warpfork
@warpfork.bsky.social
still working with computers. to my frustration.
User choice and consent-based system design matters.
Local-first software is always superior.
Updates should never be forced.
Reproducible, deterministic systems are the only ones that should be trusted.
User choice and consent-based system design matters.
Local-first software is always superior.
Updates should never be forced.
Reproducible, deterministic systems are the only ones that should be trusted.
Cornbread.
You, too, can have a cornbread feed! You can just have nice things! Like cornbread!
You, too, can have a cornbread feed! You can just have nice things! Like cornbread!
November 6, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Cornbread.
You, too, can have a cornbread feed! You can just have nice things! Like cornbread!
You, too, can have a cornbread feed! You can just have nice things! Like cornbread!
What exactly is the point of money?
November 2, 2025 at 10:55 PM
What exactly is the point of money?
@fairphone.com / @murena-com.bsky.social 's /e/OS android variant is.... Really Good, actually.
This "Advanced Privacy" thing you get out-of-box hits a sweet spot of informative, but unobtrusive, not nagging, and doesn't break things.
It's the kind info that could change policy... If everyone saw.
This "Advanced Privacy" thing you get out-of-box hits a sweet spot of informative, but unobtrusive, not nagging, and doesn't break things.
It's the kind info that could change policy... If everyone saw.
October 12, 2025 at 9:19 AM
@fairphone.com / @murena-com.bsky.social 's /e/OS android variant is.... Really Good, actually.
This "Advanced Privacy" thing you get out-of-box hits a sweet spot of informative, but unobtrusive, not nagging, and doesn't break things.
It's the kind info that could change policy... If everyone saw.
This "Advanced Privacy" thing you get out-of-box hits a sweet spot of informative, but unobtrusive, not nagging, and doesn't break things.
It's the kind info that could change policy... If everyone saw.
Large parts of the drug discovery and genome-function mapping processes should be a MASSIVELY PARALLELIZABLE problem: physical parallelism in biosci requires basically sugar water.
And mechanized pipetting.
C'mon. This should be SO fundable.
And mechanized pipetting.
C'mon. This should be SO fundable.
August 30, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Large parts of the drug discovery and genome-function mapping processes should be a MASSIVELY PARALLELIZABLE problem: physical parallelism in biosci requires basically sugar water.
And mechanized pipetting.
C'mon. This should be SO fundable.
And mechanized pipetting.
C'mon. This should be SO fundable.
If you're a computer scientist: imagine inventing the A-star algorithm, but then being told it's impossible to test it in practice because we're all still running around with abacuses. That's what manual pipetting is in biosci.
The scale. Is. TERRIBLE.
And it blocks research that should be easy.
The scale. Is. TERRIBLE.
And it blocks research that should be easy.
August 30, 2025 at 7:33 PM
If you're a computer scientist: imagine inventing the A-star algorithm, but then being told it's impossible to test it in practice because we're all still running around with abacuses. That's what manual pipetting is in biosci.
The scale. Is. TERRIBLE.
And it blocks research that should be easy.
The scale. Is. TERRIBLE.
And it blocks research that should be easy.
Think of manual pipetting in bioscience today the same way you'd think of abacuses in calculus classes. It's absurdist.
But it's still how labs and researchers are trying to slog along.
No wonder there are so relatively few advances in the field, and lifespan gains seem to have leveled off!
But it's still how labs and researchers are trying to slog along.
No wonder there are so relatively few advances in the field, and lifespan gains seem to have leveled off!
August 30, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Think of manual pipetting in bioscience today the same way you'd think of abacuses in calculus classes. It's absurdist.
But it's still how labs and researchers are trying to slog along.
No wonder there are so relatively few advances in the field, and lifespan gains seem to have leveled off!
But it's still how labs and researchers are trying to slog along.
No wonder there are so relatively few advances in the field, and lifespan gains seem to have leveled off!
Any tool is better than no tool, but manual pipetting is:
- an absurd waste of high-skill time,
- alarmingly inaccurate,
- and scales incredibly poorly.
This means many labs work with such poor replication levels that noise can overwhelm data.
Biotech isn't going far fast until this changes.
- an absurd waste of high-skill time,
- alarmingly inaccurate,
- and scales incredibly poorly.
This means many labs work with such poor replication levels that noise can overwhelm data.
Biotech isn't going far fast until this changes.
August 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Any tool is better than no tool, but manual pipetting is:
- an absurd waste of high-skill time,
- alarmingly inaccurate,
- and scales incredibly poorly.
This means many labs work with such poor replication levels that noise can overwhelm data.
Biotech isn't going far fast until this changes.
