Posts by matt@proud.social
(DIR) Post #AhrsWGT7hx55NsZxvU by matt@proud.social
2024-04-26T11:10:25Z
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In: We make dividend-driven decisions.Out: We make data-driven decisions.
(DIR) Post #AhrymUJSbRKAgBB7cO by matt@proud.social
2024-05-06T07:52:06Z
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@_dm I’d wager the Google of yore would have cared more than today’s. Other than that, plenty of the U.S. Internet has already gone the way of the Splinternet with siloed content and geo-fencing. It’s deeply disappointing.
(DIR) Post #AhuvhGYSbvg0AntPdI by matt@proud.social
2024-04-11T07:47:10Z
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Young Matt thought the Officer enemy (the white guard) in Wolfenstein 3D yelled „Freon!“ as their alert sound, admonishing the Allies to migrate to R134A.It was only when he became a teenager and had a basic command of German did he realize that John Romero was saying „Spion!“ #HearingLoss
(DIR) Post #AhvY1mq65H0iLrM1b6 by matt@proud.social
2024-04-13T14:01:00Z
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Well, that sucks. I had naively thought that my work (from home) Chromebox was exhibiting sluggishness (no longer being sufficient for hardware envelope and screen tearing and severe input lag) due to thermal stepping.I dismantled and cleaned it (not the first time) but replaced the original gummed thermal paste. No dice. Borderline-unusable after just two years of life and a small, dense hunk of e-waste.
(DIR) Post #AhwH052TwVcg9ghvpQ by matt@proud.social
2024-05-05T05:10:34Z
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Per the spouse: $10 for a loaf of ordinary bread in Hawai'i (on the "cheaper" Big Island in the non-tourist parts, even).Two years ago, I was aghast at seeing $8 for a gallon (ca. 4 liter) of milk there.Interestingly, casual prices in Minnesota exceed what I pay in Switzerland by 10–25% nominal (probably more real) for a typical basket of goods at the grocery.I got a bad feeling about seeing where this is going to lead …
(DIR) Post #AhxFgUOg2yjcDK8xmK by matt@proud.social
2024-04-18T07:22:24Z
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I have to say: that McKesson v. Doe outcome is rather chilling.
(DIR) Post #AhyifPaFY6b4pCM3yy by matt@proud.social
2024-04-16T12:11:21Z
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A modest proposal to send in Paul Addis to burn the Böögg: …
(DIR) Post #AjNkjnGKiJ5kfDcoJU by matt@proud.social
2024-06-28T09:28:24Z
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@foone The only apparent shortfall in the analogy I see is that the operator of a often cloaca doesn’t know when it is being used. But perhaps we can substitute it with the reality that no operator of USB-C knows what kind of cable they are using and its capabilities!
(DIR) Post #AjplK4PnrF8miHELy4 by matt@proud.social
2024-07-11T13:12:32Z
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To celebrate the X Window System's 40th birthday, I did a deep dive on something about it: the iconography of its boot-up stipple (that gray pattern you first see as the X Server starts up):https://matttproud.com/blog/posts/x-window-system-boot-stipple.htmlDid you know the stipple has a name, age, and cultural significance to the ecosystem? I'll share my personal history with it. What's yours?#XWindowSystem #UNIX #History #RetroComputing
(DIR) Post #AkVE57YnkEl4uAGduq by matt@proud.social
2024-07-31T21:03:32Z
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@foone This observation is so profoundly true.Eons ago, I remember a decent RAD for Gtk+. It wasn’t VB5/6 ease, but decent enough. Perhaps there is something in the tkinter space like this: https://github.com/ObaraEmmanuel/Formation.
(DIR) Post #AoQThcXTSFizPmzfCy by matt@proud.social
2024-11-26T06:22:16Z
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@foone Did T.L.C. use a common asset storage formats? I’m curious how I’d go about inspecting some of these uralt binaries.
(DIR) Post #AoijPKRt5y14joDcS8 by matt@proud.social
2024-12-05T01:43:50Z
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@futurebird Low density of substance or inappropriately casual tonality.
(DIR) Post #AquFitsGo2XgrqVEbg by matt@proud.social
2025-02-08T07:47:15Z
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@foone Copy protection‽ Wouldn’t they want the nice word of the Lord to propagated freely?
(DIR) Post #ArAoGlEjhAAKf1lS4W by matt@proud.social
2025-02-16T10:33:57Z
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@foone The TL for Flogger is a nice guy and should be beatified as a patron saint of codebase cleanup.
(DIR) Post #ArFPJTMB6Qdd0oF14S by matt@proud.social
2025-02-18T15:48:14Z
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@futurebird When I went to the web site, I found three companies being identified as bad and three being promoted as good. Is the list intentionally that small, or is that bad web site UX? I expected there would be many other bad actors.
(DIR) Post #AsItJBCxAgvWKzu2KG by matt@proud.social
2025-03-22T06:00:37Z
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@stux Were I a performance artist, I’d title this:Untitled Mechanical Prolapse II
(DIR) Post #AsdeimVdJfgFGKfNWi by matt@proud.social
2025-04-01T06:12:07Z
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Oh, that's where Jason Stanley went: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/the-fascism-expert-at-yale-whos-fleeing-americaHe seemed rather quiescent the last few years. He also intoned then that he'd never leave, so interesting to see his change in tune. He sounds pretty fucking tired by the tone of this transcript.
(DIR) Post #AvxiCFehr8gFMIfHWa by matt@proud.social
2025-07-09T15:48:30Z
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Moronic edge case with Markdown as a format part infinity:“You may tune the [Frobnicator] [Foobnicator] by adjusting its [fartnicator].”is interpreted (per the spec) to have the reference link Frobnicator point to what Foobnicator points to. The white space is meaningless.Instead full reference links must be used:“You may tune the [Frobnicator][Frobnicator] [Foobnicator] by adjusting its [fartnicator].”#Markdown #Pitfalls
(DIR) Post #AvxiCH28jV1FdGdVgm by matt@proud.social
2025-07-09T15:51:37Z
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Moronic edge case with Markdown part negative infinity:“The [Central Intelligence Agency] (CIA) bears responsibility for the blowback.”is interpreted by the spec — again — to have [Central Intelligence Agency] point to the hypertext reference “CIA” instead of whatever subsequent reference definition [Central Intelligence Agency] points to.
(DIR) Post #Az7gq9vjrTAJqH5I6S by matt@proud.social
2025-10-12T05:23:19Z
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@foone That era was strong in brand identity (maybe even a peak for it).