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make music: direct.wtf / linktr.ee/directofficial
write software: minimeters.app / @minimeters.app on bsky
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direct.wtf
If I was to purchase an older Thinkpad, which model is a good one to start with ?? πŸ€”πŸ€”
January 16, 2026 at 2:27 PM
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brendonme.bsky.social
This is why you can't afford RAM anymore
eBay notification
January 14, 2026 at 10:19 PM
direct.wtf
BITWIG FIXED THE AUTOMATION
Automation smoothing has been improved. It is now time-symmetrical, affects a smaller time range, and offers improved anti-click performance.
January 14, 2026 at 10:02 PM
direct.wtf
I’m tempted to just release music on SoundCloud and Bandcamp for a while
January 14, 2026 at 2:15 AM
direct.wtf
oh my god oh my god oh my god what is happening this
chadbourn.bsky.social Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social Β· 6d
The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately.
January 9, 2026 THE HONORABLE TIM WALZ Governor of Minesota 130 State Capitol 75 Rev Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Bivd. St. Paul, MN 55155 THE HONORABLE JACOB FREY Mayor of the City of Minneapolis City Hail 350S. Fifth St., Room 330 Minneapolis, MN 55415 Dear Governor Walz and Mayor Frey, It is my responsibility as Secretary of Agriculture to ensure sound stewardship of taxpayer dollars by climinating fraud, waste and abuse in all programs funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The widespread and systemic fraud associated with federal benefit programs in the State of Minnesota and the City of Minneapolis demonstrate an inability to handle federal resources without additional oversight and accountability measures in place. During your tenures as Governor of Minnesota and Mayor of Minneapolis, numerous non-profits and businesses have defrauded the federal government in what a federal prosecutor in Minnesota called "a staggering, industrial-scale fraud".! Most notably, a Minneapolis-based nonprofitβ€” Feeding Our Future defrauded U.S. taxpayers of nearly $250 million in federal funds given to them by the Minnesota Department of Education.? This fraud scheme involved USDA funding provided to the State of Minnesota to feed hungry children under the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) and the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP). As of late November, 78 defendants had been charged in what the Department of Justice characterized as the largest COVID-19 fraud scheme in the country? Other recent examples of'alleged fraud in Minnesota include exploitation of the Small Business Administration Paycheck Protection Program", a scheme to defraud the Housing Stabilization 1-Whut te know about Minnesoca' "industrial-scale fraad" scandal, as more charges are fled and Trump weighs in, "CES Nows (Dic. 19, 3025) available at ht:/www.cbsnews.com/news/atas-do-know-alonesota-frawf-candal were-changes-fled- tump-water. /Federal Jury Finds Feeding Our Future Masternind and Co-D… Services Program", and alleged fraud in daycare centers*, Your Administrations have refused additional accountability and oversight, claiming that criticism of rampant fraud and abuse is "racist." While the full extent of fraud in Minnesota is not yet known, it is clear that, under your leadership- or lack thereof fraudsters can take advantage of federal funds and the American taxpayer with impunity. This necessitates federal action to protect taxpayer dollars until adequate safeguards can be established. Despite a staggering, wide-reaching fraud scandal, your Administrations refuse to provide basic information or take common sense mcasures to stop fraud. In fact, rather than conlin your SNAP rolls are accurate to prevent continuing fraud, you asked the courts to block USDA's directive to recertify the State's SNAP recipients. Recent news reports also emerged that the Minnesota Department of Human Services repeatedly reported incorrect information about SNAP to the federal government.? The Trump administration refuses to allow such fraud to continuc. Therefore, because of your failed Icadership and abysmal financial management oversight, 1 am notifying you that, effective immediately, I am suspending payments on all active awards and any future awards from USDA to the State of Minnesota and the City of Minneapolis, currently totaling over $129.18 million. Within 30 days, you shall provide USDA with payment justifications for all federal dollar expenditures from January 20, 2025, to the present. Going forward, all transactions on awards to the State of Minnesota or the City of Minneapolis will require such payment justification. If those payment justifications are not received, awards will remain suspended. While your Administrations have turned a blind eye to documented fraud, the Trump Administration has made clear that fraud, waste, and abuse are unacceptable. The American people deserve to know that their taxpayer dollars are helping those in need-not criminals. …
January 10, 2026 at 1:01 AM
direct.wtf
I cut MiniMeters memory usage by a decent bit today. πŸŽ‰
A screenshot of macOS with two instances of MiniMeters open. Activity Monitor is showing 534.8 MB and 381.0 MB for each copy respectively
January 10, 2026 at 12:16 AM
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tildesounds.bsky.social
I needed more percs i like, so i made a lot of percs i like.

