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• Post #4272835

  Remember when the primary pitch of Python was that it made programming fun again?

• Post #4272377

  I feel like I should understand virtualenvs in Python better than I do, but they *always* make me feel lost.

• Post #4050219

  Sometimes, a fortune cookie has no fortune inside, and that feels unspeakably bleak every time it happens.

• Post #3901025

  @qdot@buttplug.engineer I always park right by the door at stores (I have a disabled parking placard, it's a pretty big perk of dating me tbh :-P )

• Post #3880164

  I've discovered a 10/10 critical-severity zero-day vulnerability in the ignition lock systems of every car ever produced with electronic ignition: If you strip out the main wiring harness and rewire the entire car, and bypass every computer module with specially-crafted replacements that lack authentication, an unauthorized user can start and drive any vehicle without restriction. All vehicle manufacturers *must* immediately develop and release patches to prevent widespread exploitation of...

• Post #3525563

  RE: https://retro.pizza/@madcollector/116844887477428617 This is what building things in Second Life feels like sometimes, and that's why it's one of my favorite creative hobbies <3 #secondlife

• Post #3443004

  Goofy ideas: Trying to get Adobe Contribute working with my personal website instead of trying to add a WYSIWYG editor to my bespoke CMS :-P

• Post #3416068

  The way the US measures "The Economy" is like trying to judge the weather using only a thermometer and nothing else. So when people say "The Economy is doing great", they aren't entirely factually *wrong*: The measurement our institutions have decided is important does, in fact, say things are going well. The problem is that it's so hilariously incomplete that it's comparable to looking at a thermometer that says it's 80F (27C) and declaring it's a perf...

• Post #3413397

  To everyone making eclectic personal homepages and putting them out on the internet, experimenting and trying new things because they feel right for *you* without prioritizing what's Correct to other people: The spirit of early "Cyberspace" lives on in you, and I thank you for bringing the joy back