John Stracke

Software engineer. Currently working mostly in #cplusplus, but I've used over 30 languages. Currently teaching myself #rustlang.

Other interests include #photography, #fonts, #calligraphy, and #3DPrinting.

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TiachaTiacha
2025-01-21

Legos for the kiddo. Still looking for some other sizes that hold together good. But they fit together nicely in PLA Pro.

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Romain PoucletPalleas
2025-01-21

My friend finally received it today in the mail, so I can publicly share pictures of the gift I made him as his "Secret Santa". It wasn't secret after a while since I was late, but whatever.

He's a big LOTR fan, so I 3D printed a ring using gold PLA, got a page from the book printed with a parchment-like texture, found a frame in a thrift shop that I sanded/painted/etc and finally put a LED strip inside the ring so it lights up.

Very happy about the final result!

A picture frame with a rocky texture painted black. It contains a page from the Lord of the Rings first book, the part where Gandalf describes the ring to Frodo and quotes the elvish poem.
The ring is glued on top of the page at the center of the frame.A picture frame with a rocky texture painted black. It contains a page from the Lord of the Rings first book, the part where Gandalf describes the ring to Frodo and quotes the elvish poem.
The ring is glued on top of the page at the center of the frame, but it's lit from the inside so there is some scripting visible around the ring with a yellow/orange hue.
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2025-01-18

@johncarlosbaez neat! "there are more things on heaven and earth ...." and all that. I love that there is so much for us to still learn.

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Ashley Rain, MSWashleyyrain
2025-01-18
People do t realize how much strength it takes to pull your own self out of a dark place mentally. So, if you have done that today or any day, I’m proud of you.
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mhoyemhoye
2025-01-16

The pervasive political illiteracy in the software world runs so deep that people can say things like this with a straight face, expect to be taken seriously, and sometimes _are_ taken seriously.

I have an alternative view: that this is 100% victim blaming, a totally unacceptable worldview for a responsible engineer to hold, and a screaming red no-hire flag.

fosstodon.org/@heapwolf/113830

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2024-06-28

The irony is not lost on me that the Internet Archive went out of its way to acquire the physical versions of millions of books and loan them out carefully and in a limited way, and is facing a near-extinction-level event over it, while for-profit and VC-backed companies are just stealing people’s content and making up excuses to validate the bad behavior.

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2024-06-28

I cooked pasta for my Mom's birthday dinner tonight. They all doubted my use of the Cold Water Pasta Method but I proved them all wrong!

altonbrown.com/recipes/cold-wa

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2024-06-27

Can't believe Mozilla's Solo is still online but OTOH it allows us to create truth bombs like this soloist.ai/hype
What are you waiting for?

Solo: break the web, pivot to AI. Taking open-washing to the next level by leveraging @mozilla's reputation while polluting the information landscape. #GenAI #mozilla #soloai

Solo is an AI-Powered Content Farm Generator

Revolutionizing website creation with blackboxed AI technology to boost SEO, generate reviews, and create captivating content with ease.

Taking open-washing to the next level by leveraging Mozilla's reputation while polluting the information landscape.
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tetris nymph :tetris:rachaelspooky@cyberpunk.lol
2024-06-27

OH RIGHT

while yall are investgating alternate browsers, STAY AWAY FROM BRAVE

• run by homopobe and financial backer of other homophobes Brendan Eich

• crypto is all over the fucking thing. they drip feed users tiny amounts of crypto for unblocking certain ads and fill the home screen with crypto trackers and shit

• they "block ads" but inject their own affiliate links into sites you view

this is not the browser youre looking for

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Yoko's Asterisk 🏳️‍⚧charliejane@wandering.shop
2024-06-27

The phrase "I am entertaining doubts" is so weird.

For one thing, doubts are so hard to entertain these days — they have no attention span.

Doubts will just blatantly whip out their phones and check their email while you're trying to amuse them. Doubts have seen everything twice.

I blame TikTok.

