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@luna please enjoy all belly buttons equally

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people often ask me; "Foone, you're an amateur physical media historian, when is it spelled disc, and when is it disk?"

Well it's simple!
Discs grow down from the ceiling, and disks grow up from the floor.

Just got a text starting with "The 2026 mid-term elections are approaching fast"

motherfucker it is *MAY OF 2025*

@film_girl I had access to a vision pro (not mine, don't have that kind of cash) for a while and *deeply* wanted to develop a project for it, but it was such a pain in the ass to be set up as a developer (especially given there are no macs in my household, just PCs), plus the ... cost? just to write software? for their platform? It's absolutely a masterclass in "how to convince people not to develop software for your platforms"

@TomF @aeva haha now I'm trying to imagine playing QuakeWorld where somehow the audio is *more delayed* than the controls

@aeva as someone who's previous job was on realtime audio stuff this would drive me absolutely bonkers

@lritter my last compiler project was definitely an implementation of the reversed acronym 😑

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Edited movie poster for Studio Ghibli's anime "Kiki's Delivery Service". In the sky above a large body of water, with a city in the background and flanked by seagulls, there's a black shape riding on a broom. The shape looks like a blob or splash, with seven irregular, but rounded protrusions extending from its center.

The title of the movie has been edited to say "Bouba's Delivery Service".

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Today Melissa Lewis over on BlueSky pointed out that the font used in the infamous "You wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy campaign was actually designed by Just van Rossum, whose brother, Guido, created the Python programming language (bsky.app/profile/melissa.news/post/3ln7hx5rhcj2v)

She also pointed out that the font had been cloned and released illegally for free under the name "XBAND Rough". Naturally, it would be hilarious if the anti-piracy campaign actually turned out to have used this pirated font, so I went sleuthing and quickly found a PDF from the campaign site with the font embedded (web.archive.org/web/20051223202935/http://www.piracyisacrime.com:80/press/pdfs/150605_8PP_brochure.pdf).

So I chucked it into FontForge and yep, turns out the campaign used a pirated font the entire time!

A screenshot of FontForge opening a PDF brochure from the "Piracy is a Crime" campaign, showing that it is using the font XBAND Rough, an unlicensed clone of the font FF Confidential.

@eniko legitimately? Someone blew up the fucking economy and our buyers pulled out last minute

Like, we made a new audio codec where it's physically impossible to tell the difference between uncompressed and coded at < 200kbps (it's "transparent" but not "lossless")

And, honestly, it's *rare* to be able to hear a difference at ~130kbps

I really hope it lands somewhere that uses it 😞

There's something extremely frustrating about working at a startup that legitimately built some amazing stuff that couldn't get any takers, while there are all these snake-oil tech companies making billions.

Well, last week I got married and also laid off, so bit of a roller coaster, that one.

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In case you, like me, needed to hear it today

Now I’m going to find something joyful to do

Screen capture of a post by D.L. Mayfield
from Healing is My Special Interest

Here's my pep talk after studying authoritarianism:
1). They never truly expect a long-term resistance movement be they think people are a collection of trauma triggers who are easily controlled thru terror
2). If they can't terrorize you 24/7 in your mind, they have already lost the war
3). The single best way you can resist fascism is to not let them terrorize you constantly. Protect your mental health to ensure you are not constantly in a terrorized state
4). Keep connecting to who you are at your core. Your values, preferences, ethics, and beliefs. Build up capacity to resist
5). Remember they are like abusive parents: they only see us extensions of them. They have no clue how powerful joy and community and self-expression can be. We can use this to our advantage — we can be the strong-willed child they never saw coming.
Spending time connecting to your true self is not selfish in these times — it's intricately connected to a resistance movement that is tied to honoring our bodies, our communities, and to the land. We have to build capacity to resist by being exactly who we are!

@TomF haha that clip makes me laugh every time I see it

"surely I'll remember what this code does tomorrow"

narrator: he did not

welp

sure wish I'd done what the comment said

Screenshot of some code (the notable part of this is that there is a comment that says "Comment what this is doing").

The code follows:

int ConnectedDistance(HRCData hrcData)
{
// !!! Comment what this is doing
int maxCascadeDistance = 1 << firstbithigh(hrcData.qdQuadrantDims.x);
return (2 * maxCascadeDistance - 1 - hrcData.qdProbeOrigin.x);
}

Been trying out ReSharper C++ (it's great so far!) and there's a fun little touch on their website which is that their font has a ligature (or something similar) that changes the shape of the letter 'a' to match their logo if you type ReSharper

I legitimately love this kind of shit

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