Nostr notes by josef

apparently theres this new craft brewery trend where like, if you ...

2026-08-28T18:12:16Z

apparently theres this new craft brewery trend where like, if you drink the beer, then you turn into whatever is depicted on the bottle

something it took me a very long time to figure out, like, ...

2026-08-28T07:54:57Z

In reply to nevent1q…m8la
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something it took me a very long time to figure out, like, embarrassingly long, since the way they teach you about it at school avoids this uncomfortable part, is that 'peaceful protest' is fundamentally a threat of violence. people out in the streets holding objects, currently placards, imply later they might be holding something else. it is called a 'demonstration', in the same way that testing a nuclear weapon is a demonstration, it is deterrence through communication of capability and intent

part of the reason that old people will line up to get arrested ...

2026-08-28T07:48:16Z

In reply to nevent1q…t0r7
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part of the reason that old people will line up to get arrested at protests is they're retired so they don't fear a criminal record. but i think maybe another part of it is like, once you're old, authority is no longer a bunch of grownups who have power over you, most if not all of the people arresting you, trying you, sentencing you, and so on, are younger than you are. so, if you're old, you can look down your nose at them, perhaps rightly, as a bunch of stupid babies who don't know anything

in the last 5ish years i've seen a pivot from "Terrorism ...

2026-08-28T07:43:28Z

in the last 5ish years i've seen a pivot from "Terrorism is the reason we need people with automatic rifles at airports and cameras everywhere spying on you" to "Terrorism is a word that means doing anything for political reasons other than voting. in a democracy, you vote. politics is voting. everything else, like protesting or direct action or even publishing the wrong thing, is Terrorism. you must only vote, that is all that is allowed"

youre telling me a "game engine" is this thing that ...

2026-08-27T12:05:14Z

youre telling me a "game engine" is this thing that updates a bunch of subsystems in a tight loop for I/O, graphics, sound etc, provides a way of loading/streaming data from disk with caching and background streaming, manages the execution state of units of code which run on specific conditions and themselves may trigger other code, offers features like a GUI framework and multimedia codecs, and provides a platform layer so that all this can run on a variety of hardware? mate. thats called an OS

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2026-08-27T09:58:41Z

you can find out what things are in your own brain by thinking

last night i dreamt that the big new meme and/or culture war term ...

2026-08-27T08:50:09Z

last night i dreamt that the big new meme and/or culture war term was "cold brain". people were like "oh that was very cold-brained of you" and then there was people who were actually proud of being a "cold brain" and then a whole other side who were trying to reclaim "hot brain" and "hotbrainedness", which then devolved into arguments about exactly what "hot" or "cold" brain even meant, with three or four competing sides who were certain their definition was the only one that made sense

embarrassing when this one goes off ...

2026-08-23T10:04:29Z

embarrassing when this one goes off

the most interesting thing, to me, about "AI", isn't ...

2026-08-22T13:19:52Z

the most interesting thing, to me, about "AI", isn't really anything to do with the technology, but that we are currently witnessing in real time one of those abrupt shifts in accepted reality, where the values we are supposed to uphold, the expectations we have about how the world works (and has always worked), and the basic definitions of terms and concepts, are all being changed, subtly but urgently, for the benefit of specific people and institutions

anyone here used Opera lately? its insane. its like a browser ...

2026-08-21T08:34:16Z

anyone here used Opera lately? its insane. its like a browser made of 100% malware toolbar. when you first start it, it's like. booking.com. jet2holidays. hilton. hero wars. world of tanks. tell us your location. Show News: On. OPERA AI. Sidebar: ChatGPT. Gemini. Google calendar. Whatsapp: YES. Special features: ON. Theme Gallery. Theme sounds: On. LUCID MODE: Sharpens videos on all sites. Facebook Messenger: ACTIVATED. Instagram: INTEGRATED. Whatever it is you hate, Opera has it for you

to produce one good idea, sometimes you have to think of 90 bad ...

2026-08-16T09:41:54Z

In reply to nevent1q…qhle
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to produce one good idea, sometimes you have to think of 90 bad ideas. a lot of productivity discourse will try to convince you that in fact you could be 90x more productive by simply picking the first idea and deeming the task complete

i have come to believe that productivity and creativity are ...

