what if humans were the real monsters

"yes i want my jamming to be interrupted every six minutes by a minute and thirty seconds of nonsense about a mortgage" < who says this

why does anyone use spotify, what an actually awful platform.

why does anyone use anything with ads

"ai" would be really great actually if not for capitalism

violating the wtfpl by not doing whatever the fuck i want

if Scatman John had a lisp do you think he would have gotten into programming instead?

imagine what speedruns are going to look like once every AAA game is vibecoded

this is one of those things that seems so wildly unusual but that i've never seen anyone actually discuss. weird elephant.

i dislike how so many online services ask which city you're from. i don't live in a city and i never have

how do you prefer your sword art?

20 years ago, normal people avoided technology and techies would jump on the newest gadgets as soon as they could.

Now, normal people buy smart toasters & coffee mugs while every techie I know is on the verge of retreating to the forest.

RE: https://sns.minovsky.space/objects/171c713b-5dca-4bb1-af06-10ff4b43244d

Waiting for Emacs...

update: my working tree was dirty. i hate git grr grr

at the very least, i do have godot-4.7.1-stable running on my machine. but i don't feel confident upstreaming the change until i know the dependencies i needed to bump won't fuck everything else up with it

how it started: "it's annoying how godot doesn't capture my cursor properly... oh, it's fixed in the newest version. let me update that."

how it's going: "kdevelop-5 was removed from guix but i can't test my recompilation of harfbuzz unless i can get kdevelop to compile first"

Does anyone in philly need a nice place to stay for $775 a month (negotiable)? My friend's roommate left just as they renewed the contract and can't afford the full amount on their own, DM for more info.

#mutualaid

how do people not have a visceral reaction when seeing advertisements

have they tried prompting the intelligence to be general yet? are they stupid?