- an absurd waste of high-skill time,
- alarmingly inaccurate,
- and scales incredibly poorly.
This means many labs work with such poor replication levels that noise can overwhelm data.
Biotech isn't going far fast until this changes.
Cropped to exclude the name, because the poster obviously isn't bad, they're just resident of a whole system that's failing --
It drives me ABSOLUTELY FUCKING BONKERS that the most educated bioscientists on the planet are almost all still working with handheld pipettes.
Time👎batching🚫accuracy🙅 ⁉ 🤯
It drives me ABSOLUTELY FUCKING BONKERS that the most educated bioscientists on the planet are almost all still working with handheld pipettes.
Time👎batching🚫accuracy🙅 ⁉ 🤯
August 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Cropped to exclude the name, because the poster obviously isn't bad, they're just resident of a whole system that's failing --
It drives me ABSOLUTELY FUCKING BONKERS that the most educated bioscientists on the planet are almost all still working with handheld pipettes.
Time👎batching🚫accuracy🙅 ⁉ 🤯
It drives me ABSOLUTELY FUCKING BONKERS that the most educated bioscientists on the planet are almost all still working with handheld pipettes.
Time👎batching🚫accuracy🙅 ⁉ 🤯
Incredible things continuing to happen in San Francisco...
June 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Incredible things continuing to happen in San Francisco...
Wonderful nerds at @gopherconeu.bsky.social
(P.S. Several of whom miss you, @filippo.abyssdomain.expert !)
(P.S. Several of whom miss you, @filippo.abyssdomain.expert !)
June 17, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Wonderful nerds at @gopherconeu.bsky.social
(P.S. Several of whom miss you, @filippo.abyssdomain.expert !)
(P.S. Several of whom miss you, @filippo.abyssdomain.expert !)
Check that it's not repeating itself too, though 😅
April 15, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Check that it's not repeating itself too, though 😅
💯💯💯 Cross-disciplinary, humane version control tools are a huge need.
Convenient anecdata: I just wandered into a physics research lab -- not a programmer's office -- and I just saw... This:
A Git Cheatsheet, dead center of the wall.
Version Control is important! (And not just for programmers!)
Convenient anecdata: I just wandered into a physics research lab -- not a programmer's office -- and I just saw... This:
A Git Cheatsheet, dead center of the wall.
Version Control is important! (And not just for programmers!)
April 7, 2025 at 1:31 PM
💯💯💯 Cross-disciplinary, humane version control tools are a huge need.
Convenient anecdata: I just wandered into a physics research lab -- not a programmer's office -- and I just saw... This:
A Git Cheatsheet, dead center of the wall.
Version Control is important! (And not just for programmers!)
Convenient anecdata: I just wandered into a physics research lab -- not a programmer's office -- and I just saw... This:
A Git Cheatsheet, dead center of the wall.
Version Control is important! (And not just for programmers!)
The main signal I'm getting here is the whole world is way too sensitive to press releases.
Like, yeah, ya'll were probably a bit frothing about AI before.
But ya'll are still frothing, by reacting this hard.
Someone made a cheaper version of something...
...that still has no PMF. OKAY, SO??
Like, yeah, ya'll were probably a bit frothing about AI before.
But ya'll are still frothing, by reacting this hard.
Someone made a cheaper version of something...
...that still has no PMF. OKAY, SO??
January 27, 2025 at 11:18 PM
The main signal I'm getting here is the whole world is way too sensitive to press releases.
Like, yeah, ya'll were probably a bit frothing about AI before.
But ya'll are still frothing, by reacting this hard.
Someone made a cheaper version of something...
...that still has no PMF. OKAY, SO??
Like, yeah, ya'll were probably a bit frothing about AI before.
But ya'll are still frothing, by reacting this hard.
Someone made a cheaper version of something...
...that still has no PMF. OKAY, SO??
Seriously. This is a tiny flap.
What is all the chortle-posting about?
What is all the chortle-posting about?
January 27, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Seriously. This is a tiny flap.
What is all the chortle-posting about?
What is all the chortle-posting about?
Really weirded out by people posting avout NVIDIA stock drop today.
It's like 10%, yo. Vs.... **a week ago**.
It's still nearly double what it was a year ago, and don't even LOOK at the 2Y or 5Y chart.
Do you all have, like, NO memory? Are y'all happily cherrypicking data for giggle narratives?
It's like 10%, yo. Vs.... **a week ago**.
It's still nearly double what it was a year ago, and don't even LOOK at the 2Y or 5Y chart.
Do you all have, like, NO memory? Are y'all happily cherrypicking data for giggle narratives?
