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2d ago
@glyph@mastodon.social I tend to reserve it for when the person I'm interacting with seems to be having a legitimate psychotic break with reality.
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design pattern
noun: a bodge that has proven itself to be stable and repeatable
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@thalia@discuss.systems @smallsco@oldbytes.space this feels like something they only do under extreme distress.
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@evert@indieweb.social I've got a split-brain thing going on as well around it, since it is being encouraged at work.
This might be part of why I am super opposed to it in non-work circles.
A piper will one day demand payment.
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Well, ten minutes before bedtime is not an ideal time to wrestle with FreeCAD. I'm trying to trim off the sharp corners of a rectangle by adding a circle & then trimming the edges. Except that this ca
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Mar 09, 2026
Now it's even more confused: it says that the sketch is fully constrained, but when I attempt to pad/extrude it, it fails. "Pad: Wire is not closed."
I wonder if there is some sort of sub-micron gap where the arc meets the straight line of the square (after the corner was trimmed off).
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Well, ten minutes before bedtime is not an ideal time to wrestle with FreeCAD.
I'm trying to trim off the sharp corners of a rectangle by adding a circle & then trimming the edges. Except that this causes the constraints to break.
When I try to analyze the sketch, "highlight troublesome vertices" shows that one vertex is troublesome.
BUT IT DOESN'T EXPLAIN WHAT IT MEANS TO BE TROUBLESOME OR HOW TO FIX IT.
I'll tell you what's troublesome, you little shit.
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Mar 07, 2026
@MostlyTato@mstdn.social @nickpeers@mastodonapp.uk if it was the one from sparrow / krstlworks at techhub dot social, there was some info in it that couldn't be factually confirmed re: the funding sources of Oak Foundation. (It may still have been true, but was presented as fact despite being unverified, so it seems they felt it was best to retract it)
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Mar 06, 2026
@hub@cosocial.ca I mean, I was avoiding them because they make an overpriced consumable. But sure, this works too.
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@gatesvp@mstdn.ca either that or a bitter sweet @symfony@mastodon.social
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Feb 27, 2026
CHEK News with a fairly scathing take on Meta's constant chicanery: https://cheknews.ca/opinion-canadians-deserve-trusted-news-not-ai-generated-noise-1308151/
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Feb 27, 2026
Some start in the middle.
(in media reas)
Some stories start at the beginning.
(prima luce diei)
Others start in the can.
(in medio latrinae)
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Ooh, interesting. Bike rack hooks to turn backpacks into pannier bags. https://www.printables.com/model/399287-bike-rear-rack-hooks
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@kboyd@phpc.social you might end up printing new ones twice a year depending how much sun they get, but yeah pretty cool. i've yet to find a filament that can handle much uv exposure.
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Feb 27, 2026
@bobmagicii@phpc.social what if you anneal it and paint it with marine-grade paint? :)
I guess that's getting into pannier bag territory though.
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@infobeautiful@vis.social Excellent!
Although deadpool might ask where the chimichangas are ... and the enchiladas ...
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Feb 27, 2026
@vitalis@dirtyknight.life @ceejbot@toot.cat Northfield: First Blood: Part One
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Ooh, interesting. Bike rack hooks to turn backpacks into pannier bags. https://www.printables.com/model/399287-bike-rear-rack-hooks
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@danderson@hachyderm.io Fair. Before them, it was Snapchat.
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@danderson@hachyderm.io regretably, for quite some time I think it had been TikTok. At least from the point of view of 15-25-year-olds. If I'm correct, I at least hope they are now wising up to the drawbacks of that.
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Feb 27, 2026
@ghorwood@mastodon.social on the flip side, maybe he feels like the butt of this?
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Feb 27, 2026
> Gosh, I'm progressive, but am I *too* progressive? Am I overcorrecting?
No. Next question.
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Feb 27, 2026
@ShITVoid@mastodon.social @Bentley@canada.masto.host I wonder what the image credit of "©️XD with ChatGPT" means.
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Feb 27, 2026
RE: https://kolektiva.social/@LukefromDC/116138827260094996
Is there a more edible writing surface than paper? Asking for a few thousand neighbours.
Cheese slices? Toasted bread? That film you get on top of sauces/soups?
Quoting
#Minneapolis ALERT: #ICE trying to follow white people after grocery shopping, trying to follow them to hidden migrant families.
Neighborhood groups asking people NOT to enter addresses into navigation apps, which can be monitored by ICE or simply read from a phone captured whle not locked.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/116138064542111752
Where's the lie?
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Would you buy this fisherman beanie if it was on our shop?
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@Gargron@mastodon.social I just bought a new toque earlier this week, and yet I would buy this without hesitation.
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Feb 27, 2026
@bruces@mastodon.social Because the people who huff these concepts totally forget one crucial rule:
War. War never changes.
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@argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org I'm not sure it needs to be characterized as a deficiency in circuit design specifically. I think LLM tech will forever have a deficit in system-level "thinking". Maybe pairing it with some other ML tech could augment it, allowing it to competently do things like circuit design and be closer to true intelligence ... but I doubt it.
And mostly the entire tech & perpetual hype cycle around it annoys the snot out of me.
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@asgrim@phpc.social @firefoxwebdevs@mastodon.social I wouldn't say that it restores hope (it's still opt-out, after all), but I am reasonably happy with the implementation.
