Posts by fribbledom@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #B14uTUfjefYWsjbUVU by fribbledom@mastodon.social
2025-12-08T11:12:12Z
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In the year 2030, the simulations team published their paper: the universe showed unmistakable signs of artificial rendering, and a second anomaly, the "outer boundary", pulsed like a firewall in deep space.Voyager 1 was headed straight for it. Once its physical coordinates crossed that boundary, the simulation would crash.[1/4]
(DIR) Post #B14uTaZZiUC3BMlejo by fribbledom@mastodon.social
2025-12-08T11:12:35Z
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Scientists held a global press conference.They explained the boundary.Interception? Impossible.Redirection? Impossible.Shutting down its systems? Useless.Humanity's fate now depended on a spacecraft older than disco.But not everyone believed it."Boundary hoax", they called it."Voyager's too small to break the universe!"A cult formed insisting Voyager didn't even exist.[2/4]
(DIR) Post #B14uTgsEI2gEixXdeC by fribbledom@mastodon.social
2025-12-08T11:12:49Z
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Researchers tried explaining the math, the quantum tearing, the jitter in cosmic background rendering.But belief had never cared about math.People protested against the simulation narrative. Others marched for acceptance of the inevitable. Street fights broke out between Render-deniers and Boundary realists.Some people panicked. Others partied.Most kept going to work because apparently even the end of reality isn't enough to skip Monday meetings.And Voyager?It simply kept going.[3/4]
(DIR) Post #B14uTn5DCgd7yxf5iS by fribbledom@mastodon.social
2025-12-08T11:13:00Z
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A 730-kilogram metal pensioner drifting toward the universe's kill-screen at a speed best described as "slightly faster than boredom". A tiny blip moving closer to a flickering line that wasn't supposed to exist.The final prediction was released.Voyager would cross the line in 12 hours.In the end, humanity discovered the profound meaning of existence:We were always doomed...but at least it wasn't our fault for once.[4/4]
(DIR) Post #B1YcrvvUH5EIOV1oS8 by fribbledom@mastodon.social
2025-12-24T00:41:12Z
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Can't help but wonder... what’s the point of the Second Amendment if you don’t actively use it? Same question applies to my gym membership, of course.
(DIR) Post #B1uWwAdRCj20vLLE5A by fribbledom@mastodon.social
2026-01-03T14:28:16Z
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America didn't break democracy. It just forked it, never merged upstream, and now maintains it out of spite.
(DIR) Post #B1uXZRAZfBmHUxZ3ei by fribbledom@mastodon.social
2026-01-03T14:40:14Z
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The Founding Fathers wrote a governance spec, shipped it to prod without running tests, and then made refactoring a criminal offense.
(DIR) Post #B1vSRnDFWCPkw0JLpg by fribbledom@mastodon.social
2026-01-04T01:20:45Z
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Current state of democracy:A distributed system where half the nodes don't trust consensus, the other half deny the logs, and rollback is unconstitutional.
(DIR) Post #B1wwCdI9JVFtbXFZc8 by fribbledom@mastodon.social
2026-01-04T18:29:46Z
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The latest food industry trend to optimize, uhm, "shareholder value":Peanuts were too nutritious, too recognizable, too honest. Corn is cheaper, stretchier, and can legally be described as... anything, apparently.
(DIR) Post #B21PDjMQaU3J4ZHbSy by fribbledom@mastodon.social
2026-01-06T22:04:07Z
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Vibe coding is hilarious right up to the moment the first generation of vibe engineers enters the aviation, automotive, and defense job market.
(DIR) Post #B22r6h3rjJWDmxzeHw by fribbledom@mastodon.social
2026-01-07T14:35:13Z
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3D printing in 2030: When you missed the "Skip Ad" button between layers 137 and 138.#3dprinting
(DIR) Post #B2823Wy2sAS2ttlUau by fribbledom@mastodon.social
2026-01-09T22:57:35Z
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Bambu Lab: "We didn't ban third-party slicers, we just restricted the API so you have to use our proprietary software."Same energy as "We didn't ban repairs, we just glued the screws shut and copyrighted the screwdriver."#3dprinting
(DIR) Post #B2LdHO6Cre1SoDX37w by fribbledom@mastodon.social
2026-01-16T16:25:24Z
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AMS/MMU Filament switching systems 🤝 Single-use vapesBoth exist to turn your convenience into colorful waste at industrial scale.#3dprinting
(DIR) Post #B2VZypVM710fl4u7rk by fribbledom@mastodon.social
2026-01-21T10:16:58Z
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Leonardo da Vinci invented helicopters using charcoal and imagination.I own a 3D printer, a CNC, and top-tier CAD and I'm on version 17 of a cube.
(DIR) Post #B2XKLJEv1sCpOqpiKG by fribbledom@mastodon.social
2026-01-22T07:16:39Z
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Nazi Germany didn't start with camps.It started with loyalty tests, enemies within, attacks on the press, and people saying "this won't last."It was built while people waited for it to get "bad enough" to matter. Waiting was a decision.If this feels uncomfortably familiar right now, that's not an accident.
(DIR) Post #B2XdA6dJSSTWFFcAIS by fribbledom@mastodon.social
2026-01-22T10:52:50Z
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@klegdixal I'm not sure what you're trying to say? If you think it all started in 1933 you absolutely missed my point. You have to start digging a couple years earlier.
(DIR) Post #B2f8xFm0RBUOmjrStM by fribbledom@mastodon.social
2026-01-25T04:01:29Z
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Do any of my French friends still have a functioning guillotine? Asking for my American friends.
(DIR) Post #B2g3uRUW6oFde7TtI0 by fribbledom@mastodon.social
2026-01-26T12:39:39Z
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Electron is proof that given enough RAM, any mistake becomes a platform.
(DIR) Post #B2s0tlNOirPf40eexM by fribbledom@mastodon.social
2026-02-01T07:16:04Z
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The only thing worse than websites that auto-play videos are websites that auto-pause the video the second you switch tabs.I wanted background noise, not separation anxiety 🙄
(DIR) Post #B2vAuQiYbB3YIUO8bA by fribbledom@mastodon.social
2026-02-02T19:57:22Z
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I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, Linux plus systemd, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Linux/systemd.Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning systemd system made useful by the systemd corelibs, systemd daemons, and vital systemd components comprising a full OS as defined by Poettering.