I'm behind on this, but the winners of the National Grammar Day Poetry Contest last week were all great. If you're looking for a quick, delightful diversion, check them out!
me when i spend twenty minutes writing an optimised version of a function only to discover that my """optimisations""" have created a 45% slowdown
(aside: this was my first time tracing something with shading. it's still tracing, of course, but now i know how to do basic shading. all my drawings (digital paintings? ePaintings?) until now have been flat colours, save for textured clothes and hair, so that's a pretty decent improvement! oh, and here's the reference image)
Ren & Stimpy Waking Up Scene or Ralph Bakshi Wakes Up refers to a Ren & Stimpy “Adult Party Cartoon” scene of fire chief Ralph Bakshi waking up and staring into nothingness.
@matdevdug: "...there's something quietly beautiful about a place where people just... share what they know. No brand deals, no engagement metrics, no algorithm nudging you toward rage. Just someone who spent twenty years studying Arctic policy posting a thread at 2 AM because they think you should understand what's happening. It's the internet I was promised in 1996. It only took thirty years and the complete collapse of American journalism to get here."
I have never been an "online community first" person. The internet is how I stay in touch with people I met in real life. I'm not a "tweet comments at celebrities" guy. I was never funny enough to be the funniest person on Twitter.
In the country which cannot afford healthcare for its own people, Trump is spending $2 billion per day on an unnecessary war with Iran. Billion… with a B.
The result tells me it's still a long way to go before #Passkeys are established. There are enthusiasts among you, but the majority do not use them. Thank you for joining in. #keepassXC #nextcloud
A survey for all users of the password manager #KeePassXC :
How many #Passkeys do you have already in your vault(s)?
Tagging #nextcloud as well as many users have their vault in their private cloud.
Please retoot.
Also, she heard that you said you love her and she says “mutual I’m sure” as if she were a background dancer in the White Christmas movie. #BatsInBlankets #BatsInMyBelfry
I'm poking through an old blog where something has gone wrong with the CSS and emoji images are being loaded not at text size but as unstyled SVGs which expand to the size of the container, and it REALLY adds something to the good ol' passive-aggressive friendly smile
Manet's famous painting Un Bar aux Folies-Bergère never appealed to me. But now I realize its genius, and my spine tingles every time I see it.
The perspective looks all wrong. You're staring straight at this barmaid, but her reflection in the mirror is way off to right. Even worse, her reflection is facing a guy who doesn't appear in the main view!
But in 2000, a researcher showed this perspective is actually possible!!! To prove it, he did a photographic reconstruction of this scene. Check it out in my next post.
"The most wildly successful project I’ve ever released is no longer mine. In all my years of building things and sharing them online, I have never felt so violated."
I recently published an article on my personal blog about the history of WigglyPaint, how it works internally, and my feelings regarding the flood of unscrupulous websites and mobile apps which have s...
I was an Oberon fan/user back in the v2 and v4 days. I remember reading some code from the University of Linz that was in German and it was the first time I realized that programming didn't need to be in English, that there was really no reason it couldn't be in someone's native language as long as there was a character set for it. I think Oberon had always been at least Latin-1, and at the time I heard through the grapevine that there were Russian variants, probably lost to time now.
Then, stubbing my toe on Plan 9 and Unicode.
And now, I have to admit, wondering what tal would look like mapped to Maya script. 😂 But the Toki Pona rabbit hole will do for now.
Gold mining kills indigenous peoples throughout the world like the Yanomami people of Brazil and Papuans in West Papua. The bloody, violent and greedy landgrabbing that goes on for gold forces indi…
@emil it has a kind of screw type head. I just looked, and the refills are sold locally for me, they're 6$ for a new head. But from what I could see online, people loose them before it gets time to refill them X)
Valve put up their Steam Year In Review 2025 and initially, they made it seem like their hardware plans were a lot more uncertain but they've since clarified.
A Unit of time measurement similar to normal time, however very flexible - something that Valve says might take a week could take a day, or something that they say might take a month, will take a year. Generally fluid.
No te creas, uso un programa algo antiguo que funciona correctamente pero mi Win10 no lo quiere, tengo que usar en un portátil con Win 7. Asimismo uso otro en Win10 que no puede actualizarse porque mi Win10 no lo soporta y yo en medio porque no soporto a ninguno de los dos. No son programas genericos por lo que la opción es quedarme como estoy.
actually there are programs that you can no longer install on Windows for various reasons: 16 bit Windows programs, some programs have been made incompatible on purpose (they continue working when you update Windows, but a new install fails), some others you can no longer register and activate, but have to buy a new license for.
old programs call old libs with release number 0.0.1 . So they dont start until the old lib is found e.g from the internet. Then the next other lib is missing and takes more time. Also this may get insecure without checking hash codes. The bragging phrase it might be installed is prooved false for many old lib calls
Step 8: "sensible cebtrists" try to make the occupation slightly less of a shitshow and cop 100% of the blame Step 9: hawks run for office on a "stop the war" platform.
@wilbr Thanks for the reply and all your great comics over the years. For real I thought it was a new one, so it's pretty funny that it actually was a repost. I was being silly about how it feels just like 2001 again but with even less competency.
genuine question, why is your alt text in all caps? perhaps you didn’t know this, but some screenreader software will read out each capital letter, rather than the full word. it’s also harder to parse visually for sighted folks, especially those with dyslexia. just wondering if you’d ever be open to converting it to sentence case at titlecase.com or something
War isn't stupid. American citizens are stupid for electing people that clearly lying. Them they get us into war, lie about the enemy having weapons and these morons believe it.
another aspect that pisses me off is Trump didn't even try to manufacture consent for the inevitable war crimes committed in our name. He thinks so little of us.
Researchers exploring Bolivia’s Great Tectonic Lakes discovered a landscape transformed over centuries by sophisticated engineering and diverse agricultural traditions.
This post against "age certification" laws is yet another reason I'm proud of our local Colorado Linux computer factory, @system76blog.system76.com/post/system7…
I sense something brewing with the issue of incorrectly managed copyright renewals and Public Domain Philip K. Dick stories. We have already seen the news about…
Forest 500 report shows 150 of the world’s largest financial institutions invested nearly $9 trillion in deforestation-linked industries. Support EUDR!
i think the mastodon app is missing the heading for this error message and is only displaying the summary/description. it makes for an oddly poetic popup.
![a blog comment where someone says: Mark: devising one fairly impractical encryption scheme and then rejecting it isn't really strong grounds for rejecting the idea of encryption. [smiley emoji but absolutely incredibly enormous]](https://keybored.me/photo/preview/640/1411852 "a blog comment where someone says: Mark: devising one fairly impractical encryption scheme and then rejecting it isn't really strong grounds for rejecting the idea of encryption. [smiley emoji but absolutely incredibly enormous]")
![A rocky strip in-focus between blurry waters. [Fuji X-T5 / Sigma 17-40 1.8]](https://keybored.me/photo/preview/640/1411828 "A rocky strip in-focus between blurry waters. [Fuji X-T5 / Sigma 17-40 1.8]")
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