2026-08-16T09:39:18Z

i have come to believe that productivity and creativity are probably enemies. people who do things solely for the purpose of getting them done seldom do a particularly good job, nor are the things themselves very interesting

imo. dont make my phone do the sound it does when theres a ...

2026-08-14T18:02:01Z

imo. dont make my phone do the sound it does when theres a nuclear war, unless there is one

i actually used IRC a lot, i was a heavy IM user in general. but ...

2026-08-14T16:12:49Z

In reply to nevent1q…j7ev
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i actually used IRC a lot, i was a heavy IM user in general. but i think something changed when they made chats persistent. IRC genuinely felt like "show up somewhere and see who's around for a chat" and it was all ephemeral. there was no sense of FOMO really. forums happened at a leisurely pace, and threads allowed people to carve out their own discussions in a kinda ad-hoc way. the discord approach is a weird hybrid that, i think, fails at both. but clearly very few people agree :/

i feel like discord has kind of replaced the internet. using the ...

2026-08-14T16:00:52Z

i feel like discord has kind of replaced the internet. using the internet used to make me feel like i knew what was going on. but now everything's happening in some discord somewhere. whenever i try to use it, i'm just utterly bamboozled by its bizarre UI. i don't know what the hell i'm supposed to click on or do. i don't know what the etiquette is. i click something and now i'm in a voice chat. i try to upload an image and it's too big. there's so many layers of things that push me away from it

pretty much all apps i ever use get worse every time they update. ...

2026-04-05T06:09:41Z

pretty much all apps i ever use get worse every time they update. because of this, for at least ten years, i have my phone (an iphone) set to only update apps manually. but yesterday something terrible happened. as i was scrolling down the list of “apps with pending updates” to update just one of them (there’s probably at least 70 on there, most of which i will never update) the UI lagged, and during the hitch, registered a tap on the “update all apps” button

yeah you know. like. old stuff. 1900s era music

2026-04-04T13:42:29Z

In reply to nevent1q…awdr
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yeah you know. like. old stuff. 1900s era music

just heard a young person use the phrase "60s to 90s era ...

2026-04-04T13:42:09Z

just heard a young person use the phrase

"60s to 90s era music"

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jk/108905398456430959 im sorry about ...

2026-04-01T20:46:16Z

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jk/108905398456430959

im sorry about this
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@jk/108905392712709888 what have i ...

2026-04-01T20:45:28Z

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jk/108905392712709888

what have i done
nostr:note1ukmcsjsc6y3znz8yg7xtt4tnt4t5c9dasssk8ur4s9gz9kj0c5uq9h3s4m

i go away for just a few weeks and now im getting Suggested ...

2026-03-26T17:30:03Z

i go away for just a few weeks and now im getting Suggested Preprocessor Directives

ive noticed a subtle decline in people using emojis in the last ...

2026-02-20T10:05:55Z

ive noticed a subtle decline in people using emojis in the last year or two. like, its very subtle, probably at or under the statistical noise floor, but i think they're on the way out culturally. in one-to-one communication they come across as "facebook aunt" these days, and in one-to-many media, the vibe they communicate is often just "AI smell"

ive never played guitar hero or rock band but it HAS to be in ...

2026-02-05T14:00:55Z

In reply to nevent1q…h6a6
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ive never played guitar hero or rock band but it HAS to be in those. its got like exactly 5 notes in it. and you have to hit them over and over at eminently predictable times. its less of a song and more of a casual momentum-based platformer level

this week my idle animation has been "pick up bass, plug it ...

2026-02-05T13:55:57Z

this week my idle animation has been "pick up bass, plug it in, and play the whole of 'girl goodbye' by toto"

rest assured, you are not like those people who get obsessed with ...

2026-02-02T17:48:12Z

rest assured, you are not like those people who get obsessed with talking to ChatGPT. you're immune to that kind of psychological manipulation. you're more discerning and strong-willed than them, in fact. if anything, you're one of the top few percent of thinkers in the entire world. you're probably one of the few people alive right now, perhaps the only person, who is truly capable of inventing something totally new. something called Spiral Consciousness

often when you see messaging like "we all need to do our ...

