as it happens, there's also plenty of people who care and give a shit, so i don't think i'm going to run out of interesting new media either

"it's here to stay! you can't get rid of it! stop dreaming of a better world!"

buddy, if i only read books, played games, and listened to music published before this decade, i would never run out of interesting and compelling works of art to feed my mind with. I don't *have* to buy anything you people make.

me and my 10,000 advertising partners saw you from across the bar and we wanted to let you know you're looking very mandatory arbitrationable tonight with this updated end user license agreement

thanks to ai, saying you're "dating a model" is a lot less likely to impress anyone nowadays

oh, i spotted some heart warming #vandalism while out and about earlier today #neverslop

I wonder if replacing the internal coin battery might be what it needs 🤔

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@aeva/110165589118610199

Oh hey, my old X61 tablet no longer boots and the indicator lights are unresponsive to being plugged into an otherwise working charger (I tested the charger with other thinkpads of the same generation and it works fine)...

Anyone got any ideas on how I might revive it? I remember giving up on it before because I tried to replace the ram and the replacement ram I got was faulty, but I don't remember that interfering with it receiving power. The thing's just been sitting on a shelf w/o battery.

side thought: I don't get people who are adverse to reading code written by other people. how on earth did you people learn to program?

life hack: live longer by dying on fewer hills

one of the more useful things I realized at some point for how to be a good code reviewer is "that's not how I'd do it" is not constructive feedback and is not a valid reason to request a change, and if you can't think of an actual good reason to block a review, you can save a lot of time for everybody involved by just chilling out about it

trying to teach my cats 6-7 but they won't listen

me, swearing: OGG VORB IT

what's the deal with two factor authentication
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i come back to work after a weekend and it's like girl what are you doing here
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for every fucking thing.
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i'm amazed that the two factor app doesn't require two additional two factor things to unlock
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should have called it twenty factor
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you there, info cop. in the back. I see you taking notes. don't get any fucking ideas
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the key word here is "pretend"

I can almost pretend I've escaped surveillance crapitalism

you know, maybe this is just a sign that I don't check my email anymore, or maybe my adhd has just filtered out the concept entirely from my daily swim through the sewage we call modern life, but I don't think I've seen a single ✨ Your Human Shell Hollowed Out By Consumerism 2025 Report Card ✨ thingies yet for this year 😇

I'm considering replacing the register machine I wrote with an evaluator graph as a convenience for polyphony, but this would also open up the possibility of live editing patches. My register machine allows for no flow control, and each operation has at most two inputs and exactly one output. This is geometrically very convenient, so I'm thinking maybe something grid based to hopefully keep it simple.

what if I made a little visual programming language for my synthesizer 🤔

I got a really slick audio recorder ("H1 Essential") in the mail today :D

POV: I've turned you into a cardboard box