January 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Really weirded out by people posting avout NVIDIA stock drop today.
It's like 10%, yo. Vs.... **a week ago**.
It's still nearly double what it was a year ago, and don't even LOOK at the 2Y or 5Y chart.
Do you all have, like, NO memory? Are y'all happily cherrypicking data for giggle narratives?
It's like 10%, yo. Vs.... **a week ago**.
It's still nearly double what it was a year ago, and don't even LOOK at the 2Y or 5Y chart.
Do you all have, like, NO memory? Are y'all happily cherrypicking data for giggle narratives?
Test post please ignore
January 8, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Test post please ignore
Can't imagine why people would think crypto is all a scam. With emails like these, how could you possibly misunderstand?
December 13, 2024 at 9:42 AM
Can't imagine why people would think crypto is all a scam. With emails like these, how could you possibly misunderstand?
Having a little Beet Lime Yogurt Drink as a treat.
...no really, seriously. this stuff is insanely good
...no really, seriously. this stuff is insanely good
December 8, 2024 at 10:31 AM
Having a little Beet Lime Yogurt Drink as a treat.
...no really, seriously. this stuff is insanely good
...no really, seriously. this stuff is insanely good
Really have to congratulate Matrix/Element for shipping another completely broken -- and bonus, seizure inducing -- update.
Refreshed login credentials (not just password, but the recovery keys, which I do NOT keep handy) needed without warning.
And sync is completely 100% broken, meanwhile.
Refreshed login credentials (not just password, but the recovery keys, which I do NOT keep handy) needed without warning.
And sync is completely 100% broken, meanwhile.
November 22, 2024 at 12:40 PM
Really have to congratulate Matrix/Element for shipping another completely broken -- and bonus, seizure inducing -- update.
Refreshed login credentials (not just password, but the recovery keys, which I do NOT keep handy) needed without warning.
And sync is completely 100% broken, meanwhile.
Refreshed login credentials (not just password, but the recovery keys, which I do NOT keep handy) needed without warning.
And sync is completely 100% broken, meanwhile.
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #157!
...what? No. This counter is wrong lol. Gotta be.
...what? No. This counter is wrong lol. Gotta be.
September 24, 2024 at 11:15 AM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #157!
...what? No. This counter is wrong lol. Gotta be.
...what? No. This counter is wrong lol. Gotta be.
Utterly fucking boggles my mind that nearly all linux distros switched to using this journalctrl nonsense that uses binary file formats that...
...fairly regularly get corrupted? What? Please? This is my debug log of last resort, please no fragile???
...fairly regularly get corrupted? What? Please? This is my debug log of last resort, please no fragile???
August 23, 2024 at 11:58 AM
Utterly fucking boggles my mind that nearly all linux distros switched to using this journalctrl nonsense that uses binary file formats that...
...fairly regularly get corrupted? What? Please? This is my debug log of last resort, please no fragile???
...fairly regularly get corrupted? What? Please? This is my debug log of last resort, please no fragile???
Ooh same
(I have to say yours looks better, though!)
(I have to say yours looks better, though!)
August 10, 2024 at 9:33 AM
Ooh same
(I have to say yours looks better, though!)
(I have to say yours looks better, though!)
Hottake: ngmi.
A compiler that requires me to install gcc libs (and python libs, and sqlite libs, and gnupg (lmao)) out of band first, to get off the ground, is emphatically _not_ the kind of craftship I wanna see.
A compiler that requires me to install gcc libs (and python libs, and sqlite libs, and gnupg (lmao)) out of band first, to get off the ground, is emphatically _not_ the kind of craftship I wanna see.
June 22, 2024 at 10:00 AM
Hottake: ngmi.
A compiler that requires me to install gcc libs (and python libs, and sqlite libs, and gnupg (lmao)) out of band first, to get off the ground, is emphatically _not_ the kind of craftship I wanna see.
A compiler that requires me to install gcc libs (and python libs, and sqlite libs, and gnupg (lmao)) out of band first, to get off the ground, is emphatically _not_ the kind of craftship I wanna see.
This is the sort of thing where I do a brief double take of "wait, really??". Like, is someone screenshot-fabricating here for lulz?
So I double check.
No, no. That's real. That's really on the FTC-dot-gov website.
So I double check.
No, no. That's real. That's really on the FTC-dot-gov website.
June 18, 2024 at 4:19 AM
This is the sort of thing where I do a brief double take of "wait, really??". Like, is someone screenshot-fabricating here for lulz?
So I double check.
No, no. That's real. That's really on the FTC-dot-gov website.
So I double check.
No, no. That's real. That's really on the FTC-dot-gov website.