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it's real cool how the few times i actually get a message anywhere it's transphobes calling for me to kill myself

does anyone want to send me nice messages or

robot girl lesbians do not have weddings they have weldings

A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on.
Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: “You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong.”
Knight turned the machine off and on.
The machine worked.

our partner has these irreproducible problems that vanish when we touch her machine, etc

the machines just work better around us because they know if they don't we'll disassemble them

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Forked-off Xlibre tells Wayland display protocol to DEI in a fire

theregister.com/2025/06/10/xli

Project to modernize the X.org X11 server seems to actively court controversy

<- by me on @theregister

this is actually a huge breakthrough for me. everyone i ever asked told me there was no way they would 3d render these, that they were all just vector drawings. i feel like i just found out the punchline to a joke everybody kept from me all these years

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aha! looks like they WERE in fact 3D rendered! even to the point of using a human figure as an origin point for the camera to make it look like you were actually looking at a desk top

source: blog.cocoia.com/2008/the-origi

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maybe the folks at @Iconfactory could share some insight on the techniques they used for their icons in the early os x days? :)

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