80 Perc Loops & 67 Oneshots,
carefully designed & curated,
100% royalty free.
tildesounds.gumroad.com/l/tp4
January 8, 2026 at 11:02 PM
direct.wtf
This is a great video! The conclusions I drew from it are super applicable to my day to day.

youtu.be/tdIUMkXxtHg?...
What the actual science says about "brain rot"
YouTube video by Howtown
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December 31, 2025 at 6:59 PM
direct.wtf
I might not mind it tasting like shit tbh haha. I'll check out yfood though. I'm just looking for alternatives to Soylent to try.
December 31, 2025 at 3:40 PM
direct.wtf
@mrfijiwiji.bsky.social what’s the best huel flavor?
December 31, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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robpike.io
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.

Just fuck you. Fuck you all.

I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation External Inbox Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org> 5:43β€―AM (4 hours ago) to me Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village) IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.
December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
direct.wtf
Wonderful Christmastime is a good song. Haters get the f*** out of
December 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
direct.wtf
ever since I moved there has been this horrible screeching noise in my new office.

things i thought it was:
* truck brakes outside
* pipes expanding with heat

what it actually was:
* my wall clock

πŸ™„
December 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
direct.wtf
just watched die hard for the first time. best bromance I ever saw
December 21, 2025 at 4:35 AM
direct.wtf
Tidal is just a mess Β―\_(ツ)_/Β―
December 19, 2025 at 7:13 PM
direct.wtf
Kazukii and I just put out our latest collaboration "You Found Me." It's insanely chill so maybe listen to it before bed or something.

stream it here: kazukii.ffm.to/you-found-me

@ohthatkazuki.bsky.social
December 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
direct.wtf
love to see it
December 19, 2025 at 2:35 PM
direct.wtf
using gitea now and it's just github but so much more responsive on a $5 dollar VPS lmfao
direct.wtf Direct @direct.wtf Β· 29d
is there a GitHub alternative that isn’t going to charge me to run CI/CD on my own machines? or do I have to self-host forgejo or gitea?
December 19, 2025 at 12:50 AM
direct.wtf
docker, yes. All of my runners are macOS systems and I use Zig cc/c++ to build for Windows and Linux. But, I just learned Gitea supports macOS runners!
December 19, 2025 at 12:29 AM
direct.wtf
I set up forgejo, but their actions runners only work on Linux so now I have to see if I can work around that.
direct.wtf Direct @direct.wtf Β· 29d
is there a GitHub alternative that isn’t going to charge me to run CI/CD on my own machines? or do I have to self-host forgejo or gitea?
December 18, 2025 at 11:39 PM
direct.wtf
me trying to remember the C function pointer syntax
man holding his temples looking distressed
December 18, 2025 at 8:09 PM
direct.wtf
Oh that’s good. I figured they would since it seems unreasonable, but GitHub has been pissing me off anyway so it seems like a good time to look elsewhere for my private projects. Thanks for letting me know
December 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
direct.wtf
from what I can tell sourcehut does not allow me to have a self-hosted β€œrunner” like GitHub does.
December 18, 2025 at 4:56 AM
direct.wtf
before you say tangled or codeberg, I need private repos which those don’t offer
December 18, 2025 at 4:41 AM
direct.wtf
is there a GitHub alternative that isn’t going to charge me to run CI/CD on my own machines? or do I have to self-host forgejo or gitea?
December 18, 2025 at 4:37 AM