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fasterthanlime@hachyderm.io

<p>hi, I&#39;m amos! 🍃 they/them 🫐 open-source witch &amp; maker of snappy videos and articles at <a href="https://bearcove.eu" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">bearcove.eu</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> ✨ be kind, be curious</p>

Posts

  • Post #1966038

    status update: i&#39;ve rented enough macs from scaleway that they stopped me halfway through to check with their &quot;safety and trust&quot; team (they deemed me safe and trustable)

  • Post #1951125

    🎄 New article! 🎁 &amp;quot;Catching up with async Rust&amp;quot; is sponsor-exclusive for six months as an article, and available now as a video: https://fasterthanli.me/articles/catching-up-with-async-rust

  • Post #1918315

    oooh AV2 yesss https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav2d

  • Post #1882453

    someone at github is on day 131 of &amp;quot;making this checkbox wider until the outages stop&amp;quot;

  • Post #1860904

    github blog: &amp;gt; Here’s what we’ve done [...] to improve our availability and reliability. bro a postmortem is supposed to happen, you know, &amp;quot;post&amp;#39;

  • Post #1860516

    PSA &amp;quot;text-align: justify&amp;quot; still makes your blog unreadable Even if you do hyphenations properly Unless it wasn&amp;#39;t meant to be read, then it&amp;#39;s fine ig

  • Post #1772133

    All income is disposable if you’re irresponsible enough

  • Post #1766483

    The year is 2025. Apple hasn&amp;#39;t figured out fuzzy matching in the System Settings search bar.

  • Post #1764041

    https://github.com/Dash-Industry-Forum/dash.js/issues/4202 Apparently iOS 17 shipped with managed media extensions, so you don&amp;#39;t have to bother with HLS anymore and you can just do MPEG-DASH because dash.js just works on iPhone. This is great. I completely missed out on that!

  • Post #1759009

    apple: to develop for mac you need to own a mac me: uh-huh. and can I disable SIP? apple: okay... you, specifically, need to own two macs

  • Post #1739966

    okay, ELI5 foreign policy to me: https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260427-china-warns-eu-made-in-europe-plan-countermeasures what &quot;countermeasures&quot; is China talking about here exactly?

  • Post #1727747

    Anthropic&amp;#39;s Stupid Fucking Move Of The Day is a conspiracy by Big Zitron to sell more Where&amp;#39;s Your Ed At

  • Post #1602975

    me: &amp;quot;I would like to manage my own memory&amp;quot; genie: &amp;quot;done! you can now manage your own memory leaks&amp;quot; me: &amp;quot;my own what?&amp;quot; genie: &amp;quot;you heard me. two wishes left&amp;quot;

  • Post #1388769

    My reginos :(

  • Post #1357486

    nah github, I&amp;#39;m not evil just french

  • Post #1158361

    my research for the gemini biopic is going well

  • Post #972032

    guys it&amp;#39;s too late for april fools&amp;#39; https://openai.com/index/openai-acquires-tbpn/

  • Post #972031

    And remember, kids, there are many ways to run benchmarks, and all of them are wrong.

  • Post #972030

    RE: https://mastodon.social/@256/116341955062400183 oooo I just took psychic damage

  • Post #972029

    &amp;gt; the compiler is unable to type-check this expression in reasonable time good: clear, honest communication bad: that means the language design is a bit fucked, right? I shouldn&amp;#39;t be seeing this several times a day.

  • Post #972028

    Maybe I just never answer my emails. Maybe they just compost or something. Mhh.

  • Post #972026

    if you type `localhost:` what port does your browser autocomplete to?

  • Post #906743

    Hey if anyone is interested in killing proc_macro2, this issue links to a PR that needs someone to adopt it: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/130856

  • Post #821987

    the whole ntsync story is /bonkers/ but mostly in a &amp;quot;they did WHAT? for HOW LONG?&amp;quot; sense https://www.xda-developers.com/wine-11-rewrites-linux-runs-windows-games-speed-gains/

  • Post #796184

    &amp;gt; to paraphrase the IRA mh. https://calpaterson.com/disregard.html

  • Post #796183

    if you don’t have your own petard, store bought is fine

  • Post #796182

    and the &amp;quot;best rust crate acronym&amp;quot; of the day goes to: https://lib.rs/crates/crime

  • Post #796181

    negative amounts of reading comprehension in here about GitHub&amp;#39;s April 24 update. they&amp;#39;re gonna start using YOUR COPILOT INTERACTIONS for training unless you opt-out. anyone outraged by this probably isn&amp;#39;t using copilot in the first place, and therefore won&amp;#39;t be impacted at all! actual update: https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/updates-to-github-copilot-interaction-data-usage-policy/

  • Post #796180

    ahhhh, &amp;quot;unroll loops&amp;quot;, the &amp;quot;it&amp;#39;s gonna get worse before it gets better&amp;quot; of compiler optimizations.

  • Post #768917

    🐉 QUESTION 🦀 what are your questions for Carol Nichols &amp;amp; Chris Krycho, co-authors of: The Rust Programming Language, 3rd Edition? I&amp;#39;m interviewing them today. Send in your questions please. 🙏 https://forms.gle/yDWX78ZNN7ALjC3v8