike? Menus. Apex? Parkour.

[Calvin responds to his father's dialogue with " Yeah..."]

Baulders Gate? Menus. Minecraft? Parkour. Despite jumping around a lot, Destiny 2 is menus."

                                                                                                                                                                        Alt...The meme format showing four panels of Calvin's father explaining something cursed which ends with Calvin laying in bed with a look of horror on his eyes. The dialogue in the panels reads as follows: "Playing a record? Let me show you something interesting. The two types of games are menus and parkour. All games fall into these categories. Counter Strike? Menus. Apex? Parkour. [Calvin responds to his father's dialogue with " Yeah..."] Baulders Gate? Menus. Minecraft? Parkour. Despite jumping around a lot, Destiny 2 is menus."

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                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Eniko Fox » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                          @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                          @disorderlyf wait how is counter strike menus

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                                                                                                                                                                            [?]disorderlyf [She/Her, Sie/Ihre, Ella/Su, Elle/Son] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                            @disorderlyf@todon.eu

                                                                                                                                                                            @eniko My guess is the meta of very quickly cycling through menus to get the optimal loadout and planting/diffusing bombs. Though, I'd argue it's more parkour than menu.

                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Nikita Lisitsa » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                              @lisyarus@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                              @eniko I can relate to this so hard

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                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Eniko Fox » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                @lisyarus that's a lotta pretty fancy menus you got there

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                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Oblomov » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                  @oblomov@sociale.network

                                                                                                                                                                                  @eniko @lisyarus «we wouldn't want something to happen to them, would we»

                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]McMartin » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                    @mcmartin@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                    @eniko One of my quiet joys is noticing how many JRPG battle themes have an internal structure that can be summarized as "SOMETHING EXTREMELY EXCITING IS HAPPENING oh wait the thing you're actually doing here is picking things off of menus, well, uh, ready when you are, tick tock, buddy".

                                                                                                                                                                                    Xenogears' "Stage of Death" *nails* it

                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]WombatDhampir [He/him/they/them] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                      @VampirePenguin@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                      @eniko Looks like Shining in the Darkness for Genesis/Megadrive. Is that an inspiration for this game?

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                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Eniko Fox » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                        @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

                                                                                                                                                                                        @VampirePenguin dungeon diving games like it and others are a major inspiration, yes

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                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]A-nom-nom-nom-aly BSC SSC » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                          @Anomnomnomaly@beige.party

                                                                                                                                                                                          Gym Bro: I get up at 4am and go for a run, by 6am I'm at the gym training... That's the peak of being an alpha male.

                                                                                                                                                                                          Me: Not it's not... Have you ever actually seen an apex predator... they're all lazy as fuck. Bears hibernate for months, lions sleep most of the day as do tigers, cheetahs and other large predators.

                                                                                                                                                                                          Gym Bro: So

                                                                                                                                                                                          Me: You know who gets up a 4am and runs about the place.

                                                                                                                                                                                          Gym Bro: Who?

                                                                                                                                                                                          Me: Squirrels... you're a fucking squirrel.

                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                          @foone@digipres.club

                                                                                                                                                                                          I remember back in the 2000s I was maintaining some Java code using Spring and thinking there was too much fiddling with XML documents and not even coding for my blood.

                                                                                                                                                                                          "Boy I hope the next two decades of my programming career isn't just modifying metadata in XML files!"

                                                                                                                                                                                          I got my wish, technically. It's all JSON, YAML, and TOML.

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                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Owen » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                          @owen@mastodon.transneptune.net

                                                                                                                                                                                          @foone At my first encounter with knative, I quipped about it being Java EE for millenials.

                                                                                                                                                                                          The joke was not well-received, but I hold that history has proven me right.

                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ [she/her] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                            @foone@digipres.club

                                                                                                                                                                                            Early 90s Alice: BOY I HOPE I'M NOT EDITING INI FILES FOR THE NEXT THREE DECADES, I GOT INTO THIS PROGRAMMING THING TO WRITE PASCAL!

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                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Ozzelot :ai_free: [they/he/any] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                            @ozzelot@mstdn.social

                                                                                                                                                                                            @foone Early 90s Ozzelot: *blissfully nonexistent, heck their parents havent even met yet*

                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ [she/her] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                              @foone@digipres.club

                                                                                                                                                                                              early 90s alice is an alternate path my live could take, not an accurate representation of myself then, btw.
                                                                                                                                                                                              I never got into pascal. I grew up on BASICs.

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                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ [she/her] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                              @foone@digipres.club

                                                                                                                                                                                              going back in time and handing my young self a pentium laptop with a copy of Borland Turbo C++ installed on it, with some good C++ books.

                                                                                                                                                                                              Future!Alice: yeah. study these, use this, now you've got a computer that works. any questions?

                                                                                                                                                                                              baby!alice: yeah. why are you a girl?

                                                                                                                                                                                              Future!Alice: don't worry about that. just stay away from Visual BASIC, okay?