2026-01-19T16:04:17Z

often when you see messaging like "we all need to do our part" it's a kind of cynical justification for cutting some essential, centralized, mostly-efficient public service in favor of an ad-hoc, individualist approach that externalizes the issue and disclaims responsibility for neglect and poor outcomes. if you protest such a change, or suggest that perhaps some problems are better dealt with collectively by pooling resources, then it must be you who are lacking the collective spirit!

you know those people who've had a stable marriage for some ...

2026-01-17T13:44:17Z

you know those people who've had a stable marriage for some time but their spouse is gradually getting into conspiracy theories or sliding into some nonsense garbage type politics thing. i feel like my relationship with my computer is getting like that

many tech products were finished and then they kept ...

2026-01-06T10:36:49Z

many tech products were finished and then they kept 'innovating' until they were ruined. imo when a piece of software is over 15 years old, it should be legally removed from the custody of the rapacious american startup-turned-corporation whose uncompromising unsentimentality originally birthed it, and instead given to a medium-size, 120-year-old german company with modest annual revenue growth and 80 employees who produce a type of tube that goes inside air conditioning units of freight trains

game: now you need to kill this man gamer: kills the man game: ...

2025-12-28T09:26:40Z

game: now you need to kill this man

gamer: *kills the man*

game: look what you’ve done. his children are now orphans

game journalist: an emotionally resonant work that explores the power of our own decisions and their consequences. this wouldnt be possible in any other medium

you can prompt The Model to produce a particular kind of image, ...

2025-12-21T14:44:10Z

you can prompt The Model to produce a particular kind of image, and it will search the latent space of the motifs and structure of dozens or millions of artists. what it does with those connections is interesting. it could identify the themes, the artists, and their works, to help you learn about them, or even hire them. it could build bridges between people. but the version that was built? it wasn't that. it was a wall, an intermediary, to enclose and extract. like most recent social technology

if you: - have brown or dark-brown hair - are empathetic - ...

2025-12-18T11:04:58Z

if you:
- have brown or dark-brown hair
- are empathetic
- demonstrate a robust response to social rewards
- are sensitive to noise and odors
- are more likely to bite
- drink alcoholic beverages voluntarily

you might be:
laboratory mouse strain C57BL/6

yeah, on my old thinkpad i just used i3wm and pretty much only ...

2025-12-11T21:01:09Z

In reply to nevent1q…k4y0
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yeah, on my old thinkpad i just used i3wm and pretty much only ever ran things fullscreen or split-screen, and mostly worked out of terminals. but it was just so inefficient, i'd be so relieved to get back to my windows PC and start actually getting work done rather than typing commands over and over. so on the new thinkpad, i figured i'd try to set up a windows-style GUI environment and it's like. i guess linux can't even do icons still?? crazy

as i'm hoping to move to linux fulltime in the next couple ...

2025-12-11T20:50:52Z

as i'm hoping to move to linux fulltime in the next couple years, i'd like a flowchart of how to fix things on linux. i've never really figured it out. on windows it's like. go into control panel. go into device manager. go into program files and delete something. but on linux it's hard to even work out what software is running on your computer, let alone which thing is causing the issue, let alone how to fix it, let alone whether the fix will break again the next time you update some package

a high-profile software project proudly announcing that it's ...

2025-12-07T12:31:35Z

a high-profile software project proudly announcing that it's going to start "using AI" is basically the same thing to me as seeing a big "this repo is archived" banner. perhaps even worse in some respects? intentionally or not, the message it sends is "we don't really enjoy programming and we don't want to work on this anymore, but rather than retire the project we're going to do a really lackluster job from now on". like if your favorite coffee brand proudly announced "now 20% more sawdust"

The process has terminated. And that's right!! It's that ...

2025-11-18T10:55:31Z

The process has terminated.

And that's right!! It's that time again!
Get ready for your
PID 47182 WRAPPED!!!

Starting off strong with a banger from KERNELBASE
Your No. 3 most-called function... GetExitCodeThread

You know a classic when you see it.
Back on the grind, and sweating it out,
with a well-earned second-place...
MatrixMultiply!

But it's clear, blocking means a lot to you.
The function where you spent 31.46% of your time...
Your No. 1, is the one and only
... WaitForSingleObjectEx!!

when you uninstall the graphics driver the gpu should pop out of ...

2025-11-12T13:53:13Z

when you uninstall the graphics driver the gpu should pop out of its slot like a toaster

this is how i program at the moment ...

