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realised today I'd never actually seen raiders of the lost ark, very surreal experience watching a film you've already seen referenced to death, which is why you thought you'd already seen it
December 25, 2025 at 6:57 PM
"all hands on the bad one" is a christmas album
December 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
you will be visited by three spirits
December 24, 2025 at 10:36 PM
all my uncs chopped
December 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
free product idea: tiny tim tams
December 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
there a lot of valid reasons for a story to reference something else but a couple recent examples have irritated me by using a reference to just straight-up tell you what the thing is going to do or be about: the ricky jay poster in "wake up dead man" and the "left hand of darkness" ref in pluribus
December 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
pretty sure this is a chapter of ulysses
"The miracle of birth is so incredibly beautiful to behold. Do you know the only thing that could make it better? Percussion. Nothing calms one’s stress and eases the pain of delivering a baby more than a little boy standing nearby absolutely shredding on his drum."
This Woman in Labor Is Gonna Love My Drumming
The miracle of birth is so incredibly beautiful to behold. Do you know the only thing that could make it better? Percussion. Nothing calms one’s st...
buff.ly
December 24, 2025 at 12:59 PM
maybe usb4 will be better
December 24, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I have just zeroed out the drive from my old pc and all the files are still on it
December 24, 2025 at 11:38 AM
update: this has now resulted in one of my partner's xmas gifts being spoiled
there's an infuriating bug in google wallet where if a contactless payment fails and you move you phone around to retry it, it will charge a different card to the one you initially selected
December 24, 2025 at 11:37 AM
today in heisenbugs:

- usb drive starts connecting as soon as I start watching dmesg
- office chair stops squeaking as soon as I go to buy wd40
December 23, 2025 at 10:15 PM
at some point I missed that JS string iteration goes by unicode codepoint so you don't need to deal with surrogate pairs any more
December 23, 2025 at 9:56 PM
played "year walk" via the simogo legacy collection. really enjoyed the general vibe but found some of the necessary inputs somewhat obtuse on a controller. not helped by guides not making sense because a bunch of content was changed or cut from earlier versions it seems
December 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
probably could have figured this out on paper first but turns out zeroing out a 2tb disk over usb2 takes a looong time
December 23, 2025 at 10:23 AM
chrome, it's not a popup if I've explicitly requested that a link be opened in a new tab
December 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I can be trusted with the lathe owing to the simple expedient that I never sleep
step away from the lathe
bari weiss you would love running a british newspaper
December 22, 2025 at 3:48 PM
bari weiss you would love running a british newspaper
December 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
clearing out a bunch of old computers and hard drives at the moment; what does it mean if you plug in an external hard drive and it doesn't show up? not just doesn't mount, but doesn't show up in /dev
December 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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a small and pretty fast constant time base64 codec in javascript github.com/escodb/buffe...
github.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
youtube is absolutely lousy with "<work of fiction> explained" videos that literally just read you a plot summary and don't offer any analysis or interpretation. who is this content for
This is explained in a long, unmissable scene *halfway through the movie*, not the ending, and then further discussed about a hundred fucking times before said ending. I despise this era of internet
December 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
a small and pretty fast constant time base64 codec in javascript github.com/escodb/buffe...
github.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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I wanted to get a new abacus but they're way too expensive now after the local haruspex bought up all the beads to invent a new method of scrying
December 17, 2025 at 2:20 PM
noticing an uptick in the number of clout farming resistlib follow-spam accounts following me for some reason
December 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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I'm out here writing a constant time base64 decoder for my hobby project encrypted doc store while Big Serious Company Products have the most trivial security flaws you have ever seen in every single layer of their stack. make it make sense
December 19, 2025 at 12:42 AM