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On the fediverse, posts rarely go viral. But at times, they will go "fungal", like mycelium quietly working its way through the substrate, popping up again like mushrooms every few months to make another quick round before going dormant again.

It doesn't matter whether C is good or not. It matters that if I write code in two languages that aren't C, and I want it to all be part of the same process, I need to care about C. C pervades all. You cannot escape it. C will outlive all of us. The language will die and the ABI will persist. The far future will involve students learning about C just to explain their present day. Our robot overlords will use null terminated strings. C will outlive fungi.

https://faultlore.com/blah/c-isnt-a-language/ deserves a fucking record for managing to trigger people into being extremely upset while also demonstrating that they don't understand th actual point being made

i finally found this picture again. it has infected me memetically a long time ago

Never touch the terminals. Please don't. Cause of failure.

This may be the cause.

It is not possible to use multiple computers at the same time. It is not possible.

In unrelated news, Microsoft is asking Microsoft Windows users to uninstall a recent Microsoft Windows update, issued and published by Microsoft, because said update is breaking Microsoft Windows.
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-urges-uninstalling-the-update-kb5074109-after-bug-reports-on-windows-11-heres-how

Every single piece about this should be mentioning how Satya Nadella bragged how 30% of new Microslop code is AI-generated:
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/satya-nadella-says-as-much-as-30percent-of-microsoft-code-is-written-by-ai.html

Not providing this context is journalistic malpractice.

#AI #Hype #Micrososft #Windows

NEW VIDEO: things that didn't suck in 2025!

an hour & ten minutes of rapid-fire hot takes and recommendations, a light and breezy palette cleanser from a year that just plain sucked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQvpiwzMrxs

fellas, if your savior:

• can turn water into wine
• can make bread
• is risen

that's not your savior. that's a colony of fermenting microorganisms

I made my bed so I could sit on it with my laptop. But someone else immediately claimed shotgun #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon

Imagine watching Facebook do the metaverse and rename themselves to Meta, Musk renaming Twitter to X, and Microsoft renaming Office to 365 Copilot (it apparently skips leap year days) and thinking these people aren't the most clueless chucklefucks who ever walked the earth

archival-quality laserdisc capture involves like 7 steps, all of which are slow and take too long

we can be pitifully terrible at everything else and it won't matter so long as we can Chord Progression but we must be able to chord progression

Three years ago I started meticulously mapping south Silent Hill 2 of how it would appear in Google Maps. Maybe I should finish it this year 😅

#silenthill #digitalart

For decades, Canadians eagerly rushed onto US tech platforms and services. But now the drawbacks of that dependence are on full display.

For the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, I explain the economic and political consequences of a US-dominated internet — and why digital sovereignty is imperative.

https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/every-data-centre-is-a-u-s-military-base/

#tech #canada #cdnpoli #cdntech #digitalsovereignty #politics

How my students taught me that Github’s monopoly is hurting the Open Source ecosystem even more than I thought.

https://ploum.net/2026-01-05-unteaching_github.html

#github #floss

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