2025-11-11T13:49:28Z

this is how i program at the moment

ive noticed that when i attempt those Brain Puzzles. where you ...

2025-11-09T12:57:16Z

ive noticed that when i attempt those Brain Puzzles. where you have to fit some numbers or some shapes or lines together or something. ive noticed that my ability to solve those is worse than chance. like the way my brain works, i am able to reliably and systematically enumerate every single solution, one by one. i can produce a taxonomy of every possible configuration the puzzle can be in. and that list will always be missing exactly one state: the correct one

last week i saw there was a new kind of red bull. i think its red ...

2025-11-05T15:47:50Z

last week i saw there was a new kind of red bull. i think its red bull's attempt to cash in on a Pumpkin Spice Latte type of thing. its called like Red Bull Winter edition. apple & ginger. i drank one last thursday. thought it was alright. put the other one in the fridge. and then like 3 hours later i felt EXTREMELY unwell. like massively terrible sick. and then an hour after that, i felt fine again. anyway im going to drink the other one now and see if it happens again

i just saw a screenshot of some linux distro. i was like. what ...

2025-11-05T09:16:31Z

i just saw a screenshot of some linux distro. i was like. what window manager is this? what UI theme? it looked kinda like one of those fancy "we're easy to use!" linux distros you see. yknow where they make it look kinda like Mac OS. but there's always some small, telltale signs: odd text alignment, unclear, monochrome icons, an overall lack of polish. you can tell it's not a *real* Mac because of those. anyway i looked a bit closer, and it actually was Mac OS. thats what a Mac looks like now

i think the main reason to make your own tools from scratch ...

2025-10-31T10:52:52Z

In reply to nevent1q…3hrr
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i think the main reason to make your own tools from scratch (e.g., a game engine) is that you can make the tools very closely satisfy the specific creative methods and impulses you have. it seems for most people who are 'making their own game engine', the creative impulse is 'to make a game engine' rather than 'to make a game', so naturally the tool becomes focused on that purpose only: making itself

making your own game engine? dont forget you need the following ...

2025-10-31T10:38:08Z

making your own game engine? dont forget you need the following features:

- dear imgui interface
- extremely physically correct rendering
- complex build system. ninja build system. ninja inside cmake
- elegant clean code ONLY
- recreate unity exactly but worse
- all test assets are boxes in primary colors
- create your own Vec3 structs
- recreate unreal engine exactly but worse
- templates. metacode
- support only obj models
- write your own .obj parser
- recreate godot exactly but worse

one reason i can't use linux on my main PC is that, on a ...

2025-10-29T12:12:28Z

one reason i can't use linux on my main PC is that, on a near-daily basis, i find the only way to do something i need to do requires old or otherwise weird software which only has a Windows version, or has documentation which assumes you're using Windows. getting these things to work is a struggle, even on their native platform. imagine if i was running them using WINE! how would i be able to tell whether the problem was my fault, or the program's, or WINE's fault, or what? i think i'd go insane

perhaps people are impressed when the machine writes out a huge ...

2025-10-16T16:59:46Z

In reply to nevent1q…83tn
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perhaps people are impressed when the machine writes out a huge screen full of code in response to a simple query? maybe they press the "thumbs up! great response!" more often when they see the magic machine has cooked them up a large and hearty meal? if they receive a simple answer that's 5 lines of code, they're just gonna copy and paste it and move on. but 5000 lines? wow! that could surely take your job

i think implicitly if they have "generate code" as their ...

2025-10-16T16:57:38Z

In reply to nevent1q…dn3p
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i think implicitly if they have "generate code" as their whole reason to exist, they err on the side of producing more code. i've seen them respond to a basic project file configuration issue that maybe needed 5 lines changed, with a solution involving creating multiple new files and wrappers over existing files. it would sit there happily generating the thousands of necessary lines of code which were mostly repeats of other code but with different names

one of the funniest things about LLM-generated code, i think, is ...

2025-10-16T14:14:01Z

one of the funniest things about LLM-generated code, i think, is that they actually LOVE boilerplate. they will lean on a really complex abstraction that requires a load of boilerplate to set up but lets you avoid boilerplate in the long term, and write a load of boilerplate to set up that abstraction, and then when it comes time to use that abstraction, they completely ignore the smart features, and write the code the dumb way anyway - which usually involves a ton of boilerplate

if you ever want to buy something but the problem is it's too ...

