Posts by hisham_hm@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AtiYdlfIp5XUFQRkky by hisham_hm@mastodon.social
2025-05-03T13:00:14Z
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2025: oh no, we deskilled our factory labor force and now we can't produce anything in our own country!also 2025: here's a great idea: nobody needs to learn how to program for real because we now have these great AI systems! why waste years in computer science degrees?2045: oh no...
(DIR) Post #AuHynZrQq0VSWNrDhQ by hisham_hm@mastodon.social
2025-05-20T13:05:21Z
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the fact that they named the thing they're building to make LLMs mess up the real world beyond their chatbot interfaces the same acronym as the big bad all-controlling computer from the movie TRON feels like a sick joke.
(DIR) Post #AuHyncPXMAyYQjpU8W by hisham_hm@mastodon.social
2025-05-20T14:59:41Z
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@michal who would have thought that all those kids whose parents were powerful businessmen, who grew up reading sci-fi novels about powerful businessmen controlling the world with an iron grip, would end up identifying with the powerful businessmen of the stories"The doomsday device is cool if *I* own it!"
(DIR) Post #AuOD00I8xVsiHDvl5c by hisham_hm@mastodon.social
2025-05-23T15:06:56Z
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I have become a user of tab groups since the last week or so.I think that's the first major browser feature I adopt in my workflow in years.
(DIR) Post #AuOD01ItCE4XPpHrtI by hisham_hm@mastodon.social
2025-05-23T15:10:09Z
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Another reason why I hate when people think of web PAGES as "apps". I'm organizing different topics in different tab groups, but for some reason, I can't maintain two different Element chat rooms open as part of different tab groups:> Element is open in another window. Click "Continue" to use Element here and disconnect the other window.If you're serving me HTML over an HTTP connection, you're not an application, you are a web page. Please behave like so.
(DIR) Post #AueSaKMt87Qwtf8HJo by hisham_hm@mastodon.social
2024-07-23T04:04:22Z
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I felt like sounding off in the YouTube comments section.
(DIR) Post #Av1TfbHfd2APDXZYn2 by hisham_hm@mastodon.social
2025-06-11T13:55:49Z
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Were you ever greeted by the "Caret Browsing" dialog box after misclicking F7?
(DIR) Post #Av3c80cKDozxqQD7rM by hisham_hm@mastodon.social
2025-06-12T14:31:25Z
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I just saw screenshots of the Amiga classic "Another World" zip through my timeline (https://mastodon.social/@scummvm@manitu.social/114670326936528377) and it really drove home to me how distinctive the _color palette_ is in that game. That game is praised for its art style and I think people most often mean the shapes, but the colors play a part that is just as important into building its aesthetic.
(DIR) Post #Av3c85yUIqhISbcObA by hisham_hm@mastodon.social
2025-06-12T14:34:33Z
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My artform of choice has always been music, but amusingly enough a friend once called me a "visual" person and I think that comment wasn't too off the mark.Ultimately, I exercised my visual muscles through software. I always paid attention to colors, and thinking about this made me think of how I centered the GoboLinux visual identity around its palette back in the day (2006: https://web.archive.org/web/20060218213031/http://www.gobolinux.org/ ). It was weird seeing that color scheme become a tech cliché for startups 10-15 years later.
(DIR) Post #Av3c8BXlb6t7jTA8mW by hisham_hm@mastodon.social
2025-06-12T14:37:53Z
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htop's visuals was also very centered around its color scheme. I picked cold colors deliberately, focusing of cyan (because I like it) and green (for that Matrix-y look; it was 2005 after all, and I wanted to use a UI like the ones we saw in movies; top circa 2005 looked like an 80s bank terminal). Hot colors only appeared in the htop UI very sparingly, as red accents ("red alert!").Seeing other top-like tools use the same colors made me feel like "I made it" as a dilletante graphic designer.
