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on bad necrocomputing takes 

Sometimes I see takes like "computers used to be able to do the same job using way less resources, software is shit nowadays"

And I can only wonder whether they've ever developed software back when real-time compositing was unaffordably expensive, and so was proper process isolation, and a million other 'modern conveniences' that make software, y'know, not suck

guess i'll do a timed mute till it's off my timeline....

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Another week, another hip "twice as fast as React" library where the fine print is that it doesn't handle edgecases

How to draw foxes! Tip no. 1:
Foxes are just shapes.

Including and especially the truncated great icosahedron.

I really put the "head empty" in "no thoughts"

drugs shitpost 

Remote Coke Execution (RCE)

This week really needs another reminder that ‘respect for the dead’ is demanded by the oppressor, but not given in return. To not speak ill is another form of ‘being nice’, of decorum imposed by a white supremacist society.

Celebrating the death of evil men is a form of punching up, a final form of accountability that they eluded in life, and a speaking out against which their privileged position can no longer protect them.

Rejoice in their passing. The blood on their hands demands it.

@wgahnagl when will reports start marking themselves as resolved when you suspend the instance

when will the moderation interface allow you to respond to reports with an instance ban

yesterday I paused this live set and it's on the funniest freeze frame of someone in the crowd looking shocked dressed in what I can only describe as Minion-core

reddit implosion, rant about privilege, call-out 

I *really* hope that people will draw lessons from the current Reddit implosion, particularly those who are privileged enough to be able to build their own alternatives.

I'm so, so tired of this endless cycle of "people build marginalized communities on VC-funded platforms because there's no other viable options, then the mods burn out because of bad support from the platform, and eventually the platform hangs them out to dry and destroys the communities".

And this isn't to blame *only* on the VC-funded platforms themselves, either. I can think of quite a few well-off people who certainly have the means to build something better, but chose not to, because using Reddit or whatever was easier.

If you're a well-paid software developer who spends most of their time being excited about new tech, rather than spending it being concerned about their own safety or health, then I am talking about you. Yes, also if you're queer.

Solidarity also means putting in the work that you are able to, to help others who can't. Not just going "uwu I'm so queer" and pulling up the ladder behind you just because *you* are comfortable.

why am i so tired. no way it has anything to do with it being 26.5°C at my desk

people who watch videos out loud on the train WILL be launched into the sun. except this one guy who is currently watching Buurman&Buurman with the most serious expression I have ever seen.

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