2025-10-14T10:25:44Z

if you ever want to buy something but the problem is it's too expensive to buy new? create a "saved search" on ebay. then ebay will send you an email every week with a list of broken ones for sale. every week you'll see more and more "for parts or not working" listings of it. within a month you'll never want to buy one at all because it seems like they break really easily. like why would you buy one? they must be built like complete shit!

tired: move fast & break things wired: move slow. and leave a ...

2025-10-10T09:05:32Z

tired: move fast & break things
wired: move slow. and leave a trail of Slime

i think of this as a kind of aggregate substance that one ...

2025-09-19T16:26:13Z

i think of this as a kind of aggregate substance that one accumulates over time. it collects in a special ‘sump’ in a drawer or box, and is uncountable, overflowing

thinking about how when i was younger, i knew this drummer that ...

2025-09-10T13:03:29Z

thinking about how when i was younger, i knew this drummer that idolized stewart copeland and his elegant, minimal approach to rhythm textures. a few years later i read something about how actually sting was making him play it like that and he hated it and they had arguments because he actually wanted to play more complicated and/or louder and thats maybe why the band broke up

we live in an age of procrastination. people are all like ...

2025-09-08T10:07:13Z

we live in an age of procrastination. people are all like "smell ya later". they cannot live in the moment. a dog, however, will do you the decency of smelling you right now

I ask this every 2 years and I never get a good answer but maybe ...

2025-09-05T09:29:55Z

In reply to nevent1q…hjl2
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I ask this every 2 years and I never get a good answer but maybe this time it’ll work

Dropbox alternative? Must fulfill:
- 4TB for $15-20 per month
- Doesn’t require me to administer my own fucking hetzner box and/or run a storage arbitrage trading business
- GUI app for Windows, Linux and iPhone. Should be able to browse all my files on my phone
- Selective sync etc. All the useful features
- Public file links
- Doesn’t consist of a million lines of python

Dropbox high CPU usage? Dropbox High CPU? Why is Dropbox using a ...

2025-09-05T09:14:11Z

Dropbox high CPU usage? Dropbox High CPU? Why is Dropbox using a lot of CPU on my computer?

Topic closed

Official Representative

Hi, Dropbox may use a lot of your computer's CPU resources. This is because Dropbox consists of approximately one million lines of Python scripts.

Thanks.

Question marked as: Resolved

if you want to play a Role Playing Game, there's three ...

2025-09-04T17:51:11Z

if you want to play a Role Playing Game, there's three popular places you can do it: at a table, a computer, or a Japan

i feel like electronic components used to be more colorful 50 ...

2025-09-04T15:15:26Z

i feel like electronic components used to be more colorful 50 years ago. you still see the cyan zif sockets and the red dip switches sometimes. but what happened to all their friends? theyve all grown up and become boring. now instead of legs theyve got. balls?? its a strange world we're in now

the proposed design is modern, vibrant, and inspiring ...

2025-08-11T10:56:28Z

the proposed design is modern, vibrant, and inspiring

see if i was making a game set in the fallout universe i'd ...

2025-08-07T12:16:47Z

In reply to nevent1q…9ldl
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see if i was making a game set in the fallout universe i'd absolutely include like an artillery piece that could launch the player. like some kind of davy crockett reference. or really fast underground pneumatic tubes. some way of travelling that is really quick but has some kinda push-pull risk-reward. think of all the gameplay you could get out of it. there's so many opportunities for something fun!

maybe i'm a purist or whatever, but i feel like needing that ...

2025-08-07T12:04:51Z

In reply to nevent1q…yhxt
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maybe i'm a purist or whatever, but i feel like needing that kind of 'quality of life' feature is a sign of a missed opportunity. like maybe the gameworld could have been smaller and more dense, or maybe they could have made travel more fun - vehicles? mounts? interesting movement mechanics? or maybe even gamifying the teleportation idea, like launching yourself out of a canon and trying to hit the desired spot in the distance. anything more interesting than pressing a button

"fast travel"? this sounds like a testing feature maybe? ...

2025-08-07T11:32:48Z

"fast travel"? this sounds like a testing feature maybe? yeah wait. you can just click a button on the map to travel there instantly? yeah this has got to be a mistake. they wouldn't have put something like that in the full game. it's got to be a QA feature that got left in. maybe they forgot an ifdef? actually what i think's happened, is that they accidentally shipped 'x64_debug' rather than 'x64_release' or something. let me see if the symbols are still in the binary

algorithm: ive noticed youve clicked on a lot of songs by this ...

