Amikke @Amikke@qoto.org

You guys! It's here! It's finally here! Party like it's Y2K38! 🎉

https://www.calendar-australia.com/holiday/easter-sunday/4-20-2025/

Person A only uses their own false knowledge of group B and has no idea how group B life really is.

Changelog: Windows finally runs natively under #Emacs. The long-awaited feature ships with the new Emacs version released today on April 1, 2023. Just hit M-x mswindows-mode and don't turn off your computer, this will take a while.

Remember back when search engines were somewhat usable? That was nice. #comics

Pinterest users are not allowed to be born on the 1st of January, 1970

People of France: Your long national nightmare is over. I hereby gift you words for 70, 80, and 90:
Septante
Huitante
Neuvante

You are welcome. You can put my statue in the courtyard of the Académie Française.

I have finished by masterpiece!

Although to be fair when I think about Twitter discourse it feels like React has been around for about 100 years.

They're still doing this? 😄

I have no respect for Medium, but if they add an AI and call it the Medium Language Model I will have a *little* respect for them.

the problem with arguing nobody thinks that is on the internet there is always somebody who thinks that.

non-technical PMs after learning to use chatGPT

If your #github project uses #stalebot you are being actively hostile to your community and should stop it.

I'm looking at you, #esphome, and the 4 (at least!) identical bugs indicating problems with esp_touch that were all closed by stalebot. Some of them were reproduced and started discussion and debugging before being closed.

Auto-closing is for #support requests, not #bug reports. Bugs don't magically disappear just because you ignore them.

i'm not against cheap sketchy solutions to stuff.

"okay, this is shit, but it was obvious that it was, and i'm on a budget, so i'll settle for the shit solution since that's all i can manage for the moment."

what's less acceptable for me is when there's no warning. "hey, this sounds like a bargain" and then it turns out it was just 3 sketchy solutions in a trench coat.

it's a dick move on the part of HDD manufacturers to sell SMR drives without writing in big fat bold letters on them that they're the trashy option.

so

normal hard drives are now known as CMR (Conventional Magnetic Recording) drives. they had to retrospectively invent a name for them, now that there's a worse option in town.

these new ones are SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording).

so, on a normal hard drive, data is stored a bit like on a vinyl record, on parallel tracks.

what SMR does is actually to put these tracks a little bit too close together. normally, this would ruin the data on the next track over, but the way they fix it is to compensate. turns out you can pack them closer together if you make sure to counteract the magnetic flux in JUST the right way.

but you HAVE to write out several tracks as a group to do this. and this group is called a zone.

unlike regular drives, where you can write out a single sector of 4 kB, on these drives, you're looking at writing out 256 MB or more if you're only changing a single sector of data.

if you're writing out big files, this is fine, but performance for small random writes is going to be horrible. the technique relies heavily on caching and writing out later to work properly.

so they're not very good, *especially* not for things like NAS or DB servers, where you *really* want stuff to be written to disk immediately for the sake of data integrity.

Typescript is doing a better job of teaching me advanced use of types than almost 30 years of knowing java