Posts by brennen@federation.p1k3.com
(DIR) Post #AkbOCSjLb8sv516D9U by brennen@federation.p1k3.com
2024-08-03T21:14:47Z
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@ZachWeinersmith boarding school stories are maybe the weirdest genre to have attained the sort of fascination and cultural dominance that they exhibit.
(DIR) Post #An0JKeeEZq9jWg5kCe by brennen@federation.p1k3.com
2024-10-14T17:10:34Z
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@cks "Quick guide to EBNF" is my go-to example of a phrase encountered in documentation that lets you know instantly you're fucked.the man page equivalent of http://howfuckedismydatabase.com/nosql/
(DIR) Post #An2cwJuqOTE3fySF9M by brennen@federation.p1k3.com
2024-10-15T19:59:32Z
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ok so i currently follow people who are extremely into: birds, bugs, fountain pens, old computers, weird computers, weird computer languages, sailboats, poems, trains, bicycles, gender fuckery, cartoon animals, weather, radio, disaster response and analysis, fiber arts, rpgs, drugs, movies. you know, the usual stuff.so what else you got, fediverse? i'm looking for some special interests i don't currently see anybody going way over the top on.
(DIR) Post #AnY533uYnm06d1he4G by brennen@federation.p1k3.com
2024-10-30T17:36:15Z
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the best time for a butlerian jihad would have been about 50 years ago, but the second best time is now.
(DIR) Post #AnY536Gc2kpRw02Hia by brennen@federation.p1k3.com
2024-10-30T18:04:20Z
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@kattni don't mind me i'm just advocating for the wholesale destruction of general purpose computing followed by strong cultural taboos and legal sanctions on its implementation
(DIR) Post #Andflt9lc5H99AEotM by brennen@federation.p1k3.com
2024-11-01T17:47:20Z
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@hannah from the look of things he's been right before
(DIR) Post #AngNboa2YcEWMDSByS by brennen@federation.p1k3.com
2024-11-04T00:37:37Z
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@foone this is one of those "i have read this wikipedia article before but did not remember what it was called" things.
(DIR) Post #AoHLpGFINzh1G2UKBM by brennen@federation.p1k3.com
2024-11-21T15:04:49Z
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@touk @cwebber > I don’t get how you can see some of the world’s best programmers use a new technology to make them better at programming and shrug it off.the world's best programmers have spent decades teaching me that our field serves power before anything else. all my work is conditioned by their enthusiastic embrace of rent seeking, the cloud, & totalized surveillance - building blocks for both the current AI state of affairs & a looming authoritarian nightmare.
(DIR) Post #AoHLpIdTV4Dqfbof9E by brennen@federation.p1k3.com
2024-11-21T15:05:37Z
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@touk @cwebber so am i not _curious_? no, you fucking tool, i'm _transfixed with horror_.
(DIR) Post #AoSIPcXnzB7h2VHajY by brennen@federation.p1k3.com
2024-11-27T03:03:07Z
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@MLE_online i still occasionally feel like that moment when twitter went from "i dunno, you copy-paste it and put RT in front" to making it an actual feature of the software may have been the moment "social media" as a whole jumped the shark.
(DIR) Post #As3Ib3AneVaujgvx3Y by brennen@federation.p1k3.com
2025-03-14T16:24:53Z
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@brainblasted this strikes me as true but it's also interesting how matrix is a bad solution on a _technical_ level as a result. it was pitched correctly to appeal to enough of a certain class of nerd sensibilities to soak up a lot of energy that might have gone into building a thing that actually works well, but it does not _itself_ work well.(as you can probably tell, i'm in my unapologetic shit-talking phase with regards to this one. what an embarrassing disaster.)
(DIR) Post #Asq3Bv1LkoJDHxWKky by brennen@federation.p1k3.com
2025-04-07T05:49:05Z
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holy shit. so if you get a chance to see jesse welles any time soon, take it. the dude is on fire right now in a way that you're only ever going to see a handful of people hit in a lifetime of paying attention to music.
(DIR) Post #Atch7XQ4ANnbYvdBGS by brennen@federation.p1k3.com
2025-04-30T16:28:01Z
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it's been 0 (zero) minutes since i last saw a set of overworked coworkers courting burnout as a result of AI bot scrapers abusing the ever living shit out of infrastructure we run as a service to the public
(DIR) Post #Atd2id7c1gRh03Wl7Y by brennen@federation.p1k3.com
2025-04-30T17:50:58Z
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freedom from software foundation when
(DIR) Post #AvjiHp1b3sPAHzaZWa by brennen@federation.p1k3.com
2025-07-02T22:10:43Z
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@tomjennings i may have some unfortunate news about mobile devices
(DIR) Post #AwhSALZmgA6x5GVurY by brennen@federation.p1k3.com
2025-07-31T16:12:34Z
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@deshipu i miss the smells of cows, hay, wheat, etc. giant, crowded feedlots not so much.
(DIR) Post #AwvoJtb6TaKKPTWoAS by brennen@federation.p1k3.com
2025-08-06T18:01:38Z
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@Andres4NY @ifixcoinops at this point, matrix is indistinguishable from an op designed to ensure that a viable fully-open-and-reasonably-secure-but-more-ergonomic successor to IRC never emerges. i don't really think that was done on purpose, but the effects are pretty much the same. an absolute disaster from end to end.
(DIR) Post #AxZGyrJCGX2547uWXI by brennen@federation.p1k3.com
2025-08-26T17:01:51Z
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@tomjennings @smellsofbikes @MLE_online uniquest.
(DIR) Post #B1t1hgLdirjDCOfTKy by brennen@federation.p1k3.com
2026-01-02T18:31:19Z
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anybody in the CO front range have experience with sewing machine repair shops hereabouts? i have acquired, by way of my parents' obsession with online auctions, this 1940s singer featherweight i'm going to give as a gift, and i think it could use a tuneup by someone who really knows what they're about.
(DIR) Post #B2n7mBt7zq9irQ26pU by brennen@federation.p1k3.com
2026-01-29T21:41:41Z
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positing a future religious subculture whose tenets include only listening to music from humans they've seen perform in-person on instruments below some arbitrary but strict threshold of automation capability.