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as a reverse engineer, there is nothing I love more than seeing this:
int ivar3 = FUN_2980348();
if(ivar3!=0){
abort_with_message("R0SystemInit failed!");
}

you might as well just give me the symbols at that point

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i hope anyone who gets mad about defederation on mastodon doesn’t get caught using a spam filter on their email or an ad blocker on their web browser 🙄

If I were Western Union, I simply wouldn't use tickmarks as the bulletpoint style for a list of things you're *not* supposed to send money for

If you ever find yourself in Glasgow, be sure to check out the subway subway subway subway subway subway

Next time you read a paper about the allegedly-magical capabilities of machine learning, it’s helpful to remember that pigeons can diagnose mammograms with 85% accuracy with sufficient training

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/

BREAKING: Ban on "violent ideology" comes into spotlight, as many online commentators question why supporting politics which leave hundreds of thousands dead is supposedly less violent than violently replacing them.

oh. is amazon s3 "distributed storage"? in that case i guess i'm a distributed programming expert, ive used boto3 before

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❌ fines levied against companies as a dollar value

✅ fines levied against companies as a percentage of their revenue from each year in which the offense was committed

i figured, nobody needs a long-winded wall of text explaining why meta is bad anyway. it's just a known fact. this is fedi, after all. but i underestimated people's capacity and tolerance for bullshit lol

if i could do it again knowing what i know now i would've done it the moment i had the idea and taken the time to really hammer out something solid and cite my fucking sources and all that

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Periodic reminder: capitalism has never existed without slavery and still doesn't

Whoever decided that the F1 button—prime real estate on a keyboard—would be the "bring up a help window" button vastly overestimated the helpfulness of the documentation that it would ever provide

I was specifically told that billionaires just rise to the top if they deserve it.

lmao @ all the "respectable" tech peeps

who're too afraid to link fedipact.online/ directly because of the CSS

and instead give out links to fedidb.org/current-events/anti as if it's the main source on the subject

i see you lmao 👁️

i'll say it for the record, in case it wasn't clear

the purpose of The Pact is to embolden instances to commit to blocking project92/barcelona/threads

a lotta peeps were already talking bout preemptively blocking it since the march leaks, me included

and the idea popped into my head that maybe if we had like, y'know, a thingy peeps could sign to show their support for it

it might weaken that argument that it's like pointless or whatever

and might make that choice easier to make

#FediPact

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