With the power of local models, your navigation app can now mispronounce place names in a different way with each direction

steve jobs to bill atkinson, pointing at a blackberry bush: pointy corners are everywhere!

all this arguing about corner radii. but what courageous soul will be the first to introduce windows with extra-pointed corners

stationary bicycle for the mind
https://mastodon.social/@MattBinder/117396483434067510

to enable language extensions, add `#include <stdn't.h>`

@xan you're 13 years late to the party https://panic.com/blog/the-lightning-digital-av-adapter-surprise/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/117388441530035356

have you tried turning your cable off and on again

weekend pomera updates:
- i made a script that cobbles together an "immutable" NetBSD root filesystem out of the install sets with my local /etc changes, mounting /tmp and /var on tmpfs to avoid eMMC wear. thanks to NetBSD's cross-build support, i can assemble the system mostly offline, except for pkgsrc packages. would be nice to have a guix-like for other Unixes
- got multiple VTs working with the display
- started wiring up sensors like battery and USB power
- made the power button work

RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@thezenlady/117385793179482128

i was skeptical at first, but now i'm on board with the moby-dick sequel

Proposition: Require all internet connected wearable devices to emit a “banshee-like wail” while recording

they theorize that Stonehenge was built as some sort of ancient timekeeping device. but it's impossible to say because the online service it used to look up the time is no longer active

we must separate the art from the artist. into the centrifuge you go

i read an article about syntax highlighting that said "don't use bold or italics because they're redundant with color highlighting." but consider,

SNES emulator that detects when it's running under omarchy and quietly enables the Earthbound copy protection hacks that make the game more annoying to play and crash and lose your save right before the ending

RE: https://chaos.social/@cnlohr/117312800755888388

greatness can sometimes be found in the most unlikely of places

👀 the developer of the Haiku Firefox port has been working on a native backend to replace the GTK/Wayland emulation layer! https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/mozilla-officially-gave-us-permission-to-use-the-firefox-name-on-haiku/19582/25

tired: `'0' + n` only works in ASCII, and char arithmetic is an accident of C language design. new languages should not allow it

inspired: `char + n` should be allowed, and should work for any numeric `char`

that’s more like it. got my hacky console driver shaped up into a proper wsdisplay device, and got a start on talking to the keyboard

Is this how using Unix actually felt in the 1970s

duo? boring. wake me up when your phone can Quattro