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samir, a single entendre

@samir@mastodon.functional.computer
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Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably.

A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza.

Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out.

Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off.

PM me for my Signal or Threema handle.

This profile is searchable.

Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

1619 Followers
1202 Following
50 Posts
Joined November 25, 2022
pronouns:
he/him; they/them
location:
Zürich, Switzerland
blog:
https://functional.computer/

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samir, a single entendre @samir@mastodon.functional.computer · Jul 31, 2026
samir, a single entendre
@samir@mastodon.functional.computer

Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

mastodon.functional.computer
Partner’s out, introducing the kid to Apocalyptica. https://youtu.be/CgUMmO5Re44
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samir, a single entendre @samir@mastodon.functional.computer · Jul 30, 2026
samir, a single entendre
@samir@mastodon.functional.computer

Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

mastodon.functional.computer
Replying to @mynameistillian@plush.city
@mynameistillian@plush.city <3
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samir, a single entendre @samir@mastodon.functional.computer · Jul 30, 2026
samir, a single entendre
@samir@mastodon.functional.computer

Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

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Replying to @mynameistillian@plush.city
@mynameistillian@plush.city STOP BEING SO YOUNG IT’S UNFAIR
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samir, a single entendre @samir@mastodon.functional.computer · Jul 30, 2026
samir, a single entendre
@samir@mastodon.functional.computer

Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

mastodon.functional.computer
RE: https://plush.city/@mynameistillian/117008837787074459 Sorry boss, I have to take the rest of the day off, I just crumbled to dust. Also my back hurts.
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samir, a single entendre @samir@mastodon.functional.computer · Jul 30, 2026
samir, a single entendre
@samir@mastodon.functional.computer

Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

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Anyone else having trouble pushing to Codeberg? It’s rejecting my key. Worked fine yesterday.
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samir, a single entendre @samir@mastodon.functional.computer · Jul 27, 2026
samir, a single entendre
@samir@mastodon.functional.computer

Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

mastodon.functional.computer
I started commenting “too video, didn’t read” any time someone sends me a YouTube link and it’s making my life better.
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samir, a single entendre @samir@mastodon.functional.computer · Jul 26, 2026
samir, a single entendre
@samir@mastodon.functional.computer

Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

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Did my taxes. Where’s my fucking beer.
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samir, a single entendre @samir@mastodon.functional.computer · Jul 23, 2026
samir, a single entendre
@samir@mastodon.functional.computer

Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

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I seem to have acquired a lot of new followers in the past couple of weeks. So, new followers: you have confused me with someone worth listening to. Consider this your first and last warning.
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samir, a single entendre @samir@mastodon.functional.computer · Jul 23, 2026
samir, a single entendre
@samir@mastodon.functional.computer

Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

mastodon.functional.computer
I think my favourite feature of MS Teams is the one where you click and it randomly scrolls your screen so you lose the conversation.
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samir, a single entendre @samir@mastodon.functional.computer · Jul 15, 2026
samir, a single entendre
@samir@mastodon.functional.computer

Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

mastodon.functional.computer
I was re-reading some older articles I wrote. Sometimes the writing is off, though I like to think it’s not bad. And sometimes I write a fucking banger. I promise nothing, and often deliver it. I should get this framed. Or tattooed.
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samir, a single entendre @samir@mastodon.functional.computer · Jul 13, 2026
samir, a single entendre
@samir@mastodon.functional.computer

Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

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LLM’s can’t program. https://functional.computer/blog/llms-cant-program
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samir, a single entendre @samir@mastodon.functional.computer · Jul 10, 2026
samir, a single entendre
@samir@mastodon.functional.computer

Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

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New podcast! @Felienne@mastodon.social and Hanna Schraffenberger (who I don’t think is on fedi?) are talking about stuff outside computer science that computer people should probably know. The first “real” episode is Programming as Theory Building, by Naur. I am a fan of this paper so I am really looking forward to listening to it. (There’s a short introductory episode too.) https://overcast.fm/+ABYYyUqKrnE
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samir, a single entendre @samir@mastodon.functional.computer · Jun 28, 2026
samir, a single entendre
@samir@mastodon.functional.computer

Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

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When you imagine an “invading horde”, what do you see? If you’re like me, educated in Europe, or one of its cultural equivalents or ex-colonies, you probably think of a caricature of Genghis Khan and his army. We have to replace this image with a British arsehole in a shit wig.
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samir, a single entendre @samir@mastodon.functional.computer · Jun 28, 2026
samir, a single entendre
@samir@mastodon.functional.computer

Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

mastodon.functional.computer
Replying to @Lana@beige.party
@Lana@beige.party DAD ROCK!? How dare you!? Wait… fuck.
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samir, a single entendre @samir@mastodon.functional.computer · Jun 27, 2026
samir, a single entendre
@samir@mastodon.functional.computer

Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

mastodon.functional.computer
Replying to @simonzerafa@infosec.exchange
@simonzerafa@infosec.exchange This is even more tragedy! https://youtu.be/SXawR10drSY
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samir, a single entendre @samir@mastodon.functional.computer · Jun 27, 2026
samir, a single entendre
@samir@mastodon.functional.computer

Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

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Replying to @simonzerafa@infosec.exchange
@simonzerafa@infosec.exchange I believe the collective noun is a “tragedy”.
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samir, a single entendre @samir@mastodon.functional.computer · Jun 16, 2026
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@samir@mastodon.functional.computer

Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

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I want a new profile picture but I don’t like my photos. Anyone know an artist where I can send them a bunch of photos and they draw me a headshot? I am thinking in a cel-shaded style or similar, but open to other ideas.
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samir, a single entendre @samir@mastodon.functional.computer · May 31, 2026
samir, a single entendre
@samir@mastodon.functional.computer

Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

mastodon.functional.computer

I need to go for a 5K run this afternoon in the brief and unpredictable window between the temperature dropping and the storm starting.

Which would be hard enough, but in addition, I am so fucking tired.

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samir, a single entendre @samir@mastodon.functional.computer · May 15, 2026
samir, a single entendre
@samir@mastodon.functional.computer

Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

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Replying to @tychi@merveilles.town
@tychi@merveilles.town Oooh, thanks! I will read it later. I am guilty of doing some type-level shenanigans with TypeScript, but only for a brief period in 2017–18. I still want to write a “Xing the Technical Interview” article. Perhaps soon…
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samir, a single entendre @samir@mastodon.functional.computer · May 15, 2026
samir, a single entendre
@samir@mastodon.functional.computer

Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

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Replying to @tychi@merveilles.town
@tychi@merveilles.town It was posssible and still is. Part of that is not rendering giant walls of text (code diffs) as 57 nested React components. I think that TypeScript shouldn’t, in theory, have anything to do with it, but perhaps it makes it easier to break everything down into tiny components?
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samir, a single entendre @samir@mastodon.functional.computer · May 15, 2026
samir, a single entendre
@samir@mastodon.functional.computer

Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

mastodon.functional.computer
Replying to @shom@gts.shom.dev
@shom@gts.shom.dev @tychi@merveilles.town @swift@merveilles.town The whole point is that it’s a crash and refreshing will probably work. It shouldn’t redirect you to a specific error page because that would break the refresh button. (Many websites are guilty of this, but GitHub was always good about being a proper website until they got the React brainworms.)
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samir, a single entendre @samir@mastodon.functional.computer · May 14, 2026
samir, a single entendre
@samir@mastodon.functional.computer

Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

mastodon.functional.computer
Replying to @chewie@mammut.gogreenit.net
@chewie@mammut.gogreenit.net @meena@cathode.church You are welcome to take away nothing, if it helps.
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samir, a single entendre @samir@mastodon.functional.computer · May 14, 2026
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@samir@mastodon.functional.computer

Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

mastodon.functional.computer
Replying to @meena@cathode.church
@meena@cathode.church @chewie@mammut.gogreenit.net Yuuuup. We didn’t have to do it like this.
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samir, a single entendre @samir@mastodon.functional.computer · May 14, 2026
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@samir@mastodon.functional.computer

Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

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Replying to @chewie@mammut.gogreenit.net
@chewie@mammut.gogreenit.net @meena@cathode.church Bear in mind it was 40 years ago. I do not think Weizenbaum could have, or should have been expected to, predict online banking, etc.
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samir, a single entendre @samir@mastodon.functional.computer · May 14, 2026
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@samir@mastodon.functional.computer

Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

mastodon.functional.computer
Replying to @swift@merveilles.town
@swift@merveilles.town @tychi@merveilles.town @shom@gts.shom.dev Indeed, it’s from at least 2013 by my recollection, probably earlier. It’s a pun on the server they use(d), GUnicorn. GUnicorn crashes or can’t allocate a worker, you see that page. It may be a rip-off (don’t ask me), but if so, it was ripped off by a human.
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samir, a single entendre @samir@mastodon.functional.computer · May 14, 2026
samir, a single entendre
@samir@mastodon.functional.computer

Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

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Replying to @RosaCtrl@social.vivaldi.net
@RosaCtrl@social.vivaldi.net Call it a “highlight reel” and take some credit!
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samir, a single entendre @samir@mastodon.functional.computer · May 14, 2026
samir, a single entendre
@samir@mastodon.functional.computer

Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

mastodon.functional.computer
Replying to @datarama@hachyderm.io
@datarama@hachyderm.io @RosaCtrl@social.vivaldi.net Fine, fine, I will put it near the top of the list. 😜
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samir, a single entendre @samir@mastodon.functional.computer · May 14, 2026
samir, a single entendre
@samir@mastodon.functional.computer

Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

mastodon.functional.computer
Replying to @RosaCtrl@social.vivaldi.net
@RosaCtrl@social.vivaldi.net I am so bad at non-fiction. I will add it to the list… Gonna read your thread though, at least.
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samir, a single entendre @samir@mastodon.functional.computer · May 14, 2026
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@samir@mastodon.functional.computer

Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

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This is an incredible interview with Joseph Weizenbaum, and I would like everyone to read it please. @meena@cathode.church @meena@cathode.church

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samir, a single entendre @samir@mastodon.functional.computer · May 10, 2026
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@samir@mastodon.functional.computer

Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

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Replying to @drwho@masto.hackers.town
@drwho@masto.hackers.town @gabrielesvelto@mas.to Fascinating, I find it hard to believe but this does not mean it’s not credible.
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samir, a single entendre @samir@mastodon.functional.computer · May 10, 2026
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@samir@mastodon.functional.computer

Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

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Replying to @drwho@masto.hackers.town
@drwho@masto.hackers.town @gabrielesvelto@mas.to Might be true for some, I doubt the drop in price is mostly due to employees selling stock.
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samir, a single entendre @samir@mastodon.functional.computer · May 10, 2026
samir, a single entendre
@samir@mastodon.functional.computer

Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

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Replying to @drwho@masto.hackers.town
@drwho@masto.hackers.town @gabrielesvelto@mas.to Possible for people who have already been let go a while back, but IIRC Cloudflare promised to pay people through August.
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samir, a single entendre @samir@mastodon.functional.computer · May 10, 2026
samir, a single entendre
@samir@mastodon.functional.computer

Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

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Replying to @gabrielesvelto@mas.to
@gabrielesvelto@mas.to I guess investors are finally seeing through the “we are cutting jobs because AI” nonsense?
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samir, a single entendre @samir@mastodon.functional.computer · May 09, 2026
samir, a single entendre
@samir@mastodon.functional.computer

Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

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Replying to @Andrev@types.pl
@Andrev@types.pl @RosaCtrl@social.vivaldi.net @agentultra@types.pl I think this is absolutely true, with the exception of if err != nil!
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samir, a single entendre @samir@mastodon.functional.computer · May 09, 2026
samir, a single entendre
@samir@mastodon.functional.computer

Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

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Replying to @RosaCtrl@social.vivaldi.net
@RosaCtrl@social.vivaldi.net I’m sure that’s the article that @agentultra@types.pl was subtooting. I enjoyed reading it but I disagree with the conclusion. Yes, the Go toolchain is very very good. The language still has its problems (mostly stemming from no sum types, IMO). A friend who is a Go fan tells me her biggest problem with it is the default zero initialisers. I found it to be a fun article, and 3 separate people have shared it with me directly, but I am wary that the style is making up for a lack of substance.
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samir, a single entendre @samir@mastodon.functional.computer · May 09, 2026
samir, a single entendre
@samir@mastodon.functional.computer

Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

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Replying to @agentultra@types.pl
@agentultra@types.pl Now I’m tempted. WANT TO ADD 3 TO EVERY NUMBER IN A LIST? LOOK AT THIS: map (+ 3) xs LESS CODE, FEWER BUGS. STOP WRITING IN LANGUAGES THAT NEED MORE CODE. I WILL NOT STOP YELLING.
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samir, a single entendre @samir@mastodon.functional.computer · May 06, 2026
samir, a single entendre
@samir@mastodon.functional.computer

Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

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Replying to @samir@mastodon.functional.computer
@matthewskelton@mastodon.social @RuthMalan@mastodon.social As far as I can tell, Azure has always been on fire, and the GitHub migration + LLM nonsense are simply exacerbating problems that have existed for a very long time.
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samir, a single entendre @samir@mastodon.functional.computer · May 06, 2026
samir, a single entendre
@samir@mastodon.functional.computer

Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

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Replying to @matthewskelton@mastodon.social
@matthewskelton@mastodon.social @RuthMalan@mastodon.social That’s been my experience with them too. Us: “There’s no available compute here.” MS: “Try this new region, it has more capacity.” 2 weeks pass Us: “There’s no available compute here.” MS: “Oh, you shouldn’t be there; why did you decide to use that region!?”
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samir, a single entendre @samir@mastodon.functional.computer · May 06, 2026
samir, a single entendre
@samir@mastodon.functional.computer

Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

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A good day.

