Garoo 🧑💻
@ff00aa.com
I make websites, sometimes apps, hypothetically games at some point. I have strong opinions about UX.
More active on Mastodon (@[email protected]), or follow my blog's RSS on www.ff00aa.com.
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More active on Mastodon (@[email protected]), or follow my blog's RSS on www.ff00aa.com.
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the people involved in that ghoulish mcdonalds ad have deluded themselves to levels previously uncharted
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December 9, 2025 at 3:27 AM
the people involved in that ghoulish mcdonalds ad have deluded themselves to levels previously uncharted
lbbonline.com/news/melanie...
lbbonline.com/news/melanie...
Decades of smartasses posting “you should type rm -rf” on every forum and no one knew they were soldiers from the future in the war against A.I.
it keeps happening
December 8, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Decades of smartasses posting “you should type rm -rf” on every forum and no one knew they were soldiers from the future in the war against A.I.
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Intensely funny because it seems like the vast majority of people at that event were convinced it was fully autonomous and Musk has repeatedly recently claimed they're not tele-operated
www.reddit.com/r/robotics/c...
www.reddit.com/r/robotics/c...
December 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Intensely funny because it seems like the vast majority of people at that event were convinced it was fully autonomous and Musk has repeatedly recently claimed they're not tele-operated
www.reddit.com/r/robotics/c...
www.reddit.com/r/robotics/c...
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Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...
December 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...
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lol was watching batman this morning and got hit with "ignore all previous instructions"
December 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
lol was watching batman this morning and got hit with "ignore all previous instructions"
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Developer attempts to replicate "Liquid Glass" in CSS, and once finished realizes what she'd actually created is an exploit for a fundamental, previously unknown, and rather serious browser vulnerability
lyra.horse/blog/2025/12...
"CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"
lyra.horse/blog/2025/12...
"CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"
SVG Filters - Clickjacking 2.0
A novel and powerful twist on an old classic.
lyra.horse
December 5, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Developer attempts to replicate "Liquid Glass" in CSS, and once finished realizes what she'd actually created is an exploit for a fundamental, previously unknown, and rather serious browser vulnerability
lyra.horse/blog/2025/12...
"CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"
lyra.horse/blog/2025/12...
"CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"
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Micron, a major manufacturer of RAM chips, says it is exiting the consumer memory business and focusing on chips used in data centers (AI)
➡️ www.reuters.com/business/mic...
This comes amid a global memory supply shortage that has seen RAM prices quadruple in price
➡️ www.reuters.com/business/mic...
This comes amid a global memory supply shortage that has seen RAM prices quadruple in price
December 3, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Micron, a major manufacturer of RAM chips, says it is exiting the consumer memory business and focusing on chips used in data centers (AI)
➡️ www.reuters.com/business/mic...
This comes amid a global memory supply shortage that has seen RAM prices quadruple in price
➡️ www.reuters.com/business/mic...
This comes amid a global memory supply shortage that has seen RAM prices quadruple in price
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The state of Saudi Arabia will own one of the world's biggest game publishers once its acquisition of EA is finalised, at 93.4% ownership.
The acquisition news broke in September, but we did not previously know the split between the purchasers:
(Read more: Game Developer)
The acquisition news broke in September, but we did not previously know the split between the purchasers:
(Read more: Game Developer)
December 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The state of Saudi Arabia will own one of the world's biggest game publishers once its acquisition of EA is finalised, at 93.4% ownership.
The acquisition news broke in September, but we did not previously know the split between the purchasers:
(Read more: Game Developer)
The acquisition news broke in September, but we did not previously know the split between the purchasers:
(Read more: Game Developer)
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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I removed the single em dash from this Reddit comment I wrote by hand, and then it allowed me to post it.
We live in hell.
We live in hell.
November 27, 2025 at 6:53 AM
I removed the single em dash from this Reddit comment I wrote by hand, and then it allowed me to post it.
We live in hell.
We live in hell.
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Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
AI’s water problem is worse than we thought
A new investigation reveals how Amazon is amplifying Oregon’s nitrate pollution crisis.
heated.world
November 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
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Many men feel the stripper really likes them. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something
November 26, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Many men feel the stripper really likes them. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something
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You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.
November 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.
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Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done
November 18, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done
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when I was at google, their class on licenses basically said "we can't use any license that's funny"
so I suggest everyone license their software as funny as possible
so I suggest everyone license their software as funny as possible
finally a normal software license that definitely holds up really well
November 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM
when I was at google, their class on licenses basically said "we can't use any license that's funny"
so I suggest everyone license their software as funny as possible
so I suggest everyone license their software as funny as possible
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It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.
November 15, 2025 at 5:10 AM
It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Last night I watched a streamer in Arc that downed other players and then had them answer trivia questions in exchange for a revive. The questions were like "who runs this whole operation" and "what's the name of the cataclysmic event that led to all this" and lol no, gamers do not pay attention.
You wanna know why we're having nag line discourse in 2025? Because developers know we're fighting an attention economy war we'll lose no matter what. Players don't read, have TikTok open next to them, god forbid we are scared you miss something and then blame us for not giving you all the info.
November 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Last night I watched a streamer in Arc that downed other players and then had them answer trivia questions in exchange for a revive. The questions were like "who runs this whole operation" and "what's the name of the cataclysmic event that led to all this" and lol no, gamers do not pay attention.
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NEWS: Airlines whose profits were threatened by Trump’s flight reductions funneled huge cash to the Senate Democrats who voted to help the GOP end the shutdown without preventing huge cuts to Americans’ health care.
Airlines’ Favorite Democrats Just Voted To End The Shutdown
The Senate Dems who voted to end the shutdown without extending ACA subsidies took in a third of airlines’ PAC-driven election spending last year.
www.levernews.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
NEWS: Airlines whose profits were threatened by Trump’s flight reductions funneled huge cash to the Senate Democrats who voted to help the GOP end the shutdown without preventing huge cuts to Americans’ health care.
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this is really annoying man my tablet was purchased new in 2019. I spent 2000 dollars on It and it works perfectly fine. Why should anyone buy an expensive tech product that's going to brick in 6 years
November 6, 2025 at 12:04 AM
this is really annoying man my tablet was purchased new in 2019. I spent 2000 dollars on It and it works perfectly fine. Why should anyone buy an expensive tech product that's going to brick in 6 years
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I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.
November 4, 2025 at 9:56 AM
I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.
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i owe so many video game designers an apology
November 3, 2025 at 6:49 PM
i owe so many video game designers an apology