Amikke @Amikke@qoto.org

How to tell your OSS is ridiculously popular: people aren't 100% sure they _didn't_ embed it, and tack on the software equivalent of "packaged in a facility where peanuts were also present" to the license list.

This watch contains software, so statistically probably contains at least traces of curl.

In the old #ASCII days, you could change a letter between upper and lower case by XORing its character code with 0x20. Of course, if you tried this with anything that wasn't a letter, you'd get nonsense results.

If you try that with #Unicode code points, it sometimes works, and sometimes doesn't. But Unicode can deliver much more impressive nonsense when it doesn't.

A fun example I just found: the "lower-case" version of CAR is NO PEDESTRIANS.

>>> chr(ord('') ^ 0x20)
''

I was joking on Tumblr that two things I think the US should do are:
1. Revive the Superconducting Supercollider project (canceled in 1993)
2. Build a ton of high speed rail.

So why not combine the two? With a Superconducting Supercollider Train you could cut the travel time between New York & LA down from 6.5 hours to 13 milliseconds!

According to all known laws of DNS, there is no way a fedi instance could be hosted on an .ARPA domain.
Even if you get ahold of a domain like this, it should only be used for PTR records - right?

The instance, of course, federates anyway - because DNS doesn't care what humans think is impossible.

to be honest, arduino's compilation time is pretty fast, when you realize it does it all In The Cloud, and it has to make a dial-up connection each time, and that 286 they've got only has 4 modems, so sometimes it has to redial

@anthropy When I was at Microsoft, backwards compatibility was the main excuse the Windows team used for not fixing terrifying design flaws. And yet, I have more success running old 32-bit Windows apps on WINE on an AArch64 CPU (with no 32-bit support in hardware) under emulation in Rosetta than on a modern Windows machine. And they often run faster.

In the last 20 years, WINE has gone from ‘maybe it will work on WINE, if you’re really lucky’ to ‘oh, it doesn’t work on Windows 11? Try WINE on another OS, it will probably be fine’.

The WINE 10.0 change list looks amazing:
- ARM support
- Many graphics pipeline and touch input improvements, could be worth trying this with programs like Paint tool SAI and CSP
- Better high DPI and scaling support
- Native Wayland support
- Improved COM/RPC proxies and calling
- Moving from GStreamer to FFmpeg for decoding things should improve many things, also things like game intro videos etc.
- and much more

https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-10.0

#TikTok

I have broken my windows in a unique way: I'm using a high-DPI display, but my menu size and some other metrics are set wrong.

This happened for reasons. But since Windows 10 removed the Appearances control panel, you can't fix it.

what if I use a ported Windows 8 appearances control panel? THAT'S HOW I BROKE IT IN THE FIRST PLACE

I don't know how we expect to deal with e-mail fraud when we keep insisting on unworkable solutions like "make sure you don't click scary links", while at the same time sending security reviews from external services nobody has heard of with links to third party services.

It's clear that "not sending employees to third party services they have never heard of" is a lost cause, so security needs to STOP suggesting that and instead start figuring out how to deal with it.

Someone here asked for tips from ADHD or AuDHD people who used to be messy but have become more tidy.

This me! My tips are:

1) The perfect is the enemy of the good. Learn to "half ass" cleaning and tidying. A little bit of tidying of most important places is better than doing nothing because I can't face cleaning my entire space perfectly.

2) Audiobooks and podcasts (or music if you prefer) while doing routine boring tasks like washing dishes or putting away clothes.

3) Lean into the autistic love for routine and optimisation, challenging myself to design the most efficient way to do a task and then doing it exactly the same way each time (so soothing!)

4) A to do list on an app to remind me of routine tasks.

5) No harsh self talk. Self compassion is essential.

#ActuallyAutistic @actuallyautistic
#ActuallyAdhd

Standing offer: got a fix for a Linux kernel issue and don't want to engage with LKML? Convince me that it probably makes sense and I'll deal with the bullshit for you

Can developers please stop with these completely useless homepages for your project, I came to your website to know more about your project, I don't need the entire screen to be taken up by some fancy CSS you've put together unless your project is somehow related to fancy effects. Save that for your blog.