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samir, a single entendre @samir@mastodon.functional.computer · May 06, 2026
samir, a single entendre
@samir@mastodon.functional.computer

Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

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Replying to @ireneista@adhd.irenes.space
@ireneista @cwebber I have been “guilty” of this when prototyping. I even asked a vendor once and they said they do not care, they accept it happens and it’s all factored in.
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samir, a single entendre @samir@mastodon.functional.computer · May 05, 2026
samir, a single entendre
@samir@mastodon.functional.computer

Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

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Replying to @ireneista@adhd.irenes.space
@ireneista @cwebber IMO it sounds quite good for something that needs finite compute, like a research project, though.
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samir, a single entendre @samir@mastodon.functional.computer · May 03, 2026
samir, a single entendre
@samir@mastodon.functional.computer

Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

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Replying to @jitterted@sfba.social
@jitterted@sfba.social @scordio@mastodon.social Lovely to meet you. Have a good trip!
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samir, a single entendre @samir@mastodon.functional.computer · Apr 30, 2026
samir, a single entendre
@samir@mastodon.functional.computer

Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

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Replying to @kittylyst@mastodon.social
@kittylyst@mastodon.social @maccath@phpc.social Mescladis! I couldn’t remember the name. An excellent spot.
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samir, a single entendre @samir@mastodon.functional.computer · Apr 29, 2026
samir, a single entendre
@samir@mastodon.functional.computer

Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

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Replying to @sanityinc@hachyderm.io
@sanityinc @yosh That’s some galaxy-brain shit right there.
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samir, a single entendre @samir@mastodon.functional.computer · Apr 29, 2026
samir, a single entendre
@samir@mastodon.functional.computer

Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

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Replying to @yosh@toot.yosh.is
@yosh Depends on the limit, surely? I’d love to see the distributions.
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samir, a single entendre @samir@mastodon.functional.computer · Apr 29, 2026
samir, a single entendre
@samir@mastodon.functional.computer

Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

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Replying to @yosh@toot.yosh.is
@yosh Any of those would work, yes. In the longer term, they might want to implement mechanisms to detect abuse (including huge volume by a single party) and limit it. Closing sign-ups forever isn’t great for business.
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samir, a single entendre @samir@mastodon.functional.computer · Apr 29, 2026
samir, a single entendre
@samir@mastodon.functional.computer

Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

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Replying to @yosh@toot.yosh.is
@yosh If your service cannot handle the load, you can push back, stop accepting more load. You don’t have to degrade the experience for all customers; that is a choice.
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samir, a single entendre @samir@mastodon.functional.computer · Apr 29, 2026
samir, a single entendre
@samir@mastodon.functional.computer

Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

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Replying to @maccath@phpc.social
@maccath@phpc.social Pinging @kittylyst@mastodon.social
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samir, a single entendre @samir@mastodon.functional.computer · Apr 27, 2026
samir, a single entendre
@samir@mastodon.functional.computer

Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

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Replying to @samir@mastodon.functional.computer
@mhoye@cosocial.ca It’s also lovely to know that Avery Edison is still hilarious. Shame she’s not on Fedi.
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samir, a single entendre @samir@mastodon.functional.computer · Apr 27, 2026
samir, a single entendre
@samir@mastodon.functional.computer

Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably. A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza. Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out. Fascists, racists, Zionists, TERFs, homophobes, and other bigots can fuck right off. PM me for my Signal or Threema handle. This profile is searchable. Admin and sole user of this self-hosted instance.

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Replying to @mhoye@cosocial.ca
@mhoye@cosocial.ca Astonishing story. I love it. There was another one a year or two ago where someone claimed that the Replit LLM “deleted the production database”, and they also extracted an apology from the text-generating machine. I do not understand why you would give the LLM (or a human) access to the production database under normal circumstances. But I guess I just don’t get it, and my job will be eaten by the bullshit machines.
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