M. Verdone

I make music when I can. I own too many synthesizers. I program C++ for money, but it's usually reasonably fun.

he/him or they/them, as you prefer.

#nobot

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Sandriver :verifiedenby:sandriver@zoner.work
2025-07-08

Is Nix just Gentoo with self-loathing?

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Sound and Fury Amounting tonobody@masto.hackers.town
2025-07-06
The ocean just before the sun rises. Cloudy, mostly yellow sky is reflected in the relatively still water which blends into a dark beach with a single small wave breaking towards the camera
2025-07-02

I absolutely hate that La Croix tastes so good because it's also so stupid.

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2025-07-01

Mark Shuttleworth seems confused as to why Canonical has thousands of unfilled positions. #Canonical

dustri.org/b/my-experience-wit

2025-07-01

My mother has so many recipe books called "speedy weekday meals" or whatever and every recipe takes longer than anything I make at home. :thinking_cirno:

2025-06-26

Am now in Canada.

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Julia Evansb0rk@jvns.ca
2025-06-24

delighted to announce that my new zine "The Secret Rules of the Terminal" is out today!!

You can get it for $12 USD here: wizardzines.com/zines/terminal

The Secret Rules of the Terminal, by Julia Evans - The cover illustration depicts three people doing arcane terminal magic in a temple with a smoking censer in the background. Each of the three people has curly brown hair and light brown skin. They are all wearing dresses, billowing cloaks, and utility belts with keyboard symbols on them. The one on the left holds a palette of paints and a brush. The one on the right has a staff with a $ symbol on it and a starfish at the top. The one in the centre has a sword and is reading from a book whose cover says “>_” and “./”, which rests on a lectern with a smiling snake wrapped around it.
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2025-06-23

That's how one of my uncles died.

A limo can contract
into a normal sized car.
This must be done when
the back seat is empty
to avoid killing all the
passengers.
2025-06-20

@tootbrute strictly platonic.

2025-06-20

@clacke rap changed completely with the ascendency of "mumble rap" and trap beats. Hyperpop established itself, perfected in Charli XCX's hit album Brat. Billie Eilish's whisper-singing changed the female vocal landscape completely. Olivia Rodrigo made rock music lyrically vulnerable and raw, and Chappelle Roan made it lesbian. Lots of wild stuff in the last decade.

2025-06-20

@tootbrute Plato lamented the loss of the golden age.

2025-06-19

@owen at my company we are very precise about commit history, and we do our reviews with GitHub. While it isn't the default mode, you can do a review while moving through the individual commits. To some degree it's a team culture thing, not a tool thing. People know that individual commits will provide a great experience during a review, and a total diff will show an overwhelming mess.

2025-06-18

@vriska well great, now I know about water-based cooking and I lost 3 IQ.

2025-06-17

@liaizon a dedicated feed (second-class access) and search (large language model text ingestion). Personally, I'll pass on this.

2025-06-15

I have a TV remote that uses Bluetooth. This sounds like a smart idea but if you sit on it on the sofa the TV turns off or on or does someone unexpected. Turns out infrared remotes actually make a lot of sense.

2025-06-14

@discontinuity @jezdez @TechConnectify it's a wifi smart bulb so the power draw when off will be notable. I guess that's why it has an F energy rating.

But I have a computer with a 300 W power supply running 24/7 so maybe I'll consider that first.

2025-06-14

After watching @TechConnectify 's last video I am noticing and calculating power and energy ratings on things.

I have a lightbulb that has a rating of:

5 kWh/1000h.

What the f is this unit?!

2025-06-14

@TinaStormcaller what is this software?

2025-06-13

@valhalla it should be but I guess they assume people still don't have IPv6 routers.

2025-06-13

Why shouldn't every lightbulb be a web server? Why shouldn't China know the state of every lightbulb in my house?

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