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@raganwald@social.bau-ha.us I disagree!
I mean, not with anything you said, but with boiling it down to purely "strategic vote" vs not.
I think a strategic vote can have a time and a place; generally, that means buying time to push for such replacement.
Or in other words, if you choose to vote strategically and then *don't find a way to work to improve the situation*, things will continue to stagnate (as they have) and the strategy is rendered worthless to begin with.
Ideal-voting, OTOH, frontloads the work.
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@mlanger@mastodon.world I'll take one. My boat's motor took a hit recently (hit and run).
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Feb 25, 2026
@bigzaphod@mastodon.social stop! What's the worst that could happen? It could fix itself? It'll be there in the morning.
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@giflian@techhub.social @MatWright@mastodon.social Bars are being opened at 5am here. Add drunk to your list.
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Feb 15, 2026
Okay, so, the AI industry is buying out entire supply chains, making home computing prohibitively expensive. Interesting strategy.
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Spotted this comment on youtube:
"General tip for DIYers: film yourself taking something apart so you have a reference when you need to put it back together"
My version is:
"Film yourself taking something apart so you can post it online and people can mock you and point out all the stuff you could have done better"
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@codinghorror@infosec.exchange No, I couldn't. I could ask claude (I have access via my employer), so I might try that and get back to you.
On a completely different note, we talked last year about co-operatives. A few weeks ago I finished writing the post about the subject on my blog. If you're still interested in reading it, here's the link: https://whateverthing.com/blog/2026/01/05/the-future-is-cooperative/
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Jan 31, 2026
RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/115990072710223209
"It's a startup about nothing!"
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Jan 31, 2026
The Proboscidean Stack:
- PHP
- Postgres
- Mastodon?
- Gradle?
Who else has an Elephant/Mammoth/Mastodon logo?
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@thevhswizard@retro.pizza @WTL@mastodon.social His fists are called The Commander (left) and ... The Emissary.
And Q got The Emissary.
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Jan 29, 2026
@philsplace@mastodon.sdf.org @timbray@cosocial.ca that's what I am saying! A blessed break from all that noise.
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Jan 28, 2026
@codebyjeff@hachyderm.io ah. Oh well. (In the time between when I posted & now, sadly, claude plummeted from "pretty decent" to "a farce of itself". Maybe it will be able to claw its way back on a different task I've set it to.)
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@mhoye@mastodon.social Evidence suggests it came in advance of that, from what I heard. Possibly as far back as November.
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@mcc@mastodon.social It's certainly worth talking about, the rant, but I see what you mean about distracting from the point.
Jot it down as ideas for a different post, maybe?
I'm very curious about how systems are built under a guise of serving one purpose, but in such a way that they seem to "accidentally" serve another, entirely convenient for the powers that be, purpose.
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@codebyjeff@hachyderm.io I have it on block, too, but because of praise. If you've heard someone praise AI, it's generally something new and blood-boiling.
Anyway. That's not why I'm replying. (In fact, claude code has been pretty decent for me this week, moral and ethical objections aside.)
I'm replying because I want to know what you named your filter.
Mine is "Roko's Blocklist".
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Jan 15, 2026
@mhoye@mastodon.social Ah. Well, tbh, I don't remember "end of history" statements. But I do remember "end of culture" statements about stagnation in pop culture.
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In your opinion, which of these films has the best or most enjoyable expression of "hacking" in film?
Don't seen an option you like? Reply with more info - and possibly a gif.
And feel free to reply with gifs of these candidates, too. :)
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@pencilears@mastodon.eternalaugust.com @alexisbushnell@toot.wales @kboyd@phpc.social Ah! Usually, I get mine from a box which has clearly been processed/prepped, so I don’t think I’ve experienced that
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@octothorpe@mastodon.online @alexisbushnell@toot.wales @kboyd@phpc.social I was in college when quinoa first started being trendy, and I would show up to potlucks with washed quinoa cooked in chicken
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@pencilears@mastodon.eternalaugust.com I do not understand people who don’t season their food.
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@octothorpe@mastodon.online @pencilears@mastodon.eternalaugust.com most of the rice I make in the rice cooker is unseasoned lately. For a while, though, I was putting in a bunch of spices and it was pretty good. Maybe I'll do that for dinner tonight ... perhaps even with chicken stock instead of water, if that is sane.
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It’s come to my attention that some of you don’t wash your rice before cooking it. There seems to be a correlation between those that wash coming from a ‘rice’ culture (ex: east Asia) vs those that do
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The results of the poll so far show me something that’s fascinating: 1. The reach so far is overwhelmingly non-rice culture (to the point of RC being a rounding error), and wash/not wash is split even
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@octothorpe@mastodon.online I wonder if it isn't getting "rice culture" reach off the top because it's in english? Folks might have english filtered out of their feed, even if they can read it, to make their social experience more relevant.
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It’s come to my attention that some of you don’t wash your rice before cooking it. There seems to be a correlation between those that wash coming from a ‘rice’ culture (ex: east Asia) vs those that do
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@octothorpe@mastodon.online @alexisbushnell@toot.wales I didn't, for a long time, until i heard about it. Then I thought ... sure, why not, and tried it a few times.
I found a tiny bit of red yarn one time, and another time a small thing that looked like a bug (but turned out not to be). So now I tend to do a quick wash/rinse, just in case there's something to find.
Bread culture, but converting, evidently.
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