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Just a physics undergrad. Allegedly not a duck. πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ [ before i figure out bridging on fedi im https://infosec.exchange/@technoduck ]

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What the hell is a rotation key? - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Atmosphere Why it's important that YOU should have a rotation key and backups for your Bluesky/AT Protocol account that is hosted on a third party PDS

Reminder: You can take steps to protect your social identity, no matter where your account is hosted. With a rotation key and backups, your PDS going down is just a bump in the road.

I wrote a bit on it here

10.03.2026 16:17 πŸ‘ 81 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

What's My JND? 0.0023
Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...
ok this is fun hot dang thanks for the cool thing

10.03.2026 17:30 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
youtube thumbnail of brodie with his face photoshopped on top of the all seeing eye pyramid

youtube thumbnail of brodie with his face photoshopped on top of the all seeing eye pyramid

a thumbnail of time from brodie

10.03.2026 17:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

fuck my chud wasm life

10.03.2026 02:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I saw someone claiming that this is short-sighted and that someone should fork it without the new policy, since it would develop at "5Γ—" the current rate. Genuinely, if you think you can fork RedoxOS, and long term improve its development by a 5Γ— for more than the attention span of a grifter, do it.

09.03.2026 19:24 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

"claude is conscious" and "'claude is not conscious" are both unfalsifiable statements. it is pointless to debate them. use your time better

09.03.2026 03:48 πŸ‘ 86 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 6

mhhmmm feeling inspired today. i shall write raylib-rs wasm bullshit

09.03.2026 14:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

literally me as soon as I get the parts ordered and get the schematics done.

08.03.2026 22:15 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Fork Off: Surveillance States Need to Fork Linux Themselves States that want to modify FOSS must be tasked with the burden.

blog.devrupt.io/posts/fork-o...

Alright what be the public opinions on this

08.03.2026 13:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Challenge for people who believe Claude *is* conscious and use it anyway: Explain how you’re not a slaver.

07.03.2026 19:04 πŸ‘ 2541 πŸ” 548 πŸ’¬ 74 πŸ“Œ 24

WHY ARE THERE SO MANY TOES

07.03.2026 21:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I need laptop companies to make weird and wacky laptops again, I don't need a macbook competitor. I want a briefcase that has a computer inside.

27.02.2026 21:23 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

i need grimoires NOW

07.03.2026 19:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Used to self hosts forgejo but tangled knot takes like 20 times less memory on my poor poor tiny-ahh vps so yeah might do it again not having private repos for now sucks.

07.03.2026 17:56 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
sunsofcarcosa
Badge image.
Feb 3

my dealer: got some straight gas. this strain is called "honorable knight" youll be zonked out of your gourd

me: yeah whatever. i dont feel shit

5 minutes later: only in death does duty end

my buddy pacing: i am the sword and the hand that wields it

sunsofcarcosa Badge image. Feb 3 my dealer: got some straight gas. this strain is called "honorable knight" youll be zonked out of your gourd me: yeah whatever. i dont feel shit 5 minutes later: only in death does duty end my buddy pacing: i am the sword and the hand that wields it

07.03.2026 03:02 πŸ‘ 2082 πŸ” 478 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 15

if he had been there, it's what Himmel the Hero would have done

07.03.2026 03:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

random idea that i didn't think much about yet

it would be cool if the PDS could run small WASM "applets" on behalf of the users

each user gets a hourly/daily/monthly budget of core-hours of CPU and megabyte-hours of RAM and can use them on as many applets as they want

06.03.2026 07:23 πŸ‘ 85 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 3

Recreating Heroku free tier from first principles

06.03.2026 17:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Remember, King Kong died for your sins

06.03.2026 01:19 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

this is the perfect time to restart the "github is bad because it's hard to use for non-technical people" discourse i think

05.03.2026 17:15 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
from https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/03/05/Rust-1.94.0/#array-windows

fn has_abba(s: &str) -> bool {
    s.as_bytes()
        .array_windows()
        .any(|[a1, b1, b2, a2]| (a1 != b1) && (a1 == a2) && (b1 == b2))
}

from https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/03/05/Rust-1.94.0/#array-windows fn has_abba(s: &str) -> bool { s.as_bytes() .array_windows() .any(|[a1, b1, b2, a2]| (a1 != b1) && (a1 == a2) && (b1 == b2)) }

this is hot thank you rust devs

05.03.2026 21:38 πŸ‘ 55 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
NouveautΓ© sur le rΓ©seau : vΓ©rifiez la direction du REM! | REM

rem.info/fr/actualite...

Every 3.5 minutes during rush hour between Brossard and Bois-Franc we're so back

05.03.2026 16:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

we really dont have Port port cities anymore and it sucks.

05.03.2026 04:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That's it i`m watching frieren

05.03.2026 03:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

objectively funny ads should be legal

05.03.2026 01:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

damn what codeberg doin

05.03.2026 01:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Sounds right.

04.03.2026 10:08 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.]

From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes:

NEWSREADER:

Extraordinary images here 

of an expat in Dubai 

[The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly]

…Having their first ever geopolitical thought.

[CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. 

CLIVE MYRIE:

To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent

DAVID JONES:

Clive, this is momentous

It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: β€˜Dubai Is Brilliant’.

[Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same]

You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self.

It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts.

CLIVE MYRIE:

Which are…?

DAVID JONES:

You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, 
I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa.

CLIVE MYRIE:

And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days?

DAVID JONES:

I think we can expect to see:

β€œI Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To”

CLIVE MYRIE:

Mmm. 

[Ends]

[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.] From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes: NEWSREADER: Extraordinary images here of an expat in Dubai [The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly] …Having their first ever geopolitical thought. [CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. CLIVE MYRIE: To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent DAVID JONES: Clive, this is momentous It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: β€˜Dubai Is Brilliant’. [Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same] You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self. It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts. CLIVE MYRIE: Which are…? DAVID JONES: You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa. CLIVE MYRIE: And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days? DAVID JONES: I think we can expect to see: β€œI Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To” CLIVE MYRIE: Mmm. [Ends]

04.03.2026 11:14 πŸ‘ 4008 πŸ” 1264 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 41

on one hand, if this was conceived as a Chromebook competitor (with discount for schools and all) then 8 gigs makes sense? or they wanted a machine for everyone but than 8 gigs is def too little, but it's the only way they could get a laptop that doesn't cost a gazillion dollars. maybe?

04.03.2026 16:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

someone next time remind me not to run my own mail server this shit fucked up

04.03.2026 14:53 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0