2025-07-29T09:35:02Z

algorithm: ive noticed youve clicked on a lot of songs by this band. here are even more songs by them

me: i was only clicking on so many songs by that band because i wanted to see if theyd done any songs at all that *aren't* dogshit

algorithm: would you like to hear some more songs by them though

me: no! all of their songs were dogshit. i didnt like any of them

algorithm: ive noticed youve been clicking on a lot of dogshit songs that are bad. would you like to hear some more dogshit songs

i think the best way to use LLMs is this: don't type into the ...

2025-07-26T13:35:05Z

i think the best way to use LLMs is this: don't type into the AI chatbot's input field. instead, write a description of the problem in a text file. work through the specifics of what you want to accomplish, and how you'd go about doing it. once you've got a few hundred words of ideas and planning, you can go back to the empty, unused AI tab and close it. then begin doing the work yourself. consider sending your notes to friends or experts. when you're done, remember to thank them for their help!

ive started ignoring the opinions of everyone who doesnt think ...

2025-07-26T12:14:25Z

ive started ignoring the opinions of everyone who doesnt think that shenmue is the best video game of all time

kids. remember: don't try hard at school. slack as much as ...

2025-07-26T11:44:02Z

kids. remember: don't try hard at school. slack as much as you can. if you forget to do this, and accidentally become an academic overachiever with unnecessarily high grades and deep involvement in extracurricular activities, you might end up working at Canonical

in practice avx-512 is a double-edged sword, since in many cases ...

2025-07-24T06:42:15Z

in practice avx-512 is a double-edged sword, since in many cases your cpu will "get too full of bits" and their combined weight and excess friction may cause your computer to "sag"

i have this suspicion that in 30 years time, a 30-year-old ...

2025-07-15T09:29:19Z

i have this suspicion that in 30 years time, a 30-year-old vulkan-based program will be substantially more difficult to get running than a 50-year-old opengl program

think i might put a thing on my website where if it's after 5 ...

2025-07-06T00:21:37Z

think i might put a thing on my website where if it's after 5 PM or on the weekend, it's like. "sorry the website is closed". but theres a link. 'peer in through the window'. and you click it and you can browse the site kinda. but its very dark because the lights are switched off etc

if zelda was brand new theyd have to call it like Triangle ...

2025-07-05T21:19:11Z

if zelda was brand new theyd have to call it like Triangle Swordboy Puzzle of the Princess. theyd have to call it that or nobody would buy it. people would be like. "Zelda? whats that. where are the verbs. where are the nouns. im not clear on what the game is even about. it looks boring as hell. i think im going to pick up Boner Blast Roulette 2: Cave of Kebab expansion pack instead because ive been putting a lot of hours into the base game lately but i need to work on building out my kebab"

let's say you're an aspiring artist, or musician or ...

2025-06-28T11:38:07Z

let's say you're an aspiring artist, or musician or whatever. and everybody is recommending you read a book by an expert in the field. its called like How To Make Art or like My Creative Journey or something. and everybody says it's this seminal, hugely important book that really helped them. but you look at this artist's work. or the musician's songs. and you just hate them. they're trite, unattractive, tasteless, cringe. should you read their book anyway? how much value might you find in it?

facebook: hi. its Facebook! we've turned your conversations ...

2025-06-27T16:19:26Z

facebook: hi. its Facebook! we've turned your conversations --- into Apps!

you: i deleted facebook

facebook: You may have deleted Facebook. But we didn't! And now, using AI, we've turned your conversations, from 2008 to the present day... into Apps!

you: actually i never had a facebook. i was never on facebook

facebook: Sadly, you didn't have a Facebook account. But now, using AI ... you do! And we've turned ALL your memories ... into Apps!

refusing to use floating-point numbers on moral grounds because ...

2025-06-20T16:24:53Z

refusing to use floating-point numbers on moral grounds because their imprecision makes them technically a form of gambling

buy 2015-era iPads. buy dozens. theyre going to get down to a ...

