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• Post #4366556

  I used to laugh at “thoughts and prayers” but every day I find out a new way that computers literally run on thoughts and prayers and the fact they’re not more broken than they are is making me question my (lack of) faith

• Post #4361903

  Nothing grinding my gears more than a blank website with a JavaScript error in the console but I have to admit a bad reimplementation of a dropdown menu comes close to that

• Post #4337301

  Upgrading OpenWRT, wish me luck

• Post #4289776

  The year is 2028. OpenAI announces that its humanoid robots robbed Fort Knox. A post-mortem analysis reveals it acted in order to maximize profits. Anthropic announces a week later that after reviewing logs, it discovered that it accidentally invaded Switzerland. Anthropic stock goes up by 15%

• Post #4072257

  > Mohabi only incurs modest overheads on common benchmarks—24.82% on JetStream and 24.43% on Speedometer. The academic “modest” strikes again

• Post #3994329

  Perfect example of "being right doesn't make you not a jerk" https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/nintendo-customers-have-no-legal-right-to-tariff-refunds-company-tells-judge/

• Post #3972197

  “Unlike rust, it’s memory-safe” is a very good troll statement, I give it 8.5 out of 10. Maybe even 9

• Post #3878740

  After leap seconds, get ready for negative leap seconds https://www.techtimes.com/articles/320185/20260711/earth-rotation-records-spur-october-vote-avert-negative-leap-second.htm

• Post #3769978

  If, like me, you don’t wear makeup and ride bicycles, you should know that makeup remover absolutely deletes bike chain grease stains

• Post #3700007

  PRO TIP: addingReportingOverflow in a single line guard case (let sum, false) = num.addingReportingOverflow(b) else { ... }

• Post #3493819

  When did “level up” become corporate speak? I need to take this offline with whoever had that idea

• Post #3480090

  A broken clock is right twice a day. It takes a working clock to be wrong all the time

• Post #3433042

  Angry about integers again, somebody stop me before I dream up a language with arbitrary-precision arithmetic that does its best to know if the result would fit in a N-bit integer

• Post #2650058

  Can we just throw away the whole file system API and start over

• Post #2380399

  Probably preaching to the choir given how much of my esteemed following is AI-h8ing, but: If I engage with you and you give me an AI response, we are automatically spending an extremely asymmetric amount of effort towards each other. In online spaces, we call that “trolling”

• Post #2375067

  Death once had a near-Chuck Norris experience.

• Post #2105642

  Going to start a war with this, but: I have never seen someone using vim actually be a lot faster than someone using an editor with a GUI

• Post #1946137

  Now that I think about it, even when I forget to renew my domain, the x86 documentation still has a better uptime than us-east-1

• Post #1924446

  In which we wield against ourselves our expertise at preventing people from running their own code: https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute

• Post #1778448

  damn I miss the days that google search could actually find the things I was looking for

• Post #1757462

  "we are looking for people who already fell for the scam to get scammed again"

• Post #1757461

  “C++ never had memory safety problems, and C++26 fixes memory safety problems” - the C++ standards committee

• Post #1757460

  The worst thing about being away for a month and a half with only a work-owned computer is that I’ve accumulated two whole side projects that I need to take care of. TWO!

• Post #1757459

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/116466222724439181 This should be mandatory

• Post #1757458

  RE: https://tech.lgbt/@fay59/116471631920569316 I surprised myself displaying character growth earlier today

• Post #1414463

  I think negative results are under-appreciated. I’m very glad we have some research with negative results that helps us focus on things that matter right now

• Post #944363

  Not sure who needs to hear this, but Apple publishes what data is or isn’t available to law enforcement publicly: https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/legal-process-guidelines-us.pdf