Posts by mcc@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #B2Y76NXHfYWS8Ovvl2 by mcc@mastodon.social
2026-01-22T02:03:49Z
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I also have some more major complaints about codesigning
(DIR) Post #B2YhXwnoFnYBgF6lnc by mcc@mastodon.social
2026-01-22T21:07:01Z
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TORONTO!! Hwæt!!!Do you like RIAN JOHNSON do you like the idea of RIAN JOHNSON DOING A MYSTERY because in TWO AND A HALF HOURS, at 6:30 TODAY, the Revue is showing Johnson's first and best film, Brickhttps://revuecinema.ca/films/brick/It is a noir story in a shitty SoCal high school. It's so weird and so incredible, the structure is so interesting and twisty, the cinematography makes ordinary objects cryptic and beautiful, it moves so quickly from "this makes no sense" to "this makes so much sense"
(DIR) Post #B2YhY2j4ELK23Gw4Ey by mcc@mastodon.social
2026-01-22T21:13:43Z
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I meant to make this post 24 hours ago, but I didn't
(DIR) Post #B2aGoh1rqJCJElMcsK by mcc@mastodon.social
2026-01-23T16:47:06Z
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Large problem the size of a small problem
(DIR) Post #B2aGonBIy8JOJlpFQ0 by mcc@mastodon.social
2026-01-23T16:47:14Z
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Small problem the size of a large problem?
(DIR) Post #B2jua8DFxCL56mUHqK by mcc@mastodon.social
2026-01-27T18:01:52Z
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Firefox recently updated with an uglier font into the url bar and I was like "why'd they do that", but now I'm starting to notice this same font I think in certain other parts of Android, the clock bar, the copy/paste menu. I don't like it. I can't tell if I'm imagining it.Silent software updates are literally gaslighting! I think something changed, I can't tell if something changed, I'm doubting my own perceptions and mental capability
(DIR) Post #B2jua9StIYRIzYoHqq by mcc@mastodon.social
2026-01-27T18:13:29Z
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Why is everything so mushed together. Why did Google (EDIT 2: NOT GOOGLE) think this was okayEDIT: Hm, this may not look so bad zoomed in like this. On my tablet the "51" basically look like a single glyph.
(DIR) Post #B2juaAJM9UPHcHMBd2 by mcc@mastodon.social
2026-01-27T18:15:18Z
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If computers were just bad, that would be more tolerable to me I think. It's the fact that computers start off good and get worse over time. We know things could be better. Software companies *make us know* they're capable of making usable stuff before they go and break it.
(DIR) Post #B2juaBfj5ntXpwpZ8S by mcc@mastodon.social
2026-01-27T18:22:03Z
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@lritter The thing is that open source software really isn't any more configurable, in my experience. Android is theoretically open source. We don't build our software to be modifiable, not even when source is available. We don't document our code, the only way to guess where a thing happens is to read the entire codebase. Compiling any single piece of software in the world is a tiny bespoke hell that sometimes only the people who wrote it to do.
(DIR) Post #B2juaFZUavHjvlwdyS by mcc@mastodon.social
2026-01-27T19:12:11Z
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Google (EDIT 2: Not Google) what are you DOINGEDIT: This also is improved by zooming in but like for crying out loud those letters are TOUCHING, it looks like some kind of 80s logo with slightly overlapping "o"s
(DIR) Post #B2juaFzj1OGjF8DarY by mcc@mastodon.social
2026-01-27T18:17:10Z
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Remembering the 1990s when you were allowed to pick what fonts your computer used
(DIR) Post #B2juaI6XB2u5mpQ3km by mcc@mastodon.social
2026-01-27T18:23:13Z
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@lritter I've got a whole Linux distribution, but it is made up of hundreds, thousands of interlocking parts and often I can't recompile *just one*, if I leave the golden path where every binary is supplied by Debian then I'm now manually maintaining every piece of software it interacts with. Maybe this is why people use Nix. I don't know.
(DIR) Post #B2juaLjzenFZ44u7Au by mcc@mastodon.social
2026-01-27T19:34:23Z
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@unlambda/115968717892839136:( :( :( :( okay I wondered about this but it seemed such an unlikely idea I didn't voice it.IT'S NOT GOOGLE. LENOVO JUST DECIDED TO FUCK MY TABLET ON PURPOSE. The reason I went with Lenovo was I thought they were the Android vendor that doesn't do anything! :(
(DIR) Post #B2juaRbLrpu1F0uIXQ by mcc@mastodon.social
2026-01-27T23:54:19Z
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So this https://hachyderm.io/@unlambda/115968752988007682 turned out to work perfectly for me!, but I'm kind of alarmed that this involved a "hidden" (not on the settings search, kinda stuffed under the wallpaper) setting, or that switching back to the default font involved selecting a setting in Chinese? This is the tablet where about 12 out of every 24 hours most of the UI is in Japanese and I don't know why. Maybe… maybe i shouldn't be buying so much Lenovo hardware.
(DIR) Post #B2juaYAfRRiVcHTaPw by mcc@mastodon.social
2026-01-27T23:57:07Z
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Anyway I guess I'm adding 原生 and 字体 to my Pleco dictionary now
(DIR) Post #B2lPgPw4GVoNY6svWi by mcc@mastodon.social
2026-01-28T22:36:35Z
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Hrrrmm… kinda worried about the implications of what it says for pdm that that python developers survey considered Poetry significant enough to include under virtualenv/dependency management tools but not pdm.
(DIR) Post #B2lPgQugd8Iia7FL0q by mcc@mastodon.social
2026-01-28T22:37:25Z
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I dunno, maybe uv really is objectively better than pdm. A friend showed me pdm and I was like "yeah, this is good, this is better than just using requirements.txt… I will use nothing else forever". The only other thing I've tried was Poetry because i thought it would be cross compatible with pdm (it isn't, and I don't think I liked it as much
(DIR) Post #B2lPgRe3uQb4qqTZjs by mcc@mastodon.social
2026-01-28T22:38:06Z
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Amusingly, I did not participate in the Rust Developers Survey this year because there was a question about which RFCs are the most important to you and then I spent the rest of the evening reading RFCs and forgot to finish the surveyOkay I guess that's not really that amusing. It happened tho
(DIR) Post #B2lPgSNRBitR7ZhoSu by mcc@mastodon.social
2026-01-28T22:40:30Z
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…is this… … is this question in the Python Developers Survey weird? I feel like this is weird?
(DIR) Post #B2lPgT7sP42XRbQtqi by mcc@mastodon.social
2026-01-28T22:42:27Z
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I DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE THAT THE QUESTION IN THE LAST POST LISTS "SLEEPING" AS A POTENTIAL HOBBY??? DID A ROBOT WRITE THIS?? LIKE NOT A LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL AI BUT A ROBOT FROM A 1950S SCIENCE FICTION STORY?!