Zachary Wander :thonk:

Mobile developer at Shopify.

Maker of open source Android apps.

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vkc (Veronica Explains)vkc@linuxmom.net
2025-03-18

Well, as long as the GNU-slash-IMP folks are mad at me, I should go for broke and irritate everyone. Someone's got to be debbie downer and I guess today it's me.

Does @gnome support the use of a slur for a project they're hosting? Because from where I sit, they appear to, and I feel like hosting this project might be a violation of their CoC.

gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp

Zachary Wander :thonk:wander1236@androiddev.social
2024-12-15

I still can't believe the Switch only supports 20MHz bandwidth on 5GHz WiFi.

A screenshot showing the Nintendo Switch's connection stats to a UniFi wireless access point. It's connected to channel 48 on 5GHz at 20MHz bandwidth.
Zachary Wander :thonk:wander1236@androiddev.social
2024-11-28

Google AI is great actually

A screenshot of a Google results page where the search term is "did windows 95 support soft power" and Google's "AI Overview" is shown below giving an entirely unrelated answer about network redirectors and various filesystems supported by Windows 95.
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Ena M. Schwarzschildfalsevacuum@kitsunes.club
2024-11-26

Skinner and Chalmers from The Simpsons looking at the aurora borealis localized entirely within Skinner's kitchen coming from the oven. Chalmers sheds a tear and says "Why, it's beautiful, Seymour."
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Tofu Golemtofugolem
2024-11-05

Reminder:

Republicans changed the way votes are counted specifically to convince their voters that Democrats "stole" the 2020 election.

On Election Day, only the votes cast that day will be counted and it will look like Trump is winning by a lot.

Then, other kinds of votes will be counted, and Kamala will suddenly do better.

Be ready for it. Don't get depressed on Election Day.

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2024-11-03

Twitch are updating their rules & decided that LGBTQ+ is a "Sensitive social issue" & needs to be hidden behind a content warning.

Obviously this is bad for LGBTQ+ streamers & a slippery slope, so please if you're a twitch user, vote on this feedback petition:

twitch.uservoice.com/forums/93

There's a lot more I could have written about this but... look we've all seen this a million times before, we know how it works, how bad actors abuse it to mass report and bully and where it all goes.

Zachary Wander :thonk:wander1236@androiddev.social
2024-10-08

But this *is* the new phone.

A screenshot of the alert you get in Settings on an iPhone when you set up a new one.
Title: "Get Ready For Your New iPhone"
Text: "You're eligible for extra iCloud storage to move your apps and data."
Button: "Get Started"
Zachary Wander :thonk: boosted:
2024-10-03

Is it just me? Anytime I see AI generated images used in articles or web pages I immediately think “lazy” Just use free stock art at least.

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tillian 🇰🇿🦊:anarchism: ACABmynameistillian@plush.city
2024-09-18

mozilla withdrawing from mastodon due to a lack of funds but having enough money to finance shitty ai research is like finding out your local library closed because they spent all their money on an inflatable dinosaur exhibit

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2024-08-31

Trump’s statements are decontextualized, while those from Democrats are relentlessly scrutinized. The result is false equivalencies that normalize Republican liars.

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/politifact-glenn-kessler-amy-gardner-linda-qiu-dnc-fact-check

Zachary Wander :thonk:wander1236@androiddev.social
2024-08-21

@ryne The Nothing X companion app might actually be the best accessory/peripheral app I've ever used. I'm not sure if it was made in-house or contracted out, but either way, Nothing is doing something right.

Zachary Wander :thonk:wander1236@androiddev.social
2024-08-21

Nothing apparently makes good earbuds. The CMF Neckband Pro is (are?) really good, especially for $50. Good sound, good ANC, super long battery life, convenient and functional multipoint + pairing.

I think the actual MSRP is around $30, but I had to get my pair from an unofficial seller on Amazon because Nothing doesn't sell it to the US.

Zachary Wander :thonk:wander1236@androiddev.social
2024-08-09

@thibaultmol If you aren't seeing the "Set Up Link Handling" alert, there shouldn't be any new domains that need enabling.

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2024-08-08

A sad day: Branch, the company that acquired Nova Launcher ~2 years ago, has laid off many of the great people working on/for it, including Cliff Wade (their CM), Rob (one of their developers), and many others.

It is with a very broken and heavy heart that I have to make this announcement. After 8 years, 9 months and 5 days, I am no longer employed by Nova and/or Branch Metrics. Yesterday, August 7th, Branch laid off 100+ employees in a massive layoff across the entire company. Myself, along with Rob, and many others with great talent were affected. As many of you know, and for those that don't know, I worked for Nova for 8 1/2+ years starting back in November 2015. It was one heck of a great, enjoyable ride that I wouldn't trade for the world. I'm not sure what the future holds for me personally, but I see this as an opportunity to move on to something bigger and better. Though with the great experience I had at Nova, better seems tough to accomplish. Again, this has been an amazing journey over the past nearly 9 years and I am certainly sad for it to end. I'm going to miss so many things about this job.
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Marcus Hutchins :verified:malwaretech@infosec.exchange
2024-08-03

It's wild that the UK has been having race riots for days now because some teenager stabbed a bunch of kids and then someone (presumably a bot) went on Twitter and claimed it was a radical Muslim who arrived in the UK by refugee boat (none of that was true).

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2024-07-23

If I am in a place where people discuss things, and I am discussing things with other people, and you roll into the discussion between people and your contribution is "here's what ChatGPT says," I will immediately push whatever fuck you button the platform we're using has for you. Nobody fucking asked. Nobody fucking cares. Did you want to pollute a little bit, as a joke? We already have an app for that. It's called farting.

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Marcus Hutchins :verified:malwaretech@infosec.exchange
2024-07-15

My LinkedIn feed is truly top tier right now. People just straight up posting lunatic conspiracy theories to their entire professional network based on a Twitter post from a redpill influencers screenshotting a 4chan user who claims to be a secret service sniper

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2024-07-11
me, crying: please. just tell me what the software does

the tech landing page i’m on: Cloud Scale. Enterprise Solutions For Your SXPBMs. Hosted QBPK Monitoring With Lightning Speed Performance Metric Assfucks. Trusted by Google, Cisco, Oracle and Your Grandmother.
Zachary Wander :thonk:wander1236@androiddev.social
2024-07-09

@simon @djh fingerprinting for me, not for thee

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