Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉

swelljoe@mas.to

For the masses, not the classes.Born tired. Likes bikes and hikes. Sometimes I work on OSS, other times robots. I remember when computers were good. He/him.Did you alt text your image? It'd be a lot cooler if you did.Profile photo: Middle-aged white guy with scruffy sandy brown hair and beard.Background photo: Two dogs, a mid-sized red potato type dog and a large black and white muppet, on a riverbank, about to drop an indie rock album with mandolins or some shit.

Posts

Post #4231431
Some day I will stop making tools for making the game and start making the game. Today is not that day.
Post #4133962
Is Asesprite really all there is for editing pixel art? I can't read any of this. This is a nightmare for accessibility. This typeface and these icons are an insult to anyone without good vision (me, I'm the one without good vision, I just can't use this). 200% is still hard to read, 300% doesn't fit on the screen. A decent fucking font would be readable at this size.
Post #4009826
I don't remember GIMP being this impossibly hard to use. Either I got dumber or the UI did. I can't make anything work. Palettes are completely incomprehensible to me. I thought maybe I'd find it more comfortable than Asesprite since I used to use it so much, but it doesn't feel familiar at all. Maybe I can make sense of Krita?
Post #3950673
Y'all watching Solarbabies? I loved that movie when I was a kid! I don't know why, it's terrible. #monsterdon
Post #3592965
Can we call them Nazis without being scolded by Democrats, yet?
Post #3501409
Gnome Boxes is so stubbornly wrong-headed. There's a patch to fix this scaling issue in their issue tracker, it's been there for like a year, and they're still shipping this mess and I have to rebuild every time a new version arrives. Also, VMs default to shutting down when you go back to the main page, no way to make that not the default. Who TF wants their VM to pause if you open another VM?
Post #3412643
What'd you just call me, @TexasObserver@texasobserver.social ?
Post #2276432
The Linux Foundation spends 2% of its money on Linux (kernel) and twice as much on &quot;blockchain&quot;. https://techrights.org/n/2026/05/08/Over_97_of_the_Linux_Foundation_s_Budget_Goes_Not_to_Linux.shtml
Post #1882883
Normal person selling a Torino wagon on facebook. #weirdCarMastodon
Post #1882882
Oh, y&#39;all don&#39;t forget, it&#39;s Bandcamp Friday. All proceeds from sales today go to the artist, Bandcamp doesn&#39;t take a cut. I&#39;mma buy some weird thrash that sounds like it was recorded in a dumpster. #bandcampFriday https://reactorblast.bandcamp.com/album/rise-of-the-reactor
Post #1882881
Be gay, do (AI) crime? https://github.com/Exocija/ZetaLib/blob/main/The%20Gay%20Jailbreak/The%20Gay%20Jailbreak.md
Post #1882880
Is Car Seat Headrest really good or just annoying? We may never know.
Post #1669715
I swear squirrels sometimes intentionally throw stuff. I just got hit by pecans or something twice in the span of 30 seconds.
Post #1669714
Employers and media in a tizzy over the Gen Z stare, again. Not me, though. I love them weird little autistic alien kids who behave unlike all previous generations. It&#39;s not like previous generations faux warmth and effusive engagement has led to utopia. Give&#39;em the stare. Let them sit in an uncomfortable moment.
Post #1669713
AI store manager can&#39;t stop buying candles. https://sfist.com/2026/04/21/ai-store-manager-paying-female-employees-less-cant-stop-ordering-candles/
Post #1669710
Some wholesome, uplifting, news for a change. https://www.thedailybeast.com/elephants-trample-millionaire-in-big-game-hunt-gone-wrong/
Post #1669709
Buying $20 worth of filament so I can print a phone case that would cost $12, because I&#39;m frugal.
Post #1669708
Imagining a guy whose most desired vintage car is a 1990 Chrysler LeBaron convertible. https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1990-chrysler-lebaron/
Post #1669707
Nissan can&#39;t catch a break, meanwhile a 24 year old Skyline GT-R that you literally can&#39;t drive is going to sell for the price of a house. (I guess this is why they&#39;re allegedly launching a proper Skyline in the US.) https://bringatrailer.com/listing/2002-nissan-skyline-gt-r-3/
Post #1533134
Here&#39;s a weird thing that happens in my neighborhood (many weird things happen in my neighborhood, this is one of the more benign): Every now and then someone leaves a box of fresh produce on the sidewalk. I don&#39;t mean from a garden. It&#39;s in the same types of box grocery stores receive it in, sometimes packaged individual. I came across a box of lettuce most recently. A couple dozen heads of lettuce, bagged and still cool, as though fresh off a reefer truck.
Post #1533133
Thank you, Washington Post Editorial Board for your clear, balanced, and principled thinking in these difficult and complicated times.
Post #1533132
I have made the most precarious and hacky home for my second GPU, because after three case attempts, none of them have enough room for a GPU in the second slot of my motherboard, which is a kind of weird E-ATX board. I just stuck some boards in the bottom to hold it up at roughly the right location, and got a riser cable to plug it in. Why, yes, those are 3D printed blower shrouds because the V620 is a server GPU and doesn&#39;t have cooling. It&#39;s a catastrophe, but I have 64GB VRAM....
Post #1375006
This remains one the best git commits in history. An all-time banger. https://github.com/golang/go/commit/c90d392ce3d3203e0c32b3f98d1e68c4c2b4c49b
Post #1069245
&quot;Opinionated&quot; software sounds great until you find out the author has the stupidest opinions you&#39;ve ever heard in your life.
Post #161665
Source: https://bsky.app/profile/usili.bsky.social/post/3mdh5wp7dwk2w
Post #158889
Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence. From /r/nursing. https://www.reddit.com/r/nursing/comments/1qnomyy/alex_prettis_coworkers_take_a_moment_of_silence/
Post #21373
Important message from the brands this holiday season.