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2024-06-27

I'm pretty certain I'll be forced to go back and do more at some future date. But right now, the story arc that began in "The Atrocity Archive" has run its course (and I'm going to do something else for a bit).

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2024-06-27

So I just typed THE END at the end of the last book to the project that emerged from a little one-shot story I began writing in 1998, and it turns out that The Laundry Files/New Management runs to just over 1,710,000 words.

It's actually longer than WORM by Wildbow.

It's more than twice as long as the English Standard Version of the Bible.

It's more than three times as long as The Lord of the Rings.

(And, subject to some editing/polishing/reworking, it's finished. For now, anyway.)

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Randahl Finkrandahl
2024-06-27

All over the world, voters should beware, that whenever politicians talk about immigrants, it is because they have no solutions to the problems that matter most.

Healthcare crisis in the UK? Talk about immigrants.

Children getting shot because of idiotic gun laws in the US? Talk about immigrants.

"Look over there! Someone is coming to eat your cake!", is the oldest trick in the book, and politicians use it for the sole purpose of moving attention away from their own political incompetence.

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danirod 🇪🇸danirod@fosstodon.org
2024-06-27

A project I'm working on has surpassed 200 stars on GitHub and it is not even finished yet.

Therefore, to give it even more pressure on me to finish the first version of this app, here is me introducing to the fediverse Cartero, a #GTK HTTP client to test web APIs and make requests graphically.

It is written in #Rust and it uses modern GNOME technologies such as #Adwaita and Blueprint.

Here is the canonical screenshot for the current nightly version as of this post.

A screenshot from Cartero showcases a GNOME application.
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2024-06-27

A specialized scientific AI (not the LLM kind, fyi) designed a working rocket engine with no human guidance. And it looks more like some kind of alien tech than anything humanmade. And yet it works!

"The engine performed as expected. It achieved steady-state, which means it can essentially be operated as long as needed. The burn time was only limited by the fuel supply at the test site."

leap71.com/2024/06/18/leap-71-

#engineering #science

[A photo of a small rocket thruster, 3D-printed out of copper. Many sprockets and plugs are placed in an oddly haphazard manner, and the whole thing is ribbed and rippled in odd ways, concentric circles of ridges seeming to emanate from the sprocket attachment points. "LEAP 71" is engraved on the nozzle's rim).]
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2024-06-27

@gjm @cstross Charlie sourced it accurately.

Everyone who believes in it doesn't know it's a Christian heresy, but that's where it originates and that's where pretty much all of the patterns of thinking involved arise, too.

If you look at the modern stuff as substituting capital-I intelligence for God the identity mapping is obvious. (There being no material evidence of either.)

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Justin du Coeurjducoeur@social.coop
2024-06-27

My review of the masterpiece I just finished reading, _Bea Wolf_: jducoeur.dreamwidth.org/166263

tl;dr -- it's... let's say a full-length filk of Beowulf, about kids, candy, and the monster forcing them to grow up. It is *glorious*, and anyone with kids and a fondness for history (or simply great writing) should get it.

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AuriBlackCat CollectiveAuriBlackCat@kolektiva.social
2024-06-26

"I will call the cops on you" is a death threat and should be treated as such.

Edit: And with treated as such we mean treating the people who use "I will call the cops on you" as a threat like the cop collaborators, the collaborators of institutional violence, they are. break their noses, destroy their power and make everybody around them aware that they are more than happy to use institutional violence for personal gain.

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2024-06-26

We are in an era in which people we don't know ask us for stuff constantly. "Join my list!" "Buy my stuff!" "Support this cause!" It gets exhausting.

But we are also in an era in which they give us stuff freely. "I made you this essay!" "Here's a silly comic!" "Please live in this social space I maintain!"

I can't decide if this is a fair tradeoff.

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🌈☔🌦️🍄🌱🍉wmd@chaos.social
2024-06-26

The more I read about grapefruit interactions, the more I wonder why this is sold in supermarkets and not in pharmacies.

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