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social media is anything but and mastodon has not ever been and will not ever be better than twitter or any similar contrived microblogging platform for as long as it retains the favourite button

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i make music: maple.pet/music

i make open source tech tools and toys: maple.pet/tech

i started the netizen club and the link cache, to help my yearning for a simpler internet: links.netizen.club/

i'm looking for work. if you know anyone who needs someone with 8+ years professional experience plumbing nearly any sort of bespoke tech, talk to me.

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if you like a post where a person is talking about killing themselves that means that you like that that person wants to kill themselves, there is no other interpretation for the wording x has liked your post that i can infer in good faith and this is why i tell people not to like my negative posts unless they like that i'm in misery because if you want to convey anything else you have 26 letters and punctuation at your disposal

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this was one of the pictures in the ebay listing for a keychain magic 8 ball from china

arm-none-eabi/bin/ld: region 'RAM' overflowed by 540 bytes

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turns out SMS Plus runs pretty ok so far on the ?

no CPU overclock. no framebuffer. ROM currently in flash but SD loading to PSRAM is feasible for no (commercial) ROM size limit.

and this is 1.3, not the usually ported 0.9.3

netizen.club/~wildweasel/golfm - Perhaps I was taken in a fit of sleep-deprived punnery, or distant memories of Mad Magazine type nonsense. But here is a list of... entirely fictional golf movies.

windows is so much better than Linux if only because i don't feel patronised every time i turn my computer on

"but documentation is good actually" Manpages are the worst fucking kind of documentation known to mankind and the only good ones are the ones written sarcastically

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if i need to read a manpage to learn how to Fucking do a Normal Established Thing in my Computer i'm turning you off and returning you to the dumpster i picked you up from

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manpage is one of the main reasons normal people will never enjoy or even consider to use Linux

@arielmt "burrr u have to manpage it omgg u don't know how to Linux learn to manpage" Manpages fucking SUCK this shit needs to just give me a normal readable "this tool requires root privileges and that's IT not fucking gaslight me "ooo i don't exist lol get fucked"

in this house we only idolize one 3d fps engine superstar and that is Ken Silverman

I declare that today, Nov. 19, 2025 is the 50th anniversary of BitBLT, a routine so fundamental to computer graphics that we don't even think about it having an origin. A working (later optimized) implementation was devised on the Xerox Alto by members of the Smalltalk team. It made it easy to arbitrarily copy and move arbitrary rectangles of bits in a graphical bitmap. It was this routine that made Smalltalk's graphical interface possible. Below is part of a PARC-internal memo detailing it:

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