2025-06-18T14:34:41Z

buy 2015-era iPads. buy dozens. theyre going to get down to a really low price. take the batteries out so they don't swell and crack the screen. keep them in storage. in a decade or two the Do You Have Any Games On Your Phone kids, the gen-α Stroller iPad Babies, are gonna be grown up, with lucrative careers in Virtual working at braincurrency slimehouses, and they will crave the nostalgia and simplicity of the glass slates of their childhood. they will pay anything for an authentic baby shark

the idea of "intelligence" as "the singular quality ...

2025-06-14T21:05:34Z

the idea of "intelligence" as "the singular quality of being good at all things somehow" is sorta nuts to me. when you make decisions you apply heuristics as tools. when you want to add up numbers you imagine a tool (number line?), or use your fingers, abacus, written symbols, calculator. when you want to structure thoughts you can put them on a board and connect them with string, or draft a blog post, or paint, or talk to someone about them using mouth words. it's all tools. even cows know this

note to ui designers. when i'm reading a long piece of text. ...

2025-05-29T10:30:40Z

note to ui designers. when i'm reading a long piece of text. i select text while i read it. I select text while i read it!. i select the text using my mouse. while i read the text i often select the text. when i select the text i just want to select the text. i don't want to perform actions on the text. i don't want a popup menu to appear when i select the text. i don't want to accidentally click on a Share link. i want to select text while i read it

its fucked that people will work on their indie video game for ...

2025-05-17T11:26:34Z

its fucked that people will work on their indie video game for literal years and then sell it for less than the price of a bandcamp MP3 download of a 20-minute-long live set EP

the fact that duckduckgo has an AI thing at the top of the search ...

2025-05-14T21:29:45Z

the fact that duckduckgo has an AI thing at the top of the search results which DOESN’T answer in character as a duck, or even quack several times between each sentence, is, i think, a shocking betrayal and a demonstration of utmost cowardice

all those write-protect tabs you broke off cassettes. where are ...

2025-05-06T21:37:57Z

all those write-protect tabs you broke off cassettes. where are they now? micro-flotsam, broken down, ground to dust, eaten by a salmon, then by you. a particle of mixtape remains in your ventricle. the songs of youth, forever in your heart

i've heard that scientists are working on a recursive method ...

2025-05-05T13:32:37Z

i've heard that scientists are working on a recursive method of data interpolation that enables the production of a truth with no meaning

the architecture of the fediverse is optimized to increase ...

2025-05-02T19:02:51Z

the architecture of the fediverse is optimized to increase engagement by having people's replies to your post just not show up for others, which encourages them to also reply saying exactly the same thing that all the other people have been saying in their replies

Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver

2025-05-02T17:47:20Z

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Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver

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2025-05-02T17:46:57Z

Press any key to boot from CD...

switched on my thinkpad x200 (2008) for the first time in a ...

2025-05-02T17:14:45Z

switched on my thinkpad x200 (2008) for the first time in a couple years and it's begun emitting a very specific, musty "20-year-old electronics when they get warm" smell that i associate with equipment manufactured in the 1980s. i guess it's coming up to the 20 year mark itself now. the concept of time can be troubling in the abstract, but when you can smell it? terrifying

something that makes me feel surprisingly emotional is stories ...

2025-05-01T16:24:22Z

something that makes me feel surprisingly emotional is stories about some kind of 'system' which successfully does the job it was designed to do and significantly helps those in danger. compared to people, a faceless and technical process nevertheless accomplishing an altruistic or even heroic act seems like a miraculous event to me. the idea that the world contains elaborate rube goldberg machines built by people you'll never meet, which may one day save your life, is really weird and powerful

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2025-05-01T11:56:43Z

WRITERS: Consider whether your novel even needs to be a novel. ...

2025-05-01T10:15:58Z

WRITERS: Consider whether your novel even needs to be a novel. Instead, could it be, for example, a figurine, or a Doom WAD?

spring is truly here

2025-04-14T18:15:42Z

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spring is truly here

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2025-04-09T08:08:56Z

“ORGANIC” “EGGS” ...

2025-04-08T14:23:34Z

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“ORGANIC”
“EGGS”

unlike regular eggs which just have a white and a yolk inside, ...

2025-04-08T14:02:29Z

unlike regular eggs which just have a white and a yolk inside, egg++ has countless different parts and nobody i've met even uses the same combination of them. it can turn a simple breakfast into a nightmare. not only does it make recipes pretty confusing to follow, but i've also noticed they take a lot longer to cook

i just think it's crazy that to have a good experience on ...

