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Jesus fucking Christ, Cory, this is patently ridiculous.

He doesn't engage with Audre Lorde's actual intention & meaning. No, he brings up a Black woman thinker/writer/activist, assures us he knows how "smart" she was, & then dismisses her words out of hand without even superficial engagement by using a cute little analogy.

I'm not trying to nitpick: that is some real colonizer bullshit.

New Secret Area post: On random memes, old game shows and "Glunch."

A meme among me and a few friends goes from a silly image on Tumblr to me discovering the show the image is from. One of my nerdy pop culture journeys.

Shares and comments appreciated!

https://asecretarea.com/2026/03/10/memes-game-shows-glunch/

I came across a functioning coder today asking if a kilogram was 1000 or 1024 grams.

Yes they did ask, yes they verified, yes they accepted 1000 grams.

I swear ten thousand years in the future some fucker will 'oops, black hole!' 'cos they began in comp sci and learned kilo = 1024 first and NOBODY WILL CATCH IT. Humanity will be WIPED OUT because YOU LOT KEPT THIS SHIT UP.

enix game school, tokyo (circa 1993) https://archive.org/details/micomBASIC-1993-02/page/n5/mode/2up

another beautiful comment to “she danced in the wind like a holographic dream”
✨
“Your ability to write words both painful yet healing is the most breathtaking part of this game poem.”
omg 🙏🥹💕
thank you to everyone that played it and shared it. it’s been deeply meaningful to see the responses.
https://alienmelon.itch.io/flower

The latest game poem by @alienmelon hits so hard.

It's time to throw the horrors away and plant gentle flowers.

What are we using for iOS podcast apps? I’ve used Overcast for years, but I don’t want to give its developer my money anymore

As much as I'm all in favour of blaming AI bros for the RAM shortage, there was always going to be a squeeze on RAM prices for some reason eventually, and we really did make sure it would be maximally painful for ourselves when we started treating RAM as functionally free.

RAM prices in 2026 are about the same as they were in 2008 when the original MacBook Air launched. It had 2GB of RAM and it ran like a goddamn dream. There is absolutely zero technical reason we couldn't ship an even better computer with 2GB RAM today — except everything these days is a JavaScript app running in a dedicated Chromium instance and needs at least its own gigabyte to run around in.

That said, it's probably pretty safe to blame AI bros for everything being a Chromium instance — I'm willing to bet it's largely the same people trying to ship something that just about works with the absolute minimum of time and effort now as it was then

My only choices are extremely niche, which will be supported for who knows how many more days, and vintage distro versions with the certainty of no more updates.

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"Got a dusty old laptop you wish you could use again? Don't want to throw it out? Just run Linux on it!"

This is total BS, now that every major Linux distro has abandoned its i386/i686/x86 32-bit editions. I can't even find one to put on my Atom Netbook anymore, let alone my early XP era Dell Inspiron tank.

Especially don't promise such BS with a stock photo of an obvious Commodore PET 4032 with the nameplate taped over to make it look like a generic old PC.