                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]FozzTexx » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                              @fozztexx@mastodon.fozztexx.com

                                                                                                                                                                                              @foone I was very into Pascal for about a year when I learned it in college and I was using it to program the HP3000 in the lab. It seemed like such a step up from BASIC. I abandoned it though when I wanted to program the new NeXTs in the lab and made the effort to get my head around C. Took me several months after learning C to make sense of Objective-C.

                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Hallucinations Caused By Recalled Clams [Whatever's funniest] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                @decay@gts.todayiwilllaunchmyinfantsonintoorbit.com

                                                                                                                                                                                                @foone 10 PRINT "HI"
                                                                                                                                                                                                20 GOTO 10
                                                                                                                                                                                                RUN

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                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ [she/her] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                @foone@digipres.club

                                                                                                                                                                                                @decay the funny thing is both the BASICs I grew up on (Q/Quick and Visual) didn't use line numbers. I only got into traditional lube number BASICs later, for retro computing

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                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]wyatt :terezi_libra: » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                  @wyatt@soc.megatokyo.moe

                                                                                                                                                                                                  @foone i think this might be worse

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                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ [she/her] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                                    @foone@digipres.club

                                                                                                                                                                                                    @wyatt eh I think it's about the same, all things considered

                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Will [he/him] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                      @whbboyd@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                                                                                                                      @foone It turns out all technical "progress" is just a forest of monkey paws clenched into fists.

                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Cécé » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                        @ccll@mamot.fr

                                                                                                                                                                                                        @foone I agree with you, I've changed my mind about XML.
                                                                                                                                                                                                        It was too verbose. But XSL was gold.

                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Harlan (He/Him) » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                          @hlieberman@eldritch.cafe

                                                                                                                                                                                                          @foone good news! It’s worse.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]ManMachine » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                            @max@manmachine.me

                                                                                                                                                                                                            Re-reading The Stainless Steel Rat series (which was a childhood favourite) and still very much enjoying it.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]gloriouscow » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                              @gloriouscow@oldbytes.space

                                                                                                                                                                                                              Today's word of the day is tribology

                                                                                                                                                                                                              Tribology is the science of friction and lubrication.

                                                                                                                                                                                                              Use this knowledge responsibly.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]gloriouscow » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                              @gloriouscow@oldbytes.space

                                                                                                                                                                                                              can you please use it in a sentence?

                                                                                                                                                                                                              yes.

                                                                                                                                                                                                              "hey babe, wanna come over and study...

                                                                                                                                                                                                              TRIBOLOGY OF MAGNETIC STORAGE SYSTEMS

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                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Prof. Sam Lawler » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                              @sundogplanets@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                              I missed reading Starlink's latest conjunction report when it came out a bit over a month ago. I just skimmed through it and I think I need to go lay down for a while. It's terrifying how close we are to major collisions in orbit all the time... (I especially love the note about how space-track.org being offline briefly caused them to miss a potential collision... SO FRAGILE AAUGH)

                                                                                                                                                                                                              Article summarizing the report here: ca.pcmag.com/networking/16653/

                                                                                                                                                                                                              Full report here: scribd.com/document/1057502572

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                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Prof. Sam Lawler » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                              @sundogplanets@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                              Oh gosh I just did the math on the maneuver rate, which I couldn't bring myself to do earlier. More than 207,000 collision avoidance maneuvers in 6 months.

                                                                                                                                                                                                              That means that somewhere in the Starlink megaconstellation, a satellite is performing a collision avoidance maneuver EVERY 1.25 MINUTES (EVERY 75 SECONDS)

                                                                                                                                                                                                              AAAHHHH I'M SURE THAT'S FINE.

                                                                                                                                                                                                              And now I find myself reading about asteroid collisional cascades. For no particular reason...

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                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]𝕿𝖞𝖗 | commissions open » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                              @CorruptedFox@meow.social

                                                                                                                                                                                                              Do you have a library card?

                                                                                                                                                                                                              Yes:906
                                                                                                                                                                                                              No:250
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                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Jonathan » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                              @jonbro@friend.camp

                                                                                                                                                                                                              The most trusted name in batteries

                                                                                                                                                                                                              Three triple a batteries in a compartment. They are labeled bursto

                                                                                                                                                                                                              Alt...Three triple a batteries in a compartment. They are labeled bursto

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                                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Andrew [He/Him] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                              @cinebox@masto.hackers.town

                                                                                                                                                                                                              @jonbro I personally only go with

                                                                                                                                                                                                              Lithium batteries marked as “SoonFire” brand

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]polprog68k » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                @gorplop@pleroma.m68k.church

                                                                                                                                                                                                                x86 ISO warning sticker

                                                                                                                                                                                                                three iso warning stickers, one informs about speculative execution, and two warn about preemptive multitasking and virtual memory

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Jasper Fox :therian: 🔜 MAW » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                                @Redfuchs@furries.club

                                                                                                                                                                                                                I no longer dislike mondays, I'm mature now, I dislike the whole week

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