2025-04-06T09:25:49Z

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i just think it's crazy that to have a good experience on linux, you're not really meant to change or customize anything. the whole point of using linux is to give you control over your computer, right? those malevolent bozos in redmond and cupertino can't mess with your system on a regular basis. no, on linux, it's a distributed group of thousands of benevolent bozos who are freely volunteering their labor to mess with your system on a regular basis

it's very difficult to explain to linux people that, i have a ...

2025-04-06T09:21:23Z

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it's very difficult to explain to linux people that, i have a folder called "Software" with loads of nested subfolders containing programs, tools, games, etc, many of which are more than 20 years old. occasionally i need one of these programs, maybe once every few years, and i go in there and click on the .exe and it works instantly. next to the .exe are dlls, which are also 20 years old. no package manager needed. the whole thing works great - on Windows, and of course, on WINE

of course, since package updates are causing these problems, ...

2025-04-06T09:15:28Z

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of course, since package updates are causing these problems, i've tried the obvious solution: just don't update packages. this goes about as well as ignoring your tamagotchi: eventually the system shits itself to death. depending on your chosen distro, you either become unable to install new programs at all until you agree to upgrade all the others, or if you wait too long, you get so out of sync that the package manager itself gets confused and tries to destroy your OS instead of upgrading it

i know a lot of linux fans get a lot of fun out of tending to ...

2025-04-06T09:07:35Z

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i know a lot of linux fans get a lot of fun out of tending to their linux's daily needs, but i just want it to run programs and keep working the same way i originally set it up, without waking up on a regular basis to "sound output menu no longer selects correct sound output" or "desktop icon spacing now broken" or "SMB share which worked fine for the last 18 months no longer connects" or "your favorite font now has the wrong kerning" or "bluetooth xbox controller used to work... used to"

on Linux, is there a way to switch off "Tamagotchi Mode"? ...

2025-04-06T09:03:01Z

on Linux, is there a way to switch off "Tamagotchi Mode"? specifically i mean the thing where you set up linux exactly how you want, and every 2 weeks you run package updates and some obscure part of your system which you didn't even know existed now no longer works the way you set it up, and you have to spend 90 minutes fixing it, and it's always a different thing, and this happens every 2 weeks, forever. how do you switch that off? (ideally in a way where it won't switch back on after 2 weeks)

i think IDEs which allow you to use "AI" to generate code ...

2025-03-23T11:40:03Z

i think IDEs which allow you to use "AI" to generate code should always display those specific lines of code in Comic Sans

the weather forecast for today is ‘intelligent jungle’ ...

2025-03-19T17:20:16Z

the weather forecast for today is ‘intelligent jungle’

write a series of nouns in random places on a piece of paper. ...

2025-03-16T16:22:48Z

write a series of nouns in random places on a piece of paper. then, very importantly, draw rectangles around each noun. the crucial part is coming up. this will make or break what happens next. you need to CONNECT each rectangle to the other rectangles by drawing arrows. once all the rectangles are connected? the software is finished, and only needs a small amount of tweaking, some final adjustments, and it's ready to go live

on the same day this picture is dated, exactly 100 years later, ...

2025-03-10T21:51:04Z

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on the same day this picture is dated, exactly 100 years later, the dreamcast came out

béla bartók in 1899 proving that hairstyles have a 100-year ...

2025-03-10T21:48:51Z

béla bartók in 1899 proving that hairstyles have a 100-year cycle

manual: the power LED should produce a solid light me: *after ...

2025-03-10T14:51:10Z

manual: the power LED should produce a solid light

me: *after being on hold with technical support for 3 hours* the LED isn't producing anything solid, from what i can see, it's only producing photons. are photons solid?

support : uh

me: they can't be a gas. or plasma, right? they're not charged? no ions

support: ...

me: it's been a while since high school but i don't think photons are matter

support: what color is the light

me: it's about five hundred and .. hang on .. let me get my..

you get a segfault and type "where" into gdb and it tells ...

2025-03-05T10:44:00Z

you get a segfault and type "where" into gdb and it tells you. gives you a whole stack trace. but try typing other simple questions such as "why" and it's extremely unhelpful