Tobias Mock

physicist turned software dev.
gamedev in my free time.
I'm also working on a language

2025-07-07

@larsweisbrod wir sind nicht gleich

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2025-07-05
The so-called meme man in three panels

1. Panel: FOMO: The face with hands to its sides labelled Panik
2. Panel: ROMO: The face without hands, labeled calm
3. Panel: FOBI: The face with hands, shacking, labeled panik
2025-07-04

Nice milestone: schmu has 1555 commits (on my current working branch)

A screenshot of codeberg.org showing 1555 commits
2025-07-04

@derpostillon Welskrieg.html

2025-07-03

I've implemented something like gleam's use-syntax in schmu. The interesting
part is that this allows you to syntactically return borrowed values from
function within an expression. Normally, that's not possible due to second class
references. In that way, this works like hylo's subscripts.

#plt

A screenshot of code showing borrow calls in action
2025-07-03

I was wondering was ghostty was unusable after the last update. It's due to a kernel bug github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty

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Karen D 🇨🇦KarenDorman@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-07-02

My sister just sent me this and I thought of you immediately!

@MelissaBearTrix@gives.hugz.online

Photo of an adorable baby elephant in a green field. With the following text: 

"Elephants are born weighing 250 Ibs. They are the biggest babies on earth except for transphobes."
2025-07-01
Screenshot of an email telling me I'm KDE Discuss New User of the Month!
2025-07-01

Apparently I'm New User of the Month at KDE Discuss!

2025-06-30

Now that I am using macos at work, it's become my daily routine to get surprised by previously unknown KDE shortcuts because I'm using Super+<x> all the time instead of Ctrl+<x>.

I wish there was a way for either macos or linux to make them behave uniformly.

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2025-06-28

@eloy my code: high code. your code: low code

calvin and hobbes four strip panel. calvin and hobbes are observing various forms of art. calvin pronounces, while hobbes ponders:

calvin: A PAINTING. MOVING. SPIRITUALLY ENRICHING. SUBLIME....."HIGH" ART!

calvin: THE COMIC STRIP. VAPID. JUVENILE, COMMERCIAL HACK WORK....."LOW" ART.

calvin: A PAINTING OF A COMIC STRIP PANEL. SOPHISTICATED IRONY. PHILOSOPHICALLY CHALLENGING. ....HIGH ART.

hobbes: SUPPOSE I DRAW A CARTOON OF A PAINTING OF A COMIC STRIP?

calvin: SOPHOMORIC. INTELLECTUALLY STERILE.... "LOW" ART.
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2025-06-27

Exciting, the FreeBSD platform extensions to the OCI spec PR was approved! Looking forward to seeing FreeBSD an officially supported platform for OCI containers!

2025-06-27

@lritter If you can find Höpfle aus der Schmipf-Brauerei, bitte probieren. Ist mein ablosuter Favorit. Könnte aber zu lokal sein

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2025-06-22

Thanks to Steve Downey and others, optional<T&> is officially adopted into C++26.

It would've been great during C++17, but the uphill battle had to be fought first. But, hey. The first best time was 9 years ago,

but the second best time is now.

The history: thephd.dev/to-bind-and-loose-a

The final result, after scrapping tooth and nail for this. wg21.link/p2988

2025-06-18

@mcc Thanks for raising this! It's also an impressive wall of text. How long did it take you to write?

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2025-06-18

I've posted a Github issue outlining why I'm freaked out at the word "irrevokable" in Mastodon's new TOS IP clause:

New Terms of Service IP clause cannot be terminated or revoked, not even by deleting content

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i

It's sort of long (sorry), but several people seemed confused what my problem was earlier, so maybe extra detail will help. I include an outline of my "nightmare scenario", and contrast other site TOSes.

I *will* delete my account over this, and I am not joking.

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2025-06-18

Little sea monster and shobii for Alterium Shift

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2025-06-17

I always find this chart by Hannah Ritchie -- of Our World In Data -- deeply informative of how disjointed is our sense of personal risk

x.com/_HannahRitchie/status/11

A stacked bar chart titled "Causes of death in the US: What Americans die from, what they search on Google, and what the media reports on". It compares what people actually die from versus what people search for on Google, and what the NYT and Guardian report on. It neatly illustrates that while people are most likely to die from cancer and heart disease, they search very little for heart disease, and focus too much on diabetes, suicide, and terrorism. Meanwhile, the media sources focus a wildly disproportionate amount on terrorism, homicide and suicide, while virtually ignoring heart disease.

Some number: In reality, people die mostly from heart disease (30.2%) and cancer 29.5%. There are much smaller shares for road incidents (7.6%), lower respiratory disease (7.4%), Alzheimer’s (5.6%), stroke (4.9%), diabetes (3.8%),. Suicide is only 1.8%, homicide only 0.7%, and terrorism is barely 0.01%.

The media are even more out of whack with reality: The NYT and Guardian devote 35.6% of their death-related coverage to terrorism and 22.8% to homicide, while devoting only 13.5% to cancer and barely 2.3% to heart disease. The media sources devote roughly 13% of their death-related coverage to cancer, about half as much as it occurs in reality.

Basically, the chart shows that while people and media perceive the role of cancer somewhat accurately in causing, people overstate the role of terrorism, homicide and suicide -- and media wildly overstate terrorism and homicide.
2025-06-16

kde plasma question:

Is there a way to create a new instance of whatever window is active through a shortcut?

I.e. launch a new terminal, open a new firefox window etc

#kde #kde_plasma #plasma

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2025-06-15

#Berlin in a nutshell

A weathered wooden bench in a forested area, with a close-up of a plaque that reads, "Diese Bank wird von der Stadt Berlin instandgehalten!" (This bench is maintained by the city of Berlin).

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