(DIR) Post #AvjPzz6F4AHN9H6exM by hisham_hm@mastodon.social
2025-07-02T18:44:45Z
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"I already had reached to the same conclusion"Edit: "I already had reached the same conclusion"Edit: "I had already reached the same conclusion""Sprechen nicht mit dem Fahrer, bitte"Edit: "Bitte sprechen nicht mit dem Fahrer"Edit: "Bitte nicht mit dem Fahrer sprechen"Word order in German, in English, in Portuguese(*), how do I even?(* yes my brain is so fried with word order that my native sentences get weirderer each year—well, a small price to pay!)
(DIR) Post #AvnP3N0PJnf2q2GeDQ by hisham_hm@mastodon.social
2025-07-04T16:14:05Z
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Someone told me they're having trouble with Git when doing a merge, and that made me realize one thing: I basically _never_ use `git merge`.I ran this count on my terminal history to see which commands I use the most (`history -n 1 | grep -w git | cut -d' ' -f1-2 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n`), and these were the results.I always reconcile trees with combinations of `git rebase` and `git reset`. And I use the `gitk` visualizer _all the time_.
(DIR) Post #AvpYUKBzApnFprWyK8 by hisham_hm@mastodon.social
2025-07-05T17:45:52Z
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One of my favorite scenes I witnessed back at the uni lab when I was in college. For context, this must have happened sometime between 1999 and 2001.A friend, jokingly: "You know how C programmers are, they don't know the difference between pointers and references."Another friend who was overhearing the conversation, a hardcore C programmer, interjects earnestly: "Wait, is there a difference between pointers and references!?"
(DIR) Post #AxCLgUKF0al9huNdse by hisham_hm@mastodon.social
2025-08-15T15:30:16Z
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@mcc congratulations!! It's great to have you as a fellow citizen of the Metric World! 🤗
(DIR) Post #AyWxZ5Cggv1MdEwDRI by hisham_hm@mastodon.social
2025-09-24T12:03:09Z
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I have a favorite HTML tag, and it is called <center>."Why", you say? Let me tell you about it!<center> does what it says! It centers stuff!<center> works pretty much anywhere you put it.And most importantly:Nobody ever made a mug joking about the difficulty of using <center>!
(DIR) Post #Az4h6xdeESqrAVkpua by hisham_hm@mastodon.social
2025-10-10T18:41:19Z
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@trabern unfortunately the only thing worst than the Venezuelan government are the anti-Venezuelan-government puppets promoted by the Global Northhttps://mastodon.social/@fkamiah17@syzito.xyz/115351229525907803
(DIR) Post #AzOqaEhIfi5pDrhBc8 by hisham_hm@mastodon.social
2025-10-20T07:41:10Z
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I have absolutely no idea how I even *want* to pronounce Forgejo.Like English? "Forge Joe?"Like Spanish? (like Jorge with an -ejo diminutive)Like German? For-ge-yoLike French? Forrr-zhoLike Brazilian Portuguese? For-zhe-zhoLike European Portuguese? Forr-zhe-zhLike Rio de Janeiro Portuguese? Forrrrr-zhe-zho :trollface:Like Dutch? :ohno:
(DIR) Post #Azv3usuqSlKpLI4yC8 by hisham_hm@mastodon.social
2025-11-03T21:36:40Z
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I was suprised to learn that #latinoware 2025 (held at the 🇧🇷🇵🇾🇦🇷 triple border) had over 5,000 atendees and is now the largest FOSS event in Latin America (yay!). It was on the same dates as #gsoc in Munich so I couldn't have attended anyway.For some reason I lost touch with this event (I gave a talk there around... 2007 or so?). I looked it up here on the fediverse and most of the posts seem to be from 2-3 years ago.Trying to understand the disconnect...
(DIR) Post #B2ZoEIrlPBaZ9hUuqe by hisham_hm@mastodon.social
2026-01-23T12:33:39Z
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The floppy icon for save isn't going away because people don't recognize floppies. It is going away because fewer and fewer apps allow you control over when and what to save.
(DIR) Post #B2v3i05D6HncXN6tbE by hisham_hm@mastodon.social
2026-01-31T23:20:25Z
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Sending good vibes to everyone at #FOSDEM! I couldn't make it this year, but I hope to be there next time!If you're there, reply with your favorite talk so far!